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PAGE SEVEN T he n y ss a g a te c it y jo u r n a l , T h u r sd a y , J a n u a r y is , 1940 WITH THE MALHEUR COUNTY FARMERS running above average, causing heavy supplies of dressed pork. The total weight of hogs slaughtered in (Editor's Note: The following November, for example, was one of | market Information is supplied the largest totals for the month from material obtained over the since 1921. With current consump Government leased market wire tion unable to keep up with the in tile office of the extension supply of pork, storage stocks have I economist at Oregon state college, increased quite rapidly but are still The material is in the form of a j below average. weekly summary of trends in Exports of pork have been on the the livestock market and is not decrease, which is also weakening | intended to replace spot day by the market. Exports fiom this coun day market reports.) try to Canada, however, were rela tively large for the first eight Cattle Markets Although the cattle receipts at months of 1939, in fact seven times (forth Portland Monday were among as large as in the corresponding tie largest in more than a year,! period of 1938. Wool Markets prices held up well as a result of j characterized [cod post-holiday demand. Approxi- ' Extreme dullness jiately 3000 head were available for ;' Boston wool market last week. Deal trading and while prices were ! although quotations were unchang- iown about 25c on most grades pd on the finest grades of territory from last week’s close, a few of the ' ■ Occasional sales of small lots st offerings b:ought as high as ef original bag. fine territory wools. 9, which was also the top price for !lr n :n ? largely to good French jist week. The bulk of mediums to c-mbing length, were made at $1 to food fed steers brought $7.75 to f, °2. scoured basis. Buyers showed very little Interest in medium and 1.75. low grades of territory wools and San Francisco prices were a bit prices were generally a little weaker higher with a top of $9.50, while at Most houses were quoting graded Chicago some gains were shown, three-eights blood combing wools at vith heavy steers reaching a top of 83c to 85c. $12.10, although most of the offer- bigs brought $6.75 to $10.75. Cattle prices at North Portland JORDAN V ALLEY FIVE ae last week or so have been run DOW NS MERIDIAN ning slightly higher than a month ago but about the same as a year JORDAN VALLEY—The Mus |ago, while at Chicago prices are tangs second string took the Me about $1.50 under those of a year ridian scrubs 14 to 12 and in the I ago. The number of cattle fed on main event Jordan Valley won 17 ¡January 1, in western states was to 11. (said to be about 19 per cent greater Mrs. Clarence Anderson is report I than a year ago, while in the com [belt the Increase is around 12 per ed to be improving. Jordan Creek is partially frozen [cent. The total number on feed for the country as a whole was the larg and ice skating is reported good. Alec Acordagoita has been ill. est in recent years and among the Mr. and Mrs. Lee are visting their largest in the past 20 years. It is I probable that the number on feed in children in Boise. Mrs. Leo Buffington was a Mon the 11 western states is a record day visitor in Jordan Valley. number for this area. J. C. Driscoll was in town on Sheep and Lamb Markets Moderate supplies of sheep and business on Monday. Domingo Yturri, who has been lambs, approximately 2200 head, were received, with active trading at ill, is getting better. Arthur Fretwell was in town on North Portland Monday, with prices up about 25c from last week's Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Pete Laca and close. Good to choice fed wooled lambs brought $8.50 with some early family were Boise visitors on Sat shorn lambs at $7.75 to $8. The Chi urday. Mr. and Mrs. Jim Yost have mov cago price on Monday reached a ed frofm the hotel to the Fretwell top of $9.35. The price gain at North Portland house. The high school wil purchase text on Monday failed to make up for decreases in the market last week. books for use in junior business Receipts of lambs declined sharply training and for English literature. The 4-H sewing girls under the during the holiday period, Which permitted sellers to enforce moder leadership of Mrs. R. 8. Bennett are ate to sharp price advances. With planning a dance. Miss Mary Loulza Zatica and her supplies now getting back to nor mal, the price situation is easing brother Jess are confined to their home with the flu. up somewhat Mrs. Ellen Shaffer is the house San Francisco has continued to show favorable prices for lambs, guest of her sister, Mrs. Sam Ross. Among those who attended the with quotations running as much as 25% higher than North Portland, Cow Creek dance Saturday were and with 25c of the top at Chicago. Mlss He>en Stults, Mr. and Mrs. Despite this fact there were no Otis Nichols, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. lambs offered at San Francisco for Parks, Mr. and Mrs. Sam Ross, Miss trading when the market opened on Victor, Mrs. Scott, Louis Yturri, Joe Marks and Felix and Justo Eisa- Monday. guirre. Hog Markets Jack and Ora Raynor left Satur Last week's decline in hog prices ranging from 50c to60c, was halted day to drive to Nebraska to see their on Monday when about 2000 head parents. They expect to be back moved on a steady market, with about February first. Jordan Valley Mustangs will meet good to choice trucked-in light butchers bringing mostly $6.25. The the Grcenleaf Academy team here top at San rancisco was $6.65 and Tuesday night. Joe Berro has left town to stake at Chicago $6. The general level of hog prices out mining claims. A barber from throughout the country is $1.75 to Nampa is taking his place. Mrs. Jess Yturraspe and son Dan $2 less than a year ago. Slaughter supplies of hogs this fall and win ny spent Friday afternoon at the ter have been large because of the home of Mrs. Bessie Stults. Russell Scott accompanied his big pig crop last year. Since feeds have been abundant, weights are grandmother to her home in Min nesota. Charles Burns is working on the Vic DelGrosso home. PREPARE Mrs. George Parks and Miss Dor othy Stults spent Sunday and Mon for a Rainy Day day in Boise. 125 new enrollees arrived at the Jordan Valley CCC camp No. 3690 Saturday evening. The boys are from Illinois. The entire personnel wel comed them and hopes that they enjoy their stay in the CCCs. Chaplain McRae was a visitor at the CCC camp Monday. Mrs. Pud Long was a caller at the Victor Barr home Friday afternoon. Lieutenant and Mrs. Ruud have returned to company 3690. The lieutenant was formerly subaltern of this company but was transferred to Gallegher, Idaho. STOCK AND GRAIN I MARKETS WITH PROPER INSURANCE PROTECTION 1940 Hudson Six is New A A A Endurance Record Holder .... ; ^ • V ■*•*’ vi im » *■ f i '* A . W : This 1940 Hudson Six stock Se dan, in the lowest price field, il the new American Automobile Associa tion endurance record-holder for closed cars with an average o f 70.58 miles per hour for 20,000 miles on the famous Bonneville Flats course. This new endurance mark not only breaks cow Tuesday. Bill Adams has been ill with the flu. Mrs. Jule Houston of Lincoln Heights visited Mrs. Will Rees on Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Leffler and family motored to Nampa, Idaho, Snuday to visit their daughter, Winifred Leffler, who attends col lege there. Mrs. Grace Houston of Lincoln Heights . is staying at the Blaine May home this week. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Slaughter and family of Ontario visited Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Brewer Friday aft ernoon. Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Brewer were dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. How ard Evans on the Owyhee Thursday. Beulah Brock of Ontario was an overnight guest of Sybil Penn on Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Lole Belisle and family were Sunday dinner guests of Alva Amidons. Mrs. Clarence Wood, Mrs. W. E. Brown and Wilma attended the Baptist Missionary Society at the church in Ontario Thursday. Nellie Stewart was an overnight guest of Dolores Callaway in On tario Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Downs enter tained the pinochle club Saturday night. Rue Goodfellow visited Fern Kes sler Saturday. Alva Amidon put In two yard lights last week and Wilbur Hol comb helped A. A. Bratton put his yard light up this week. Walter Hahn left for Portland on Thursday on business. Ruth Bratton was a Sunday din ner guest of Frances Foster in Nyssa. Coy and Win Brown attended a sale near Nyssa Friday afternoon. Mrs. Minnie Brown spent the after noon with Mrs. Will Brown. Mrs. Blaine May, who has been seriously ill at the hospital in Nam pa, is somewhat improved. Mr. and Mrs. Otis Bullard of Ar cadia were callers at the George Stewart home Monday evening. Mrs. Will E. Brown and family motored to Caldwell Sunday, where they visited the Leslie Kelso fam ily. Mrs. John Leinhardt of Nyssa vis ited with Mrs. Martha Amidon Wed nesday. W. Downs motored to Caldwell on Thufsday. The Valley View girls organized a 4-H sewing club Thursday. The first meeting was held Saturday at the home of their leader, Mrs. Harvey Reynolds. The name selected for the club was “The Jolly Janes." Presi Bernard Eastman REAL ESTATE FIRE and AUTO INSURANCE Phone 64 Nyssa BROKEN ANKLE IS RESULT OF FALL VALLEY VIEW—Clarence Wood fell from a hay wagon Friday and broke his ankle. Gerald Goodfellow, Shef White and A. A. Bratton motored to Cald well Thursday. Tom Amidon lost a valuable milk Phone 42 Parma, Idaho dent is Wilma Brewer; vice-presi dent is Irene Amidon; secretary, Wilhelma Smit; members are Mar tha Taylor, Elna Brown, Lucille Bruce, Ruby Bolles, Maria Smit, Esther May, Vera May, June Colley, Louise Colley and Wanda Leffler. POLLYAN NA CLUB HOLDS MEETING KINGMAN KOLONY—Pollyanna club met with Mrs. Mary Nichols this past week. The program was in charge of Mrs. Conrad Martin, who put on a radio program. Mrs. Earl Osborn acted as master of cere monies. It was much enjoyed by all present. At the close of the after noon the hostess served refresh ments. The next meeting will be with Mrs. Dave Mitchell on Jan. 24. Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Pinkston, James and Leonard Nichols were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Wade Nich ols on Wednesday evening Mr. and Mrs. Conrad Martin were shopping in Caldwell and Nampa on Thursday . Mr. and Mrs. Don Clark return ed home Thursday after visiting since before Christmas with rela tives and friends in Salem, Oregon. Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Patch and family were Sunday dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Lane. Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Piercy and family were dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Olsen of Nyssa on Friday evening. Mrs. Frank Newbill and Mrs. C. C. Cotton attended installation of officers of the Rebekah lodge Fri day evening. The H. E. Club met with Mrs. Conrad Martin on Tuesday. The next meeting will be with Mrs. K. I. Peterson of Adrian on January 16. Beth Mitchell spent the week-end with her cousin, Beverly Ure of Nyssa. Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Pinkston are driving a new car. Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Lane, Mrs. Lillie Bach and Mrs. Clarence El liott spent Monday shopping in Caldwell and Nampa. Dave Mitchell and Clyde Bowers arc sorting potatoes for Ira Ure of Nyssa. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Elliott and boys spent Saturday night and Sun day at the Snively Hot springs vis iting with Mrs Elliott's mother and grandmother. Mr. and Mrs Ray Elliott of Vale and Mrs. Elliott’s sister, Miss Grace Hibbard, visited at the T. T. Elliott home for a while Friday evening. miles per gallon in a special 1,000- mile test using the optional overdrive and rear axle gear ratios. Using Gil more Red Lion gasoline, a total o f 87 new records were set by this Hudson Six, the counterpart of which is no on display by all Hudson dealers. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Clark left Friday morning for a short visit with friends and relatives in Salem. Beaumont and Toomb sold two purebred Jersey bulls this week. Frank Sherwood and Jake Fisher, both of Nyssa, were the purchasers. Mr. and Mrs. William Toomb and girls were dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Toomb on Sunday. NYSSA HEIGHTS Dave Beers of CorteMadera, Calif, arrived Saturday to look over his ranch on Nyssa Heights and was an overnight guest Saturday at the Dan Corbett home. Mr. and Mrs. James Malloy and family spent Sunday at the Virgil McGee home in Richland district. Miss Bonnie Byram of Boise visr ited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Rees Byram over the week-end. E. Gaston’s sale Friday was well attended. Mr. Gaston was pleased with the returns and left for Red mond Saturday. Rees Byrams did their winter’s butchering Monday. Glenn Suiter and E. R. Anderson each butchered a hog the last of the week. C O W HO LLOW Bv The Happy Farmer Winter is tightening its grip on Cow Hollow again. This continual freezing every night is driving the frost farther and farther Into the ground. George Gabriel has his posts and wire to put a three-wire fence around his farm and he and Clarence Niccum have been work ing on setting the posts in the line fence between them, but the frost is getting so deep that they fear they will have to give it up until it thaws. We are sorry to say that the weed control meeting in Nyssa Monday was not attended by Cow Hollow and Cow Hollow has the worst patch of Canadian thistles in this part of the county. Some of this new land Is settled by people from some of the dry central states re gion and they never think very seri ously of a Canadian thistle, but those of us that have watched the irrigation farmers of this country fight and try to get rid of them, we know what the “ Canadian” thistle means. We heard the county agent tell Mort Wixon last summer: “You will stay here and work and im prove this place for the next ten years and if you don’t do something DAIRY SALE ‘ BE SURE TO VISIT THE SPUD TRAIN IN NYSSA W EDNESDAY JAN. 23 Pruyrt’s Garage Phone 56W 2nd and Main Sts. Francis is t? keep the little babies from getting their toes frosted. Chet Sage took some weaner pigs to tiie sale ground at Nyssa Satur day. He sl id. "It looked as if ev erybody wr i of the same notion.” Cow HoEcw is seeing quite a num ber of wild ducks again the last few days. There is not likely to*be as many as last year for there are not so many grain fields. Elza Niccum reports that his pond will be dry now in two or three days. His is the lirst one of the three ponds on the north side of iho Hol low to go d.y. but ho has wit, d over 40 head of str..k. including his sheep) out of it far three months and If he had of had to haul td that water two miles from the sy phon it would of been a real job. Nyssa Shoppe s— Among out-of-town shoppers in Nyssa last week were Mr. and Mrs. George Kinzer of Parma and Mr. and Mrs. Andy Peterson, George Peterson and Mrs. Bronson of Vale. NEED M ONEY? W E BUY OLD GOLD and JEW ELRY MORRIS JEW ELRY Atkeson Bldg. FIRE Nyssa AUTOMOBILES TRUCK O W N E R ’S ATTENTION FOR LONG AN D SHORT H ÀÜ L INSURANCE SEE DON M. GRAHAM BONDS FARM RENTALS Phone 53 EAT MORE SPUDS NYSSA POTATO W E E K JAN. 19-24 When you think of TOP GRADE seed spuds, think of us. We have plenty on hand to fill your needs. We also have choice ONION SEED. O l/W R DUNCAN BROS. 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New economy marks were also set by this new Hudson Six which scored an average o f 32.66 50 HEAD ARE 2 yr. old HEIFERS, All Heavy Springers. JERSEY, GUERNSEY, HOLSTEIN Thank You Mr. Potato and Onion Grower- We appreciate your patronage for the past ear am d look forward to another year of friend- 5 y relations. fili® FRIDAY JAN. 26 FIRE LIABILITY INSURANCE y about those Canadian thistles they will spread until then your farm will not be worth as much as it is now.” That patch of thistles were there before -vlort filed on the home stead. 'Tls hard to guess as to how tt uj get there and they are on giound that never will be farmed, but they raise bushels of seed every yi r £'...! it iioats off into the air. S m : v.id UiW {or a long distance, too. Already Canadian thistles have begun to appear, on the farms of F .y Rockstool. Paul Ransom, Ira Chadd and others in a direct line oi the way the northwest wind blows f.om this bad p^tch of thistles. We are wondering how soon people will wake to the fact that Canadian t! ‘site in a community is a menace i . j whole community. T. - boys from Twin Falls. Idaho, ca.r u i Elza Niccum last Friday. 1 .. t o down looking over the 1-r. ,.f getting some new lajid. They l u i the Black Canyon pro ject p-'j.slly in mind. They broujli. Elza a 60-lb. can of honey. There will be a group of girls meet at the home of Miss Francis Trammel this Saturday for the pur pose of organizing a Girl Scout troop. All girls of twelve years of age and over are invited to attend. Francis was a Girl Scout worker in Texas. One of the Girl Scout pledges is to do at least one kind deed every day. Which reminds us, one of Francis’ old hens came up out of the weeds with three little chickens. With the frost going deeper and deeper into the ground it will re quire a kind deed every day if 4 White Face Heifers, 3 yrs., calve by their sides ALL THE ABO VE CATTLE BANGS TESTED 1 White Face Bull, 18 mos. old. 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