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Newspaper
Payette Enterprise
Location
Payette, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1919
Page
2
The fragment notes a fire event and mentions a recurring Thursday schedule. It lists Wells as editor and manager. The legible items point to an early 20th century newspaper layout with ownership by Wells and a weekly publication rhythm.
County Agent reports complete annual activities across Payette County including tuberculosis tests, blackleg vaccination, wool pooling gains, and dairy stock improvements. Highlights cover farm visits, meetings, membership, and the shift to P T Fortner as next year’s agent with an annual meeting slated for December 30 at Payette.
Dredging near Burbo Bank uncovers the sunken paddie steamer William Huskisson likely wrecked in January 1840 on the Mersey voyage to Dublin. Timbers resist decay, engine bed plates and funnel survive, many relics and pottery scattered. 120 aboard with 65 saved by the Huddersfield.
A Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian Society member reports uncovering what is believed to be a Roman bloomery near Forest How. The discovery includes a twelve yard diameter hearth, piles of cinders and ore, and fragments of Roman tiles with pottery and slag. Further exploration is anticipated and funding may be found.
An aged man in rusty-brown clothes struggles to pick up a shiny pin while a younger man offers help. The scene shifts to commentary on flax and cotton, noting linen's return to prominence in industry as cotton dominates munitions and textile supplies in peacetime.
A classroom scene depicts a teacher illustrating prayer with a picture of an Arab man praying. The pupil Billy Cutles replies that the man is looking for planes, revealing a humorous misinterpretation of the scene.
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