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Newspaper
Payette Enterprise
Location
Payette, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1918
Page
5
Local notices and reader items chronicle visits, travel, family events, and community happenings in Fruitland and Payette County. Names resurface across towns, with reports on births, marriages, health, and wartime contributions shaping the everyday life of residents.
A New York mental hygiene official estimates about 400000 feeble minded in the nation and notes that one feeble minded person exists for every 250 people. He adds that roughly 12000 men were rejected from the new army for nervous and mental disorders, with about a third due to feeble mindedness.
Sand Hollow residents share visits with Mrs Fred Root and daughter from the Cove. Jim Wilson and Frank Wisdom haul rye hay from the Salisbury ranch as rye yields best on dry land. Mrs J C Bena and Mrs Dan Patterson shop in Payette. Eli Holbrook and daughter visit Weiser. Clarence Cravens visits Clyde Bena's. Jon McGee from the Cove travels through. Ray Bruce from Mann's Creek in the Hollow. Lee Inman of Payette on business. County candidate cards circulated. Thelma Harker returns home as Payette schools close.
Open air meeting at Bolton school house postponed due to water regulations to curb Spanish Flu spread. Local items note Army fund collection, arrivals from Long Valley, illnesses, visits to Payette, and upcoming election with state reform discussions.
North Payette cased C. Yount sold his island to W. T. Lampkin of Payette. Lampkin plans improvements and likely a new house. Local happenings include repairs by Mountain States Telephone Company crews and several residents visiting relatives or managing property in nearby towns.
Alberta Wainwright attends a White House meeting with Mrs. C Anderon invited to join a social order. Chub plans a four week adjourned meeting with Mrs. C P Lattig Alynna and Amanda Corelson returning from Brogan with apples. Several families report measles but no influenza. Red Cross knitting proceeds in District No 1 as campaign literature circulates among farmers. A voter stance favors farmers over big business. Parish lines push for support at the coming election. Dorothy asks about a party where girls older than she attended. she recalls an amusing remark about the bell.
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