Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1907-02-21

Carolina.
o. E. Penwell has secured the
John Pence blacksmith shop former
ly occupied by George Wilson, ard
is hard at work making his first
sagebrush cutter according to plans
and specifications lust finished. 1t
looks good, and if it proves the sue
cess he expects, Mr. Penwell will
be kept busy building the machines
for some time.
= The combined weight of Sheriff
.WinkIer of Washington coutny, his
chief deputy, Willougby Adams,
Chief Brizendine of the City of
Weiser and his night Waterman,
John Nevins, is nine hundred and
twenty pounds. We claim for
Washington county the record for
police heavy weights and they have
the nerve also. -Weiser Signal.
w. Hronek received a uniquely
addressed letter from Iowa this
week. Under the name is a ridge
of mountains at the end of which is
little home. Under this is drawn
an eye, a capital D and a hoe.
Freak addresses of this nature aie
pie for the mail clerks and the
letter was delivered as promptly
as if it had been addressed in the
usual manner.
I DIED-At the home of her son,
]. T. Whitson in Mountain Home,
on Tuesday, Feb. 10, Mrs. Eliza
beth Whitson, native of Gallatin
county. Kentucky. She was nearly
eighty-seven years of age, having
been born July 10, 1920. The re-
mains were taken to Bruneau for
interment yesterday, Rev. c. E.
Mason of the Congregational church
officiating.
]. A. Purtill received a letter
Wednesday morning from Portland
stating that A. G. Smith, at one
time county auditor and clerk
here, had just been married in
Washington and with his wife
was on the way to California to
spend their honeymoon. Mr.. Smith
is deservedly popular, and his many
friends here will rejoice with him
in his good fortune.
Work is progressing rapidly on
the new postoffice building. A bo-
nus of SIS has been offered the con-
tractor if he can put up the struc-
ture in thirty days, and George
Smith says he is going to get that
money sure. The contract calls
for one story brick building 32x25
feet. A. M. Hall owns the LOT
and is putting up the building.
Everybody will be pleased to have
the office removed from its present
crampcd quarters.
A woman who was a great tale
bearer happened to hear one neigh
Dor speak slightingly of another
and Immediately carried the words
from the first to the second neigh
Dor claiming that she thought, as G
friend, she ought to let the second
ncighbor know what the first one
was saying. But instead of thank
ing the tale-bearer, the neighbol
me how many rotten eggs my neigh.
Dor has on his premises, but the
person who carries the decayed her
fruit to my house and breaks it UNI
der my nose is my enemy"
In the shade of the old apple tree
I've waited so long love, for thee
that the voice l heard, grows fain
with each word, till it's barely ;
whisper to me. There is no more
buzz left in the trees the blossom:
are withered, ah, me!-the tire,
that once grew, where waited fol
you, has changed to an old chest
nut tree, where you hear the blamed
!, buzz of the bee, with big carving
: knife, that l swiped from my wife
Pm waiting and watching gee
OF daggers ] have two or three, al
ak and a cutlass, you see, and III
stick all these things, in the mex
guy who sings, 'Tn the Shade o
the Old Apple Tree. "-Ex.
At the suggestion of Ben Ross
Y representing the Commercial club
: Geo. Smith was given the contrac
S by the council, of filling in witt
: good soil that part of the city parl
4 lying in front OF X. w. Smith
drug store. Mayor Mahoney wa
: heartily in favor of this being done
: but did not believe that it was nee
essary to pay 40 cents a load, or il
fact, any price. He thought Mr.
!. Smith, who was doing considerable