The border vidette., 1927-01-15

home in Parker Canyon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ell. Tovrea of
Phoenix, spent Monday in No
gales with Charles Tovrea, local
manager of the Arizona Packing
Company, of which Mr.. Tovrea
Is president and general mana
ger.
Captain Ed Reeves Of the new.
ly organized Nogales National
Guard unit, recently approved
by Governor George W.P. Hunt,
announces that all is set and the
work of listing will start next
week sometime.
At q meeting of the new direc
tors of the Nogales chamber of
commerce Thursday night Nal.
colin Middleton was unanimous
ly chosen president; Arthur Peck
first vice president; Hugo Miller,
second vice. president, and John
Jund, treasurer.
The Business and Professional
Women's Club met Wednesday
with Mrs. Anna B. Ackley. The
ladies assisting Mrs. Ackley as
bostesses were: Mrs. Robert
Burns. Mrs. w. w. Lockhart
and Miss Viola Allen.
A. G. Heating, president of
the Big Jim Mines, Inc, after a
visit to the Big Jim mine near
Harshaw, has returned to Los
Angeles. where tie main Offices
of his company are located. The
Big Jim mine is looking good.
The many friends of e. A.
VESSEL, proprietor Of the Hotel
Evans Cigar Stand, will be very
pleased to learn that he is re
covering from an attack of pneu
monia,i in the st. Joseph's hos
pital and will be back on the job
in a few days.
Mrs. j. V. Robins aud little
daughter. after spending q few
days here with Mrs. Robins
parents, Judge and Mrs. Frank
J. Duffy, have returned to Tue
son where they will spend the
remainder of the winter, for the
benetit Of the little girls health.
Hon. Charles Ward of Phoe.
nix, en- route to his big stock
ranchSin Sonora, Mexico, was q
Nogales visitor the forepart of
this week. He registered at the
Evans hotel, now managed by
his old friend Joaquin Legarra.
Mr.. Ward stated be was going
to his Mexican ranch for rest.
Henry J. Grohs, prominent oil
and mine operator of Whittier,
California, who owns a large
group OF valuable mineral claims
situated a short distance from
Nogales, on the west side of the
Patagonia moutains, arrived in
the city last evening from the
Coast. and today will motor out
to his splendid property.
L. a. Watkins, local distribu.
tor for Willys Knight Overland
motors, departed Tuesday for
his home at Bowie, Texas, where
be was called by telegram an.
nouncing the serious illness of
his father, Fl. B. Watkins, a
prominent cotton grower of the
Lone Star state. Watkins mo.
tored to Tucson where took q
Southern Pacific train for Bowie.
Jack Cumming. of the Moore
Cumming Graphite Company,
owning grphite properties in the
state of Sonora, Mexico. has re
turned to his home in Detroit.
Michigan, where the offices of
bis company are located. Ow.
ing to Yaqui Indian war in So.
pora, Mr.. Cumming has sus.
pended all work at the mine and
removed all mine and cump sup
plies from the property which is
situated in the Yaqui country.
Fletcher Doan, Jr., who has
been in charge of operations at
the mine, returned to Nogales
last Wednesday.
John M. Hughes, who recent.
ly returned from a business trip
down the West Coast, states
that this year rice growers in
the south country are going to
have bumper crops; be also re
ports rich strike of ore in the
Placeritos silver lead mine near
Hermosillo, owned by Billy Nit
chell, Writ Bowman and Frank
Byers. Mitchell is manager of