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Newspaper
Payette Enterprise
Location
Payette, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1920
Page
2
Editor appeals for community happenings over outside publicity. Readers are urged to call, drop a note at the post office, or visit the office to contribute home news for the weekly paper.
Editor advises residents not to shop out of town over false beliefs that local stores lack items. Encourages making a habit of visiting nearby merchants first, giving them a chance to stock desired goods and supporting local business.
The community prefers Mountain Time over Pacific Time for farming and industry. Idaho officials announce free government income tax guidance statewide, with deputies visiting cities to assist taxpayers in preparing returns and understanding obligations while penalties apply for noncompliance.
A Boise Idaho notice urges taxpayers to file returns by March 16 1920 with penalties for noncompliance detailed. The Boise Democrats clash with Nonpartisan leaguers while a convention may reprice Nugent renomination. Whitman College announces the Men’s Glee Club spring appearance under Howard E Pratt with a diverse program and Campus Jazz Orchestra accompaniment.
A distinguished Boston man, diverted from a Europe trip by war, attends the Panama-Pacific Exposition. He tours Salt Lake City, meets a Mormon girl who proudly notes Boston is known to her, mentioning a missionary from their Sunday School.
The Department of Public Works will award contracts for forty eight miles of the Idaho Pacific Highway on January 21 1920. All work lies in Elmore County from Mountain Home to the Gooding County line. Forty miles will be gravel surfaced and the rest with crushed rock. A graded state highway from New Plymouth to American Falls will then extend over 360 miles.
Gardens will remain crucial next year as wartime shortages ease slowly. High food costs persist until more is grown and distributed, with farm, villa, and city yards boosting supplies and freeing farm crops for those most in need.
Eusatia Pallidani, a Spanish black hen owned by James Blanchard of Dayville Conn, died at 32. Once a prize beauty, she turned white at 15 and later mothered a brood and laid eggs in the fall, claimed to be the oldest hen in the United States.
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