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Thursday, March 18, 1976 Nyssa Gate City Journal, Nyssa, Oregon________________ Pag» Nine Early Times In Arcadia (Continued From Page 6) SERVING AS PROGRAM LEADERS at ■ recent two-day workshop in Adult Perfor mance Levels at TVCC were Dr. Michael Colbert. Region X Adult Education Staff Development Coordinator for Oregon State University; Donna Lockard. Adult Basic BIG BEND • Mrs Leroy Bennett. Mrs Winifield Ben nett. Mrs. John Packwood and Mrs Dyre Roberts attended Women's Associa tion at the Adrian Com munity Church Thursday afternoon Mrs Dyre Roberts was a supper guest of Mr and Mrs Delno Brock in Ontario. Wednesday evening. Mr. and Mrs Varner Hopkins and Mr. and Mrs Boyce Van De Water attended a musical presentation in Boise last Monday evening Mr and Mrs Dick Reed were among those performing Mr and Mrs Hob Stubble field of Parma were Thursday supper guests of Mrs. Wmi fred Bennett Leonard Howes has been quite ill with pneumonia and asthma. He was slightly improved Monday. Mr. and Mrs Boyce Van De Water entertained with a family dinner Sunday. Guests were Mr and Mrs. Dick Reed and Laure of Boise. Mr and Mrs Larry Bauman and family of Nyssa and Mr and Mrs Bill Van DeWaler and family of Adnan Mr and Mrs Darryl Seuell and daughters Christy and Jennifer moved into their newlv erected home on the farm recently purchased from Leonard Howes, last week from Nampa. Big Bend welcomes back a local boy and his family. He will farm with his father, E. M Seuell Mrs. Roae Burns of Nyssa was a weekend guest of Mr. and Mrs Mike Sillonis and Education Curriculum Development Coor dinator from Chemeketa Community College; and Clifford Norris, Coordinator of Instruc tion and Student Services, Community College Division of the Oregon Department of Education. family. Mr. and Mrs. Ted Avery look their motor home to Hell's Canyon Saturday and returned Sunday evening Mr. and Mrs Gordon Avery and family of Weiser met them there. Mr. and Mrs. Ben Witty and Carl. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Witty and family. Mrs. John Packwood. Mrs. Darrell Eng lish, Mrs. Dyre Roberts. Susan Carroll and Mrs. Winifred Bennett attended the reception for the Rev. and Mrs. Ball at the Adrian Com rnuntty Presbyterian Church Sunday evening. Deanna Chaney. Peggy Ishida and Heth Zueger of Big Bend and Shannon I inville of Adrian and Cindy Ingram of Kingman Kolony left Saturday morning in chancy’s camper for a week's vacation al Eugene and along the Oregon Coast. Mrs. Varner Hopkins and Mrs Bovce Van DeWaler attended Missain Circle at the home of Mrs. Black in Roswell Thursday afternoon Mr and Mrs. Boyce Van DeWaler have been calling each day on Mrs. Carl Fogleman at the Nampa Medical Center since Mrs Fogleman suffered a severe heart attack Saturday. Mrs. Bethel Wood of Newport called on Mrs. Stan Thomas. Saturday. Later she called on Mr and Mrs. Darrell English. The Big Bend Home Extension Study Group met Tuesday with Mrs. Mike Sillonis Mrs. Alan Bennett assisted her. The lesson "Over the Counter Drugs" was given by Mrs Dyre Roberts and Mrs. Phil Clucas. Twelve ladies atten ded. Mrs. Darrell English and Mrs. Dyre Roberts called on Mrs. Leonard Howes Mon day afternoon to wish her a happy birthday. Mrs. Jerry Osborne of Adrian, Mrs. Brent Hartley of Sunset Valley. Mrs. Stella Moss and Mrs. Reta Ray of Nyssa also called during the day. Mrs. Winifred Bennett visited Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Wood in Marsing Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Pete Sillonis and girls are visiting relatives in Cathlamet. Washington this week. Susan Carroll of Sunset Valley was a Sunday over night guest of Mr. and Mrs. Dyre Roberts. Carlene and Darlene Carroll were Tues day overnight guests. Mrs. Bernice Toomb of Kingman Kolony called on Mrs. Dyre Roberts Tuesday morning. Brad and Russ Roberts. Scott and Kelly Allsop attended the car show in Boise Saturday evening. Ales Callahan and his father attended the car show in Boise Sunday evening. Mr and Mrs Randy York and family were visitors at the Robert Callahans on Monday, taking Alex home with them to New Plymouth to assist them in clearing away an old building. Thera la mors iron in three large eggs than in three ouncea of tuna "Oh that was in 1907 and the dining rooms. They had 1908. Everyone was so many single men who ate excited because they had there There were houses been promised that the along that side of the road, "High-line” ditch would be where they slept. On the put in. So people, from all other side of the road was the walks of life, rushed out here barn. South of the barn was to homestead the land under the evaporator where they the ditch. They came and dried fruit. Also there was a proved up on the places; then building, where they made when the irrigation did not boxes for the fruit. There come in. they just had to pull were fields of sugar beets out and leave them. The along there, too. This was all place where Feiks live, the built and going on before we Cable boys homesteaded came. Grandma Thompson that. Then a fellow, by the boarded a lot of the men who name of Jim Beck, lived did not want to eat at the where Edmunsons lives, but cookhouse. Many of them he didn't stay long enough to spoke German and Dutch. prove up on it, so another One man could only say two man came in and proved up. words of English, "sugar Then they all moved out. beet". So they all called him After that a bunch of "sugar beet." Grandma Norwegians came in. Sund- Thompson's daughter-in-law quists. Lundgrin. Lind and was German so she could talk Hagen. They took over the to the men and teach them homesteads, proved up on English. Schreiber did not them and they stayed till they last long. One day, they had sold them. Where Bradys word that he had died, and a lived is part of the Hagen coffin was carried from the place. Part of the Houston house, but years later, it was place was homestead when rumored, that some of the they came and part they Dutch people that had gone bought. The Shoestring ditch back, saw him over in went in about 1912. That Holland. helped the people who lived Clyde Long was telling me above the Owyhee ditch. just the other day that he That was the Longs that lived worked in the evaporator and on Gem Avenue. Grandpa also made boxes. Clyde is Long lived on the place where Otis' brother-in-law. A deaf L. E. Robbins lives. He had and dumb man was overseer 160 acres. When the Shoe of he and John Zittercob. string went in, he gave each building boxes. All that 80 of his married children 10 acres that lies along Gem and acres. Unde Al Thompson the highway, was all in ended up with 30 acres on the apples. Wolf River apples corner of Gem and Clark they were called. They were 8 which he later sold to Clyde or ten inches across. The only Long. Al moved up where thing they were good for was Owen Froerer lives now. drying. Then they raised Clyde dragged a couple of "Winter Banana". Yellow the abandoned homestead Pear-maids" and "Romes." shacks down there and built There was a cannery along the bouse that was on the the railroad track, south of Jack Shenk place. Shenks the station They canned lived in it for a while. The tomatoes, peaches, pearsand place where Donald Bullard prunes. They also raised a lives was the first established few cherries and pears home above the Owyhee around Arcadia. There were ditch. They had a good deep lots of prunes. They packed well, so of course it was a them in a packing shed along stopping place for people. the lane that goes to the Wallace Cable lived there. schoolhouse. The old Nevada The man who homesteaded it ditch came across just north was New that was 120 acres of the place you used to live and there were prunes in it when Ira Ure farmed it. the all up the hill. He pumped one on Imperial Avenue. We water out of the Shoestring. called it the Kimball place A. J. Fleming built the Jake He was the one that took it Groot house and owned all out of the brush. The Nevada the land from there up the ditch came out of the hill including the place where Malheur River and wandered Merrildean Robbins lives. across White Settlement and That old house on the comer ended up on the Jake Groot of Clark and Gem was built place. They brought the by a man named McKibben. water here but it played out. He took up a desert claim There were too many farmers there. taking out of it, took all they As soon as the water came, wanted and of course it farmers tried to raise hay and fizzled out. Then they got the grain. Both did well but they Owyhee ditch through. had no market for them. “When was all this land Then the sheepmen started above the Shoestring ditch bringing in the sheep off the settled?" desert to feed them through the winter and lamb them out. There were a lot of sheep sheds around Arcadia. There was a sheep shed along the drain ditch east of where Arie Bakker lives. There was a sheepshed behind the school house. There was one where Larry Fujii lives. John Went worth built those sheep sheds on the place where Stringers lamb. now. You see. the sheepmen had free range in those days. When the Taylor grazing Act came in, a lot of the sheepmen quit. They would not pay for the grazing. It was hard times again for the farmers. They kept talking and talking about the Highline ditch. Of course, my folks were enthused, too. So they bought «0 acres, the 40 acres where George Moeller lives and the 40 east of it. They got it all for $2500. No water on it, lots of sagebrush. But O! the Highline ditch was coming. Not a thing had been done to it and this 40 had sagebrush on it tall enough to hide a man riding on a horse. Great big nice brush. In the spring of 1912, they cleared the land. They railed it off with a railroad iron pulled by a team of horses. That uprooted it and then they Mr and Mrs. Merle Kygar of Nyssa were Saturday evening guests of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Kygar. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Kygar had Sunday dinner with Mr. and Mrs. Harold Jenkins. Mrs. Carl Piercy attended the Wrestling Tournament at TVCC Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Ardeu Atkenson and Reta Piercy of Ontario were Sunday dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Piercy. Monday evening, Mrs. Ed Nedrow and Jimmie called on Mr. and Mrs. Mike Castro Sr. Lupie Castro was a caller at the Ed Nedrow home Wed nesday evening. Mr and Mrs. Klaas Laan left a week ago Friday morning and went to Cres cent City, California to see Mike and Mary Macy. They got to see the whales coming up for air in the ocean. Monday they went to Dur ham, California and visited Mr. and Mrs. Emmet Coon. The almonds were in bloom. They got home on Wednes day. Mrs. Earl Ervin visited Mr. and Mrs. Willis conant on Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. EAri Ervin and sons were guests at a birthday dinner honoring Earl at the home of their daughter. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Radford in Adrian. Melvin Crocker was also a dinner guest. A house in Kingman Kolony burned down Thurs day afternoon last week. It was occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Joe Saldervar and family. No one was at home. The place is now owned by Klyn Cheney of Homedale, and was the former home of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Begeman. The house was burned to the ground when the Saldervars returned home. Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Robb were Sunday dinner guests at the Jim Barnes home in Nyssa. It was in honor of Wayne's father, Hudson Robb's birthday. Other gue sts were Mr. and Mrs. Hudson Robb. Mead Robb and John Strickland,__ Mr. and Mrs. Carl Lee Hill and Terri and Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Freitag, Connie and James Aaron were Sunday dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Jim Phifer. Mrs. Alice Lewis. Teresa and Lonnie of Nu Acres were Sunday afternoon visitors of Mr. and Mrs .Willis Conant. Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Wnght and family of Boise were Saturday afternoon visitors of Mrs. Charles Bowers. Mr. and Mrs. Herschel Thompson and Mrs. Ethel raked it with a big old thing made out of 4x4's. fixed so they turned on an axle, so that when it turned around, it raked it out of the ground. They made it into windrows and burned this brush clear through the field. Then they raked it again and piled it and burned it. Then they planted the crop. That first year. 1912—but Oh-h-h the irrigation! Then papa got sick that summer and we had all those fresh ditches! Shovel and bawl and shovel and bawl. Just Mary and I. I was about 12. Papa had inflam matory rhumatism and cou ldn't get out of bed. so we really learned how to work. “We went to school in Arcadia. Arcadia town star ted out and there was a building at the station that I understood was built for a Catholic church. When the town kinda died down, they moved this building to the Settlement of the KS and D ranch. That is what our first schoolhouse was. Some of the kids that went to school were Butlers, the Longs, us, of course, the Dails, and the Bullards and all those kids above the ditch that could come. They walked or drove a horse or rode A NEW BEEF POINCESS was crowned Saturday night during the Malheur County Livestock Association spring meet in Jordan Valley. Johanna Moore, a sophomore at Vale High School, was crowned by Julie Ross. Jordan Valley outgoing princess. The program is sponsored by the Malheur County Cow Belles as a pan of their project to promote beef. Argus photo. Community Concert Association Holds Membership Drive Ontario—The Malheur Community Concert Associa tion will open its 29th annual membership drive on Mon day. March 22. Thompson went to Boise to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Rex Walters. They attended a baby shower for Mrs. Ethel Thompson’s great-granddau ghter, Mrs. Randy Van Leuven. Mrs. Ethel Thomp son remained in the Rex Walters home for a short visit. Dr. Maulding of Nyssa visited in the Herschel Thompson home Wednesday afternoon. John and Sharon Thiel of Boise brought their daughter Paula over Saturday to spend several days of her spring vacation with her grandpa rents. Mr. and Mrs. Don Fox. Mrs. Harold (Ronnie) Tren- kel. Headquarters Secretary and Mrs. Pearl A. Summers. Concert Representative with Columbia Artists Manage ment will be on duty at drive headquarters in the Moore Hotel Monday thru Thursday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Friday from 10 a.m. until noon. Concert memberships en title the bearer to four local concerts plus free admission to Community Concerts in Boise. Baker, and La Grande. Two attractions already booked for the 1976-77 season are the famous "Four Freshmen” and the Ford Comic Opera Theatre which will present “Die Fleder- maus." Drive captain for the Nyssa area is Madge Thomson. Phone 372-3515. Dan Bright, Feed Service Salesman Recommends BRONATE Bronate can be appfied soon after weeds emerge. 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