Arizona republican., 1920-01-19
TO OPEN FIRST MILE
 IF MESA-TEMPE ROAD

l MESA, Jan. .19.-Promising an open ing of the first mile of the new Tempe Mesa highway within the next few days. the contractors had a force of men and teams busy yesterday clearing the cement and building up the sides. At the same time the south road was undergoing repairs, a grader working on 1t from the Mesa city limits to the edge of the local road district four miles west.
 of the highway has been laid to a point mile and quarter west of here. The balance of the second mile is now being leveled, preliminary to the cement pouring, and within the course of an other week work will start on the third mile. The first mile has been com pieted for some time, and following the building up of the three-foot aprons of dirt on each side of the pavement this stretch will be opened to travel, probably within the next few days. On the south road, where practically all of the travel to and from Tempe is now being directed, the road overseer on the Mesa end put a tractor and grader at work yesterday smoothing off the bumps and filling in the holes The same job was accomplished on the Tempe end of the stretch yesterday.
 At the Movies
 His Majesty the American,' featur- ing Douglas Fairbanks, and a Pathe News is the program billed for the Majestic theater this afternoon and evening. The Orpheum will present Tom Mix in Coming of the Law
 Pythians Here Tonight
 Pythians from four of the valley lodges will gather in Mesa tonight for what undoubtedly will prove one of the biggest sessions the Knights have held since the grand lodge convened in Tempe three months ago. Candidates to the number of 31 from Chandler and four from Mesa are to be initiated in the rank of esquire and the local lodge, as hosts for the occasion, are planning to top the evenings program with a luncheon In addition to the class of candidates it will furnish Chandler will attend with many more members, and Tempe, where one of the best Pythian lodges in the state is located, will attend with a large number, in- cludeo in which will be the necessary number to fill out the Mesa initiation team. Phoenix, too, has been invited to share in the meeting and the at tendance of score or more of ofsknights from there is expected. -- Legion to Meet
 Following on the close of it's mem bership campaign, which has been un- der way for the past ten days the Mesa post of the American Legion is arranging for a meeting of the mem bershfp on Wednesday evening in the office of the Land Sales corporation on South Macdonald street. With orders out from state headquarters for the annual election of officers to occur some time this month, and numberIess other matters due for attention. an and busy session of the post is promised.
 Goes to Fl Centro
 M. J. Norton left yesterday for Ell Centro, Calif., where the will be estab- lished for the next few weeks attend ing tc business matters in the interest of the Southwest Cotton company
 Thrills in Airplane Crash
 Mesa'S residents had a thrill out of the ordinary Saturday when a Phoenix crashed in a field located one half mile east of the city. Two occu- pants of the machine sustained minor | injuries and the plain was badly dam | aged It was taken to Phoenix yester- day to be surveyed, no announcement |