Adams County Makes the News - Council Leader #2

The Council Leader
Ivan M. Durrell, Editor and Publisher
COUNCIL VALLEY FIRST, THE WORLD AFTERWARDS Council, Washington County, Idaho

March 18, 1910
PROGRAM FOR THE HIGH SCHOOL LITERARY SOCIETY AND DEBATING CLUB












April 4, 1910
EXCURSION AND BASKET PICNIC
A basket picnic will be held at Starkey Hot Springs and at Evergreen on Sunday, June 26, and special railway rates to Starkey and Evergreen will be given.

September 17, 1909
DANCE FRIDAY EVENING
There will be a dance at the opera house next Friday evening, September 24. It is getting to be cool weather now, so you can attend a dance and have the time of your life. First class music has been arranged and a genuine fine time is assured to everyone.

March 18, 1910
THAT SUNDAY REST LAW
That freak piece of legislation known as the Sunday Rest Law will undoubtedly come in for a considerable share of the attention of candidates for election to the next legislature. The following in this connection is from the Mountain Home Maverick:
“Any law that allows a man to guzzle soda and lemonade at a paid stand while denying him the privilege of buying lemons, taking them home and enjoying a refreshing beverage in the bosom of his family is a disgrace to the intelligence of the voters of any state.”
September 17, 1909

OBLIGING FRIENDS
The ladies of Council are to be congratulated on their willingness to help their neighbors in times of sickness. We have never lived in a town where the ladies were so generous in sharing their time with their neighbors. During the recent illness of our infant, we have been assisted very liberally and wish to thank our kind neighbors for their kind attitude shown us. Our baby is improving slowly, and if nothing more interferes he will soon be able to endure the hardships of this world.

Editor and wife.

November 13, 1908

The Leader will take produce in payment for subscription.

January 9, 1908

The Leader will take wood in payment for subscription.


March 18, 1910

DEAR SIR:

You will recall that some time ago, D. E. Burley, general passenger agent of the Oregon Short Line Railroad, offered a premium of $500 for the best production of potatoes on any one acre of ground in the local territory of the railroad. I wrote Mr. Burley in the hope that he would permit districts tributary to the Pacific & Idaho Northern Railway to participate in the contest.

The contest as it now stands will include the entire territories of the P. & I. N., the Idaho Northern, the Payette Valley, and the Idaho Southern Railways. The prize of $725 for the cultivation of one acre in potatoes is well worth competing for.

There is, in my judgment, no reason why one of the districts on the P. & I. N. Railway should not land the capital prize.

Yours truly,
E. M. Heigho, President

August 26, 1910
WHERE DID YOU GET IT?

The Weiser Signal, in a long and windy article, states that Weiser has plenty of water while her neighbors are suffering for the want of this fluid which is most essential to vegetable life. You’re right, you have water—but, you coward, you didn’t say where you got the water nor how you got it. Council valley is a tributary valley to Weiser and if it wasn’t for the overwhelming supply of water in Council valley, you fellows in Weiser wouldn’t have plenty of water. The water you have was paid for in cold cash and comes from the reservoir in Lost Valley, a tributary to Council valley, and was stored there by the Weiser Valley Land & Water Company. This water you are getting flows through the entire length of Council valley.

When you wish to tell your friends that vicinities tributary to Weiser are suffering for lack of water, please point your arrow in another direction-- for Council valley is a neighbor to Weiser and we have plenty of water, isn’t it true?