This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Jacobson, Alexander, Withycombe Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5d.2ADI/3448 Message Board Post: Fruitland Banner Fruitland, Idaho Friday, July 16, 1915 MANY VIEW LIBERTY BELL AT PAYETTE Train Makes 5-Minute Stop and More Than 3000 People See Relic A crowd estimated at more than 3000 gathered at the depot in Payette last Monday morning to greet the Liberty bell special. Payette was one of the lucky towns at which the special stopped and a big number from Fruitland, Ontario and other nearby sections, were on hand to view the historical old relic on its first trip and what may be its last trip, through the west. The time was too short for a program to be arranged on the part of the Payette people, but Irma Jacobson climbed on the car and in a very spectacular manner knelt and kissed the bell. Many of the Ontario people who had motored down went on to Weiser where the stop was long enough for quite an elaborate program to be given. Governor Alexander was on the special accompanying the party until they reached Huntington where he was relieved by Governor Withycombe, of Oregon.