Payette County ID Archives News.....Local and Personal August 12, 1893
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Payette Independent August 12, 1893
Payette Independent
Payette, Idaho
August 12, 1893

Local and Personal.

John O. Little has been having a very troublesome time with one of his hands 
for the past week or ten days.  The hand is badly swollen, at times very 
painful and is pronounced erysipelas.

Mrs. R. Wackerhagen and mother Mrs. Snell, have come from Baker City, Oregon, 
to make their home in Payette.  Mr. Wackerhagen has fitted up rooms for 
residence purposes in the second story of his new building on Broad street.  

Some fellow at Lewiston claims to have caught a 300 pound sturgeon, 10 feet 
long, and Tim Driscoll and R. Bolon are determined to beat it if they have to 
drag Snake river from Payette to Huntington.  The INDEPENDENT has promised to 
help the boys out on the home-stretch.

J. S. Thurston & Co., are putting up a one-story frame building on the corner 
of Broad and Main streets, to be occupied when completed, by their drug store.  
Mr. Coughanour will move the postoffice into the building occupied by them at 
present.  

Mr. Rudolph Bolon is expecting a party of gentleman in a few days from Beloit, 
Kansas.  He says they have become interested in the Payette Valley from reading 
THE INDEPENDENT and now they propose to make a personal investigation of its 
resources.  This is what we like to hear, because if there is a country under 
the sun that ought to make a favorable impression on those men who have 
witnessed failure after failure of the farmer’s efforts, by reason of lack of 
rain when water is most needed, it is certainly the irrigated regions of Idaho, 
where all kinds of crops are absolutely certain to reward the labors expended 
on them.

A frightful runaway occurred over at Washoe on Wednesday morning.  The team of 
Mr. Ross, the civil engineer, became frightened as he was closing a gate at Mr. 
Tharp’s place and ran in by way of Mr. Rossi’s residence where they collided 
with a horse and buggy belonging to Mr. McGlinchey, smashing both vehicles into 
smithereens.  Misses Bird and Addie Rossi had but a few moments before the 
accident occurred, gotten out of the buggy and were sitting on the porch a few 
feet away.

Mr. J. W. Ballinger, of West Union, Fayette county, Iowa, arrived in Payette 
one day last week, on a visit to his brother Jason Ballinger of this city.  
Jason was rusticating in Long Valley at the time and did not return to town 
until Tuesday when the brothers met after a seperation of 14 years. It is 
unnecessary to add that the meeting was a pleasurable occasion and that the 
gentlemen are improving ever hour in talking over events of their boyhood 
days.  Jason killed a black bear, a nice fat two-year-old, a few days before 
staring home and brought in some of the meat and hide to convince his friends 
that he was not joking when he told them he was “going to the mountains loaded 
for bear.”


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