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Newspaper
Payette Enterprise
Location
Payette, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1919
Page
2
Will Wells owner and manager appears in a brief post office notice dated August 1 1907 under the Act of Congress of March 1 1879. The notice mentions a business matter at Payte.
The Fruitland Banner criticizes county commissioners for selecting the Enterprise for printing noting the bid process is not simply the lowest price. The piece defends commissioners earning scrutiny while recounting pay and salaries tied to public service and hints at broader 1918 1919 context in Payette County.
Advice warns against nominating conventions and voting to avoid social repercussions. The piece mocks political participation and describes a drafted Black man guided through a community services club, hinting at racial segregation and contrasting perceptions of power and belonging.
A man seated at a Saturday dinner hosted by the Daughters of Zion reflects on his troubled past and his newly recognized status in the community. He questions why the conflict did not begin earlier, as he contemplates life, purpose, and belonging.
The article traces early burial customs at crossroads, where suicides and criminals were laid to rest near crosses or at public executions. It explains shifts from churchyard burials to roadside graves, framed as a shift from compassion to legal punishment for self-murder.
A woman communist proclaims wealth should be shared and is challenged by a man who offers seventy five cents to halve. He then changes money for two notes and boasts he will split all he owns. She asks what remains in her purse and discovers twenty dollars. he takes ten and departs.
Eight month old Edith Gruenberg from Philadelphia reportedly mimics bird calls from her cradle and by two years distinguishes colors. She hums Schubert and by three and a half recognizes 100 airs and names composers Tschaikowsky Wagner and others, pronouncing them clearly.
Two French war dogs and their keeper earned recognition after a German offensive. The keeper stayed behind to guide the dogs as they delivered a vital message, forcing a perilous river crossing of the Marne. Dragged by the dogs chained together, they swam the river while bullets rained, and all three escaped unharmed.
The by product of beet sugar, the scum collected in boiling, contains about 6,000 tons of calcium carbonate. When this calcium carbonate is mixed with clay and fired, a good cement is produced.
The Farmers Co-Operative Creamery Co. schedules a February 7 and 8, 1919 gathering at Emma Theater. Program items include moving pictures on silos and dairying, addresses by Prof. Fitts Frank K. Ballard and others, reports on creamery finances, director elections, and discussions on cooperative farming and the world movement.
A historical piece argues future prosthetics will restore function rather than resemble a hand. It envisions continuous devices, multiple steel rods or iron claws, and inventive methods using knee hip or foot for tasks, expanding beyond natural motion.
Society notes claim the Order of Fools was started November 12 1881 by Adolphus count of Cleves under the title D Order Want Geeken Gesells chap. Its noble members pursued humane charitable aims akin to Odd Fellows and Foresters. They wore jester emblems on mantles and met annually at Cleves for a week long grand court addressing welfare and conduct.
A veteran Canadian recounts how the Indians named months by natural signs from frog moon to goose moon and kept days by moving sticks from the days to come bundle to the days past bundle each morning, using pussy willow twigs to mark the seasons.
The article recalls the outing of the Authors' guild at Florida Missouri and notes Mark Twain's birthplace. It cites the jumping frog tale as a favorite anecdote among Twain's humorous uncle John A. Quarles, who brought it from Tennessee. It ponders the tale’s ancient Greek roots and possible journeys to England or classic translators.
The passage contrasts friendship with other ties such as companions and countrymen. It argues that friendship becomes the best thing when one seeks to do better and nobler deeds, showing that the most beneficent and excellent friendships are those where friends are most useful to others.
Pleasant Valley residents reported a busy weekend with Lula Bena and her daughter shopping in Payette. Bessie Stottler visited Osce Jackson in the valley. Ardug and Bélna Fee spent Sunday at Inez Root's home in the Cove. George Scott and family drove to Payette last Saturday. John Fee and wife visited Midvale for Mrs Fee’s father. S. A. Bena returned home after visiting a niece in Weiser.
A Rural New Yorker correspondent notes how a flock of blackbirds followed a spring plow to pick grubs from potato fields. A neighbor boy suggested feeding the birds to keep them at work, but the observer found they could ruin crops as one grub-chewed potato reveals.
Windsor Castle lies near Windsor in Berkshire England about 28 miles from London. It dates to the early middle ages and was erected by William the Conqueror on a site once Roman. The royal chapel holds burials including King Edward VI in May 1010. The castle and its grounds have long served as a principal residence of English sovereigns.
November was called wind month by ancient Saxons due to prevalent gales that halted boat building and maritime work. It also earned the name bloody month from cattle slaughter for winter salting. The month is the eleventh, though its name suggests ninth, due to calendar changes from March starting the year.
Springfield antiquarians study a hollow green bottle unearthed in an armory cornerstone. The Hartford Courant notes its surface bears alleged Masonic characters and cork fragments show the bottle was empty, fueling speculation about its origin and age.
Ellen Velvin argues in From Jungle to Zoo that captive gorillas endure solitude and heartbreak. Apes show extreme sensitivity to surroundings and need companionship to combat captive misery, as new chimpanzee companions trigger heightened excitement and distress.
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