Arizona republican., 1906-08-18

playing games. Those who were pres-
 ent were: Misses Cecil McDermic.
 Grace Kohl, Helen Collins. Dora
 Adams, June Williams, Bell Jones,
 Nettie Miller, Mary Frazee, Louise
 Frazee, Ida Greene Marguerite Harden,
 Altha Adams and Rose White; Messrs.
 George Byers, Fred Porter. Charley
 Long. Albert Veil. Lester OLeary. Joe
 Geare, Chris White. Hubbel Hogsett
 Jim Geare, Harry Harter, Hubert
 Geare. John Long and Frank Kohl.
 FORMER PHOENlCIAN'S PROMO
 TION-The friends in Phoenix of Chas
 Lougheed will be pleased to hear that
 he has become head of the letter car
 riers' insurance board. MT. Lougheed
 while here was with the firm of Cooper
 x Black. The Detroit Free Press says
 of his promotion: Chris Lougheed.
 letter carrier No. s, of the Detroit post
 office, has just returned from Nash
 vile, Tenn. where. at the annual meet
 ing of the board of trustees of the Mu-
 tual Benefit association of the United
 States Letter Carriers National asso-
 citation he was elected president of the
 board of trustees for the ensuing year.
 succeeding President C. P. Kelly of
 New York city. who has held the office
 for the last two years. The Mutual
 Benefit association is the insurance
 branch of the Letter Carriers associa-
 tion and through this department 526O
 United States letter carriers are in-
 sured against death. With the board
 of trustees of which Mir Lougheed has
 been member for the past nine years.
 National Association President J. D.
 Holland met to oversee the annual audit of the books of the insurance de-
 partment and to examine into the in Vestment of the $150,O00 in the insur- ance treasury. Everything was found correct, and 1t was reported that the insurance department steadily is grow ing in favor with letter carriers MT
 Lougheed is native of Detroit, and 42 years old. He has been a local car rier in the Detroit pOstoffice since 1892
 He has served two terms as a member Of the national executive board of the Letter Carriers association and his election To his new office comes as no surprise to those who know him"
 A FIRE LOSS PAID-An unusual s tuatIon in connection with the pay ment of claim for loss under a fire insurance policy was settled yesterday when J. Ernest Walker turned over to sam <. Green a check from the Springfield Fire 6 Marine Insurance company for several hundred dollars. being the amount of the loss claim. It IS especially interesting when consid- cred in connection with the odd means some of the companies who were caught in the San Francisco ire are adopting to evade payment of fire losses. on May 12th MT. Green made application to MT. Walkers agency for Insurance on his house, west of the city The usual notification was filled out by a clerk in the office. together with the application for the insurance. which was forwarded to MT. Walker at Los Angeles to sign, the agency being in his name. By the time the letter arrived at Los Angeles MT. Walker had left for Casa Grande. and finally re- turned to Phoenix. his mail following him. Before his arrival in Phoenix the property on which MT. Green had ap- piled for insurance was burned down. He had not received his Insurance policy, and. although he had no knowI- edge to that effect, the papers had not been received at the company's offices in san Francisco. MT. Walker, the second day after he was in Phoenix and the third day after the fire re- ceived his mail from the coast, in which, among other things. was the application. He wrote letter to the company, and as soon as the claim committee could reach the matter and the fire loss be adjusted the check was sent here for payment of the claim The company making the payment paid S65O 900 in San Francisco fire losses following the big fife.