Arizona republican., 1912-03-04
Death of James H. Crosby at Advanced Age. Geo. Newton Thrown from Horse. Value of Repub- lican Advertisements.

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 Mrs. John Roberts has been sicl ! during the week at her home nea | Palo Verde.
 Lewis Charleton has bought the 4O
 acres of Jack Shepard at Libert!
 which has the new house on it. at SIP; per acre.
 James H. Crosby died at the hom, of his daughter. Mrs. Adam A,Or o Liberty. Friday morning. MT. Crosby
 recently had come from California anC
 had visited for some time at the home of Mrs. Wagoner. another daughter, o1
 Peoria. He came tO the Ator home
 Sunday and was taken sick Tuesday Old age was the greater contributing cause of she death, Mr Crosby being nearly ninety years of age. although al the last pneumonia seemed to have developed. Besides Mrs. Ator ana
 Mrs. Wagoner of his immediate fam fly in Arizona there is son William II. famliarlY known to all of the older residents of Phoenix as "Bili'' Crosby who has for years conducted the gro ccry store on south 7th avenue. The body was taken to Glendale where fu- neral services will be held and inter ment to be made in the Glendale cem- ctcry where his wife is buried
 Chas. Parker has returned from a trip to a point below Gila BcnI where he went last week to haul some min ing machinery and is campcd with his teams for few days at the Blackmer ranch.
 \. A. sanders. accompanied by dep uty sheriff Lew Mickey. wen; to the Dendora canal Thursday and on Fri day morning Mickey served Mir. w. w. Bruner with an injunction which is supposed to work an enforced armis- tice on the part of MT Bruner toward the employees of the DendOra canal company in their efforts to get irri- gation water onto their land where they are trying to irrigate barley and alfalfa.
 R. A. Ross of Liberty had the mis- fortune to lose very fine ycarling "StandeIl' colt Thursday night. it hay ing gotten cut on barbcd wire to the extent that it bled to death before it was found in the morning.
 Geo. II. Newton was quite severely shaken up Thursday hy being thrown from horse at the ranch of A C. Wood where he went to get some cat tie. After getting the cattle together Wood left Newton to get q horse to help drive on the road, when he re- turned Newton was on the Erounl in a semi-conscious state Dr. Ruble was summoned and after some time Mir Newton was able to ride home but has felt severely the effects of his eNpcr- fence ever since
 At the home of $. r. Wayne two of his younger daughters and son Wesley are on the sick list.
 Down by the Hassayampa on the Newton farm a surprise party was given on Wednesday evening by the young people of the neighborhocd in honor of young MT. Robt. McConnelly
 A pleasurable event of the week was the Cob-Web basket social given by the Buckeye Social club at the Chris tian church. There was a program rendered consisting of vocal and in strumental music anJ recitations. The program was said to have been very good.
 The Flower Pot Cattle co. have men constructing corrals at different points on the desert in preparation for the roundup season.
 L. c. Thomas ard J. NJ Boyd were in Phoenix on business from LibeT,y this week. Mir. Boyd came home on the noon thain yesterday but Mir Thomas stayed over night to buy buggy for Mrs. Thomas. aad will come home today.
 Dick Conley has sold all of his two crops of alfalfa seed. that he had been holding. hoping for q better market condition. through a for sale" ad in The Republican. and says he could have sold much more if he had is It pays to advertise in The Republican as we know from experience for not so long ago we paid $1.OO for an ad for another purpose and landed two new families in the Buckeye country. The other purpose was accomplished also.
 The successful term of school which has been conducted in the Liberty dis trict by MT. James King. Miss Irma Schmidt and Miss Edith Kent, will close April 5th.
 Mir and Mrs. C C. 'Lum' Collins have new girl at their home near Glendale or at least they have had the baby at their house since the 23rd of February. anu the event will still he news to some of Mir. and Mrs. Collins many friends here. as Lum grew to manhood on the old Collins farm at Liber:y and for several years Mrs Collins as Miss Myrtle Morgan was a popular school teacher of the Liberty district.
 Mrs. Zolliger and Mrs. Betler re- turned to their homes at Avondaie after several days visit with Mrs. F. T. Woodward. Mrs. Wood ward says she read an item of news in newspaper recently that wes news" indeed to their family. state ment to the effect that the Woodward family was going to move to Phoenix.