Arizona republican., 1920-07-11
LOCAL BRIEFS

LOCAL BKIEF , ON VISIT TO coAsT-Mrs. Thomas Thomas and her son. Harry Sutton, left yesterday for an extended visit to Los Angeles and other coast cities.
 kREBS HERE ON BUSINESS Roy B. Krebs. county recorder of Co., chise county at Tombstone, was in Phoenix yesterday on business. He will leave for home this afternoon.
 PAUL FARMER RETURNS-Paul Farmer, who is employed in the money order division at the postoffice, re turned yesterday from vacation trip to Los Angeles, San Diego and Tijuana Most of his time on the coast, he ad- mitted yesterday, was spent on the beaches.
 OVERLAND TO cOAST-Dr. II. F. Gerdes, veterinarian surgeon, will leave for the coast tonight to spend a month. He will travel overland. The doctor has been indisposed for some time and feels that the change will do him good and that he will return thoroughly re- cuperated.
 ASKS DIVORCE Declaring that when he failed to provide for her. she was compelled to earn her own living, Cordie Hester Rountree yesterday brought suit for a decree of divorce from William A. Rountree. charging desertion. She says they were mar ried at Anson, Texas. in March H. 1916.
 R. N. T. CLUB MEETINe-The Royal Neighbors Thimble club will meet at Eastlake park Tuesday after noon at 2:30 o'clock with Mrs. Cross and Mrs. Tomlinson as hostesses- All members are requested to be present as business of importance is to come before the club.
 MELON MOVEMENT TIGHT-Ow- ing to the wreck on the Santa Fe rail- road Friday morning melons loaded for shipment from the Salt River valley were held over. Only IS carloads of melons were shipped out of here last Friday, according to the bureau of markets report issued yesterday. A total of 241 carloads of melons have been shipped out of the Salt River valley during the season while last season in the same period of time 1918 carloads of melons were sent out from here.
 MEETS FORMER PHOENICIAN - l.. M, Hoghe has returned from the convention of the Shriners at Port land. While there he met w. P. Rich ardscn, formerly an attorney of Phoe- nix and one Of the most active mem = hCrs of the convention, in general l charge of the reception of the visitors. l MT. Richardson has been DracticinS law in Portland for several years and l has built up large clientele. l NAVY RECRUlTER IS TRANS FERRED-RoSert E. Roll, IT,, of the l local navy recruiting office, leaves this evening for the recruiting office, Fifth and Broadway, San Diego. MT. Roll wd5 on duty. at the Tucson office for some time and on May 22 reported a: the local office here for duty. Mir | I.clI has made many friends during l his stay here vho join in wishing h4m
 the best of luck in his new duties | at the main office.
 SILHANEK GIVEN RECOGNITION Free J. Silhanek, who Last Decem- Der was male acting cashier of the ! Phoenix branch of the Union Oil com | pany has just received the permanent l appointment to that office. MT. Sil-
 hanek, who came here from Fort San | Houston two years ago. started work ! for the Union Oil company as book keeper. His excellent service for thaf
 institution has been noted and re
 warded. Mir. Silhanek IS married anC
 lives on the Indian School road. PROTEST ASSESSME ENT = w. F
 Tallifferro of the land department O the Santa E'e, Prescott and Ihoeni1
 railroad appeared before the state ta1 commission yesterday claiming tha l the 25,000 acres assessed to the rail
 road did not belong to it. Mir. Tallif-
 ferro claimed that the land 1or whicl | the company had been assessed haC | been returned to the government il 1902 and new land given in exchange
 to the Santa Fe. He prote 5ted aga ms
 the road paying the assessment which he said should be paid by the new
 owners. The commission took the mat
 ter under advisement.
 FIND "MOONSHINE" OUTFIT-IT
 a raid made at S20 East Roosevelt
 street yesterday. Fernando Vilvisol;
 was placed under arrest after the of ficers found a still, TWO barrels o mash, half a gallon of whislIey ant | -Tsah 1Ss V:lYisola admitted to the officers tha Ee made liquor with the apparatus bu added that he could not make Twin TOT himself and sick wife in any othe manner. He said he got s a guar for the "moonshine." The raid wa made by Sheriff Montgomery. Depat She: If BIanco and Officer McCirath z 5 tic crty police.