Arizona republican., 1920-08-03
MESA MAN SEVERELY
 HURT WHEN STRUCK
 BY LIGHTNING BO[T

MESA. AuS. o--JOC w. DOiQt hS5d rancher and we'll known throughout the valley as a member of the Mesa baseball team for many seasons past received serious injuries and burns when struck by lightning while irrigat- ing on his cotton ranch just west of Mesa between and s o'clock yester- day morning. Last evening he was still in a semi-conscious state as a re- suit of the stroke, and was totally deaf, though the doctors are of the opinion that the loss of his hearing will be only temporary.
 Mesa was visited yesterday morning by one of the most severe electrical and thunder storms of the season and for some 20 minutes a heavy rain fell. It was during the storm that set in shortly after ' o'clock that Bond was supposed to have been struck. For some three hours he remained in an unconscious condition in the field where he had been struck and where 1 he was finally found about II o'clock 1 by two Mexicans working for him, who 1 had become alarmed at his absence l from home.
 Assisted to his machine, Bond drove the car distance of more than a mile to his home. Unable to relate the ac cident that had befallen him, physi- clans were called in and they too were unable to account for his condition for a time Later when his hat was re- covered from the field 1t was ascer- tained that he had been struck by lightning. The felt hat was literally 1 torn to shreds and was burned.
 Striking Bond on the top of the head. the lightning left distinct mark down the back of the head. where all the hair was removed, and on down the chest, shoulder and right arm to the finger tips. Bond still complained last even ing of pains through his chest.
 Match Dash For Sunday Confident that their man can win over Bob Burton if he has week Of training, local supporters of Gordon Goodwin of Tempe yesterday matched him in another 100-yard dash against the local favorite. to be run on the ath- ietic field at the Franklin school next Sunday morning at Il o'clock. Burton and Goodwin went their distance in the hundred last Sunday, the former coming out at the tape a short 1e inches in the lead. Supporters of both runners were there in numbers to back their favorite and plans are being laid for an even bigger match between the , same two next week.
 On Their Vacation
 Rev Francis Bloy. rector of St . Marks Episcopal church in Mesa, and family will leave this morning to pass the month of August in Prescott } Services at the church have been dis continued for the month.
 At the Majestic Today
 Tom Moore will appear on the screer , at the Majestic today in the popular photopiay, s'Toby's Bow" A comedy Allowing Day. featuring MT. and Mrs Carter De Haven. and a Pathe News 7 film is also on the program.
 Marr Returns
 James C. Marr. representing th' : United States department of agricul ture here, returned to the valley yes -4e,sf 4f,f "a phant Butte dam in New Mexico, F Paso and other points in Texas H. a passed several days with Mrs. Marr who is summering with her parents a Del Rio.
 Daley to Buy Cotton . Marion Daley, for several years il } the employ of the Water Users asso citation. has resigned his position ther and will devote his time this fall t : cotton buying. He will be the repre- 2 sentative of McFadden Brothers, cot , ton buyers. in the Mesa and adjoininl s districts. Daleys former work as
 zanjero on the Eureka and Nephi lat
 erals has been taken over by Georg : Worrell.
 Goes on Vacation : l.. H. Van Spanckeren, cashier Of tn
 First National bank, and Mrs. Nal Spanckeren departed Saturday nigh
 for California, where they will pas . the month. They expect to join party of friends on the coast and vii = motor north to the Yellowstone par
 and other points of interest enroute.
 Returns to School
 Miss Mildred Houston, daughter O e MT. and Mrs. A. J. Houston, residin : southwest of Mesa, departed the frs = of the week for Berkeley, Cal, wher = she will resume her studies in the stat
 university there with the opening o D the fall term
 !; One Relieves the Other 8 Dr. c. s. Dingle returned yesterda
 morning from Pasadena and othe
 California points where he spent tn
 month of July, and resumed his wor
 at Everybody's drug store. Dr. w (
 Denson of the same concern departe !. last night for Minonk, Ill., where h s goes to join Mrs. Denson and to mak = acquaintance of his twins, a boy an
 a girl which arrived to join the Den son family several weeks ago.
 JELLY GRAPES at ranch. Sc per II = E. G. Bailey, Phone 2R2, Mesa
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