Payette County ID Archives News.....Monument Ready for Unveiling April 26, 1923
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Payette Enterprise, Payette, Idaho, April 26, 1923 April 26, 1923
Monument Ready for Unveiling

The Memorial Doughboy arrived Thursday morning, some little time before the 
date planned. It was brought over from Boise by Jellison Brothers arriving here 
at 7 a.m., and was immediately put in place on the monument already prepared at 
the intersection of Eighth street and Center Avenue. The beautiful figure was 
seen by a few who were on the street at that hour of the day, but immediately 
covered and will not be uncovered until Memorial Day when the unveiling 
ceremony will take place, however, like the many thousand real doughboy’s he is 
to represent and seemingly with the same determination to advance against all 
odds; his right arm raised to its full length with grenade in hand is jammed 
through the gap in the covering.
On Memorial Day it is planned to have many visitors from outside, including 
Governor C.C. Moore, Adjutant General, and other prominent men and legion 
members from all the cities from Weiser to Boise, present to take part in the 
celebration.

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