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PAYETTE. CANYON COUNTY, IDAHO, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1910.
ONE DOLLAR A YEAR
VOL. VI. NO. 7
COMMERCIAL CLUB HOLDS
INTERESTING MEETING
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Many Affairs of Public Interest Ta
Up—Committee Appointed for
o
ken
Market Day Sales—Campaign for
Membership to Begin.
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The Commercial club held an interes
ting and important meeting last Mon
day night at which a representative '
crowd of business men were present. ;
The committee appointed some time ]
ago to sell the furniture of the back
of the club reported that the
same had been disposed of at a fig- ;
ure that paid ail bills of the club and I
left a neat balance in the treasury,
room
^ The committee appointed by the pub
lie affairs committee to view the wa
gon bridge across the Payette and
ascertain as to its safety during the ;
expected high water this spring re
ported that the bridge was believed ;
to be safe for the present but advo- !
cated taking steps to have thd county
commissioners raise the same two
feet or more as a safe guard.
John Giesler of the firm of Giesler
Brothers brought up the subject of
again arranging for market day sales
such as were carried on in Payette ;
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The idea advanced
a short time ago.
by Mr. Giesler is to have the club
hold a public sales day every two
weeks and provide an auctioneer at
which time anyone having anything
for sale can list it and have it han-,
died by the sales committee. Such a
plan was carried on successfully a
few months ago in Payette but was
dropped. A committee will _ be ap
pointed by the president of the club
to again arrange for these sales.
club j
that a campaign for membership to
the club should be inaugurated. Nev- J
before has the club been in such (
condition, all bills are
It was also resolved by the
er
a prosperous
paid and a nice balance in the treas-1
With a few new members pay-;
ury.
ing dues and taking an - active part j
^4in the club much good could be
complished. It was moved and seed
onded and unanimously carried that]
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Il r- 1 U'Mil
ih" pr .--io . •■:!■>; ii ' or tin-, " b" ip-;
point, d -o :., ■ :: . ftnipaign lor
m.-mb-rs. W.-.-bit ••■u s s ; ï tli -lay will '
probably bo the day selected by the -
committee as the time to get out af
te^hes^jev^nembmj^I^ou do
not belong to the club now you
best hand in your application oil hide
out
out as the committee is going
with blood in their eye.
is enthusiastic and results are bound
Everyone
to be successful.
Messrs. Wilcox & Straub, the pro
prietors of the two Payette butcher
shops appeared before the club
the matter of the meat peddlers who j
in
live outside • of the city and butcher
and peddle meat inside the city lim
its without paying license,
Both gen- \
tlemen stated they were in business
in the city under the usual expense.
They stated that every other busi-was
hv „ hawkers'
protected bj a
ness was
or peddler's license with the exeep-1
tion of the butchers. They asked
expression from the club as to lts
views. After considerable discussion
a resolution to the effect that
club favored the protection of all men
engaged in legitimate business enter
prises in Payette and calling upon
the city council to take such legal ac
tion as was consistent in the matter
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an
the
was
ed they had no objection to thè
rancher who butchered and sold stock
t . that he raised but their main objec-j
was to the peddler who bought
6««* "» « ..a MM It 1»
[1; : rr'i'Uri'SS
outside the city limits th s g ' s
from considerable expense.
Dr. Hamilton's friends w ill regret
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away
Dr. Hamilton Leaves Payette.
to learn that he has decided to leave
Payette and locate ln Weiser,
has formed a partnership with
Waterhouse of that city and has al
ready taken up his office rooms with
Mrs. Ham
He
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that gentleman in Weiser,
ilton and the children will remain in
Payette until school closes this spring
after which they will take up their
residence with the Dr. in their new
location. Payette people in general
will regret to lose Dr. Hamilton. He
represents that class of citizen that
any city regrets to lose, progressive
and public spirited and one willing
to bear his burden of public improve
ment.
Wall Paper sale at A. W. Conover's
for lea days.
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HOBOES PLUNDER
Suit of Clothes and Overcoat Stolen
from Home of C. V. Mitchell on
the Bench During Absence of Fam
.
iiy
Last Saturday afternoon while Mr.
and Mrs. C. V. Mitchell living
the bench were over across the Snak
on
river on the Oregon side of the riv
er and there was no one about
their premises hoboes entered
house and ransacked the residence,
taking away with them a suit of
clothes and an overcoat. There is no
exact clue to the robbers other than
the
the neighbors saw two tough look
ing characters walking along the road
west of the Mitchell ranch carrying
a big bundle and it is believed that
these were the parties that burglar
ized the Mitchell home,
Just as they were leaving home Mr.
and Mrs. Mitchell met two very tough
looking men walking along the road
their appearance
were both strangers as they were! not
acquainted with them. The description
of the two men seen by the neigh
but at that time gave no thought to
other than they
bors carrying .the bundle tallies exact
Mrs.
ly with the two men Mr. and
Mitchell met when leaving I he home,
The officers of Ontario and Payette
were notified but up to this time the
clothing has not been found nor the
men apprehended.
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BRIDGE WILL BE
REPAIRED SOON AS POSSIBLE
There lias been considerable worry
expressed by a number of growers
this spring as to the condition of the
Payette Valley Railroad bridge. Many
of them have feared that it
not be repaired in time to permit of
would
the handling of the large amount of
supplies that will be handled on the
In speaking with
bench this year.
ac-TJeneral Manager Dunn about the con
dftnyu bridge he said: "Just
as soon as the jetv^oes out the bridge
aiidic! trafis.
.ape t?
-.y,
SfioHld ft not-W'MCMNWNMteSMf«'*
mupj-HvjrBl. be readyjpf ., iflgl.de ofl
two"',4ay* a after^th^ jptjft Obit!
ShouldW bflkS?
taken out bj the
moves, we are making arranUUW.U-j
in five or six days. I do not antic
ipate that there will be any difficulty
whatever in the handling of supplies
for the growers on the bench."
DEATH OF LEMUEL PRATT.
Payette residents were filled with
sorrow and surprise on Tuesday
morning of this week to learn of the
sudden death of Lemuel Pratt a well
known and respected resident of this
Mr. Pratt had been a sufferer
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for years from Bright's disease but
|U was not generally known that he
in a dangerous condit.on He
lia <l been subject to severe attacks
j but for the past feAV days had been
Monday
: feeling as well as usual.
N'venlng ho expressed no unusual con
1 d «i° a as to himself but was strick
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kïlïï,
into the
hearts of many by their true worth
! r ' n early Tuesday morning and pass
ed suddenly away. Other complica
tions other than the chronic ailment
hastened the failure of nature to
withstand the inroads of disease.
Lemuel Pratt was well known to a
and high standard of citizenship.
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1 «« " ■«»» •»" IK, -as , 1 ,"
, ... ar old During the war of the re
| ^"^ene/ wUh honor
distinction with the Fourteenth
On October 27th, 1865 he was uni
j ^ d ,j, marriage to Julia,' Ogg and to
born five children,
C. E. Pratt
that win their way
men
1843,
and
■Iowa Infantry.
j til!g un j on
; L B Pratt
^ jj ra j j Parka and Mrs« H.
were
all of whom are living.
and Mrs. Henry Beckwith, of Payette,
of Harmony, Minneso
O.
suc b a distance and the time of the
r-riv eil of- the trains so uncertain the
Adams, of Fredericksburg, Iowa.
In 1899 the family moved to North
a
Dakota where they resided But
short time, coming to Payette in 1900
where Mr. Pratt has since made his
hornet •
The funeral services will be Held
Sunday at the Brethren church but
as there are so many to come from
houB cannot be given at this time.
We do prompt and satisfactory
druying. Wash Hillmon.
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New Modern Up-to-Date Machinery
and Electric Power to be Install
ed—Outlook for Output Eceeding
ly Bright.
is optimistic and is preparing for the
coming season with unushal vigor is
ffm. P. Sherwood, proprietor of* the
Payette Brick Yards. Mr. Sherwood
is getting ready to start work in the
yards by April 10th and states that
One business man in Payette who
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Mrs/
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BRICK YARD OF WM. F. SHERWOOD.
CAPACITY OF 11,000 I1RICK PER I)AY.
ANNUAL MEETING
SI Ï. 18 . A.
Close of First Year's Work of the
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— Governor Hr.vly io Address Mec
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February'i7lh, inàrks the
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Institution to be Fittingly Observed
from
event in a fitting manner. Govern
or Brady will be in the city on this
date and in the evening will address
the men's meeting and .at this time
the reports of the chairmen- of the va
rious committees will be read.
Ladies' Auxilliary of the Y. M. C. A.
are making elaborate preparations tor
the banquet on Saturday evening
which will be under their supervis
The
which will be under their supervis
ion. It is expected that three hun
dred men will attend the meeting
Governor Brady will arrive in the
morning on the Pony and will be
' met by a committee of representative
business men. From two until four
there will be held a public reception
at the Y. M. C. A. for the Governor
and everyone is cordially Invited to
be present and meet liim.
Saturday evening.
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! Tbe membership is now two huu
dred and sixty -five . which is Just
seventy-five more than I. B. Rhodes
The first year of work of the Y.
M. C. A. in this community has been
as succcf/îiul as the most sanguine
' »ln in ,h. firm y„r,
tt u an a, ',,..» ton mill«
ested in this institution should come
out and hear the report of what has
been done during the past year and
; aid in tho laying of plans for. a more
1 successful year that tho institution
is just entering.
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i every arrangement for the comfort
had estimated the association would
The Ladies' Auxilliary is making
and pleasure of the guests to
men's meeting to be given Saturday
evening and the address of Govern
! or Brady who is an enthusiastic sup
the
i donated to build the Y. M. C. A. will
also be in Payette Saturday to attend
i the big annual meeting. Mr. Rhodes
porter of the Y. M. C. A. will be w'ell
worth the attention of any one inter
ested in this Institution that does so
much for the young men of a com
munity.
State Secretary I. B. Rhodes, of
Portland, who was in Payette during
. tbe campaign when the money
! was one of those who devoted every
particle of energy he possessed to! as
i sist in raising the money in Payette
never before since he has been en
gaged in the manufacture of brick
ha3 there been such a demand made
on his yard for brick as the present
outlook would indicate. One outside
contractor has already notified Mr.
Sherwood that he will use In the
neighborhood of a quarter of a mil
lion of brick and all along the line
comes word to him of orders com
ing up in the near future for his
brick.
To meet the growth of the busi
ness a new stiff mud mixer of the
most improved kind has bcc-u ordered
together with other improvements
such as the installation of electric
power to take the place of the pres
ent horse power will give to the yard
DEATH ENTERS HOME.
On Saturday, February 12th the
angel of death visited the Barker
home on the bench and called there
from the mother, Mrs. Jennie May
Barker, after a short illness of blood
poisoning. Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Bar
ker came to Payette last spring from
Oklahoma and purchased a placo on
the bench and the death of ihe wife
fecti«!stu.,. vore just. pr. paring af
<"r a year 01 y.
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Sd"» buiidjtt£' The funert l ooèum-d
rstiftl'-fi '«ifeuMk
' «n the' Ulr.fss -of rtev; Yf. t. Pc*
tors was pro! w - \. V.. r.
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the friends lui/t neighbors from tbe
bench attending testifying their ap
predation of this good wer. an who
while only a resident of thd;* commu
nity a short time had endeared her
self to many.
self to many.
Jonnio May Barker was born at
Plymouth, Illinois, May 10, 1876 and
was united in marriage to AUc-n Ed
ward Barker at Lacy, Oklahoma, on
January 20th, 1855. At the time of
her death she vas 33 years, 8 months
and 24 days of age. For sixteen
years she had been a faithful, eonscl
of the Christian
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entious m<
church as also the husband.
She leaves to moufn her untimely
call five manly little sons, her hus
band, a devoted father and three
sisters all of whom reside at a dis
tance.
NEXT NUMBER A GOOD ONE
ing February 26tli is
• of the Y. M. C. A.
that even
Satrrday e\
2 next nrm
entertainment corn
ing Laurent, tho man of i, any mys
! will be
one of tho best entertainments o£ tiie
entire cour.se and If you are planning
tories
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on going you had best watch clo
for the an
;ly
'.incemcnt that tha ro
are for sale. The press
ming tLis man are ex
ring and lie has an di
lation as a. magician.
served seats
notices conci
tremHy f!
viable rei
Watch for
and get there early.
date of reserving sc-atb
rs
Spraying and Pruning.
We are prepared to take or
ir g and pruning of orchards
and guarantee our work to be s:
factory. Have had many years of
tierience. Prices to suit. Phone or
dere- to Banks' Livery tarn. Both
phones.
for
lis
PHELAN & SMITH.
he In
and those havii
the institution at heart will be glad
to see him with them cn an occas o:i
of
s.s
of rejoicing at the success of the Tint
year's work.
the greatest capacity of any of its
kind in southern Idaho and places
the management in place to state tbs#
the next year will see the Payette
yard turning out more and better!
brick than ever before.
The new machinery which includes
a fifteen horse power motor will
be here and installed by April 10th
when active work will begin. When
in operation the Payette brick yard
gives steady employment to ten men
and runs about seven months In the
year. Mr. Sherwood has succeeded
in establishing for his yard an envi
able reputation for
brick and the improvements in
his building
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leant is made that its output may be
of the usual high standard.
To be Given Friday Night at Elite
Opera House Under Direction of
Mies Leonora E. Shaw-Two Pro
ductions—Belshazzar's Doom and
Valley Farm.
year it is on a larger scale than ever
com«
mu,..
'duoUAu Ofjmv o i r 1 ! •« u
hnd Intniddcijn^ ttp Gyiouial hantasy
! surprising grecé.a^jfj beauty
Friday evening February ISth oc
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RelSUazzar's, hast:
be, !, welshed in the balanoc and
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BESSSB|ffi|j^^^^^^Kwielr^o^^iy
Adoration of the King.
ating the Sacred Vessels.
The Modes and Persians Beyond
Pc
the Walls.
Loudly Laughs the King Assyrian.
The Handwriting on the Wall.
Bring the Hebrew Captive Hither,
Daniel Reads the Doom of Belshaz-:
Valiev Farm th annual play is a
I d- ma in fou, acts, abounding
h ;us situations, yet with a
e:. plot g rowi ng in I nteres t from
;ar.
Valley Farm.
start to finish.
Synopsis.
Act 1—Valley Farm. An Afternoon
in August. The Engagement.
Act ii—The Rutledge mansion, New
prk City, the following December.
nt has crept into Eden.
. Ime L before thret ,
Parted
.77 I-7 the farm again. ^
Tin . in tb next March. Tbe trl
■ ai )h of lot,
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Characters.
Harold Rutledge, a young New York
Ferrin
Perry Dean, a son of the soil
Harland.
er,
! .William Orautt
j David Hildreth, a New York law
.Robert
Holcomb, owner of Valley
.Tom Driscoll
Burns
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Farm ■ ■ •
j Azariah Keep, a clock tinker
I . Claude Polly,
! Jennings, a servant at Rutledge
Scott Brainard
Hetty Holcomb, a country flower
transplanted to city soil
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Cordia Giesler
Esther Mickelson
Wilsie Wilson
mansion
>el Carney, niece of David Hil
! dreth .
Mrs. Rutlege, Harold's mother
Leonora E. Shaw
Lizy Ann Tucker, who borrows but
Alvira Holcomb, sister of Silas
never gossips
Helen Driscoll
! Yerbena, a hired girl at the farm
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Committee of Business Men Arrange
to Handle Daily Telegraphic Frost
Report—Arrangements for Purchase
of Reliable Thermoneters for Alarm
Station also made.
ADRIGE TO HANDLE
DAILY SERVICE
There was an important meeting
of the public affairs committee
t j, e Commercial Club last Friday af
ternoon at which time E. F. Allen the
le , local weather man advised the club
that should the business men make
j preparations to handle a daily frost
I report from Portland the samd would
I be given us. All the government de
sired to know was that the report
j would be handled in such a manner
! tha thte growers would get it prompt
ly. The club designated M. F. Al
bert as chairman of the public affairs
committee the proper person to han
die the report and alsop sased a res
olutlon asking tha government for the
l<!iînÿ""3ërvice[ — Mr. Albert «ill receive
the telegraphic warnings daily from
Portland and on receipt of same will
; at once notify both telephone coinpa-,
nies of the message who in turn have
agreed ta at once notify all grow
era having 'phones of the exact con
The govern
dltions of the weather.
ment reports will reach Payette fully
eight hours ahead of any danger.
This will provide adequately for gen
eral conditions.
!y in local conditions a committee of
business men have been appointed to
! arrange for the purchase of two fine
thermometers exactly like those nee
by *ihe government at their weather
siations. Two locations will be se-.
lect d for these thermometers in Fay
btte and arrangements will be made
whereby every night during the dan
,g( r period they will be road hourly
and should the temperature show any
signs of going down to the danger
I point the alarm will be given in am
pie time to allow all the growers to
get their smudge pots going; in ample
time to provide all the protection
they will give.
A committee has also been appoint
ed to secure the names of all parties
: who will agree to get up at any hour
in the night and go out to any or
chardist needing help in the handling
of his smudge pots. Arrangements
will be made to provide for autos and
to carry ail workers down
^^^■norUi of town and for those* who may
help any
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has agreed to run a special train af,
.
any time.
The baslBcss^Ä"'« F V ct»c
to arrange ait the details
such shape that there frill be rto lack
grower who needs it.H
Mini' r of |m e|,|c have it 1-1
r- ; I" i up ' i, I • d a will
■in . "■ ■■■•• r in at any In mr to as 1
'!■ Ill ri, . a ', in;; of tin- crop ami no
are
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I ]iai'i :• u!ar v. .rk iiaa v.-t b.-.-n done
on ibis pari; of the work.
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Fruitland Bank Opens Monday.
Tho fixtures for the Fruitland State
,iank bavc arr *' t,d 8nd < ashler J.
SerltchfieW informs us that on Mon
? a ' 1 * < ' bn,ar - ls ' ,be bank will open
ils dcor,i for business. 1 bey expect
have a sort of infqrraal opening
and invite the ranchers and residents
! of Fruitland to call in and see the
arrangement of the new financial in
stitution that is to do business on the
The bank has expected to be
before
enc
able to open several weeks
but owing to the extraordinary delay
in tbe arrival of the fixtures has been
Enable to open. They are all
now bow< ' ver and by M ° nda y wlu b
* n blace, and on Monday, February
21st the Fruitland State Bank will be
here
i open for business.
of the Christian
Minister Peters,
burch has been quite ill for the
week and was unable to fill the pul
pit at his church last Sunday. He is
improving and expects to be able to
occupy his pulpit next Sunday as usu
al, both morning and evening.
.Io Ken ward
The two productions will be par
ticipated in by 100 of the young peo
ple and considerable pains have been
taken by Miss Shaw to have the per
formance put on In a creditable man
ner. It will be something that will
excel! all former efforts that the
schools have made in their annual
plays. General admission will be 25
and 35 cents. Reserved seats 50 and
75 cents. Tickets on sale at Stro
thre's jewelry store, urtain will go
up at 8:15.
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A Deligtful Spread—Musical Program
and Pleasing Toasts Make K. of P.
Annual Banquet Great 8uccess.
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The first annual banquet of Pay
ette Lodge No. 51 Knights of Pythias
will long be remembered by the mem
bers of the lod £ e and those friends
privileged to be there as one of the
most enjoyable affairs of the season.
The guests were bidden to assemble
at Odd Fellows hall at eight thirty
on Tuesday evening February 15th
and at that time the hall was crowd
ed by a good natured throng of
Knights, their wives and a few invi
ted friends. The first hour passed
P'easantly in getting acquainted and
some excellent musical numbers
by Falkenstein s orchestra. At nine
tb ' r * y C hancellor ( ommander of Pay
otte ^ ocl S e John A. Harader called
lbl Fnigths and guests to order and
an appropriate speech assured them
* bcdr hearty welcome at the first
annual banquet of the lodge. A. R.
* n Salls, ol New Plymouth, responded
*° ,be address of welcome after
wblcb Che tables were spread and
for tbe ncxt hour a11 were engaged
in the satisfying pastime of partak
Ing of a delightful spread.
After a complete enjoyment of the
r T. .1. Brown call
ed upon Hon. B. P. Shawhan as a
Knight of over a quarter of a centu
ry for a word of greeting and an ex
pression on Pythianism. Mr. Shaw
ban e *P re ssed emphatically his pleas
ure at being present and his appreci
atlon of the fact that trom the nun *
bers present Payette Lodge No. 51
.was experiencing a satisfactory
growth. His talk was replete with
many good thin S 9 about Pythianism
and tbe great good to come from the
iaculca ting of the principles of the
order t0 its membership.
Following Mr. Shawhan Rev. Geo.
1 ' 1 urner who being but recently ln
itiated into the mysteries of Knight
bood ' was called upon to tell
about
'When a Preacher Rides the Goat"
entertained the guests in a most hap
py manner and the results of
toast was to leave those uninitiated
neophites present with a fearful im
pression as to the characteristics of
the K. of P. goat.
Rev. P. Monroe Smock, of New
his
''lyimnith^v^th^ex^tnigh^alb
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ism, Its foundsti
aims and the laH
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was dolus for ml
alluded to the robe
Sisterhood and the K. of P. lodge
and during his remarks held the clos
est attention of his hearers.
Rev. C. L. Chalfant, of Boise, being
present as a guest was called upon
a
of the order he had appreciated to
the fullest extent the pleasure fo the
evening. He enlfertained the gather
ing a most happy manner by sev
era] amU8ing stories.
A(( a late bour chancellor Conunan
der John Harader bade the gue8 ts
KOodn j g ht and one of the pleasant
,, st g^jjj affairs of the season was
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brought to a happy termination.
People Attend Demonstration
The rooms of the Payette Nation
al Bank were crowded most of the af
ternoon last Saturday by people in
lerested in the demonstration of the
| new burglar alarm recently install^
by tbe bank. C. K. VanAuken, sale»
. .. .
a,ar " was chaI *® °* °* e . de "T'
stration and thoroughly explained the
workings of the alarm to the crowd.
I lie proved absolutely that it was im
man for the company handling the
possible to attack the vault from
doors, walls, ceiling or floor without
past..setting off the alarm which will ring
continuously for from six to twelve
hours. One feature of the alarm that
! caused considerable surprise w-as the
proven fact that the cutting of any
of the wires sets off the alarm and
lias the same effect that any other
attack on the vault has. The gentle
man made the statement that banks
equipped with the safety burglar a
larrn could get their burglar insur
ance for $2 per thousand and dump
the money on the floor of the vault.
He cited an instance of a bank In
, North Dakota that had been paying
$12 per thousand Insurance and on
the installation of an alarm of this
pattern were allowed a rate of $1.50
per thousand.
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Wanted.—To rent a good
Address box 16 Payette, Idaho.
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