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.
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