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Newspaper
Payette Enterprise
Location
Payette, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1917
Page
2
The Payette Enterprise notes Get lively town support for youth education under Professor W R Palmer. It urges prizes from local businesses to inspire boys and girls, promotes garden science alongside domestic and material training, and extols cooperation by keeping dollars in the community to boost local economies.
A jumble of short items blends a spring fly nuisance with a city court divorce case and light humor. It includes a warning about flies entering homes, a divorce scene in which the judge questions the wife, and several jokes about pay, love, and everyday misadventures. The piece folds strange clips of humorous verse and small ads, reflecting a lively local paper page.
Renewed state efforts push full crew laws and related charges affecting rail costs and interstate commerce. Oregon Utah and California proposals target train crew counts, car staffing, and notices, risking service cuts and higher operating expenses as railroads seek federal rate relief.
Editorial urges farmers to avoid selling immature stock and to maximize weight and quality of livestock for market. Emphasizes wartime duty, efficient use of feed, and long term profitability, noting shortages across regions and the need to mature cattle hogs and dairy calves. Concludes that patriotic farming can be highly profitable.
Edward B Sargent, a bankrupt, has filed in the United States District Court for Idaho an application for discharge. Creditors and interested parties must show cause why the petition should not be granted by appearing in the proceedings by May 26 1917 and within ten days thereafter file grounds of opposition with the Clerk of the Court. This notice is issued under court orders. W H SAVIDGE Referee in Bankruptcy.
A clergyman fond of a brand of pickles travels and carries a bottle with him. At a restaurant a stranger asks him to share, he jokes then makes the man cry with laughter. The man, noting the minister’s dress, asks if he preaches and about hell fire, to which the minister confirms. The stranger realizes the minister carries samples of pickles. For rent a four room house appears at this office.
Bascom Wells of New Plymouth transacted business in Payette Monday. Several locals listed loans, sales and births, with notices of dairy cows sold at Banks corral, W. B. Gilmore taking over the Commercial Hotel, and a birth of a twelve pound baby girl. Also mentions Moss carpet ads, a Yosemite trip for Frank Crowther, Ward arriving with his wife, Rev. Jones ill in Idaho, W. Mutch buying a home and remodeling, a lost gray overcoat, a cornerstone event for Canyon counties court house, and railroad contracts and San Francisco telegraph work assignments for Clarence Purkhiser.
The report describes Easter in Cuba and Central America with life sized wax images paraded by crowds, acolytes, priests, and flags as the Virgin Mary figures meet and depart in a ceremonial procession. A separate comic note recounts Grace Jeannette in Indianapolis recalling a Christmas shopping trip and her aunt’s escort to the interurban depot.
A pamphlet warns that intoxicating liquor offers no energy or strength and hinders work. It asserts total abstinence yields steadier hands, firmer grasp, and clearer minds, sharing Dr Norman N Kerr’s experience across occupations and countries. For rent notices follow. A dialogue shows a sharp exchange ending with a claim of mutual hate.
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