Large Crowd Flocks to Smiths Ferry Excursion Trip
Indications point to a large crowd on Smiths Ferry for an excursion and picnic outing with opportunities for fishing and day ordered activities.
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Newspaper
Payette Enterprise
Location
Payette, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1913
Page
1
Indications point to a large crowd on Smiths Ferry for an excursion and picnic outing with opportunities for fishing and day ordered activities.
The Payette valley town promotes a Sunday trip to Smiths Ferry to enjoy a cool riverside picnic and the newly opened section. Train departs at eight in Payette and returns at five, five hours for fishing and scenery. Local residents and visitors plan dinners, fishing, and social visits, with multiple townspeople noted in the week’s community notes.
Market Letter from Portland estimates Idaho fruit output at 1200 cars for the season about 75 percent of normal. Pacific Fruit Growers Express previously pegged Boise and Payette valleys at 12 to 15 hundred cars for the region, with the Lewiston Clarkston area shipping varied totals. Weather thins apples to 79–80 percent of 1912 tonnage. pears similar. peaches and prunes at about three quarters of last year’s yield.
Postmaster General Burleson announces changes in parcel post effective Aug 15. The first and second zones gain reduced rates and the weight limit increases from 11 to 20 pounds. A new per-post office rate chart and auto delivery plans are proposed to expand service. Farmers and local merchants stand to benefit as the system targets closer consumer contact.
The Idaho World reports Michigan-Idaho Lumber Company has three million feet of logs at Horseshoe Bend to be shipped to Payette by rail this summer. Mr Lennon, who recently broke his foot and was hospitalized in Boise, passed through Idaho City en route to the Garden Valley logging camp.
This year’s cannery run has matched the best in previous years with the current week marking the final pea canning. Seed peas follow next, then apricots peaches and pears in sequence. Despite a slow start and poor weather the pea crop held up and fine results are expected for growers. A large berry effort is also noted as sixty cars of products will be canned this season and ready for labeling and boxing.
Idaho State Nurserymen Association held annual gathering in Payette with strong turnout. New officers: President Antone Dietricheen of Payette, Vice President George Fenton of Emmett, Secretary-Treasurer J. F. Littooy of Boise. Payette to host next year alongside State Horticultural meeting. Also notes social visits and community events in Parma and Payette.
Government classifies wild ducks as migratory birds and bans their killing nationwide. A new federal law imposes a fine of 10 dollars and ninety days in prison for violations, affecting hunters in Idaho and across the United States.
The First National Bank board voted a five percent semancual divide and added $10,000 to the surplus, lifting total capital and surplus to $120,000.96. Local businessmen own the stock and the bank retains community confidence.
Report of Ernest Blayden, a former Payette boy, who suffered a broken nose after a ball struck him in Emmett last Friday evening during a local game. The note also covers various local notices, sales, weather, and community happenings across Payette and Ontario.
Pierce visited for a few days in the latter part of last Fork as a two horse visitor. Mrs Homry Srwiz left Monday evening for the coast for a short vacation. D W Crowder of Cambridge was a Payette business visitor last week. Miss Rett Magle returned Sunday from a visit in Geden with friends and relatives. Mre RL Shaw, ill for three weeks, is improving. County Attorney BW Hears visited Payette Saturday, traveling on Pony No 6. Pratt and Frank Foster hunted and fished on Mann's creek earlier this week.
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