Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1916-01-01
WHAT LEAGUE DID
Secretary Ticknor Makes Annual
Report of its Performances.

Organized in the fall of 1918, tht
Elmore Development League has nov
passed the second milestone of it
existence and under he able leader
ship of Mr.. F. E. Austin, who has
been its president during these pas
two years 1T has proven itself to be
a worthy member of similar CONNER
cial organizations of the state and
OF the Northwest. 1t has come to
be a power in moulding public opin-
ion in this community, and we believ
that it has, and will always continue
to WELD this influence in the interest
of the large majority of our citizens.
Starting its second year with a
membership of 80 of our best citizens
and business men the League has
gone steadily forward and has been
ready and willing at all times to
taken up any question or proposition
for the betterment of his community.
We have added twelve new members
during the past year and at its last
meeting three more new members
We're elected. During the past year
the League has lost. two members by
withdrawal, two more have been lost
through removal from the city. and
we have lost one member by death.
Counting the new members Just elect
ed, this leaves lis with a membership
OF 4S, a net gain for the year of ten.
Much hard work has been done
throughout the past year by the Post
Office Committee of the League, in
efforts to have the Rocky Bar Mail
route restored to go ut from Mountai
Home, but so far without success.
They are working also in an effort
to have the Government establish a
route between here and Smiths prair
Our post office committee are not
made of the stuff that gives up at
the first rebuff, and they are pegging
away at every head in sight and sooner
or later they will put something over.
IN December of last year the League |
IN conjunction with the women's club |
gave a big ball for the benefit of |
the Belgian suffers at which a net |
profit of $50 was realized. This
money was expended for food stuffs
and was shipped from San Francisco
about a month later
In January the League started a
movement looking to have street
signs placed at the intersections of
our streets and to have the peopled
places numbers ON their houses, We
believe that this would be a fine i'm
orovement, and best of ALL would
cost very little. 1t is to be regretted
hat the committee having this in
charge do not bet a better move
M themselves and put this through.
The League, in january prepared a
iced bill which had for its object, to
lssist the farmers in getting their
eed for spring planting. We had this
introduced in the legislature and 1T
vas passed, but unfortunately. the
Governor saw fit to WELD the ak on
so that it never became a law.
We believe this was agood bill and
hat it deserved a better fate.
On Jnury 28th, at one of our So
ial meetings, President Austin read 1
paper on the Federal Reserve a
tank act, which proved very inter I
sting and instructive, and was great s
njoyed by the large number of mem
ers in attendance. t
On February 4th the League went
n record as being opposed to House c
ills Nos. l44-145 and 147, bills which |
retended to have for their object C
ne regulation of Pool Rooms t
nd Pastimes. The objections to t
lese bills were put in concrete form i
nd forwarded to our representatives r
/ the legislature with a request
lat they do all they could to defeat t
lie bills. This they did and the bills d
ere eventually killed. Il
AT the meeting of February 25th, a
Re subject for discussion gefore the tt
eague was "Chall Mountain Home tt
iopt the Independent School District ii
stem The debate was very an