Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1916-02-03
FROM FAR AWAY
HAWAIIAN ISLANDS
REV. DAVID C. PETERS, FORMER
PAYETTE MINISTER, WRITES
INTERESTINGLY OF HIS
WORK IN HONOLULU.
Honolulu, Hawaii.
January 18th, 1916

Honolulu, Hawaii
January 18th, 1916
The Payette Enterprise.
Payette, Idaho.
My dear Mr.. Venable:
have not written anything to
the Enterprise" since you took over
the management OF the paper, but
have been reading each weeks issue
as they have reached my desk with a
good deal Of interest.
My two years residence in Pay
cite were years filled with interest
ing experiences. formed some warm
friendships and by these friendships
am still tied with strong cord
to that community, in addition to
which / have retained little finan-
cial interest.
AS the season of Holy memories
has passed over us again, l have
found myself recalling the faces and
names Of a great many people living
In and around Payette. Al number of
them live up Little Willow, where 1
frequently journeyed to preach in
the school houses while living in Pay
cite. Many of them live i'm that beau
tiful, rich section down the river to-
ward Weiser. Many of them live on
the Bench, some across the Snake,
on the Oregon slopes, and a very
large number of them in the city
Of Payette.
1 have been thinking OF them
and desiring an opportunity to com
municaAe to them the greetings OF
the Season, but it has not been posi-
BILE for me to satisfy that desire, I'M
less you will permit me to do It
through the columns of your paper.
II that meets with your favor, then
do l extend to every per-
son in that community my best
wishes for the New Year. l think /
shall depart from the conventional
greeting In wishing one a Merry
Christmas and a Happy New Year,
and say that do not care whether
1t Is merry or not, but I do hope Il
will be happy, because filled with q
reasonable portion of those things,
material and spiritual, that go to
make up the realities OF life. l am
that at least some Of the
people who knew US while We lived
Ia Payette would be interested in
knowing something about our present
situation. s.,
Residence in Hawaii has been
very happy experience for US. We
will have soon been here five years.
l had no way Of knowing when we
packed up our few belongings and
started on the long journey to these
isles OF Peace" what was before me,
or how long we should stay, but
here we are, with an increasing ap-
probation of the beauties of these
and. the favorableness OF our
situation.
The Hawaiian Islands lie twenty
two hundred miles southwest of San
In the same latitude as
the City of Mexico, and Cuba There
are eight of the Islands inhabited,
with total population in the terri
tory OF 223, 900, mixed from the ends
Of the earth.
Honolulu is modern city, with all
those conveniences that belong in
this twentieth century to city life.
Probably the most interesting thing
out here Is the climate. being semi
with range Of temperature
rom about sixty to ninety degree
think never below that, and very
seldom above. just now. though II
IAN imagine that the thermometer is
,overing somewhere about zero
UP In your country. we are
Enjoying plunge In the surf, or
walk In our shirt sleeves among the
lowers, listening to the birds songs
md generally enjoying ourselves
lnder most delightful conditions.
Within the last year the church OF
which l have the privilege and honor
4 being the pastor, has built new
hurch building 1t is a wholly unique
tructure. departing from the con-
entional In church architecture. 1t
8 bungalow building OF the South
I'm California type, with an overall
dimension OF ninety-six by one hun
red eighty seven feet, containing
wenty-six rooms in all. big and little.
nth large open court In the Gen.
or and wide lanais, as We call them
ere. or verandas, as you call them
here, running around three sides. 1t
J building adapted to tropical con-
ttions and is attracting a great deal
attention. 1t Is so unusual and
0 attractive that during the first