Graham Guardian from Safford, Arizona • Page 1

mmomwmm1 i i I IS viru4j SPT3S FIFTEENTH YEAIi The Gila Valley Bank Trust Company Capital Stock 10000000 Surplus 6189777 MILLS President DR RICKETTS Vice President A PASCOE Vice President VAN GORDER Cashier DIRECTORS MILLS RICKETTS WALTER DOUGLAS HURD A PASCOE VAN GORDER A THOMSON HEGARDT We invite new business We pay 4 on term deposits GILA VALLEY NEWS Items of Interest Gathered by the Guardians Correspondents THATCHER Miss Burma Brinkerhoff has gone to Globe to spend a few weeks visiting friends Miss Vinnie Knudson is up from Globe spending a few days with the home folks Ben Blake of the Globe dairy spent Monday visiting with relatives in Thatcher Theodora Moody of Coronado has been down spending a few days with his family Misses Emily and Bernice Webster of Central spent a few days in Thatcher last week Walter Coplan and family are home again after having spent a week in the mountains Mrs Wilkins and Mrs Horace Gardiner spent day this Week with Mrs McFate of Pima Mrs Julia Ellsworth has been visiting the past week with Ernest Ellsworth and family of Layton The new bride and groom Mr and Mrs Dan Sherwood have gone to the Sherwood mill to spend the summer Mrs Lottie Robinson arrived home from Utah Sunday evening after having spent six weeks there visiting with her mother Grandma Montierth and Mrs Eva Gourley have gone to the Gibson saw mill to spend the remainder of the hot summer weather Mrs Joseph Ballard of Emery was the guest of Mr and Mrs Brinkerhoff for several days last week Little Thelma Brinkerhoff returned with her to spend a few days Joe Courley had crowd of men out practicing for the Indian attack to be made on the Twenty fourth of July Mr Gourley is handling this part of the program in a manner that means success Jim Porter of Hubbard has purchased the Layton home on Main street He expects to leave for a mission soon and wants to get his family comfortable located in Thatcher before leaving The entertainment to be given by Miss Montierths elocution class next Saturday evening promises to be a great success The class is doing some splendid work and handle the drama of Evangeline with much skill President Kimball while stacking hay Tuesday evening fell from a very high stack and hurt himself quite badly in his side and back The doctor was called in and said his hurts were not serious but it would take time for him to recover He is confined to a reclining chair being unable to walk Mrs Killian while out riding with her three-year-old boy on Monday stopped the horse to let him get out of the carriage When he had climbed part way down the horse gave a sudden start throwing the little fellow to the ground Whilq itbruiGed him up considerably no serious rcDults followed Ten girls spent Sundaj afternoon with Mi6s Chloc Curtis at her homo in honor of her fifteenth birthday A quiet social visit was enjoyed for a couple of hours when all were led into the dining room where a dcljcious hot supper had been prepared which was a pleasant surprise to the girls and they all enjoyed it most thoroughly Mrs Curtis gave thu girls an invitation to comeand spend Chloes thirtieth birthday in the same manner Those present were Ella Tyler Frona Layton Delia Layton Pauline Coplan Grace Layton Cornelia Vfobds Iretta Layton Hazel Moody Bessie Lay toil and Chlod Curtis James Branam and wife while driving to Safford Wednesday had their horse shy at piece of paper in the road near Hoopes ranch The horse was almost uncontrollable for some time and a colt Mrs Branam was leading by a rope pulled her out over the wheel of the buggy She was badly bruised beside spraining her arm The Young Ladies Association of Thatcher were the guests of the Pima Association at the Pima Hall Tuesday afternoon About forty five girls went down and many more were unable to get convey ances 1 hey were entertained most royally by the Pima girls who showed them every courtesy possi ble The Thatcher girls were much pleased and left feeling that the Pima girls would be hard to excel rs entertainers The officers and teachers of the Primary Association met at the home of Mrs Layton Monday afternoon at a social in honor of the twenty fifth birthday of- Mrs Virgie Lee who is an active primary worker Ice cream and cake were served early in the evening and after spending an hour in social conversation and games homemade rootbeer and cake were passed around The guests all declared it a very happy occasion PIMA Joseph Holliday of Eden was a visitor in town Monday Miss Freda Lines has taken Ethel Ferrins place in the Lines Bros store Carl and Hugh Foster and Jim Matthews have been carryiny grain this week Bob Wallie and Jim Carico of Globe are here workfng on Robert Ferrins baler A baby girl arrived at the home of Mr and Mrs Jack Lambert Monday July 12th A tin shower was given Thursday evening in honor of Miss Ethel Fer rin who left Saturday for Salt Lake City where she will meet Mr Clarence Davis who is coming from his mission in the Southern States The couple will be married in the Salt Lake Temple and will return home in a few months The Young Ladies Association of Pima invited the Young Ladies Association of Thatcher to their social meeting Tuesday After the opening exercises Bishop Merrill gave a lecture on Womanly Dignity which was enjoyed by all After the lecture games were played and sherbert and cookies were served All went home feeling that they had enjoyed themselves very much 161 PllOlISK TllBArAIKNT IOK DV8KX TKUY AND DIAItltllOKA The great mortality from dysentery and diarrhoea is due to a lack of proper treatment at the first stages of the disease Chamber loins Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy is a reliable and effectual medicine and when given in reasonable time will prevent any dangerous consequences It has been in use for many years and has always met with unvarying success For sale by Safford Drug Co Baking Powder Absolutely Pure in Appraisers Select the Roach Farm Ietar Andaisan John Lvaiu and Nek on appointed a oppraiscrt foi the purpow of lecting and appraising land for a county poor farm have chosen the Houston Roach farm just west of Safford The tract consists of nearly eleven acres of land with good orchard one seven room dwelling and one of four rooms and two out buildings The land also carries two shares of Union canal water The place was appraised at 3800 and is an ideal spot for a poor fai in and hospital The Boaid of Supervisors should make the purchase without delay and get the inmates of the hospital ink decent and healthful quarters PIONEERS DAY Special Feature Will Be the Indian Attack--Whole Valley Invited The celebration committee met last Thursday evening and each sub committee reported a splendid outlook for a successful celebration on the Twenty fourth of July Following is the general plan for the sports of the day A parade of the pioneers will stat at nine oclock in the morning containing many novel and interesting features and while on parade will be attacked by Indians under the leadership of Joe Gour ley A very choice literary program has been planned which will take place at the Amusement hall at 1030 oclock This program will be composed largely of singing reciting speeches and music by old pioneers either of Utah or the Gila Valley and also a few parts from the best talent among the younger ones Warren Smith Rupert Lee Wixom Cynthia Layton and James A Duke are managing and planning the afternoon sports and have as a novel feature a game of town ball between the old men over fifty years of age Besides this there will be the following sports Climbing the greased pole catching the greased pig broncho riding pony races foot races Australian pursuit races handicap races relay races long jump and high jump Prizes will be awarded to the winners of the contests Joe Phillips has been appointed on the committee of invitations and has extended written invitations to all the towns of the valley The old pioneers both of Utah and the Gila Valley have been especially invited and will have seats of honor on tho platform Badges have been provided for the pioneers the color indicating whether pioneers of Utah or of the Gila Valley No pains will be spared to make this the cleanest and best celebration ever given at Thatcher and to enthuse the people with the real spirit of pioneer times A dance in the evening will conclude the days festivities John Da ley Answers the Last Roll Call About four weeks ago John Daley was taken ill with dysentery and was compelled to quit the thresher of which he had charge He had been at home ever since but no one thought his case serious until a few days ago and even then no one except the immediate family and the doctor and when on Wednesday evening the news was flashed from one end of the county to the other that big robust Jack Daley was dead no one could believe it yet it was true The immediate cause of death was acute appendicitis John Daley was born in Spring ville Utah March 28 I860 and came to the Gila Valley with his wife and her parents Mr and Mrs Johnson in 1880 They have lived here ever since except for a short time that they lived in Cochise County Jack Daley was a pioneer of this valley in every sense of the word and did his part toward making it inhabitable for white people Jack was well known and liked from one end of the county to the other and it was with the deepest regret that his friends learned of his death The funeral services took place Wednesday afternoon on the lawn at the Daley home and was largely attended by the friends and relatives of the deceased The Thatch er choir was present and rendered some appropriate music The speakers were James Duke Ed Phillips Thomas Kimball Samuel Claridge and Richard Laytbn A large procession followed the remains to the Thatcher cemetery Safford Band Elects Officers The Safford Band held a regulai buoinesr meeting Tuesday evening in Layton Church and elected the following ofheer Preridtnt Geo Jacobaon Secretary and Treasurer Ira Kempton All outstanding bills were ordered paid and the secretary treasurer authorized to collect from members the last assessment It was decided that the president should call the next meeting by which time the new practice books are expected to be received The band starts out with a membership of sixteen If you want a good time attend tho dance at Todds Hall Friday evening July 23rd Music by bolomonville orclwstrri Srfhattt NEW BUILDINGS GOING UP Olney Hardware Co Completes Its Building Other Building Operations Many new improvements have been made recently to Safford business houses Several have com pleted additions to its buildings giving more store room for their increasing business and several new buildings are being erected Tho Olney Jrlardware Co has completed the addition to their store building on Tenth street and has now the largest store in Safford The front of the building has been painted and presents a very neat appearance The front of the Safford Meat Market has received a new coat of paint which makes a decided improvement to the building Thompson the Safford jeweler has been making extensive improvements to his building corner of Tenth and street An addition has been built to the store and carpenters and painters have been busy making changes in the interior of the store to accommodate the large stock of jewelry cut glassware clocks etc which are to be put on display The building has been painted on the front and sides and a handsome new sign has been placed over the show window The cement block office building which is being erected on Tenth street below Thorpes Restaurant for Counsellor Dial is rapidly nearing completion A new one story frame building is being erected on Tenth street next to Houcks grocery store which is to be occupied by the Cozy Corner Candy Store William Cav ness proprietor The Foster Mercantile Co is making extensive repairs to its building The partitions which divided the grocery shoe and dry goods departments have been removed making the main building one large room An addition will be built of brick on the north end of the store which will connect with the warehouse The grocery department will be in the new addi tion A cash and package carrier system will be installed in the big store which will prove very con venient in handling large crowds The Olney Ijams Furniture Co will erect a brick building next to the Olney Hardware Co store This building will have a frontage of 50 feet and will be two stories in heights The plans call for a very handsome building James 0 Thorpe is making good headway on his new hotel building on Tenth street The Journal building lately purchased by Mr Thorpe has been remodeled and will contain two floors A two story addition is being built on the rear of the main building When completed Mr Thorpe will have the largest dining room in town Contractor Faulkner has completed the cement foundations for the two room addition to the Safford School building Mr Faulkner will start on the brick work Monday morning Horses Killed in Peculiar Accident We are informed that while Joe Corder was scraping with a Fresno scraper drawn by a valuable pair of mares last Wednesday both animals were killed in a peculiar manner It seems that the scraper caught a tough root The team made a hard pull and when the root gave way the scraper jumped the sharp edge striking the animals in the fleshy part of the thighs cutting them so badly that they both died within twenty minutes Baking Powder for best results Layton Sunday School Gets Additional Prize Safkoru Arizona July 10 1901 Jouti 1 BlRDNO Saffoid DiarSir I uturn to ou thu diafl cent ne a a prlt fm the float in the parade on the fifth You will please deliver the same to the Layton Sunday School for the reason that I think any school that shows the enterprise they did in putting in the float should have the prize Yours truly Foster Notice to 611a Valley Farmers We will do your exchange busr ness treat you right and make as good flour as can be made of Sonora wheat The mill is running and your patronage solicited 20 2t Fr Thoijas Milling Co MjTWiOll GRAHAM COUNTY ARIZONA JULY 16 NEW DIRECTORS ELECTED By the Gila Valley Fair As sociationFair in November Planned The annual meeting of the stockholders of the Gila Valley Fair Association was held Monday evening in the office of Justice of the Peace Colton The purpose of the meeting was to elect a new board of directors for the ensuing term and the following were chosen John Bird no George Jacobson Ezra Mad sen Belt Lee Stratton Henry Grey and William Kirtland The proposition for holding the first annual fair some time next November was fully discussed and the consensus of opinion was that an exhibition in which the people of the entire valley could participate would be a grand success in every way and that no better means of advertising the valley could be devised It is the intention of the new board of directors to get to work at once on plans for holding a fair to last at least for three days Stalls will be built for the exhibition of horses and cattle There will also be places to show swine and poultry Booths will also be constructed in which all kinds of farming machinery wagons harness tools bicycles aunomobiles etc will be shown There will also be exhibits of farm and dairy products The schools will also have exhibits of work done by the pupils From now on the association will be hard at work planning the first fair ever held in the Gila Valley and there can be no doubt of the support of the farmers and businessmen of the valley in making it a grand success from start to finish means quality A Home Brand for a Home People Mt Grahams Popular Resorts Many Safford people have left town during the past week for Camp Inception Arcadia Sher woods and other resorts situated in the Graham mountains and only a few hours travel from town Camp Inception leads in popularity as an ideal mountain camp This camp is situated in Chlarsons canyon about 14 miles from Saf ford and is in the midst of beauti ful mountain scenery The camp is supplied with several streams of pure water Several new cottages have been built and more are projected by the Forest Service Those now in camp are Mr and Mrs George Birdno and children Mrs Robert Patterson and son Mr and Mrs Dowdle children Mr and Mrs Guy Houck and son Mr and Mrs John Birdno and children all of Safford Mrs Greer of Globe Mrs Hatcher and Miss Willa Robinson of Dallas Texas Mrs Chlarson Mrs William Posey Misses Clara Nash and Gilberttena Lane of Thatcher Notes Albert Todd is expected up on Friday George Birdno is busy making estmates on timber at Sherwoods The visitors from town Sunday were Herman Foster Will Freeman and Jesse Foster Dowdle came down Wednesday to attend to some business in connection with his meat market and will return to camp today Tuesday Miss Mae Dowdle and Miss West accompanied by Ed Dowdle climbed to the top of Mt Graham and spent the day in Camp Columbine Mr and Mrs John Birdno came down from camp Wednesday to attend the funeral of Mrs Birdnos brother-in-law John Daley returning to camp Thursday after noon Miss Mae Dowdle had as a guest for several days Miss Mercy West of LI Paso Texas Miss Dowdle accompantd Vet to town Wednesday Mis West leaving for Prescott Thursday moining from which place she goes to Los Angeles for the summer Judge McCoIlums Brother Dead Tho many friends of Judge McCollum of this city will hear with regret that he has just received news of the death of his brother who lived in Aurora Indiana The deceased was sixty three years old and death was due to cancer He vas a thirty third degree Mason Globe BOIt 1 BHIWIIIIIHI IIIWWW toff ni NTTMKEU 21 While this Bank adopts every desirable method of modern banking it never loses sight of that essential quality ABSOLUTE SAFETY THE BANK OF SAFFORD Capital 3jooooo Miss Lunan Morris nas returned from a visit to friends in Clifton Mr and Mrs George Gourley of Thatcher were visitors in town Monday Grand Ball at Todds Hall on July 24tfi Solomonville orchestra Dr and Mrs Lacy were visitors in the metropolis of the Gila Valley Tuesday Dont fail to attend the dance at Todds Hall Friday evening July 23rd Solomonville orchestra Bishop the well known real estate man of the county seat was a business visitor in town Monday Jose Rodales a prisoner in the county jail at Solomonville died Thursday of last week from con sumption Just arrived Purest Baking Powder Try it Two carloads of building material are expected daily at the Safford Planing Mill Faulkner Prop 21 lt Brady of Globe is in the valley this week buying horses Mr Brady will also contract for hay to be shipped to Globe Prina and family and Mrs Kate Jennings and children have gone to Arcadia Graham mountains where they will spend the summer A bright baby boy arrived at the home of George Freestone in Lone Star Tuesday July 13th Mother and son reported doing nicely Twenty fourth of July dance will be given in Todds Hall Solomon ville orchestra United States Marshal Ben Dan iels was a through passenger to Globe on Thursday evenings train where he goes to attend the United States court George Olney Jr accompanied by his cousin Charles Adair of Luna New Mexico returned home Wednesday after a months visit with relatives in New Mexico Celebrate in Thatcher on the 24th and then come and enjoy the dance in loads Hall in the evening Clayton will accompany Mrs Clayton Saturday afternoon to Camp Inception where Mrs Clayton will spend the summer Mr Clay ton will return Sunday evening Miss Mercy West of El Paso Texas arrived her Friday evening and was the guest of Miss Mae Dowdle Miss West left Thursday morning for Prescott and Los Angeles SXDMP on any can or package means quality Use no other brand Among those who left Saturday morning for Los Angeles and the coast resorts were Mrs Piatt Mrs Ed Branch and Mrs Angie Piatt and her daughter Miss Stella McClintock of Aravaipa arrived ill town Wednesday Mr McClintock is looking for a small farm five to twenty acres with the intention of making the valley his future home A large party of Solomonites spent Sunday at Guff Ranch enjoying the boating and bathing and having a good time generally returning to the county seat in the cailv huhght hourc Latham will go to bafford this morning to spend the day Mr Latham says he is going back for a suit case he forgot on the Fourth of July but his friends are of the opinion that there is another nnd very different reason for his frequent visits to tho valley metropolis They do not even attribute the cause to the beautiful green trees and the fragrant odor of new mown hay Sundays Silver Belt Have you tried Roast Coftee Best Quality Surplus 260000 Wlckersham Pres I Solomon Vice Pres JN Porter Vlco Pres EW Clayton Cachler Abbott Asst Cashier LOCAL ITEMS OF INTEREST The Rattle of the Spur By William Dallas Myers 0 for a dash of scarlet A sight of the flowing mane When the ringing hoof of the wild mustang Made music on the plain Hurrah for the fearless rider And his lassos stinging whir When the bisons measured tread beat time To the rattle of the spur 0 for the sound of voices Where everything now is still When the cowboys deep and resonant shout Re echoed from the hill Hurrah for the boundless prairie How its waving grasses stir The heart with its thrilling memories Of the rattle of the spur 0 for the Indian fighter And the wars he used to wage When he wrote his name with the point of his sword At the top of Historys page Hurrah for the frontier hero And the dangers hed incur For he charged to Heavens pearly gates To the rattle of the spur 0 for the gallant Custer And his brave three hundred mn When they fought the painted red skins In the Bie Horn River cdpn In the red front of the battle Mot a soul did them But they fought them till Deaths rattle Checked the rattle of the spur Then all hail the fearless rider Pioneer on Western plain He smoothed the way for a surging wave And it followed on amain How our pulses thrill as our memories To those daring deeds recur For the great wild West has been redeemed By the men who wore the spur The above was written hv Will iam Dallas Myers of Ft Thomns and was published in the June number of The Border Magazine Editor Judge A Colton left Tuesdnv morning on a business trip to Bowie ana Wilcox Fresh picked Blackberries received every morning at Bone Cavness Store Price 20 cents per quart 19 2t Jones and Richard Taliaferro of White Oaks New Mexico arrived here Tuesday evening and will visit their uncle Young Dr Brenner announces that he will resume dental work in his parlors on Tenth street 20 tf First publication Jnlr StU li Probate Notice In the Probate Court nf thn County of Graham Territory of Arizona In the matter of the estate of Nina Simpson deceased Notice of sale of real estate at private sale Notice is hereby given that in pursuance of an order of tho bate Court in and for the County of uranam lerntoryot Arizona made on the 3d day of July 1909 in the matter of the estate of Nina Simpson deceased the undersigned the administrator will sell nt nri vate sale to the highest bidder for cash in hand subject to confirmation bv taid Probate Couit on or after the SOth day of July 1909 at 10 oclock a 111 at the Rtnn rf fh Foster Mercantile Company 111 uie cuy 01 aaitorcl in the said county of Graham Territory of Arizona the followincr dosrilwwi real property to wiU One undivid ed nan interest in ana to lots one 11 and fifteen IK in fnt 40 in townsite of Safford Graham County Arizona lertus of sale Cash Simpson Administrator the esbit Nina Siinpon deceased DatGd July 3 1909 He Miles Arui inln Pills rellee palu.