Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1914-02-12
Local Neus

Get your Hot Bed Sash NOW from
the Empire Lbr. Co. It'll
First To Offer Aid.
The Deutscher Verein Society is the
first organization to donate money to-
ward rebuilding the Y. NJ. C. A. At
a recent meeting their managers yot-
ed a substantial sum toward rebuild
ing the building Mcdonald G Smith
are also the first firm to signify their
intentions of making a donation to-
ward helping the Ladies Auxiliary re-
furnish their department.
Danger in Some Bed Warmers.
The danger of using an electric
light as a bed warmer was exem-
plified at the d. w. Ainey home re-
Gently when Miss Pauline Ainey one
chilly evening warmed her bed with
a common electric light bulb. The
light did the business all right and
Miss Ainey retired in nicely warm
ed. bed and went soundly asleep to
awaken shortly after with the room
filled with smoke and the bed trifle |
too warm for comfort the light evil |
dently by its heat having set the /
mattress on fire. With rare presence !
of mind she rolled up the mattress
and carrying it TO the bathroom, piled
it into the tub and turned on the
water. Had she become excited and
opened the door giving the fire
draft the result would probably have
been disastrous.
In Severe Storm At Sea.
Chris Hendrichsen, who last week
returned from trip to Hamburg,
Germany, had quite thrilling ex-
perience on the return trip. He left
Hamburg on the tenth and pleasant
v Gather was experienced until the
A falling barometer on
that date gave warning of a change
in weather and all on the ship was
made secure and ready. The wealth
Ell roughened up in the night and
by the morning of the sixteenth was
very bad so much so in fact that /
the big engines were stopped and the
ship drifted with the storm until the
of the eighteenth when the
storm abated somewhat and the ship ,
was enabled to resume her proper
course again. Two thirds of the pas
sengers were violently sea sick and
The balance were unable to get out
md about the deck owing to the Sc
we're rolling of the vessel. While at
other times life on the ship was gay !.
and bright and with pleS to eat +,
Mr.. Hendrichsen states during
he storm nothing but cuurve and an
occasional biscuit could be secured
Is it was impossible to keep utensils
IN the cooking apparatus. Barring
he storm the rest of the passage was
pleasant and enjoyed by a large num- {
Der of the passengers, and it was
'nly after arriving in port that they
LII learned the fact that during the Ic
'torm a bad leak had sprung in the
,ow of the boat and that it had been r
to close the forward bulk
lead ard entirely shut off one COM /
,artment in which were stored fif- 1
cen cages of live lions which were !;
Iifficult to move during the storm. Ii
rhe water came in to such an ex
ent that the cages containing the
nimals floated ard just as soon as
he storm calmed enough they were =
to another part of the YES
el. The leak was of such pnopor !.
ions that the men working to repair
did so in water up to their necks. i,
'he moving of the lions and the re-
airing of the leak was all accom-
lished without the passengers know =
ng anything was wrong.
Miss Gala Macon of Ontario was
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