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Newspaper
Payette Enterprise
Location
Payette, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1913
Page
2
The Payette Citizens ticket presents candidates as clean earnest business people with no personal eulogy. They stress prudent city government, avoid radicalism, and highlight Payette’s growing payrolls, population expansion, and local dairy market benefits amid regional tariff debates and Lumber demand.
A Ladies of the American Woman's League tea was held at the Chapter House last Tuesday afternoon despite foul weather. Attendees contributed one dollar and ten cents. Various local notables and families, including Walter Watte and family, Mr. Harland, and Mr. Procht, were mentioned in social notes. A Grange gathering at Orchard Avenue Chapter House is planned for Friday night with a promising program and fall member turnout urged.
Social items from New Plymouth chronicle a Thursday evening gathering for Mr and Mrs Albert Hammock with thirty four friends. Attendees include the Beamgards Dotsons Gilbert family and others. A later Easter breakfast hosted by Mrs Geo Wilson at the same home is described with decorative items and guests.
Congress set to open a special session with tariff reform as the core issue while debating currency, Antitrust, and conservation statutes. Leaders expect a lengthy session as freighted with debate, with tariff reductions considered to ease living costs. Southern crops demand protection, the West seeks natural resources, and the East wants manufactured goods addressed.
The report mentions a Buster dinner hosted by Mrs. Wilson and Mrs. Boamgard with guests including Mr. and Mrs. Beamgard and others. It notes a village election with two tickets led by L Wachter and J H Beamgard, plus talk of a women’s ticket and local social events around Easter. It also records obituaries, visits, and weather-related notes from New Plymouth and nearby areas.
City of Payette passes Ordinance No. 225 removing 328 acre parcel from municipal boundaries. Measure signed March 17 1918 by Mayor Brannock with City Clerk Luther attesting. Also includes sale notices for old gelding weight 1300 pounds and two wagons from C J McCartney Payette Idaho and an ad for Nemo corsets at Russell's.
Notice records a 1918 land claim action for Charley Moore at Bolsa Idaho with witness names and dates, followed by an election proclamation for Payette Idaho detailing offices, wards, registrars, and registration timings for the April 1 1913 vote. Wards definitions reference Oregon Short Line railway and city hall locations.
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