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/ THE frlYSSA GATE CITY JOURNAL vegetables and fruits will come in things will have a happy ending. On Tuesday evening was given the sc thick and fast we will not be able fiist Music Week concert. Listen to do much else but can. That is if ers were astonished and astounded we stick to the old fashioned way that out of this hard working little :f preserving that has kept women ccmmunity could be assembled such kitchen slaves the summer through. a showing of real musical talent. The But if we modernize and avail our entire performance on Tuesday night selves of the fine refrigeration fac went off a s smoothly and perfect ilities at the Polar Cold Storage ly as if entertainers had been train plant then we can have fresh fruit the winter through and play the ed public performers. Any one who has come into camp summer through. And didst chat with Jake Fischer late at night with no light but the uncertain flicker of a lighted mat the past week about this and that. ch to guide them about, bruised his The price of seed spuds and the way siiins over an unseen log and stumb cf the new crops. But most of ail Things About Nyssa's Shops led into a disguised hole will apprec (bout his new slaughter house and iate those fine battery lamps and have vowed to make a trip cut there lanterns that the Eder Hardware and see for ourselves just how really Although the Jagged crests of the store do sell. The long light rays fine and modern It is in every de snow covered ranges hung silently they cast will direct the camper with tail. And Jake didst say that they aloof but like giant Bud has brood no mistake to the best tenting and were busy folk on butchering days, ing in the spring sunlight the lower bedding spots. And for the timid soul what with his own stock corn fed levels of timber covered mountains who may have tagged along a quick 'n everything and those the farmers were ablaze with the splendor of light during the night will help to h . ve fed and fattened and had spring blossoms and lush grasses. scare the goblins away when owls ready for marketing. And 'tis fine shows that they arc On sunny foothills the sunflowers, hoot and the brush seems alive with cow peas and lupine, and magenta strange sounds. At this fine store shewing at the Nyssa theatre these daisies waved in gay array in the too may be purchased high quality days and each one too good to be breeze, but snuggled in the timber farm tools and machinery and gard missed and need not be so low is the price of admission at this fine the yellow of the Johnny Jump-ups en equipment. And this past week didst stop in at show house. the purple of the canterberry bells, blue bells, and yellow bells, crocuses the McConnell’s Drive-in Market, Shop in Nyssa with Journal adver and wild hyacinth hid in the tall east of the hi-way at the Y and tisers and ye wilt not waste thy time green grass. Birds every where chat there did smack our lips over that and thy gas going farther. 1 “Golden Freeze" they do market tering, courting and building. Spring has come to the eastern , there. In delicious cones at money Oregon mountains and their beauty saving prices. It is a treat for the is too great for description by word whole family and fine for a com or even to be caught with an artists pany dessert. Mr. Albert Eason, now employed in Tis a sorry picnic or camping trip a scholl near Emmett has been hired brush. Yet they are so close that a short motor trip will get one there that finds itself minus meat when to teach the seventh and eigth and back again in the same day. chow calls comes. For the great grades in the Apple Valley school There are innumerable places for out doors doest whet the appetite the next year. Mr. Eascn is married picnics and even for a night of till nothing fills the vacant spaces and he and Mrs. Eason have one camping out. Places safe for litle but a fat sandwich of meat or a child. folk to play and to call to the echo tasty cut sizzling over the camp MissNelly Helmstra has been hired through the tall trees and thick fire. And no sweet smell wilt be for the third and fourth grades, brush. Plots large enough for a longer remembered than that of ham making a complete faculty. friendly game of ball. Pishing is not frying over hot coals of the camp Mr. Claude Guild of Yakima is ex in the picture at present in many of fire. At the Nyssa Packing Company the higher places for the melting store here in Nyssa they do have pected to arrive to visit his parents snows on the high lands and the the things it takes to fill up the the first of the week. Mr. Guild is recent rains have made the mount hugry bunch, be it cold lunch meat, an evangelist. The Fred Fisher house has been ain streams roaring torents of mud juicy steaks or hams and bacon. dy waters and unsafe for even a And nothing need be wasted that made even more inviting and pretty man to be caught In. It is a wise is taken on the trip if at home there by a coat of white paint with green visitor who takes along a book of is a trusty refrigerator to hold the trim. An outside entrance has been wild flowers so that the varieties remainder and tc keep them fresh made to the basement and a modern may be distinguished sc many there and edible for another day. Picnic laundry assembled to cut down on washday work. are. left overs may be utilized by the A bathroom has been mad? at the The hills, too, are covered with smart and thrifty mother and home cattle feeding, white faces most of maker in many ways. A friend we Matzen home and a pantry has been them knee deep in wild pasture. One have, toast the sandwiches for a made from closet space. Walter lams bought twenty-fiv? soon learns from a few looks at supper time, garnished them with a them what Is meant by grass fat bit of fresh lettuce and french fries acres of land south of the Hale Ilams and they are as testy as the moment farm and began plowing it Monday steers. they were made. A Kelvlnator refrig for future planting. Cloyd Sample But itis a wise driver who takes bought five acres from Lloyd Riley chains along for the Jalopie for a erator such as the boys at the Nyssa and plans to build soon. suddenshower may make the moun Implement do traffic in will keep Twelve acres west of the farm tain road as slippery as a greased left overs fresh till the time to formerly operated by George Smit, serve them is at hand. See Lum pole. has been sold and some levelling We were Jogging up to the family and his gang and let them demon done and a house from an adjoin strate their wares. These Kelvlnator homestead after a week end in the ing tract moved there. While level hills when our permanent chaffeur ice boxes. ling there last week, Leo Wood had But what is a camping trip with his left arm hurt when the leveller leaned forward in great excitment and announced "Look there’s a bird’s out sweets. Something toothsome to bar struck his arm. nest in our tree.” And so there was ! munch and crunch when day is done Mrs. Jed Gooing has been in Boise high up In the fork of one of them. | and the crowd is listening to stories ca ;ng for her mother and little Three wears ago we set them out. round a camp fire. Tis then that nic ee who are sick in bed. poor spindly twigs with no evidence a box of Whitman’s Chocolates that Mrs. Roy Boston’s aunt from San of life they had except at their roots. the Owyhee Drug Company doest Fr: ncisco visited her and the twins | sell wilt do handy turn. ■ Then we tendered them fearfully and at Ontario Sunday. each year watched them grow. Last There are camp fires and camp Mrs. Elmo Peterson will be guest year we were rewarded by seeing I fires but these we have seen lately speaker at the morning worship ser- the birds tilt and sing and rest on do seem weak affairs against the vivee at the Methodist church. The their limbs. This year they are build ones we remember from the long service will begin at 10:45 a. m. and ing their nests and our dreams have ago days when we camped with is dedicated to Mothers. ■ come true. Now if in another year parental clan at the Old Tool Gate. Conference will convene at 2 p. m. they will gain girth and strength There when the last morsel of food at the church and will be under the that a cat may find refuge from un- had been stowed away and the rose leadership of the Reverend C. M ' friendly dogs in their branches all of sunset had given way to a violet Donaldson. twilight, the fires was kindled neath Mrs. Henshaw Sr. of Austin, and a great pile of logs, as high as a Mr. and Mrs. Evans of Austin were man’s head which had been stacked guests at the Reuben Henshaw home while the ladles picked huckleber Sunday when a birthday dinner was ries in the morning. When the enjoyed, in honor of Mrs. Henshaw. flames licked high up into the dark Miss Mary Ellen Guild spent Sun ness, almost to the tree tops it day evening at Caldwell. seemed to us, the young men would Mr. M. S. Binces wo has been IW } come from the camps round about I sick for a long time was taken to and try their skill at leaping over the Veterns Hospital in Boise this the flames. We stared wide eyed morning, Tuesday, where he will re- fearful that cne would be caughti ceive treatment, in the flames. But none did to our Mrs. Birks parents, Mr. and Mrs knowledge. But a bear wanted the Schumacher and two sons. Earl and same huckleberry bush as the little Jackie, arrived and are at the Bir- ATTORNEY-AT-LAW mother one day and a mole got in kt-s home. They drove through fro PHONE 31 cur bed and we did not go upagain. Lodi, California, where they have Nyssa. Oregon And ’twas a fine sale that the their home. Nyssa Pharmacy didst hold the past | Mr. and Mrs. Howard Jamison ar- w°ek and at just the right time to let | rived from Tacoma, Sunday and L. A. Maulding, M.D. folks stock up on first aids and such spent the week end with her par- Physician and Surgeon for the summer ahead, when fingers ents. Mr. and Mrs. J. I. Boston and are bound to be cut, and toes stone are returning to Tacoma, Tuesday, Phone 37 bruised and a nail or so stepped up Hours: 10 to 12 and 1 to 5 on by bare feet even in th? best of Dally- Except Sunday families. A roll of cotton and a good Fry Building disinfectant on the shelf and ap plied as soon as possible will go along way toward warding off dangerous TOW NSEND CLUB infections And here at this fine drug MEETINGS store they do have what it takes in large or small packages at fair prices Meeting 2nd and 4th Tuesday always. And what is a camping trip at 8 p. m. at City Hall or a trip to the opera to the lady A. L. McClellan ..... President of the house if her make up is lack Don Graham ..... .... Secretary ing or cut of date. Her time will be j ruined. Aye verily But it need net I happen for ther > at this store they i carry a full line and many of the j NYSSA AERIE most approved brands for which mi- j F. O. E. NO. 2134 lady may make her choice Meets Wednesday Night There is a necessary comp inv=nt j AT EAGLES HALL to the smell of ham frying in the j timber and it must b? there els? the j Visiting Eagles Welcome whole thing is a flop and that is the j HARRY MINER, Sec j aroma of fresh strong ccffe? waft- j BERNARD FROST. Pres. ! ing through the forest. And to be ! : right the coffee must be freshly | G ATE CITY LODGE X- ground and the real thing ere it is • 11 No. 214 nut in the pat and it is this kind j before winter comes check j that one is sure of getting when the j your heating p l a n t and purchase is made at the dependable j flues for needed repairs Wilson Grocery stor» on Main neai I Meets Tuesdays Third. cnly is their coffee I BE SURE YOU the j edible j I.O.O.F. Temple ARE INSURED there. First Street, South Virgil E. Johnson, spy i Noble Grand M. F. Solomon away Secretary Ye Snooper’s Column Apple Valley THURSDAY, MAY 8,1941 Miss Vivian Kennedy, a friend An American." and the "Hiking from Boise is returning to Tacoma Song,” Nola Rae and Eva Drown of Adrian sang for the L. D. S. church, with the Jamisons. the Home Economics Club quartet composed of Mrs. Elmer Dutton. Mrs. Allen Curtis, Mrs. Francis Defier, and Mrs. Wesley Piercy sang two numbers fer their club, Miss Ida- A meeting of the 8th grade teach mary Prouty played a piano solo for ers of the surrounding schools, took the P. T. A„ the choir sang "Oh place at the Big Bend school on Lamb of God," for the church, Mrs. Monday after school, to make plans Dennis Patch and Mrs. Walter Mc- for 8th grade graduation. Partland sang a duet for the Gar Miss Emma Young, a friend of On den Club. Nadeen and Fcrestlne tario accompanied by Lewis King, Wilson sang a duet for th? W C. T. spent the week end at the parental U.. and to close the 4-H Club sang. Joe King home. Miss Idamary Prouty received the Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Patton spent door prize and the Garden Club re Sunday at the parental Zeb Wilson ceived the prize for the best num home. ber. A number of cases of whooping Mrs. Mary Nichols. Nadine and cough have been reported in the James, Mrs. Charles Wilson. Na district. deen and Porestine were shopping Those attending the Banquet for in Nampa and Caldwell on Satur the men folks at the Christian day. Church at Nyssa Friday night were The 4-Hleaders have chosen the Mrs Chas. Purdy, Mr. Ruben Bask et, Mr. Horace Chaney, Mr. Chas. club members to attend summer Witty, and Mrs. Wm. Teter and school for this year. Vliginia Jarvis son. Dale. Misses Florence and of Adrian was chosen first for the girls with Wilma Gowey as the al Eloise Russell were waitresses. Jolly Janes, met with Mrs. Joe ternate. Junior Zamora was chosen King Thursday afternoon, the after for the boys with Ralph Williams noon was spent visiting and sewing as the first alternate and Kenneth Next meting at the Legion Hall, Elliott as the second alternate. Mrs. Mildred Hite and her cook where they will assist makin/g mat tresses for some members. Every ing class entertained the girls moth member to bring a covered dish. ers at Mrs. Hites home in the Owy Mrs. King served a delicious lunch hee on Saturday afternoon. Guests were Mrs. McDermott, Mrs. Bill Ol eon at the close of the afternoon. son, Mrs. Marion Kurtz, and Mrs. McLaughlin. May Day at the Big Bend Park was well attended by people from The Pollyanna Club met at the all five districts in the Union High home of Mrs. Robert Clark on Wed School district. Kingman won first nesday afternoon. Mrs. Elmer Dut place at the track meet and second ton and Mrs. J. G. Lane were guests place on their pageant put on by cf the Club for the day. At the close the seventh and eight grades. Mr. and Mrs. Lee Thrasher, Mr. meeting will be at the home of Mrs. of the afternoon the hostess served and Mrs. Elmer Dutton, Mr. and delicious refreshments. The next Mrs. Allen Curtis, Mr. and Mrs. Wes ley Piercy, and Mr. and Mrs. Con Jchn Thiel. The Home Economics Club of the rad Martin attended Grange in the Kingman Giange met at the home Ridgeview district on Friday even I of Elmer Dutton on Tuesday after ing. Lower Bend Kingman Kolony noon. The next meeting will be with Mrs. Conrad Martin. Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Lane and fam ily were Sunday dinner guests of Mrs. Mary Nichols and family. The Young People’s Class of the Kolony Sunday school held a pic nic dinner at the Marion Kurtz home after church on Sunday. In the afternoon they went on a hlks. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Elliott of Yak ima, Washington, spent the week end visiting in the parental T. T. Elliott home, Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Piercy were shopping in Boise and Nampa on Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Case drove to Houston. Idaho, after chuich Sunday and were guests of friends for din ner. Miss Luceal Wilson and Mr. Victor Lemon who have been guests in the Donald Clark home for the past ten days retruned to their respect ive homes on Thursday. Mrs. Raymond Holton spent Thur sday. Mrs. Raymond Holton spent Thur sday in Boise. She visited her daugh ter Gladyce who is attending beauty college there. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Clark were in Ontario and Payette on Thursday. The 4-H Clubs of the Kolony sponsored a program at the Adrian High School on Saturday evening in which all of the organizations of the community took part. The pro gram opened with the audience singing two verses of America, Mrs. Dennis Patch of Adrian gave two readings for the Mary and Maltha society, the Girl Scouts sang. “ I Am Johnny Toombs is at the Nyssa Nur sing home. Vivian Fife participated in the Apple Blossom Festival Pageant at Payette Monday evening. Dick Groot was a business visitor in Ontario Thursday. Frank Winkels is painting and cal- cimining for Pete Tensen this week. Mrs. Luther Fife and Lila spent Sunday afternoon with Mrs. Cla'- Sunday afternoon with Mrs. Christ en» Jensen in Parma. Harry Shelton. Mr. and Mrs Rock Shelton, and Nelda Chamberlain were Boise business visitors Tues day. Mr. and Mrs. Jake Fischer vis ited at the Pete Vander Ort home Sunday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Oral Manning of Preston spent Thursday at the Qeo- rge Jensen home. Jake Van Twisk spent Sunday af ternoon with Mr. and Mrs. Kris Kot and Rikus Van Twisk in Valley View. Mr ad Mrs. Leo Fife and family left Monday for Yakima where Mr Fife is employed. Mrs. Jake Bodner of Nyssa spent Sunday afternoon with Mrs. Rock Shelton. Mrs. John Ray and children of New Plymouth were visitors at the O. C. MacFarland home Saturday afternoon. Mrs. Mary E. Fischer of Mt. An gel Is spending a two weeks vacation at the Jake Fischer home. Orch Fields and Matherly shear er sheep for John Lackey Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Jake Groot and Mr and Mrs. Bill Findling were Sunday afternoon visitors at the Lute Stam home in Newell Heights. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Lelv, Mrs. Jonas Brown and son, Jack of Weiser. Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Findling and E. D. Frost of Nyssa visited at the Fred Koopman home Sunday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Orcutt of Buena Vista, Mr. and Mrs. Golden Leavitt of Nyssa, and Mr. and Mrs Ora Friel were at the Owyhee Dam Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Thompson and family moved here from Black- foot Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. John Lackey spent Sunday evening at the Walter Al ford home in Nyssa. Fred Koopman attended a Sel ective Service Board meeting at Vale Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Ora Friel, Mr. and Mrs. Luray Trobert. Mr. and Mrs. Gerrit 8tam. and Clayton Jensen and children attended the Blossom Festival at Payette Monday. Mr and Mrs. A. R. Myers of Boise and LeRoy Stuart of Rockyford spent Sunday at the Luray Trabert home. Melvin Jensen and Pete Tensen have full crews thinning beets this week. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Fletcher from Boise were Sunday guests at the E. A. Wimp home. Howard Boor Visits Parents— Howard Boor, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jim Boor arrived from Camp Lewis Sunday for a two day visit with his parents. Howard says that he thinks army life is great, but somewhat dif ferent since he was a member of the R. O. T. C. when he was in col lege. Notice To Hog Raisers With the installation of a new scale at THE RAILWAY STOCK YARDS we are now receiving your hogs there every Friday, paying the highest price the market permits and seeking to serve you in every possible way. FRANK KULLANDER Alberta Valley Mr. and Mrs. Joe Marchand and daughter, Louise and Lu Dell of Ba ker were Sunday dinner guests at the C. M. Tensen home. Lu Dell played a violin solo in the music week concert in Ontario Sunday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Gerrit Stam were Sunday afternoon visitors at the Case Muntjewerf home in Big Bend. Neil Tensen is on the sick list and under the care of Dr. Kerby, this week. Mr.andMrs. Z. Davidson of Par ma, Mr. and Mrs. Dick Stam, and Grandma Stam of Oregon Trail, and Mr. and Mrs. P?te Tensen were Sun day afternoon guests at the Dick Groot home. C. M Tensen was in Vale on bus iness Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Schenk of Ar cadia were Sunday dinner guests at the Malcolm Crawford home. Mr. and Mrs. Bert Shelton were at Unity Sunday. Bud Wilson and C. M. Tensen left Sunday for Nigger Rock where they are shearing sheep. Mrs. Malcolm Crawford attended practice for the Music Concert at Weiser Friday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Draper of Ontario were dinner guests at the Bert Shelton home Monday even ing. Mr. and Mrs. Jake Van Twisk and family were In Parma Sunday. Mrs. Robert Toombs is caring for the Dlnnls Toombs children while \ cm CUSTOM BUTCHERING and CUTTING Beef for the Hide Hogs 200 lbs. $1.50 Cutting 1 cent per lb. Grinding 1 cent per lb. C/ending and Seasoning 2 cent per lb. Let us do your work! NYSSA PACKING CO. PHONE 6 CARL ¡1 LOAD A FLUE in poor repair caused The Pnbllc Is Invited this - IV. 8 p. m. & m Not of freshest and highest quality out so is every other purchased And at Tom Nordales furniture mart not long since did we som* N Y S S A R EA LT Y nifty little folding chairs, just thej thing to tuck in the car and and Insurance Co. have handy for summer outings. Phone 53 Comes the hot months when fresh Cables Chevrolet Company Phone 62 Ontario, Oregon
