Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1916-01-15

daily measurements since winter set
in show a total fall of 100 inches Of
loose snow.
The Republicans new phone num-
Der is SO.
Harry GorIdn spent several days
in Boise this week.
w. d. Evans and family are occupy
ing the house recently rebuilt by M.
G. Gpebe.
Eckstein Brothers are out with
posters announcing their usual Janu-
airy clearance sale.
The county commissioners were in
session the first four days of this
week, attending to the routine bust
ness of quarterly meeting.
Several car loads of corn from the
central states have lately been I'm.
loaded for Bennett Bros. feed store.
Shelled whole corn is now quoted at
ql'o0 On lue lOCdl ludThSl.
Mr. N. p Anderson, accompanied by
! the oldest son, John returned to their
home at Caldwell Monday afternoon.
Mrs. Anderson and two younger chill
dren will also return about next
Tuesday.
Frank R. Earl left Thursday for
Braham, Mimi, to make preparations
for bringing his family back to live.
The Eral family prefers life in the
beautiful Grand View valley to the
rain and cold of Minnesota.
Edward Mason is now much i'm
proved and his father, Rev, C. E.
Mason, will return shortly from Phila-
delphia. Edward will not be able to
resume his position on the Daily
Public Ledger in that city fer two or
three months, it is thought.
While on her way home Monday
morning, Mrs. Robt Morrison slipped
on am icy sidewalk and broke both
bones of her arm above the wrist.
Medical attention was summoned
promptly and the lady is now re-
covering, although slowly.
w b. Brown moved his cigar and
confectionery store to the building
recently vacated by the corner saloon.
Previously carpenters, painters and
decorators had worked for ten days
to make one of the finest establish
ments of the kind along the lime, as
Mr.. Browns new place is conceded to
be.
If you are subscriber to the FL
more Times, and this week receive
the Mountain Home Republican, it
means that your name has been trans
ferrod to the subscription list of
the latter newspaper, if it was not
already there. The merging of the
Times with the Republican under
the latter name will result in a bet.
ter newspaper for Mountain Home.
1t is now stated that the proper
ties of the two electric companies
will not be consolidated until the
confirmation of the receiver sale
under which the Great Shoshone
was sold to the Electric Investment
company. AS Judge Dietrich is in Cal.
ifornia and will not return until
about February IL it is thought that
there will be no change in the oper-
ating forces here until that time.
The commissioners and the board
of health of Twin Falls county have
passed a resolution requiring all dogs
to be muzzled in that county. Several
other counties in the state have taken
the same action, and it will doubtless
be found necessary for Gilmore county
to again put some restriction on
dogs as it did last winter. Mad coy
otes have made their appearance In
various parts of the county and
many doge are sure to be bitten and
infected.
Harry P. Jacobson returned Monday
evening to Ogden, Utah to resume
his duties in the Ogden State bank.
Harry has been with that institution,
whicn is the largest banking house
in the city, only little more than
year, but hehas several times been
promoted. His last advance was on
January l., when he was given the
place of second assistant teller and
as such he has charge of the savings
department of the bank. Harry ia
cobson has many friends here who
win be glad to learn of his success.
Manager Dolling had a part in the
test which the Mountain States COM,
pany conducted last week, that of
connecting the various short line
systems of the country into one con-