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Newspaper
Payette Enterprise
Location
Payette, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1913
Page
5
The Commercial Club directors called a Tuesday morning meeting to organize sending a car load of produce to flood victims in the East district. The Lutheran Ladies Aid Society will meet Thursday with Mrs. Anne Pearson.
Miss Marie Bayer returns from Greenleaf to teach nine weeks at Paris near Pocatello while Mr and Mrs James Hitlerman plan Keysport employment. Mrs C Symes visits Caldwell on illness, Griffeths return from Hot Springs, and fruit trees ship to J E Robinson ranch. Multiple residents travel, visit, or relocate. references to health, weather, and community events frame a daybook of Payette Valley life with family ties and local commerce.
West Side Lateral Ditch Co officers Vera Prestal and Sec Manager announce bids for ditch work. Plans include replacing the wooden flume with 180 feet of cement siphon and installing three cement head-gates plus a division gate. J H Redington to haul gravel for the ermo and B T HM reported missing team in Fruitland with a clue leading to Welser Boise and other points, search halted. Frank Rand called Friday to Fruitland after discovering bogey end half hidden in a tul o detect alfalfa field nearby.
Informal At Home gathering on Tuesday the 25th featured exchanges of fancy handiwork, a dainty needlework display, and a delightful luncheon with Miss Kathleen Drout serving tea. Attendees included Mrs. J. N. Hill and others, plus New Plymouth visitors Nellie Drout and Nellie Weir. Excelsior class hosted a Brethren church outing and picnic at Bingaman’s, with Mr. and Mrs. Geo Childs hosting Sunday dinner for multiple families and a newlyweds celebration for Harry and Aurice Powell. Pleasant View Embroidery club met with Mrs. Chas. Winter, who has been ill. refreshments were served. A Fruitland Grade Concert, praised as the finest yet, showcased seven grades across Fruitland, Pleasant View, and Sunnyside, under Prof. Nelson and teachers, highlighting early music and art instruction’s value for children.
The first grade will present songs recitations and storytelling Friday afternoon from 1 to 2 for children and 2 to 6 for mothers. A Mothers meeting at 3 and the Annual Concert at the M B church at 6 follow a busy day plus trips by Miss Apphia Robinson and Miss Iola Westcott to Caldwell Nampa and social events. Miss Robinson also delivered eighth grade exam results to the County Superintendent. The Agricultural and Botany class is planning plots for their lots.
Community notices detail county teachers attending a Payette meeting, library book distributions for primary grades, and local church events led by Rev Deal and others. Market notes report hog prices firming to $9.20-$9.55, cattle and lamb values, and steady wool prices among early spring ranges.
Receipts for the week include cattle 1912 calves 38 hogs 2103 sheep 2783 and horses 33. Market steady to firmer with prime beef strong demand. Top prices ranged from 2.00 to 8.25 while bulk steer sales brought 7.60 to 7.80. Butcher stock remained firm with cows and heifers strong. light shee t supplies saw higher bids from packers for fancy lots.
List of unclaimed letters remaining at the Payette post office for the week ending March 29. Names include Jacob Banker, B Grayson, Miss Dorothy Goldbloom, Dessa Macomb, Jane Rice, Mia, Mary Todd, AP Webaugh, Fay Wilson, Bart Venable postmaster, and others. Sale notice for a young horse weighing 11 pounds. Enquire at once.
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