Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1913-03-06
LOCAL NEWS

lLandon traded one hundred and six
ty acres of land in Minnesota to F
C. Bates on the Fruitland bench TO
his forty acres of alfalfa and frui
land.
! A Bazaar and Ham and Egg sup
per will be served on Saturday, the
22nd
VIM. T. Sherman, W. r. c.
The members of this organization
will meet in regular session next
Saturday afternoon at o'clock.
full attendance is desired as this is
the social meeting for March The
hostesses are Mesdames Dressler,
Erwin, Hutchinson, Hendrichsen and
Haynes. A cordial invitation is
extended to the veterans to be pres
ent--Press Cor
Attends Store Meeting.
Monday of this week E. w. Equals
Of the Golden Rule Store went to
Mountainhome to attend the month
ly meeting of the managers of the
chain of Golden Rule Stores in
Southern Idaho. Every month the
managers of these stores meet at
some town where a Golden Rule
store is and talk over business prop
ositions and exchange ideas. Recent
" that plan was adopted and is
working out very boaeficially to all
the managers.
Henshaw Buys Drsy Line.
The first of this week S. NJ. Fitch
disposed of his dray line outfit to
John Henshaw who has taken charge
OF the same Mr. Fitch was COM
PEELED to sell his dray line because
of rheumatism which prevented him
from looking after the business as
steadily as is desirable. Mr. Hen
shaw years ago was in the transfer
business in this city. He thorough
ly understands just what constitutes
a good first class service along that
line and will give to his patrons
prompt and efficient service.
Houses Now All Numbered.
City Engineer W. c. Sturdevant
has just finished the numbering of
all the houses in the city. The or
dinance requiring houses to be num-
bered was passed some time ago aud
property owners were ordered to
comply with it Many people did
but a great many more did not BY
order of the council the city engi-
neer last week started in and num-
With the streets all properly marked
1t the intersections and the houses
all numbered not much more remains
to secure free city delivery of mail
as for some time the receipts at the
postoffice have been sufficient to en-
title us to it.
indian Relics Discovered.
Irwin Thurston cashier at the
First National Bank has in his pos
session some Indian relics of c0nsiG
srable interest They were brought
nto the city by VIM Cotton who
;ound them on Big Willow at poiit
where the old emigrant trail be-
.ween Boise City and Umatilla cross
~ Of
stone mortar and two stone pesta S
which were used by the Indians TO
grind up their maize with. Another
relic of pioneer days
also to be seen at the bank is a
piece of water stone which was
used by the Indians to tan leather
with. This was found on the Snake
river recently by VIM. Wall and
brought to the bank
A Letter From Mexico.
Miss S. H. Grothe sister of Mrs.
P. H. Brown, who has been in Pay
cite for some time just recently re-
ceived a letter from friend in the
City of Mexico which in an interest
ing manner tells of conditions in
that city during the recent rebellion.
this letter Miss Grothe
learns that her father is safe and
that he wrote a letter to her some
time ago but it failed to get through.
The letter is full of the details of
the fighting taking place in the city
and the writer took several days
in writing it, stating several times
that it was mighty difficult to settle
down to anything with the shells
from large guns crashing from one
part of the city to another.
MILLINERY OPENING.