Community Notes From Middleton and Surroundings
Local brief from Middleton area recounts a range of items: a Mond evening holdup at the Roland Gas Station with a masked robber snatching about $20 from a boy left in charge. visits and socials including Mrs. Christopher and the Doughertys. a 21st wedding anniversary for Mr. and Mrs. Postlethwaite. whooping cough cases. Caldwell chapter correspondence. planning for Christmas charity work. domestic updates on residents and property transactions. multiple Boise and Idaho connections. social visits, dinners, and a Briar Rose event. with neighbors and families featured across Middleton, Deer Flat, Riverside, and Center Point areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roland
Neing
Neal
Christopher
Dougherty
Postlethwaite
Jennie
Spencer
William Russell
Boise
Edgar Merk
J. P. Brown
Sagitarium
Ryan Dougherty
Caldwell
Jertha Awstrim
John E. Moore
South Kimball
North
Idaho
Ivesi
Foore
J Brier Bone Club
Miller
Wilder Churches Plan Watchnight Services and Visitors
Watchnight program announced for Wilder churches with Rev G Peck in charge at St Lakels parish. Attendees include Mewey Park student from McMinnville and M Ewing to preach at the Methodist church Sunday night. Local folks from Nampa and Boise attend federal meeting. farmers may recover expenses for harvest mower.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. Peck
St. Lakels Nesahal
Jeter
Peckham Ranch
Panacea
M. Ewing
Mewey Park
McMinville Ore
Ager
Parke Hartshorn
Holseee
Boise
A. W. Hartshorn
BG. Davis
Wow
Deal
John Pipher
Nampa
Feds
Tienday
Rural community notices trace visits and travels
Mr and Mrs George F Bartlett spent Sunday with Mrs Lindsey and Miss Moore of Caldwell. others visited relatives in Meridian and Boise. Several families planned trips to Payette and Vale Oregon. many spent weekends with kin, took Sunday dinners, and some prepared in California and Anaconda. church events noted with Rev Hites and wife attending a district meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rhee Ehr
George F. Bartlett
Lindsey
Wwifler - Fi
Miss Moore
Caldwell
Evelyn Larder
Will Doolittle
Fargo
Will
George Doolittle
Middleton
Vale
Ore
J W. Cooper
Meridian
Ralph Cooper
Brr
J. W. Cooper
W. Houltereft
Southern
California
Marguerite Hitson
Maude Gould
Payette
Junaite
Jesefeerson Hanan
S. A. Jensen
D. de Sassar
R. A. Thornton
Boise
Hazel Greenfield
Edna Rice
Mirs
George Vout
F. Smith
Glen Davis
May
Bois
C. F. Stith
Chester Rees
Caldpelt
Ben Vogtome
W. Spear
C. ©. Hansbro
Lake Lowell Corm
Local Notables Host Weekend Visit and Church Events
Residents recount a weekend visit by Mrs Newtown Fairmot and daughter Pyhet Caldwell to the Winslows, with social calls at Greenlott Waite Phcher and St Johns Church. The church prospect is set for Friday, and Caldwell business visits occurred during the week.
Tree substitute idea adds secret gifts to dining table
A child friendly home life note describes a miniature central tree with tiny white envelopes as decorations. Each envelope held a card with a Santa message directing the finder to secret gifts hidden around the room, adding an element of playful discovery to gift exchange.
Christmas Table Centerpiece and Handmade Handkerchiefs
A festive centerpiece idea features two back-to-back boxes forming twin fireplaces with greenery stockings and tiny toys. Also described are handmade linen handkerchiefs for men and women with embroidery options and sizes, offering thoughtful Christmas gifts.
The Pestaj Goose and Christmas Roast Dishes
A vintage food note urges light preparations for roast goose at Christmas. It suggests fruit salad as appetizer, tomato sherbet with the goose, and a maigre vegetable soup. A new idea is an unfilled goose with a French dressing fruit salad and herb seasoned stuffing inside.
Christmas Recipes and Roast Duck Guidance
Christmas desserts and roast duck instructions. Includes steamed Bteamed Chocolate Pudding with butter sugar eggs and chocolate, vanilla, and a fluffy custard sauce. Also details roasting a duck with stuffing, salt pork, flour dusting, and basting guidance for browning and moistness.
Recipes for Stuffed Duck and Olive Gravy Dish
A fragmented cooking note outlines stuffing a domesticated or wild duck with peanut and cracker crumb mix, peanut stuffing, olive sauce with pitted olives and gravy, and potato stuffing using mashed potatoes and stale bread. Includes salt pork onion, butter, and seasoning steps.
Old Fashioned Fruit Cake Recipe From Historic Note
A dense, handwritten recipe fragment lists ingredients for fruit cake including suet, currants, mixed peel, brown sugar, molasses, nuts, spices, citrus juices and rinds, tapioca biscuits, vanilla and almond extracts. Instructions describe beating, combining, rolling in cloth, boiling for hours, and serving with an orange sauce and fruit sweets. Includes notes on measurement quirks and archaic terms.
Delicate Fig and Marshmallow Treats From Old Recipe Fragments
Fragmentary culinary notes describe lemon juice mixing and forming oblong rolls topped with walnut, dusted with cigar, then stuffed pies with figs steamed in a double boiler. Instructions detail dipping marshmallows in grape or orange juice, sugar coating, and drying. Also suggested are rose geranium sprigs tied to Christmas greetings as festive treats.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christa
Number 40 Medicine Claims Cures for Eye Ailments
An advertisement by Botkin Joy Deng Company touts Number 40 as a cure for eye inflammation and aches. A mother reports her daughter’s eyes clearing after five bottles, and her father recovering mobility after nine years invalid status. The copy claims many others were helped and promotes the medicine as the best on earth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ehechaatists
Botkin-Joy Deng Company
Salesman Lived On Boiled Milk and Gained Weight on Taniac
A Los Angeles man Jeny C. Weelman reports dramatic relief from years of indigestion after taking Tanlac. He describes severe stomach cramps gas heart palpitations fainting spells and weight loss prior to treatment. Now he digests foods normally and has returned to his previous weight and strength. Tanlac is sold locally by Botkin Joy Co Wilder RR Greenleaf by Walker Dew Co and Meteun Mere Co.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tanlac
Sam
Caldwent
Botkin-Joy
Andrewer Mere, Co
Wilder RF
Greenleaf
Walker Dew Co
Meteun Mere, Co
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