Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-07-16
CHAPTER XXI

CHAPTER AAl
Gilmore county, since its organlza-
ton, has become the home OF nu-
merous secret society lodges, and the
principal orders are all now well
represented.
The first organization was the Ma
sonic lodge at Rocky Bar, known
as Alturas lodge No. IL, A. F. & A.
M. This lodge is over a quarter OF
a century old. AT one time there
was a flourishing chapter 0. e. s.,
but at the big fire in 1892 the char
ter was destroyed, and many mem
bers leaving, it was never renewed.
The second Masonic lodge, known
as Gilmore lodge No. 80, A. F. Il A.
NJ, was organized in Mountain Home
i'm 1898, and Its auxiliary, Miriam
Chapter No. Is, 0. e. S., was or
ganized several years later.
In 1880 the Masonic lodge at
Rocky Bar erected a neat temple,
which was destroyed in the great
fire Of '92, and has never been re-
built.
The Odd Fellows organized a lodge
at Rocky Bar in 1889. Jointly with
the Knights of Labor, the Odd Fell
lows erected a large building with a
hall ON the first floor and a lodge
room on the second. This was also
destroyed in the great fire of~'92 and
never rebuilt.
Mountain Home lodge No. 10, /. O.
0. F., was organized in 1887, and
OWNS the building on the northeast
corner of Alturas street and Bru-
avenue. The lower portion is
occupied by the G. w. fletcher Co.
as a~store, and the upper ortion is
used as a lodge room.
= The last Odd Fellow lodge in the
county was organized at Glenns
Ferry in 1902.
There are two lodges of Daughters
of Rebekah i'm the county, one at
Mountain Home, organized in 1888,
and one at Glenns Ferry, organized
in 1903.
The knights Of Labor was organ-
lied at Rocky Bar as L.. A. 1877, in
1889, and continued until 1892,
when, owing to the closing down of
the mines, causing members to scat
ter, as we'll as the destruction of the
hall and property by fire, is dis
banded.
Mountaineer Assembly No. 404,
K. of L., was organized at Glenns
Ferry in 1889. In 1894, owing to
the scattering of it's members after
the A. r. U. strike of '94, as well
as the total loss Of all its property
in the great fire of Glenns Ferry, it
passed into history.
Elmore Assembly No. 727, was or
ganized at Mountain Home in 1892.
In 49, the panic drawing most of
its members elsewhere, it lapsed.
The order at one time had an ex-
traordinarily large membership.
In 1895, Gilmore lodge No. 10, A.
0. U. W., was organized at Glenns
Fenry, and a few days later another
lodge was\ organized at Mountain
Home. In SO a Workman lodge was
organized at Rocky Bar. Of these
the lodge at Glenns Ferry still re-
mains, the other two having gone
out of existence.
The Modern Woodmen was organ
lied at Mountain Home in 1897, and
in 1900 the Woodmen of the World.
Later on the Royal Neighbors and
the Women of Woodcraft came into
existence.
> The Brotherhood of Locomotive
Firemen was organized at Glenns
Ferry in 1891 and in 1893 the Amer
icah Railway Union sprung UP to
life at the same place. Both these
orders fell in the great railroad
strike of 1894.
In addition to these orders, the
ladies of Mountain Home are organ
lied in three literary soci eties-the
Entire Nous, the Atemisia, and the
Sub Rosa clubs.
The Kings Daughters, Christian
Endeavor and League of the Sacred
Heart complete the list of societies.
The Masons and the Odd Fellows
each nave an attractive and we'll
kept cemetery at Mountain Home.
CHAPTER XXI
The year 1894 was ushered in dur
ing the era of financial depression
and hard times all over the country.
Like the preceding year, it was one
ruin, idleness and disaster. Bank
and the collapsing of large
mercantile houses were the order of
the time-crash following crash. The
in the boundaries ceased to glow
and died out. The wheels in the
Mills stood still. Able-bodied men. 4.
or want OF work, wept for their
wives and children in cold ]
ZONES OF hunger and woe. Others ]
all over the land, outcasts c
md tramps. The farmer, unable to 4
ind a market for the fruit of his I
oil, could not meet his obligations,
nd his land fell under the sheriff's c
Iammer, forcing the owner into the c
anks Of the unemployed. In the C