Arizona republican., 1918-03-15
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V. OlDDSy lz0 EdSI I Olh Sliecl. All members are expected to be present. and those in charge extend cordial invitation. to all young people who may desire to attend.
 LICENSED TO WED-A marriage license was issued yesterday to Charles w. Hewitt. 39, Gila Bend and Pearl Driest, 34, Oklahoma City.
 DEGREE GRANTED-Testifying to desertion and non- support, Mrs. May Farmer secured a divorce yesterday from William L. Farmer. Judge Stan ford signed the decree.
 WIFE ASKS DECREE-Nona E. Moody is the plaintiff in a divorce complaint filed in the superior court yesterday in which she charged R. M. Moody with desertion and failure to provide. The couple were married in this city in August, 1913. Mrs. Moody asks the right to resume her maiden name-Nona E. Barkley.
 BACK FROM LEAvENWORTH- Deputy United States Marshal Willis and Deputy Sheriff Charles Nafsinger returned yesterday from the east. The officers had charge of prisoners who were taken to the federal prison at Leavenworth.
 HEARING TODAY-Charles Doty, charged with failure to provide fol his minor child, will be given his preliminary examination before Jus tice Wheeler at o'clock this after noon.
 ASKS DECREE-Alleging that he knew he had a wife when he mar ried her, Ella B. Parker yesterday in- stituted divorce proceedings against Almon Hunt Parker whom she mar ried in this city, November 29, 1916 Mrs. Parker asks to have the mar riage set aside as null and void and declares that at the time he mar ried her Parker knew that his wife Lucretia J. Parker, was living. She claims that the real Mrs. Parker now resides in Minneapolis. The plaintiff asks for the right to resume her name Ella B. Bradley.
 COOKED FOOD SALE-The Rober E. Lee chapter of the Daughters o the Confederacy will hold a cooked food sale on Saturday. beginning a 9 o'clock, at the Bon Ton basketeria No. 2 on Washington street. Tn, proceeds of the sale are to be ap. piled to a first payment on a libert! bond. The food sale will includ' southern dishes which only womel of the south know how to make. THREE MOT GUILTIES"-Thre defendants in as many speeding case pleaded not guilty and will be trie, before Justice Wheeler today. N Mclaughlin, who is alleged to hay violated the speed law on North Cen tral avenue, will appear in court a 1 o'clock. The following hour ha | been set for the case of w. E. Brad shaw, another alleged Central avenu speed offender, and after his case ha been disposed of, Al Cragg, who i charged with travelling faster than tn law allows on the Tempe highway will be given a chance to defend him self
 1 OFFICE ABoLISHED-Miss Etht Wise, who since the first of the pres ent year has been assistant to tn | secretary in the offices of the com mission of state institutions, is n | longer connected with that state de
 ment, department, the office of as
 sistant secretary having been abol
 ished.
 abolished.
 J. D. MARTIN SERIOUSLY ILL.,, D: Martin, who has a business estab lishment on South Fourth avenue, wa taken quite seriously ill Tuesday nigh and was removed. the next morning.
 the Sisters hospital for medical treat
 ment
 RETURN OF GEORGE JOHNSON
 After a months work in the easter
 cities, George Johnson, proprietor (
 the Toggery of Mesa, returned recent
 to his place of business. He was ca:
 on a buying tour for the spring an
 summer trade of his department stor
 He reports the weather in the East
 be very disagreeable.
 | VISITED THE ASYLUM-Leroy
 Ladd, chairman; l.. B. Whitney al
 Charles R. Osburn, members of u
 commission of state institutions, mat
 an official visit yesterday afternoon
 the state hospital for the insane at u
 eastern limits of Phoenix.
 NEW cORPORATlONS-Articles
 incorporation yesterday were filed
 the offices of the state corporate
 commission by the following new col
 cerns: Efficient Advertising compan , Texas Oil Development compan , Pickaway Gold Mining company, Uni ed States Oil and Refining compan Cochise and Texas Oil company, Cad den State bank
 TO LITTLE ROCk-C. A. Wilt
 who had been here looking over u
 valley for the past few months, left la
 evening for his home in Little Rock RETURNS TO BISBEE-Miss Haz , Roper was passenger on last eve ing's train for her home in Bisbe
 Miss Roper had been spending a fe , weeks in this city visiting friends al i. relatives.
 TWO MEN ENLIsT-Two nor
 stars were added to Arizona's servi
 flag yesterday when two Phoenix m
 enlisted in military service and left f
 their respective destinations last eve
 ing. Jesse R. Jones enlisted in t
 United States army and left for S
 Francisco, while Lyle Ward joined t | navy and went to San Diego. H YATES LEAVE Rev. and M Yates and Rev. w. F. Yates of s; Lake City, who have been in Phoer
 the past several weeks, boarded ls
 evenings train for Oklahoma Ci
 where they will continue their evang s listic work.
 d WANT SEWING MAcHINES-T T Osborn branch of the Red Cross is (
 SlfOuS or obtaining several sewing IT e chimes for use in the Red Cross wo
 Persons having good machines, the | ' of which they can spare. are asked, $ those in charge, to donate them Il work of a worthy nature. Further - formation may be obtained from M Y William Wells, Phone 12SR5. n HOME MISSlONARIES-The Wo v ans Home Missionary society of II | I-,,ic ob, V hold it's regular monthly meeting at
 residence of Mrs. A. H. Barber, | ;. East Washington street, this afterne !, at 2:30 o'clock. All of the women II the church are invited to attend,
 those in charge.
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