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Newspaper
Payette Enterprise
Location
Payette, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1913
Page
5
Fruitland residents share Christmas plans with relatives in Payette and Boise, note illnesses, weddings, and church revival progress. Local families gather for dinners, travel between Boise and New Plymouth, and a surprise wedding near Wester. community life includes school, farming notes, and a horse business feature.
J Kenepp in charge at Bowers packing house closed this season with about 28 000 boxes packed. He will travel to Flaxton N C to join his wife and daughter and visit relatives before possibly moving to Florida in spring. Fitch family moves to Dry Rock and acquires Va bee stock ranch in exchange for Fruitland property. The Valberg family moves into the Fitch residence as Good Roads commissioners urging activity during favorable weather.
A dense notice list describes Christian services and events across multiple congregations. It covers Thursday morning communion, cottage prayer at B Whealdon home, Sunday sermons by Rev. Dearie and Rev. Tickner, New Year basket dinners at Epworth Hall, and winter services with annual meeting. Additional items include Brethren Church, Sabbath school program, and Grangers social plans.
Weiser social circle hosts Friday dinner at the Rogers home with long standing Nebraska ties. E W Madsen family observes a family birthday at home. Miss Mable Bingiman hosts a farewell for sister Viela who departs for Kansas. Fruitland youth events extend into a large gathering. E B Boor entertains a Sunday dinner for young guests including Alice and Gertie Melcher. J W Beehler and Platz families visit. I T S silver medal contest at the Methodist Church draws strong talent from girls and boys with Gladys McKeown winning and Martha Wilson close behind. Paul Flock also noted.
Grover Bros shipped a car load of tees from Emmett to Portland. Whitley Bottom News reports a Christmas school event in the schoolhouse. John Helm installed a phone at home this week. Oliver Zehner plans to leave for Sanada to oversee a homestead property he owns.
Charles Wellington Furlong describes French convicts enduring brutal life in a Cayenne penal colony. He details locked dormitories, nightly fear, mutinous fights, and fatal violence as inmates struggle under an antiquated system while clinging to a fragile hope.
A Chicago Tribune note discusses the historic sanctuary principle in England, noting its limited survival and the long tradition of refuges in churches and hospitals. It explains clerics cannot be arrested within sacred precincts and that enforcement varies by royal command, highlighting the enduring yet limited protection for criminals.
A tale follows Hartley and Anna Blanchart from college promise to a thwarted career and failed marriage. Hartley’s invention drive and Anna’s social rise collide with financial collapse, divorce, and a bank scandal, ending in a grim, fateful reunion.
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