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Activities at Recent PT A Meeting Listed by Reporter ORMA CLEAVER ATTENDS REUNION Guests Arrive For Saturday Wedding Rites Mrs. Orma Cleaver recently accompanied her brother-in- law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Mrs. Waldo Smalley Henry Estrick of Meridian to APPLE VALLEY—Last Ketchum accompanied a group Colorado to visit friends and By Helen Hoffman Thursday's meeting of the Apple of Olympia, Wash., seniors to relatives. They visited the women’s Valley PTA unit was well at Nampa last Thursday for BUENA VISTA—Mr. and Mrs. tended. A talent group pre “Senior Day” at Northwest Na- mother, Mrs. E. Guff, a broth sented special numbers, a hob tarene college. Mrs. Ketchum er, George Brethauer of Wray, Gene Jones arrived for the by display was viewed and a was an overnight guest of her Colo., a sister, Lillian Scheller weekend to attend the wedding of his brother, Gary. The rites sister, Mrs. Kenneth Saunders of Greeley, Colo. spelling bee was held. A family reunion was held were performed Saturday in Mrs. George Griffin installed and on Friday the women re new officers, and Dwight Seward turned to Nampa for the festi at the Brethauer residence with La Grande. They also attended all members of the family be the wedding ceremony uniting was presented with a past vities. Mr. and Mrs. Ruddell of Cald ing together for the first time Evelyn Cleaver and Bill Cole president’s pin. Saturday evening in the Nyssa The spelling bee created a well were Sunday dinner guests in ten years. LDS stake house. The Jones great deal of interest, with of Mrs. Lulu Standal. Mrs. AUTHOR VISITS NYSSANS couple left Sunday to return to Apple Valley, Parma and Ros Fern Riblett was an evening Corvallis. well students participating. The visitor. Lee Harvey St. John of Union, contest was conducted by Mrs. Sunday dinner guests of Mrs. Jennie SewardandMrs. Johnson Ore., was an April 12 over Alice Yensen. Mrs. Gary Costley and Miss were Mr. and Mrs. Don Seward. night guest of Mr. and Mrs. Kim Nelson of Apple Valley Afternoon visitors were Mr. and Lee Strickland. The visitor Harriet Cleaver arrived Friday took first-place honors, Donna Mrs. Bernice Gibson of Nampa. writes stories about the “old evening to visit their parents, Obendorf of Roswell placed Mr. and Mrs. Dwight Seward. west”, and is presently writing Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Cleaver, second, with Pam Stephens of Mrs. Earl Boston left Sat a book entitled, “The Horse and to attend the wedding of Mr. and Mrs. Bill Cole, nee Apple Valley capturing the third urday for Springfield, Ore., to Queen of the West.” Evelyn Cleaver. Pam Bybee ac It is a story about the life place award. stay with the Dick Harris fami ly while Mrs. Harris undergoes of Kitty Wilkins, whose family companied them back to Cor raised thousands of horses. One vallis Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. John Griffin major surgery. of St. John’s better known books Mmes. Jack Wilson and Masa of Keating, Ore., were Friday Mr. and Mrs. Lonnie Knowles was also written about Kitty, overnight guests of Mr. and Kora attended a district high and is entitled “The Golden attended the Saturday afternoon school music festival held Sat Mrs. George Griffin. Mr. and wedding of his nephew, Gary Girl.” Mrs. Jim Favorel entertained urday on the College of Idaho St. John and Strickland have Jones In La Grande. They also campus in Caldwell. Saturday with a dinner for them. Mrs. Donna Curtis and daugh known each other for many visited Mr. and Mrs. Melvin The Jim Griffins and Georgt ters of Boise were Sunday din years, as ground 1917 they rode Pendarvls. Melvin Is a patient Griffin family were also din together on the Seventy-one in the Enterprise hospital. ner guests. The Keating vi ner guests of Mr. and Mrs. range in the Three Creek area Mrs. Martha Norland and son. Jack Wilson. sitors were Saturday overnight Palmer spent a recent evening near Jarbidge, Nev. guests of Mr. and Mrs. Jim The author’s brother, Hugo visiting their daughter and sis Griffin at Nyssa. The latter St. John was a noted rodeo man, ter, Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Ste couple entertained with Sunday having rode many years ago in phen and family. dinner for their guests. Esther Stephen and Edith the larger western rodeos. Mr. and Mrs. Dwight Seward Whipple visited Sunday evening Mrs. W.W. Foster entertain attended recent funeral ser in the Loyd Adams residence. vices for Forrest Holmes at ed with a recent dinner party Mr. and Mrs. Walter Cannon Mrs. Don Nelson will host a Greenleaf, Later they visited honoring their son, the Rev. and Kenny, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Tupperware dessert luncheon in the home of Mr. and Mrs. and Mrs. Tom Foster and their Knowles and Mike were Satur children Paul, Eileen, Mark in her home on the afternoon Ray Sauer at Nampa. day afternoon visitors in the of May 4. Mr. and Mrs. George Shoe and Rose. Also present were » * * Mancel Bishop home. A sur maker of Nampa were Sunday their son-in-law and daughter, prise birthday party was held Mrs. Angie Cook visited April afternoon visitors in the Roy Mr. and Mrs. R.T. Sager. 18 with a son, Mr. and Mrs. at the Stanley Bishop home • • • Rookstool home. Friday evening in honor of Mrs. Dr. and Mrs. K.E. Kerby Arthur Cook in Boise. While Mrs. Kenneth Saunders en there she attended a meeting of Stanley Bishop. Guests were spent last weekend relaxing and tertained with a recent evening the Rebekah Lodge, honoring Mr. and Mrs. Elton Hunsucker dinner honoring her husband’s resting at their summer bouse veterans of the organization. Of and children of Gay Way junc on Wallowa Lake. birthday anniversary. Guests the 65 veterans attending Mrs. tion, Mr. and Mrs. Mancel Bi • • • were their daughter, Karen and Cook was the eldest Rebekah shop and sons Jim, Bill and Don. Mr. and Mrs. Ewen Chard Tom Calvin of Boise; John Shep Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Stephen present. pard and children of Nyssa. were Sunday afternoon visitors • * • and family went sightseeing in in the Kenneth Chard home at Ann Smalley of Payette was a Mr. and Mrs. Jack Sweaney, the Baker and Sumpter areas weekend guest of her grand Boise. Sharon and Susan of Eureka, Sunday afternoon. They report • • * parents, Mr. and Mrs. Waldo the hills were green, with an Mr. and Mrs. Mark Moncur Calif., arrived last Thursday abundance of wild flowers Smalley. The Smalley couple night to visit her parents, Mr. and Curtis visited Sunday with and Ann were Saturday lunch and Mrs. Ralph Curry and other creating a scenic view. eon guests of Mrs. Betty Grimes Mr. and Mrs. Bill Nielsen and Mmes. James Stephen and relatives in this area. children at Homedale. Mr. and in Caldwell. • • Wayne Simpson were among Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Mrs. Elver Nielsen were also Gale Brammer and daugh area women who visited the Saunders were recent dinner visitors in their son’s home. ters, Debbie and Jo Lynn of Buddhist church in Ontario last • * * guests in the R. A. Kellogg Thursday evening. Visiting Sunday evening with Arco, Idaho arrived Friday home at Nampa. Mrs. Saunders* Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Maughan evening and spent the weekend aunt, Ruth Kellogg of Wakeeney, Mrs. George McKee were Mr. with his uncle and aunt, Mr. and were Sunday evening dinner and Mrs. James Armstrong of Kans., was an honored guest. guests in the Wayne Simpson Mrs. Ted Brammer. The Rev. and Mrs. Winston Wilder. home. PERSONALS Mr. and Mrs. Don Strickland were Sunday dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Wyatt Smith. Afternoon visitors in the Smith home were Mr. and Mrs. Dean Sisson and Sherry* SAVE COSTLY CULLS Control wireworms in potatoes with Niran 10-G Careful drivers pay less with Cascade auto insurance. If you are a safe, sensible driver (and 8 out of 10 motorists are) you can save up to 25 on your auto insurance by buying it through Cascade Do you get less because you pay less? Not al all Cascade gives you the most for your money — complete coverage, prompt claim service and economy Think you qualify as a safe driver’’ Then why not give us a call soon1 Wireworms can damage potato seed pieces and infest growing tubers, resulting in heavy culls and substantial crop losses. dress fertiliser application. Either way, you get low-cost, efficient protection against a tough and costly pest. Niran 10-G, the powerful granu lar insecticide developed by Mon santo, controls wirewon..s . . . minimizes costly damage. And Ni ran 10-G is versatile. You can broadcast and incorporate it be fore planting, or you can band- apply Niran 10-G at time of side Follow directions carefully and you’ll have far fewer culls and a more marketable, more profitable potato crop. Get all the facts from your local farm chemical dealer. Or write: Monsanto Company, Agricultural Division, St. Louis, Missouri 63166. LET MONSANTO RESEARCH WORK FOR VO(J J 4 APRIL 27, 1917 THE NYSSA GATE CITY JOURNAL, NYSSA, OREGON PAGE 6 Cascade Insurance Company NfN|(l UWtTfO WAf.iriC • WV.’M jllews From Newell Heights | Ry Dale Witt Mr. and Mrs. Jim Waddell and NEWELL HEIGHTS — Gene family of Ontario were Sun Worden had a week’s vacation day afternoon visitors in the last week from the College of Jim Webster home, Idaho in Caldwell. His mother, Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Pratt Mrs. Frankie Worden and his and Burdette attended the Sat grandmother, Mrs. Lydia Wor urday evening junior-senior den entertained with a birthday prom in Adrian. In addition to dinner in his honor. Guests students, others attending were Included a friend, Miss Vic schcxd board members, their Espinosa, Mr. and Mrs. Fred wives and members of the Ad Spence of Ontario and Mrs. rian school faculty. Verna Costley of Homedale. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Warren Cindy and Wanda Simpson of Parma and an aunt, Mrs. spent Saturday with their grand Annetta Warren of Turner, mother, Mrs. Ray Simpson. Mont., were Friday dinner Mrs. Sid Hardman wasa Fri guests of Mr. and Mrs. Irvin day luncheon guest in the Jake Topliff. Borge home. Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Price Kay Calhoun, who had been and family, Mike Duncan, Steve working and visiting in this Davis, George Schiemer and the community, left Friday for his Carl Hill family spent the week home in Dale, Oregon. end camping and fishing at Owy Mrs. Kay Grooms and son, hee reservoir. They report that Darin left recently for their fishing was very good. home in Prineville after spend Mr and Mrs. Vernon Ward ing some time visiting her par and Dennis of Caldwell, Mr. ents, Mr. and Mrs. Jake Borge. and Mrs. Sylvan Taggart and The Borge couple, Mrs. Grooms family of Teton, Ida., were Fri and son were April 19 even day evening dinner guests in the ing dinner guests of Mr. and Carl Lee Hill home. The Wards Mrs. Ernie Eilers. are cousins of Mrs. Hill. Mrs. Marie Moore was among those attending a Delta Kappa Gamma dinner-meeting held Friday evening at the Starlite cafe in Vale. Art Fields of Parma and Elsmore Fenn of Homedale GROVER L. WILLIS were Friday dinner guests in i Funeral services for Grover the Rollo Fenn home. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Simpson I Lee Willis were conducted were Sunday dinner guests of ’ Tuesday afternoon, April 18, their daughter, Mr. and Mrs. 1967 at Lienkaemper chapel. Johnnie Eason at Homedale. Officiating was the Rev. Ralph Sunday afternoon visitors in i A. Lawrence of Nyssa Methodist the Carl Fenn home were Mr. church, with music provided and Mrs. Gene Simpson, the by Ed Bradshaw and Mrs. Bud Wesley Walker family, Mrs. Sappe. Mr. Willis succumbed on the Dave Savage and children, Mr. and Mrs. Duane Fenn of On previous Friday at Malheur Me tario, Howard Fenn and boys, morial hospital, after suffering a recent heart attack. Richard Fenn and children. He was born Dec. 16, 1885 at Carl Fenn received word Sun day of the death of a sister- Ionia, Mo., a son of Henry James in-law, Mrs. Louis Fenn at and Nancy Jane (Robertson) He attended Benton Roseburg, Ore. She was a form Willis. er resident of this area and County public schools, and on had been ill for a long time, Oct. 24, 1916 was married to suffering with cancer. TheCarl Jewell Irene Hatler at Sedalia, Fenns, Elsmore and Rollo Fenn Mo. The deceased farmed left Monday to attend funeral throughout his lifetime and the services in Roseburg. Mrs. Marie Moore and Mrs. family resided in Benton and Tina Schiemer were last Thurs Pettis counties, Mo., until 1937 day luncheon guests of Mr. and when they moved to the Nyssa Mrs. R. D. McKinley. The area. Mr. Willis was a member luncheon was in honor of Mrs. of the Methodist church and in Moore’s birthday anniversary. his younger years was active Mr. and Mrs. K. I. Peterson, in both work of the church and Mrs. Paul Hanson, Mr. and civic affairs. His favorite hob Mrs. W. E. Piercy, Mr. and bies were hunting and fishing. Mrs. Mervil Hutchinson and In addition to his widow of daughters took ice cream and the home, Mr. Willis is survived cake to Mrs. Moore’s home last by two sons, Raphael E. of Thursday evening to help cel Morton, Wash., and James D. ebrate her anniversary. Willis of Kuna, Idaho; one Mr. and Mrs. Dave Walters daughter, Mrs. Leona F. Sandy of Pollock, Idaho and Mrs. of Pateros, Wash.; eight grand Stewart Aitken of Riggins were children and one great-grand recent afternoon visitors in the child. Louis Pratt home. A son, Lowell F. Willis was Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Kurtz killed in battle July 21, 1944, went to the Presbyterian nurs during World War II in Guam. ing home in Ontario on April Another son, Charles W. Willis 19 to help an aunt, Mrs. Ida succumbed April 14, 1946, fol Collins celebrate her 90th lowing an illness. birthday anniversary. The Interment was made in the Kurtz couple visited Friday with Nyssa cemetery under direction another aunt, Mrs. Jessie Tuck- ( of Lienkaemper chapel. Active er in Homedale. Friday evening pallbearers , were A. M. Duff, the Kurtz’ visited Mr. and Mrs. < Carl Lassiter, Ed Mason, 1 Louis Pratt. They were Sunday Harold Kurtz, Rulon Staples i dinner guests of Mrs. Kurtz’ and . O. E. Cheldelin. sister, Mr. and Mrs. I. C. Serving as honorary bearers Durnil at Ten Davis. 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