Arizona republican., 1922-06-22
BUCKEYE BRACs Of
CROPS; ALSO DRO|Ls

BUCKEYE, June 21.-That the
Buckeye valley is capable of extra
ordinary and sustained crop yields is
too well known locally to cause COM
ment, but it is perhaps well to crafty
local pride by occasionally letting
the world know this fact. For in
stance p. H. Van Lier of Liberty is
feeling grieyed He has just threshed
field of wheat which averages only
310S pounds to the acre GA sacks).
AS Mr.. Van Lier harvested 3700
pounds average last year he feels
that matters are going badly with
him. Then there is the case of A. ID.
Bowers of Palo Verde, who is har-
vesting oats barley and wheat The
field of oats returned SO bushels to
the acre (2656 pounds). Mr.. Bowers
is now threshing wheat which we
believe will not only top the 1922 rec
ord but possibly all local records of
the past. AS our information on this
point is not sufficiently verified at
this writing we will reserve for a
later item the exact facts.
Incandescent. Weather
According to the weather observer,
III. E. kell, the official instruments
registered a maximum of 11S degrees
Sunday and 120 degrees Monday,
which breaks all our hot weather rec
ords for 10 years past A curious
fact was noted that people generally
were unawares that the thermometers
We're doing high stunts and work pro-
ceeded without pause. The only no.
ticeable indication of the extreme
temperature prevailing was a quite
general disposition on the part of
everyone to drop with profane haste
any metal article thoughtlessly
picked up.
School Budget Reduced
The board of trustees of the Buck
eye high and grade schools have COM
pleted their task of fixing the ex-
penses of running the two schools for
the period beginning July /, 1922, and
ending June 80, 1923. Taxpayers win
welcome the information that the
trustees have found it possible TO
again reduce the budget, this time in
the amount of $4,000. The 1920 budget
was fixed at $1S.430. In 1921 it was
found possible to draw the years
budget down to $16430. The new
estimate, or the 1922 budget, is now
fixed at $4,000. The secretary of the
district board states that this result
of reduced costs for the next term.
but rather as a direct consequence
of consistent savings made in all de-
partments during the last year, lead
ing to a wiping out Of the annual
deficit and the building up of a nice
surplus to start off the new fiscal
year.
Buckeye lodge No 26, /. O. o. f..
initiated two into the mysteries of
Oddfellowship Saturday night and
admitted one member by transfer.
The officers elected for the new term
commencing July ! are as follows:
Charles A. Mitten, n. G.; j. G.
Schweikart, v G., Howard Bartlett,
secretary; and Charles Harper,
treasurer The subject of Rev. Mr..
Summers sermon Sunday night was
upon the responsibility of Oddfellow-
ship to the community. very warm
evening resulted in a small attendance
at the service, but the sentiment of
those present was that they felt well
repaid
During the past 10 days seNcr8l
shipments of cattle have been made
from the Hassayampa, Buckeye and
Liberty stations. Among the ship
ments made were: Buck Scribner, 60
head of mixed cattle: c. w. Peterson,
81 head of mixed stock. These were
shipped to the Los Angeles Packing
company Saturday, June 10. On Sat
urday, June II, Beloat & Son shipped
80 head of steers to Douglas.
Constance Otter. daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Constant Otter, who was
reported last week as being i'll with
pneumonia, is now well on the road to
recovery. The little girl is still pa
tient of the sisters hospital in Phoe-
nix
4 very pleasant basket picnic dim
ner was held at Mrs. Edith Grey s
home Sunday. Those present were
Edith, Ruth and Lloyd Hazen, Lewis
Weber, Mrs Johnson, Mr. Haug. VIII
liam Drew and the Grey family A
sociable afternoon was spent by the