Pag« Four
Nyssa Gato City Journal, Nyssa, Oregon
Adrian Women Hear
About Missionary Work
The Women» Association
of the Adrian Community
Presbyterian Church met
Thursday afternoon in the
church social room. Mrs.
Edna DeHaven was hostess
and Mrs. Bill Toomb co-hos
tess. There were twelve
ladies present. Mrs. Bill
Toomb, president presided at
the meeting Roll call was
answered by the number of
friendship calls made during
the past month Secretary
and treasurers reports were
given by Mrs. Dyre Roberts
and Mrs. John Fahrenbruch.
A report of the December
dinner and bazaar was given.
New books for the year
were passed among the
group. A report was given
that a telephone had been
installed in the kitchen The
least coin article was read
and dish passed. The next
meeting will be with Mrs.-
Mabie Piercy.
The meeting was turned
over to Mrs. Marie Moore.
chairman. She as-
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ked the group about the
resolutions they had made in
January of last year, and
asked if they had accomp
lished their goals. Some of
the goals reported were—
read their Bible more, did
more calling, sent more cards
to the sick, self improvement.
and had more prayer for
others. Mrs. Moore sugges-
ted they write their goals for
1976 and keep track of how
they are doing.
Mrs. Moore then reported
on
Missionary
Work in
Surma, South Africa. How
the people needed a tractor to
help with their crops. Said a
tractor and oil tank was
provided, told of the trouble
they had getting the tractor
and tank to Surma. They
went through dense forests,
crossed rivers and canyons,
climbed mountains.
Trees
were chopped and rocks
moved. On their last day,
they climbed. 12S feet in six
and one half hours on their
STAR
Golden Rule Chapter No.
1J1 met at the Masonic Hall.
January 19. with 29 members
and 5 guests present.
Escorted and introduced
were Myrtle Sasser. Grand
Representative to Utah in
Oregon; Kathyrn Williams.
Worthy Matron of Golden
Chain Chapter No. I0J of
Vale.
Initiation was held for
Gloria G. Smith.
The next meeting will be
February 2 at the Masonic
Hall. Hostesses for the
evening were Danny and
Kathy McGinnis. Roy and
Marie Holmes.
PAUL, GEORGE AND FRITZ MOELLER
Samba Group Meets
pose in Knickers, the boys beat garb of the
Mrs. Frank Morris enter
tained members of the
Samba Club last week. Guest
for the afternoon was Mrs.
Harry Miner. Mrs. S. P.
Bybee took high honors with
Mrs Shorty Brandt taking
second high.
Social Scene
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Luis Rementeria returned
recently from a year's visit
with his family in Spain. He
has been employed at the
John Stringer Ranch for
many years and is now back
at work.
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Saturday evening dinner
guests of Mr. and Mrs. Don
Savage. Kris and Randy were
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Fordyce
and infant daughter. Kim
berly of Payette.
Mr. and Mrs. Jim Griffin
visited with her daughter and
son-in-law. Mr. and Mrs.
James Favorel and family in
Parma Saturday evening.
Mrs. Favorel. Mrs. Griffin
and granddaughter Zoann
attended the Parma Basket
ball game and watched Curtis
Favorel play.
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The Dirick Nedrys enter
tained with a buffet supper
Sunday afternoon. Guests
were Mr. and Mrs. George
Sallee. Mr. and Mrs. Dick
Tensen. Tiena and Bill, and
Mr. and Mrs. W. L.
McPartland. Guests came
early to watch the Super Bowl
game on TV.
Friday overnight guests of
Mr. and Mrs. Owen Gann
were his niece and husband.
Mr. and Mrs. Henson Didier
of Irrigon. Oregon. They
were returning from a six
weeks vacation through Cali
fornia. Arizona. Mexico, Te
xas. Oklahoma. Kansas and
Wyoming. Saturday morning
the Didiers took Mrs. Jenny
Grider of Ontario to Hermis
ton to visit her sister. Mrs.
Bertha Busier. The two ladies
will return to Nyssa in about
a week and visit in the Gann
home.
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WEEKEND
SPECIAL
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Sunday afternoon callers
and dinner guests of Mrs.
Merle Johnson were her
daughter and grandson and
family. Mrs. Pat Sweanev
and Mr. and Mrs. Bill
Sweanev and daughter Shan
non all of Caldwell.
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ANK Garden Club
The ANK Garden Club met
Tuesday. January 13 at the
home of Mrs. Blake Unveil
with Mrs. Lila Hoover as co
hostess.
The club will plant a
Golden Rain Tree in the
spring in the Parma City Park
in memory of Mrs. Jean
McCormick.
The program was given by
Mrs. Muriel Judd on World
Gardening.
Members are saving sta
mps which will go to
purchase seeds and supplies
for 4-H projects in India.
BRIDGE ACTIVITIES
$10’5
Mrs. A. C. Sallee was
hostess for the Tuesday
Afternoon Bridge Club at her
home last week. High honors
went to Mrs. E. Otis Smith
and Mrs. John Worrall took
second high.
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Members of the Wednes
day Night Bridge club were
entertained last week at the
home of Mrs. Lucile Myrick.
Mrs. Roy Hirai was guest for
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Ken Brown
Honor Student
Kenneth Brown, a senior
student at Oregon State
University in Corvallis, has
been named as an honor
student in Agriculture Eco
nomics in which he attained a
4 point grade average.
He is the son of Mr and
Mrs. Ross Brown of Nyssa.
News About
SERVICEMEN
SZSgf.
Jensen
Spokane, Wash.— An of
ficial at Fairchild AFB,
Wash., has announced the
promotion of Ronald A.
Jensen to staff sergeant in
the U.S. Air Force.
Sergeant Jensen, son of
Mr. and Mr*. Darwin E.
Jensen of Route 2, Nyssa.
Oregon is a ground radio
repairman with a unit of the
Strategic Air Command.
The sergeant is a 1966
graduate of Nyssa High
School. His wife. Leslea. is
the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Clifford G. Hawkes of Route
1. Vale.
Sunday, January 25 -All
Star Bowling, Sugar Bowl, 2
p.m.
Monday, January 26 •
Hospital Auxiliary, Malheur
Memorial Hospital, 2 p.m.
Tuesday, January 27 ■
Yellow Rose Rebekah Lodge
<202, IOOF Hall. 8 p.m.
Wednesday, January 28 -
Nyssa Senior Citizens, Club
house on bower, potluck,
10:30 a.m.
job's Daughters Bethel
<33, Masonic Hall, 7:30 p.m.
Thursday, January 29 ■
VFW Post <?697, Nyssa
Eagles Hall, 8 p.m.
the evening.
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Pioneer Of Arcadia District
Recalls Days Of Childhood
LOMBARDY POPULAR TREES lined the road going into
Arcadia School in the early 1900's.
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By Nell Bowers
This story was told to the
writer by George Moeller, a
pioneer of the Arcadia
district. His story is as
follows:
Anyway this is how it was
for me. Me and my two
brothers, my mother and
father lived in Nebraska on a
farm near Omaha. Father got
Oregon fever, so in the fall of
1915, the family came to
Ontario. Oregon. We stayed
with a cousin until February
12. 1916, my father arrived at
the Arcadia station with all of
our possessions in a railroad
car. He had taken all the
machinery apart and loaded
it with all our household
goods and last, a team of
white mules (we kept them
till they died). He had fixed a
platform in the car. above the
mules and he came with the
possessions. This was called
an immigrant car. I wonder
how many people came to the
Arcadia district by immigrant
car? The railroad company
encouraged people to settle
up a new area by this
method They made a cheap
rate so that a family could
take all they owned and even
live in the car while enroute if
they needed
My parents were from the
"old country,'*
originally.
The "old country" was any
place across the seas. My
mother came from Switzer
land. She came to a half-
sister. who had come to
Nebraska before she did. My
father was from Germany
He was only 14 years old
when he came to America.
He settled near Omaha.
Nebraska. We know a little
about where our mother was
raised and her life in
Switzerland, but we never
did know anything about our
father's young life or family.
I guess we never asked tiiem.
However, they met and
married in Nebraska.
Father bought the place
where we would live in
Arcadia from a man named
Houseman. When father
arrived, with the help of
neighbors, Ed Ingraham.
Clarence Ree» and Will Rees,
the railroad car was unloaded.
Everything was hauled over
the bumpy road* to the new
home and we moved in. The
house wai the same one that
is there today. The farm to
located at the corner of King
Avenue and what to known as
Alameda. My brother lives
there, yet today.
I was seven years old when
we came to Arcadia. No one
can imagine how it looked
then. Anyone, now, riding in
a car over paved roads can
not imagine the torture of
riding in a wagon on those
unpaved, ungraveled roads.
The road from Arcadia
station was located where it
is now. It is called Gem
Avenue. In the summer, the
dust was so deep, then in the
fall the rains came and it
became a sea of slick mud
with holes that were softer
and mushier than the rest.
Then, freeze-up with no
beforehand smoothing of
rutty tracks. After the spring
rains came and it began to
dry up, the ground became
nearly as hard as when it was
frozen. Wagons and buggies
bounced until it was hard for
a person to stay in the seat.
When we got here, Arcadia
had begun to be developed
by the K S and D Lands.
There were orchards of prune
and apple trees everywhere.
There was a lane of trees that
went up the lower road to the
Headquarters house, near
where the Arcadia school
stands, today. There was a
school building there and a
small house for the teacher.
The road that now is
Highway 201 was called
"The Boulevard." by the
people who lived there And
indeed, it was, having been
graded a little and been
covered by the local variety of
•'gravel," which varied in
size from baseballs to young
boulder* But on each »ide of
the road was a row of trees,
ail the way from the Morgan
farm nearly into Ontario. AU
of them are gone. now.
having given way to progres
sive farming, except for the
Ted Frahm place where there
to still a row of shade trees
The next road to the east,
toward the river, was called
"The Lower Road". It left on
third street north and me
andered toward Ontario,
taking the easiest and moat
solid ground When it came
to the Gem Avenue crossing
there was a row of shade
tree* on both sides of the
road to the Lane that went to
the Arcadia School. The road
went on across a drain ditch,
over an old wooden bridge
that fell down in the 1940's,
right past the Moeller farm
and staaeered on into On
tario.
Our new house was a
two-story building The up
stairs had not been finished,
so that was where the boys
dept This wai a different
culture in America, where
children were not considered
before the parents and
grown-ups. There was no
central heating, no furnace,
no wall-to-wall carpeting
(carpeting was confined to
the "parlor” if they were so
lucky) as nowdays, and in the
cold weather it did not take
the Moeller boys long to
crawl into their clothes and
head for the cookstove in the
kitchen, where a fire had
been built and a good hot
breakfast was waiting
Spring came and farming
began. This was Father
Moeller s first experience
with irrigating. He said. "We
will keep the water running
all the time." The Owyhee
ditch had been in for quite a
few years by then. There
were farmers all along the
ditch who had water rights.
Some that lived above the
ditch had a right to pump
water out of the ditch up onto
their land. But this was the
only water up to then in the
Arcadia district. It came from
the Owyhee River
near
Mitchell Butte. In the spring,
it was fine. But as the days
grew longer and hotter, the
water began to dwindle and
one day when I was sent to
the ditch to get more water,
there was no more to be had.
My father could not believe it
when 1 came back and told
him there was no more water.
He was puzzled but said,
"Well, in Nebraaka, we
raised dry land grain, 1 guess
we can do it here." But It did
not work that way here. The
dryer it got, the more the
ground grew hard and tight
around the plants. The few
rains we had did not soak into
the ground. So the grain
shriveled up and made no
heads and very little straw.
Irrigation had many prob
lems which have gradually
been worked out through the
years, until now water to
handled easily and changing
water to a "chore" and not a
full time job. The Shoestring
ditch was in the process of
being put in. They put a
pumping plsnt in the Snake
River. Some kind of a deal
was set up so thst in the dry
part of the summer, water
could be pumped Into the
Owyhee ditch. But there
were still open ditches,
grown up to weeds. These
ditches had to be dug out by
hand, regularly, by a man
with a shovel. Ail at the
Moeller boys learned how to
use a shovel, early in life. Of
course, everyone worked—
father, mother, and all the
boys. Mother was a city tody,
but she adapted herself to the
job that had to be done This
was how the small fanner
made a living while he
developed the land, kept hto
farm, all of the family helped.
Alfalfa hay was s big crop
in the Arcadia district, then.
And they had a ready market
because of the sheep that
roamed the deserts in the
summer and came Into the
sheep shed» to winter and
lamb Hav sold for six dollars
a ton—all you could raise.
There were sheep sheds
about two miles apart on the
lower rood of the boulevard.
This provided work. too. for
many people, who were
having a hard time to get
through the winter.
Sugar beet» were tried in
the Arcadia district German
and Dutch families were
brought in. They were
industrious people with large
families. They raised small
acreages of beets The family
took care of them, doing all
the thinning, hoeing, and
harvesting by hand. They
were hauled on wagons by
teams to Arcadia station and
loaded out onto railroad cars
to be sent to Twin Falls.
Idaho for processing. The
crop fizzled out before long
becsuse of the white fly that
came off the de»ert and killed
the plants. Some
of the
families
stayed and kept
farming and other drifted on.
Lots of the names of people
who came to settle the
Arcadia and Valley View
districts are still heard—
Ketoel, Bullard. Groot. Stem,
Frahm. Sebum, Oft. Stewart.
Rees. Butler. Dail. Zhtercob.
Long. Davis. Moeller -
It was a great time. I
wouldn't have missed a bit of
M
As time goes along, mare
of these old memorie* will
unfold—memories of the
Moellers in Arcadia and their
neighbor* and friend*
A
looking back into 60 years
spent in the Arcadia district
of Oreaon
FFA Public
Speaking Contest
Nyssa FFA Chapter's An
nual Public speaking contest
will be hosted by the Oregon
Trail Grange Thursday, Jan
uary 29 at 7 p.m. The evening
will be kicked off by a potluck
dinner to begin at 7 p.m. at
the Grange Hall. The public
is invited to attend.
Dinner Set
For Teacher
Guess who's coming to
dinner? Nyssa school tea
chers will be issued Invi
tations to attend "Teacher
Appreciation" dinners In the
homes of their students
during the week of February
J5 thru February 21, accor
ding to Mrs. Melvin Feik.
chairman for the event. She
will be assisted by the Nysaa
PTSA Executive Board. Any
one interested in hosting a
teacher may call Mrs. Feik.
372-2617 or Mrs. Dee Gar
ner. 372 2490.
Also named at the PTSA
Executive Board meeting on
January 13, were the nomi
nating committee for next
year's PTSA officers. They
were Mrs. Owen Fmerer,
Mrs. Carl Barnes, and Mrs.
Dorothy Wilson.
Plans were also made to
hold a fund raising dinner at
a later date as the funds are
needed for scholarships.
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