The border vidette., 1921-06-18

ware merchant, who for nun Der of years has been one of the directors of the First National Bank of Nogales, will celebrate his ninetieth birthday anniver- sary. We join Papa" Gebler's host of friends in wishing him many more happy birthdays.
 Henry Levin, pioneer com mission man, after an extended successful business visit in the City of Mexico, has returned home. About the first of August MT. Levin will return to MexicO'S national capital, where and his associates will engage in the commission business. En route home, Henry stopped a day in Tucson, where he visited the pleasant country home of Alex. Rossi, the retired restaurant man. At the Rossi Place he found Alex. and Hon. A. C.. Bernard busy with hoe and planting pink beans.
 On Thursday afternoon the Sonora State Congress at Her mosillo, elected MT. Francisco Elias of Agua Prieta, to fill the unexpired term of Governor de la Huerta, who has been given six months leave of absence to go to Mexico City to take his position of Secretary of the Treasury of Mexico. Governor elect Elias, who is a brother in lo D.oai1o~ko UilloaoHo- of Nogales, Sonora, is a wealthy rancher and stockraiser, he is a memb Der of one of the most pro minent families in the state of Sonora, and is we'll and favor ably known in this city.
 The Nogales High. School graduating class of 1921, con sisting of the following last night received their diplomas, the presentation being made at the high school auditorium, by Judge w. A. O'Connor: Dorothy Brown, Tacy ClaRett, Beatrice Jones, Helena, Karns, Roland Legarra, Muriel O'Neill, John Phillips, Alfred Taylor, Henry Leeker. The commencement ad dress delivered by Former Unit ed States Senator Charles E. Towne of Minnesota was inter, esting and instructive. The dis tinRuiShed gentleman has a na tional reputation as silver tongued orator.
 MT. F. F. Rodriguez, of this city, who with Mexican Consul Terrazas and President Villa senor of Nogales, Sonora, visit ed Hermosillo this week, retuned home yesterday morning. He verified the report that the Mex ican government will co operate with municipality of Nogales. Sonora, in the work of covering the Mexican side of the city arroyo at the south end of Grand avenue. Adolfo de la Huerta, secretary of the treasury of Mexico, now at Hermosillo, has authorized the expenditure of $1O, ,OOO on the improvement, and President Villasenor announces that work will begin immediate ly.
 Ia last Sundays baseball game, Asa Porter, assistant coach of the Arizona University, who pitched for the Nogales team, struck out eighteen mem bers of the Tucson Cubs, and won the game for the Nogales team, by a score of 2 to f. Not withstanding the rain, a big crowd of fans witnessed the game, after which the visiting team was royalty entertained by Nogales players and fans. To. morrow afternoons game on the local diamond, for the benefit of the American Legion, between the Nogales, Sonora and the Nogales hines, is going to be a ''hum dinger," according to Pre- sident J. A. Legarra. Don't miss it.
 The many personal friends of Alex. Strachan, the Nogales broker, here and throughout the state of Sonora, will be pleased to learn that he has been com pletely exonorated by a jury in the Santa Cruz county Superior Court. where the judge, after the prosecution had put it's entire case before the jury, instructed that honorable body to bring in a verdict of not guilty, for Mir. Strachan. The defense didn't