The border vidette., 1918-06-08

missioner of the State Land De.
 partment, accompanied by Bill
 Everets, land appraiser, went
 out Eigin way last Wednesday,
 on land business.
 On account of burned bridge
 on the Sonora railway, near Em ! palme, there was no train from
 the south last Wednesday. The
 repairs have been made and
 trains are again running on schedule time.
 The farewell party given at
 the Santa Cruz Club last even
 ing in honor of Dr. A. l.. Gus letter, who will soon join the
 colors, was a most delightful
 affair. The popular medico nas 1 a host of friends here and
 throughout the county. All wish him good luck and a safe return home. As president of the San
 ta Cruz Club, Captain Gustetter
 endeared himself to all. He will be missed.
 Mrs. Karns, mother of Senator
 Harry J. Karns, is again able to
 be around among her host of
 friends. Mother" Karns, who
 has two sons in the great Ma
 tional Army. Ellie and Bob, is
 loved by everybody, especially
 the soldier boys, scores of whom she has made happy during their stay in Nogales. The
 karns family, women and men, belong to the One Hundred Per Cent American Club.
 This week Nick Polyhron, Of the Nogales Theatre, received an interesting letter from his nephew, M. Polyhron, a we'll known, popular Nogales boy who is with the 163rd United States Infantry,i in France. The young man had been in France five months, three weeks of which time he had been on the
 fire line" He said All the boys are in the best of health and spirits, and willing to show the Fritz, any time, that we Americans are much better than they are."
 Dan s. Ball, nephew of Mir. Dave Loeb, proprietor of The | Popular haberdashry on Morley avenue, has arrived from his l home in Philadelphia, Pa.. to a position in his uncle's | big store. MT. Ball has had a lot of experience in the clothing business. Being a nephew of Dave Loeb, he needs no recon mendation. Later Mr. Ball will | be joined by his wife, who will arrive from the "Quaker City," just as soon as MT. Ball gets a suitable home. We welcome the gentleman to Nogales and hope he'll like us.
 On account of i'll health, Mir. Nathan Leeker has diposed of his big La Barata store on Nor ley avenue, and the elegant Leeker residence on West Nor ley avenue, to Mir. Joseph Berk, of The Modern. The price paid for Mir. Leeker's mammoth business and beauti- ful home, has not been made public. Mir. Leeker will take a we'll earned vacation, during which he will consult the best specialists in America in the hope of regaining his health. Mrs. Leeker and the two boys, since before the war, have been n Russia, visiting relatives. They are at Odessa. MT. and Mrs. Berk will occupy their new nome, which is one of the finest n the state.
 Of the thirteen young men who registered last Wednesday 1t the office of the local selec- jon board, only five gave the United States as their place of birth. Three were credited to Santa Cruz county, two to Pima county. The following are mem oers of the 1918 class, from Mo- gales: Luis Muuoz, Hermosillo; Westley R. Ferguson. Elmira, N. Y; Donaciano Mazon, Cos lla, Sinaloa, Mexico; Jose M. Parra, Magdalena, Sonora; San ,iago Dodier, Jr., Nuevo La edo, Mexico; Jesus M. I.acana, Frank MaScarenaS,