Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1907-01-03
MAVERICK EXTENDS
NEW YEARS GREETING
Some Philosophical Reflections on the Past
and few Helpful Suggestions
for the Future.


The Maverick extends a Merry
New Year to it's readers aud sim
cerely wishes them prosperity in
all their undertakings. May 1907
be the banner year for Mountain
Home and Elmore county. We al
ways review the old year with more
or less regret. 1t is the old saying |
that Hind sight is better than fore
sight and it is this fact, possibly, |!
that makes us remorseful along
about the beginning of each and
every year. Our mistakes and mis-
deeds of the old year are usually
perched on the board of our bed
New Years morning. 1t is then we
make New Year resolutions. We
swear that we will be more loyal to
ourselves and to UT friends. We
will quit this bad habit and forsake
this and that evil way. But, alas,
many good resolutions are broken
before our heads again rest upon
the pillow.
There is something bad in the
> best of us and something good in all
but so far we have failed to see the
person in whom we cannot detect
some good along with the bad.
Some people see absolutely nothing
to admire in those whom we hold
up as our ideals. This is world
of give and take and we must for
give if we expect to be forgiven.
We are here for purpose-we are
all of a kind We even now think
of some who have not ''toted' fair
with us, but we forgive and forget
and sooner or later those who wrong
us will repent. Sucn is human
nature-such is every day life.
Such facts, however, are but MEM
ories past and gone; they are OF the
old day and old year, and this is a
new one with newer years beyond
Life, like a sea, is filling with
years of experience. Forgetfulness
rises as a tide and creeps up to
drown within US the animosities
that are. Thanks to forgetfulness.
What has the old year done for us
and what may we expect from the
new year? What has the old year
done for Mountain Home and Ell
more county? Have we advanced
have we bettered our condition? Tc
this. we answer positively, yes
A person here last year has only tC
come back today and look around
1t is like the return of ''old Rip.
Those living here do not, of course
see and appreciate just what i'm
IL. -ra4 n
last twelve months. We see NOR
than twenty new houses built ant
new ones going up every day
These improvements are of such
character as to at once impres
one that their occupants are good
honest citizens and are welcome I
this or any other community. An
still they come, and may they con
tinuc coming. We need them
every country needs them. No on
man or clique of men can make
country or town. 1t is the com
bined effort; nothing short of
will give good results. A town di
vided against itself is like a divide
house it will fall.
The Maverick boosts and intend
to keep boosting. 1t has Confidenc
in itself and confidence in its read
ers and confidence in the communi
ty and in the general interests {
Mountain Home and Elmore county
1t is a country second to none
II has the best irrigation systeI
for the number of acres propose
to be irrigated, in the state of Id;
no. Its waters are pure, the soil
productive and the climate is II
best on earth. We believe it to
indeed, a farmers paradise.
The comparatively small acreage
the state that can ever be broug
under cultivation (1ess than thr
per cent? makes our land extreme
valuable. With its great minin
live stock, lumber, railroading al
other commercial interests, insur
to the farmer for l time, mark
for his crops at top prices.
schools are the best, its church
and social advantages are goo
With all of these, we ask wi
Mountain Home will not become