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Newspaper
Payette Enterprise
Location
Payette, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1920
Page
8
In a brief, comic exchange a critic challenges the views of J Fuller Gloom. The rebuttal introduces the fictitious Ellsworth Ethelbert Hornbostle, A. M., Ph. D., exposing the joke as a spoof and prompting amused apologies.
The piece notes the 125th anniversary of the Massachusetts Charitable Fire Society in Boston and recalls an early recommendation that servants be required to go to bed before housekeepers and not carry lighted candles to bedrooms. It suggests this domestic service issue was discussed long ago, with servants opposing the proposal.
Dr. D. M. Gandier of California arrived in Vancouver from Japan and said Japan will adopt prohibition within five years. He predicted the Philippines legislature will pass a prohibition law while in session. Gandier noted Japanese leaders, like British leaders, see America training for world leadership through prohibition.
Danville New York hunter Martin Schledorn recently returned from service shot a large bird he mistook for a pheasant. The 42 inch wingspan bird has white and gray wing feathers a cream and brown mottled breast and a dark back. Older hunters believe it to be a large hen hawk. The incident occurred near Ossian Dilla.
The Idaho Mutual Sugar Co plans beet acres for 1920. A rep will attend Ban iroft Hotel Friday evening April 2 to discuss capital stock. The YMCA notes discuss forming a Payette Athletic Club this summer or fall with wrestling and boxing exhibitions starting in April and funds to cover a five thousand dollar bond.
Dead Ox Flat notes a stroke of paralysis for Burtwell father of Mrs Gel lispe of Moores Hollow while Canada visit. Emmett Fitzgerald arrives from Portland to stay indefinitely. Horace Joseph attends a relative’s Seattle funeral. West and Glatt visit Boise for weekend shopping and friends. Wyard of Seattle visits sister S Simpson and surveys land nearby with Culbertson who bought 200 acres in Crane creek county for immediate work. Johnson the stock man buys the Lee Brown ranch for 28 000. Mrs James Bartsche of Caldwell visits son John Bartache. Chas Herr sells 20 acre tract for 5000. A Buster Service at Park School Sunday features Scriptural Ruster and a Primary concert starting 1 30 PM.
ENS MASTERPIECE NOW SCREEN feature a photoplay of vital dramatic value presented at the Emma Theatre on April 9 by William Fox. William Farnum stars as Sidney Carton and Charles Darnay in a tale drawn from Dickens and set during the French Revolution. The Reign of Terror episode adds gripping interest and thrills.
American Legion John Webster Rhoads Post No 33 schedules a hard time party for ex Berryice men and their wives or daughters Monday April 5 at 8 pm in the Y basement. A brief post meeting will elect delegates to the State Convention at Twin Falls. Dues remain due by May 1 1920.
Fitch Realty Company announces an enlarged staff and services including selling or exchanging farm or city property, handling rentals, writing insurance on property, autos, and crops, and arranging loans. The ad notes future expansion to cover all loans.
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