Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-01-21
Local Items.

Mir. Chas. Luedke was down from Pinal last Tuesday.
 MT. Theo Nicholas, the Pinal butcher, was in town on Wednesday
 Mir. E. A. Sake was up from Casa Grande for a day or two his week. Mir. Jacob Suter of Pinal paid Flor ence a short business visit this week. Judge J. w. Anderson returned from his visit to Altar, Sonora, last Monday. There are rumors that large new hotel IS to be built in Florence very soon. Mir. c. M. Marshall of Casa Grande, vas in town last Saturday, on business trip.
 Mir. Tom Davis is having his tract of land under the Florence canal cleared for crop.
 Mir. John D. Bailey came down from Pinal on Sunday and returned home on Monday.
 An unusual number of strangers have arrived in Florence to take look at the country.
 Judge J t. D. Walker came down from the Reymert mines Thursday evening on a short business trip.
 Mir. c. Wallrich, of Oketo, Kansas has been making Florence visit this week to look at the valley.
 Mir. c. w. Culver returned from a visit to Tombsone on Monday and left for Pinal the following day.
 Mir. Al McGrath came down from the Ray copper camp at Riverside on Thu sday, and went % Tucson.
 Mir. Stephen NJ Bailey came down from Silver King on Tuesday and spent q few days among his Florence friends.
 Judge Warner Earll, formerly law practitioner at Tucson, died i'll San Luis Obispo on the 10th instant, aged 73 years.
 Mir. Wm. B. Reid, of West Chester. Pa, spent a day or two in town this week to get glimpse of Arizona in mid winter.
 Mir. Tom Davis left fer Phenix on Wednesday He will return sometime next week and also visit Pinal and Sil- yer King.
 4 very enjoyable social hop was given at the Florence Hotel last Monday night, which was well attended by residents and sojCurners.
 Mir. c. W. Lemon is the happy father of a bouncing baby hoy that first saw the light of this wicked world on Friday, the 18th instant.
 There will be sunday school and divine
 Al ~ | l. sud a good big congregation should greet Rev. U Gregory.
 The Southern Pacific railroad sur veyors are at Casa Grande to arrange for raising the grade of the road above the possibility of washouts.
 Messrs. T. J. Wrampelmeir, W. N. Crandall, Wm. B. Reid and c. Wallrich made trip to the headgate of tho Flor euce Canal last Tuesday.
 Rev. U. Gregory, D. D., will reach Florence to- day from Tucson and will preach at II a. m. and P. m. to-mor- row, at the court house.
 MT. Geo. w. Saunders returned yes terday from attending the G. A k. en- canpment 1t Phenix He was elected chaplain of the Department.
 Mir. Geo. w. Saunders left last Mon day for Phcnix, to attend the department encampment G. A. R., as delegate from Negley Post No. 1, of Tucson.
 Mir. Wm. Sellers, formerly of Silver King, who made Q visit to hIs old home at Brainardsville, New York, a few months ago, is now m Tucson.
 Mir. j. S. Purdy, stock buyer of San Bernardino, has gone up to Dripping Springs to look at some of w. M. Grif- iith's steers with view to making pur' chases.
 A great deal of new agricultural ma ehinery is sold in this valley and dealers rapidly dispose of large invoices. This IS a good indication of increasing pros perity.
 The people of Florence must get rid O the unsightly cottonwood trees and plan other varieties for shade. The umbrella is cleaply and handsome tree and 1t flour ishcs here.
 Mir. l.. N Blood and wife, of Wichita Kansas, are stopping in Florence a shor time while on their way to California They are guests of MT. and Mrs A. F Bellemy.
 The land claimants in section 10, town ship south, range Q east, two mile southwest of Florence, had their land surveyed Tuesday, preparatory to clear ing for crops.
 Mir Geo. W. Campbell has been SUI ferer with exceedingly sore eyes for couple of weeks past. They are improv ing rapidly, however, and will likely all right by another week.
 Mir. W. w. Fellows of Tempe, was town this week to convey his mother-ir law, Mrs. Wm. Osborne, to his hom' She is in poor health and it is believe the change will do her good.
 People who have occasion to trav' over the several roads throughout th county and are not acquainted with til mahy divergine highways, would like sec guide boards placed at the forks roads
 The Mastodon Mine and Milling Con pany, of which Mir. J. A. Conlee is Supe intendent, IS erecting boarding hou