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THE N YSSA GATE CITY JOURNAL, TH U R SD AY, FEBRUA R Y 1, 1940
¡Militili
Attends Meeting
Bernard Frost spent Thursday in
Boise were he attended an elec­
trical sales meeting and demonstra­
tion.
Visits In Portland
Mrs. John Thompsonspent last week
in Portland where she visited her
son Sterman and her daughter aud
son-in-law Mr. and Mrs. James Lo-
wrey
Mrs. Thompson’s yislt was made
after she received word that Mrs.
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Lowery had suffered a broken leg
in a fall.
Sunshine Club Meets
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Sterman who spent the past few
Mrs. A.V.Cook was hostess to the
JUNIOR FELLOWSHIP
Rebekahs at her home on Friday years as an aviation mechanic in
Junior Fellowship met at the afternoon. Due to bad roads many the United States Air Corps has been
discharged and is now employed at
Schireman home on Monday eve­ did not attend.
Portland, but hopes to make a visit
ning with the Rev. Stanley Moore
to Nyssa soon.
of Ontario and Miss Doerffler in
Friday Pinochle
While in Portland, Mrs. Thomp­
charge of the meeting.
Mrs. Roy Pounds and Mrs. Rose en­ son visited with Mrs. Blair Johnson
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tertained the Friday Pinochle club who with the late Mr. Johnson ran
W. C. T. U.
at the home of Mrs.Pounds on Fri­ the Nyssa Variety Store, and is now
The next meeting of the W. C. T. day afternoon at which members
running a similar place in Portland.
U. will be at the home of Mrs. C. were present to form two tables.
Klinkenberg on the afternoon of Pries were won by Mrs. M. Meyrick, MORGAN PARK GARDEN CLUB
Feb. 6th.
Mrs. William Lowe and Mrs. Chas.
The Morgan Park Garden club
A special invitation is issued by A. Winemire.
ladies will resume afternoon meet­
the members to everyone interested
ings on February 8 at the E. L.
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in temperance work to attend.
The Ladies Aid
Jamison home on Enterprise Ave­
The Ladies Aid of the Methodist nue. These meetings will feature
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church will meet with Mrs. Fannie various phases of home gardening
CAST DINNER
Felton on Thursday afternoon Feb­ and landscaping problems, while the
On last Thursday evening the ruary 8
evening meetings on alternate dates
ladles of the Rebekahs entertained
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will handle the general business of
the members of the cast of the play CHEERFUL COOKS
the club.
“Mystery at Midnight” at dinner
The 4-H cooking club, the Cheer­
“Paper and Pencil Gardening”
and bridge, at the Legion Hall.
ful Cooks, under the leadership of
The single long dining table set In Mrs. H. R. Sherwood, entertained will be the topic for the first meet­
the basement was candle-lighted their mothers at a tea on Satur­ ing. All ladies interested in garden­
ing are cordially invited to attend,
and dainty place cards and favors j
day afternoon at Mrs. Sherwood's and bring their seed and plant cata­
were at each guest’s place.
home.
logues and enter into the discussion
Cards were played upstairs later.
This is the last regular meeting of garden needs and requisites par­
of the club of 14 girls, all of whom ticular to this area.
DINNER PARTY
have finished their projects 100%.
County W. C. T. U.—
Mr. and Mrs. John E. Ostrom en­
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One of the largest attendances so
tertained at dinner on Sunday. SCOUTS TO ENTERTAIN
far at the quarterly meetings of
Their guests included Mr. and Mrs.
The Adrian troop of Girl Scouts, the W. C. T. U. was present at the
Charles Amderson and daughter, under the leadership of Mrs. Mau­ one held at the Baptist church
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ostrom an& rice Judd, will entertain at a tea at basement in Ontario on Jan. 30th.
Mr. and Mrs. Elbin Peterson, all of the Adrian high school on Satur­ Four local unions were represented.
Emmett.
day afternoon complimenting their
Mrs. Eld Wild, county vice-presi­
mothers and the ladies who have dent, had charge of the meeting,
spoken on various foreign lands at with Mrs. Forest Hill, evangelistic
their meetings during the past year. director, in charge of devotionals.
The honor guest for the after­
A program followed the business
noon will be Mrs. W. W. Hall of meeting and the reading of the
Caldwell, who with Mr. Hall re­ union reports.
turned recently from Bulgaria.
A talk on the department of legis­
Hiway
Workers Arrive
lation was given by Mrs. Troxell and
Workers from the state hiway dep­ a solo was sung by Mrs. Honeyford.
artment who will build a new road
“ Scientific temperance” was pre­
near Adrian arrived in Nyssa on
sented by Mrs. Maxon, who spoke on
Thursday and are at the Riverside
DR. J. C. BOWMAN
the education of youth of alcohol
Auto cabins
and its effects.
Leaves For Butte—
Veterinarian
Those attending from Nyssa were
Mrs. Wm. Feinen left on Tuesday Mrs. Fauchier, Mrs. C. Klinkenberg,
morning for Butte to be with her Mrs, Ben Thompson, Mrs Dave
mother, who is seriously ill..
Hawkins and her grandson, Mrs. Lee
Phone 39W
Marsh and her two children, Mrs.
Arlene Seward and Nadine and Mrs.
Ed Wild.
NYSSA LIBRARY
The next meeting will be in Nyssa
on April 30th.
Complete line of READY MADE
OPEN SATU R D AY
Still Likes Nyssa—
2:30 to 7:30
METAL FRAMES and full AS­
In a letter addressed recently to
ALL PATRONS WELCOME
SORTMENT of MOULDING for
the Journal, Mrs. Georgia A,
Librarian..... Mrs. 8. B. Davis
framing any type or size picture.
Butcher, a former resident, who
8CHIREMANS ENTERTAIN
Mr. and Mrs. WlUiam E. Schire-
man entertained at contract on Fri­
day evening. Guests were invited to
form three tables of bridge with
high scores for the evening being
made by Mr. and Mrs. Burnall
Brown.
SUNDAY DINNER GUESTS
Mr. and Mrs. Beryl Landreth and
Chas and Mr. and Mrs. Grover
Cooper with Ellis were Sunday din­
ner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Tom
Goodel in Kingman Kolony.
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Pies
Cakes Doughnuts
Cookies
Rolls
Bakery goods are an essential pail of your daily
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Phone 20
now lives in Pomona, Calif., wrote:
“—I enjoyed looking over the Jaur-
nal as I saw mentioned many of
my old friends living there when I
lived there.
“ I have traveled much since I left
the Snake River valley but I have
never found a place that really fur­
nishes the comforts of life that one
can so abundantly have there.”
Memories Of
An Old Timer
What colorful glimpses down the
vista of a past whose like we shall
never see again. What tales of ro­
mance we hear when some old timer
sits down and looking afar off,
says, “I remember when—” H ie
moving picture plays “Union Paci­
fic,” "Dodge City,” “Let Freedom
Ring" and others were told first by
some white-haired old woman who
looked at the dying embers in the
fireplace,
remembering
covered
wagon days—or some old scout or
cattleman who whittled on the cor­
ral bars and told of the brave days
when he was a boy.
Following are some of the mem­
ories of Otto Schweizer, one of Mal­
heur county’s early settlers who has
seen the range country turn from
sagebrush wastes to fertile irrigated
fields, neatly fenced, and supporting
thousands of families. And among
them Mr. Schweizer informed us
are about forty of the second and
third
generation
wearing
the
Schweizer brand.
"I was born in Detroit, on Sept.
4. 1857," said he. “ My father's frame
house and the house on the next
block were built before the Civil
War. I went back to Detroit a few
years ago and found these same
houses in good repair.
“Some of my earliest recollections
are of Civil War days. One of our
neighbors had four sons, fine, heal­
thy men. They marched off to war,
but they never came back to their
mother, for every one of them was
killed in battle. I saw fine, up­
standing. clean men go away to war,
and in the days of 1863 and '64 I
saw them march past our house, un­
kempt. ragged, dirty, lousy, one arm
gone, and many came back with a
leg gone. I have ever since been a
conscientious objector—I will not
ask other people's sons to do what
I don't want to see happen to my
own.
"I left Detroit in 1880 and went to
Leadvtlle. Colorado, a gold mining
boom town. I spent four years In
that riproaring mining town. Those
were days of mushroom towns, when
the silver boom was at its height,
and the towns were full of gun­
play, of shooting, carousing, gam­
bling, and unrestricted lawlessness.
The thousands of people who came
in to locate pay dirt furnished
plenty of victims for all sorts of
crooks and grafters. In Denver I
had the opportunity a number of
times to observe the workings of
Soapy Smith, that prince of im­
posters, protector of criminals and
builder of churches. He was a queer
duck, with with a smooth, courtly
manner, and would fleece a well-to-
do stranger or head a subscription
for a widow’s family with equal sin­
cerity and enthusiasm.
“In 1893 I knew Bat Masterson,
perhaps the most noted character of
the later period of the Old West.
He was in his prime, about 30 years
of age, and a square shooter. Drov­
ers used to drive cattle north on
the Chisholm trail from Texas and
the Panhandle country to Abilene
and Dodge City. They were the
nearest railroad shipping stations
and were the cowboy capitals of
that time. Tough characters used to
run the marshals out of town and
extreme lawlessness and general
misrule prev&ileg. There I came in­
to contact with some of the tough­
est characters that ever were in the
west. Wild Bill Hickok was sent as
marshal to Abilene and cleaned up
that town—and Bat
Masterson
made Dodge City a law-abiding
place.
“Times were good then, with lots
of money in circulation. The hand
was always in the pocket for any­
one who needed help.
“We came to the Owyhee Valley
in 1884 by railroad. When we got
to Parma the merchant said, 'You
can’t cross the ferry at Riverside.
You’ll have to go to Nyssa.’ ”
(To be continued)
SUNSET VALLEY
Mrs. Anna Gregg and son George,
Mrs. Martha Klingback and daugh­
ter Margaret motored to Fruitland
Monday where they picked up Ken­
neth McDonald, who accompanied
them to the B. P. Brooks home near
Boise. They visited Miss Lillian
Gregg, who is employed there.
Tony and Johnny Schilperoort of
Wapato, Wash., visited in the Anna
Gregg home Sunday.
The Carl Kay family moved last
week from the Vern Wilson place to
a place near Apple Valley school
house.
L. B. Landreth and Grover Cooper
were business callers at Nampa and
Caldwell Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Verle Landreth of
Ontario visited in the L. B. Lan­
dreth home Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. John Vanderpool
and children took Mrs. Vanderpooi’s
brother, Charley Browning, home to
Emmett Wednesday and spent the
night with relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. Claude Wilson and
Mr. and Mrs. Lester Zurcher of
Homedale were callers in the Chas.
Wilson home on Tuesday. Mr. and
Mrs. Zurcher remained as overnight
guests.
Lester Kendall received word from
Lincoln, Neb., last week that his
mother had a stroke. Lem Wilson,
Bud Wilson and Lester left imme­
diately for Nebraska by auto.
Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Ditty, Robert.
Mrs. John Case and Phyllis Joann
motored to La Grande Sunday.
Lawrence Ray and Mrs. Carl All-
quist of Vale were callers last week
in the Ira Foster and Henry Hlntz
homes.
Ira Chadd, Viola and Shelia Ran-
some are on the sick list.
Visitors at the L. E. Newgen home
Sunday were Mr. and Mrs. D. C.
Mosely of Vale and Mr. and Mrs.
Orie Newgen of Wilder.
Mrs. L. Newgen and Bonnie ac­
companied the Moselys home for a
week’s visit.
The Arthur Jones family are en­
joying a new radio.
cert for Adrian’s o8 piece band for
April 6 to raise funds for uniforms
for the baud.
The class for baton twirling met
Monday with a group of about 14.
The 25-piece pep band that played
for the New Plymouth game plans
to appear next at the Halfway
games at Adrian. February 9-10.
Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Hatch and
Helen of Big Bend were the Sunday
dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. James
McGinnis.
The 4-H club of Kingman Kolony
sponsored an amateur hour at the
Adrian high school gymnasium Fri­
day night. The money taken in is
to be used for 4-H club summer
school.
Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Otis and
Emily were Sunday dinner guests at
the Plin Case home in Big Bend.
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Marker and Mr.
and Mrs. Melvin Marker of Boise
weer guests at the McConnell home
Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Habley Limbaugh of
New Plymouth were the guests of
the Duke Rohland family Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Gerrit Muntjewerff
visited Mrs. Muntjewerff’s parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Newton of Oregon
Slope Sunday.
Mrs. Vernon Parker, Mrs. Henry
Hatch and Mrs. Gerrit Muntjewerff
attended 8-20 club at the home of
Mrs. Arch Parker last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Parker and
children had Sunday dinner with
the E. E. Parker family in Big Bend.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Perry had din­
ner with Councilman and Mrs. J.
Olsen of Nyssa one day last week.
Mrs. Howard Hatch, Mrs. James
McGinnis and Mrs. Ellen Sparks
attended Jolly Janes Thursday at
the home of Mrs. Steelman in Big
Bend.
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Hatch spent
Sunday with Mrs. Hatch’s parents,
the Ed Wymers in Parma.
Miss Lenora Watts of Caldwell
spent the week-end with Mrs. How­
ard Hatch.
Mr. and Mrs. Tetwiler were in
Caldwell Thursday.
Mr. and Mrs. Lee Thrasher of
Kingman Kolony visited Mr. and
Mrs. Ray Thrasher Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Geo. DeHaven and
three children left Adrian Saturday
noon to spend the week-end visit­
ing friends and relatives at Weiser.
Sunday evening callers at the
Everett Points home were Mr. and
Mrs. Ray Thrasher and Jean, Mr.
and Mrs. Geo. DeHaven, Patty, Lar­
ry and Donnie.
OREGON TRAIL
was over to Chet Sage’s (on the
south side) Sunday to borrow Rus­
sell Howell’s hog crate to take his
hog over to trade with Mr. Chadd
over in Sunset Valley. In going over
to Chadd’s he stopped in at his
brother's, Clarence Niccum's, and
of course to discuss the mud. Elza
says “ You think your mud is bad
but your mud is not so bad as it is
over to Chet’s” and adds, “I like
to never got my team up the hill to
his place.”
The next day Chet was over to
Clarence’s and upon being asked
about the mud replied, "Oh I don’t
know. It seems to me that the mud
here is about as bad as it can get
and it is that way over there too.”
The school bus was sure plowing
up our new gravelled road Monday
evening. In places the gravel was
not put on any thicker than the law
allows and a huge school bus loaded
with kiddies is rather hard on a
thin gravel coat over a soft mud
layer over frozen ground.
Us south siders that have stock
all got some snow water in our
ponds. Of the four stock ponds
on the south side (Sam Cates, Doc
Raffington, Frank Parker and Clar­
ence Niccum) Clarence’s was the
only one to still have a little water
in it (about a week’s supply). Now
he has hopes that there is water
enough in it to water his stock until
water comes in the ditch again.
Dude Parker has been forced to
put four head on his hay wagon the
last two trips. Dude is hauling hay
from Dale Limbaugh’s and has to
haul it from the stack most a half
mile before he gets it onto the
gravel road.
Frank Parker’s nephew from Mis­
souri, who has been staying with
them and working on a hay chopper
and is now helping Frank and
George Gabriel to put up the line
fence between them.
George has kept pegging away on
his fence during all this freezing
weather. He says, “Once you break
through this frozen ground it takes
no longer to finish digging the hole
and set the post than it will take
next summer and next summer we
won’t have time to make fence.”
George thinks that he has lost
enough by losing his fall and win­
ter pasture and having spent enough
for hay to have paid for the posts
and wire to build his fence. It is
only going to cost him around $65
to his part to fence his sixty-acre
farm. His neighbors on three sides
are helping build their line fence.
Mrs. Elaz Niccum says that out
of the ten lambs they have so far
there are only four of them twins
and all are buck lambs but two. It
looks like Elza’s flock of sheep won’t
increase much this year.
The Idaho Power company made
its first trip to Cow Hollow a few
days ago to let a hay derrick under
its lines there. Elza and Clarence
Niccum moved Elza’s derrick home
from Bill Parker’s place. Elza had
furnished the material and Bill built
It for the summer’s use of it.
There was a farm implement
salesman came along while they had
the road blocked and was telling
them of seeing a farmer who at­
tempted to take his derrick under
the power line without calling the
Power company. He thought he
could make it all right, but the
cable on the line touched the high-
powered line.
OREGON TRAIL—T h e Merry
Matrons club met at the home of
Gladys Byers Wednesday afternoon,
Jan. 24th. Twelve members and 15
guests answered roll call. During the
business meeting four new members
joined the club: Albert Bowen, Ola
Chard, Alice Holmes and Winna
Smith. New Pollyanna friends were
drawn. The new social committee
as appointed are Anna Whitman
and Gladys Davis. The flower com­
mittee are Jessie Chard and Vir­
ginia Rookstool. A quiz contest and
puzzle game furnished entertain­
ment with Gladys Davis and Martha
Rood receiving prizes. The club will
meet at the home of Anna Whitman
with Virginia Rookstool, co-hostess
on Feb. 7. Roll call will be a Val­
entine exchange.
Torvald Olson is chopping his
hay.
Mr. and Mrs. Jim Chard are vis­
iting at the Bert Heikes home in
Meridian, Idaho.
Mrs. R. W. Holmes visited with
Mrs. H. D. Holmes of Nyssa Satur­
day afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Toll visited in
Fruitland Sunday.
Marion and Ewen Chard were in
Ontario on business Wednesday.
Mr. and Mrs. F. G. Holmes were
hosts at dinner Sunday honoring
the birthday of F. S. Byers. Valen­
tine table decorations were used,
with a large, white birthday cakt
forming the centerpiece.
Other
guests included Mr. and Mrs. A. M.
HIGH SCHOOL
Goodson and Estell of Ten Davis,
GROUNDS IMPROVED Mr.
and Mrs. R. W. Holmes and |
family of Richland, and Mrs. F. S. |
ADRIAN—Twelve hundred yards
Byers and children.
of soil have been moved in the im ­
provement of the Adrian high school
grounds by the WPA and 4500 yards
COW HOLLOW
by donation work and the grounds
By The Happy Farmer
are steadily showing improvement.
Several Legionaires have been
hauling gravel for the building of
The snow is most all gone from
the Adrian Legion hall during the Cow Hollow again. It is all gone on
last week.
Two new A. H. S. students who the north side and the ground is
have enrolled during the last week thawed out, settled and dried nice­
are Margaret Hyatt, a junior from ly so that those over there can go
Caldwell, now from Lower Bend dis­ to farming again, while the south
trict and Velma Hawk, a freshman,
side is still half covered with snow,
from south Owyhee district. Adrian
high school also lost a student last freezing solid at night and by mid­
week when Vesta Maltsburgher day we go slue-footing around in
moved to Ontario.
from two to four inches of thin
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Perry were mud over a slick frozen ground.
business visitors In Boise Tuesday
Even at that us south siders are
The Adrian high school faculty feeling good. We know that while
has made tentative plans for at­ this ground does stay muddy this
tending Dr Kilpatrick's discussion winter, it also will hold moisture
in Boise Feb. 5.
good next summer.
Plans are being made for a con-
Elza Niccum (from the north side)
CA! ; h
3 for
Our 3 for 2 Cleaning
Special is Still on—
Bring in 3 Garments
for C l e a n i n g and
P r e s s i n g — we’ll
TRIPLEX C L E A N
them all for the price
of 2.
NYSSA TAILOR
SHOP
SERVICE
PHONE 74
VJAS P0WN ON
T he FARM W ith
A Pl6
WNU
Servie# I
-d o n ’t let faulty BRAKES!
get you into a “ tight!
squeak” . Have them ad-|
justed at
Pruyn’s G arage
Phone 56W
2nd and Main Sts.
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WHAT YOU
HAVE
O INS. C O . N . A.
A
N expert survey of your pres-
ent fire and other property
A.
insurance policies may dis­
close serious loopholes in your pro­
tection that you may not be aware of
or may enable us to tell you methods
by which you can reduce your pre­
mium cost.
In any event, such a survey will cost
you nothing. It is part of the experr
service we render. Bring your policies
in or telephone when you would like
us to call. (Phone No.)
Frank T. Morgan
Phone 97
Nyssa, Oregon
Missionary from Africa
Every Night
At 8 p. m.
from Feb. 1 to Feb. 11
REVIVAL
SERVICES
at
BRING THEM TO
l/g Block South of Boise Payette
1HE T o u g h e s t
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EVEP- TACKLE P
JEFFERSON FORD
for eggs
CLOWERS PRODUCE
Twenty-three friends surprised
Frank Johnson with a birthday par­
ty last Sunday, given by his mother, |
Mrs. E. C. Johnson.
Mr. and Mrs. Buster Hawkins of I
Alberta Valley visited with Mr. and |
Mrs. Tom Loe Monday evening.
Anne Johnson, who is going to the I
College of Idaho, spent from Thurs- ,
day until Sunday with her mother, j
Mrs. E. C. Johnson.
Sunday school will be at Edwin 1
Gonnason's next Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Blackburn and
family
visited Mrs. Blackburn ’:
mother, Mrs. Lizzy Black In Harper
on Saturday.
Kenneth Waud suffered an in­
jured hand when he fell on a board
that had a nail protruding.
H EA R
!< »ream and Poultry
a-
RIVERV1EW
2
CLEANING
SPECIAL
DELIVERY
It never killed the man. He fin-1
ally lived, but he was so severely]
burned that he never will be any!
good any more.
After the Idaho Power man had
arrived and helped Elza's derrick
under the line, he asked If he was
going to stack hay.
Elza answered. “No, but I thought
I would get It home while getting
was good.”
The Power man said, "I am glad
you did, for last summer I sur^
had my hands full letting all the
derricks under the lines.”
The Idaho Power company ln-j
sists that all farmers moving a der-j
rick under their lines, call then
so they can have a man out thera
to help get It under the line.
“Safety First, Last and all th^
time” seems to be their motto.
JEFFERSON FORD
Missionary from Africa
C C C Camp
Community
Church