Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1911-05-25

GLENNs FERRY NEWS
lErnnn the Cazattal


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Born to Mr.. and Mrs. Garrison,
Friday. a girl.
Robert Montgomery of King Hill.
was a business caller in Glenns Fer
ry Monday.
A baby boy arrived at the home
Of Mr.. and Mrs. Clyde Anderson,
Monday morning.
Fred Zidler, manager of the Bliss
Gazette, was Glepns Ferry caller
Saturday.
Walter Corker, who Is suffering
from an attack of spotted fever, is
reported better at present.
J. L. Stout shipped two registered
Poland Chinas this week. One was a
pig seven weeks old. which brought
$1,000 and the other was a hog two
years old and sold for $500. Mr..
Stout is we'll satisfied with the blood
ed hog industry.
Miss Nancy Sargent was called to
Pocatello, Wednesday morning, to at
tend the bedside of her sister, Mrs.
Lem Adams, who is very i'll with ton
silitis.
Miss Kittie Wilkins has moved the
old Crastor Ferry. which has been
located on her ranch a few miles
west of town, to the wilkins Island
near Mountain Home. Since the new
bridge was built near the old ferry,
it has been useless, so it has been
moved to a new location where 1t
can be used. Thus, the old land marks
are changing under teh readjustment
of a new era.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Rosevear are
the proud parents of baby girl, who
arrived at their home Friday.
Glenns Ferry and King Hill played
a matched game of ball in the local
hall mark Sunday, which resulted in
a victory of A TO 23 in favor Of the
> Glenns Ferry Grays. Shoshone and
/. Glenns Ferry will play here next
Sunday.
p The Elmore Botthng Company is
new company which have just en-
gagged in the wholesale soda water
business in rGlenns Ferry. Previously
there has been no wholesale house
in this line between Nampa and Po-
catello, so the new firm should find a
profitable field here.
Mr. and Mrs Henry Peak and son
,
sas, visiting their daugter, Mrs. Ho-
mer Greer. They will be here about a
7 month and then go to Portland, Sc
attic and other western points. Mr..
Peak is a well known cattle feeder of
Kansas having resided there for 25
years. He says the fine alfalfa fields
around here look good to him.
= The trade territory of a town is
III .I.1.. a.
: to neighboring trading points. The
: trade territory depends upon the en-
| terprise of the merchants and the
residents of the town. If a town does
not reach after the trade it will come
only as it is forced to. and it will
grow as 1t is forced to- But if the
t merchants go after business in the
) surrounding country, advertising in
r every possible way and making good
. every word of their advertising, trade
\ will come from an ever increasing
D radius, the town will gain a reputa-
S tion for being awake and it will
b forge to the front. It is the men il
G the town and not altogether the meT
living within a certain number oi
n miles from it that makes the towI
s good for nothing.
e rigators on the tract, who, if the,
d will take a little time TO write Dol
n II. Bark, the government irrigation
s engineer, at 439 Yates building
d Boise. can obtain Information OF
matters of which they are in doubt
that possibly might be worth man.
dollars to them. Mr.. Bark now ha.
an assistant whose time will be de
l. voted entirely to assisting those wh'
n are not familiar with irrigating. TIL
II writer believes that any rancher car
r receive much valuable information b.
n writing to Mr.. Bark. 1t might also b.
Y a good idea for the officers of the far
y mers association to invite these gen
tlemen TO visit the King Hill tracts
r for the purpose of visiting the ranch
II ers AMI doing as much personal in
Is structing as possible.