The border vidette., 1921-09-10

from September 1 until Decem Der l next, has passed the house.
 The Patagonia public schools term On Monday, September 12th. It is believed that the best corps of teachers ever employed for work in the local schools has been selected by the Pata gonia board of school trustees.
 Prof. R. B. Thompson, poul try husbandman of the Univer sity of Arizona. will spend two days in this section of Santa Cruz county week after next, giving demonstrations on the proper method of culling non laying hens from poultry tiocks.
 Val Valenzuela, Jr., manager of the Patagonia Commercial Co.,, will leave on Sunday for a trip to the top of Mount Baldy. He will be accompanied by Ben J. Jones. manager of Steinfield's branch store at Nogales, and the la.ter's to daughters. The party will be gone about four days, it taking that length of time to make the trip.
 The bridge across the Rillito on the Casa Grande highway has been thrown open to light traffic in Pima county. For sometime motorists have been cautioned to avoid the Rillito crossing and use the Silverbell road, crossing the Santa Cruz river at Picture Rocks. This detour will no longer be neces sary except for heavy vehicles.
 Rauchers from the Santa Cruz and San Rafael valley coming into Patagonia declare that it is an easy matter now to catch jack rabbits. The grass is SO thick that they are unable to get through and it is an easy matter for them to be overtaken by dogs or man on horseback. It is hard hunting cottontails, how ever, as they can hide so easily, the ranchers say.
 According to advices brought to the office of The Patagonian late last week, the big vegetable gardens of the Hop Yick Com. pany at Fairbanks were virtually destroyed by severe hailstorm on last Thursday evening. Hun dreds of acres of tomatoes, squash. caulifower, melons, car rots, lettuce, etc., were beaten to the ground by the hail stones, which are reported to have been as large as marbles. The field according toFthe report after the storm had passed on, looked like a herd of cattle had stampeded over it. The loss to the Chinese owners will amount to several thousands of dollars. it is said.
 Advices from the Vaughn re- zion about five miles south of the railroad between Elgin and Senoita, convey the Intelligence that on Thursday evening of last week that vicinity was visit ed by heavy hailstorm which ravaged crops greatly. One case in particular is reported, that on the farm of $. T. Harrison, where 40 acres of beans, matur- 1AS III bo cb StoP3 S01- -fered complete destruction. The vines were all cut to shreds, and there will not be a bean recover ed. It is. also reported, that sew eral farms in the same vicinity suffered in a like way but the names of-the> owners could not be aScertained.
 Improved conditions of the ranges of Arizona are reflected in requests being received by the state livestock board for permits to bring cattle back, to Arizona ranges from Texas and other points that. were shipped out because of the drouth during the first part of the summer, according to Ed Stephens, secre- tary of the board. Mr. Stephens said. that reports to the board indicated that there was enough feed on the ranges of the state to feed 10 times as many cattle as now are there. The board has received telegram from a cattle company of Mahovans, Texas, asking for permission to ship into Arizona 13 cars of cattle that were shipped to Texas from R0Wip A rig earlier in the