Arizona republican., 1921-05-14
MESA MEX|CANS TO
 BE SENT ID BORDER

MESA. May 13.-More than a half hundred Mexicans of the Mesa dis trict, who are wards of the Arizona Cotton Growers association or who are natives of Mexico, will be sent out within the next few days for the border, following plans made in Mesa Friday by P. R. Millnes, Arizona i'm migration commissioner, and w. H. Knox, manager of the Cotton Grow CTS association. The two spent the greater part of the day in Mesa in their search for the Mexicans All Mexicans of this district who were brought in by the association and other natives of exiMco who care to return to their home land will be given free transportation to the border. they were told Friday. The two officials spent some time in conference with officials of the Mesa Welfare league and through its reg ister of all needy Mexicans in this | district they were able to locate a large number who want to return to Mexico.
 Forty Mexicans of the Mesa dis | trict were taken to Tempe Friday, where their party to the border will be organized, and another load will be | taken to association headquarters | there Saturday.
 Boosting Chicken Day
 L. F. Kingman, secretary of the | Glendale Chamber of Commerce, and | Harry Bonsall of that city were vis- | itors in Mesa Friday in the interests | of Glendale's chicken day. to be held May 20. The two visited the Com | mercial club and a special invitation was extended members and officials of that body to attend the festival. | Many Mesa people who are inter ested in the chicken industry are planning to attend the celebration. Mexican Boy Drowned
 Mesa officers were informed Fri day evening of the drowning of a Mexican boy in the Consolidated canal just above the diversion gates, l two miles northeast of town, about l o'clock yesterday afternoon. The lad was in swimming with party of boys, and having just come to Mesa 1 with his parents was unfamiliar | with the treacherous parts of the stream. The report said that his l body had not been recovered yet. Methodists Defeat Second Ward One of the best and most exciting games in the inter Sunday schoo | league was played Thursday evening on the high school grounds, ,ths l Methodists winning over the Second 1 Ward team, which was tied for firs' l place in the league, to 3. Lauffer l pitching for the Methodfsts, had ev- l erything his own way and his mound l work for the seven innings was the big feature of the game. There were l six strike -outs, 13 put-outs at firs1 base, a fly out to Lauffer. and base runner called out, making the 21 put l outs. Dutch Stapley was in the box I for the Ward men. but from the time l the first batsman to face him pickled | the first ball over the plate for ; | bases until the end of the game ht | was powerless against the onslaught. | of the Methodists. The result O
 Thursday nights game places Leh
 first in the league standing, the Sec
 ond Ward second and the Methodist
 third. The score: RH. E
 Method1sts Second Ward .........-....3 Batteries: Laufer and Ruse; Stap
 ley and Peterson.
 X. P. Prepare for Barbecue
 Arrangements for all members c
 Damon lodge, Knights of Pythias, c
 Mesa, to attend the big K. P. bar ' becue at Papago park next Monda evening are being carried out by tn lodge officials. Numberless partie
 are expecting to attend the festivitie
 and the Foxworth- Bush Lun1be
 company has offered the use of il e large truck to transport all to tn
 picnic grounds who care to go. Th il truck will leave the K. F. hall at ' o'clock.
 a Leaving for New Orleans IT Rex Oggs and family expect II leave Saturday for their former hon
 in New Orleans. They will retur . to Mesa in the fall.
 Boys Bike Races Saturday Fl Newspaper carriers and other b
 cycle boys in Mesa are up on the
 toes for the bicycle races to be stage
 Saturday afternoon by c. F. Monra
 local bicycle dealer More than thir1
 dollars worth of prizes in bicycle a'
 cessories and other goods are to
 awarded the winners, and the bo,
 have taken a keen interest in u
 events. The first race will be stag. at 3 o'clock on South Macdonal
 carriers on newspapers delivered PHOTO STUDIO-Best business
 town; will trade, sell or lease Own | leaving state. W. P. Seyfred, next
 post office, Mesa.
 SWEET potato plants, s per 1,0C
 Geo. G. flaws, Mesa; phone 343W. WASHING MACHINE motor al