Arizona republican., 1922-01-22
NEWS NOTES FROM
AID AND VICINITY

Mr.. Fridell and family have moved
| to Ajo from Los Angeles, Calf. he
has taken a home in the Winans
apartments and is employed at the
New Cornelia.
Mr. and Mrs. N. w. Baker Of Shell
byville, Indiana, have been the
guests Of their cousins, DIR. and Mrs.
f. 1. LaRue, during the past week.
From here they went to Los Angeles
and will spend the remainder Of the
winter at various places in Call
fornia.
d. S. Mitchell. Ray d. Olmsted and
William Winship, motion picture
representatives, were in our city last
week on business.
DIR. l.. p. Schroeder a brother of
Fred Schroeder, the Ajo druggist, is
now located at Marquette, Michigan,
where he is the head of the medical
department of the Disabled War Vet
Grams bureau of northern Michigan.
Mrs. J.. v. Johnson has received
word of the very serious sickness OF
her niece, Miss Louis. in the hospital
at Mesa.
The Sunday school OF the Protes-
teAtlL (LlQLGu WAS ldL 6CiJ aNbOhNS0
last Sunday and at its conclusion a
picture of the school was taken.
d. Goodfellow of the Salt River
Valley Water Users association, was
visitor here the past week.
j. r. Hougham of Ell Paso arrived
in Ajo Tuesday and has accepted an
important position with the New
Cornelia Copper company.
Nnrxyan ouA It r.. NJ
Glass and Captain ]. H. N. Scott of
Fort Huachuca were Ajo visitors
during the past week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Link had as
their guest recently their nephew,
John p. Heibel of Brooklyn, New
York. From here he went to Los
Angeles, Calf. He was making the
trip by automobile.
The coming week, beginning jan
uary 23 to January 2S, is designated
as Clean up Week" in Ajo. All our
citizens are requested to clean up
their premises and the alleys OF all
paper, stones, rubbish and litter OF
every kind. A committee of the
chamber of commerce has the mat
ter in hand and prizes of $40, SIS and
SO will be given for the best cleaned
and appearing places in town. The
public school children are asked to
cooperate. The committee is as fol-
lows: Messrs. Dennison, TAFT, New
land Lyons, Young and La Rue.
Ajo is a beautiful town, nicely stu
ated, and the cleanup week will add
much to the appearance of the place.
May every citizen lend a hand and do
the best possible to clean up and add
to the appearance of the place.
The executive committee of the
chamber of commerce will hold their
next regular meeting February 1 and
thereafter every two weeks. The
emergency committee will consist of
e. l.. Franck, M. e. Gibson, Lee L.
Scott and Fred Schroeder.
Mrs. d. f. Ryan went last Thurs
day to Tucson to join her husband
M. G. Levy has received an auto
graphed copy of Camp Fires on
Desert and Lava" by William +.
Hornaday, Sc. d. This book de-
scribes the desert from ella Bend to
Sonoita and beyond via Ajo and Gun
sight. from the standpoint of lover
of nature and of life in the desert.
Mr.. Levy greatly appreciates the
| book descriptive OF this community
and coming, as it does, from his
friend.
E. L Franck, secretary of the
chamber of commerce, went to Gila
| this week to meet with representa-
tives of the chamber of commerce
at that place to discuss the Ajo- Gila
road. An effort will be made to have
the Pima county supervisors declare
our portion of the road a county
road. The chamber of commerce has
been invited to send a delegate to
the state good roads convention to
be held at Nogales. beginning Sat-
urday January 21.
The public library of AJo is much
appreciated by the school pupils and
our citizens in general, as is evil
denced by the excellent report Of the
librarian as to the use of books from
January /, 1921 to January 1, 1922.
Adults, total, 2,9S2: Juvenile, total,
| 1925; grand total, 5,20S.
/ OF the adult total, 2,45S are fiction,
155 travel, 81 history, 48 biography
and the remainder divided between
useful arts, natural science, etc.
There were 26 borrowers cards is