Arizona republican., 1916-02-28

new notary at Apache county's biggest store.
 H. A. Bottins and Miss Mildred Parks were married at the home of the bride
 on Tuesday. Tod" Botting is steady
 and Well-liked and industrious fellow, while the bride is one of St. Johns brightest and most talented young la dies. They are on the railroad having a wedding tour, after which they are
 to make their home at Springerville. Felix Gardeo, the 9-years- old youth
 who was recently convicted of assault with intent to commit rape upon a Navajo woman at Lupton station in this county, was sentenced by Judge Crosby of the superior court to a sen tence of not less than two years nor more than six years last Monday eve ming. Attorney A. s. Gibbons, who de- tended him ably, has given notice of an appeal.
 Considerable interest is being taken in contest work by the local Mutual Improvement associations right now while the local academy is preparing to
 have a meet with the Snowflake | academy. The St. Johns association will go to Edgar for a preliminary
 contest the middle part of next month, | and later in the month the champions of the St. Johns stake will meet the
 champions of the Snowflake stake at Snowflake. There will be contests in
 baseball, baske tball, a full track meet prepared public addresses, eXtempora- i vocal solos, quartettes and double
 mixed quartettes choruses and various instrumental numbers.
 There is quite a bit of land buying
 going on in Apache county right now. i The land being taken is largely land i that is not capable of being irrigated, i ard is largely for grazing purposes, i though much of it may prove of value
 for dry farming. State Senator Fred T. 1 Golfer has purchased and leased prac- i ticaliy a whole township south and i west of St. Johns and lying largely on { the bench west of the SaladO valley and he now has a force of men fencing 1 it. Part of the tract was railroad land, { part of it was selected by the state i and sold and part of it was purchased with script. When it is enclosed it will be the largest enclosure in the i county. It is some of the best grazing l land in the county and much of it is i level enough for dry farming, if that i method of agriculture proves sue
 cess.
 Navajo and Apache counties now | have a farm advisor jointly between
 them in the person of Charles R. Fil- ! lcrup. NIT. Fillerup is q native of Utah. ! and he has had considerable eXperi-
 ence at the experiment station of the { University of Arizona. He is now
 working in the southern part of Apache
 county, which he believes is finely ! adapted to dry-land farming As the
 farmers on the St. Johns branch can not get water on their land for this
 year, he is assisting them in their prep ] aratiOns for raising drs- land crops this
 season. Mrs. Ffllerup accompanied him here this trip and is visiting her sis
 ter Mrs. Frank NJ. Whiting.
 St Johns is having some treats in
 the way of theatrical productions right
 now The stake '. NJ NJ. l. A. started { in with the production of The Little i Politician" under the direction of
 Frank NJ. Whiting. The stake acad- ] emy followed with The College Wid ow," under the direction of Mrs. Louise i T. Sandin, and the stake Primary asso- citation followed last night with Bound ' By an Oath" with Edwin M Whiting,
 the veteran home dramatist, training
 MT. Whiting will take his company to
 Fagar Two other home productions
 are to follow The surprising part of
 it is that the home people do play so
 well, some of the playing closely ap-
 preaching the work of professionals