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Newspaper
Payette Enterprise
Location
Payette, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1919
Page
6
Last Sunday the Presbyterian church celebrated a windup for a new year of work. Despite crop failures and war calls the congregation paid down debt, funded missions, and already pledged for next year. The notice invites participation in the Presbytery meeting on Tuesday April 2 with hopes for greater local engagement.
The W. GT U meets with Mrs. E. E. Hunter on Wednesday April 16 to discuss dues. Dillard Creiger reports a Virginia air assignment. Mrs. W. A. Colwell returns from Weiser. Chas McCord and son visit their Homedale ranch. Meth odist Sunday school volunteers hosted a party for 48 at the Tackett home with ice cream and cake. The Fruitland Senior Class presents The Dutch Detective on April 18 at 8 pm in the High School Auditorium with 35 cents admission. grade matinee at 1 pm for 15 cents. Yeomen host social at the Hall on April 14. guests welcome. For sale: 12 Cotswool ewes, Henry Sick. Also 1 Ford car, 1 Archholt cream separator No. 5, 1 buggy. inquiries at Fruitland office.
Wilsie Martin of Boise will speak in Payette on Sunday at 3 PM about Victory Bonds and lingering postwar debt. Payette County adopts a quota system for Victory Bond sales with captains named for each area and plans to begin April 21. The note covers church, potatoes for sale, and community notices mixed into the public page.
In the High School Auditorium on April 18 at 8:00 p.m. admission is thirty five cents with sixteen cents for something special. The notice hypes the show as a screamer and urges attendance.
The text argues that true cheerfulness starts inside rather than from external blessings. A person may be surrounded by many gifts yet wear a sour face, since inner change requires time for benefits to alter the heart and lift the spirit.
A humorous exchange questions whether a person should put all his investments in one basket and answers affirmatively by placing the basket in a safe deposit box for safekeeping.
The Payette City Council invites sealed bids to sprinkle city streets for 1919. Bids must be received at the City Clerk's office by 5 p.m. on Monday April 7 1919 and opened at 8 p.m. that day. The council may reject any or all bids. Martin O Luther City Clerk.
Two unfurnished rooms available for rent at 114 Youth Street, near a small garden parcel. Contact Mrs Sarah Say for details.
A French missionary Joseph de la Roche D'allon is identified as the first white man likely to discover petroleum in America after crossing the Niagara River into western New York and northern Pennsylvania where he found a spring with flowing oil. The waters were valued by Indigenous people for medicine and may match an 1789 Massachusetts Magazine description of O11 creek spring with Barbados tar-like waters.
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