Arizona republican., 1920-09-26
LOCAL BRIEFS

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 RETURNS TO CITY - Mrs. Doane Merrill has returned to Phoenix after a summer absence of four months and will resume her vocal classes at her studio, 125 North Eleventh avenue. October |
 WILL LIVE HERE-Mrs. Robert L. Collins, who has been ia Phoenix since early in the year. is returning to her home in northern Michigan to arrange to move here. Mir. and Mrs. Collins have decided to make their permanent home in this city.
 STUDENT FROM OREGON Miss Anna Marie Calvert of Grants Pass, Oregon, has arrived here to take up her musical studies at the Arizona School Of Music under Walter Hastings olney in singing and Franz Darvis in piano.
 BACK FROM BASIL L. Schmidt, Jr., U. s. R. o. T. C., returned Friday froh the east, where he has been in command of the DeLaSalle military college He will spend the winter with his parents at 75e East Brill street
 COME HERE TO LIVE Mr. and Mrs. 0. L. Ragan and Howard and Leila Eleanor Ragan of Portland, Ore, have come to Phoenix to make their East Van Buren street. Mrs. Ragan was accompanied by her mother, Mrs. L. C. Cavanaugh of Salem, Ore, who will spend the winter here.
 VISITOR FROM KANSAS Miss Grace Kinnison of Fort Leavenworth is the guest of Miss Eva Behn, 54 West Portland street Miss Kinnison, who summered with the Behns at their Prescott cottage. will remain in Phoe- nix for two weeks.
 PASADENAN A VIsITOR-Gilbert Gray a railroad man of Pasadena, was an arrival of yesterday who will spend . week in Phoenix, the guest of his aunt, Mrs. Sylvanus Palmer, 21 North Sixteenth avenue.
 HERE FOR CONFERENCE-Ro Benson of the dairy department Of the state university, arrived from Tucson yesterday for a conference with Carey F. Bowles. supervisor of agriculture with the vocational education depart ment of the state.
 GILL RELATIVES HERE Peter Sill and John P. Gill, father and brother respectively of J. H. Gill. who died Tuesday night of injuries received when he was struck and knocked to the pavement by George Duermeyer, have arrived in Phoenix from Fairblry, Nebr., to take the body back to Fairbury for burial
 STATE COMMITTEES TO MEET For the purpose of organizing the state committees of both political parties will meet aL the state mousse dL uOOn OIl Monday. The meeting will be formally called to order by the secretary of state, after which the Republicans will hold a session in the supreme court room. while the Democrats will meet In the senate chamber.
 SOUTHERN TARIFF CONGRESS- The southern tariff congress will hold it's annual meeting at New Orleans. October 11-12, and has extended an in vitation to the Phoenix chamber of commerce to send delegate. If any body interested is going to be in New Orleans on those days the chamber of commerce will gladly delegate him, the board of directors announced yesterday.
 APPOINTED PRESENTATIvE- F. w. Griffen was appointed by the board of directors of the chamber of commerce yesterday to represent it in the International Cotton League of the West. a new organization for the pur- pose of consolidating interest in pre- venting the introduction of cotton pests and in keeping the standards Of cotton high in the southwest.
 RETURN FROM HEARfNG-F. A. Jones and David F. Johnson, members of the corporation commission who have been in Los Angeles where Nhey have been in attendance at passenger rate hearing before the interstate com merce commission. will return from the coast today Tomorrow they will start on a schedule of work that prom ises the busiest session ever held by the commission.
 TAX LEVY REDucTIoN-That the board of supervisors of Yuma county has made reduction of S20,000 in the tax levy ou assessments was the yvord received by the state tax commission yesterday. In making the reduction the supervisors carried out the request made blythe commission which held tFaa av-1 -nT-Ia f1x nv court house bonds and interest ano road bonds in computing the levy. The fact that the matter had been straight aned out was contained in a commu- nication addressed to the commission from the supervisors.