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Newspaper
Payette Enterprise
Location
Payette, Idaho, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1919
Page
1
The Payette County Commercial Club members will hold a business meeting and noon meal at the Hotel Banffort next Monday. W F Brown of Horse will discuss town and county development. They will also discuss celebrating the 4th of July. Members urged to attend and confirm with Secretary Eastman by Monday morning. price 50 cents.
Joseph Di Giorgio of New York, president of the Earl Fruit Company of the Northwest, accompanied by Frank Harkness and Phil Martin, visits the Payette Valley. Di Giorgio, head of multiple fruit ventures, predicts exporting at least one third of the Northwest apple crop this year and expands European branches to handle trade. Harkness, refinanced treasurer of Earl Fruit Company of California, is on his first Idaho visit. Martin, a longtime Earl Fruit Co. operative, is well known in the Idaho fruit scene.
Payette residents will see a Liberty players tour at Emma theatre next Wednesday led by Audra Alden, with a morality comedy A Stitch in Time. The company then performs in Boise late in the week, offering top productions at low cost if local support justifies a Payette circuit addition. Elk Cafe opens May 8. Albert Lauer, Rainbow division veteran, returns to Payette.
Harriet Enoch Grimes born July 11 1859 Albany Missouri married Albert Grimes September 1878. Survived by husband seven children C O Grimes Payette Mra H BE Tussing Fruitland Mrs M E B Channer LaGrande Oregon Mra Co K Powell Corvallis Oregon Mrs Mattie Seaweard Fruitland Plummer Portland. One daughter preceded her in death. She moved from Nebraska to Fruitland February 1906. Converted in Nebraska joined Fruitland Methodist then Nazarene Ontario. She sacrificed her health for loved ones at a prayer meeting and died Thursday at Ontario hospital after an appendectomy. Funeral April 26 Nazarene Church Ontario, burial Ontario Cemetery. L Plowers pastor.
Bernard Eastman plans a new irrigation system on his New Plymouth ranch. He has purchased a coal pipe making machine to move water from the main canal to the property. The system will eliminate open ditches, reduce water waste, remove weeds along ditch banks, and ease crossing ditches and dikes.
Sunday morning sermon topic The Primary Place for Prayer. Evening talks on Religion in Everyday Life. Recitation by Miss Marie Gauer. Junior League Sunday afternoon Epworth League Sunday evening. Choir practice Wednesday evening. Centenary Meeting Thursday evening. Monday May 5 at 8 PM free stereopticon lecture The Centenary Challenge. Invited to all services.
Fay Wells writes from Base Hospital No. 96 in France during World War I. She details quiet days as patients depart, mentions finding a Hitchinson boy from Payette with a knee injury and news from home, comments on spring weather, and notes Idaho and regional soldiers in the unit. She signs off with affection for family.
Order 1259 dated March 28 1918 forbids mailing parcels to the American Expeditionary Forces in Europe unless with an approved request of the addressee. Revoked at War Department request. Lieut Col L V Patch soon to arrive. telegram says he reached Boston at 3 am and hopes to return home Friday or Saturday. Postmasters warned parcels not exceeding a certain weight may be mailed if properly prepared and addressed. registration, insurance, and C O D not allowed. E T Bowman Postmaster J S Bowman. Also notes Oregon Short Line improvement crews repainting property along Payette Valley road and a call for public upkeep.
Axel Johnson of Payette L H Rith of Fruitland and Albert Snider of New Plymouth have been appointed by Governor Davis as Highway Commissioners of district No. 4. The governor’s choice is described as capable and the article expects good results from the appointment amid a week of Easter social events in Payette with dances, parties, and notices of local society gatherings. Nurse White returns home after serving overseas and awaits discharge soon.
Red Cross notes urge sewing of about 150 garments for those in need and request volunteers. 100 pounds short on Old Clothes drive with packages left at Red Cross room or by calling Mrs. Maule. N. W. Division sent yards of material. cable warned no thimbles. Chapters urged wearables and shoes. thimbles scarce. Publicity by Mrs. Wm. Maule. For sale 1500 pounds yellow Dent seed corn by Henry Hecke near Fruitland.
C G Goodwin and sons purchase the 486 acre Jack Toune ranch on Squaw Creek one mile south of Sweet. They acquire all stock and machinery for 344000, noting the place as one of the region’s finest stock ranches. BR Pitch arranged the deal. Lou Farber arrived in Boston by wire and is due home soon.
Mrs Garry hosted a surprise party and dance at Hotel Bancroft for Renne who reached maturity. Welser graduates attended dinner and joined Pay cette and Welmr friends for the late hour celebration.
Mrs RA Cramp shares a letter from her son Charley in the Supply Service in France. He reports government horses being sold to the French at good prices, draft horses fetching 209 to 500 francs and cavalry horses about 250 francs. He expects to be away until July or August.
The O D P and Rebeca's marked the order's hundredth anniversary of its birth in the United States with a large turnout last Saturday evening. Ice cream and cake were served and attendees enjoyed a general good time. The order began in the United States on April 26, 1919 in Baltimore Maryland.
Notice announces bid sale of Lot and Block in Payette Idaho with buildings excluded. Bids require 19 percent certified check and remaining cash at deed, opened May 5 or 7 1919 at city hall. City reserves right to reject all bids. City Clerk Martin Luther signs notice. Also sale of seven room houses with bath on Std Street and 6th Avenue North with terms to suit purchaser.
Mrs Edwards went to Caldwell and Mrs John McClere of Motus visited the latter part of the week at 3 C Stroup's. W. Equals of Payette a brief Boise trip. Mrs Iva Fox and Elizabeth Hamner visit W L Spottswood and daughter at Jacob Stroup's. Lon Stroup family to Enterprise Oregon for the summer. Sturdevant leaves for Grand Island. W B Loughery to Coon Rapids Iowa for his mother's illness. Attorney John H Norris and friends motor to Boise. Boyd Swanson aided Noah Erwi with cattle at Crane Creek. Raymond Connyers from Weiser visits aunt and grandfather. A B Stroup returns from France, visiting Jacob Stroup. J L Wells ships cattle and hogs. hog market at $15 per cwt, high in Payette. W A Ayers wires son Clifford in New York. few others in same division. Prospects show bumper fruit crop. trees bloom. S S Mitchell demonstrates Linotype skills. War talk and end times discussed. W A Coughanour attends two Sundays of church. Mr and Mrs D F Wright of Pleasant Valley visit Payette for repairs. crops look fine, water prospects good. Mrs L S Soule of Chicago visits in Payette then to Spokane and California. C S Brainard and Gene McDonald visit Gooding. Brainard for Gooding College. Mrs Scott Brainard returns to Payette. Guy Strupp leaves for Portland for gas engineering course. summer absence. May Day picnic planned for Payette and nearby. meet at Jap Grove 6:30 with games. Albert Cloward heads to Brogan Oregon for sheep shearing then Midvale for thousands of sheep.
The community learned of Mrs Culbertson's death at Welser Hospital after an operation Sunday. Funeral held in Payette from the Methodist church with Rev K Wallis. interment Riverside cemetery. Mildred Nellie Chapman born Oct 25 1539 at Coperiffe Wyoming moved to Payette, married L L Culbertson, later moved to Weiser. She leaves husband, father and mother, and a brother. The Bible School and local activities noted with invitations to events and a basket dinner at the church May 11.
A telegram reports First Sgt J A Bulmer safe in Boston after service with the 26th Yankee division. His brother Tom F P Bulmer of the 218 Air Squadron says he is aboard the America arriving in New York. Both sons of Mr and Mrs William Bulmer of North Jonm Street Payette.
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