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Newspaper
Payette Enterprise
Location
Payette, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1912
Page
2
Cleaning and pressing and dyeing offered for gowns coats and fabrics. High class work at reasonable prices by Idaho Drive Works Independent Telephone Building with contact via phone in Payette Idaho.
Rumor says Van Duyn, county attorney, will seek the Republican nomination for attorney general next summer. The public favors his experience and record of fiscal prudence. Supporters claim his leadership and policy results make him a strong candidate for the office.
A draft plan notes May 10 and May 16 as possible dates for the state Republican convention in Lewis, with a tentative May 23 for a final decision. The committee weighs whether delegates will back a national convention or regional alignment and which nominees will head the ticket.
An offer from the Bolse Committee headquarters promises lodging and meals near Haley for convention attendees. Private homes paid at $1.00 per person, hotels 90 cents to $2.00 daily, meals from 2 1/2 cents. Registration 60 cents with a delegate button. Details and program delivery to pastors and lay members by January 1.
A pastor or editor prescribes removing a chronic grouch to help individuals and communities. He urges seeking healthier climates or new business partners, embracing optimism, and consulting a physician when gloom or illness hinders personal and civic effort.
List of unclaimed letters at the Payette Idaho post office for the week ending December 1911 includes names such as William Abbott, D. W. Baker, W. Banks, J. Somerville, and Mra A J Luce with instruction to return to Gilbert Holt at Wood & Spaulding's store. A violin is noted as found and returned for reward.
The article extols the mortar and pestle as the sign of a drug store and compounders, noting they use only the purest drugs and yet charge comparably low prices for prescriptions. It emphasizes skill in compounding and affordable, careful preparation of medicines.
In Rosa Washington a 67 year old trackwalker for the Northern Pacific Railroad earns a long sought vacation after thirty two years without time off. His Christmas present from the company includes a trip to Ireland and back, spending money, and tickets from Washington, with hotel accommodations provided. He travels to New York where company officials arrange his steamship ticket and funds for travel.
In Payette Idaho at City Hall stockholders will elect directors and address other legal business. The notice lists multiple local ads including farm for sale items and poultry, with contact details and prices for White Orpington cockerels and Wyandotte birds.
A giant locomotive named HUA for the Pennsylvania Railroad is completed and eyed for freight service on western Pennsylvania mountains. Weighing 668,900 pounds with a 98 foot 334 inch length, it surpasses prior engines in size and power, featuring four 27 inch by 28 inch cylinders, 16 driving wheels of 66 inches, and a 160 pound steam pressure. It carries a 9000 gallon water tender and 30,000 pounds of coal, with a heating surface 7238 square feet.
The Payette Driving Club and Patr Association will hold its regular annual meeting at J. B. Burns office in Payette at 8 P M on Monday January 8 for officer elections and other business. secretary BE Chapman. additional sale notices for White Wyandotte chickens and Barred Rock cockerels by local residents
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