The border vidette., 1921-06-04
PATAGONIA.
Interesting News Items Clipped From
 the Patagonian.


 Ben Powell is busy cultivat- ing his corn crop on the Sonoita grant and the prospect for big yield of corn was never more promising at this season of the year.
 J B. Miller, manager of the Patagonia Lumber Yard, made a business trip to Greaterville Monday for the purpose of con | ferring with the citizens of that community in the matter of erect | ing new school building. The construction work on the new Methodist church is pro- greSsing with renewed vigor and last week witnessed the con- ! pletio1 of the structures roof. When this edifice is finally turn ed over to the trustees it will be a credit to church circles of Santa Cruz county
 c. B. Wilson, proprietor of the Patagonia Ice and Electric Plant motored to Nogales on Wednes- day for the purpose of purchas ing a circulating pump for use at the ice plant. which has re sumed operations for the sum- mer months. MT. Wilson was accompanied on his trip by his wife and H. J. Chenette of the tagonia Drug Store.
 Sunday Robert Catlett, a wide. ly known cattleman and rancher, residing in the Sopori valley. just south of the Pima county line, west from Amadoville, was injure ed very severely by falling from 8 load of hay. While no bones were broken the injured man suffered severe internal in- juries, and was shaken up gen erally.-Benson Press.
 c. L.. Northcraft, assisted by several hired men, has this week been cleaning up the beautiful Northcraft grove, three miles west of Patagonia on Sonoita creek. Mir. Northcraft takes a deep interest in this magnificent natural grove. Indeed, this grove is the pride of every citi zen in the county being one of the beauty spots of Southern Arizona.
 Ed. $. Black was down from Old Badly Monday and reported that the work on the new trail leading up to the lookout station was progressing in a very satis- factory manner. The trail is about fifteen feet wide with a fifteen per cent grade. There are eight or ten men at work on this job-a of them being good fire fighters as we'll as trail builders.
 A. w. Wrotnowski, the Noga. les-Patagonia stage driver, brought eight carrier pigeons to i Patagonia Monday morning and released them in front of the Patagonia Drug Store. They immediately ascended to height of about 1000 feet, and, after circling around the town for about twenty minutes, started on bee line to Nogales. They were just fifty five minutes mak- ing the twenty two mile flight. E.P. A. Larrieu, better known among his host of friends throughout Arizona as Gene, and who years ago established a reputation for himself as a writ CT under the cognomen of Joe Rush." when his witty and hum- orous references and saying first attracted the attention of Ari zona readers in the columns of the Tombstone Prospector, has been secured to act in the capa city of correspondent for The Patagonian at Nogales, and every reader in these parts and various other sections of the county, wherein The Patagonian circulates will, in the future, be kept fully advised as to the most important happens In the county seat, and it goes without saying that Gene will be on the job and keep us in touch with all mur ders, suicides, elopments, mar riages, deaths, births. and all scandal of consequence which will be of interest to the readers of The Patagonian.