The border vidette., 1930-03-15

The city council at q recess
meeting Monday night awarded
the contract for the paving oi
Oak and Rodriguez streets to
Schmidt & Hitchcock, Phoenix
contractors, who have done all
of the paving for Nogales.
Writ G. Bowman, of Palm City,
California, chairman of the board
of directors of the First National
Bank OF Nogales, John Hughes,
owner of the Cave Club, Nogales,
Sonora, and Nate Minor of Los
Angeles, millionaire owner of q
large chain of curio stores in
Japan and throughout the United
States, we're passengers on the
southbound passenger train last
Tuesday for Mexico City on a
vacation trip.
Ed Ritter, we'll known travel
ing man who for many years has
been making" Nogales, spent
Tuesday in the city, coming here
Sunday from Aqua Caliente, B.
c., with his friend, Writ G.
Bowman, president of the Agua
Caliente Company. and Mr.. Nate
Minor of Los Angeles. Mr..
Ritter denied reports that be
bad recently "shuffled off this
mortal coil" while visiting his
sister at Philadelphia.
The many friends of Mrs. Les
lie G. Hardy. wife of the senior
member of the local law firm Of
Hardy & Hardy, who is now 10
Gated in Los Angeles, where be
is the legal representative of
the Writ G.. Bowman interests,
will be pleased to learn that she
has almost fully recovered at
the Pottinger Sanitarium, Mon.
rovia, California. and will leave
the sanitarium on April / for the
Hardy home in Los Angeles.
Lon Sanders, we'll known in
Western Texas, Arizona and
along the Mexican border, has
purchased the White Front Bar
in Nogales. Sonora. q short dis
tance south of the international
line. In the management of his
newly acquired wet goods em
porium and cabaret, Lon will
be assisted by Tim Kohaue, we'll
known in two republics, as q
past master in the art of mix.
ing" and serving 'em hot or cold.
Lieutenant Bonsal Noon. we'll
known Nogales attorney, has
been named Santa Cruz county
chairman for the annual Citizens
Military Training Camp. Stephen
D. Little, this summer, it was an.
nounced in communication re
ceived this week here from
Col. Charles Fl. Rutherford of
Phoenix. Civilian Aide to the
Secretary of War. The camp
will be held from "a to August
%, inclusive, and will be attend
ed by young men from all parts
of Arizona.
Sam Ashford of Phoenix, Ari
zona representative of the Mer
ganthaler Linotype Company.
was a weekend visitor in No
gales. No man in the United
States knows more about the
wonderful linotype machines
than does Sam Ashford. Nearly
forty years ago on the Arizona
Republican at Phoenix, Emory D.
Miller, who for more than 80
years has published The Border
Vidette, operated the first Mer,
ganthaler linotype machine ever
brought to Arizona.
On Tuesday night. April 1st,
an old fashioned April Fools
Dance" will be held by the local
Elks lodge at their home" on
Grand avenue, at which the fol
lowing prizes will be awarded:
Chinese chased brass bowie and
stand, a combination cigarette
lighter and case. q com mbination
two-p piece ladies' travelling bag,
and many balloons, crickets and
snakes. Those who attend the
dance, which will be free to Elks
and their ladies, are expected to
wear "tacky" clothes.
Friends desiring to visit Victor
J. Wager at his home in the
johnson Apartments on Morley
avenue, are requested to walk
right into his room without
knocking. Mr.. Wager was re
moved last week from the local
hospital where he had been con
fined since the accident in which
ha -oc ;n;ura1 mhon his cod a n