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Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1907-01-24
HOW WOULD YOU LIKE
TO BE LIVING THERE
Read the Following and Then Pat Yourself
on the Back: We Have Some
Advantages.

we want thm to haul out our grain
and stock when we can get the
highest prices for it, we want them
to haul in our coal ordered months
before winter and we want them to
haul home oui wives and school
ma ANS when they go down east to
get a square meal with the old
folks on Chr istmas and not keep
them on shabby day coach for a
week or more, and let them hustle
their own grub in 20 below zero
weather at a collar and elbow re-
freshment resort on a side track
in the snowy wilderness and pay
out all their money to feed their
faces, while awaiting the spring
thaw to clear up the right of
way.
The railroads are run for the BEN
eft of the bond-holders and stock
holders. They should De run for
the benefit OF the people and there
is only one way ITO get them to do
it. That way is through govern
ment ownership. After we run out
of coal and flour and side meat and
smoking tobacco and the elevators
stay filled for a year or two longer
and no cars and no new CuSS words
to explain our feelings, well, you
too may begin to see where govern
ment ownership might help some.
When we get government owner
ship of the railroads, Bill Jones
and Bob Smith and Hank Brown
and any of US can telephone the
cong ress or senator and tell him to
open up the railroad or we will
swat him plenty next election day,
and 10, there will be snow plows
and dago snow shovelers beyond
enumeration and we won't miss E
mail train; no matter how deer
the snow iS-but who of us ter
spots are holding peremptory COM
munication with the railway super
intendents, demanding that oul
mail, our coal and our wives anC
school ma ans be brought home
Not a darned one has opened hi:
meek and measly mouth but tht
whole capoodle sit around like /;
lot of hired men and mutter in thei
mustaches and read last years al
; manac and wonder if the railroad
, will kindly allow us to sell ou
/ wheat some time next year and pa
our last years debts before tn
) bankruptcy court gets us.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1907-01-24
DEATH OF W. V. ntlFRICH
AT MACkAY. IDAHO

The family of w. V. Helfrich,
residing at 418 Idaho street, re-
ceived the sad intelligence yesterday
morning of the death of Mr.. Hell
frich at Macl<ay. The telegram an
nouncing his death stated that he
died of pneumonia and that he had
been sick about week Ed Hell
frich of Mountain Home, brother
OF the deceased, started for Mackay
at once to bring the body to Boise.
He is expected to arrive here Friday
morning.
w. v. Helfrich had been a resi-
dent of Boise for the past ten
years. He was a bookkeeeper and
accountant by profession and has
held various positions. For two
years he was bookkcepcr for Leo
Speigle. He was two years at
Weiser as bookkecper for the con-
tractors on the p. & /. N. railroad
During the administration OF Gov
ernor Steunenberg he served as
assistant secretary OF the state
senate and during the administra-
lion of Governor Hunt he served as
I secretary of the senate.
Al the tins OF his death he was
in the employ of the Machette lease
at Mackay, as bcokkeeper. Mr..
Helfrich was member of the Mod.
ern Woodmen and also of the Wood.
men of the Wcrld, carrying $1,000
policy in each of those orders. He
was also member of the Catholic
church. He was so years of age
/ at the time of his death. He leaves
a wife and three children, two
daughters and a son. Two brothers,
one of whom is the well-known
Mountain Home merchant, and
three sisters also survive him.
No arrangements will be made
for the funeral until after the
arrival of the body Friday. -
Statesman.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1907-01-24
MAVERICK IS NOW
THE OFFICIAL PAPER
Of EImore County: Advertising Contract
Let to the Lowest Bidder Late
Monday Afternoon.

sumo the responsibility at $3.50
per year, or $500 for the term,
but unfortunately neglected to so
specify, and as we did not dis
cover the error until all the bids
had been opened and read and ours
had been accepted, we could only
swallow our chagrin and let it go
at that. Our loss is the taxpayers
gain. N. Linton and E. ]. COL
thorpe kindly signed as sureties on
the required bond.
The balance of the printing, such
as letter heads, envelopes, blanks,
books, ETC., has been left to the dis
crction of the auditor, who is also
the purchasing agent for the
county for three months, and if at
the end of that time the board is not
satisfied with such an arrangement,
bids for the work will be called for.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1907-01-24

The South Idaho Herald has been
making the welkin ring with its
vocifcrous demands that the county
printing be given to the lowest bid
er, and the Maverick does now most
sincerely hope that its esteemed
contemporary is satisfied with the
result.
Through a slight misconstruction
of the wording of the contract of
fered by the county commissioners,
the newspaper printing required by
law for the the ensuing two years
will cost the taxpayers of the coun-
ty only $50. The Republican Of
fcrcd to do the work for 5000, the
Herald asked $500, and the Nav
erick was willing, in order to gain
the prestige which is generally
conceded the official paper. to as
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1907-01-24

1t is reliably learned that at least
ten families will leave Tarkio, this
spring, to seek their homes and
fortunes in the Northwest.
Along the Snake river valley
near Mountain Home, Idaho, is To-
Gated this future Arcadia, where
our fellow townspcople will go IN
the hope of finding more pros
porous field for their labors, and
where they expect to lead some
what more enjoyable life.
The valley where these homes
have been purchased, is composed
entirely of undeveloped land owned
by the government, of whom the
land has been purchased. The
land is adaptable for mixed farming
and is especially good for sugar beet
raising. The land is obtainahle at
a small cost; the water rights being
the chief expenses in this modern
Arcadia. From descriptions it is
hard to imagine any spot being
more favored in the matter of nat
ural reservoirs IN the adjacent
mountains, than exists at this
place.
George A. Mcpherson has been
the chief factor in this northwest
land deal, and that he has sue
ceeded in convincing some of our
best citizens and farmers of the ad-,
vantages awaiting them out west
says much for him as land agent.
There will be about eight cars
loaded at this place March lst. The
following with a few more who
will go later on, constitute the
party to leave Tarkio: ]. F.
Schoenecke, Luther Price, Perry
Continued on page five.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1907-01-24
$50 I'm GOLD AS PRIZES
$$I55
~ III
For Best Kept Residence Property.

In order to create a spirit of COM
mendable pride and friendly and
helpful competition, the Maverick
has decided to offer $50 in gold
to those citizens of Mountain
Home and vicinity whose homes
present the cleanest and neatest
appearance during the year 1907.
One hundred dollars will be di-
vided as follows:
For those having residences, but
no lawns, flowers or shrubbery,
the first prize will be $40; the sec
ond, $50; the third, $40; the
fourth, $40. All prizes to be paid
in gold at Maverick office July 20,
1907.
The following ladies will be ask
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1907-01-24
EXCITING EXPERIENCES OF
TWO NORTH DAK0TANS

Alfred and Charles Dinnetz of
New Rockford, North Dakota, who
arrived here Tuesday night and are
looking the country over with
view of locating, had several exper-
fences on their journey which they
will not soon forget. There being
no train out of Rockford they left
that place week ago last Sunday
with a team to drive to Darlington,
where they hoped to catch train
on the $500 line. They had to
drive along the railway right Of
way, and when near the latter place
in a narrow cut they encountered a
rotary snow plow and had barely
time to climb the snow banks on
either side of the track when the
plow, which, owing to the pres
sure of several engines behind it
was unable to stop its forward pro-
grcss, could only cease its rotary
motion and tossed the team and
sleigh over the adjacent snowscape.
The sleigh was reduced to kindline
wood but two grips belonging to the
luckless travellers escaped unscath-
ed. In some miraculous manner
one Of the horses was not even
scratched and the other suffered
only a slight injury to one of his
hind legs. On their way from Car.
rington to Minneapolis the trair
was frequently stuck in the solidly
packed drifts and the sleeper of the
train destroyed by fire. The ride
from Rockford to Minneapolis,
distance of some 500 miles, occu
pied four days. Arriving at tn,
latter city they thought surely thei
troubles were at an end, but fat,
had decreed otherwise. While rid
ing out of Salt Lake City on tn
Rio Grande railroad, the train
with the exception of the engin
and baggage car, left the track am
once more they narrowly escape
death. They finally arrived her
safe and sound, after having bee
nine days on the road-not SO yer
speedy for this fast age.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1907-01-24

size or architecture of your home
will not be taken into consideration.
An adobe house neatly kept and
pleasantly surrounded will be judged
as impartially as its more preten-
tious neighbors. 1t will make no
difference whether your premises
are fenced or not. Lawns, trees
and flowers are what will count.
The fact that your trees have only
just been set out will be a point in
your favor.
All those desiring to compete
are requested to give their name
and the location of their home
prior to March IS, 1907. A book
containing the names and location
of all contestants will be open for
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1907-01-24
irrigation Expert Here.

D. H. Anderson of Chicago, ed
itor of the Irriagtion Age, secretary
of the National Irriagtion Congress
and acknowledged to be the most
expert authority on irrigation, is in
the west looking over the various
projects now under way as part of
his duties as secretary and Incl
dentally securing material for his
paper. He was heie Monday and
Tuesday and in company with
Mcssrs. Woodford and Cheney went
over the Grand View ditch PROPOSE
tion. He kindly promised to put
the Maverick on his exchange list,
and also to forward a copy of his
Irrigation Primer
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1907-01-24
MUSICAL tNTERTINMENI
AN ARTISTIC AFFAIR

The Rogers-Grilley literary and
musical entertainment at the opera
house last night was all that had
been claimed for it, and a large
audience thoroughly appreciated the
various numbers of the program, as
evinced by the spontaneous and
hearty applause which greeted the
efforts of the artists. Mr.. Rogers
harp selections revealed the
beauties and capabilities of the in
strumcnt to the fullest extent, his
performance being characterized by
dclicacy of touch, trucncss of in
tonation and thorough mastery of
technical difficulties. Mr.. Grilley
is a talented mimic. His portrayal
of the character of old Corporal
Brewster was better than any we
have ever seen before, and the
beautifully pathetic Italian dialect
story brought out to the fullest cx-
tent the mobility of his features,
the range and quality of his voice
and the strength and versatility oi
his acting talent. In his humorous
selections he was also very good
and the original songs rendered by
both were of a rather higher order
than is usually found in that clas:
of compositions. Together Messrs
Rogers and Grilley furnish an en-
tertainment at once elevating, ed
ucating and instructive.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1907-01-24

inspection at all times at this
office.
An additional prize of $50 will
be paid for the best kept lawn in
Mountain Home or vicinity. This
applies to homes already improved
only.
The judges in this contest will
be w. ]. Turner, E. c. Helfrich,
w. T. Montgomery and John Cald-
we'll.
No notices from contestants for
this prize will be necessary, but
otherwise the rules governing the
500 prize will apply. The names
of contestants and news matter con-
cerning the contest will be publish
ed from time to time.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1907-01-24

Rave you ever stopped to consid-
or, Mr.. Business Man, Property
Owner and Taxpayer Generally,
that the only things that stand be-
tween the safety of your combustiblc
property and total destruction by
fire, is small chemical engine and
handful of men who work for
nothing'
Nearly all small towns are but
vcritable fire traps, constructed
mainly of lumber which through
constant exposure to the ravages
of the elements has become almost
as combustible as dry powder
Valuable stocks of machinery and
merchandise are entrusted to those
inflamsblc structures with reck-
lessness that is as amazing as it is
common. And when, some dark
and windy night the dread cry of
fire rings out upon the air and
smoke and flames are seen rolling
from the top of some business house
in the center of the town, few
poorly drilled and as poorly equip
ped men run out an ancient hand
engine, and with its aid and a
few buckets of water expect to sue
cessfully combat fifteen or twenty
thousand dollar conflagration. 1t is
remarkable fact that communities
which in other matters display a
commendable spirit of public enter
prise, will let the subject of fire
protection which is really of the
most vital Importance become rus
ty and muss-grown for the lack OF
agitation. Until iron, brick anc
concrete are more freely used ii
the construction of buildings, and {
lively and sincere interest is created
and maintained iii the DIRECTION oi
securing adequate water works anc
modern, up to date fire fighting ap
paratus, the wholesale destruction
of village business and residence
property will continue to be of com
mon occurrence and fail to excit,
any but passing comment. If ther,
is anything which a present-day
community can afford to 60 init
debt for, it is system of water
works which shall insure ampl,
protection from fire and sanitar,
sewerage. The editor of the Nav
erick, while comparative strangci
and desiring in no way to assume ;
} dictatorship in matters with which
long residents here are thorough,
, familiar, would most earnestly ant
: respectfully urge upon the people o
S Mountain Home the necessity o
5 early and liberal action in this mat
y ter. Common sense and prudcnc
0 demand it. Get together Look tn
situation squarely in the face, no
: as the moss-grown dwellers of
n town that has seen it's best day
and is waiting for the undertake.
b to perform the last sad ceremony
, but as the vigorous and progress
: sive citizens of community tina
o has before it long and prosperou
c career, in the possibilities of whic
t they have unbounded confidence an
t in the upbuilding of which the
!, take constant and personal pride
. leaving to the antediluvian croske
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1907-01-24

ed to act on this commi tee:
Mrs. L. T. Wilcox, Mrs. John
Pence, Mrs. John Wilkins, Mrs.
w. c. Howie, Mrs. ]. H. Garrett,
Mrs. F. B. Daniels and Mrs. w.
J. Truner.
In awarding the prizes points
will be taken into consideration as
follows:
First-Lawn.
Second-Genera1 exterior condi-
tion and appearance of house.
Third-Trees, shrubbery and
flowers.
Fourth-Fence, sidewalks and
general appearance and conditions
of entire premises.
Everybody can compete. The
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1907-01-24
Commissioners Still Working.

At the time of going to press
the county commissioners were
still in session. A vast amour of
business has been finished up ar
things moved along smoothly and
rapidly until the matter of ap-
pointing county physician was
arrived at, when a deadlock cnsued
which is not broken at the present
writing.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1907-01-24
BETTER FIRE PROTECTION
MOST URGENTLY NEEDED
A Matter of Vital Importance to Propert,
Owners and Citizens Generally:
Agitation Necessary.

who can see. in the success of his
fellow man only ruin for himself,
the delightful task of retarding by
every means at his command the
onward and irresistible march OF
municipal progress and enlighten-
mcnt
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1907-01-24

Have you commenced to think
about what you are going to wear
at the masquerade ball to be given
by the Merry Makers social club
early in February?
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1907-01-24

We are quite willing to be rob-
bed by high freight rates-rates at
least three times higher than they
would be under government owner
ship; we are quite willing to be
treated like scrubs and let the rail-
roads run our politics and boss our
country-we are quite willing to
let the railroads lie out of paying
their honest share of the taxes, but
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1907-01-24

We have been told it hurts the
town to talk this way; we've been
told ic hurts North Dakota if Iowa
and Wisconsin people hear about
the absent minded way the rail-
roads are treating US and letting us
keep warm on our feelings and flax
straw, and refusing to haul our
grain out. We don't care polite
damn whether it hurts Litchville
and North Dakota or not.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1907-04-06

m.stake there. They can appreciate
beauty as well as the next one but
they want that beauty to be OF an
order that appeals to their com
fort. OF what good are cushions SO
embroidered that no
head can rest on them? What
sense is there in easy chairs Of such
rich material that they are quite
the reverse Of the name given them?
Is there any satisfaction in room
the furnishings of which cost hun
dreds Of dollars, when it is only OPP
en- ut rare intervals, when the own
er. perhaps, sits by the kitchen fire
or in some dingy sitting-room, where
he can put his feet on the fender
II be wants TO, can smoke, and as
a great indulgence, tilt back his
chair?
Let the sun shine into the gloomy
Icoms, have q couch to lie on, a
piano to play on, in fact, a home
to live IN, one wherein a sense
OF hospitality and good cheer ex-
1des from the very tables and
chairs, insteaI OF a mausoleum Of
gloomy elegance, wherein everything
is for show and nothing to be
used
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1907-04-06
cADnUs.

There will be church here me
third Sunday at two o'clock by Rev.
Cassidy.
Jim Compton was a business Wis
itor here Saturday.
Miss Madge Rice and Mrs. Doya
Chadwick we're shopping in Falls
bur; Friday.
Floyd Neal. who was making cross
lies for II. b. Hewlett. has his
Job almost completed.
Misses Maggie Newyom. Waldo Hew
lett and Rosa Ekers were in our
town Saturday.
Ben Haws and Jim Compton at
ieadee church at Morgan Sunday.
Charlie Roberts. who has been siel
for some time is able to be out.
J. b. Rife will move to Louisa soon
Were ne has position with IN,
Telephone Co.
Miss Lille Chambers, OF Seedtick
was here Friday
Miss Mary Browning was visiting
Mn. Kitchen Sunday.
leople We're very much surprised
'ast Sunday by ]. W. Elkins and
Nrs. Mamie Webb. who We're Marie,
by Rev. Cassidy. near Fallsburg.
Land Short will move TO Greenul
Comfy soon.
Several OF our boys went fishinl
Saturday night and caught The larg
est fish that was caught in Cast 70
many years.
Hiss Lille Chambers. who has beei
ag Mrs. J. b. Rife. has return
ed to her home ON Seedtck
Sheriff CLAYTON, OF Louisa, wa
in our neighborhood Thursday.
Two Chums,
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1907-04-06
ROVE GREEK.


sunday School was organized at
ltchanan Chaple Sunday.
"A William Tramel's family, who
have been sick with measles. are slow
N Improving.
Miss Nellie Gillian and Fred Massey
MO were married the Is have re-
\ turned from their honeymoon.
Day Lambert, who has been work
ne 1t Portsmouth returned home viii
NJ toe cut of.
Viii Boeock. Kinner Harmon and
MiiIprd Byingion made a trip to Rove
Creek Sunday.
Born. to MrB. Ida Churuh.a girl.
Grover vanhorn is repairing his
I,uhe.
Giant Powers was at A. J. Bur-
I0n's Sunday.
~ Mr.. Obey Cole and little son.
uAo have been visiting here. re-
l1rned home last week.
Easter Burton. who has been very
low win whooplng cough. is able
g. Ne out
Several OF the young people OF
Rove Greek called ON A. J. Burton
Saturday night
Brn Rose Belcher.who has been
nick. IL some better.
Hnrye curnutt moved into Happy
Hollow today.
bliss Dizzy Raney is staying with
Drunk vanhorn.
Noah Hensley. who was shot few
~. Il dead.
4 Will Burion. VINO Is at Pennsylvania
HAD the misfortune to get his arm
broken.
Misses Lizzie and clae Burton Wis
Mel ElsIe vanhorn Wednesday.
Bruce Atkins. who has been attend
mn school n Louisa. spent Sun
!. Cav with homefolks.
Nm. LiEEle Chafiin. who has beer
n,ck for some time. IL no better.
Lunnie Stewart and children arr
visiting her sister. Mrs Joe Kelley
Clara Burton and Elsie vanhorD
ars going 10 lockwood soon.
Aldon Bryant and Bess Stump viii
!. ~ married on April is.
va wooten was on our Creel
k,s week.
hAnce Queen has gone 10 Nine Mll'
% work In the timber business
Hud Lambert purchased a fine hors'
from WIZ Cavern.
Fannie burton visited her grandmoi
n sunday. Early Bird
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1907-04-06
NOLAN. W. VA.
Sunday School is progressing mic,

Sunday School is progressing nice
Y.
nfa +. ]. RIDLEY. who has been 81
forc some time. Is slowly improving.
Sins. John Dusklns Is very sick with
peuies.
J.E. Jones, the supt. of Hatfield,
MAS visiting at Lys webe's Sunday.
hiss Letta Gunnell entertained a
lew Of her friends Sunday eve.
\ Mehsrs. Joe Divers and r, d.
Poster, OF Borderlani, were bushes
callers at Nolan Sunday.
Hiss Nora Young was the uesi
Of Miss Dixie Hatfield last week
Mrs. Hugh Jones was visiting Mrs
Mamie Clay and daughters Saturday
Miss Relda Aregabright left for
Bluefield Mtaday on No. l6
John carthel. OF Williamson, was
married TO an Ashland girl last week
= Several girls and boys visited Grow
or Murphey the other night.
Geo. Murphey left for chicago last
Sunday. Also. Ebert Thompson fol
Cincinnati.
Spoon.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1907-04-06
RucKER. W. VA.

Death visited the home OF Mr.. and
Mrs Il. Z. snellenberry and took
fiom them their little daughter. Err
NIT. who was only Is months old.
Ths little one had been I'll for
some time with pneumonia They
did every effort possible 20 keep
their little one. but God. who CIV
eth, had need OF her and call
her To the world where there is no
sick' ess nor parting. Little Erma
WIS loved by all who knew her, We
al. have sympathy for the parents.
J. f. Jones left en- route for
Whitehouse, Monday.
Misc Bessie Duncan left for Davy
Sunday.
Mrs. Belle Webb and daughter, Miss
Nina, OF this place were visiting at
Lys Webb's. at Nolan. last week
fred Webb has taken contract
at this place and wanting men bad.
Rrs AIDE Compton is very busy
keeping boarders.
Messrs. ]. E. Williams. and Joe
Bnl. OF Williamson. passed through
h.re Sunday EN- route for Nolan.
Miss Letta A. Gunnell. OF Nolan,
was shopping in Hatfield last week
Ms Good. of War Eagle, has
returned home from visit TO her
brother. f. L. snellenberger.
c. c. New has moved here from
Fort Gay.
Emerson stratton and brother
Charlie. returned from Louisa last
week. Black Eyes.