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Newspaper
Payette Enterprise
Location
Payette, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1920
Page
5
Fruitland notes report illness closures at Whitley Bottom School and church efforts to stamp out illness. Many families, including the Holt, Tuneling, and Rader clans, host and visit kin across towns. Local travel, a schoolyard outbreak, hospital aid, and a funeral for Clarence Griner mark a week of activity in the community.
Oran Rangs was born January 22 1885 at Tripp Idaho and died February 3 1920 at his parents home Fruitland Idaho of pneumonia after influenza. He leaves a father mother two brothers and other relatives and many friends. His brother Franklin died last week from the same illness. The community extends sympathy to the family.
The family thanks neighbors and friends for sympathy and aid during illness and passing of their loved one. Listed are Mrs. Zora Griner D. Jones Alberta Griner Juanita Griner Henry Griner Danny Griner. Also a trade note seeking a city residence for an orchard or larger alfalfa tract with address provided for Payette Enterprise readers.
The Y M C A drive last week revealed Red team captains Patton and Flanigan beating the Blues led by Gari Pateh and Mark Shafer. Jack Flanigan was top individual with twenty members, Bud Pateh fourteen, Frank Hogue six. The Reds secured twice as many members as the Blues, and prizes will be awarded after the losing team hosts the Red side. A planned expansion includes girls programs, camp Fire Girls and Girl Scouts, with a female staffer to oversee girls and women’s activities once 200 memberships are reached. Membership rates for girls and women are four and six dollars respectively, subject to change after the goal. A Sunday meeting for boys ten and up leads into a Fellowship Sing in the mens’ club rooms.
The item lists a rental ad for one room with heat at 1307 First Avenue 8 with contact 27-w and dates January 16 to 22. It also seeks a lost robe from a car in Payette with dark green lining and light brown fur, offering a reward if left at this office for B. W. Dune.
A stream of child prodigies surfaces in England linking talent to war psychology. Pamela Blanco, 13, Italian-born in England, exhibited drawings praised as Botticellian. Honnie Routledge, 4, violin virtuoso, topped Grimsby College contest with 119 of 120. Robbie Day, 7, of Brighton, shows alleged clairvoyance and mental feats.
A girl recalls a humorous mix up when she greets a guest thinking him a trusted friend, only to discover a stranger at the door. A book agent interrupts the moment, saving face, as the tale unfolds in a recollection from Chicago Tribune.
An old Payette advertisement highlights Doan’s Kidney Pills for kidney trouble, praising relief from backache and nightly disturbances. It includes a testimonial from Dorothy, a retired farmer, and notes price at 60 cents. The notice also lists sale items, a power wire rig, some Duroc stock, a Goodyear tire, a missing auto tire report, and local relocation news.
The Annual meeting of the Stock holders of the Payette Irrigation Co. Limited will be held at the Court House in Payette on Tuesday February 24 1920 at 2 oclock p m for electing a Board of Directors and the transaction of such other business as may properly come before it. W H Platt President D W Ainey Secretary Feb 12 12.
The W. R. C. holds its regular meeting on the second and fourth Friday each month at 2 p m in Yeoman Hall Galena Coughanour serves as president with Hattie Methis as secretary
For sale a baby carriage with enameled body and corduroy upholstery. Reversible body in first class condition. Used but a short time. Phone Mrs. Kipper or inquire at Valley Music House.
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