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Newspaper
Payette Enterprise
Location
Payette, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1920
Page
2
A 1920 Idaho editorial argues prices rise for households and state operations while demanding wiser, honest use of public funds. It notes higher costs for sugar flour shoes and supplies and cites expanded state services, urging accountability without suspicion of misuse.
The article notes total U S debt at 24 299 321 467 07 and a 10 month reduction of 2 297 980 180 94 It compares U S industrial and financial standing to world peers claiming 5 of the population yields 24 of crops 40 of minerals and 35 of manufactured goods It cites wealth over 225 billion and a trade surplus exceeding 5 billion plus repurchases of foreign securities and allied loans.
In twelve Salvation Army Rescue and Maternity Homes across Western states, 1088 girls found shelter last year. Entry requires staying at least three months and promising not to give up the baby. Rooms and meals are free. they learn skills to support themselves after leaving. Ninety percent of girls who depart do so with a place to start over. Spokane home exists and Boise project planned.
Veterans from World War I become farm entrepreneurs in New Jersey Connecticut and New York. Graduates of the New York State School of Agriculture at Farmingdale they operate modest Uiite farms and specialize in tractors poultry hogs and general farming. Director A A Johnson praises the program as producing permanent results with many graduates overcoming wounds and adapting to new roles.
The Church of God invites worship at 11 am and 7 30 pm with Sunday School reaching 200 pupils in the Sunbeam and Star classes. Weekly prayer meets at 7 30 pm and the Young People’s Meeting and Live Wires are highlighted as growing groups under ministers Argyle and Houser.
Sunday October 10 features an 11 o'clock sermon God With Us and an evening Young People program led by men of the church with music. The pastor will discuss Laying Up Treasures as the men sing. Monday night B Y P U elected officers including President Mrs Shaw and Treasurer Mary Christian.
A brief classified notice by R. R. Reeve of The Northwestern Mutual Drug Company seeks a modern or partly modern house for the winter. The unit can be furnished or unfurnished.
Clyde D Walker pastor announces Sunday School at 10:00 a m Morning worship at 11:00 a m subject Sainthood as a Career Evening service at 7 30 p m with The Better Hope All invited Also wanted rough dry washing at 1330 2nd South 13th St
Two boys Henry Knowles and Comfort Harding ran away from home on Mercer Island Washington. They paddled a log across Lake Washington at night then spent three days in the brush on an uninhabited shoreline. They blackened their faces with creosote to dodge guards and ate baked beans provided by a rancher’s wife before deputies found them and returned them home.
Joe Winters of Caldwell county was arrested near Dawson for making moonshine whisky at a neighborhood still. He claimed the device was a community instrument used by neighbors and hid it in a fallen tree top, but the still was gone when officers searched.
Twenty six gallons of sweet milk mixed with cement were used to paint stucco on the Christian Science church in Bucyrus Ohio. The stunt is described as staking a claim to the “cream” of Bucyrus churches.
A Baltimore woman used a 32 caliber revolver to shoot an offending tooth, an incident described as an extreme self treatment for toothache. No further details on injuries or outcomes were provided.
Elizabeth Clanton offers 20 acre tract in Payette County Town and North Range 4 West suitable for stock or sheepmen or dry farming. Write Hox aac.
High grade piano stored in Payette offered for immediate sale at a large discount. Term arranged with a responsible person. Interested parties should write quickly for full particulars to The Denver Music Company.
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