Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1916-08-19
GRABBING CHEAP
GLORY


wire service, in it's issue of August
Is, features story announcing that
the stage route has been re-estab-
liShed between Mountain Home and
Featheryille, thus apprising it's read
ers of a fact that was published in
the Republican six days before, and
that was known to all the people of
this section on the 5th of the present
month. The Statesman story also
calls attention to the fact that the re-
sumption of mail service between this
place and Featherville was brought
about largely through the efforts of
the Boise Commercial club and bust
ness men. But here's the story. Read
it for yourself.
After more than two years of en-
deayor on the part of the Boise Com
mercial club, Boise merchants and
the hundreds of settlers and residents
affected, mail for Bennett, Feather
willie, Rocky Bar and Atlanta will be
routed by way of Mountainhome, there
by eliminating a delay of whole day
i'm the sending of mail from the state
capital to those towns and districts.
The new routing goes into effect
at once and will mean better and
quicker mail deliveries for about 1000
persons. For more than two years
the routing has been by way of Hill
City, which has occasioned the "a
hour delay i'm good weather. and Oft
en- longer delays In winter when the
Hill City branch of the 0. S. L. has
been drifted under snow. Last white
there was one stretch of % days dur
ing which Atlanta received no letter
mail, while parcel post matter piled
up for many weeks.
Idahos whole congressional delega-
tton has been besieged with letters
and petitions asking for the change
to the Mountain Home routing, a
change finally decided upon after an
investigation by Postofficd Inspector
H. Il. Ballard. Mountainhome Is
about IA miles further from Atlanta
than is Hill City, but the former
place is ON the main line, and has
hattar traip oopnootiono ,,;tb poiao
Claude Sullivan has been awarded
the contract to stage the mail from
Mountainhome as far as Featherville
Another change in mail routings am
nounced Monday is that Prairie and
Lenox postoffices, on Smith Prairie,
which have heretofore been served
by way of Arrowrock, will receive
their mail by way of Mountainhome
and Bennett This also saves one
day in transmission, and is change
for which all the residents have petit
toned"
The Statesman did not feature that
story ON the front page ten days ate
it had ceased to be news, because of
its news value. That is evident on
the face of it, so there could have
been only ONE motive for publishing
1T at all, and that was the hope of the
Statesman to grab a little cheap
glory for itself and for the business
men of Boise and the Boise CONNER
cial Club 10 the end that Boise may
maintain its prestige and its institu-
tons be accredited with being on the
alert and always ready to give aid to
it's smaller and supposedly weaker
neighbors.
AS a matter of fact all the work in
connection with having the Feather
willie stage resumed from this point
was all done right in Gilmore county
by the people directly interested It'll
was taken UP by the Development
League, and through a committee of
LuiI OiSdnlLdllOll tHe peWllOllS were
prepared and sent out to active,
public spirited citizens of the upper
country who, in turn, worked dill
gently to get the signatures of the
people wo are now being served by
the new route. The postoffice in
Spector was taken over the route
from this place by Mountain Home
people, and it was Mountain Home
business men and the Mountain HON
Postmaster who wrote scores of
letters to the department urging that
the route be changed. 1t was Noun
tain Home business men who agreed
to put up bond for the contractor,
If such became necessary, to guaran-
tee satisfactory service In fact all
the work was done right here at home
and we doubt If the Statesman or
the Boise Commercial Club knew
that any change had been made until
the Statesman editor read about it in
the Mountain Home Republican.
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There is no doubt i'm the mind OF