Arizona republican., 1922-03-29

greeted her uncle, whom she had
nver seen before. Mrs. Kirk had been
been visiting and attending to the
settling of the affairs of her deceased
aunt. another sister of Mr.. Northrup
of this city. Knowing that her moth
ers eldest brother resided in Casa
Grande, Mrs. Kirk had promised her
mother that she would stop off here
and see him few days. She spent
two days with him here. During that
time she was very gallantly escorted
all about town by her proud uncle,
and met most all of his friends here.
Mr.. Northrup is past 81 years old,
his sister who died recently in Cali
fornia was SO, and Mrs. Kinks moth
er, his other sister, is past IS years
of age, so the entire family are all
living to good old age.
Ben S. Wilson of this city left on
Monday of this week for Flagstaff, in
company with a representative of the
United States Radium company Of
Orange, N. ]. They will begin work
on uranium m-radium deposit said to
be the largest deposit of its kind
yet discovered. Mr.. Wilson and his
associates are looking over the prop
erty and have taken a truck load of
supplies and tools through for the
purpose of equipping a permanent
camp. The district is located 40
miles from the railroad north of
Flagstaff and 3 miles from the Utah
line.
Walter Fink. representing the San
born Map company of San Francisco,
arrived here from the Imperial valley
on Sunday last. Mr.. Fink is now
compiling a new fire insurance map
for the city of Casa Grande and start
ed on his work this week. This new
map will replace the old one of one
sheet and will be made up of five
sheets.
Rollof Reeves and Clifford Glenn
ents were Phoenix business visitors
on Tuesday of this week
Mr.. and Mrs. l.. G. WestbroOk of
Santa Rosa were visitors here the
forepart of this week. They were
guests Of Carr McNatt and family
during the few days they spent here.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. t. Smith were in
Tucson on business last Thursday.
The Casa Grande lodge of Masons
was regularly instituted on Saturday
evening, March is. at Masonic hall,
officers of the grand lodge coming
here for that purpose. The lodge
was organized here over year ago,
but this formality was necessary in
order to grant the local lodge their
charter. AS the grand lodge meets
but once each year 1t was not pos
sible to confer this honor until now.
The new lodge will now be known as
Pinal lodge No. 80. The following
officers were installed by the grand
master of the grand lodge of Arizona,
Louis r. Meyers of Globe: Worship
full master, Lawrence G. Wilson, sem
ior warden, James G. Wilson; junior
warden, Harry J.. Fisher; senior dea-
con, George Linguard; junior deacon,
Dan F. Birdwell; treasurer, Mayor
II r.. Peart: secretary r. Swanzy;
senior steward, Robert McNatt; mar
shall. r. c. Mendrich. Following the
installation of officers an elegant
banquet was served prepared by the
wives of the Masons. During the
banquet pleasing program was car
ried out, several very fine musical
numbers being given. Among them
was vocal selection by w. Olney,
a teacher OF music in the Arizona
School Of Music in Phoenix. A solo
by Mrs. Lem p. Matthews and several
solos by Warren G.. Afford of this
city. Mrs. G. F. Richerson gave
very fine humorous reading. Judge
A. A. Jayne made a splendid ad-
dress, as did also the grand master
of the state lodge. Louis G. Meyers
of Globe. The visiting Masons were:
L. G. Meyers, A. j. Gilbert, John III.
Harper and Max Fielder, all of
Globe; w. Orth and w. H. Olney Of
Phoenix; Dant Bennett, II. G. Rich
ardson and j. G. Bogard of Florence.