Payette Bridge Widening Signals Owinza-Payette Cut Off
The O S L railroad widens the Payette river bridge for double track, following completion of the American Falls bridge upgrade. Crews from American Falls arrive in Payette to unload materials, hinting at a forthcoming double track from Pocatello to Payette and a planned Owinza Payette cut off with improved grade for through traffic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Falls
Payette
Payete
Owinza
Boise
Pocatello
Owinza-Payette
Huntington
Lincoln's Birthday Portia Club Adds Twenty Five Members
Portia Club marks Lincoln's birthday with seventy attendees as twenty five new names are admitted. Members pledge to support Universal Motherhood. votes favor Star Spangled Banner as national hymn amid discussions. New members listed include Mesdames Aldrich, Miller, Pence, Johnson, Haynes, Weider, Catron, Garside, Morley, Bowen, Batton, Hogue, Compton, Shaw, Harland, Brown, Walker J P., Howarth, Soule, Van Engelen, Stanly, Ruth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lincoln
Nancy Hanks
Abe
BE. A. Chaney
Assembly
Reilly
Hollenback
Thurston
Mesdames Aldrich
Miller
Pence
Johnson
Haynes
Weider
Catron
Garside
Morley
Bowen
Batton
Hogue
Compton
Shaw
Harland
Brown
Walker J P
Howarth
Soule
van Engelen
Stanly
Ruth
Rose Day planned to beautify Portia and Payette
The Village Improvement Committee of Portia Club has won approval for a rose planting day in Payette. If weather allows in late March, six hundred rose bushes will be planted city wide. The committee has secured orders for five hundred ninety rose bushes of various varieties and will announce the planting day and details through local papers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lincoln
Portia Club
Columbian Club
Payette
Pancake Supper a Success at Episcopal Church
The Ladies Guild hosted a Pancake Supper on Shrove Tuesday, serving pancakes cooked on aluminum griddles by Tom Driscoll, with coffee available and varied entertainment. Also married at M E Parsonage, Caro live Johnson of Fruitland and Horton Thebe wed by Rev Howarth, planning to move to Bliss Idaho with groom’s parents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ladies Guild of the
Episcopal Church
Tom Driscoll
M. E
Migs Carolive Johnson
Fruitland
Horton Thebe
Methodist
Howarth
Bliss
Idaho
Economics Committee meeting set for February 26
Moss, Pence and Misses Hollenback and Thompson will lead the next meeting at 4:20. Mra Turner, chair, asks that roll call be answered with a favorite recipe, a helpful household hint, a labor saver, or what to do in an emergency. The Constitution will be read at the next gathering.
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Moss
Pence
Hollenback
Thompson
Mra Turner
Portia Club Forms Drive to Secure Public Library
The Portia Club creates a committee led by Mrs. Burns to establish a Payette public library. They will obtain temporary quarters and solicit books and magazines to start a small library, aiming to generate interest for a future site and a permanent library building.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portia Club
Payette
J. B. Burns
Burne
W. P. Strother
Prince of Tonight at Wheatland Theatre dazzles Wheat
The Prince of Tonight comes to Wheatland Theatre in Weiser on February 29 featuring Henry Woodruff in the title role. The revue blends magic and romance with lavish costumes and music by Joseph E. Howard, including hits like Her Eyes Are Blue for Yale and Tonight Will Never Come Again.
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Wheaton Theatre
Weiser
Henry Woodruff
Mr. Woodruff
Palm Beach
Gardner
Adams
Hough
Howard
Joseph E. Howard l
Yale
Sunday at the First Methodist Episcopal Church
The pastor will preach at the morning service at one. In the evening the pastor will speak on the subject I AM. A Male Quartet will sing a special number and patriotic selections will be performed. Everyone is welcome and a friendly greeting awaits visitors.
Emmett to Have Western Union Telegraph Office
A Western Union representative visited Emmett to assess cost and feasibility of telegraph construction. Favorable business forecasts from Bell Telephone records and fruit-season activity suggest a local office will open soon, easing long distance communication and reducing Boise telegraph reliance.
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Emmett
Western Union Telegraph Company
Bell Telephone Company
Telegraph Company
Boise
A Half Baked Man Sermon At Local Baptist Church
On Sunday evening Rev Henry Van Engelen will preach in a first showing titled A Half Baked Man. The article notes Mrs Comp offers ready to wear hats and First class seed oats for sale with contact in Fruitland. A related notice mentions a reading on Saturday Feb 24th and a local phone listing for Stf B Barnes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry van Engelen
Maneton
B. Barnes
Fruitland
Excellent Outlook for Fruit in Payette Valley
Pruning is nearly finished as growers overhaul power sprayers to battle scale and codlin moth. Reports from all sections praise orchard condition with buds healthy and dense. Ideal cool weather reduces late frost risk, signaling a bumper Payette Valley fruit crop unseen in the valley’s history.
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Payette
Payette Valley
Pleasant Afternoon Tea Hosts with Charity Mission Tea
Mrs J McGlinchey and Mrs W B Gilmore hosted a Saturday gathering at McGlinchey residence. Guests admired pink and white carnations and nations tags. Mil itary five hundred was played. Japan table won both first and second favors. Refreshments followed. solos by Mrs H Dunn were enjoyed. Baptist Mission Circle plans a missionary tea on February 20 at 2:30 pm hosted by Mrs Thomas Bowan.
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Japan
J. A. Lauer
J. D. Orr
Dunn
Mesdames LE. Persson
J. C. Woodeward
B. Lauer
J. M. Sennett
L. S. Soule
J. B. Stouwer
Ww. Noot
W. A. Coughanour
J. F. Orr
E. Pence
A. L. Pence
J. B. Burns
W. S. Brundage
C. F. Muller
IL Manderilie
Bart
Baptist Mission Circle
Ladies of the Baptist Miracu Circle
Thomas Bow+ oan
Local religious events and community notes in Payette
Rev W H Bowler of Boise and Rev A L Gorham plan evangelistic meetings this week in Payette area churches. Local band leader A B Kirkendall may lead summer concerts. Ed Ponce bought a train in Boise for his move. family to follow by March. Mrs Wells reported successful operation in Rochester. Cement firm Lathrop McComsey began garage work and ordered steel for curb and sidewalk. Sam Chapman to assess property starting March first. Epworth League colonial dinner set for Feb 24 at 5:30. Bridge materials for Payette River railroad arriving. 40 to 50 carloads needed. W B Spaulding ill in California. family urged to visit. Dave Snowberger returns from Indiana. finds break‑in at his Payette home stealing 52 cans of fruit.
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Petite
Bose
Ponce
Bolsy
Payette
Will Wells
Lathrop & McComsey
The Prince of Tonight comes to Weiser with Henry Woodruff
Theatrical excursion from Payette to Weiser for Thursday evening February 29 offers the musical comedy The Prince of Tonight. Henry Woodruff heads a cast of forty and the show, famed for 260 Chicago performances, promises lively entertainment. A special excursion train departs Payette, fare fifty five cents round trip, with a buffet served after the show at the new Washington Hotel.
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Henry Woodruff
the Prince of Tonight
Wheaton Theatre
Weiser
Payette
Chicago
Henry Woodrat
Tao
Toi Pom
Welter
Weabhington
Wolser
Lynch
Personal mentions and local visits in Payette Idaho
A long list of local residents making visits to Caldwell Welser Boise Emmett Beatrice Nebraska and other locations this week. Names include Dr WB Hurd C B Pratt H EB Dunn Frank Crowther A F Work W A Coughanour B C S Brainard George Fulton Ruth Crocker Louie Feldscher Mabel Stewart and Mrs Noot plus Mrs L W Russell and H C Veal. Interspersed are tea events at the Episcopal and Presbyterian churches and notes on travel to Oregon Nebraska and California.
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WB. Hurd
C. BE. Pratt
Welter
H. EB. Dunn
Frank Crowther
Caldwell
F. H. Lyon
L. Griffith
Welser
I. W. Kenward
A. F
Louie Feldscher
Payett
Presbyterian Church
Brainard
Ruth Crocker
Boise
Mra. Compton
Payette
Lewis Eaton
Points
Nebraska
Irs. Noot
Coughanour
Noot
L. W. Russell
Missouri
H.C. Veal
Sunnyside
F. M. Housh
Bergene
Oregon
Regular Session City Council Minutes February 2001
City council meets in regular session with Mayor Brannack presiding. Present are Councilmen Hutchinson Gorham Burns W A Hutchinson Woodward and Compton. Minutes approved. Motions address street grading on 1th Street Third to Sixth Ave South and disposal of excess dirt. Light installation at Ave North and River Stand proposed. Gospel Rubber purchase discussed with details and bids. Several members present voted aye. meeting adjourned.
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Eugene
Tio
KE. A. Chaney
Firat Avenue
Eleventh Street
Walluns House
North Tenth
Id. Hollenhume
J. H. Welder
Emmett
Brannack
Mm. Hutchinson
Gorham
Burns
W. A. Hutchinson
Woodward
Comp+ton
W. A. Huwkinson
Third
Sixth Ave
Marna
Ave. North
River
Idaho
Oregon Light & Power
Burny
Gospell
Stephen Rafland Rubber Company
New York City
P.O. B. Pugwite
Minho
M. Hutchinson
Gorlam
Compton
Cirelnd
Opimeton
Eggs for hatching offered from White Orpington stock
Advert reads eggs for hatching from pure bird strains including White Orpingtons and Rhode Island varieties. Mentions watch fob ownership inquiry and city ordinance base. notes no delay in securing the correct number of naneq as fixed by ordinance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry
C. Brordevant
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Enterprise
Halley
Utah
Gnapman
Sam Chapman
Epworth League
Jacobson
New England
Hilbernia
Washington
Payette River O. L
J. Z. Davis
Payette Valley Railroad
Ul. L. W. Spaulding
M. E. Wood
San Bernardo
Calif
W. B. Spaulding
Ave Snowberger
Dave Snowberger
Indiana
Hoe
Houser
Ilino'a
Lowa
Mra
Walter Burke
New Plymouth
C. P. Lattig
Howe
Y. Mr. A
George Fulton
Beatrice
A. Berdley
Ferndale
California
Misa Mabel Stewart
The
Horaces. Moyers Studio
Belse
van Graven Photo Studio
A T Payette
Margaret McClanahan
A. J. McClanahan
Stere
Perth
Colorado
McClanahas
Portland
HL Gregory
Sona
A. P. Beriiehfield
Payette National Bank
Wwe
Elk Watch
John Alder
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