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Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1913-11-20
CHANGE IN TIME
OF SHORT LINE.

A new time card took effect on the
Oregon Short Line Sunday, August 8
and the trains now run as follows:
West Bound Tralns.
Pony No. rs due 9;4S a. m.
Pony No. n due at 6:41 p. m.
No. II due at g.: "a a. m.
Fast Mail No. due at $40 p. M.
East Bound Trains.
Pony No. IL due at $40 a. m.
Pony No. rs due at $40 p. m.
No. Is due at 2:45 a. m.
Fast Mail No. 6 1850 will stop on
flag at Ontario, Caldwell, Nampa and
points east carrying passengers for
all eastern points.
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1913-11-20

Notice is hereby given that an cleo
ION will be held In Good Road Dis
riot No. 1, Canyon County, State
If Idaho, on Tuesday the ninth day
II December, A. d. 1913, for the cleo
Ion OF three comm ssioners for
aid Good Road District No. 1. Said
commissioners to serve for a term
n two years each.
The polling place at which said
election shall be held shall be, and
Is hereby designated as Pleasant
Wow School House Situated in Good
Road District No. /, canyon County,
Idaho.
The hours between which said polls
shall be open are declared to be as
Opening aud commencing at the
hour of IL o'clock noon on the 9th
day OF December. 1918, ad closing at
the hour OF o'clock p. M. OF said
9th day of December. A. D. 1913.
Dated November 10, 1913.
ALLEN sTEGALL,
Secretary Of Good Roads District
No, 1, Canyon County, Idaho.
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1913-11-20
GROOM FACTORY STARTS WORK
resent Capacity 100 Brooms--Is Pay
ina 500 Per Ton for Broom Straw.

resent Capacity 100 Brooms-Is Pay
ing 800 Per Ton for Broom Straw.
Emmettis new broom factory start
q operations last week. AS the ma
linery is new, 1t will take a week
G.. two to get things running smooth
T.. and the output Will be small for
4 time. With two men employed, tie
capacity will be 100 complete brooms
par day. An additional hand which
vlll be added shortly will still further
increase the output.
The factory is getting good SUI
Diy OF broom corn and Is paying 500
per ton. That the establishment Of
this plant viii greatly stimulate the
growing Of this product there can
b no doubt and the prospects are
tat next year the acreage wild be
la rge.
The output Is OF splendid quality
Emmett Index.
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1913-11-20
Eastern Division Oregon Teache s.
Association, La GranGe, Ore, Nov.
24th to 26th-1913.

For above mentioned oc e sen t
o. S. L. Ry will sell round "trip tick
cts Payette, Idaho, to LaGraude, Or,
at $40 tickets sold Nov. 22nd to
18th inclusive with final return Linn
it of December list, 1913.
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1913-11-20

For Sale-3 beds, springs and mat
resses, 3 tubs.-Mistress ]. A. Pru-
cit, 1 block east schoolhouse. AIT
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1913-11-20
CHRISTIAN CHURCH.

Regular Services.
Sunday Morning.
10000 Bible School.
1900 Communion and Sermon.
sunday EVENING.
The public Is cordially invited to
al ssryices.
Pastor.
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1913-11-20
High School Notes

AS6ss ASSSOOG 4VVCOO
The Interclass Contestants are
still working hard on their pieces for
the coming contest, on Nov 26. Their
pieces are as follows:
Seniors
Miss Nellie Keith, francesca" -
Anon
Mr.. William Moss, Cut off frc m
the People" by Hall Game.
Juniors.
Miss Myrna Kenward,- "Rolo
Learning to Read" by Burdett.
Mr.. Charles LAWS, "Tobe's Mon
ument"-Anon.
Sophomores
Miss Harlene Satoris, "Plupy's De-
batting Club, Anon
Mr.. Eliza Edwards-"The Heart
of Old Hickory" by Droomgale.
Freshmen
Miss Pansy Johnson, "a Sister.y
Scheme" by H. c. Bunner.
Mr. Garde Wood, "How Spud Drove
Old Iron Sides, Anon.
The place where the contest will
be held is not definitely known. 1t
will be published later. The price
is rs cents to ALL
Claire Hearst has enrolled as a
new member of the freshman Glass.
The High School Glee Club has
been abandoned for some time on
account of Mr. Nelson practicing the
Eighth grade pupils for their coming
entertainment.
The Annual Thanksgiving donat o-s
of the High School for the Childrens
Home Finding and Aid Society, wee
given this week. Each class compel
ing towards the cause Especia ly the
eighth grade The amount from
each class was as follows
Eighth grade $4.25
Juniors 2.75
Freshmen 2.60I
Sophomores 200
Seniors Las
Total ......... $lS.05
Last Saturday the football team O.
the Payette High school j,urneyed
to Nampa where they met the local
high school team in what was sal
to have been the best game OF the
season. The Payette boys were
somewhat handicapped by having to
play on a muddy field and on a.
count of lack of weight-be ng much
lighter than their opponents. How
ever the Payette boys we're able to
hold the opposing team down to an
even score, by reason of their pro
ficient use of the forward pass. Sew
era1 of the team made star avs and
were able to overcome extra weight
by aggressive ability and alert ness.
At all times during the game the
best sportsmanlike spir't was shown
and in most cases the decisions OF
the officials were accepted without
question.
The High School Orchestra is be-
ng well organized under the leader
ship of Prot. Nelson. They meet
every Wednesday evening at the
high school building. Vincent Moan
entered at the last practice making
welve members in the organization
The members of the Sophomore
lass enjoyed a straw ride last Fri
lay evening. After crossing the {:
ridge the party divided into two
ARTS. Both parts had vrey good
ime. One part coming home on the
ack and the other In an auto.
Naomi Parsons returned to school
gain Monday after her sickness
The Domestic Science room is be
lg wired this week and electric
toves have been purchased for the
Sc of the Domestic Science class.
oys, take notice. The GIRLS are get
ng to be some cooks.
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1913-11-20
NOTICE OF ELECTION.

II Good Road Commissioners for
Good Road DIstrl.t No. I Of Can
yon County, Idaho.
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1913-11-20
ing Post
See Them Displayed in Our Show Windows
E. &. KEITH De SON
Idaho Traction Company.

Leave Caldwell for Middleton, Star,
Eagle and Boise 700 : 500 $500
1000 HOO a. m. and 1900 100
200 300 400 500 900 700
800 $50 p. m.
Leave Caldwell for Nampa, Meridi-
an and Boise 1922 8:22 :. 9:22
1922 11:22 a. m. and 1922 1:22
2:22 1922 4:22 5:22
6:22 1922 S:22 -10:22 p. m.
Effective December Is, 1912.
Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1913-11-20

Lost-A stick pin small bird design
set with pearls. Finder return to
this office and get reward. 46
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friend: oh it was most pleasant to me-
We were on opposite sides of the House.
but we We're both called watch dogs OF
the Treasury
MY friend took the fourth drink.
And so we We're, so were. judge
but we always had the true instincts OF
the good watch dog-We knew enough not
to bark when our friends Were around.
X
Senator Moses +. Clapp tells this story
on Senator Jim MARITIME of New Jer-
sey Mr. MARITIME was travelling once in
an outlying part OF the state. he SAYS.
citizen of n small town. AT the hour for
retiring, when Mr.. MARITIME was shown
to- his room. his host noticed that he had
no luggage.
"A servant was sent up to the room
with a suit of the hosts pajamas. said
Senator Clapp. The door opened slightly
to his knock and he thrust the pajamas
forward with the explanation:
Mr.. Jones noticed YOU had no bag
gage, sir. and he supposed you were not
supplied with night garments.
Take 'em back said Mr.. MARITIME
take EN- back: L sleep in natures gar
ments.
Senator Clapp is chairman of the Sem
ate committee on interstate commerce,
which conducted extensive hearings last
spring into the trust problem, in u search
for the best remedy in the way of a
new antitrust law. Thu far the COM
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Experience Teaches.

xfTHERE'S nothing like experience,
said capt. Robert {. War; OF the
Campania who has retired from sea life
after forty-nine years service. Nv hen
the Young and enthusiastic and bold sheer
at tie caution of old age / think of the
two crows.
Il ook at that beautiNl woman III the
cornfield thore!' Il young crow cried.
Beautiful woman Nonsense, re-
torted the old bird. That's scarecrow.
But how do you know it's a scare
crow?'
Because there's no man about. DO
You suppose a beautiful woman would
loaf all day long in one place if there
wasn't man somewhere near to admire
her?
I'm sure it's a beautiful woman, III
sisted the young crow. And there too
is a mans figure behind the oak. IN
going over to size her up
And the young crow flew off, and a
gun banged and a few minutes later he
came limping back with Il broken wing
and a hole in his leg
50 Aha sneered the old crow, you
youngsters are all aike-think You know
more about women than your elders'
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befell him on a railway train. not long
after he became Vice President. He was
travelling alone. and went into the diner
one night, to find himself seated opposite
a boy of seventeen or eighteen.
The hoy eyed him covertly for some
time. as though trying to place him DIN
ner was served and was half eaten when
he accomplished the feat Leaning across
the table. he Ventured:
Il beg your pardon. but aren't you Vice
President Sherman"
The Vice President admitted it. and the
boy radiated pleasure at the idea of dim
ing with the nations second official AS
the waiter brought the checks he said
timidly:
Please. Mr.. Vice President won't YOU
let me pay for your dinner"
why should | do that?'' said the sur
prised Mr.. Sherman.
We'll. you see. I'm on my way home
for vacation. and if ] could tell the
folks I had bought the dinner for the Vice
President of the United States it would
be pretty fine for me-
And / finally had to let him pay for
ii" said Mr. Sherman.
X *
Representative Dudley NJ Hughes of
Georgia has a peach orchard that has
suffered from the ravages of the san
Jose scale. One of his negro tenants
caught the smallpox some time ago, and
after an illness of some length, recovered
enough so that he could get out about the
place. One day he approached within
hailing distance of Mr. Hughes.
I'm glad to see you are recovering
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...o -o-,.ica apd
grade of the revenue cutter service, ana
in 1888, at the age OF lhlity-tibnt, "es
Collected tn he it's engineering chief.
Other fields where there are frequent
,,,oni,rs for. trained men and where
,,4,af.,s 40 nat dictate. are:
Weather hureau- NLeteoroiogy.
Bureau of animal industry.Pn th"logS, zooios.
Burean of plant industrr-Plant physiology ana
pathology. pomology hoFtcui'nre'
Forest ser' ly", s,,,-InvestIrstions and anal
bureau VI asri'mlturai products, foods
drugs. etc
Rnreau of soils-Anaytic fertility and soil
water Investigations. .., 81
office OF eApermrni st ..."t. M
cation ana drainaSe IN. r5nnintrr and scien-
+ ifin road construction
Pablo health and marine hospital service WIZ
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any future in the government service Is
the one who is able to specialize. He Is
the sort that Uncle Sam is reckoning to;
the one who is not caring how hard a
political patronage cyclone may hit him.
Thousands are already besieging the
new administration leaders for jobs, and
before the next month has passed the
Capitol will be overwhelmed with appll-
cants of every description. They Will so
after all the places in sight from eleva-
tor starter in the Senate Office building
10 xylotomist at the Agricultural Depart
ment, but even after these hungry office
seekers have combed the field over there
VIII be room, as there always is, for a
capable man with speciality.
For instance, right now the civil serv-
ice commission is sending out a hurry
call for male stenographers. good men
t. supply the demand of the great gov
eminent departments. The commission
has experienced difficulty in the past to
and typewriter register to meet the re-
qulrements of the service. Qualified per-
sons are urged to enter this examination.
which presents perhaps the best oppor-
tunity for appointment in the general
clerical grade. Persons appointed from
This class may be promoted to the high
est positions. The entrance salaries range
from $50 to 81 200 a year.
Il is where Postmaster General Hitcn-
cock got his start. Theodore l.. Weed,
director of tie postal savings bank sys-
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hand side of Speaker Clark's desk in the
House. where his official gavel pounded
it to SplnterS in the last session. The
Speaker bore considerable chatting from
friends over the thing for while. and
then observed complainngly to a friend
one day:
Why don't they tell the whole story?
Why don't they say that | hammered
my desk to pieces to prevent the MEM
bers from hanimering each other to
pieces"
AS a further evidence that his good
right arm was still sturdy, and that re-
inforced desk did rot measure the end of
his resources. the Speaker broke two
gavels on the opening dag of the session
December >.
X x
Senator Joseph w. Bailey Of Texas,
who sits near the main door OF the Sem
ate in the midst of an ir1passioned
speech one day when Senators Warren
and Overman met near the door, a few
steps away from him, and began to con-
verse in an undertone. They looked to-
ward the door, then toward Bailey; turn
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air of fnality:
The gentleman is always enlighten-
ing. even when he is entirely wrong.
=
Although educated at the University OF
Virginia and AT Heidelberg, Senator Will
lams. whose home is near 1azoo CITY,
Miss delights to refer to hlmsei1 as
simple countryman He was fenSnS
with Senator Lodge of Massachusetts IN
the Senate one day over the proposed re-
duction of some government salaries at
Boston.
cot course I always differ with the
senator from Massachusetts with great
hesitation," he said. with mock defer
ence. mot only because of our respective
IocaIities OF residence. but because of his
general intellectual superiority
*
stories and anecdotes seem to cluster
about some men in public life. Uncle
rs might be acquired by one who has
served over thirty years among story
telling associates. He mikes them with
his own pointed remarks and causuc
comments.
Nav Irwin. playing in Washington
thcater. dropped in with II party of Capt.
toll siChtseers one day while Uncle Joe
still Speaker of the House Coz. l.;
White Busbey announced them: ana
Speaker Cannon hurried out OF his prl-
waite office to greet the visitors.
Come again any time, Miss Irwin.
said Uncle Joe" as the party finally
prepared to leave: always glad to see
) OF: many's the time I've paid S1.J0 for
III, privilege
IN speech in the House one day
'J'pc!a Joe was belaboring some of the
democrats for proposing to take the tariff
off certain articles. while he claimed they
wanted To keep protection on products
cf their own districts.
Il am reminded of an eminent men,
Der Of this House, now dead and gone,
one Of the best legislators l ever knew.
H.. said with drawl. "a splendid man.
hut when he took two or three drinks
lis tongue was loosened.
"one day down at the hotel he met
Judge F., who had been member OF
Congress.
7 recollect very we'll our service to-
.ether in Congress, judge said my
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mittee has been unable to agree on
report.
Some of the trust remedies proposed
to Congress remind me of the decision L
once gave in high school. as the sofu-
ton of the tariff question" said Senator
Clapp. after learned study of the
subject l rendered the following compre-
hensive and all-embracing classic:
= Resolved: That the tariff should be
adjusted as to impose no unfair bur
dens either on the manufacturer or the
consumer
$50 far as | can learn" he added, mo
one has yet been found who could make
that simple adjustment
Senator Townsend of Michigan was the
newest member of a Senate committee
that had important hearings not long
ago. The privilege of questioning Wit
nesses passed down the line alternately
from republican to democrat. in the or
der of their seniority. At the noon re-
cess one day "A newspaper man asked
Senator Townsend if he was going to ask
any questions of the man then testifylng
before the committee.
This committee runs according TO
rank replied Senator Townsend. I've
got a lot to ask now, but as l am the
rankest member mine will all be asked
before my turn comes.
Many good stories are told of the late
Vice President Sherman. One that he
told himself concerned an experience that
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from the smallpox, Sam" called out the
representatives.
Deed, boss. I amt had no smallpox,
returned the negro earnestly: hit was
ies dem scales what l kotched in de peach
orchard.
THAT tenant believes that so firmly to-
day., said Mr.. Hughes that | cannot
hire him to work in the orchard
Senator Knute Nelson is more difficult
man to get moving pictures of than the
President of the United States A firm of
Norwegian picture operators sent two
men over to this country not long ago
for the sole purpose of getting pictures or
President Taft and of NorwayS native
son in the United States Senate
The pictures of President Taft Were ar
ranged without difficulty. The President
walked rode bowed and shook hands be
fore the clicking camera, sraciously
enough 10 satisfy any sort of a Nor
wegian audience. But the picture men
hung around the Capitol for two DAYS
before they could get Senator Nelson to
consent to walk into the face of the ma
chine They almost had to make affidavit
that King Haakon himself had sent them
~ the errand, and they finally got the
film only on the pledge that it would not
he used in the United States.
The newspapers carried several stories
about the time Congress reconvened. of
the achievements put under the right
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interesting Anecdotes by and About Big White Dome

81 with other new members. and. nuch
aEainst his wishes. swore' his allegiance
Al the conclusion Of the swearing h.
saw the other ouakers walk up aud
Rushing ont into the corridor after one
of them as he left the chamber. ne de-
manded:
',Why didn't you tell me YOU were going
to affirm; why. darn it. | sWorc.
=
John wilkie. former chief of tn"
secret service and now bead of the gov
t,rnment's customs agents. spent some
time in tn" orient when newspaper
man lie entered the Americas consulate
d, llongkonc one day and found a bright
cooking Chinese youth In attendance.
Mr.. Wilkie opened up AN elaborate lin"
Of pigeon Fnglish." with a suatterirS
81 Chinese words be had picked up alon-
the coast. aud endeaN orrd 10 inquife
y neither the consulate mad any mall fof
him. The Chinese hoy followed the con
Nersat.on Tor few minutes with puz-
lied lock and then interrupted
Perhaps l could understand Won bet
to- if YOU write il down. Mr.. Nilldc.
The boy WAS a graduate of Harvard.
X ::
distances are still magnificent in tho
no: tn west" said former REPRESENTATIVE j.
Adam Bede TO a crowd of storytelling
associates recently
~ travelling man in 81. Paul was tell
ing me no, long ago Of The last trip he
made into eastern Montana. lie called
an n regular customer from whom he eN
pected good sprinS order, hut found him
,essimtstic and inclined IL buy little.
- business is purity good admitted IN"
etorrkeepef but orr territory amt so
ulc now.
What's happened to tn" territory
Well since the new Northern Pacific
extension com" ia it's cut our territory
i.ieht ina two. replied the merchant.
Why | didn't know the Northern
Pacific was in here. said the drummer
Where does * run?
about eighty miles south of here.
said the gloomy merchant
X
4 government official who had occasion
10 visit thu. Canadian house OF commons.
brings back this story. told Ivy Michael
clark who represented the constituency
of Red Deer in the last government ana
may do so vet. Mr. Clark was i1dicullnS
the system of giving bounties TO Canadian
iron and steel manufacturers
1T reminds me of "A story OF Scotch-
man who was suffering from disease no
ordinary remedy could reach, said MI
CIarl, The suggestion Was made that
:, p,rfectlv new remedy be tried in IN"
shane. of a tune from the bagplpes.
.''rhe suggestion was followed. IN"
doctor going through the hospital next
morning met the head nurse and said;
How is that extraordinary patent
on whom we tried that novel remedy yes
terday? e..r
oh. the Scotchman is wonderfully
better she said, but the other patients
are all dead.
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culture attorney at the interstate COM
merce commission and chief clerk of the
Department of Commerce and Labor.
Not many patent examiners are worry
ing about the predicted Wilson shake-up.
1t has been almost Impossible to keep
enough young men in the service with the
technical training to do this work. The
salary is 81 800 a year Edward Il. Moore,
the commissioner of pa tents, has frequent
ly voiced complaint along this line.
Graduates come to us from the MaSSa-
chusetts Institute of Technology and 9TH
cr institutions of almost as high stand
ing" Mr. Moore said. The difficulty We
have is not in getting good men, but in
keeping them. They remain with us just
long enough to be trained 10 the point
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years Of age No political influence is
necessary. as the examinations are open
to any Amer can-born citizen possessing
the necessary qualifications. Al exam
nations are strictly competitive, and
there are instances where boys nave en-
tered the service as coal passers and or
binary seamen and have worked up 10
the highest grdes.
Take the case of Capt Charles ~ NC
Allister who is now chief engineer OF the
service He used to be an oiltr on the
late John Jacob Astor's yacht, Nourma-
hal When he was sixteen years Old ne
borroNe money to start with ana
finally worked his way through Cornell
University. He entered the government
service as craftsman in the Navy De-
partment He afterWard served N every
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IRENE western states For years there
has been "A backwardness on the part OF
southerners to accept federal offices In
Washington, but with Woodrow WILSON
coming in. a man born in Nirg MA, ana
whose wife halls from Georgia. the Situa-
ton may change. Men and women from
the south are expected then to come into
their own.
The revenue cutter service presents an
other good field for ambitious men to en-
ter the government ranks. Its officers
pay and retired list are the same as for
the army and navy. From six to ten APP
pOintmentS are made annually. he can
didateS must not be over tWenty-one