The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1919-02-25
THOMAS


James Jackson went to Pocatello
on business last Monday
Charles Jackson has been working
in Pocatello for some time.
Paul H. Alfred and family have
been suffering month with the flu.
Mrs. Alfred, correspondent for the
Republican has been very sick with
the disease and tho still weak she
seems to now be on the safe side.
Just as she was beginning to re-
cover from the flu, her soldier
brother Ellis Zunz of Victor, Idaho
then on his way home from Wash
ington, D C., where he had been
stationed tor some time, called her
up from Pocatello intending to stop
off for visit. Her disappointment
was very great on that occasion
since the quarantine rules forbade
the visit.
Glenn Burriston, son of John Bur-
riston, who has been with the colors,
is with home folks again.
Philip Hawks, one of our brave
young volunteers, who has just re-
turned from over there, after having
done his bit for democracy, is here
visiting with old friends and asso-
ciates, and is at the home of his
brother r'rancis Hawks of this place.,
Immediately after his return he
visited his parents and relatives at
Salt Lake City before coming here
to take up his own business affairs.
A party of friends and relatives
gathered at the Francis Hawks home
Friday evening to bid him welcome
home.
Ellis Edwards is again employed
at the office of the sugar factory
and Mrs. Edwards is for the time
being a widow and chore boy in chief
on the ranch
Harold Hawkes. is spending some
time visiting with his parents and
friends in Salt Lake City this win
ter. Andrew Wood is chore boy for
his sister in the absence of her hus-
band.
Ralph Stander, son of John H.
Stander, pioneer of Thomas, who
volunteered for service with the ma
rines is home again, having been dis
charged from the service in Conn.
recently and coming home immedi-
ately. His time while in the service
was spent along our eastern sea-
board. Ralph Is 'characteristicly
fellow who does not say much and
when year ago last fall he suddenly
disappeared from among the home
bunch of boys without saying a word,
everyone wondered what spirit or
wonder lust had taken him, but in
a few days the sheriff's office called
his father and advised that Ralph
had called there for his transfer
papers simply saying that he was
headed for the coast His friends
here all knew that Ralph had gone to
the colors. He was next heard of in
San Francisco and then at Honolulu |
and now he is at home with his hon.
orable discharge and his friends re-
joice with the family that he is back
in his native haunts.
Persistent reports have been going |
the rounds that Lou Henifer, another
one of our boys, who went over the |
top in defense Of home, country and
mankind, is at Fort Douglas and is
stone deaf from shell shock. Your
correspondent got busy on the phone
one day last week to ascertain the |
real facts and here they are: Lou
was on the job in the thick Of the
last heavy fighting on the western
front and one day q heavy shell
burst very near to him and his hear
ing was somewhat damaged by the
shock, but is is far from deaf. He
was also twice gassed and has a
cough, which is the after effects of !