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Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-08-13
VACATION PERIOD
INDUCES VARIED
REFLECTIONS

Golly the worst of vacations is
their finish. You shift gears on a
typewriter for what seems like a
million years, and then get couple
of weeks off; with what y got saved
after keepin' y,r stumick sparkln
for year, you get few duds and
smile just as If you didn't know It's
all goin' to have a sad finish.
If you're lucky, you get an attic
room in country boarding house,
up where the sun makes the roof so
het up 1t near fries your hair roots,
and ceiling SO low 1t makes you walk
as If you lost a nickel. Between
swats at flies, you let a couple Of
books bull you about their rich
peppers estates and take you moon
light riding.
At the table y learn history and
physics from a Chautauqua hound
on yer right, and get nerves over
the old lady on your left who leaves
her spoon in her cup, and just about
jabs her eyes out. When you get
50 sick OF it you're all muddy in
the thinker, you imagine you'd like
to get back to work, you mistake
the feelin' for pep, which 1t amt;
only you can't stand the gaff any
more, and anything else is heaven
and harps to you. Broke like a
rabbit hound, you come back an sit
and wait forty thousand years til
pay day comes around, and the old
boss thinks he's done you q favor for
giving the two weeks.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-08-13
COUNTY JAIL is
AGAIN OCCUPIED
WITH PRISONERS
One Check Artist, an As
sault Conviction, and a
Few Minor Offenders
Again Make County Jail
Their Home.

Sheriff Stevens again had guests
in his jail this week after it had
stood vacant for long weeks. We'd
nesday he arrested two young men
who had left bad check at Hell
triehs grocery. They claimed TO
come from oklahoma and were driv-
Ing car. with Missouri license
and were turned loose separately
after the check had been made good.
man from King Hill employed
on she government irrigation job
was sentenced to 80 days at Glenns
Ferry Wednesday for beating up on
Gene Blown, and was brought to
the Jail by Sheriff Stevens.
A Greek is also being held for q
minor olfense and Marshall Engle-
hart ran in a drunk Tuesday night,
the first In four or five months.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-08-13
Married in Mountain Home.


Monday evening, after Office hours,
county auditor issued marriage IL
cense to Miss Margaret Mortensen
and w y. Judd, and they were mar
ried before Justice OF the Peace
noreIl and two witnesses. The bride
is from Burley and was typically
western in her tailored khaki suit
and hat After q honeymoon spent In
the mountains, they will make their
home at Nampa where the groom is
in the brokerage business, and Nam
pa is surely to BE congratulated on
having such promising young people
as residents The Republican joins
In wishing them.much happiness and
long voyage on the matrimonial
sea.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-08-13
Ranch ON RIVER
PRODUCING LARGE
CROP OF PEACHES

John W. Morton is moving his
peach crop In from the ranch al
Garnet. The crop this year is a
large one and is being harvested at
the rate Of about 100 crates day.
The apricot crop Is all marketed but
within a few days plnms will be on
the market and in short time the
Bartlett pears will be ripe. The Gar
net orchard has been one of the
show places of Elmore county for a
great many years. 1t Is located on
Snake river behind a protecting wall
Of rim rock 500 feet high and is
never frozen out when other places
suffer complete loss of their fruit.
1t was originally planted by Geo w
Hall, who also built the winding
road over the rim rock to the or
Ghard. In addition to the peach
crop, which this year will approx
mate 10000 boxes, there are a large
number of apricot, pear and cherry
trees which never fail to yield a
crop. What is claimed to be the
largest Royal Ann cherry tree in the
United States, grows in this or
ehard and this year yielded over
forty cases Of fruit. The ranch is
watered from a big spring which
gushes from the rimrock and is piped
to the land
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-08-13
News Of Former Townswoman.

Mrs. Briegleb received letter last
week from Mrs. Harriet e. Daniels
one of our old timers, who is now at
Jamestown, North Dakota, The
Daniels came here during the Car
rett boom and the husband Fred r
Daniels died here, leaving Mrs
Daniels and two children and ono
son Lee by a former marriage. The
Daniels lost their fortune and Mrs
Daniels has found 1t difficult at
times, since the death of her hus-
band, to do the things that she
would like to do for her family
This summer she received life cer-
tificate from the jamestown eollaea
and has the position of primary sun-
ervisor at the Bottineau Forrest rv
Normal. Her son Glenn is to entor
university this coming term. Lee
was married sometime ago.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-08-13
Twelfth Birthday.

Wednesday afternoon Helen Whit
son celebrated her twelfth birthday
by inviting five girl friends to her
home The girls all wore pink
dresses.
The afternoon was spent in play
ing games on the lawn. A birthday
luncheon was served in the dining
room by Mrs. Whitson and Helene
Smith. The centerpiece being the
pretty birthday cake with twelve
colored candles, The girls enjoying
The party we're: Carol Braden, Julia
Hunter Gladys Goodall, Helen
Swain, Evelyn House and Helen
Whitson.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-08-13
Plans Wireless News from Pole to
Whole World

Captain Amundsen's schooner
Maud on which he hoped to drift
past the pole with the ice floes, was
disabled by broken propeller off
Cape Serdze, Siberia, after he had
spent two years in pushing around
the eastward Artic passage from
Norway. The explorer left his ves-
gel and her crew to await break In
the ice and proceed to Nome later,
going to Seattle on recent ship.
The Maud has no wireless apfpH-
ratus, but Captain Amundsen expects
TO install one when the craft ID
brought to Seattle, to be repaired
and reRitted. Captain Amundsen ex-
planned that his party had been cut
off from communication with other
human beings for two years, with
but one break, his trip out to Nome
last years after two years Ice bound
horizons Of bitter cold and almost
endless nights.
The war was raging in Its most
critical period when his crew left
the world, and for many months
they speeulated In vain on the course
of events. 1t was December, 1919,
more than a year after the signing
of the armistice, that they finally
met Russian trader, who told them
what had happened. Then Captain
Amundsen determined that they
would carry wireless.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-08-13
VILLAGE BOARD
MUST solve HARD
PROBLEM OF MONEY
Levy of Fifteen Mills Will
Not Take Care of Years
Costs and Outstanding
Warrants.

A special meeting of the village
council Tuesday might, called for
the purpose of passing the appro-
priation ordinance for the coming
year, resulted in the ordinance be-
ing carried over to the September
meeting of the board. During the
meeting it developed that the viii
lage is in poor financial shape and
that the levy for next year will nec-
esarially be larger than ever before
or else some other method than di-
rect taxation must be resorted to in
order to bring funds into the treas
ury
Last year the council constructed
the sump hole at the city wells at a
very considerable cost, that they did
not have money in the water fund
to pay the bills and that there are
nearly $4,000 in outstanding war;
rants to be taken up. Under the
statutes a village can only levy a
tax of fifteen mills for all purposes,
with the exception that If warrants
have been issued for ordinary and
necessary expenses in excess of the
revenues available to pay them, the
council must make a special levy to
care for the unpaid warrants. TO
do this will increase the 1921 levy
to 10 mills and the village council
does not want to make it so high.
The substitute plans offered are to
raise the service rates for water or
to issue funding bonds to take up the
warrants, and the postponement of
the appropriation ordinance to the
September meeting was for the pur-
pose of giving the councilmens time
to investigate and consider the sub
stitute plans.
In addition to the ordinary ex-
penses of keeping the village gov
ernment going, salaries and upkeep
of equipment, the village will almost
certainly have to meet several ex-
traodinary expenses the coming year.
One will be increased upkeep cost of
the water system. The water pipes
are developing more frequent leaks
and thus increasing the cost of
keeping the system in working order,
and the old fire truck has almost
seen it's final fire and must be re-
placed at cost of at least $4,000.
The old fire truck is nearly five
years old, has answered sixty-two
fire calls since its purchase and is
now nearly worn out 1T never was
large enough to carry the required
load, the overload being at times in
excess OF $50 percent. During the
years the truck has been in service
there has not been serious fire in
town with one exception, due to the
fact that the truck and fire depart
ment organization combined have
been able to reach every fire before
1t could get a dangerous start. The
estimated saving in property by the
truck is close to $25O,s00.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-08-13
Former Local Teacher Married.

Friends of Miss Lucy Buchanan q
former teacher have received the
daily paper from Rapid City, South
Dakota, Of her recent marriage anu
which says in part:
A very pretty and carefully ap-
pointed wedding occurred THURSDAY,
June 25rd, at the home of Mr.. anu
Mrs. Merle Mccain, the principals
being Miss Lucy Buchanan, niece OF
Mr.. Mccain, and Bert f. Lewis, son
OF Mrs. Laura Lewis. The ceremony
occurred at four o'clock and was
performed by Rev. John Newton
Strain Of the Presbyterian church.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis are no strang-
ers to the people of Rapid City. The
groom is a son of the late Freeman
Lewis and has lived all his life on
the farm east of town. He Is an
exemplary young man who has had
charge of the estate in company with
his mother, and there is no doubt
that he will make model husband.
He has chosen for his bride one. with
whom he has been acquainted since
they went to school together. She
was later teacher in our city
school for several years and Is known
to be young woman OF sterling
worth and many feminine graces.
They left soon after the wedding
was over for an auto trip through
the hills, expecting to make Dead
wood their first stop
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-08-13
Death Of Mrs. Winters.


Mrs. Alice B. Winters died at a
Boise hospital Tuesday evening aged
"a years. She is survived by her
husband Archie Winters and five
children, Baby Charlotte Winters
and Alice, Thelma, Valentine and
Thomas Lynch, and six brothers and
three sisters, Verne Spence of En-
nett, Joseph of Mountain Home,
John Lafe, Richard and Ray Spence,
Mrs. Bertha Statan, Mrs. Nellie
Housden and Mrs. Josephine Strong,
all living in the state of Washing
ton. Mrs. Winters has made her
home in Mountain Home for the
past II years. The body will be
brought here for burial.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-08-13
Freight Rate Cuts Granted

Blanket reduction of 25 per cent
on all classes of freight shipments
were granted the Caldwell Traction
Company by the state public utilities
commission Wednesday A redue-
tion Of approximately SO 1-S per
cent on potato rates was granted.
The reductions range from l to 8
cents per 100 pounds.
Reductions became effective on
Thursday by the order OF the com
mission. Action to lower rates on
the Caldwell Traction Company road
was voluntary, in the application,
filed Wednesday, for authority to de-
crease freight rates on one days no
tice to the commission and to the
public, II was set forth that reduc-
tions were necessary because of auto
truck competitions On August 10.
1920, authority was granted to the
company by the commission to i'm
crease its freight rates from 25 to
SO per cent
The company, in its petition OF
Wednesday, alleges that the rates are
too high, that the con pany has no
traffic, and that trucks are now get
ting large percentage Of the COM
panys former tonnage.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-08-13
Farewell Party.

The Ladies Aid of the Methodist
Church. last Thursday held a fare-
we'll for Mrs. Fred Hall and Mrs. Ray
Alexander at the home Of Mrs. Fisk
Collins.
Mrs Hall leaves soon for Cali
fornia and Mrs. Alexander to Bon-
ners Ferry, Idaho. They were each
presented with a souvenir spoon as a
token Of the esteem held by the so
cities which they are member.
lee cream and cake was served BIZ
Mrs, Collins.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-08-13
The Value Of a Smile;

Have YOU ever thought what the
world would be like without the
power to smile? It would be a
grim world. There are a few men
and women, very few, who scarcely
ever smile and one hastens to get
away from them. They cast a
shadow round about them
Smiling faces make their wearers
welcome everywhere They help
those who are happy to feel happier
and those who are sud to remember
that sadness will pass. a sympathe-
tic smile softens the harshness Of
any misfortune. A hnlly smile is
the most encouraging aid to those
who are in trouble.
Smiles are the lubricant which
keeps the machine Of life running
swectly. II they are absent there
is jarring and grinding, there is
loss of efficiency as well as temper.
If we all smiled at one another as
we 80 through life there would be
no strikes A smile iB the sign OF
comradeshlp. To smile is to ac-
knowledge the brotherhood Of man,
not to smile is to be not far re-
moved from denial Of Cod, for
how can the heart be right toward
the Ruler of the Universe ifft never
prompts us to break forth into a
joyous recognition Of His beneh-
cence, Of the music and the gladness
Of the earth From the Childrens
Weekly (London)
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-08-13
Daniel--Morton.

~N~-A@N sSAAs
Miss Boone DeMerse Morton and
DIR. Doff D. Daniel were united in
marriage Thursday afternoon at the
Morton home by Rev. G. E. Mason,
with the impressive ring ceremony
Only relatives of the family were
present.
The bride is the only daughter Of
Mr.. and Mrs. John w Morton Of
this city and a rare jewel of the Gem
state. She attained her early ed
ucation. here, graduating from the
high school with the class OF 1911
and the following year entered the
Comnock finishing school Of expires
sion at Los Angeles Afterwards
entering the Combs Conservatory Of
music at Philadelphia from which
school she graduated in 1920, receiy-
ing a certificate for school supervi-
sion in music, and the past summer
graduated from the vocal department
She belongs to two sororities, the
Socora Society of California, and
the Alpha Sigma sorority of Philadel-
phia.
The bride was pretty in Bud
dha colored silk lace gown. draped
over white silk lace, with three or
chids Of taffeta and satin with os-
trich feather center trimming the
crush satin girdle, she wore picture
hat Of black silk braid with an os-
trich feathers sacross the front, and
carried a shower boquet of brides
roses. Her only jewels were the
engagement ring of engraved platin-
um with filigree circle of sixteen
diamonds around the large SOLITAIRE
stone, and the wedding ring, also
of engraved platinum with a circle
of twenty one diamonds. Her travel
ing costume is of tailored black and
white Canton crepe with a small
black velevet hat with white angora
trimming.
The brides mother wore dress
of embroidered cream lace over
maize satin.
The groom ID the oldest son of Or,
and Mrs. G. P. Daniel of Marshes,
West Virginia. He graduated from
West Virginia Weslyn College in
1917 with the degree of B. S., and
from the Jefferson Medical college
the past summer. He is a member
Of three fraternities, the Alpha Kap-
pa Kappa a medical order and two
honorary socities, the Theta Nu
Epsilon and Alpha Omega Alpha In
September of this year he is to en-
ter the Jefferson hospital for a two
years internship. DR. Daniel Is a
young man of pleasing personality
and has made many friends during
his brief stay here and is much i'm
pressed with the west, this being his
first visit
Immediately after the ceremony aI
five course wedding dinner was
served. The table was attractive
with "a cut glass bowl of fragrant
sweet peas. The rooms were pretty
with vases of snapdragons and mid
summer flowers. The gift Of the
brides mother and father is a
mahogany chest of silver containing
100 pieces.
The marriage is the elimination
of romance which began at din
ner party two years ago. A coin
cident of the romance is that both OF
the young people graduated from the
same platform this past year. They
left on No. II for Portland where
they will visit enroute to their home
IN Philadelphia. The Republican
joins their many friends in wishing
them much happiness and long
life.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-08-13
The Old Time Pen.

The pen is one OF the Oldest instru-
ments men use. Whether or not 1t
IS mightier than the sRord, as Bull
wer Lytton makes the great French
cardinal exolaim in the play Richie
lieu, it is perhaps of as great anti
quity as the sword 1t is not as old
as stoneheaded war clubs or stone
axes, but it seems to date back to the
beginning of mans knowledge Of the
metals and their alloys. AS soon as
men got the idea Of inscribing SYM
bols on stone as representing things
or words, they used an iron instru
ment which was the parent or the
ancestor Of the pen There were
pens of iron and bronze and reeds,
and later the Quills of feathers.
The Assyrian kings and scribes
and the Phoenicians, 1000 years be-
fore Christ, proclaimed their dynas-
ties with DEGREES written with pens
made from reeds and feathers. THE
early Greeks inscribed their letters
with stylus, but the later Greeks
wrote with the quills OIL, geese, crows,
hawks and eagles, Pens at the be-
ginning of the Christian era.
The stylus, with which many Of
the Greeks and Romans wrote, was
something like an iron bodkin and It
came to be used SO often in brawls
that it was prohibited-that Is, men
were prohibited to use q stylus. The
bodkin in old English times was no
doubt a big daring or knitting needle
and Hamlet had that instrument in
mind when he said: when he his
auietus might make with a bare
bodMn.'
There are various references in
the Bible to pens. In the Book Of
Judges, the fifth chapter and the
fourteenth verse is this; "Out of
Machlr came down governors and
ont of Zebulum they that handle the
pen of the writer" In | Kings, the
twenty-frst chapter, in the matter
of Ahab Jezebel and Naboth, it is
written: 80 she wrote letters in
Ahab's name and sealed them with
his seal and sent the letters unto the
elders and the mobiles that were in
his city dwelling with Naboth." In
tba nineteenth chapter of Job, the
twenty-third and twenty-fourth YER
sas is this: "Oh that my words were
pripted in a book! That they were
craven with an iron pen and lead In
rock forever!" The eighth chapter
Of Isaiah begins; Moreover, the
Lord said unto me: Take thee d
great roll and write in it with a
mans pen concerning Habesshalal-
hash-baz
Pens Of steal, gold and silver APP
neared in Great Britain, France and
America about 1900, but they were
very slow in gaining favor. They
we're expensive, clumsy and not as
satisfactory as the quill. But the
oijll had reached the limit in the
nicely with which it could be pointed
and the gold and steel pens com
tinued to be improved in their
moothness and fiexibility.
nninc Edna Green and Donald
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-08-13

The honeymoon is not actually
over until the bridegroom begins
looking for the old pipe and slippers
he threw away, and the bride be-
gins writing home for the old clothes
she left with mother.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-08-13

The entrances to the Alturas
street park have been nailed up by
the street commissioner this week
and signs will be put up directing
camprs to the city tourist park.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-08-13

o. E. Cannon and family accom-
panied by Mrs. Cannon's mother,
Mrs. S, E. Reed leave Friday for
Boise to spend the week end visiting
relatives and friends.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-08-13

Farmer--"Will you dig some .po-
tatoes for good meal?" Hobo
"0h, no matter. can enjoy one
without them
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-08-13

Leland Cannon has gone to Glenns
Ferry to visit his uncle, Charley
Reed and family on their ranch
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-08-13

A good mahy fellows who swear
70 love before marriage love to
swear afterward.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-08-13

The Merry-go-arouni is afford
ing lot. OF amusement this week for
the children and the young folks
from the crowds that gather.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-08-13

Miss Edna Green and Donald
Hughes we're married last week at
pocatello. They are both from
eIenDs Ferry, and well known here,
Donald was in the navy during the
war.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-07-05

file OF the craft unions OF the United
States.
This work Is being carried on. In
n limited way. by the Industrial
Workers OF the World.
An effort was made before the
writer left the United States 10 con.
centra;c much OF the propaganda
work upon the United Mine Workers
OF America. which Is the keel OF the
American Federation OF Labor. Wig.
orous agitation and education can be
carried on In the local unions OF
mine workers and viii bring cf.
fectuai results
Little or nothing can be expected
from the rniiruad organixatisns---th
four brothcrhoois OF the trainsmcn.
They can scarcely be referred 10 as
labor unions: they are little moro
than Insurance organizations. each
having property holdings. running
into millions OF dollars.
Among the shopmcn. the truck.
men and others. some definite prop
aganda Is being carried on
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-07-05
SIMS ADVOCATES
FREE CRITICISM

NEWPORT. H. J.. July s.-rree.
dom OF criticism OF officers OF the
armed forces Of the L. s. was urged
by Admiral Sims In an address yes.
torday before the Rhode Island
branch OF tho Society OF tho Cincin.
natl. Sims declared that In some
continental countries criticism waa
recognized an vital necessity for
tho welfare and efficiency of the
army and navy.
The American people. Sims added.
know inaa about tho actual condition
OF their military forces than amy
other people on earth.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-07-05
THE LOAN SHARK MUST GO!

shark WIS overheard by +. H. oroui.
clerk at the hotel. In which the
man angriiy demanded that Swank
pay him some money.
why didn't you come TO see me
last Monday" no shouted. 81 have
waited long enough for that money"
swank was IS, and a member OF
the u. L. O. =. lodge No. o..
Police declared Tuesday that city.
wide campaign should be launched
against Seattle's loan sharks
One member OF the force. who re
fused TO be quoted. said: II know Of
Il doxcn cases where innocent people
have fallen into the clutches Of those
Shylocks. and like swank. are being
literally bounded 10 death. It's time
Seattle cleaned houseF'