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Newspaper
Payette Enterprise
Location
Payette, Idaho, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1924
Page
3
Fruitland residents held many visits and dinners across town with guests from Payette Caldwell and New Plymouth. Events included Birthday honors, church group gatherings, youth meetings, and numerous family visits, appearances of out-of-town guests, and local sports support noted.
Local readers report a busy social scene with visits across Payette and nearby towns. Guests include F. and Wm. Fisher, Mrs. Jaccob Oster, Mrs. B. G. Thornton, Mrs. W. A. Lesh, and many others. A Keeler family outing at Manns Creek, a farewell picnic for Ben Tomlin, and school notes feature plus wedding announcements and club activities.
One hundred thirty six children in Burt and Colfax Counties completed eighth grade in 1918. Eighty four or two percent entered high school and sixty seven percent of those who started finished a four year high school course.
Parent teacher associations test their own efficiency by fixed standards of excellence. Several states show progress in organization through a list of credits. This supports the belief that parents and teachers working together on childhood issues may achieve higher accomplishment.
Earl Cooper, veteran auto racer, arrives in Indianapolis with the Studebaker Special for the Twelfth International 500 Mile Race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on May 30. Mayor Lew Shank greets him. Dutton assists as Cooper prepares for the race, marking a return after retirement to competitive speed.
Mr H H McLean and son from Minneapolis visit their niece Mrs Tom Williams on the coastward journey home. L H Patton in Parma Tuesday. Multiple locals attend ball games in Payette. Mrs Jack Arment and family travel to Payette for commencement and visits. W F Stirm hosts and visits with Longview folks. Violet Swank closes Patton School with a Birding Island picnic. Albert Coates sells a car of wheat to Anson Hart.
Twelve athletic fields are now available for 75,000 school girls in New York City after the eighteenth annual meeting of the Public School Athletic League exit branch. Weekly athletic instruction draws as many as 1,500 girls, a dramatic rise from former years. Names of Virginia's four State normal schools were changed to State teachers colleges by a recent act. The institutions at Farmville Harrisonburg Radford and Fredericksburg are now four schools with three already in the American Association of Teachers Colleges and the fourth seeking membership.
The First Church of Christ invites the public to Sunday morning services at 11 with a lesson sermon titled Mortals are Immortals and a 10 o clock Sunday school. A testimonial meeting is set for Wednesday evening at 7 in room at the church building 215 North 9th Street with daily hours from 2 to 4 except Sundays.
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