Arizona republican., 1918-01-07
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 ACRES BY PUMP


 Bowers and Ira c. Holmes are putting in a pumping plant on the Bowers homestead in Paradise Valley, and plan to irrigate forty acres of the land and plant it to cotton.
 Walter Smith has purchased a Mo- line tractor to use in putting ln his next years cotton crop.
 Mrs. R. A. Windes of Tempe and her daughter, Miss Alice Windes of Flagstaff were guests of Miss Rose Trumbull, of "Casita Mia," on Sunday.
 Miss Helen Campbell left Satudray for Santa Monica, Cal, to join her mother for an extended stay there.
 Miss Mabel Brown has been pleas ant guest of Mrs. George Johnston for the holiday season.
 MT and Mrs. Julius Benroth and MT. and Mrs. Morton Kimsey were dinner guests of Mir. and Mrs. Cleon Sharp on Sunday. In the evening they were joined by MT. and Mrs. Emmett FL liott and the party enjoyed a picnic supper by the light of huge bonfire of blazing logs.
 MT. and Mrs. Benton w. Brown of southern Wisconsin have arrived for an extended visit with the family of l Edwin o. Brown.
 Walter F. Smith has accepted the agency for the Chevrolet car. Thursday witnessed the return of our young people to their school du- ties. Misses Ruth Brown, Grace l Thomas, Margaret Smith, Mary Elm bry and May Fanderhoof and James i Nanderhoof all resume their studies at Tempe Normal. Miss Mary Keene Graves returned to Phoenix high and Miss Marian Cartu to the grammar 1 school in Phoenix.
 Scottsdale will open Monday, Jan, z 1 having elected to take the two full weeks. Of the teaching force, Miss Cash, the principal, spent the holidays at home; Mrs. Carriebei Parker Browr | joined her husband at Camp Kearney and Mrs. Guy Loomis seized the op- portunity to take up clerking in tht E. O. Brown general store. | James Livingston is quite ill witt pneumonia, while one of his younger sisters is threatened with it. Other: of cur community who have been ill 1 are on the road to recovery. Mrs. F o. Brown is improving, while V. A | Vanderhoof, who has had an attack O jaundice, is able to be out once more
 The Arizona Securities and Invest ment company has started the con struction of two mile. or cement ditcl on the fruit ranch south of Scottsdale Cleon Sharp, who has had much ex perience in this class of work, vii superintend the construction.
 Mrs. Martha Norcross Feree i spending the holidays with her fathe at Pomona, Cal. Upon her return, sh will enter upon her new duties in tn office of the Arizona Grocery il Phoenix.
 Mrs. Mary Washburn has returne from her Paradise Valley ranch, wher she was a Christmas hostess to $. I Poole and his sons, James and Ste phen, of Phoenix
 Mrs. c. M. Kane and children, Will
 bur and Lowell, returned to thei
 Buckeye home on Sunday, after
 Christmas visit with MT. and Mrs
 James Clark.
 Mrs. L. M. Panknin had an unpleas ant ending to a happy day on Christ , mas. She with her daughter and soI i. Mrs. Claude Marian and Frank Pool, : were members of a party who enjoye , a day on the desert, but returnin . home in the afternoon, their car struc , an obstacle in the road which succeed ed in removing most of the parts ( v the cars anatomy which seem to b 1, necessary to it's progress. How di
 
 n would say. That's another story" ! Messrs. H. $. Hall, Fred Cutter an Q o. H. Spring were entertained delight a | fully at the NJ. B. Cartu home o f Christmas day.
 h MT. and Mrs. Guy Loomis entertain ed with a six o'clock dinner on Ne . Years day, their guests being MT. an f Mrs. Morton Kimsey and MT. an a Mrs. Julius Benroth.
 His many friends here will be intel
 ested in the announcement of a nal
 riage license issued on New Years ds " to Henry Pemberton and Miss Alph f Murphree of Tempe.
 $ Mir. and Mrs. Cleon Sharp and lit daughter. Jean Elizabeth, were dim, n guests of Mir. and Mrs. Emmett F, n liott on New Years day. Rev. Richard Pope of Phoenix "; q calling on his parishioners here Thur . day.