Arizona republican., 1922-05-11
WASHINGTON NEWS
Of THE PAST WEEK

There viii be a special business
meeting of the washington Farm
Bureau Tuesday night. They hay
growers contracts viii be ready to
sign. state President z. G. Brown;
C. S. Miller of Buckeye, chairman OF
the committee; and Henry Scott,
local chairman, will all be present to
speak on the hay contracts. the
Dairy association contracts were also
distributed this past week and VIII
be taken up at this meeting, II pos
sible. The president Of the farm
bureau urges all members to be pres
ent as we'll as all others IN the COM
munity who are interested. The
meeting will begin promptly at
o'clock.
The social evening of the farm bu-
reau held last Tuesday night was a
big success. The large auditorium
was nearly filled with members OF
practically every family in the dis
trict. The evenings program con-
sisted of community singing. piano
duet by Virginia Hilgeman and Miri-
am Stauffer: reading by Verbal
Virgins, entertainment by the Buua-
Bum troop consisting Of Robert
Hilgeman, Clarence Heck, Chester
Virgins, Verbal Virgins, Max Card
ner. Isles and Wanen Rahler. Two
popular comedians, G. G. Wrinkle OIL
Peoria and c. Y. Tuttle of Glendale,
gave a very clever little sketch called
Little Eva which was greatly en-
loved by the audience. Following the
entertainment, State President f. =.
Brown, and Mr.. Briggs, president OF
Yuma County Farm Bureau, gave
two short and very excellent al
dresses on the farm bureau work.
Both emphasized the great need for
co operative marketing among the
farmers on whom the world is abso-
lutely dependent for its foodstulIs.
and which could not exist thirty
DAYS if the farmer withdrew all OF ms
products from the market. Inc
farmers, they declared, should have
marketing associations which are as
strong and essential as the Standard
Oil company and other large corpora
tions. Each farmer should, through
cooperative marketing. pr o u
crops which would net him profit
of at least ten per cent for his labor.
Mr.. Brown, the state president OF
the farm bureau. especially praised
the entertainment given by the
Washington boys and of the impor-
tance of the social features in con-
nection with farm bureau work Ice
cream, cake. sandwiches and cotfee
were served in the basement OF the
school. and very enjoyable evening
was passed by all.
The new community cups were IN
| itiated at the social evening or the
farm bureau Tuesday night. THESE
cups were purchased with the funds
in the treasury of the community So
cial committee which they raised
| last Fourth of July. These cups are
| for the use of every organization IN
| the community. 1t is hoped by the
community committee to give an
| other money raising affair durlHe
| the summer so that plates ano
| spoons may also be purchased for the
use of the community ORGANIZATIONS
| OF course. every organization which
uses them will be responsible fol-
| breakage. which must be replaced al
| once.
| The Woman's club held a very in
| teresting business meeting Friday
! afternoon. Reports of the state fed
GRAFTON meeting held at Kingmar
| were very interestingly given by
| Miss FDreeland and Mrs. Charles
| Aune. 1t was decided TO hold sum
mer meetings, possibly every two
weeks, for social and money making
purposes. A card party will be glVer
! for the benefit of the treasury or
| Friday evening, May 19. Mrs, r. 3
! Butler was given charge OF the ar
rangements for the tables.
| The department heads for mex
year were announced by the presl-
dent as follows. Social, Mrs. Dale
Randleman: public welfare, Mrs
| Frank Hilgeman fine arts, MIS-
George Taylor; applied education
| Mrs. H. S. Brooks These ladies VII
| meet Friday morning with Mrs
George Taylor to discuss next year
| work.
On Wednesday afternoon Mrs. y
e. Irwin entertained about thirty
| friends at a birthday party whlcf
| proved to be a surprise party on MRS
Dale Randleman. The spacious porcf
was beautifully decorated with roses
| and clusters of the umbrella tres
| blossoms A short program or VIC
| trola music and readings given pS
Mrs Frank Hilgeman, Mrs. thrlS
| Hoyer.. Mrs, F. f. .Hennigan and MRS
| Charles Aune was an enJoyabie tea-
| ture Of the afternoon. Mrs. Randle-
| man was the recipient of many use
full and beautiful gifts, which were
r,raSnptpd fo her in a very clever