Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-02-26
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Price has doctor who boasts that
he never has made wrong diagnosis.
Poker hand?-price (Utah) Sun.
Doctors are waging a war on high
heels. But none Of them objects 10
having patient well heeled.-Sat
Lake Telegram.
1t is all very well to talk about a
fiat tax on incomes, but what about a
tax on flat incomes Irwin Falls
{Idaho) Times.
What's the matter this winter? We
haven't seen story about the deer
lighting in the streets for months and
months.-Nampa Udaho) Free Press.
who is apt to consider the coming in
augursd festivities amply sufficient, no
matter what their nature, is President
Wiison.-Butte (Mont.) Miner.
In good times the movies prosper
because everyone has plenty of money
to spend on entertainments, and n
bad times they prosper because PEG.
pie go to the pictures when they can't
find any work to do.-Richfield (Utahl
Reaper.
That was pretty piece of devo.
ton on the part of the wife who gave
a piece of her jawbone to repair her
husbands broken leg. Now of it will
only be still long enough to knit with
the other bone, all will be well--Fm-
nett Qdaho) Examiner,
Farmers who have hesitated about
signing up to raise beets on account of
difficulty in securing labor in the past
re now assured there will be plenty
# beet field workers available and
those who have been holding. back Oh
this account are now signing no.
Fallon (Ney.) Eagle
J. Ogden Armour says new spapers
orght not to print unverified rumofs,
and to judge from the mere sound Of
his statement you would guess that
Mr.. Armour wants the newspapers
to print the truth about everything,
including the packing business.-Idaho
Fa''s ,Qdaho) Times-Register.
The proposed plan Of the Nevada
legislature to advance the cost of a
fishing license from 81 to 50 will not
meet with serious objection, provided
that the Nevada fish commission will
expend the extra revenue thus oh
tanned in restocking the streams
Gardnerville New Record Courier.
Investigations develop the fact that
some Of the big contractors who robbed
the country and the people were Re
publicans, some were Democrats,
some Episcopalians, some Hard Shell
Baptists and some not much of any
thing. 1t was not q case of creed or
politics, but of all-round general Gus
sedness of human nature.-Brigham
City (Utah) Journal.
The cry "hard times" was not borne
out by facts at the Peterson auction
sale Tuesday There was a good
crowd and bidding was liyely-every-
thing bringing good price Cows
selling at unusually good figures, rang
ing from 500 to STAT, and other stock
In proportion, rs per cent Of the pur.
chases being paid for in cash.-Parma
(Idaho) Review.
Other things to be avoided in times
like these are the efforts of I'M
promptu craftsmanship. That means
that one should not draw up a bill
for this or that without thinking it
over. Often there is much mischief
done in such ways. Men and classes
Of men should not be humored to be-
iieve that everything they want can
be given them by statute.--Godfield
New Tribune.
A federal prohibition agent of Sc
attic reports that after two years
search a still was found which was
underground and could only be APP
preached by going %1rough a hollow
log, the entrance of which was con-
cealed by stumps and brlars, says an
exchange Water was piped from
spring to room 10x14 feet, from
which a sewer led to the river-Vir-
g'nia City New Chronicle.
It is said that the former German
kaiser employs more than sixty serv.
ants, and IS regularly supplied with