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Newspaper
Payette Enterprise
Location
Payette, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1909
Page
6
A fragmented sports column mixes football tangles and signaling chaos with a humorous aside about Army and Navy plays. It shifts to a tale of Queen Victoria puzzled by a Scotchwoman’s thimble purchase and a proverb born from that moment, noting cultural humor amid public discourse.
The article argues there is little danger of apple overproduction as orchard expansion slows in the East and Midwest while Western orchards receive more care and scientific study. It notes growing foreign demand, especially in England and Germany, and asserts the U S market can absorb perfect apples. It warns against premature fear of surplus.
In a letter read by W Te Girard secretary of the Payot Boise Water Users association FLW. Hanne explains water supply during irrigation season 110 to be furnished on a rental basis. Details include rates, canal and lateral construction, land descriptions, and where farmers apply to the office for eligibility. The note aims to inform south side settlers before next year’s cropping. Also mentions matinee at Edinon Theater and several local sale notices including gear and household items.
The article notes boys in South Carolina Mississippi and Arkansas achieving 152 147 and 122 bushels per acre respectively. The Green wood Avenue Irrigation Company meeting in Payette Idaho is announced for January 11 at 2 30 pm. Dissolution notice for Wilcox and Zink City Meat Market with Wilcox retaining the business.
New Plymouth residents report Christmas visits by Mr. and Mrs. Parker of Caldwell and family, with skating on eight inch ice. Miss Pearl Wachter returns from Boise, teachers attend institute, and multiple visits to relatives noted. Local clubs announce Jan 12 banquet and New Year social events, church gatherings, baptist watch party, and Farmer's Institute proceedings with several speakers.
Readers attend a series of lectures and demonstrations led by Prof. L F Childers Prof J H Frandson Prof W H Wicks and others on soil management irrigation fruit tree care and cheese making at Farm Journal events with committees chaired by Monroe Smock and George Stewart across December 28 29 with remarks from local officials and commercial club members.
A critique of invented quotations and the trouble they cause students and writers. The piece cites Samuel Warren and Roebuck in a debate about misquoted Cicero and notes the persistent mystery of the biblical phrase all on the troubled waters.
A damaged OCR reads with scattered phrases about authority and votes, then shifts to a business notice. It includes a policy note from Moss Mercantile Co stating orders after 6 30 pm cannot be taken due to volume and delivery constraints.
U S Signal Office Payette Idaho reports weekly weather data with maximum 21 degrees, minimum 2 below, mean temperature not stated, total precipitation 2 inches, greatest 2 hour precipitation 0.2 inch, one clear day, one partly cloudy day, zero windy or cloudy days, prevailing wind from the north, observation by A F Atuesx.
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