Arizona republican., 1920-12-28

in the yard and received treat of can dy, popcorn, nuts and cookies from their teacher, Mrs. Tardy.
 The Maricopa Presbyterian church served a dinner at the church. The tribal Christmas dinner was held at the home of Jose Juan.
 A progressive colony of Pima In- dians resides four miles west of La veen. Many years ago this group of Indians collaborated to construct a canal to water some land along the Gila river. This canal was named Coz operative and this long name has long since shrunk to Coop ditch and vil- lage. Nearly all these families are ad herents of the Presbyterian church and twelve years ago obtained help from the Phoenix church which enabled them to build a small adobe chapel.
 They have pleaded for a government school and were finally told in Sep tember that a salary for a teacher had been allowed and they could have a school if they could furnish building and a resident teacher. as no funds were available for buildings.
 Johnson McAfee, a graduate of the Phoenix Indian school, and student for two years at the Phoenix high school. undertook to conduct a school | in the chapel In a few days 70 youngsters from to years old were collected and seemed perfectly happy sitting on long benches, feet dangling l in mfd-air. Tn the absence of the usual i supplies, this determined teacher taught these bright-eyed infants to | sing and converse in English about levery object in sight. At the end of three months he has desks and few other needed supplies and is amplify- ling his instruction to include the reg ular course.
 Now the Co-ops are offering to do- nate the labor on a school house if the materials are furnished. So some h. dians are willing to help themselves popular opinion to the contrary not withstanding.
 l We had thought nothing could make us forget cotton, but the threatened calamity of closing the Center stree1 bridge has superseded all our other worries. Our engineers are certainly Iresourceful enough to overcome thi; difficulty.
 The Yuletide season was fittingly ob- iserved at the Laveen Central schoo Thursday afternoon with the following Inappropriate program:
 l.'Merry Christmas" an exercise by
 .. Third and fourth grade: l"Up on the Housetop," song by...
 First and second grades A Discouraged Worker" play by. ...... Primary room Holy Night" song by eighth grad "Ten Little Mulligans,7 play in three
 scenes by fifth and sixth grade Recitation by ..... Mary Arnstroni
 'Wanted a Chimney" a minute
 play by ............... Inlfo sIau Low in a Manager" song ana panto-
 mime.
 to undertake in so small a space, ILaveen school has no auditorium, bu only those were disappointed wh lconld not be present. AN pupils an Isnests were treated to candy, orange and nuts by the teachers. MT, ReddeI Misses Useger and Sharp and MT Owings. An interesting event was the weddln of Miss Mary Meslin and Cecil CoIeel The bride is a sister of Mrs. bei : Smith. The young couple are stay III
 with the groom's parents Tor the pres ent e M
 and Mrs. Elmer Lujenbeal, is quite l with bronchial pneumonia. Marl :, tbei,. vear-old daughter, is also Ill VII : a severe cold
 Many of the older residents of Ia = ,,ony, will he interested to learn or U 2 2 rnarriage of Miss Harriet De Rosset
 to Frank Underwood of Dunegan, M' i where. they will make their fp,ui {, home. As young girl Miss De FNo' sette came from Missouri lo L.aVvee es,'s
 making her home with the ". n. .,-I..., Sna ! hams. She was very actlNe III 'iule ] s literary circles and her mar !, s.;a,as s.lie, repretted her loss when si ! went " e,'t to Phoenix to enter the nurs,r <, nrofession. in which she did noo # work from choice devoting nearS " t,e,s time to tubercular patients.