Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1916-08-10
DANCE PAVILION
TO Be CLOSED
SAT URDAY MIGHT BAND CON-
CERTS ALSO TO Be DIS-
CONTINUED.


Sare to be a thing of the past. Tn
Saturday evening band concerts Wa
be discontinued, and Payette wi
move quietly along in the even ter
or of a prosaic existence, with n
feature of public enter tainnent f.
the young people OF the comm mi
that is likely to shock the mora
sensibility OF the most scrupulo4
individual.
Perhaps the city had inadyertentl.
struck too lively a gait. The young
people of the community were com
ing in to mingle with these Of th'
city for an evenings enjoyment onc'
a week and the older people OF the
community were coming in by hun
dreds to mingle with the city dwell
lers and watch the young people
enjoy themselves and possibly for
little relaxation and enjoyment q
their own. But it is to be different
now.
AS the chapter is net long
one it may as well be read into the
record of public events, SO that
there may be no lack of an under
standing why these things are thus.
At the meeting of the city couh'
Gil Monday night a petition was
presented, asking for the abolishine
Of the pavilion dances, on the
grounds of immortality" and the
elimination of the dancing pavilion
on the grounds that it was. being
permitted in violation Of an ordi'
nance regulating the fire limits Of
the city. The petition, to which
WAS signed LA names, not many
more than 100 of them being resi-
dents of the city, out OF voting
population OF S47, as shown bJ the
last city election, was headed as
follows:
ITO the Honorable Mayor and
Council of Payette, Idaho:
1--WE, residents and voters of Pay
cite, Idaho, do respectfully petition
your honorable body, to refuse to
issue license to the public Dane
ing Pavilion" at the corner of Eighth
street and Second Avenue North,
believing that the same exists con,
trary to the fire ordinances of the
city, and is operated in manner
which is offensive and degrading to
the public"
After some discussion of the sub
ject. in which members of the coun-
Gil expressed their individual views
in plain English that needed no in
depreciation to show that they were
not in harmony with the allegations
of immortality" set forth in the pc
tition, and were not in favor of re-
stricting all public amusements to
the moral censorship sought to be
imposed by the petitioners in tbs
particular case, voted unanimously to
table the petition without further
consideration.
Since the above action was taken
Mr.. William Maule, who is mem
ber of the city council, has notified
the mayor that it is his intention
to remove the pavilion, which he
erected for the use and benefit OF
the baSd boys, so that it may rot
be said that the council is shield
ing a member of that body in the
maintainence of structure that is
claimed to be in violation of the
ordinance regulating the erection OF
buildings within the fire limits. He
resents the statement that the
pavilion dances have been immoral
or detrimental to the community
He saws that from the first the
president of the Portia club OF the
city was invited to be present at
these Saturday night dances and
that many times she was present;
that hundreds of the best people OF
the city and community have pat
ronized these dances, while hundreds
of others have been onlookers on
every occasion; that no complaint
has ever been made to him, and
that there has never been any
grounds for any such complaint as
that set forth in the petition which
was presented to the council Mon
day night, He says that he has re-
sided In Payette for more than IA
years and has tried to conduct HIM
SELF as moral, law,abiding citizen
and that he is willing to have his
public and private reputation weigh