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Newspaper
Payette Enterprise
Location
Payette, Idaho, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1918
Page
5
Local Fruitland news recounts social visits, church events, school activities, and family travels. Residents from Caldwell to Payette attend baptisms, funerals, picnics, and special meetings. Enlistees depart for training camps, and Red Cross officers adjust leadership as dam and garage incidents draw minor attention.
Cards announce the marriage of Diss Rene Hldredge and Mr Lyle Brows to occur Wednesday May 29. Born to Mr and Mrs Holland May 1st a son. Pupils of Sunnyside School presented a fine program of essays readings and music last Friday.
Prisoners with little evidence or deemed likely to return on trial are granted easy recognizance releases. In an Indianapolis police court, a black man claimed to have arrived as police came, was mistaken for a participant, and released on his own recognizance. Another prisoner, impressed, asked for similar fare but failed to post $500 bond, remaining jailed.
Mr Pett Ridge urged skipping as a mind exercise at the Mansion House while awarding prizes to pupils of the City of London College. He told amusing anecdotes about books and a foreign medical agent who promised to cure ailments from asthma to zymotic diseases, including unknown complaints.
In Lapland a vapor bath is a small wooden two chambered structure with an arched oven of stones heated from below. Bathers undress in the first room, endure intense steam as water is poured on hot stones, then are whipped with green twig switches before a final wash and cold water dousing.
The Little Willow notes describe a Thursday night meeting at the Bolton bar discussing grain sharing and farmer benefits. Red Cross drive head Nev Keen spoke, with talk of sportsmen aiding to reduce magpies harming poultry. The piece mentions poultry farmers leaving the business due to grain prices and notes local visits, planting plans, and upcoming hunting on the big pond with nesting ducks observed at the reservoir.
North Payette District residents engage in visits and travel with several names cited. Patton, Yount, Johnson, Miller, Pottner, Harris, Gardener, Alspach, Grimes, Reimer, Packer, and others are mentioned amid summer plans, Red Cross drive support, and local gatherings. Community events include a patriotic meeting with Rev. Wallis and Calvino Keller discussing the German War Wheel and a Crystal Red Cross drive noted for worker availability.
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