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Arizona republican., 1922-01-06

PROPOSAL FOR TEXT BOOKS
Sealed proposals for furnishing
text books for the common schools Of
Arizona for a period Of five years and
for period Of from one 10 five years
will be received at the office Of the
State Department OF Education until
IL o'clock noon, Jan. 23rd, 1929: and
will be opened Immediately there
after Proposals must be directed TO
Elsie Toles. Secretary Of the State
Board Of Education, and be endorsed
Proposals for Text Books" A certi-
fled check for $500 payable TO the
State of Arizona must accompany
each bid.
Bids are invited for text books TO
cover the subjects Of Geography AMI
History.
Sample copies OF books bid upon
must be filed with the State Depart
ment OF Education before bids are
opened.
Successful bidders will be required
to enter into contracts and give bonds
in sufficient amounts TO indemnity
the state in case OF any delinquency,
in accordance with the laws Of Ari-
zona.
Bids must state a Wholesale intro
ductory price and exchange price on
books offered ard must take into con-
sideration a depository designated by
the State Board OF Education and
maintained entirely at publishers ex-
pense. All bidders must submit bids
under each of the following conditions
of delivery:
(a) A bid naming price per book
f. o. b. Phoenix; shipments TO be
in units Of not less than 100 pounds.
OBJ A bid per book y. o. b. cars at
a central depot. Chicago. Books to be
packed and labeled as ordered by
properly authorized state officials.
The Board reserves the right TO re-
ject any and all bids or parts of bids.
(Signed) ELSIE TOLES,
Secretary State Board OF
Education.
Arizona republican., 1922-01-06

uary 10. 1922. at 10 a. m. for the
purpose of electing a Board OF Di-
rectors for the ensuing year and to
transact such other business as may
properly come before said meeting.
L w. CLAYTON. Cashier.
Arizona republican., 1922-01-06
Legal Advertising
NOTICE OF STOCKHOLDERS
MEETING OF vALLEYLAND
AND SECURITIES COMPANY

Notice is hereby given that the
regular annual stockholders meeting
of the Valleyland and Securities
Company will be held at the offices
of the Company, the Stoddard In
corpororating Company's offices,
Heard building. in the City Of Phoe-
nix, County of Maricopa, State of
Arizona, on January IT. 1922 at the
hour Of 10 o'clock A. M.
Dated this End day OF January,
1922.
VALLEYLAND AND SECURITIES
COMPANY,
BY G. A. GREENE, Secretary.
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NOTICE TO STOCKHOLDERS OF
THE NATIONAL BANK OF ARR
IONA. PHOENIX, ARIZONA
The annual meeting OF the stock
holders of the National Bank of Ari-
zona, will be held in its office in
Phoenix, Arizona, on Tuesday, jan
Arizona republican., 1922-01-06

LARGE front room in private
home. modern house, half block to
Kenilworth car; will give dinner and
breakfast to two people. $50 Latham.
m
Arizona republican., 1922-01-06
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Arizona republican., 1922-01-06

WHO ARE YOU?-Hand them
card and they will not forget you.
Calling and Business Cards printed
while you wait. so cents up. Busy
Arizona republican., 1922-01-06
BUSINESS CHANCES


Will buy lease and furniture of
close in rooming house, having $3.50
month gross income. Rent $75.
Leaving city reason. Box ISM, Re-
publican. r
Arizona republican., 1922-01-06
SANITARIUMs

First class accommodations in the
country for tubercular patients; in
dividual cottages; new and clean.
Phone 374S. 1-dn
Arizona republican., 1922-01-06
SADDLE HORSES

GATED horses rented; riding
taught; cattle moved cheap. New
State Corral. Phone 6573. 1-r
Arizona republican., 1922-01-06

IF YOU want carpenter, day or
contract Call Bower. Phone 1853. m
WANTED-Position by experienced
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on collections and advertising; mar
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Arizona republican., 1922-01-06

Moses Auto Laundry; cars washed
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w. Wash tt
Arizona republican., 1922-01-06

WANTED-Position as ranch fore
man. Am experienced, and can fur
nish references. Il. A. Myers. Chan
dler A rig 81,
Arizona republican., 1922-01-06
BEAUTY SHOP

PERMANENTLY BANISH gray hair
Use Inecto; an experienced operator
in the application in attendance at
the Marinello Shop. 200 w. Washing
ton Phone 1880. 1-r
Arizona republican., 1922-01-06

SUNNY REST-Sixteenth street
and Pierce. Ideal health resort food
unexcelled. Diversified menu. Reg
istered nurse. Inspection invited
Phone $780, II
Arizona republican., 1922-01-06

WANT TO RENT
We have customers wanting to
rent houses. We can rent your house
furnished or unfurnished. Call us up.
Phone 6151. Kincaid, 10 N. First
Ave. p
Arizona republican., 1922-01-06

Schwartz Camp. Clean. comfort
able cottages; newly furnished; best
location; $40 and up. Office 81 N.
md Ave. IL
Arizona republican., 1922-01-06

Anything repaired. sharpened. The
Motorcycle Co.. 81 N. End St Phone
6754. If
Arizona republican., 1922-01-06

EX- SERVICE MEN SEEK JOBS
When you want help give the first
chance to ex-service men. 4 number
of men who have served their coun-
try now are looking for position here.
Phone American Legion headquarters
1888, and we may be able to fill your
needs. If
Arizona republican., 1922-01-06

YOUNG men, over II, desiring
government positions, $3.50 modthly,
write for free list Of positions now
open. j. Leonard, former civil serv-
ice examiner). 966 Equitable Bldg,
Washington. ID. c. m
Arizona republican., 1922-01-06
IA FOR MISUNDERSTANDING
ROOMS

ROOM with kitchenette furnished
for housekeeping. Close in. % S. 9th
Ave. IN
Arizona republican., 1922-01-06

CLOSE IN on pavement, house
keeping rooms. SO to SIS per week;
bath, light and water free. 405 T. Van
Buren,. IN
Arizona republican., 1922-01-06

3 FURNISHED rooms for light
housekeeping No objections to chill
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Arizona republican., 1922-01-06
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PERSONALS

THOMAS Edison invention. Elec-
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Oh
The Idaho recorder., 1922-11-24

the stern tasks that awaited these Pilgrim folk,
who sought on the bleak New England coast the
right to accept the dictates OF their own con-
science and freedom TO worship God"
Perhaps Priscilla felt that to men OF such tyne
women are more or less Incidents" proving the
poet Byron's confession that Love Is to men a
thlng apart Ills woman's whole existence"
ferhaps she had the fear that In years to come
Miles Standish might weary of the tameness of
the Plymouth hearth fire and harken to the call
OF wanderlust once more. John Alden on the
other hand. was the steady-goIng kind a student,
OF judicial temperament imbued with the tenets
OF the Pilgrim faith. while Miles Standsh as n
soldier OF the church militant was perhaps NOT
overtrouhied with religious theories and intrica.
eies, fighting roundhead" SO to speak caring
more for the battle like the fighting Quaker Eli
colts OF Maryland, who have managed, In spite
OF being Friends, TO be in every scrap In which
Uncle Sam has had hand
II may come as II surprise to most people that
the Pilgrim fathers were not "graybeards" as gen.
orally supposed, but. on the contrary, young men
Only two OF the whole company were more than
hfty years OF age and only nine were more than
forty. Standish was thirty-six years old: John
Alden was only twenty-one. There again comes
In another reason why John Alden was chosen
by the sprightly Priscilla and Standlsh turned
down by proxy. II was youth calling to youth
with Priscilla and John Alden. To her seven.
teen-yearold eyes Captain Standlsh was an "old
man."
John Alden was of her own generation Nav
preferred TO wed with May instead OF September
and there's no gninsaying woman's "because~
which In one word sums up any given action OF
hers.
Moreover, John Alden offered Priscilla m.
flower OF first love; Miles Standlsh had hurIeJ
bis heart In woman's grave-that of his FIR
wife, lovely Rose Standlsh. frai OF body hu, rraa,
of heart. who succumbed with fifteen of the
tweniy'nine women who had sailed from England
and Holland to the hardsips Of the first plvp,
outh winter. leaving no child to comfort her sor>
rowing husband
Priscilla at this time was only sixteen ius, nj,
the verge of womanhood We can picture p-,s
ella not In the conventional uniform attire NJ the
pictured Pilgrim, which with its gray gowns with
dainty white collars and cuffs with stif cans and
dark capes Is a mere artistic caper accordny ~
the best authority Women Of PriseltIa's staticp
IN life, and II was Of the upper middle class ,,,.
the English dress of the period. This was often
tull skirts of silk OF varied colors; long nolptaI
stomachers, often with bright tone. full sons
times puffed or slashed. sleeves and lace coI,,rs
or "whisks" resting upon the shoulders or,an
the gowns were plated or silk laced: they of,sn
opened In front showing pettcoats that usr.
quilted or embroidered in brighter colors I,,ar
came the dress restrictions but NOT In ths- -
days OF the colony
Fortune had severe trials In store for pr,sctu
Mullins During that terrible first winter NOT onIv
The Idaho recorder., 1922-11-24
Q eseGs ms3% %IX:

her father but her mother and brother as we'll
died. and she was left alone. orphaned and friend
iess IN a strange new world Her plight seems
TO have aroused the sympathy of the entire col.
"hy. The women adopted her en- masse and as
her beauty was as evident as her goodness all
the young men In the colony would have liked to
have done the same thing
Meantime The Maytlower was returning TO Eng
land. Alden. crushed, disappointed not daring for
loyalty to his angry friend to push his suit with
frlscilia, planned to return to the old home for
sakng forever the Plymouth col, n.y. He threw
together his scanty belongings and went TO the
shore where the Maytlower waited. straining her
anchors. crowd had gathered there and ms
Alden was about to step on the gunwale of the
boat which would take him out TO the waiting yes.
sci, he saw amid the solemn faces of the Pilgrims
the tear-s'ained countenance of Priscilla :.ullins
Reproach. grief and unutterable longing were
In her eyes. He gazed long into them across the
distance between them, then jumped hack nm
shore. "Here l remain" he vowed raising his
hand to heaven. So under the providence of God
II happened that not went back In the Nav.
flower and the colony was intact save for the ray
ages made by death.
When woman is determined ms was pris
ella to wed the man of her choice mere man hath
little, indeed to do with It, Thus Il happened tba,
before he knew II John Alden was safely hs-
trotted to Priscilla and the wedding day was set
Finally, the blest day arrived and the Pilgrim,
were gathered In the meeting house for the wed.
ding ceremony Miles Standlsh had left town
some weeks before on another Indian expedition
After the wedding sermon, according to the pood
ly custom of the day. had been heard a form an.
peared on the threshold OF the church. clad in
armor. Behind him pressed his .invincihle army "
now reduced To eight. II was Capt Miles Stan.
dish. returned from the wars to find the lady h
loved the bride of another.
Dead silence fell over the church Priscilla
glanced nrchIy nj her erStvhila love-. =,
shelter Of her husbands strong right arm With
one stride Standish came TO their side He mn,
out his hand to the bridegroom and said ~ OF
us be friends again" John Alden's face WAS ayloyv
as he gladly grasped the hand of his old fr,e,a
Turning to Priscilla. Standish bowed low and s.iI
simply. Il should have remembered the adovs .It
you would be well served you must serve vopr
self and moreover no man can gather cherries
in Kent at the season of Christmas" priscu
laughed and flushed,
II was not long. however, before John A,aar
and his reconciled friend went TO Duxhurv Noss
and started a settlement there. The bruised bp,-.
Of Miles Standish had been healed by the sof,
fingers OF certain Barbara one Of the passap. .srs
on the second coming of the Mayaower Shs ho
came the second Mrs Miles Standish and I'm or,i,
and affection the two families lived side Inv Sit
in DuXhury. Priscilla became the motha- .,
eleven children Thus this Pilgrim romance u.,
the story book tale, ends aptly with the old nb-so
And they lived happily ever after"
The Idaho recorder., 1922-11-24

kind of chicken. Certainly there Ii many n
natise-horn American who doesn't know the diff
ference between the Pilgrims and the Puritans;
maybe he even thinks they were the samsl
Hut nobodys going TO have n chance TO forget
the Pilgrims. There's Thanksgiving day which IL
not complete without appropriate references TO
ahe Pilgrims and that nrst Thanksgiving dinner
of wild turkey, cranberries aud pumpkin pie
Ihnts a yearly reminder. I.
And there are the thousands upon thousands
of "Mayhowe. Descendants" whose activities are
sniion.wide
And there are the thousands upon thousands of
p,tceiess family helrlooms brought over on the
haynower--you wouldn't think from the accom-.
panyng reproduction OF her replica that she could
have carried 80 many. would your
Some future Americans may escape the de-
scendants and the relies. hut Thanksgiving will
get most of them and the story of Priscilla AIul.
tins and John Alden and Capt, Miles standish will
get the rest. Why every schooIboy and every
schoolgirl IL brought up on this story; To escape
q the future American viii have to play hockey
all his schooldays and dodge Longfeliow all his
nfe.
This plymouth Rock romance Is really quite A
story II has several claims uron fame aside
from Longfellow's melodlous version.
In the nrst place It's true story. If you don't
n~iieve there were any such people. please know
thar John and Priscilla became the parents OF
eleven ehildren-and their descendants are NOW
numerous enough To have society all by them.
slves.
Secondly. Priscilla perpetrated the frst recorded
American leap'ysar proposal To be sure she
didn't pop until i6a0 past and gone but the
principle Is the same.
Thirdly. IS the first American trianrle-an
nnocen, ca~. adorned with admirable features
Longfeow. himself descended from John and
Priscilla. appears to have stuck pretty sclnse tn
the fae;s-for n poet. hut he was mere man
and how could he tell the story Of a girls loyel
Elizabeth Poe retells the story in the Washington
Post aud here some OF the points she makes
as Ia why Priscilla took John instead of Captain
Miles:
The perersity which guides a woman In love
matters evident In Priscilla Alden's choice
gHhn Alden was siaiwart YOUTH and made her
Hnosl husband, She saw heaven In his blue ewes
yond doubt. but to most women the valiant sol
j;sr of fortune, Capt. Miles Standish. would have
adj more appeal. Standsh was surrounded with
..as halo OF ro nance and adventure In n dozen
.-rn'r's: he was strangely like that other doughty
sasrninrer Of Americas beginnings. Capt John
E.i.aia-s s'1di heart his. and fitted thereby for
The Idaho recorder., 1922-11-24

HE u. 8. A. II never going to
forget tho Pilgrim Fathers. There
isn't a chance on earth. and some
day every American citizen viii
know about them.
OF course there are people
nowadays who are bit hazy
about the Pilgrims and the May.
flower and the whole business.
Doubtless there are some who
know of Plymouth Rock only as
The Idaho recorder., 1922-11-24

"s a. ne warmed and siewed In hi. simple eloquent
9mss % self and the psaisA OF his rival
with laughter t ~" w. N'"~
s-a' n 1.sm,aau. voice. why don't you speak for
Ill W. LoNaFnLLow.
The Idaho recorder., 1922-11-24
After.

First conference.-the you get home
last night before the stOrm?" Second
Gentleman-'That was hen it
started"
The Idaho recorder., 1922-11-24

Invents Furnace Control.
A French inventors governor to M
ulate the temperature of electric tRD
naces depends on the expansion 4
mercury by heat for its action.
Phillips County herald., 1922-01-06
High School Notes

School opened again Monday noon
with everyone preparing for another
years work.
Miss Kinney spent her vacation at
Fort Collins, Miss Martin at Como
Miss Wickman and Miss Heidee n,
Denver. Miss Williamson and Miss
Henline in Holyoke. and Mr.. Brolliar
In California. The Robbs and WI
koffs remained In Holyoke.
Chester Tucker was not able to
start to school because Of sickness
Tuesday morning the field secretary
OF Cotner college gave and interesting
talk to the school.
Quite number OF students were
absent Tuesday because OF the bad
weather.
The third period tests will be given
on the 11th and 18th. and the semest.
er examinations will be held the 1eth
and Goth.
HIlda Yagsie entered school this
week as freshman.
Phillips County herald., 1922-01-06
Watch Party

An enjoyable watch party was held
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. W. G.
Holland Saturday night. The crowd
gathered after the picture show
Rook was played, music listened to
and conversation indulged in until
ll:45. when all went and Rang out
the old and rang in the new" with the
old Methodist church bell. On re
turning to the home an oyster sup
per was served. There was somr
more visiting. when the crowd IL
for home at 1880 a. m.
Besides the Holland family. those
present were Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Suth
erland. Mr.. and Mrs. c. W. Seder
berg and family. Mr.. and Mrs. J. C.
Mccreary. Miss Ella Williamson and
Miss Gala Henline. high school teach
ers. and Miss Edna johnson.
Phillips County herald., 1922-01-06
Girl Admits She
Has Wed Fifteen

Helen Ferguson Drexler of Wauke
gan, Illinois. daughter of a Brooklyn
family. who admits she is nut OF
soldiers and sailors. but don't like
Marines is in cell at the county
Jail trying tt recall the names OF II
Of her Is husbands.
Equipped with one baby and a pen
chant for hero husbands, Mrs. Drex
ler, the government alleges. has col
lected as high as $4O0 a month in
soldiers allotment checks the pas,
three years. The baby was listed as
the child Of each successive husband
and drew an allotment, too.
In 1917. she says. she married VIII
fred Taylor. soldier. and they had
a son, now years old.
Next she married Paul Mohler, o
soldier, then Thomas aieenan. sail
or at Great Lakes, and next Albert
Drexler, soldier at Camp Grant
Although she has retained Drexler's
name. there have been at least II
husbands since him, she estimates
She never obtained divorce from
any OF them, she says.
Phillips County herald., 1922-01-06
BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONS

Mr.. Henry Busse!l and Mrs. Alvin
Schneider. both Of Belmont. celebrat.
ed their birthdays. About forty assist.
ed their birthdays on different even.
ings the past week. About forty as.
sisted them In doing Il up brown. No
celebration next year. and we hear
that they have both declared Belmont
poor section OF the town for people
who object to keeping late hours.
One Present.
Phillips County herald., 1922-01-06
Thirty Years Ago

The American hotel of Holyoke
changed hands yesterday. James VIII
liams, who has for some time held
the position of clerk at the B. & M.
hotel, took charge of 1t under a lease
from T. E. johnson, who recently .pur-
chased the property OF Mr.. Blakely.
Married. at the residence of the
brides father, J. H. Chilcott, near
HaXtun, Thursday, December "a, 1891,
Rev. w. L. Bailey of Holyoke ofiiciat.
ing, Fred Franks and Lovina Chill
colt. The newly married couple are
well known in the county and have a
host Of friends who will always be
glad to hear of their prosperity and
happiness.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. B. Timberlake left
hoiyoke Saturday for Denver, where
they went to attend the session of the
state teachers association.
X. H. Sanford Of Gaines, New York
was in Holyoke this week looking at.
ter his tree claim near town.
Miss Almira Rinslow returned to
Holyoke last week from Brighton,
where she had been for some time,
Mrs. NJ. V. Propst of Sterling is
visiting her daughter. Mrs. C. NJ. c..
Woolman. of this place.
Miss Jennie Kendall of Diller, Ne.
braska is visiting with her sister Mrs.
w. Fl. Wakeman of Holyoke.
Miss Estella Shockey came down
from Denver last week for visit
with her parents, who live near Hol
yoke.
Miss Ada Bennett went to Denver
last week on Wis.,; TO her brother
Francis. who is attending school
there.
John Eaton, who formerly held a
position on the High Line, was run
over by train at Haigler, Nebraska
wednesday of last week and killed
instantly. He caught his foot in
frog and could not get out of the way
of the approaching train which was
too close to him before the engineer
saw him to stop. He was brother
of Mrs. Gaddy of Holyoke.
Mrs. Dave Magner returned last
week from a visit with friends at
New Castle, Wyoming,
Phillips County herald., 1922-01-06
U. S. Monetary Wealth
NolD S8,224,OOO,OO

The United States government with
a monetary wealth OF SS.244,000, 200
enters the new year as the richest
nation on earth. The government
winds up its 1921 affairs Saturday
night with a cash balance Of approx.
imately 100000 in the treasury.
At the same time the public debt
stood at s23.462. 100000. a reduction
of about 100000 being effected
during the year.
{ Treasury department figures show.
led that s5,51S,000, 900 Of Uncle Sans
monetary wealth was in actual cir.
culation. the remainder being held in
the treasury as guarantees for silver
certificates. Subsidiary coins total
s721.SO0.000 of which about s26O,0O
900 are in circulation. There is also
272,S00.000 in subsidiary silver. OF
which approximately s26000o.000 is
In circulation.
Included in the nations wealth are
Si6.000,000 in United States notes,
s76,500.000 in federal reserve notes.
Sll6,6o0,000 in federal reserve bank
notes and s7is,7oO,ooo in national
bank notes.
During the year the government
paid OFF more than $4,000, 100000 on
the public debt, but created new debts
to,aling approximately $3.50. .oo0, 900
in round figures. This accounted for
a reduction of si5o.OoO.OOo in the total
public debt.
Phillips County herald., 1922-01-06
Twenty Years Ago

Miss Sadie White, retiring presi-
dent of the Epworth League enter
tanned the members of the league at
her home on Friday evening of last
week. A good social time was enjoy
ed by all present.
The Holyoke lodge of the A. F. and
A NJ. gave a banquet at their hall
Friday evening for the members OF
other lodges. Interesting and instruc-
tive addresses were delivered by Dr..
F. NJ. Smith. Rev. S. A. Parker and
Rev. r. n. Smith. Q. NJ. Mckee gave
a recitation which took SO well with
the audience that he was called back
and gave another. At the close OF
the speaking those present sat down
to an excellent banquet. The wealth
er was quite threatening and disa-
greeable and the attendance was not
so large as was expected. All pres.
ent seemed to enjoy very pleasant
evening.
Miss Vida Bramble entertained a
number OF the young folks at her
home in Holyoke Wednesday evening
OF this week. A very pleasant even
ing is reported.
Walter Noonan and his younger
brothers. Frank and Leo. from More.
croft. Wyoming are down for visit
with old acquaintances and friends Of
Holyoke and vicinity. They are visit
ing at F. Sprague's at present.
Crescent X. p. lodge installed the
newly-elected officers Wednesday
evening, and after the installation
services the members OF the lodge
repaired to c. NJ. Tibbitts' restaurant.
where an excellant banquet was
served.
The officers OF the |. o. o. +. lodge
OF Holyoke for the coming year are
Charles II. Peter. n. c.; William
Hinze. V. c.: W. C. Holland. secre.
tary and W. r. Shamp. treasurer.