The border vidette., 1928-12-01

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gales, in in Mexico City on busi
ness and pleasure.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Nights
wonger have arrived from Los
Angeles to remain In Nogales
six months during the annual
West Coast of Mexico vegetable
shipping season. MIR. Nights
wonger is connected with the
Pacific Fruit Express company.
Rev. James Crutchfeld enter
tanned Boy Scout Troop No. 16
at breakfast on Thanksgiving at
500 o'clock. He was assisted
by Marjorie Rickenberg, Mar
jorie Sampson, Mary Emilia
Knight and Mary Helen Cruch
field.
Chas. Dumazert, former mer
chant of Nogales. now resident
of Geneva, Switzerland. arrived
in the city Monday for a short
business visit. He left Geneva
last October and spent short
time in New York, Los Angeles
and Phoenix before coming to
Nogales.
w. @. Lefebvre of Phoenix,
state highway engineer, and Miss
Pauline Davenport of Phoenix,
were married on Thursday, last
week, in El Paso. Immediately
following the wedding ceremony
the newly weds left for honey
moon trip to New Orleans and
Chicago.
Hon. Mike Hannon, stat re
preventative in legislature from
Greenlee county, was a Nogales
visitor yesterday, accompanied
by Mrs. Harmon and a party of
friends. Friends of Mr.. Han
non throughout the state are
urging him to stand for speaker
of tbs Lower House. No better
selection could be made.
Hugo Kross, whose body was
found near the city reservoir
Wednesday afternoon, was EN-
ployed Is years as baker at
San Francisco, prior to coming
to Nogales. He left the coast
city some months ago and re
Gently wrote the manager of the
Niagara Hotel at San Francisco
that be was despondent over in
ability to obtain work. He had
no known relatives.
The completion of the beauti
full new Catholic church dedicat
ed on Thanksgiving Day. marks
a big step forward for Nogales.
The new church adds greatly to
the beauty Of the city. tits one
of the faest church edifices in
the state of Arizona. There are
twenty one beautiful chandeliers
suspended from the sixtyLf foot
ceiling. The church being Span
ish Romanesque in style, the
fixtures had to be especially
made to harmonize with this
architectural scheme. The ma
terial was bought from whole
sale houses all over the country,
and made and assembled here in
Nogales by W. J. Broad, who
had the contract. Mr.. Broad
hung the chandeliers last week
working on scaffold fifty feet
high upon which was mounted a
ten foot stepladder.
The history of Than ksgiving
day and why we in Nogales
should be thankful" was related
to the Hiram club Wednesday,
noon at the Masonic temple by
Mayor Harry J. Karns. Mayor
Karns told of the early history
of Thanksgiving and said that
the first resolution on Thanks
giving was made by the United
States congress in 1851, then
later by George Washington as
the first president of the Repub-
lie in 1889. The first national
proclamation was made by Pres
ident Lincoln in 1868 to be oh
served the last Thursday in No
vember and has been observed
as national holiday of Thanks
giving ever since. Mayor Karns
said the people of Nogales bad
many things to be thankful for;
in the ideal weather, no cyclones
or tornadoes, no floods or earth
quakes, no diseases as compared
with other cities, low taxes, and
a growing community.
More than one hundred people