27 Oct 1910
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Newspaper
Payette Enterprise
Location
Payette, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1910
Page
1
Friday night last B F P Tussing of Fruitland hosted a banquet for about thirty workers in his packing shed. The converted hall, decorated with apples and autumn leaves, featured food, games, and a light photo session by Photographer Bates. The event concluded with guests polling praise for their employer's hospitality.
Mrs H Avey and Mrs J B Timer hosted about thirty guests at the Avey residence for a Pleasant afternoon of fancy work and a Mother Goose rhyme guessing game. Prizes went to Mrs Blakesley and Mrs Masonheimer. a four course luncheon followed the activities. Invitations issued for a lifehcon and Kensington event next Friday afternoon with a long invited list. Also notes a forgetful neighbor in Lovers Lane and speculation about a new arrival disrupting routines.
Sunday services at First Baptist Church include 11 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. sermons on Good Warfare and Thou Art The Man. Key notes cover missionary giving by Chinese and Canton church plans, Bible School rally with 1,502 attendees, and Texas Baptist growth. Obituary of Samuel A. Croyer highlights his leadership and endowment to Croyer Seminary.
A Payette Vinegar Company sample analyzed by Hydraulic Press Manufacturing Co of Mount Gilead Ohio shows high quality and thorough fermentation. The report, dated October 17, 1910, lists specific gravity 1.02163 alcohol 15.66 percent acidity 6.18 percent solids 3.535 percent and sugar free salide 2.67 percent, noting fine color and taste and praising the well fermented product.
Northwest fruit growers back a free packing school at the National Apple Show in Spokane during the November week. The program runs 9 to 12 each day on the Armory main floor under A. P. Bateham with J. M. Carroll assisting, focusing on commercial packing to meet the era’s demand for skilled labor.
Consider sending a fancy package of six red cheeked pippins grown in Payette Valley as a holiday gift to eastern friends. Growers can supply five or six apples of various varieties, packed and shipped east, showcasing the valley’s fruit raising.
H A Daubenberger sold a forty acre ranch to Chris Myers of Grand Island Nebraska through Donovan & Stoufer Payette Land Co. The orchard equipped property brings 500 per acre and possession is set for March 1. Daubenberger plans reinvestment in fruit land and orchard land options continue to be explored.
Mildred Chapman and Esther Mickelson visited the High School on Friday. Etta Van Etten has been absent for three weeks with typhoid fever but is improving. Welser defeated Holse 9 to 0, knocking Holse from State Championship contention. Payette and Welser now decide the title. Caldwell loss shows College boys outweighed Payette’s team by about ten pounds. Football players stayed in Caldwell overnight, possibly to avoid returning in the dark. Tests shift to every six weeks this year. Basketball girls received a championship-boosting letter from former coach A. Kubica urging effort. Our boys basketball team this year aims to match last year’s state-leading form with Darnall at center, Darnall at forward, and Harland at guard, plus two others. Mr. Giffin expects early-season material to develop into a winning squad.
A poor orphan Pippa in Browning's tale considers how to spend her New Year’s Eve. She imagines various homes of privilege, then resolves that God's love is best and chooses to stay content. Sunrise reveals a darker plan nearby as a couple plots harm to an old man.
From Payette, a tale unfolds where Pippa helps a man avoid murder, influences a artist wife, and proves a hidden heiress links to Monseigneur. Nearby notes report local visits, illness, church events, and social gatherings across Payette and Weiser areas this week.
The Tucker Comedy Company performs a week long engagement at the Elite Opera House with strong audience approval. They present Queen on Friday, The Girl and the Gambler Friday night, and Always on Time Saturday night. A charity dish will be awarded to the holder of the lucky number. E Robinson of Mountain Home Idaho wins twenty acres near Fruitland at 400 per acre. Mrs Compton’s Millinery announces big reductions on trimmed hats.
The Payette Valley Railroad records two serious wrecks, one at Albert station injuring a cow and derailing a refrigerator car, and a second at Hiffin station where an open switch derailed a work train. Recovery required outside equipment and delayed through service to Emmett. Both incidents caused substantial costs and traffic disruption.
Short Line officials at Payette held a wreck inquiry into the fast mail crash in the Payette yards. The hearing found two rear brakemen responsible for the wreck after failing to check a switch, while Conductor Whalen was cleared of blame. The engineer who jumped remains to testify when available.
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