Graham Guardian from Safford, Arizona • Page 1

Devoted to the Undivided Interests of the Gilo Valley I TWENTY SEVENTH YEAR PIONEER DAY I CELEBRATION ft THATCHER Pioneers Day will be observed with a big celebration at Thatch er Monday July 25th Everybody in the valley is invited to come and have a good time Every effort is being put forth by the committees in charge to make this one of the biggest and best celebrations ever held in Graham county The opening event of the day will be the pioneer parade which will take place at 1000 oclock in the morning The Pima Brass Band will furnish the music After the parade a literary program will be given in the grove This program will be composed of music singing and addresses in keeping with the day At noon the crowd will have lunch on the grass There will be plenty of shade and ice water will be furnished free The sports will begin at 200 oclock and handsome cash prizes will be offered Something interesting will be provided for both old and young There will be a championship baseball game during the afternoon with a big purse to the winning team After the ball game there will be broncho riding and horse racing There will be a boxing contest immediately after the races Mullenax and Norton wiil box ten rounds Carnes and Young Norton four rounds and Al Mullenax and Damico Juarez six rounds In the evening there will be a big dance and the music will be furnished by the Happy Jack Orchestra No pains will be spared to make the day an enjoyable one and a fine time is assured to all who attend Drive for Membership Auto Club of Arizona Are you a member of the Automobile Club of Arizona This is the question put to 35000 car owners in this State by the State wide organization which is endeavoring to put Arizona on the map as a good roads State The drive for membership is now on Each of the thirty representatives of the club have been furnished membership applicant blanks and these are now ready for all comers on payment of the annual dues of 1200 No entrance fee is required on the first 1000 applications Southern California has become justly famous throughout the world for its wonderful system of highways and one of the largest factors in developing this system and calling attention to it has been the automobile Club of Southern California Arizona can gain the same distinction if the same boosting methods are employed in this State and hence the reason that every progressive citizen of the State is asked to get behind the Automobile Club of Arizona by taking out a membership Information and service worth many times the cost of membership will be tendered every mem bor of the club In the first place he will have at his command the free advice of theclubs legal department composed of thirty leading attorney throughout the State in any matte arising from the ownership of a car In the second place he will be provided with maps and toilr ing information from time to time bv the clubs local representatives upon application A full supply of these maps have been sent to the clubs representatives and are now ready for distribution One of these is a general road map of the State another shows the principal routes between Arizona points and Southern California together with tables of distances another shows the principal routes to El Paso and points in Now Mexico Another publication in loose leaf form contains the maps of the main routes in and out of the principal cities of Arizona In Phoenix membership cards and full information may be obtained at the State headquarters of the club located in the Cham ber of Commerce building xnvl avenue and Adams street PIMA NEWS Mr and Mrs Lester Boyle Mr and Mrs Buffington Mr and Mrs John Dodge Miss Blanche Dodge and Miss Grace Johnson left Sunday morning for a few days outing at the 76 Ranch of Webb Boyle Sunday afternoon little Eilaine Crockett celebrated her fifth birthday by entertaining about twenty of her little girl friends with a party The time was spent in playing games and refreshments of ice cream and cake were served Leslie Clawson of Tucson is spending his vacation here visiting his brother Charles and family Tuesday the Bee Hive Girls visited the homes of Mr and Mrs Henry Lines Mr and Mrs Joseph McFate Mr and Mrs Maloy and Mrs Susan Saline carrying cheer to them and also taking delicacies to these homes Maloy and two children Weldon and Hazel are slowly recovering from severe cases of typhoid fever Pima will celebrate Pioneer Day tonight by a free literary and musical program in the pavilion Sunday nicht about twenty young people were entertained at the home of Mr and Mrs Sam Lines The evening was spent in singing music and games Refreshments of lemonade cookies ice cream and wafers were served Little Katherine Cole returned home Tuesday from Safford a week at the home of her grand- mutual itJia manguiii Miss Edna Guff returnedhome Wednesday from JMiami where she spent the ppst ten days visiting her brother Leo and her mother Mrs Cluff She reports her mother slowly improving and able to be out of the hospital again Mrs Mattice and Mrs Reece Green and children have gone to the mountains for the remainder of the summer The friends of Mrs Ethel Cole gave her a pleasant surprise Tuesday evening the event being her birthday The time was spent playing games Refreshments of lemonade and cake were served Sam Echols and wife were called to the bedside of their son Ben Echols who is dangerously ill at Safford Ben Blake made a business trip to Tucson and back this week General School News From the number of applications coming into the office of the county school superintendent lately the trustees of the different districts need have no fear of a teacher shortage this year Most of the districts have employed their teachers only about one tenth of the teaching positions now being vacant The educational department of the State has sent out a warning to the employers of teachers to be careful in the employment of teachers as a number of teachers are trying to secure positions in Arizona whose past records are not of a character to help build up our school system A large number of the clerks of the boards of trustees have brought their accounts and records to the county school superintendent the past week to be checked and balanced fpr the year A great deal of credit is due the clerks for the manner in which they have kept their accounts and records during the year The trustees of Snfford district after carefully studying the financial condition of the school have materially reduced the amount of special tax to be levied on the district for high school purposes The special levy will be about one half of the amount asked for the previous year During these times of financial stress the taxpayers of the Saf ford school district should give their hearty support to the trustees for their efforts aider both the condition school and to lighten the of the taxpayer to con of the burden A Downs left Thursday for Los Antreles Mrs Downs ex pects to join him there in a short tjma Advertise jn Tub Guaudian Little Baby Dies from Skunk Bite The little baby of Mr and Mrs Ernest Shumway of Thatcher who was so badly bitten by a skunk about a month ago died in El Paso Texas last Friday The Shumways and a party of friends were on their way to St Johns Arizona and had camped near Cooley for the night The children had been put to bed and the mother and grandmother had been left with them while the others went to work on a car that had been giving them trouble Suddenly a scream was heard from the baby and Mrs Morten sen ran to it and saw a skunk with its teeth and clawB sunk in in the babys face and nose Mrs Mortensen had to work for several minutes before the skunk was dragged off The next morning the Shum ways went to the nearest railroad station and took the first train for El Paso The baby was given the Pasteur treatment and was under the care of the best physicians in that city but did not respond to the treatment The physicians were baffled as to how to treat the child as they had never given the treatment to one so young On the 21st day convulsions set in and death came to relieve the little sufferer The little body was brought to Thatcher Saturday and funeral services were held Sunday afternoon at 300 oclock in the church Music was furnished by the choirs from both the Thatcher wards The speakers were Professor Taylor President John Nash President Kimball and Professor Payne Interment was made in the cemetery at Thatcher Mr and Mrs Shumway have the sympathy of everyone in their bereavement Come In The Waters Fine The use of water in the treatment of disease was well known and practiced by the ancients David speaks of the fountain of life and Zaccharrias calls Christ the healing founcain Four hundred years Hippocraes who is called the Father of Medicine employed it as did most of the doctors Priessnitz modernized the treatment in the middle of the last century and his patients from all over the world became missionaries for the method Ordinary bath are very healthful through their tonic and circulatory effect but medicated waters are much more potent if properly applied Probably the most important element which has been found in many hot springs is radium lhiB rare element has the unique faculty of attacking diseased tissue three times in preference to normal tissue For this reason it is successfully employed in the treatment of gastric and intesti nal troubles cataarh rheumatism and all kinds of inflamma tions Its wonderful reconstructive power is doubtless what led one of the guests at the Indian Hot Springs to call the Beauty Springthe Fountain of Youth Half the guests at the Indian Hot Springs have been here before Father Barette who has probably built more churches than any other priest in Arizona was advised by his physician that he give up the idea of being a priest because he would never live to practice his profession He began treating himself in natural hot springs and after thirty three years of very active life is building a new church at Claypool Arizona and says he is enjoying better health than ever before He conjes to fhp Springs fwice a year any js always spirit shines through a wonqerr fully kind face Samuel Black more Is also a frequent visitor He comes from Tucson and says he is eighty years young A blood pressure of 118 rather refutes the rule of the age plus 100 He could easily pass for sixty five if he cared to conceal his age which he doesnt We are gradually clearing the pool of the moss which is no small job If anyone will tell us how to do it without injuring the water we will call him blessed Remember that hatha oro free on Mondays nnd Fridays For a suit and towel a charge of 25 cents will be made On other days the bath alone is 25 cents and suits also 25 cents It costs 25 cents to properly laundry and disinfect a suit hhh THE BEST TOWN IN THE MOST FERTILE VALLEY IN THE SOUTHWEST AFFORD GRAHAM COONTY ARIZONA JULY li2 1921 WILSON MORE LOVED THAN EVER BEFORE Jerome Since his retirement from the presidency Woodrow Wilson is personally more popular than he was at any time he held that high office Wild demonstrations occur whenever he appears in public This isthe word brought direct from Washington by Miss Dorothy Averyt a clerk in the census bureau who is spending a months vacation at Clarksdale Arizona with her parents Mr and Mrs Flumerfelt after a three years absence at the National capital Grows More Popular Mr Wilson is even more popular today than he -was in the early days of the war when he was the idol of the American people and the hope of the world Miss Averyt stated to the Verde Copper News He is again regarded as one of the great men of the age People in Washington are amazed at the revulsion of public sentiment from what it was in tne final months of his administration when he was the object of so much criticism Cannot Walk Perhaps his physical condition has something to do with with winning him sympathy He cannot walk and whenever he appears he carries a cane and is supported by an attendant The people simply go wild at the sight of him and the cheering is deafening Policemen and detectives have to protect Mr Wilson from enthusiastic admirers who want to break in and shake his hand COUNT 16 JUNE 92 The budget for Graham county for the fiscal year ending June 30 1922 has been completed this week by Martin Layton clerk of the board of supervisors The general county fund levy for last year was 61580 while the levy for this year is 62585 showing an increase of 1000 Last years road fund levy was 30000 and this yeaf3 levy is 40000 but will probably be reduced to 30000 the same as last year The estimated receipts of the road fund for last year was 300 000 while this year the receipts are 300300 The actual expenditures in the school fund amounted to 132 10378 The estimated amount for this year is 12536238 The ampunt of estimated receipts is 48000 and the total amount to be raised by direct taxation for schools is 7036238 Lumber Cut for 1920 Same as in 1919 The 1920 lumber cut of the United States varied little from that of 1919 and the chances are that it was less rather than greater state officials of the Forest Service United States Department of Agriculture This opinion is based gn reports received from 927 large mills represent Iflg abqut pne half of the annual put of the Goiintry cpmpared with reports from the same mills In 1919 as reported to the Bu reau of the Census The total reported cut of these mills was 16709115 feot in 1920 as against 16254812 feet during 1919 an increase of 34 per cent A heavy increase in cut is reported from Washington Ore- gon California Idaho and Montana The New York cut also increased But there are indica tions of a ten per cent decrease jn the cut of the Lake States nd npp a general falling off in the production of southern pino except In Georgia and South Car lina On account of the unsettled business conditions in 1920 it is impossible this year to draw conclusions with confidence from incomplete returns Claimed by Death After Long Illness Mrs Helen Chapman died Tuesday morning July 18th after a lingering illness of more than a year She was forty nine years old and came with her family from Olvey Arkansas about two and one half years ago She is survived by six children who mourn her loss They are Bert Ian Willie Mrs Parley Stuart Miss Opal and little Helen Mrs Chapman was a Christian woman and a kind and devoted mother Her husband and a son have passed away during the past two years and it was their sickness and grief for them that broke her health Funeral services were held at the family home Tuesday afternoon at 600 oclock Bishop Greenhalgh officiating and the body was laid to rest beside that of her husband and son in Union cemetery The family have the sympathy of the community in their loss in Stan Curtis Presented with 10 lb Baby Girl Stanley Curtis assistant cashier of the Bank of Safford received a telegram Saturday announcing the birth of a ten pound baby daughter to him and Mrs Curtis July 15th at San Diego Cal Mrs Curtis was formerly Miss lone Layton daughter of Mr and Mrs Chas Layton who have recently moved to San Diego and at whose horqe she now is visiting The little one has been given the name of Stana and mother and daughter are doing nicely but Stan is still up in the clouds Leave for Grand Can yon and California Ray Foster and Cater have given up their lease on the auto repairing shop at the Chevrolet garage and left Sunday with their families for Los Angeles Cal The trip will be made overland by way of Roosevelt and the Grand Canyon and they expect to be on the road about two weeks Both families expect to locate in Southern California i Mi Birth Statistics for Month of June Following is the list of births as reported to the State Board of Health from Graham county for the month of June 1921 Mobley boy James and Mary Jorden Mobley Alviar girl Guallermo and Menrietta Molina Alviar Chestley boy and Lucy Allen Chestley Ortego girl and A Mantesen Ortego Slawter girl and Elenora Ruston Slawter Allred girl and Amanda Higgins Allred Calvin girl Pablo and Carolina Montez Calvin Barney girl Arthur and Lucy A Jennings Barney Packer Madena girl and May Brady Packer Hernandep boy Ar neho and eun Borrega Hernan dez Chlarson Marden Burns boy Albert and Lucy Winson Chlar son Solinar Margarito girl George and Carlota Cordero Solinar Barney boy Geo and Delia Daley Barney Layton boy Roy A and Rebecca Claridge Layton Richardspn boy Jasper and Etta Gale Richardson Eawen Clarence Lee boy James and Beulah Traylor Eawen Blackburn Rulon Nathan boy Nathan and Lola Malice Blackburn Placencio girl Angel and Crecencia VillalobeK Placen cio Pollock boy Thos and Jennie Bryce Pollock Bryco Joseph and Nancy Nelson Bryce Allen uynel Eugene boy John and Rosetta Bledsoe Allen Denton girl Andrew and Creta Holcomb Denton Jackson girl and Ora Chamble Jackson Dodge boy A and Alice Allred Dodge Clawson Louiao girl Chas and Edna Allen Clawson Allred girl Joseph and Maybell Hoopes Allred Ochoba girl Frank and Adcla Garcia Ochoda Whitmer boy Elmer stai Ubtm iSVii rabam iuarratt fV UVVW THATCHER NEWS Mrs Lulu Damron is on the sick list this week Mrs Connie Matthews and small daughter who have been visiting in Miami for a month returned home last Thursday Mrs Christie Daugherty and little son who have been visiting in town for sometime returned to their home in California last week Mrs Harry White and children who have spent the past two weeks in town visiting relatives returned to their home in Clifton Sunday Mr Chandler who has been in Texas for sometime returned home last week Miss Margaret Kennett of Globe is visiting at the home ef her grandmother Mrs Knudson Elzy Damron spent the weekend with his family in the Graham mountains Miss Eva Taylor of Virden is visiting at the home of her parents Mr and Mrs Geo Hoopes Truman Ferguson who has been in the valley for sometime left Wednesday morning for Kentucky his former home Mrs Alma Peterson and children who have been in Sholow for two months returned home Wednesday Mrs Steve Campbell and baby left Friday for Los Angeles Cal to join Mr Campbell who is employed there Wayne Skousen spent the week end with his family in the Graham mountains Orvil Allen who has been in California for a month returned home last week Mrs Will Moody and family who have been in Sholow for the last two months returned home last week Mrs Blazzard is visiting rela tives in Ashurst this week A party was given at the home of Mrs Hyrum Claridtre last week by the West Ward Relief Society The afternoon was spent in games and other amuse ments after which refreshments of ice cream and cake were enjoyed Regular Meeting of American Legion expect to attend the convention and intend to boost for Safford for the next convention Pioneers Day at Thatcher July 25th Pioneers Day July 24th coming on Sunday will be celebrated next Monday July 25th at Thatcher A splendid literary program parade athletic games etc has been arranged by the committee in charge The people of Safford are cordially invited to participate in the days festivities and everyone assured a good time Sloan Mayor Picnic Party at Flume Camp A jolly picnic party motored to the Flume Camp Sunday and spent the day under the shade trees Returning home in the late afternoon the party decided to finish up the days pleasure with an evening picnic so they drove to the foothills and spent a pleas aht evening Those enjoying the picnic were Weaver Harry McCarroll A Denton Mr Oxnum Householder and their families Do You Need Glasses If you do Ill be in Safford Sunday and Monday July 24th and 25th at the Hotel Olive Come and see me have your eyes tested and glasses fitted DR GATES Optomertrist and Optician adv 24lt Back the Paper That Is Backing You NUMBER 24 wTj NATIONAL COUNCIL The Swift Murphy Post of the American Legion met in regular NIL 10 VOTE QUESTION A list of the most important questions for immediate consideration concerning International Relations prepared by a special committee of the National Economic League was sent out on Monday April 4th to be voted upon by the members of its National Council The votes on 1003 of these ballots the returns received to date from 48 States are as follows 1 Should the United States refrain from joining any association of nations Yes 149 15 per cent No 823 82 per cent 2 Should the United States enter the existing League of Nations with modifications in general such as were acceptable to the Senate of the United States Yes 657 65 per cent No 298 30 per cent 3 Should the United States become a party to the Root Phillimore permanent court of international justice adopted by the Assembly of the League at Geneva and already referred to member nations for ratification The United States as one of the States mentioned in the annex to the Covenant of the League is entitled to become a party to the Court without being a member of the League Yes 840 84 per cent No 61 6 per cent 4 Should the United States ratify the Versailles Treaty of Peace with reservations Yes 710 70 per cent No 227 23 per cent business session Tuesday eve iioii 858 JLl 0TnmHoll i UCI KCIIl Town Hall ning at the Delegates were elected to attend the State convention of the American Legion which meets on the 8th 9th arid 10th of August at Prescott The delegates elected are Brooks Alex Bellman and Bernard Fruedenthal The alter nates elected are Graham French Donald Swift and Max Brenner All six of these men If your answer is no Should the United States ceed independently to negotiate a treaty of peace With Germany Yes 177 No 41 5 Should the United States repeal its war legislation Yes 858 85 per cent No 38 4 per cent 6 Should the United States take the initiative in summoning a conference with Great Britain and Japan for the limitation or reduction of naval armaments Both Houses of Congress in the last session passed amendments to the Naval Appropriation Bill making such provision but they did not become effective owing to the failure of the bill to become law Yes per cent No 7 Should the United States take the initiative in summoning a general conference for the limitation or reduction of land armaments Yes 836 83 per cent No 123 12 per cent 8 Should the United States cancel the 10000000000 indebtedness of the Allies to the United States Yes96 10 per cent No 853 85 per cent a Should the United States accept in payment of Belgiums indebtedness to it Reparation Bonds issued by Germany to Belgium This proposal was transmit ed to Congress on February 21 1921 in ordtr that suitable action may be taken at an appropriate time as the result of an agreement reached at the Paris Conference in 1919 Yes 351 No 423 Should the United States make like provision for the indebtedness of the other Allies Yes 154 No 604 mi ww Haydn Music Club Met Last Thursday The Haydn Music Club composed of the music pupils of Mrs Householder met Thursday afternoon at the Householder home In the five week practicing contest Ruth Ridgway won first prize and LaVine and Thelma Campbell won second prize Denton and wife came up from Globe this week to visit for a few days with their son Andrew Denton manager of the Ford Motor Co They left today for Butte Montana to make their future home Mining Location Lode Claim Blanks for sale at this office WANT AD COLUMN Write me about your land matters State Leases Homestead Entries Joe Phillies 1535 est Jackson St Phoenix Arizona and Mildred Bigler Whitmer 24 tf.