Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-09-15
CURRENT LOCAL NEWS

Fl. D. Wilbur was a business visitor
at Boise Tuesday
We have a first class mechanic and
guarantee our work Gem State
Garage.
Wanted Plymouth rock chickens
Write box 493, city. State price. tt
Latest improved cleaning ma
chinery assures satisfactory Worl
at Bertram's.
Harry Evans, who formerly livet
in Glenns Ferry, stopped here Friday
on his way to Nevada.
Misses Grace and Ethel Bruce
visited relatives in Boise severaI
days the first of the week.
Bennett Bros. loaded out a NUM-
Der of cars of sheep for the Chi
cago market from Hill City Tues
day.
Miss Sophia Rohrer returned to
resume her duties at st. Alphonsus
hospital after spending two weeks
with home folks.
Clarence M. Nicholson of this city
Is at Boise, having been drawn as a
juror in the present term of the
United States court.
M. l.. Keller went to Boise Tues
day where he tried to enlist In the
engineering corps. He was rejected
on account of the age limit.
The domestic science class at
the high school will specialize on
canning for anyone furnishing the
material and cans for which work
they will make small charge.
Bert Jarvis, who Is in the cattle
business across the Nevada line on
the road to Elko, shipped bunch of
beef cattle from here Friday having
driven them overland from the range.
Mrs. VIM. Ross and Mrs. Fred
Helm entertained about forty-five
ladies in farewell party Wednes-
day. The Ross and Helm families
are moving to Medbury
A card received at this office the
first of the week from J. E. Anderson
stated that he and Gregory Friedman,
Mountain Homes first representatives
in the new army, had been assigned
to Company f, 361st Infantry, and
that they liked 1t fine.
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On Tuesday Frank Ottenheimer
took Mrs. Fred Schonecke and her
mother Mrs. Golden, out to the
Schonecke ranch in a car The in
teresting part OF this is that Mrs.
Golden Is past 81 years of age and
was enjoying her first ride in an
auto
M. g. Grebe returned the first of
the week from a trip to the Yellow
stone national park, where he accom-
panied his daughter, who has been
visiting here and wished to go
through the park before returning to
her home in Chicago
Nearly all the hay still unsold |
north of town was purchased last |
week by Ray Corbus, who will feed |
1t to a band of 5000 sheep this
winter. The total Of his purchases
was nearly $4,000, which is a big
lift to the farmers of that part of the
project.
Milton Helm and Prof. f. F
Sparks spent few days in the
nWth end of the county fishing for
trout the first of the week. Mr..
Sparks is enjoying longer than
usual vacation, due to the fact that
the opening of school at St. An
thony has been postponed to October
first, due to a labor shortage on
the farms of that section,
Considerable stock is being brought
out of the hills, where the feed Is
practically all gone, owing to the
long dry SPELL There was light
rain here Thursday morning, scarcely
enough to lay the dust, but In the
foothills it is said to have amounted
to more than half an inch.
D. M. Burt recently purchased an
auto truck with which he will oper-
ate school truck during the school
year. The machine Is enclosed and
safe and will carry large number
of children, and much greater dis
tances possible than Is possible with