Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1923-07-27
BRUNEAU
From The Nugget
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Mr.. and Mrs. @. L. Webb were wish
tors to Mountain Home for few
hours Tuesday, returning in the
evening.
Grant Riddle went through to
Mountain Home last Friday to meet
his daughter Ruby, with whom he
returned to Riddle Saturday morn
ing.
George Loveridge, for a session
with the dentist, went to Mountain
Home Tuesday, where he feared he
would be detained for several days.
DR.. Wetherell and family of Noun
tain Home motored over to Bruneau
Tuesday evening for a ride and TO
see the finest little town and valley
which he ever saw.
Homer Levander of the Valley
Mercantile store went with Bob
Adams to Mountain Home Saturday
morning, where he planned to meet
Mrs. Levander, and together con-
tinue to the Boise river for fishing
trip and vacation.
Miss Nellie Turner entertained a
group of young people at her home
Wednesday night, the occasion be-
ms budt yOuHB iduJ vi LhudJ
Jack Robbins, engineer at the
Grand View pumping plant, and VIII
Vinson, ditch rider for the irrigation
district of that place, were visitors
here yesterday afternoon.
George Evans. the efficient and ac-
comodating mail contractor of the |
Mountain Home Bruneau route, is
taking his well-earned vacation in
the everlasting hills of Elmore coun-
ty, during which the stage is being
driven by Guy Black.
Ben McGowin, John Erickson and
Lee Pancoast, all of Indian Cove,
were visitors here Friday and Satur-
day of last week. The former is
now possessor of a license to operate
a ferry at the Cove.
Bert Smith and family, of Noun
tain Home, made an evening drive to
Bruneau Wednesday. During the
short time spent here they were visi-
tors at the Pascoe home.
Dan Mclaughlin, well-known at
tOrney of Mountain Home, was
weekend visitor to Bruneau, which
is to say that Dan was here toward
the close of the week for a few hours.
Sam Hart of Grasmere, broken in
health and well-nigh helpless, passed
through Bruneau enroute to Noun
tain Home, Thursday, where he is
now in a hospital.
A couple of hundred lambs con-
veyed by auto truck TO the railroad
for shipment to market is something
new in that industry, and that is
what was seen passing through
Bruneau Monday ENRIQUE to Noun
tain Home. These particular lambs
were from the Belknap flock. Each
truck was fitted up with, in one
case, double deck pen, this one con-
tanning 81 head; the other being
single deckers, held about SO each
II is held that this method of con-
yeying the woolies is a large econ
omy, as little of the waste, expressed
in shrinkage during the hot drives,
is encountered. This must be the
reason, for il costs money to employ
trucks and truck Drivers Willis
Dodge, his son and jeff Ladd each
passed through loaded in this man
ner with the Belknap product, and
he sheep looked to be in first-class
shape as they rode through in their
lullmans.
Ben Johnson, formerly of Indian
Cove, where he resided upon a ranch
With his family for a number of
years and which he still owns, is
iere from Cleveland, Ohio, visiting
md attending to business matters.
Ben has been for three years
'esident of Cleveland, where he is
ngaged in the manufacture of mat
resses, has built up a furnishing
rade and is making money. How
yer, Mrs. Johnson's health is rather
'elow par, which Ben contributes to
he climate of the big Ohio metropo-
is, and 1t isn't at all unlikely they
viii return to Indian Cove again in
hopes that Mrs. Johnsons health
nay be restored. He came over Mon
lay morning from the Cove in COM
amy with Ben McGowin, John Err
ckson and Lee Pancoast on an err
and of business connected with the
lew ferry about to be installed at
hat place by McGowin. The entire
arty returned to the Cove by way
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