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Newspaper
Payette Enterprise
Location
Payette, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1911
Page
6
Eastern Prices lists harness and board options at Downe Harness Shop. West and board available for two high school age students. contact via phone 1siy.
An advertisement promotes caracul coats priced at 10.95, described as a satin trimmed fur imitation with lined interiors and button detailing. The copy claims these coats are available elsewhere for 1500, implying a bargain for readers.
Wool crib blankets offered at 89 cents each come in blue and pink decorative patterns. A dandy blanket for babies.
A fragment notes a good grade of teazle down fabric for sale at 12 cents per yard in dark and light pat textures.
Local firm Toole Brothers of Weiser secured the contract for extending Payette’s water works. Seven bids were opened. Toole Brothers were the lowest responsible bidders and awarded the contract.
Miss Josie Erickson left for Seattle after visiting her sister Mrs. Sam Sister. Riley Recital by Judge J. D. Flenner set for October 20 at Ploveer hall with tickets at the drug store. Several residents traveled to Boise for the fair. A baby exposed to poison arsenate survived after medical care. The annual bazaar and chicken pie supper by the Congregational Ladies Aid raised about 125 dollars to ease debts.
Residents report visits and travels in the Lower Payette Valley. The Cornelsons visit their daughter in Owyhee while others go to Nyssa Boise and Fox Store for work and events. Family doctors and neighbors recover from illness as Lindigs and Fritchmans prepare for the Boise fair.
Grace White spent the weekend in Payette with Ruth Maule. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson returned from Corvallis Oregon where he improved but grew homesick for Payette Valley. Bert Moggridge and Hugh Thompson escaped a buggy accident as a barbed wire fence damaged the buggy but left them uninjured. Miss Berry arrived from England to visit her brother Cecil Berry as B R Fitch’s auto hit a crosswire on Alspach lane, car ditched but no serious harm. Alvina Cornelson returned from Boise and Frank Stagerwald and Mack Windle attended the fair. Mrs. Dilley of California visits Carl Willey for a couple of weeks.
Mr and Mrs G W Moore of Payette Idaho announce they will not be responsible for any debts contracted by their son Clarive after October 19 1911 The notice appears to be a formal guardianship or parental disclaimer from an Iowa residence referenced as old home likely connected to a move or notice publication.
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