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Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-12-24

This week we have a report of the
wonderful pageant which tn eTwen-
tieth Century club Of Twin Falls
put on in celebration of the Land
ing of the Pilgrims" Mrs. James
Ntzerald, press reporter for the club
sent in the account which is as fol-
lows:
1.-THE Twentieth Century club of
Twin Falls, celebrated the Booth. an
niversary of the Landing of the Pill
grims" with a Pageant presented at
the Lavering theatre, November 80
and December l.. In the afternoon
of November 30th, a matinee was
given to enable the school children
to derive the educational value Of
this wonderful production. Over
200 people took part in this Pageant
which was the best Pageant ever
staged in Southern Idaho. 1t in
cluded the historical events from
the Landing of the Pilgrims to the
present time.
The Twin Falls society of the
daughters of the American Revolu-
ton appeared in a scene entitled
Martha Washington's L e e ;.
Members Of the Twin Falls Kiwanis
club took the part Of the British
soldiers in historic scenes. The
Boy Scouts represented Virginia
rifemen.
"The Pageant, entitled pilgrims
of the May1ower', was written by
Mrs. Arthur X. Seaver who is a
member of the Twentieth Century
club. Among those who assisted in
staging the production and who are
entitled to special mention are, Mrs.
d. f. Riggs who had general super
vision. Mrs. /. H. Masters who had
charge of the music and Mrs. G. j.
Schroeder who was business man
ager.
in spite of inclement weather a
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-12-24
Title to 10000 Acres Now Clear.

Idaho will Soon receive title to
more than one hundred thirty thou
sand acres of land in the Boise,
Blackfoot and HALEY land districts,
was announced Wednesday by the
state land commissioner on his re-
turn from Washington where he has
been for several weeks working in
the United States general land office.
This land the commissioner
says, HAS been selected by the
state for a long time but was no real
asset because title had never been
vested in the state, There are so
many technicalities to be worked out
after land is selected before title can
pass that it often takes years to com
plete all arrangements by CORE
s%pondence, whereas by p%esronal con-
ference with the proper authorities
speedy action can almost always be
had"
Most of the lands yet to be clear
listed are in the hands of the field
service department of the interior de-
partment, awaiting reports as to
their mineral character. This part
of the work has caused much delay
In getting clear lists. 1t appears
that after every other objection is
raised on the transfer of lands to
the state, the clear lists are sent to
the field service department for re-
port. For the past few years the
number of field men has been linn
tied and the departments was unable
to get the reports out as fast as
should be done.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-12-24
Christmas Trees and Where They
Come From.

Each holiday time brings the
usual story about the Christmas
tree, where they come from. how
many, and the ear used to bring
hundreds of train loads OF them to
the markets.
Ten OF the twenty-five kinds of fir
tres found in the world are native
to North America, eight occur in the
Pacific slores and in the Rocky
mountain regions, and only two are
found in the eastern United States,
and one of these, Fraser's fir, is lin
tied to tho high mountains of Vir-
ginia, North Carolina and Tennes-
see. Mos important in the western
group are the Grand fir, N bolefir,
White fir aud Red fir. The balsam
FIR is unquestionably the best known
and most widely distributed of our
native frs
The Balsam fir is a tree which sat
Isles many human wants but the
greatest Of all its gift is the Christ
mas tree. AS a Christmas tree it
has no superior, and in many locili-
ties.
Deep green leaves which are armed
with spines along the margin distin-
guish Christmas holly. The leaves
are so plight and they often reflect
light as mirrors. The small bright
red berries are also a helpful means
of ident' 1cation in fall and in win
ter. An old manuscript in the Bri-
tish Museum states that the "holly
hath berries as red as any rose"
Devout people regard tn eleaves of
the holly as a symbol Of the saw
ior's crown OF thorns.
OF course, nobody, particularly
the young folks, wants to miss mis-
tletoe. 1t is the only parasitic plant
that is used at Christmas time. 1t
is sometimes called a tree thief, for it
gets all its nourishment from the
ire upon which ii lives. In the
south one may see thousands Of trees
literally festooned with the missile
toe. It sometimes grows in the
form Of a witches broom or one may
see it dangling down from the bran
ches Of a tree in graceful array. 1t
ALWAYS appropriates for its own de-
development the lifeblood of the tree
upon which it feeds. Some four
hundred species of mistletoe are
listed. Most of them occur in the
tropics.
Large quantities of trailing pine,
also known as princess pine and
ground hemloek are used at Christ
mas time. These plants really are
not pines or hemlock but are closely
related to the ferns.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-12-24
The Old Sock Bank.

The postal savings banks are out
for the money hidden away in var
ious crude. old time caches, such as
the decrepit teapot in the cupboard,
the kitchen clock, the mattress and
tbe stocking end. Great wealth
awaits the successful profiters in
these rich unworked lodes. The first
French effort under Ferdinand de
Lessons to dig the Panama canal
was financed largely by funds Sec
rated in those ways among the peas
ants. Part of the western shore OF
Newfoundland is still called the gold
coast because Of treasure ea%rthbound
in cans, inferred by those who lost
confidence in banks after two dis
astrous failure at St. Johns. Every
such collapse means a further with
drawal of timorous investors and de-
positors, many of them aliens, who
for years where they came here, car
ried all their worldly goods about
with them where they wandered.
Part Of III ework of A~mericaniza-
ton rightly may be to engender in
the new arrival a warranted conf
dence in the frcal solyency OF banks
ing institutions. The postal savings
bank pays a low rate of interest.
But any rate of interest is more
than the cracked sugar bowl or the
t~hreadbare stockings as a mere pro-
ductive repository returns. 1t is the
sc%riptural story of the buried talent
over again.-Philadelphia Public
Ledger.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-12-24
HIGH SCHOOL NOTES.
Walter Green, Editor.

Mrs. l.. l.. Erickson, the CONNER
cial Inspector, was a visitor at the
school last week.
Mrs. Erickson was sent out by
the state board of education over
ali southwestern Idaho, an dse com
pared Mountain Home very favor
ably with other southwestern
schools such as Nampa, Caldwell,
Boise. Meridian, Weiser and Payette
She praised the work OF our COM
mercial teacher, Mrs. Hays and put
special emphasis on penmanship
work. Her n regret is that she is
very sorry that the crowded depart
ment of the Mountain Home high
schools commercial course prevents
1t from having a fpll year bookkeep-
Ing course.
The younger boys of the high
school were badly beaten by the
grades last week, the score being
81 to 3 in favor of the grades. Those
playing on the grade team were:
Harold Love, Spencer Caldwell,
Richard Monsterio, Lawrence Bea-
man, Dale Proctor, Gordon Miller
and George Weatherly.
The high school boys were: Tom
Boardman, Louis Nicholson, Walter
Green, Richard Groves, Francis Har-
ley. Lambert Cannon, Wallace Evans
Norman Eckstein, Philip Anderson
and Richard Denton.
Mr.. Simon, tn ebasket ball coach
reports that our team is working
out fine, and showing a great deal
OF sped. He says he doesn't see why
we shouldn't win the four coming
games on our home floor. He also
states that 1t is not the team that
Is lacking this year, but the crowd.
We have seven big games coming
this year, and after beating the
dour on our home floor with the
entire high school looking on, We'll
clean up on the other three teams
on their own floors. Now for the
first game on our home floor let's
90 a real turn out. II these boys can
take time to practice to hold up our
reputation of the school, we at least
can attend.
Russell Turner was requested by
Groefsema TO hand in a theme on
foot ball. The next day his theme
read Rain, no game"
Friday afternoon at 900 o'clock
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-12-24
WOMEN'S CLUBS OF IDAHO
NEWS OF THE STATE FEDERATION

BY MRS. HOMER L. SETTLE, Payette, State Press Chairman.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-12-24
RECORDS OF The PIONEERS
CFrom THE ELMoRE BULLETIN

home of their son, S. B. Blackwell
on Cold Springs creek. They will
remain during the winter.
Miss May Hice came in from Cald-
we'll Saturday night and will re-
main during the holidays.
Miss Kittie wilkins returned yes
terday from an extended ~sojourn in
the east.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-12-24

there will be a special Christmas
program given by tn eAthene Liter
airy Society in the high school study
hall. The program will be as follows:
/. Christmas carol by, Mary Chit
wood, Mary O'Niell, Marian Dick,
Margaret Lewis, Ruth Gaines, Kara
Collins and Lillian Tye.
2. Christmas story by Edward
Pence.
3. Solo by Bess Faraday.
a. School paper by Esther Pence
and Byron Norell.
8. Piano solo by Lucille Norell.
G.. Talk on disarmament confer
ence by Mary Chitwood.
z. Vocal solo by Marian Green.
s. Christmas poem by Gladys
Flesher.
g.. Duet by Eleanor Helm and
Helene Smith.
10. Reading by Either Woodruff.
IL. Selection from boys quartet,
Vyrdon Collins, Byron Norell, Allen
Miller and Frank Riddle.
Grade News
Mahlon Rhoads of the first grade
has gone to Boise to attend school.
Harry Allan has been absent
from school because of an attack OF
appendicitis.
The third grade attendance is
much improved and the children
are now busily engaged in making
Christmas presents.
The following names were omitted
from the honor roll last week, Mary
Louise Bullen, Claudio Mendoza,
Dale Vandegrift, Marian Galindo
and Alice Green
The fifth and sixth grades are
having a spelling contest, the fifth
grade being at present in the lead.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-12-24
Pioneer News From the Elmore Coun-
ty Republican, Dec. %, 1895.

Mrs. Sam Kincaid and SOL EN-
NETT were visiting in Brhneau val
ley this week.
c. G. Blackwell and wife, of Long
Creek. Oregon are visiting at the
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-12-24
Amerieanism

AIuClIGdll1olAs
A young Russian girl has won the
Colonial Danes medal for a prize
essay on Americanism. That is not
surprising. Americans are likely to
take Americanism as a matter of
course. sometimes unfortunately to
the extent of forgetting what 1t
means to them. We would not ex-
aggerate the heedlssness OF youth,
and our remark applies more point
eddy to grown-ups than to children,
but it is a fact that Americans, while
they may be very proud OF their
country and of their A~mericanism,
often show a regrettable b~agueness
as to the principles which have an
unparalleled welfare to this lane OF
ours.
We observe this most consciously
in u readiness to propose laws
which are not American in principle
and which as they are enacted IN
passing impulse carry us away from
the American system. The drift
toward government interference in
private activities and private con-
duct is not Americanism, but Eu-
ropeanism. Whimpering and snarl-
ing over inequalities of material for
tune is not Americanism. Reliance
upon individual energy and initia-
tive and a shrewd distrust of ag-
grandizement of government are the
basis of true American character,
and it Is American character which
makes American institutions and
guarantees their healthy evolution.
A foreign born American is often
more likely to appreciate the virtue
of true Americanism, if only by con-
trast with conditions, left behind
Where this occurs, and we believe 1T
occurs more often than not, there is
a sound American, whose intelligent
devotion the country can count up
on in war or peace,
True Americanism is not a ques-
ton of birth. 1t is understanding
and whole heartedly sharing the
spirit of essential A~mericanism,
President c. w. Tenney of Good
ing college was in town between
trains Sunday. According to his re-
port. vacation will ommence next
Friday, at which time, Winnie Bar
rett and Beryl Collins will come
home for the Christmas holidays.
Studies will be resumed January 3rd,
and a number of new students will
enter at that time for review work
or for the studies of the second Sc
mester. Among the subjects that
will be offered at that time are
shorthand, typewriting, accounting
r~emodelling of old clothes, dietetics,
rural sociology and a goodly num-
Der of other regular college branches.
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-12-24

Mother: 1--WE tried so hard to
make you a good child, Margaret,
and yet in spite of all my efforts
you are still rude and naughty"
Margaret deeply moved) what
a failure you are, mother"
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-12-24

Your daughter sir, has referred
me to you"
Il have nothing to do with her
love affairs"
This is about a millinery bill for
$780,"
Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-12-24

He: l can hold my breath two
minutes.
She: You don't say, and it's
pretty strong tonight.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-03-01
OIL POLICY
FOLLOWS WILSON
Note Says She Has No Desire to
Exclude United States From
Mesopotaman Mandate
PARIS RADICALS STRONGER

London. March I. The ffBihC
LEnGERs forecast Of Mr.. Harding
foreign policy which Carl W. Alderman
sent Sunday night TO all allied repre-
scntativce at tho session Of the Peace
Conference here. brought forth an i'm
mcdiatc reply Yesterday concerning
McsopOtnmia and Nnp.
The statement that Mr.. Harding
would support Mr.. Wilson $ position
regarding Mc.opotamia and Zap am
insist upon q showdown before enter
ing into any scheme to help collect
allied indemnity from Germany was
given most serious consideration.
Thc reply wa, given by high nuthori'
tics and opens up new angie in the
yam controversy. namely. that Great
britain is bound to support Japan he
cause Of n secret treaty negotiated With
japan siX weeks before the United
states entered the world war This
confidential pact was fully explained
tn Mr.. Wilson at the Paris conference.
Premier Lloyd George has approved
the foreign office draft of the British
reply 70 Secretary Colby's oil note of
November 20. ana it is being dispatched
at once in order that the oil Contro.
vcrsy may so far ns possible be settled
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-03-01
WOMAN FIGHTS JURY DUTY
Asks to Be Stricken From list on
Constitutional Ground

Pottsyille. Pa, March 1.---"This
case cuts at the very heart Of women :
rights. and if won by the petitioner
would set our cause back twenty five
years, wired national suffraGcttc
leader today from New York In pre-.
pairing to oppose the petition Of Anna
Boyer. school teacher Of Pottsvillc.
to the Schuylkill county court 70 have
her name stricken off the jury list She
holds that the nineteenth amendment
does not give women the right to be
come jurors.
Miss Boyer's action, regarded by Suf
frage leaders ms a fire in their rear.
after they thought every right Of women
fully won, has aroused a storm among
them. The case will come M for hear
ing on Monday next. The decision. re-
gardless Of its character, will he car
ried Immediately to the Suprrm" Court.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-03-01
KING THREATENS TO OUT
Hedlaz Ruler VIII Retire II Claim.
Are Not Granted

London, March IA dispatch to IN,
Times from Cniro says It Is stated l.
well Informed circles there that Hus
sein Ben Ali, king Of the Hcdjaz. b,.
advised the British Government tb..
he intends TO abdicatc IL his claims vi,,
regard TO Arabia are not settled h.
March 81.
The premier set at rest yesterday :.
the Commons question which b.'
caused considerable public discussion -
was whether Winston Churchill. sec,.
tary, for the colonies, would have char,
Of Egyptian affairs. The prime miuis,S.
announced that the administrator ",
Palestine, Mesopotamia. Alden onI W
areas within the British sphere Of ;nu
fluencc would be transferred to the n,;%
lde east department of the coloni,,
Office after March ]. Egypt, the Svdnu
and the Hcdiaz would remain und..
the foreign Office. '''
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-03-01
ATTACK ON TROOPS
TERROR|zES CORK
Five Killed and Eleven Injured
in Various Parts Of City.
Curfew Decreed
PATH0S AT EXECUTIONS
By the Associated Press

London. March | l---Cork city was il
state of terror from : until ~ 'Clocl
last evening. according to the rorre
spondent Of the Central News. Soldiers
were first attacked IN st. Patrick,
street and were also Sniped in various
parts of the city. Several civilians
were wounded in the affrays.
The military governor has ordered
curfew from g o'clock in the evening
10 3 in the morning, beginning today.
Dublin. March l.-ORy \. Tl-At
least five soldiers were killed and eleven
wounded at q 80 q clock last evening in
Cork when they were attacked by armed
civilians. says n military communication
issued last night. The soldiers are de
clared to have been unarmcd and walk
ing along the street when the attack was
made.
News of the execution Of the six
Irish republicans at Cork yesterday
made a profound impression upon the
population Of the catal. 1t had been
generally expected the death sentences
would be commutPd. Five Of the men
were condemned for an attack upon the
crown forces
Pathetic scenes were enacted outside
tho Victoria barracks, where the exc
cutionS took place. \ great crowd as.
tpmbled early. including a number Of
women and religious bodies and the
widow of the late Lord Mayor Mac
Curtain. 4 tank with guns prevented
any one from approaching nearer than
hfty yards
At the stroke Of 5 there was SoIcy
Of rife fire. then silence, and the
watchers dropped on their knees. hold.
ing aloft sacred cmblemS and lighted
candles and reCited the litany for tho
diving. 1t was then thought all was
over and the people were about to dis
perse when a second vollPy was heart.
and a similar scene was enacted. and
then again third vollPy
The tank and soldiers withdrew, and
the crowds slowly dispersed. Canon
O'Sullivan, who attended the doomed
men. said they went bravrly TO their
death. like schoolbovs on a holiday
\ ClcmcnCy appeal was adopted by
the Cork corporation Saturday and q
COPY sent To General Sir Nrvil Ma
Cready. commander Of tho troops in
Ireland. In all the Catholic churches
in Cork Sunday prayers were said for
the condemned men.
Before the execution mass was cpjC.
hratcd in the cell in which thn Dris-
"nerS were confined. and extreme unr-
tion was administered to each of them.
1mmcdiately after the men were shot
their relatives presented a petition ask
ing for the bodjoS. but during the morn
ing two guarded nmhulanccs left the
barracks whore the men were executed
for the county jail and. l. lS believed.
took the bodies there.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-03-01
PROTECT JAPAN'S CABINET
officials Guarded, Following Assault
on Es.prennier's Son

TOXIC, March I. - The residences OF
members of the cabinet and court digni-
taries are being strictly guarded MS
result Of the recent attack on the son
Of Marquis Saionji, ex-prcmier and
head of the japanese delegation at the
Pence Conference, in which NJ. Saionji
was injured slightly. His assaiants are
alleged to be affiliated with secret so
cicty Of whose members seven more
have been arrested. Six had already
been taken into custody on the charge Of
being implicated In the assault
4 grocer who attempted Sunday to
submit written appeal to the crown
prince while the latter was driving
through the street by attaching the pc
tition to the end of bamboo pole was
arrested. and a man who tried to enter
the home of Prince Kanin. of the su-
preme military council, Sunday night
was seized.
Daily prayers are being offered at the
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-03-01
BrownEdgeWafers
crisp and crunchy

Thin and Acknowledgement,
these Brown-Edge Waters are
as dainty morsel as ever came
from the Wins ovens! Look
at them, and you think of
afternoon teas in homes where
good taste is reflected in every
thing that is served. Eat them,
and you know that Brown
Edge Waters are indeed good
taste.
With fruit-desserts of all
kinds, serve these crisp waters
with the delicately- drowned
edge.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-03-01
MANY FACE ARREST IN ERIE
Grand Jury Vice Report Followed by
issuance OF Warrants

Erie. Pa. March Scores arc to
be taken into custody. many Of them
ofRrials. ms a result Of sweeping state
mcntS made in the vice report submitted
to the court yesterday by the February
rand jury. Seven are now in custody
including Constable John Flanagan. of
the First ward, and the owners OF two
notorious resorts.
Judges ROssiter and Ilrt received the
rpport of the grand jury late yesterday
afternoon and Judge Rossiter announced
that il would NOT be made public until
he and Judge IIirt had '.' oppor
tunity to study It.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-03-01
Having a Party ?
Let the IUins Baker
bake a special cake

A large, elaborately-beautifu
cake.creation for a wedding "a
smaller but just as tastefully-deco-
rated cake for a happy youngsters
birthday party - whatever the spe-
cial occasion calls for, let the skilled
Wins Baker bake it.
lell your grocer what you desire,
week in advance. On the day Of
your party, promptly, we will deliver
to you wonderful cake that will
be the surprise-sensation of the oc-
caslon. And the cost will be no
greater than would be your expense
baking at home.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-03-01
READING CLUBHOUSE RAlDED
Flremen's Association Accused OF
llleaaI Selling Of Liquor

Reading. Pa, March ! 1.-Following
complaint by neighbors, federal off
GERS from Philadelphia rnided the club
house of the Marion Home Association
here last night and, it is alleged, found
whisky being sold. They also say that
girls Of tender years were lined up
at the bar.
The association is composed Of mem
bcrs of the Marion Fire Company, one
of the city's volunteer fire fighting or
ganizations, and the clubhouse is To-
Gated near the engine house. The asso-
citation has no license to sell liquor Of
any kind.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-03-01
Honor William Dean HoweIIs

New York, March 1.--(By A. PD-
Men Of letters from all parts Of the
country met here today to honor the
memory of William Dean ITowells, who
was president of the American Academy
Of Arts and Letters from its inception
until the day Of his death. May II.
1920. Members Of the National fnsti-
tute Of Arts and Letters, as well as of
the Academy, attended. A tribute die.
tated Ivy John Burroughs, naturalist,
who is I'll in his Pasadena. Calf, home,
was received. along with many from
Europe.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-03-01
Sweet Maries for dessert !

Ice Cream and Sweet Marie cake-no more delicious
deSsert-combnation could be imagned
In all Is years experience have never baked cookie.
cake that has made friends quickly than has Marie
that buy almost regularly they
buy bread.
Every day. you'll discover and more tempting way to
serve Sweet Mares and every day you'll find added decousness
in the cookeakcs themselves Try Sweet Mas today Your
grocer sells them