Arizona republican., 1917-07-17

days from Chicago
 LAND PATENTS COME-Sixty- seven land patents were received py Commissioner John L. Irwin at the United States Land Office yesterday. The lucky recipients are scattered Tar and wide throughout the state, and the amount of land secured averages about 80 acres to each applicant ranging rom lots as small as four acres to the 1ull | 160.
 NEW PEACH-D. H. Strawn, best l known to his friends by the fruit he raises on the lower Buckeye road, 1 reports the propagation of a new variety of peach. The first specimen weighs seven pounds and is at pres ent at the Sisters hospital where she arrived at an early hour Sunday morning. Her name is Betty.
 WOMAN PIcNIc-A picnic will be given on Thursday evening at East Lake Park by the Brotherhood or American Yeomen for the members and their families and also for visit ing members. Everyone is requested to bring a full packet. Lunch will be served at 6: 30 o'clock.
 CHANGE REQUIREMENTS - The minimum height and weight require ments of applicants for the enlist ment in the army have been changed to 61 inches and 110 pounds respec- lively. Sergeant Hannah, of the local recruiting station at First ave- nue and Adams street, says that short men have no excuse to offer provided they are physically sound in mind and body
 GO TO COAST-Mrs. Maurice B. o,-y-ie- Mrs. Pat Hendly of Mayfield, Ky, who have been visiting in the homes of ]. B. and J. N. Harris of this city for the past three weeks, leave on Saturday for the coast. Mrs. Hendly and Mrs. Harris will return to Phoe- nj for the winter.
 JOHNS-LYNN WEDDING At the home of Frank De Souza. 1916 West Monroe street Saturday evening al o'clock, Miss Blanche Lynn became the bride Of Fred l.. Johns Jr.. Jus tice DeSouZa officiating. Those pres ent were Mrs. Bernard Lynn, mother of the bride; Miss Bernice Rairedon and David Thomas, intimate friends of the bridal couple and Elmer L. SunoH 9qL 'uooIS 10 L9uloIq 'suuof couple will reside in Mesa.
 CALL TO JOIN CLUB-The Coyote Canning club will hold a meeting on Wednesday morning at g o'clock at the high school. Any girl whose age is within the years 10 to 13 is eligible to become a member of the club. If any girl is not member she is invited to come out and see what the girls are doing and find out what part she can take in it.
 PAINTING ALARM BOX POLES Members of the Phoenix. fire depart ment yesterday engaged in painting red and white rings around poles throughout the city where fire alarm boxes are located. This insures pos sibility of seeing and locating these poles at a great distance and simpli- fies the matter of turning in alarms.
 FINE AND TIME-Don Lebaron, driver for Fixes Stage line. was fined $25 and sentenced to five days in the city jail yesterday when he pleaded guilty to a charge preferred by Police Bush Anderson of overlooking stage automobile Freeman Fike was pres ent in court and at once filed notice of an appeal and furnished the required appeal bond.
 SENDING SUPPElES-Many bags of supplies, consisting of blanks, regu- lations and other office supplies nec- essary for the work of the boards Of review. are being sent out from the office of Colonel Fred s. Breen in the state house to the sheriff of each of the fourteen counties in Arizona. The prep aration of this step in the operation of the selective service law has caused an endless amount of detail and rou- tine work. but all now is nearly ready.
 LITTLE PARTY-F. G. Holiday, proprietor of a hotel at Needles, was sentenced to 30 days in the county jail and a fine of s150 for bootlegging, by Judge Stanford, yesterday. The jail sentence will date from June "A. Holiday was on a little party with four others going from Needles to Su- perior when taken into custody. The goods, in the form of quart and pint bottles of booze, was on him when he was apprehended by the officers.
 TRI.COURT EDlTOR-L. D. Hiatt, owner of the Tri-Court Record Re porter, returned yesterday from a three weeks absence in Long Beach. MT. Hiatt was accompanied to the coast by his daughter, Miss Maud C. Hiatt who remained in Riverside, where she is taking a course at the Library school Miss Hiatt has been connected with the local library for the past five years and will resume her position on her return in Septem- Der.
 RAISE SALARIES is happi- ness unalloyed in the United States Land Office in the Federal Building. The entire clerical force have been treated to raise in salary of from five to ten per cent. The beneficiaries are Stephen D. Pool, chief clerk; Roy c. Herald, Roy K. Watson, Miss Jose phine K. Stewart and Miss Helen Pep per- The raise was authorized by the United States land commissioner at Washington, beginning with the current 1 fiscal year.
 | cOLLlSlON-Harold Krotzer. son of i Dr. H. w. Krotzer who is associated with Dr. Munson, optician, was knocked near the Doris -Heyman building. The neor the Doris Heyman building. The young man, who is employed by the l Goldwater store, was badly bruised but not seriously injured. The cause of the accident was a collision with big ice l truck.
 APPEALS CASE-The case of Ida l Felber, appellant, vs. Ed. Thorpe and
 Joe Ausenhause was filed yesterday
 for re-hearing in the supreme court
 The case is from Mohave county. Ida
 Felber, who resides at Chloride. pur- chased in 1916 a piece of land and a house in Chloride. Some time later Thorpe and Ausenhause fenced off
 some 28 feet of the land and claimed it as their property. Ida Felber sued
 for forcible entry and detention, but f the court found for Thorpe and Ausen- hause. The case now is appealed GLENDALE WANTS CARS-Glen-
 dalt is just now about the busiest spot
 in the Salt River Valley. Far as the eye