The border vidette., 1917-02-03

l DISI ICLduC, was OuSIH0SS VlSlCOI 1 in the city Thursday and yester- 1 day. Says conditions at the l Garden City" are improving, and everybody is busy improv ling their gardens.
 Dr. H. w. -Purdy has gone tc
 New York City on private busi-
 ness. Before returning home he
 will also visit in Florida, his
 native state. The doctors
 numerous friends wish him a
 pleasent, profitable trip. The new fixtures being install
 ed in the Ladies' Ready: to Wear lRnd Gents, Furnishing Depart
 ments at The Red House, are
 handsome and up to the minute.
 Manager LeEarra believes in buying the best and latest. Through last Saturdays deci-
 sion of the Supreme Court, Thomas E. Campbell, is now Arizona's de factor governor, pending the election contest now in progress between the de factor governor and Gov. George w. P. Hunt.
 Thursday night Fred. Afford returned from business trip to Noria, Sonora. near where the properties of the Sonora Copper Smelling Company are located. Reported everything quiet in that section and farmers busy with their crops.
 John and Bird Yoas, two suc- cessful stockmen, were iu the city last Wednesday from their ranch in the Santa Ritas, near Tubac, where they have a bunch of white face cows. Fhe YoaS boys understand the COW busi- ness from A to z.
 Frank McInnis, of the In- sufficiently recovered from pneu- monia to again circulate among his friends. Although still very week, he is getting along nicely, and will soon be O K, to the delight of his friends.
 Tom Smith, native son of Tucson, who is we'll known in Nogales, has been circulating among his Nogales friends sev- eral days this week. Before Sonora went dry" Tom was manager of the Concordia, just across the international line. : Tom Gittins, the millman, was 8 visitor here the forepart of the week. Tom is a son of Judge Watt Gittins of the local justice court5 He is now working for the Dhquesne Mining & Reduc- tion Company, of which c. A. Bankerd is general manager. On account of the army quar- antine, the social dances at the Santa Cruz Club and at the 12th infantry camp, were not held last night. A dance at the Club 1 is announced for next Friday night, and it is. hoped the guar antine will be lifted by that time. -
 The announcement of the sud: den, untimely death of Captain R. L.1Shaw, of the Idaho na- tional guard, recently in Idaho, from pneumonia, was learned with regret in Nogales, where deceased made many friends dur ing his stay here with the Idaho l guardsmen.
 This week Wirt G. Bowman, accompanied by his charming Miss Tillie, has been visiting in Los Angeles. where. MT. Bowman went on import | ant private business. Miss Tillie | is visiting old friends from No gales, who are sojourning in l Los Angeles.
 Harry E. Grace and A. c. Wall, representing the Los An geles Tanning Company, are regular shipments of hides from Sonora, to the States. The gentlemen have unlimited | capital behind them and are in a position to pay the highest market price for "pelts.
 Attorney Malcom Little, who for the past two years has been making Los Angeles his home, has been a visitor in the city this week, on legal business. Mir. Little is successful Mexican lawyer. For a long ] time he resided at Hermosillo. l He also had law offices in No gales.
 Harry Ghenoweth one of |