Nogales international., 1945-04-13
PATAGONIA
NEWS
N r0ANY rAHYvS
BY JOAN KANE

The Patagonia Woman's Club held
it's monthly pot luck luncheon on
Thursday, April S. The business
meeting which followed the lunch
consisted of an election of officers.
Those who will serve as officers are
Mrs. Leland Wilson, president; Mrs.
H. H. McCutchan, reelected vice
president; Mrs. Della Turner, re-
elected secretary; and Mrs. Pete
Bergier, treasurer. Mrs. John Nc
Clung, former president of the club,
has moved to Nogales where her
husband is with the customs service.
Announced activities for the Pata-
eonia club are regular monthly
social meeting on April 10, and a
drive for clothing for the overseas
relief program. Everyone in the
community is urged to find some
thing in the way of old clothes or
blankets for this drive.
Mrs. Angenette Cook who was re-
ported seriously i'll in La Mesa,
California, hospital last month, has
notified friends that she expects to
be out of the hospital in about
three weeks.
Mrs. Vaughn Banta, who has been
living in La Sierra, California, is
visiting her daughter, Mrs. A. B.
Sorrells.
Richard Stevenson of Crescent
City, California, and former Pata-
gonia High School student, is the
subject of an article in the La Sierra
College Criterion. He raises Easter
lily bulbs which are rushed to east7
ern florists and there forced to
bloom in time for Easter.
Mrs. May H. Thompson, author
of juvenile stories, has been notified
that her second book, Pedro and
Priscilla, will be on the 1945 list of
publications. This book is story
for juniors and it's setting is Mexico.
1t is being published by the Wart-
burg Press of Chicago Mrs. 'Thomp-
son is receiving good notices
throughout the country on her first
published book, Polo Pals (Caxton).
This is the story of Dave, who at
tends ranch school in the West,
and succeeds in buying Hush, a
beautiful colt he has seen running
with a herd of wild horses. Others
covet Hush and try to steal him,
but Dave breaks his colt, keeps him
safe, and together they learn to
play polo. This story, according to
the Chicago Daily News, is among
the best juveniles on last falls list.
Mrs. Thompson who taught at the
San Rafael Valley (Red Rock)
School in the 1943- term, recently
wrote Mrs. Anna Fortune that a
third book has been accepted and
that she is writing a fourth one.
Mrs. Cline, mother of Wade Riggs,
Nogales teacher, is visiting in No
gales and Patagonia. Mrs. Cline is
here from Phoenix.
Miss Beth Fortune, Benson school
teacher. spent Easter weekend visit
ing her mother at the Fortune
ranch.
Elder w. G. Handkins of Tucson
will hold services in the Patagonia
Seventh Day Adventist Church Ap-
ril IA at 8 pm. Everyone is invited.
'Doogie" Turner, cousin of
Buster Turner, Patagonia High
School student, and brother Of
Clyde Turner, All-American center
for the Chicago Bears, is prisoner
in Germany, according to a letter
received by the Turner's this week.
Miss Mary Ellen Farrell gave a
dinner party Saturday night in
honor of HA. &c Miles Oldfather
who left for Balboa Hospital Mon
day. Those attending were: Oline
Sims, Monta Gardner, Clarice Old
father, Mary Ellen Farrell, and
Miles Oldfather, Edwin Gardner
Dale Adams, and Rod Rogers; Mrs.
Alvie Adams and Mr.. and Mrs. E..
M. Jeffcott.
Local men who passed the pre-
! induction examination at Phoenix
on April 18th were: Modesto Lopez,
Joe Cerrales, Arturo Figueroa, and
C. L. (Chuck) Darlington.