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Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-04-28
CROP RESULTS
Are PROMISED
MANY REPLIES COMING FROM
ALL OVER THE COUNTY TO
GREATER CROP BOOSTERS.
NO SEED POTATOES
SCARCITY WILL KEEP ACREAGE
OF SPUDs BELOW WHAT THE
FARMERS Wi3H.

The committee appointed at the
meeting to urge increased farming
operations in Elmore county this year
held at the court house last week,
finished mailing their circular letters
and listing blanks Monday and report
that they are already getting crafty
ing returns. The farmers of the
county are reporting their needs and
surplus in large numbers. With only
a few days devoted to the work they
have arranged small loans for four
different armers who will thus be
able to put a greater area to crop
than they would have otherwise, and
they have located seed and brought
buyer and seller together in num-
Der of other cases. The committee
Is busy every day attending to the
various matters that are brought to
their attention, and have handled
everything successfully except getting
seed potatoes. The spud Is very
scarce and the best offer made is
four nts pound in carload lots.
This price is considered prohibitive
and it is probable that land designed
for spuds will be planted to other
other crops. The committee believes
that their activities will very mater.
tally increase the county's crop pro.
duction for the year.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-04-28
ABSTRACT OF LAND
CHANGED ON LOAN
ASKED OF STATE

That an abstract bringing up to
date title to lands on which the
state loaned $4,000 was changed in tn
Cora M. Allen loan, was the mildly
startling information laid before the
state land board at it's regular ses-
sion recently, says the Boise Capital
News. The board has ordered an In
vestigation made and directed that
foreclosure proceedings be Instituted
to protect itself.
The loan was for $4,000 1t was on
land in the Grandview Irrigation COM
pany project and was made in 1913.
The attorney generals department
passed upon the abstract and recon-
mended some changes. The abstract
was returned and some time after
again reached the attorney general g
office The changes having been
made the loan was ordered. 1t was
later that the discovery was made
the description OF the land had been
changed in the abstract and instead
of the loan being made on good land
the state held a mortgage on IN
ferior land. I. c. Coffin, former as
sistant attorney general, wrote let
ter showing the discovery by him OF
the change made. The letter was
ordered made a part of the record by
the land board.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-04-28
COURT HOUSE
LAWN GOOD
POTATO FIELD

The work of leveling the court
house lawn is nearly completed. 1t
has been suggested to the Republican
that in this year of probable crop
shortage the county would benefit
itself by raising a crop OF potatoes
ON the yard before sowing it to lawn
grass. Not only would the work and
water produce their bit to help win
the war but the lawn would be In
much better physical condition for
the years tillage. When piece OF
land is leveled 1T is impossible to
pack it so evenly that 1t will not set
tie and show low spots after the
first year, so the year of potatoes
would make 1t possible to relevel
next fall and have a much better
lawn for all time. And while this Ia
being done, there never will be a
better year to plow up the school
lawn and raise a crop on 1t. The
water alone for a years care of the
lawn at the school house costs not
less than $4,000 and 1t is a fact that
the yard is now full of dandilions
and other weeds and that 1t has a
number of low spots that could be
gotten rid of by a season of spuds,
reducing the labor and cost of irriga-
ton for years to come.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-04-28
CANDIDATES TIE
FOR TRUSTEE
JOHNSON AND MORRISON WILL
DECIDE ELECTION BY PUTTING
1T TO CHANCE.
ELECTION WAS CLOSE.
TEN VOTES EITHER WAY WOULD
HAVE CHANGED ALL RESULTS
BUT SULLIVAN.

The village election Tuesday was
no cut and dried affair, or if 1t was
the political sages have thus far
failed to decide who did the cutting
and where it was dried. Rheese Har-
mon was elected on the taxpayers
ticket, with 178 votes. c. L. Sullivan
whose name appeared on the Tax
payers ticket, but who was en-
dorsed by the Peoples, got 271 votes
w. j. Hughes with 176 votes and
John Horgan with 1888 were elected
from the Peoples ticket and G. E.
Johnson, Taxpayers and Robert
Morrison, Peoples tied for fifth
place with 172 votes each j. w.
Briggs got 1853 and D. M. Braucht
ISL. Duke Park, whose name was
not ON the ticket received about 80
and a long list of other citizens re-
ceiyed one each. There We're so many
to receive the one that it was said
by wit who watched the counting
that they must have signed their
ballots.
Most of the campaigning took the
form of circulars, one Of which gave
in detail an account of the activities
of the council for the past two years
and plea for their reelection, while
another devoted its space to a re-
citation of the "exclusveness" Of
the old board and a charge that they
were planning the building of a
"Brownstone City Hall"
The total number of votes cast
was $40 and the count was completed
by nine o'clock.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-04-28
BAPTIST CHURCH

Bible school 10 am.
Morning worship and sermon, IL a
m. Theme; "The World and the
Bible" part two.
b. p. U. meeting p. m
Evening preaching service 8 p. N
Subject: '"Tbe Low Cost of Living"
Advisory board meeting, Wednes
day night. All Members of the
church invited.
Sunday, May 6, the pastor will be
gin a series of sermons on Life"
w. +. r. HARTLEY, Pastor.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-04-28
PREACHING AND
PRACTICE SHOW
WIDE VARIATION

The following from the Caldwell
News will be considered rare bit
of humor by those people who recall
that the editor of the Caldwell paper
only a few weeks ago dropped into
Mountain Home and made a tender to
the county commissioners to do their
publication in paper that had su-
spended publication and was revived
for the special purpose of bidding on
the Elmore printing, and at a price
hardly one third of what was then
being paid for the work.
A matter has occurred at Emmett
that gives us sorrow. 1t seems that
the two newspapers over there both
bid for the county publications-the
Emmett Examiner one cent a line
and the Emmett Index one cent for
all the publications OF the county for
two years, the county to throw to
this publication such legal notices as
it can. The Index got the county
publications and now the Examiner
is going to cut the price on legal
notices. This Is all wrong. The
county and city should be forced to
pay for what it uses the same as the
private citizen-no more, no less.
Newspapers should adopt a fair rate
and stick to it and not attempt to cut
each others throats. Public bodies
should not be placed in the rank of
beggars and we believe that the aver
age citizen is willing that the county
and the city should pay fair re-
enumeration for the services rendered
il. Neither a cent line nor cent
for all publications is fair remu-
neration. Newspapers have got to
live and to live they must charge a
asonable price for their services
both to public bodies and private indi'
viduals
Now in that little contest over at
Emmett each newspaper is iniuring
sal1 more than it is injuring its
competitor. When it cuts the price
of its servic s, it takes money out Of
its own pockets. When it does not
charge enough it injuries itself.
When it donates its time and it's
services it demeans itself and puts
a premium on charity, Don't try 10
hog it all. Let your competitor
have a share of the milk and then
both will get little cream. If your
competitor has the longest arm and
the strongest pull, let him have the
spoils of victory. Your day in court
will come next. Con est your CON-
petiort on service, but never cut the
price below living wage-then your
day will be long in the land, and
your children will derive something
more than a hand-to-mouth existence.
Our advice to the Index is: Throw
up the contract, Then get together
with your competitor and divide the
spoils. Let the Examiner take it one
year and the Index the next and
both get living wage for its SER
vices. Don't be a damned fool all the
time, cultivate few lapses of sanity
as you go through life.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-04-28
PUPILS AT HIGH
SCHOOL GET BUSY
CIRCULATE PETITION ASKING
SCHOOL BOARD TO RETAIN
PRESENT SUPERINTENDENT.
39l PEOPLE SIGN
OVERWHELMING DEMAND THAT
NO CHANGE BE MADE IN HEAD
OF SCHOOL SYSTEM.

The pupils of the local high school
are up in arms over the action OF
Superintendent F. f. Sparks in sew
ering his connection with the school
system, and have been busy all this
week circulating petition asking
the school board to retain him in his
position despite the fact that the su-
parintendent has not asked for reap
pointment The petitions were pre-
sented at a meeting of the board dur
ing the week and were later with
drawn for further circulation, actio
not having been taken on them by
the board.
The petitions as presented are
probably the strongest endorsement
that any lchool man ever received In
Mountain Home if not in Idaho. They
carry the names of 391 Of the pa
irons OF the school, including the
mothers of practically every pupil in
the high school and eighth grade, be-
s des all OF the business men Of the
city. A separate petition carries the
names of 50 students in the high
school, 1t being stated that only two
members of the student body refused
TO sign.
1t is probable that the board will
offer to retain Mr.. Sparks at their
meeting when teachers are hired for
the coming year.
The pupils of the high school who
circulated the petitions, rather stole
march on the superintendent in the
matter. Without tipping him as tc
their intentions, they stayed away
from school or got excused on. one
pretext or another and devoted their
day to interviewing the people oi
the town One of the young ladies
stated that of over 100 persons ap-
preached only two refused to sign
her copy of the paper.
The petition signed by the high
school pupils, with the names of the
slgners, is as follows:
70 the Honorable Board OF Trus-
tees of school district No. 6: We,
the undersigned, patrons and school
going pupils respectfully request your
Honorable Board to retain Professor
f. F. Sparks, as superintendent OF
the aforesaid school for the ensuing
term:
Helen Pascoe, Demerse Morton, Os-
wald Herring, Grundy Brown, Allen
O'Neill, Gladys Hobdey, Hazel Sven
son, Lucy Collins, Laura Keefer, May
Munson. Delma Mcdonald, NADIA
Swami. Edith Chatterton, Minnie
White Edward Trathen, Harry Cow
en-. Grace House, Edith Bennett,
Luc lie Lee, Dorothy McWilliams, Myrl
B aman Ruth Daugherty, Irene Hart,
June Evans, Purdy Eaton, Hazel Nor
ton, Nellie Keefer, Arthur Stafford,
Carrie Daugherty, Frederick Skilllngs,
trace Ormsby Rose Smith, Margaret
Lee, Allie Latinen, Mary McF1enry,
Mary Horgan, Bertha Hill, Hazel
Tyler, Thirlo Hines, Winston M
Caldwell, Dewey Labbee, j. YeomaT
Ferry, Volney Hickok, Elville Wilkins
Clerence Johnson, Anna Stafford,
Velma Ross. Effie Burt, Edna Boyer,
Maude Tye, Dudley Goul, Bernlce
Biornson, Vernon Bumgarner, Myrtle
Smith, G rtrude Groefsema, Irene
Tyler Geo. A. Young Edna Morrison,
Christine Groefsema, Jennie Sethen
Bertha Gaines, Cora AXE, Lora lsaacs
Altha Epperson, Ruth Lockman, VIM
I-I. O'Nell. Kenneth Bach, Eva AXE.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-04-28

Editor Mountain Home Republican:
Allow me, through the columns OF
your valuable paper, to express our
thanks to Miss Sophie Rohrer of this
city, also the much loved nurse in st.
Alphonso hospital at Boise, for hav-
ing the walk in front of the Catholic
church repaired in her home town.
One of Your Many Readers.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-04-28

Mr.. Ensign, the popular upholsterer
is still here. We have needed Just
such a gentleman to do that kind of
work. He is kind and courteous to all,
and does fine work. Leave orders
at this office.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-04-28

Mrs. Georgia Swami has been
elected librarian to succeed Mrs.
Breigleb at the Carnegie Library.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-04-28
FIRST LOCAL BOY
TO ENLIST FOR
NAVAL SERVICE

Bruce Stanfield is another one OF
Mountain Homes boys who have
shown his loyalty to the colors by
giving his services to the Govern
nent for the war. Bruce went 70
Salt Lake last week and enlisted In
the navy. He passed the physical
examination and has been sent to
one of the training camps. Bruce Is
a good kid not yet sixteen years old,
and his going makes an even dozen
local boys who have answered the
call of their country.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1917-04-28

Harry Ireland and Ed Dickens we're
in Mountain Home from Thursday to
the day before yesterday, working out
from that place on the job OF dis
mantling the old plant OF the South
Idaho Telephone and Telegraph COM
pany. which will be hauled hither aud
employed to put the line connecting
Riddle and Bruneau in first-class snap
precedent to engaging in the business
for which Il is chartered Bruneau
Nugge..
The Delta independent., 1917-11-23
The Devil Lost His Job.

The devil sat. by a lake OF fire. on q
pile of ,ilphur kegs.
His head was bowed upon his breast
his tail betwe II his legs:
\ l,ok Of shame was on his face the
spark dr'ppcd from his eyes
He had sent his resignation to the
throne up in the skies
~ am down ar' out the devil said
Re saii it witt n Sob
There arc others that cut-class me
ani want u qui, the job.
Hen ain't IN II with the land that
lie al~ng the Rhine,
I'm hes been and plker, and
therefore resign.
One ommun iion maker. with his
bloody hot and shell,
Knows more about damnaticn than
MI the INNS of He'll
give nv job to Kaiscr Bill, the
author of the war.
lie rnferg'a~d Il better. millions
times. by far.
hate to l"nve tho old home. the
SPOT ieve 40 well.
But ! feel thu, I'm rot upto.date In
the arts OF running He'll.
The Delta independent., 1917-11-23

stroyed. a city Of one million inhabi-
tants, one of the most prosperous
cities of Europe before the war, the
streets were lined with people In the
pang Of starvation. Famished and
rain-soaked. they squatted there, with
their elbows on their knees or leaning
against the buildings, too feeble to
lift hand for a bit OF money or a
morsel OF bread II one offered 1t, per
ishing of hunger and cold. Charity
did what 1t could. The rich gave all
that they had. the poor shared their
last crust. Hundreds OF thousands
were perishing. Day and night the
picture is before my eyes-a people
starving. nation dying.
In that situation, the German com
mander issued proclamation. Every
able-bodied Pole was hidden to Ger
many to work. II any refused, let no
other Pole give him to eat, not SO
much as mouthful, under penalty of
German military law.
This Is the choice the German gov.
eminent gives to the conquered Pole.
to the husband and father of a starv-
Ing family: Leave your family to die
or survive as the case may be. Leave
+ONt ScnhAJ - uobLTOyeQ,
work in Germany for its further de-
struction. II you are obstinate, we
shall see that you surely starve.
Staying with his folk. he is doomed
! and they are not saved; the father
and husband can do nothing for them.
he only adds to their risk and suf.
fcring. Leaving them. he will be cut
off from his family, they may never
hear from him again nor he from
them. Germany will set him to work
that German workman may be re-
leased to fight against his own land
and people. He shall be lodged In bar.
racks. behind barbed wire entangIe-
ments. under armed guard. He shall
sleep on the bare ground with a single
thin blanket. He shall be scantiIy fed
and his earnings shall be taken from
him to pay for his food
That is the choice which the Ger
man government offers to 4 proud
| sensitive, high strung people. Death
or slavery.
So ! asked General Won Kries. Gen.
eral. this is civilized people. Can
| this be true?"
YES" he said. at is true"-with
an air OF adding. Why not?
! dared not trust myself to speak:
! turned to go. Wait" he said. And
he explained to me how Germany. OF.
ficial Germany. regards the state of
subject peoples.
The Delta independent., 1917-11-23
THE PRUSsIAN SYSTEM
Told by F. Z. Walcott at Conference
OF Field Men, Sept. H.

Told by F. Z. Walcott at Conference
Of Field Men. Sept. ~.
This ! have seen. could not be-
lIeve il unless had seen It through
and through. For several weeks I.
lived with It; ! went all about 1t and
back Of IL; inside and out of 1t was
shown to me-until finally | came to
realize that the incredible was true.
II is monstrous, it Is unthinkabIe, but
1t exists. II is the Prussian system.
A year ago / went to Poland to
learn its facts concerning the remnant
OF people that had been decimated
by war. The country had been twice
devastated. First the Russian army
swept through 1t and then the Ger
mans. Along the roadside from War
saw to Pinsk. the present firing line
230 miles, near half a million people
had died of hunger and cold The
way was strewn with their bones
picked clean by the crows. With
their usual thrift, the Germans were
collecting the larger bones to be
milled into fertilizer, but finger and
toe bones lay on the ground with the
mud covered and raid soaked clothing
Wicker baskets we're scattered
along the way-the basket in which
the baby swings from the rafter in
every pleasant home. Every mile
there were scores of them, each one
telling a death. ! started to count,
but after a little / had to give II up,
there were SO many.
That is the desolation one saw
along the great road from Warsaw to
Pinsk. mile after mile, more than two
hundred miles. They told me a mil
lion people were made homeless in
six weeks of the German drive in Au-
gust and September. 1916. They told
me four hundred thousand died on the
way. The rest. sacrcely half alive, got
through with the Russian army Many
of these have been sent to Siberia
II Is these people whom the Paderew.
ski committee Is trying to relieve
In the refugee camps, 100000 sur
vivors OF the flight were gathered by
the Germans, members OF broken fam
flies. They were lodged in jerry-built
barracks. scarcely waterproof. un.
lighted. unwarmed In the dead OF win.
ter. Their clothes. where the buttons
we're lost, were sewed on. There were
no conveniences, they had not even
been able to wash for weeks. Filth
aud infection from vermin were
spreading. They were famished. their
daily ration cup OF soup and a piece
Of bread as big as my fist.
Il Warsaw. which had not been de.
The Delta independent., 1917-11-23
REDlAND MESA
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Mr.. and Mrs. Scoby were at Delta
last Thursday.
Mrs. Leila Luddington visited the
school last Thursday.
Mrs. Joe Leari of Crawford. is visit
ing The A. l.. Frye home.
Mr.. Sechrist, of Rogers mesa, visit
cd Elmwood school last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Glen Mcknight and
baby went to Montrose Monday
Miss VanOort spent Monday and
Tuesday night with Maxine Wood.
Mr.. Hibbs and wife. of Rogers mesa
took dinner last Monday at the Lud.
iington home.
Mrs. George Eavenson. spent part OF
last week at the Hibbs home on Rog.
ers mesa.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. s. Wood and child.
rem motored to Austin, Cory. and
Cedaredge. Sunday.
John Gibson and wife of the lower
end of the mesa. spent Sunday with
Mr.. and Mrs. Lollar.
Mrs. Ernest Holder returned last
Saturday. after visiting friends at
Crawford and near by.
Mrs. II. s. Wood and children. Mrs
Dan Luddington. and son. Harry. mot.
ored to Delta Thursday
Mr.. and Mrs. Terrell Ellington and
children. OF Rogers mesa. spent Sun.
| day at the Rice home.
Vern Eavenson and wife have NOV.
ed ON the Percy Houts ranch. on the
lower end of the mesa.
Glenn Mcknight and family and
Miss VanOort. visited Meningitis on
the Cottonwood Thursday.
Mr. and Mrs. Mechelke of Delta, and
Mr.. and Mrs. Johnson. of this mesa
motored to Paonia. Sunday.
Harry Luddingtop. who dislocated
his knee. last week, at school playing
basket ball is about recovered
| Miss Hattie VanOort. teacher OF
Elmwood school spent Friday might
Saturday and Sunday at the Ludding
ton home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ouickway. of 'Ridg.
Nvav. arrived Sunday. and they Will
sDend the winter with their niece
Mrs. II. w. Rice.
The Delta independent., 1917-11-23
NORTH DELTA GOSSIP
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Miss Leta Millert is suffering with
tonsolitis.
Mr. Frogue moved to Mrs Kitche's
house last week.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Lee Jacobs were Del
ia visitors Sunday.
| Grandma Bivins is suffering with a
severe burned limb.
Mart Thorp is working at Telluride
at the Tomboy mine.
| Mr.. and Mrs. E. Payne went out to
their ranch last Friday.
Mrs. Aspenwell moved into the Mrs
] Mannon house last week.
| Mrs. HELEN returned last week from
business trip to Chanler. Okla.
Mr.. and Mrs. Curt Monroe moved
into ]. E. Coles house this week.
Miss Doris Phenice stayed all night
with Gladys Jewell Sunday night
Earl Wilson and Miss Ruth Criswell
were visiting in North Delta Tuesday
| Mr. Ham Hendrickson moved into
Mrs. Ethel Hutchins house this week
Will Rhoads has been suffering for
| several weeks with ulcers of the stom.
ach.
Grandma Bivins is having her house
painted and otherwise improving her
home.
Master Glen and Lloyd Davis visit.
| ed the w. NJ. Herd children at Cory
Sunday.
Pete Manzanard has been in the
| Crawford country bailing hay the past
| few weeks.
Miss Shield, our primary teacher
stayed all night with Miss Chapman
Tuesday last.
Mr.. Wertz who is threshing between
Montrose and Olathe, visited home
folks over Sunday.
Mrs. Will Rutter and Mrs. Matte
Clark called on Mrs. Jim Sanders
Tuesday afternoon.
Mrs. Edna Sankey and Grandma
Stewart spent Tuesday with Mrs.
Sankey's aunt. Mrs. A. Conrad.
Judge Burnett and son. Will called
on Frank Marshall last Sunday Mr.
Marshall is still on the sick list.
Avery Hutchins and Glen Kepler
came in Sunday from the Muddy coun-
try with large bunch of horses.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. T Taufman have
bought the property owned by Matt
Umberell and will move down soon.
The Misses Vera and Vena Geslin,
of Cedaredge, called on Mrs. George
James and Mrs. Willis Davis. Monday.
VIM. Maxwell and son and Buel
Thorp and family were visitors at the
home of o. ]. Thorp and wife last
Sunday
Mrs. Kitche and children were out
going passengers Tuesday afternoon.
for Nevada where she will join her
husband.
Mrs. Josie Worland received tele-
gram last week that her son-in-law
Bert Jennings had died at the Kansas
City hospital.
Mrs. d. s. Hickman. who has been
visiting her daughter. Mrs. VIII Scott
at Montrose, the past two weeks. re-
turned home Wednesday.
The teachers OF the North Delta
school are busy with the children get
ting ready for their entertainment on
"Wednesday. the 2s. Don't forget the
date. All are cordially invited. Ad-
mission: 5 and 10 cents.
The Knoll school will give box
social. next Wednesday night. the
boxes to be auctioned off to the high
est bidder. They will also have a
booth with pop corn balls, etc, for
sale. There will be a short program
preceding the selling of boxes. The
school is doing nicely with Mrs. Phe-
ODE Dickerson, as teacher. they have
an average attendance of 22 pupils.
Everyone invited.