Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1918-05-11
rnCu HIry,Jn THE WEEKS CONTINUED
lllCAL NEWS STORY OF CURRENT EVENTS


will buy no other G. A. HERDEH.
Mrs. Chas. Pascoe was visitor In
the first of the week,
Alex Smith was In town from
Smiths Prairie the first OF the week,
G. ri. Lamberton made business
trip to Boise the first OF the week.
Walter Potter has been In town for
the past week, threatened with spot
ted fever.
8. A. Hoffman is building q fine
new house on his ranch few miles
north of town.
Mrs. W. 8. Crane went to Illinois
last week for an extended visit at
her old home.
County agent r. q. Alexander spent
several days ut Smiths Prairie the
first of the week.
Mrs. Katie Brady Smith and chill
dren have returned to Boise after
short visit with relatives here.
Miss Ora Swami has accepted a
position as stenographer for the CO.
operative irrigation company.
Jack Noble, the local highway dis
trict and Bennett Bros, each recently
purchased a new Ford ton truck.
Bert (Boston) Kennison, who en-
listed In the navy last week, failed to
pass the physical tests and has re-
turned home.
Miss Florence Pool, who has been
teaching at Bull for the past year,
has been reemployd there at an in
creased salary.
Mrs. Lafayette Clark, has returned
home after an extended visit at the
home of her daughter, Mrs. Webb
Workman at Boise.
The little daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. r. W. Bruce, who has been
quite sick with pneumonia, Is maxi
ing rapid recovery.
Geo. Hickok and family returned
Thursday night from Utah, where
they went last week with the re-
mains of Mrs. Hickok.
This has been the driest spring
of many years. A little shower
Wednesday forenoon was the frst
rain for more than month,
Mrs. T. w. Moore returned from
Boise Thursday where she has been
for several weeks, securing medical
attention for her little daughter.
meet next Tuesday afternoon at the
Carnegie club rooms to prepare
plans for the proper commemoration
of Memorial day.
Miss Buelah Coats has returned
from Bellevue, where she has been
teaching for the past year. Frank
Colthorp, formerly of this ciey, is
principal of schools at Bellevue.
Two Jones boys, from Bruneau,
who have been home from Camp
Lewis on furlough, stopped off In
Mountain Home ON their return to
the training camp Monday evening.
The daily papers announce that
1t il probable that young men reach
the age of q will be registered every
three months until the end of the
war, and that the age limit for the
draft will be raised to forty years.
The Second District Federation will
meet In Mountain Home May 81, %
and 20. The meetings will be held in
the Congregational church. Every
one is welcome. The official program
Is now In the hands of the members.
The Texas Consolidated mining
company. which ia developing the
Evans property on Poison creek,
south of Grand View, is preparing
to put on an increased force of men
and rush development work as rapid
ly as possible this coming summer.
Prof. and Mrs. Harry Broadbent
who. formerly taught at Hammett
but who have beer at HOLSTER for
the past several years, have been en-
ployed for the coming year at Burley
Mr.. Broadbent as principal of the
high school and Mrs. Broadbent al
high school teacher.
Two sons OF Emmett Callahan OF
Bruneau are both serving In the
marines. The younger has already
made five trips across the ocean al
cook on an army transport. The