Payette County ID Archives News.....New Plymouth Local September 2, 1904 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/id/idfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Cheryl Hanson ihansonb@fmtc.com February 16, 2006, 5:00 pm New Plymouth Outlook September 2, 1904 New Plymouth Outlook New Plymouth, Idaho Friday, September 2, 1904 Local News Henry Hanigan brought in a sunflower from his ranch this week 14 feet long and 4 inches in diameter. The flower was 14 inches in diameter. Mrs. J. W. Lynch and son, Irl, returned Wednesday from their extended Nebraska trop. Mrs. Lynch reports a very pleasant trip but is glad to get back home. We received from the Santa Rosa farm at Pleasant View this week an apple measuring sixteen inches around and weighing 28 ounces. This apple is the same size as the largest apple exhibited at the world's fair in '93. Mr. T. D. Landon, of Laurens, Iowa, visited the Bean boys the first of the week. Mr. Landon was very favorably impressed with the country and its people, and expect to return and make his future home here. We will bring several others with him. Misses Katie Meyer and Winnie Hill are preparing a "Milk Maid's Convention" as our next opera house attraction, under the auspices of the Royal Neighbors. Twenty girls and four boys will take part and the date of the performance will be made known in next week's paper. Rev. A. K. Wright, of Boise, candidate for congress on the prohibition ticket, will speak at the town hall in New Plymouth on Wednesday evening, September 7th. Mr. Wright will speak under the auspices of the local W. C. T. U. He is a bright, snappy speaker, and a big audience should greet his coming. F. M. Gould and George Stewart arrived last Tuesday from Burke, Idaho. Mr. Gould recently bought an eighty just east of Mr. A. Phillips', but will rent the Roesch place lately purchased by Geo. Keefe of Burke this winter. His family will join him in about a month. Mr. Stewart bought an eighty just across the road from A. L. Rhoade's. Miss Pearl Wachter was the victim of a surprise party given Monday evening by her sister, Laura, in honor of the former's fifteenth birthday. Flinch and Pit were the games indulged in. Those present were: Katie, Ann, Ella and Ernest Meyer; Marie, Florence, Clara and Arnold Ackerman; Miss Chadwick, Mr. James Creasey, and Laura and Will Wachter. The Capitol-News, of Boise, gives the following: "J. M. Shaw, of New Plymouth, is in Boise for a few days. He stated this morning that the New Plymouth section is enjoying a bumber crop of fine fruit, the peaches being extra nice and very plentiful. Mr. Shaw was a pioneer in that part of Canyon county and has seen hundreds of acres of sage brush converted into farms that no part of the rain belt anywhere can surpass." It is regretted that the efforts to establish a high school this year have not met with success. The ninth grade, or first year's high school work, will by special arrangement be taught in our school, thus accommodating most of the students who would care to enter the high school this year. As there seems to be such an urgent demand for the boys and girls to help pack fruit, the board has postponed the school opening to the third Monday in September -- the 19th. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/id/payette/newspapers/newplymo160nnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/idfiles/ File size: 3.6 Kb