Arizona republican., 1921-03-22
MESA TOCCERY"
 ROBBED IF GOODS VALUED AT S5,0O0
Thieves Enter Store Sunday Night Through Skylight;; Carry Away Most Expen- sive Goods In Big Stock

I SlfC 0SOtlS III -LAS otoSAA 4 MESA. March Entertainments of ! expensive silk goods including dresses, Iunderskirts, waists and shirts and mems suits, socks, jewefry and other an,,arel at an aggregate value of over s5 on0 were taken from the Toggery III Mesa some time early Monday morhlis Fin one of the boldest and largest TOD lberies carried out here III seais ... | goods taken for the first part were e2- ,,ousive sillSs and other elaborate ap- nare1 that had been purchased m < sa sta,.n shopping centers but few weeks ago by George A. Johnson. log fgery manager. and rushed here py @ eA- ! press in preparation for the Easter Honeniug and style show of the pig store held Monday night Notwith- standing their handicap at the loss of tbese spaciaI articles The Toggery carried out it's show with splendid sue
 cess, the evenings program Tn the store cuIminating with big street ] dance at the corner of Main and Mae Fl Donald streets.
 Entrance to the Toegery was gained through slyfight and dropping j through to the floor by a rope. lndi- : cations found by the police Monday morning were that the thieves climbed on top of the building from the back alley and firstA made an effort to get , into the slxy-light over the rear or the store. where an entrance was gained successfully in a similar manner py ! thieves several years ago. Removing the glass from the sky-light in front,
 8 rope was tied to the beam and the l drop of twenty feet into the store easily made.
 The store was ransaclsed generally and silks and other goods of tho more E eiatx- =
 ticaiiy in their entirety, more costly goods even being removed from the models. Nearly a hundred silk dresses valued al s2,oo0 were taken together .3 with a hundred silk underskirts. q E dozen Georgette waists, five dozer ! ladies linen handiSercbiefs. five dozen silk shirts, silk socks twelve suits oi mems clothing, leather belts, silver
 buckles mems iewelry and sundrs 5 other items.
 Exit from the store was made through a door into the buck alley | and officers are confident that eithel an auto or wagon was used in trans 4 porting the stolen goods away. Nigh ' Captain c. c. Brown stated Monda, i morning that he had tested the dool . and found it secure at a. m. so i X appears that the thieves got away bu c a short time before daylight.
 n Both county and city officers wer' e working on the case Monday but m ! definite clues had been discovere, = management is offering a reward O e s250 for the arrest of the thieves an, : recovery of the stolen property.
 Seriously Burned When Home Burn : Clay Parker, Mesa rancher. Twin $ five miles northeast of here, wa "a seriously and possibly fatally burne -s carly Monday morning when h Id searched through his burning hous re for his wife, whom he supposed to b
 inside. The flames in the house awok le AIr. Parker who was sleeping upstalr at about 1 o'clock Monday morning an Id awakening Mrs. Parker. who Wa n downstairs they both got out safel, 1e Later she returned into the burnin house in an effort to secure some valt T. ables and becoming trapped by II
 spreading flames was forced to maf ls an exit through a side window. M ilt Parker. fearing for her safety. whe ail she did not return through the doc M dashed into tine flames and twice wei as through the thickest of the fire ar eil sruoke in a vain effort to locate he I,,ss-l He was seriously burned from hes = = to foot and neighbors who we = awakened by the alarm of fire al
 rushed to the scene immediately to' ,e him to the Community hospital ,,t Mesa, The burns were dressed and |  V sible, but he continued in sem = conscious state all of Monday al V physicians state that his condition very grave Mrs Parfer's hair W
 singed, but she escaped otherwise u
 hurt. The fire which unaccountah
 broke out in the home at the midnig
 hour consumed the entire house a
 all of it's contents, nothing of val
 being saved.
 Mesa Downs All Stars to 3 Hs Mesa started it's spring season Su sI day with a victory over the All-Sts IsM of Phoenix to the tune of to ..
 was a lively contest, fans genera ,r proclaiming it a game much above | e+ average for the first of the seas, or Mesa is lining up a game with Ten ar for next Sunday and will play era turn game with that club here 1 to following Sunday.
 ,,@n Reserved Seats For "Almond Eyei
 Reserved seat tickets for the eveni he performance of Almond Eyes" in md high school auditorium Tuesday w if placed at Everybody's Monday wh f, general admission tickets may be ms changed for them. Almond Eyes" 5a,. pretty little Chinese operetta, will i, presented by the high school stude 1e- twice Tuesday, a matinee in the aft 5ed noon for grammar and high sch
 pupils and again in the evening.
 Boy In Dayton Home
 A nine and onehalf pound baby
 has made his appearance in the he
 of MT. and Mrs Chas. L. Dayton, V
 reside at the switchboard stat
 northeast of Mesa. The little fel
 arrived on Wednesday,, March 16.
 Hear Report on Convention
 Teachers in all of the Mesa schC and the Alma school, west of M,
 gathered at a meeting in the | ?alt 9a school Monday afternoon to heal loIl' report by Superintendent H. F. II ! ! Sc 1rix on the superintendents' conV I oi ton of the National Educational as uue citation. which he recently attended
 Atlantic City, N. J Another teach cl1 meeting will he held at the Fran uSo school on Thursday afternoon W @Iio s,,,l Prof Hendrix will talk on junior
 schools
 Southsde Theaters Today 'al. Majestic. Mesa-Dorothy Phillip. Io' "Once to Every Woman Pathe N \, r Comedy ''Giddap Napoleon
 II Gflbert-"W That Happened to RC '' 1 featuring Mabel Normand. Han