Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1912-08-29
LOCAL NEWS
Improves Herd.

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Improves Herd.
2 o. ]. Pratt the dairy man has re-
! Gently improved his dairy herd by the
addition of a finely bred prize vim
, ! ing Jersey bull The animal has a
fine record in his get for butter fat
the best being thirty three pounds
for sevne days.
i Gets Good Yield of Gram.
R. A. Crump one of the Big Willow
farmers was IN Payette Saturday
and was feeling mighty good about
his yield of grain He naI just fir
isked threshing anu ids yield cf
wheat was never irrigated turned
out fcrty bushels to the acre.
Premium List Issued.
! The premium list for the Canyon
County Fair to be held at Caldwell
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Fri
day and Saturday, October : to 5,
are out and ready for distribution
The premiums are liberal and all
interested can secure a COPY by writ
ing to the secretary OF the Canyon
County Fair Association, Caldwell,
Idaho.
Miss Landon Goes East.
Miss Ruby Landon left Wednesday
afternoon OF this week for Earlham,
Marathon and Lorenz, Iowa, where
for couple of weeks she will visit
with friends and relatives. Later
she will go on to Chicago where she
will enter the musical conservatory
of Northwestern University for a
course in vocal and instrumental
music.
Buys Fine Cattle.
Harry Beckwith formely a resident
of Payette Valley but now engaged
in farming on an extensive scale
near Redmond, Oregon was in Pay
ette last Friday returning from the
east with car load of Timely bred
Holestein cattle he had purchased
The animals were unloa1ed here to
feed and water before continuing the
journey by rail to Redmond
Meet After Long Absence.
H. L. Carstens, of Charter Oak.
Iowa, arrived n Payette last Thurs
day evening for a visit with his bro
ther Henry Carstens. The two 5ro-
Tiers are indeed enjoying this chance
to visit as it has been twenty years
since they have seen each other.
Mrs. C. s. Clark will be at Stanton
Brothers on Saturday the 31st with
number of fine singing canaries.
Mass Meeting.
There will be a class Meeting
August 81 s P. NJ. Pioneer Building
at New Plymouth for the purpose
discussing and formulating plans TO
Irrigate all slope lands between Fat
tons Point and Snake river. All
parties interested are requested to
attend
Notice of School Opening.
The Payette Schools viii open later
this year than usual on account of
the heavy fruit crop. The first eight
grades will open September 16. The
High School will open SEPT. 90.
This is two weeks later than last
year and will offer the high school
pupils opportunity to contract with
the packers to work entirely through
the prune season.
Gun Club Is Active.
With the approach of the duck sea
son the members of the Fayette Rod
& Gun club have began TO get active.
At the annual meeting recently held
officers were eelected and five new
members voted in. The officers
elected are B. L. Downs. President:
NJ E. Wood. Vice-President and A.
S Soule Secretary &Tereasurer. TIE
contract was recently let for a nice
new club house to be crested en- tn,
Bording' Island The club house
while not pretentious viii De com
Portable indeed with big open fire
place and excellent sleeping accom-
The reserve of the club
some fifteen hundred
acres of the finest duck shooting in
this section of Idaho.
PLAN TO IRRIGATE
LARGE TRAIT LAND
A number OF people interested in
a tract of land comprising some six
thousand acres and lying between
what is known as Patton's Point AID
the Snake river have called mass