Arizona republican., 1917-07-24
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GOES TO COAST-Benton Dick leIt I last evening for a months vacation in San Francisco and Los Angeles. | FORMER MAYOR HERE-Lloyd B. Christy, former mayor Of PhoenlX, has come down for visit to Phoenix from Flagstaff, arriving in this city yester- day.
 NEW ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS of incorporation were filed yesterday Tn the office of the state corporation com mission by the Peoples Bank and Trust i Company.
 LICENSED TO WED-Marriage li- censes were issued yesterday to Har- " Lewellen, 22, Glendale and Hazel Volkoff, r, Glendale; Juan Lopez, 20, Buckeye and Mary Martinez IT, ! Buckeye; and Juan Jose 25, Komatke and Mary Jackson, 19, Blackwater
 ASKS DECREE-Charging deser I ton and failure to provide. Mrs. Min ne b. Stephenson yesterday filed a divorce complaint in the superior court against Ralph J. Stephenson The couple were married in Morencl 1 in October 1914
 DISMISS APPLICATiON-The Ae- plication of the railroads of Arizona for a hearing on their eQueSt for per mission to raise their freight rates fif- teen per cent within the state was yes terday dismissed by the state corpora tion commission
 GO TO SAN DlEGO-Mrs. Nan i Mickey ClouSe, whose domestic diff culties were aired in the divorce court last week. is leaving the latter part of the week for San Diego. She will be accompanied by her daughter, Miss Helen Clouse. They will return in the autumn
 OFF FOR SESSION County Asses sor J. T. Zone. Assistant County Asses sor Al E,arhardt Supervisors J. R4 l Bradshaw aud w. c. Peterson and i Clerk Clarence Standage left yesterday for NOgales where they will attend the weeks session of the state tax confer | ence.
 HOGUE HERE H. o. Hogue re- l turned yesterday from Flagstaff where l he met with the officials of the Navajo ! Pacific Copper company as representa- ! tive of the Holt Manufa curing com pany This mining company is planning on increasing it's efficiency by the ad> dition of many new mining machines.
 BACK FROM VACATION-Police man E. c. Grove returned to duty yesterday after an extended vacation period, most of which he spent in the northern part of the state. He visited Prescott, Jerome, the Chino valley and other points in which ho is interested. He says it seems good to get back to the bright lights WILL TAKE LITTLE MEN-Short- CT and lighter men can now poin the Ma tional Guard than ever before, accord ing to word received yesterday at the office of the adjutant general which authorizes the enlistment in the Ma tional Guard of men of the minimum height of sixty -one inches and of tho, minimum weight of no pounds, if all , other qualifications are satisfactory.
 RETURNING Christianna c Gilchrist, superintendent of the AsSo- ciated Charities who has been suffer ing from a nervous breakdown while in the east, is sufficiently recovered to be on her way home, arriving here in Q few days. In addition to the work of charitable relief which she has looked after for so long, Miss Gilchrist has been an advisor to scores of people who have been in need of assistance and ad- vice and this work has had not a little to do with her breawdown.
 7 BACK TAXES-Since the announce l ment that suit, would be brought in $ payment of delinquent taxes, the coun- ty treasurer's office has been flooded with inquiries, according to Deputy , Treasurer Vernon Wright. MT. Wright stated yesterday that any number oi taxpayers called at the office and that
 many settlements of years standing f would be made in the course of the
 next few lays County treasurer Webt
 will make no exceptions and suit vii
 be brought against all back taxes after
 August 10.
 j. CASE IS CONTlNUED-J NJ. Lu-
 go, who admits that he hasn't worked
 for two weeks, was in police cour
 yesterday charged by Policeman Blea
 with vagrancy. The officer declare. z that it wasn't so much because Lugt was not employed the past few days
 that he was arrested, but more direct
 ly because during that period of un. . employment, Lugo has spent mucl | time in the city hall plaza readins " Mexican papers to others and thel
 arguing against the government ant
 all things generally. The case wa Il continued to today in order to brin. E. witnesses to show whether Lug,
 really is an agitator.
 SPEEDER GETS AWAY-Struck b, = a passing automobile travelling at tn, l. rate of 50 miles an hour, A Cubas wa
 injured late Sunday night and the mill
 wagon he was driving completety de # molished. He reported the accident t IS the sheriff's office yesterday with tn
 statement that the automobile had no
 stopped nor had he been able to SC = cure the number of the car that wreck IS ed his property and caused him grea
 physical suffering. The accident oc
 cured on Grand avenue and Cuba sr charges that the unknown driver wa l. speeding at the rate of 50 miles a n hour.
 r. PYTHIAN PICNlC- Every tr
 engagement is practically complete fo
 a regular old fashioned family picni n. under the auspices of Phoenix Lodg, s- No. 2, Knights of Pythias, to be hel Sc at Eastlake Park Friday evening a h ' o'clock. This is part of the Pyth
 ian way of celebrating Patriotic weel
 An invitation is extended to all Pyth l. ians to attend and to bring thei " families. Lunch will be spread on tn Q tables or upon the grass and a goo SC time is assured all
 BROTHERHOOD PICNIC-The ar
 nual picnic of the Fraternal Broth ,f erhood will be held at Eastlake Par - Thursday afternoon and evening. A .- members are urged to be on hand ;
 4:30 o'clock at which hour the sport - begin. Well filled lunch baskets wi
 form an important part of the eouir
 mPnt and thaCa will ba ono,o1