Thursday, July 1, )97]
Th« Nyssa Oat« City Journal, Nyssa, Orsgon
THE PAST
10 YEARS AGO
Lena Kalaya, exchange stu­
dent from Greece, left yester­
day by bus with Job’s Daughters
who were enroute to Portland
to attend grand session.
Miss Kalaya will meet other
exchange students in that city
where they will board busses
and tour different parts of the
United States before returning
to their native lands.
During her stay
Lena’s host family
Grant Rineharts.
Wilson, 4-year-old trapper of
Nyssa who turns in gopher tails
for wages.
His father, Lem
Wilson, pays a bounty of 10
cents per gopher tail, in addition
the Owyhee Ditch Co. pays a
5-cent bounty. Harold says the
gopher business buys the ice
cream cones.
He is perhaps the youngest
of many boy trappers along the
Owyhee ditch.
The company
placed a price on the head of 50 YEARS AGO
the busy little tunneler to whom
The contract for the building
is credited numerous ditch
breaks and the loss of water. of a fine new two-roomed school
A few dollars invested in gopher house in Big Bend District 47
tails annually pays dividends. has been let to Mr. Fry of
Parma. The lumber is being
hauled by truck from Parma
After battling through a unique and the carpenters will start
earth formation of hard shale work in a few days.
interspersed with water bearing
fissures, S.S. Magoffin Com­
A number of Nyssa men em­
pany, Vancouver is back to solid ployed by the Short Line on
earth for a distance of at least section work, enjoyed a holi­
a hundred feet. The company day Saturday, and accompanied
has made slow but steady pro­ by their families, attended a
gress through the most trouble­ banquet given in their honor
some fault zone ever encoun­ at Nampa at theCityHall. After
tered by a tunnel builder in a royal feed, music and dancing
were enjoyed. About two hund­
this section.
red persons attended.
While the party of Nyssaites
were in Nampa they witnessed
a large fire which totally
destroyed a livery stable on
12th St., and did considerable
damage to other buildings close
by.
60 YEARS AGO
It is announced from the Pay­
ette Lakes that strenous op­
position is developing from that
section to the use of the big
lake for reservoir purposes
by the Black Canvon Irrigation
District.
At present
writing, the
Journal is not informed as to
what measures the opponents
of the reservoir scheme propose
? adopt, but is certain that if
Fag« Thr««
the Idaho Land Board grants
permission, ti.ere is nothing to
it but condemn the land to be
flooded, and to take the re­
servoir site over.
for to burn 150,000 brick im­
Arcadia Club Meets
mediately.
This is as it should be, for
there is no good reason for
Nyssa not producing all the brick
The Arcadia Club met June
and cement blocks used for 18 at the home of Mrs. Don
The opposition claims that
building purposes here.
Bullard with 13 members pre­
using the beautiful lakes for
sent.
Mrs. Parley Feik was
sordid irrigation will spoil the
Chicago Capitalists will put
picturesqueness of the land­
$61,000 into a pumping plant elected president for the coming
scape. However, it occurs to
near Nyssa, which will irrigate year. Mrs. Everett Edmonson,
us that the more water put into
some 5,000 acres of land. The vice president; and Mrs. Brig
the lake, more landscape; hence
construction to commence im­ Olsen, secretary and treasurer.
more benefit than detriment,
mediately.
except to the town lot holders
Mrs. Jim Tracy received the
on the lake front.
gift for the best decorated year
book.
George Green has started
Next meeting will be the com­
work at his brick yard in the
munity potluck dinner at the
northern part of town, having
home of Mr. and Mrs. Bri|?
contracted with Warren Fenn
Olsen in July.
The Town and Country Gar­
den Club members held their
June meeting at the home of
Mrs. Howard Myrick.
A report was given on pro­
jects completed during
the
past month. Members planted
17 dozen petunia plants
at
Malheur
Memorial Hospital
grounds. Mrs. Bud Tibbets re­
ported that the group will land­
scape the new swimming pool
grounds.
20 YEARS AGO
By Mrs. Mary Pomeroy
In a minor way the city of
Nyssa returns to the olden days
which are remembered by re­
sidents of the past who lived
in this area, when the City of
Nyssa consisted of just a road­
way flanked by a few frame
buildings which would now be
termed ‘shacks’ by the present
residents.
In that period of
its history the horse was king.
The surrounding territory being
a natural horse country as it is
today, was allowed to produce
numerous herds of horses which
numbered into the thousands.
Old timers tell of the times
when as high as three and four
thousand head of horses would
be gathered on the alkali flats
surrounding town,
awaiting
shipment on the Union Pacific
Railroad.
Nyssa returns to those days
of the west July 12 through 14.
At that time the Owyhee Riding
Club and the Chamber of Com­
merce will present the fifth
annual Rodeo at the Owyhee
Riding Club grounds, located
on a site formerly used by
horsemen of this area in hold­
ing and handling their herds
while awaiting shipment. While
the modern day Rodeo has little
resemblences to the round-ups
of the past, it is a great
spectator attraction based on
the stockman’s work and life.
tale Dates: Thurs., Fri., Sat., July 1, 2, 3
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Use your 2nd Weeks coupons..from the direct
mail coupon sheet mailed to you last week,
Vale Store Closed Sun. OPEN MONDAY
Ontario Store Closed Sun. OPEN MONDAY
Nyssa Store Closed Sunday & Monday
"FRESH, NEVER
BEEN FROZEN”
Hal “PULL LEATHER” Hen-
igson has indicated that he may
participate in the calf roping
contest during the Nyssa Night
Rodeo.
If the comedians and bull
figtiter do not appear as sche­
duled, the local lawyer and
former Fifth Avenue Cowboy
from “Noo Yok” may provide
the comedy. Persons who have
seen him try to rope a calf
know the performance will be
a comedy.
WESTERN FAMIL
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30 YEARS AGO
In conjunction with the Pio­
neer Day of the Church of
Latter Day Saints, citizens of
Nyssa, through the Chamber
of Commerce and other civic
organizations will hold a cele­
bration on Thursday, July 24th
to mark the progress of the
city and surrounding farming
community. As a motivation of
this celebration is the recent
opening of Nyssa’s $207,000
underpass and the near comple­
tion of the Union Pacific’s
$10,000 passenger station.
1 In charge of the entire affair
Is Bernard Eastman and J.B.
Geizentanner,
with
Bishop
Duwayne L. Anderson in charge
of the parade, the theme of which
will be the coming of the pio­
neers, founding of Nyssa, the
industries, progress and im­
provements.
THOMPSON SEEDLESS J
Home Dairies
Cottage
Cheese
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Fresh Picked
quart
40 YEARS AGO
Nyssa has two orchards that
fival anything in the country
in size and productivity, the
Idanha and D.T. Sleep orchards
a few miles from town. The
Sleep orchard covers 300acres
bf land, 240 in apples, 60 in
prunes. An estimated 120 car­
loads of fruit will be shipped
from the Sleep orchard alone.
The Idanha prune orchard,
one of the show places of the
Snake River Valley for many
years, comprises 120 acres.
George
Hill, manager, said
today that crop prospects were
never brighter.
A thinning crew is at work
at the fine 20-acre orchard
of C.C. Hunt. Numerous other
fruit growers swell Nyssa’s
crop to several hundred car­
loads annually.
Vacation time is the busiest
season of the vear for Harold
HUNT’S 20
Alpine ’/j gallon
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