Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1913-09-28

I their being turned loose upon the
| community at the Whim OF their
! friends and relations as is the case
Il, present.
| At Monticello. y. Y. not far from
this city. a merry war between two
rival moving picture houses is i'll
! progress and the people of Monticello
ere enjoying good time While the
| war lasts For a long time there was
but one moving picture house in
! Monticello. Having the field all to
| itself the house made no special eff
CIts TO attract patronage. Some time
I ago however, a New Jersey company
built another motion picture house III
Monticello and soon there was keen
/ riN airy between the two theaters. one
Ct the houses began the war by ad-
Vertising six reels and the other house
came back by offering seven reels.
Then the first house advertised eight
reels and the rival house promptly
answered the challenge by adVcrtis
| ing eleven reels and steam heat To
Guido thir competitor the owners of
The other house engaged two opcrat-
ors and advertised an all-night show,
inviting their patrons to stay as long
a. they pleased. The house was
packed until daylight. Nobody can
tell how far this rivalry would have
gone. had il not been for the ice
cream and restaurant men who found
that the aIl-night movies materially
interfered with their business. They
joined in a petition TO the authorities
Of the town. to prohibit mOion picture
houses from showing more than six
reels. This put a temporary stop to
I.rrt
until the villake council passes tho
ordinance desired by the restaurant
and ice cream men. the people Of
Monticello viii continue 70 enjoy the
benefits Of this merry war.
While New York IS overwhelmed
with candidates for the position of
mayor. Milton. \. j.. is in the Pc
culiar prcdicament of having three
tickets in the field for the coming
election without a candidate for
mayor on any Of them. The present
mayor Of Midtown. Conrad Richter.
could have things All his own way
but owing to i'll health he has refused
to be a candidate for recollection.
Efforts were made by each Of the
three parties in the field to induce
someone to accept q nomination for
the mayoralty. but nobody seemed
anxious for the honor and the result
is that all tickets had to he printed
without giving the name of a candi-
date for mayor The voters will have
to fill N the names Of their respective
choice for mayor and il is believed
that Mayor Richter will be reelected
against his viii and desire.
After having been separated forty
years. two brothers accidentally met
il. a New York hotel under the most
Sraordinary circumstances. f. {.
Waldman. of Sydney. Australia who
has been stopping at the Hotel Aston
or his trip around the world was
sitting in the main dining room the
other evening when a page passed
among the tables. shouting. "Can for
Mr.. Waldman." Surprising that the
call was for him, Mr.. +. c. Waldman
took the message. Not until then
aid he discover that it was addressed
- S {. WalGman and not intended
Tor him. He returned the message to
the page, and his curiosity having
been aroused. he left his unfinished
meal and followed the page, who con-
tiLued his search for S. c. Waldman
At last an elderly man claimed the
message and his namesake introduced
I'tHlSeiI 10 MIN ana e&pIdIneU why
he had opened the message. The
TWO Waldrnans conversed a few min
utes ard presently. TO the surprise Of
the other persons in the lobby. the
TWO gray-haired men embraced each,
ether. they had found that they were
brothers who had been separated for
more than forty wears. over forty
Years ago they had left Berlin after
the death Of their parents and had
embarked in sailing vessel for Aus
ITALIA. The ship was wrecked off the
Australian coast and the crew and
passengers were forced to take to
the boats. The boats became separ-
ated and as the two boys were in
separate boats each gave the other
up for lost. While one of the broth
crs remained in Australia. the other
returned to Europe and eventually to
Berlin, where he is now established
in business They never saw each
othr again until they met by accident
in the lobby of the Hotel Aston