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Newspaper
Payette Enterprise
Location
Payette, Idaho, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1918
Page
2
Payette Enterprise urges readers to support Liberty Loan drives with the slogan Buy Another Bond. Letters praise the Red Cross and Army Y.M.C.A. as essential wartime helpers. The piece stresses confident backing of soldiers, collective effort from home, and timely installment bonds to fund the war.
Cablegrams from France Italy and Britain praise the American people's willingness to cut wheat consumption. Food ministers report allied governments thank Americans and say sacrifices inspire renewed determination in the war effort.
A workingman’s wife in the Mialands England recounts a quarrel between two women with colorful slang. Her final remark warns that if one woman had said what the other said to her she would have killed her or her sister.
A wartime letter from Nomewhere in France dated April 2, 1918, describes daily life and morale. The writer reports being well fed and clothed, receiving letters, and notes about fellow soldiers and supplies. He mentions learning some French and hopes to hear from his dad soon.
Stanley Croull writes from March 25 1918 describing life in the front line trenches. He recalls one casualty, gas shell exposure, and gas masks, then details artillery and air combat, early morning guard duty, and a camp in a pleasant French rural setting with flowers and green grass. He notes hearing distant gunfire and the comfort of a safe area away from the front.
The letter mentions counting rooms in a house, Y M C A writing material, and Professor Holdn's claim that a family can cut its sugar bill by 90 percent by growing one 20 foot row of sugar beets. It suggests a home syrup method from beets and notes no organ shortage in the country.
American essayist Hamilton W. Mabie once visited a Philadelphia school with a daily fire drill. When the head teacher announced Mabie would speak, pupils answered in chorus that they would rise, step into the aisle, and march quietly out of the building.
Experts from forty three leading life insurance companies report that a spinster lives longer than a married woman and that business women tend to outlive business men. Endowment policies appear to extend a woman's life, perhaps due to the will to live until maturity. Will power often matches physique in driving health and recovery.
For sale items include single and double driving harness buggy with shaves pole and bobs. Household goods of Misses Lewis and Beardsley deceased to be sold May 11 at 2 pm by administrator C G Lewis. For rent two furnished rooms for light housekeeping with bath at 214 9th Street. Lost reward for a surveyor level on State Highway 6 miles north of Payette, $5 reward for return to Li. PL Lattig, 18 12
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