Graham guardian., 1911-01-06
CHA VALLEY NEWS
items Of interest Gathered by
The Guardians Corge-
.spondents.
THATCHER

Svvga&, new slu,lea catered ,he
Ac,@eIny on mcncay.
The Acaaemy ana district schools
opened Monday morning, after {
weeks holiday vacation.
Mrs. Angie Platt and her daugh-
ter, Stella, moved into the Curtis
home on Church street, Monday and
Tuesday,
Oscar Webster arrived home from,
Philadelphia where he has been with
a load of wool. He reports pleas
ant and profitable trip.
George Gourley has purchased
the farm house of Mr. Crumb, who
expects to move out to the Artesian
country in the near future.
President and Mrs. Kimball and
Mr.. and Mrs. G. M. Layton attended
the funeral of Mrs. Eliza Welker,
held at Layton Sunday afternoon.
Mr.. Richie, of Apache county,
has been visiting in Thatcher for
the past week. He finds many
friends here formerly from Apache
county.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gourley entertained
a number of their friends and rela-
tives at dinner the latter part of the
week. A very pleasant evening was
enjoyed, sixteen being present.
Prof. McOmie, of the University
of Arizona. arrived in Thatcher
Monday evening, and will give a
series of lectures on alfalfa, poultry,
dairying, fruit raising and other
things.
Levi Udall, of St. Johns, came
over to spend the holidays with his
numerous Thatcher friends and rel
atives. He entered the Academy
Monday. The students are glad to
welcome nm DacK.
Mr.. and Mrs. Woods returned
home from the Institute Thursday
evening. Urgent business at home
forced them to leave before seeing
the institute close. The teachers
came several days later,
Mr.. and Mrs. Y. B. Callison gave
New Years social to number of
their young friends Saturday eve-
ming. Many interesting games and
stories, with dainty refreshments,
were enjoyed, and kept them enter
tanned until the New Year came in.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. S. Carpenter
had reunion of their married chill
dren on New Years day. A most
excellent dinner was served, and
though all of them did not get
there, they made a large crowd
when the grandchildren were all
counted.
The married peoples dance given
on Friday evening, was one Of the
greatest successes of the holiday
season. Judging by the way in
which the married people went thru
the merry quadrllles, one would
have been sure they had found the
Fountain of Youth.
Miss Zilla Cuff entertained about
twenty-five of her young friends at
a New Years social last Saturday.
The evening was spent in playing
games. interspersed with music and
singing Refreshments were served.
The young people stayed to see the
old year die and the new one come
in. All had a merry time and pro-
nounced Miss Zila as a first, CT ass
entertainer.
Mrs. Elizabeth Pace is having a
fine new cement block house built
on her lot on Muin street, Joseph
Mcdonald is Also Eav.Gg a large
cement block house built on upper
Church street. III" candy store be-
ing built BY Jahl 0tnron is pro-
crossing mic an lAA commodious
new house ul Ieaa&, SIMS is receiv-
ing its finis,iG tJa'h ,s, and Thatch-
er continues tj yuiil and improve.
The monti'r organization and
priesthood .ra i,4gs were held in
the Academy saturday. All the
meetings were well attended in
spite of the cold day. At the gen
eral meeting in the afternoon.
President KimbalI gave greetings
of the season to all, He spoke Of
the State constitution, spoke of
punctuality. read several interesting
communications and several items
of business. w. A. Moody made
a brief talk on tithing. ID. A.
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