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Newspaper
Payette Enterprise
Location
Payette, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1917
Page
2
The Payette Enterprise reports on increased food production efforts and land use, notes a potential Liberty Bond issue, and reflects on wartime rail service, costs, and resource conservation. It mentions Jack Johnson’s life in Barcelona and includes poems and local commentary on social issues and hardship.
Assessment No 4 from the Office of People's Irrigation Co Ltd in Payette Idaho levies a $1.00 per share charge, due by September 1917, with delinquent stock sold Oct 1. The document includes a distressed poem and notes on cruelty in the home, a divorce case from Connecticut, and a sale ad for one span S-year-old mules.
A Civil War vignette recounts a private near Yorktown sentenced to death for sleeping at post. Lincoln rode ten miles to deliver a reprieve, risking his safety to save the condemned man. William Scott of Company K fell in the same campaign, and his dying wish praised Lincoln. The tale ends with a chaplain’s fulsomely loyal tribute.
The note suggests building 100 silos if fields are proven, warns it is unlikely without ample feed and stock. It links mangels as a potential 44 dollar per ton feed, lists recent bulletins on farming topics, and highlights summer pruning, orchard care, and a farm inspection trip planned for August. Also covers strawing potatoes, cabbage worm control with Paris Green, and safety notes.
Washge Lodge No 28 A Fy& A.M. meets in the Maronie hall within the Thurston-Crighton building on the second Tuesday evening of each month. All visiting Master Masons are fraternally invited to attend.
A high grade piano on hand at Payette will be sold extremely cheap for immediate sale. Liberal terms offered to a responsible party. Interested buyers should write The Denver Music Company in Denver Colorado at once.
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