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Newspaper
Payette Enterprise
Location
Payette, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1914
Page
3
A long list of Fruitland residents and visitors is noted with travel to Spokane Las Molinas Vancouver and Baker City. Families welcome relatives move into Payette Nyssa and Vale Springs while others plan winters in Boise Twin Falls and Gooding.
Park Ranch manager C T Hall purchases 300 young turkeys from Emmett and over 400 from Little Willow to feed on waste from his 100 acre fruit farm and signals a potential tripling of his investment. The note also covers local lumber sheds, clover seed crops, and poultry thefts plus community activities with Fruitland and Payette clubs and various farm developments.
The W T U state group announces a visiting dramatic reader Mrs Carroll will perform two weeks in October with dates in Weiser October 12 and Fruitland October 13. Additional engagements in Payette Vale Fruitland and New Plymouth are planned with next week’s notices to confirm venues and admission.
In Payette Idaho items report telegram from Manhattan Kang summoning Mrs C A Mann to attend her brother's funeral. Several local notices mention visits, fevers, farm moves, and school affairs including Sunday services and new house construction.
Felthouke held a Tuesday evening conference about the new Domestic Science and Musical Arts departments and spent an enjoyable night with the director and his wife. Mr and Mrs Hen Grover drove to Wolser Saturday to visit their business. Mrs Bedford Kutch had been visiting here the past two weeks with them. Gardner has completed a $2500 bungalow and moved in with his family. Choir practice for Sunnyside Sunday School will be held at the Smith and Hurst home Saturday night. Friendship Ladies Aid meets Wednesday Oct 7 with Mrs Sarah Rife. Carl Bates plans to spend winter in Allen Nebraska with his sister. J J Nethery of Bolxe lectured at the Adventist Church in Ontario Sunday. Mr and Mrs CE Stewart of Whitley spent Sunday with Mr and Mrs Clayton Stewart. Mr and Mrs Geo Walter were guests Thursday at the Smith and Hurst home.
A joint resolution introduced in 1911 and reintroduced through 1914 urges amending the constitution to prohibit the sale, manufacture for sale, transport for sale, importation for sale, and exportation for sale of intoxicating liquors for beverage purposes in the United States and its territories. It also grants Congress power to regulate intoxicating liquors for medicinal arts and enforcement.
Letters from L D Mason and Lillian M N Stevens urge total abstinence and an amendment to the national constitution to prohibit the sale and distribution of beverages containing alcohol. They argue moderates sustain saloons and that home protection demands ending legalized liquor.
An excerpt notes how enemy observers read Hyuor papers with interest and report an advancing temperance mood. They express cheer at teetotaler progress and say they would fund liquor journals to counter anti liquor writers if not for opposing the Mquor trade.
Governor Hanna of North Dakota urged prohibition to secure the future by preventing liquor use among young men. The stance was endorsed as part of broader conservation of citizenship advocated by the W C T U.
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