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THF NY8SÏÏ TTÄTE CITY JOURNAL Y e Snooper’s Column Things About Nyssa’s Shops Out of shell torn England this past week arrived a letter to our friend, Mrs. Lillian Newby, from her sister living there and bringing first hand news of how Englands average fami ly Is taking the German straffing. Also enclosed was an Item cut from a London newspaper, telling a wom an’s feeling after her first night in an air raid shelter. The letter was written on the fourteenth of Sept ember and except for two refer ences as to locations was untouched by the censor. In it she says, “ the sirens warn us when the raiders come at night. We get up, soundly curse Hitler and go down stairs Into the hall. We are having a shelter built at the bot tom of the garden with bunks In it so If a bomb drops It can't bring the house on top of us. Our lovely churches have lost their stained glass. Any glass of val ue or beauty has been taken out and put in a safe place and the frame boarded up. Sand bags round the doors. Cellars are re-inforced and at intervals on every road a board says, “ Shelter here." Now, I’d like to tell you such a lot but am afraid that the censor would nev er pass It If I say too much. I'll tell you this. They’ve damaged—(the town has been cut out) but not nearly so much as London and they have not found our (censored) works. They broadcast they have but It Is not true up to Semptember 14, as I write this, no works have been hit. Our air force brought down 185 planes yesterday. We have made some mistakes in policy, but are trying to remedy them now . . . “ You Americans will get it next if he gets the British Isles. But he has not got them yet. He is cer- tanly out for a world dominion. She speaks of a lad In the navy "where he Is we don't know. We write to the admirality in London, and the letters are sent on from there. They won’t let us know where the ships are. He was off the coast of Norway in the early days of the war. He helped get the soldiers off at Dunkirk. Since then he has been on convoy, but where he is we don't know . . . the sirens are whistling for the second time since I started this letter, so if you ever do receive it, I do hope that you will know that ■it has been written during the din tof an air raid.” And In the London paper, Ann Temple, English columnist, tells of a first night in a “ shelter.” After reading one of these, one realizes more and more that invin cible quality in the English make up that Is causing Hitler’s well laid plans of conquest to go awry. A bomb shelter with bunks in the rear garden, the stained windows stored Professional Cards DR J. C. BOWMAN Veterinarian Phone 3 9 W NYSSA LIBRARY Open each week day from 2 p. m. to 6 p. m. Saturday, 2 p. m. to 8 p. m. ALL PATRONS WELCOME Librarian ..... Mrs. 8. B. Davis OPTOMETRIST “ See McFall and See Better” DR. J. A. McFALL EYESIGHT SPECIALIST ONTARIO OREGON WYCKOFF JEWELRY STORE Official Time Inspector for Union Pacific ONTARIO OREGON ROBT. D. LYTLE ATTORNEY And COUNSELOR-AT-LAW First National Bank Building Phone 86 VALE OREGON THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1940 till the straffing Is ended. Men and may have use of its beams than just limit in such short time that his women giving their lives with ever that one persbn who happens to be pet corn will not realize it lias been a fear in their heart that in spite parked in the lord and master’s taken-on a long walk. of all sacrifices they may not win, easy chair. And Tom Is like that. At And in our town of Nyssa the but courageous, and storing their the Nordale furniture store one can first pheasant of the season ist al treasures until that day when as a always get fine furniture and pay most as pledsant a feast time as nation victorious they will bring tht easy way. that the chief executive sees fit to them forth out of their holes in the But if it is a bakery buy that thou hop all over the calendar. And there ground into the sunlight and Into art after, then a trip to the McClure must be special fixings and trim their rightful places in Gods temples brother’s bakery wilt cheer thy thri mings too with that first taste of again. fty soul. For there they do make the year of these foul. But Barney My Night In a Public Shelter a fine cake, melt-ln-your-mouth Wilson at the Wilson Grocery on By Ann Temple daughnuts and stick-to-rib bread Main near Second and his co-horts A huge, gaunt room, straddled with many other toothsome and doest know what it takes and doest with clean white benches sparsely wholesome dainty that wilt save have them on hand. Just this week occupied as yet. Men, women, and thee much time and worry. One nev we didst taste for the first time this season the red cranberries and dist a few children sitting bolt upright, er, buys a failure at this bakery. - smack our lips over their tangy fla lying at full stretch, lounging with •| And Omer didst tell Us this past vor. Ever grind them raw with gr the tired half-turn of the body, an week to’ keep our eyes open for that anges for relist)? Verily' tis a.sav elbow resting on the back of the annual penny sale they wilt soon ory dish with fowl of any kind. — • bench . . . be having. There is to be many, a But most any John with his mind My first impression of the public snappy snap on' those four days at set on a tramp through the dew shelter. the Nyssa Pharmacy. And just, in drenched sage brush come early My own place had become too hot time to lay in the winter supply of morn ist hard to budge from his and a warden had escorted me a- first aid remedies for colds, chap chair at the family fireside. Well try cross a square and two streets to ped hands, chill- talains or what ever a little explanation of the fine show this underground stronghold be you’ll have. that ist bouhd to be playing' at the neath the seven storeys of a vast Sure and 'tis. a fine thing. This Nyssa theatre. T is bound to be a modern store. shower business early every morn, get-him-outer. “Put our pillow over your head,” but a deucedly goose pimply one if Shop in Nyssa with Journal ad he said as we crossed the street. The taken with tepid water in a cold vertisers and ye wilt not wast thy bath room on a wintry mom. But swooping scream of the bombs, the time and thy gas going farther. brittle crackling of shattering plate at the Idaho Power store they do glass, the reverberating roar of the have a remedy for this. An electric barrage, and, above them all, loud hot water tank that will without KINGMAN KOLONY er than all, the menace—ceaseless more ado than a turn of the faucet evil—of the bombers themselves. pour forth steaming hot water and The Mary and Martha Circle of the steam therefrom warm enough the Kingman community church Yes, terrifying. to take the icy chill from off the I wanted to run. But the warden met at the home of Mrs. Lee Thra atmosphere. And 'tis a neat affair sher with Mrs. Robert Brown of walked calmly, solwly. The shelter felt like a shelter. that will not mar the looks of kit Adrian as assistant hostess. Devo Quiet. I found a space on one of chen or bath room or may be tuck tions were led by Mr; M. M. Reel the long benches, and turned to my ed out of sight in basement or cel ing, Mrs. Mary Nichols gave the lar. See the bunch at the offices book review and Mrs. Francis Deffer neighbor with a smile of relief. It was a good place, he told me. on Main near Third. They wilt any reviewed the life of a woman char his was his fourth night there. That one of them take time out ot explain acter from the Bible. was his wife—the one in the shawl them to thee and tell thee how On Friday afternoon Mrs. Frank stretched out on the bench opposite, easily payable they are. Newbill entertained ot a bridal sleeping. They had been bombed out And this past week we have wat shower for her neice, Mrs. Wesley of their East-end home. ched the chaos left at the Nyssa “It was a nice little busines, I had Traders from the fires there in early Anderson of Boise. Mr. and Mrs. Conrad Martin and built up," he said, “but I brought summer turn to a well ordered, mod some money and my check-book em show rooms for fine household Mrs. William Toomb were in Ontar with me—my wife told me to—and furnishings at rock bottom prices. io on Monday afternoon. Miss Marjorie Hopkins, Miss Ida- we walked to Battersea. We got a The big sales room with its built place for two nights and then we out show window doest remind us mary Prouty and 5irs. Mildred Hite were bombed out of there. of a lobby of a fine hotel. And those were dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs So we came to the West End. I two happy sales people Myer Oorel J. G. Lane on Wednesday evening. though with my money and check and his lady fair would be tops as Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Case enjoyed book, we could get in somewhere, ‘Mine Hosts" in any snappy hastel- a visit with their two daughters on but everybody said "Pull up.” So we ry. For they do serve their customers Sunday. come here at night and go on look with courtesy and smile if the pur Mr. and Mrs. Wyatt Patterson and ing for a place in the day.' chase be a dime or a hundred dol children left Sunday morning for He was quiet and sad. Only a lit lars. All ist not yet finished at that Yakima. tle trader from the East End. but Emporium but they are open for Herbert Shaw has been building with a dignity that gave me a pro business and with a cheery greeting an addition to his house this week. found poignant realization of the to every one. Before you leave Nyssa Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Cotton were in glorious quality of our people. for any household purchase, do not Ontario on Wednesday. A warden was speaking. Would fail to se the things these merchan Mr. Neilson of Newell Heights is we all move a little nearer together. disers do have on hand and thou He was sorry, but a neighboring wilt be surprised at the shekels thou chopping hay for C. C. Cotton. Mr. and Mrs. John Olsen of Hun shelter was being evacuated. wilt add to thy pocket book by tington were callers in the Charles Quietly they came in. Some with shopping at home. suitcases, some with pillows and Came Tuesday morn and the guns Newbill home on Saturday evening. Mrs. Charles Newbill, Mrs. Wesley rugs. A little girl with a large doll. didst pop out over the country side A dark-haired young man with a and didst spell a blitzkreig and doom Piercy and Mrs. William Toomb at gorgeous golden eiderdown about for many a fine pheasant which tended a meeting of the Member his shoulders. hadst waxed fat the summer ship committee of the local Parent A queer, impish little creature, through in the fields of the Owyhee. Teacher’s association at the home of with an impresarios black hat and Not always welcome have they been Mrs. Maurice Judd in Newell a black coat buttoned up to his chin either. But rather have they laid low Heights. smelling of dust-bins, settled down more than one field and cut down Mrs. C. M. Beaumont, Miss May by my feet. His extraordinary puck the farmers yearly income consi Beaumont and William Toomb were ered little face sank down on his derably until they are not loathe in Nyssa on Saturday morning. chest. He slept. Mr. and Mrs. William Toomb vi to see them go. That is if the hunt Small groups talking, some cheer er wilt ask permission to use their sited in the Robert Toomb home in ily, robustly; some in whispers. fields and then take caution in their Nyssa on Sunday afternoon. We could hear the guns—but muf shooting and due care of the fences. James Shaw, Jewell Wilson. Gre fled and distant. Then, shatteringly, Many a shell has been sold in an gory hiel and Ronald Lane received a tremendous detonating crash. The ticipation of these next thirty days delivery of their F. A. A. cattle on walls shook. It seemed the whole ahead and guns as well. And those Monday morning. The stock was vast building above was rocking, which were purchased at the Gam brought in from Wallows. from a room at the back, a dozen ble store where George Henneman James Nichols bought two calves A. R. P. workers in tin-hats em is chief of staff are sure to be ace from Beaumont and Toomb this erged. dashed through the length high and wilt land their owner the week. of the room and out. Everyone was still. Not the still ness of human being stunned into incomprehension, but the silence and stillness of a glorious, magni ficent control. I think that moment is the greatest experience in my life, for what could be greater than the sudden triumph realization of the Beef for the Hide greatness of a people? A little woman near me said: "I’m Hogs 200 lbs. $1.50 frightened now, but I shan’t feel Cutting 1 cent per lb. like this in the morning. I’ll be Grinding 1 cent per lb. ready for ’em again tomorrow. W ell Grinding and Seasoning 2 cent per lb. stick It much longer than they will." And they will. I am stirred and moved as never before by the beau ty of the spirit of these bomb-tor tured citizens of a mighty city. There are great and valiant people. The cheerfulness, is not so much in evidence now. Sitting bolt PHONE 6 upright in crowded shelters for 10, 12, 14 days calls for an endurance too grim, too torturing. Too grim, too exhausting for com plaint even. They are enduring si lently in their thousands. Shelters, more shelters, rooms, basements, resting places, homes. I slipped out at dawn. A sweet, fresh, south-west wind blew down the empty street. Yes our spirit grows strong again with the coming of the day. We shall go on and on and on. “W ell stand It longer than they j will." said the timid little woman. The little old lamp had served INDIVIDUALLY ENG us many a day. but its beams no INEERED SEALED longer seemed to reach out as far, or perhaps our eyes in the passing POWER P I S T O N RINGS Let our years do demand more light for easy M A N B E E with the scuff-resisting fric reading, or perhaps we didst but Wheel alignment tion-reducing GRANOSEAL have a yen for one of these new ones Equipment with three speeds and an indirect patented surface. Will stop oil Solve your ray. What ever the cause, we didst loss. Steering problems spy such a one in Tom Nordale's Let us explain these features. window the week past and after consulting with Tom as to the pur chase price didst decide that twas not beyond our buying power, so reasonable the price didst seem Now 2nd and Main St. the little old one hast found a new abiding place and in its spot stands the new one shedding its effulgence far out over the room so that more M'S. Maude Walk r, Mias Hezil Osborn and Miss Helen Hunter all of Nebraska« who have been visiting in the Earl Osborn home the past week left on Friday for the coast be fore returning to their homes. Mrs. Conrad Martin and Mrs. Wil liam Toomb were guests of Mrs. Ro bert Clark on Friday evening. Conrad Martin was in Ontario on business Friday morning. Donald Clark and Vernon Park er returned from deer hunting Fri day evening. Raymond Tetwlller spent the week end With his parents, Mr. and Mis Ernest Tetwlller. . UPPER SUNSET from relatives from Callaway, Neb raska. Club met with Mrs. Session Thui- OUR W A N T sday with ten members present and ADS ARE Mrs Homer Cates as visitor. Num SM ALL bers were drawn for rotation of hos but they get tess. Plans are being made for a NOTICED Halloween party on November 1. It will be a masquerade party and NYSSA GATE CITY JOURNAL prizes given for the best masked Phone 19 Nyssa man and woman. Elmer Clcnlnger is distributing cards to be filled out by farmers in regard to the canal break last May. As Life's Sun Sinks in (he W est Mr. and Mrs. Session visited at the Marrs home near Mitchell But te Tuesday evening. Edwin Bergan's are building their basement house. John Reffett and son, Bob, re turned home Monday with a load of poles from Unity. Mrs.; Robert Thompson is the proud possessor of a new Easy Wa shing machine delivered Thursday. Pete Cloninger returned home Sunday evening from Portland, where he represented F. F. A. chap ter. Dale Limbaugh hauled a load of Hogs to Nampa Monday for Russell Howell and Clarence Niccum. Mrs Limbaugh spent the day at Cald well with her brother, Elbert Hines ! More and more, folks are turning and Mrs. Hines. to us for council and guidance In Mesdames Vic Marshall and Ruth times of bereavement . . . . McConnell spent Sunday at the Chuck Share home. Doc Raffington and Frank Park er are making new cisterns. AMBULANCE SERVICE Bill Parker and Chuck Share were Phone 73W Nyssa deer hunting Sunday. Hogue crew cut the first crop of lettuce for Lester Kendall, Roy Rooks tool and John Hamilton Wed nesday. Adolph Schneider and son, How ard, Walt HillLs and son and Roy Rookstool are topping beets at the Osborne farm near Nyssa. Ivan Tif fany is doing the hauling. Doc Bowman was a caller at the Rookstool’s, doctoring a cow with milk fever Thursday. Ira Chadd’s are enjoying a visit PROTECT WHAT YOU HAVE c INS. C O . N . A. 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