Arizona republican., 1898-06-17
SOUTH SIDE.

IeOpe, ArtZ., June 16.-tSpec1al Correspondence of The Republican, F. A. Hough. E. B. Goodwin, J. T. Priest, w. J. Kingsbury, c. T. Hayden and Judson Harmon went to Phoenix today.
 James McFadden came in from his ranch in Gila county last night and was present at the normal exercises.
 Roy Hill will entertain his fellow classmates at dinner tomorrow. His is the class of '94
 There will be a switch put in at the creamery in the near future.
 Ben Hicks is able to be out again.
 flaws & Warehouses threshing out it started out for the season yesterday
 There will be six cars of hay and two cars of honey out of Tempe to- might.
 The Farmers and Merchants bank has received a most exquisite lot of bank checks. This bank will have to have larger quarters if the volume of business keeps increasing at the pres ent rate.
 Yesterday morning the flag was raised again On the buttee and three sticks of dynamite were exploded to let people know it.
 MESA.
 Mesa City, Ariz, June 16.-(Special Correspondence of The Republican-)- A. J. Chandler, H. L. Chandler, E. c. Woodmansee. Mrs. Dickenson, J. L.. Powell Mrs. Lamb and T. B. Pomeroy went to Phoenix today.
 Mr. Turner, travelling salesman for kassler- Boyle, came in from Florence last night and took the train to Phoe- nix this afternoon.
 Harry Kennedy was up today buying grain. h-af
 Carroll Kimball went to Tempe to- day to stay awhile.
 Those registered at the Kimball house are: A. F. Maish, Globe; D. J. Scavanaugb, Globe; J. Smith, Globe; Yeager. Phoenix; Bowman, Florence: E B. Moeur. Tempe.
 w. P Snowman today took the po- Sition of sack sewer on the Mesa Hay and Grain company's threshing outfit
 RE. Fisher intends to open mp the old Mesa City restaurant the first of Jniy.
 0. c. Buliick has little flag floating from the top of the separating plant. He says since it has been floating his separator has not given him any trou- bIe. whereas,1 before it did.
 Mesa will have a time on the Fourth. The speakers for the occasion are Judge Woy. Judge Morton and Ralph Cutler. Professor J. D. Loper will read the declaration of independence. The speaking will take place in the forenoon in Dailey's grove and will be followed by basket picnic. The af- ternoon will be taken up with day tournaments Voting for goddess Of liberty has already begun.
 AT THE NORMAL.
 Last evening was a most prOpitious <me for the joint exercises of the diff ferent societies of the normal. There was much larger crowd out than there was on Wednesday night at the class day exercises. The programme was opened by the Normal School Glee club, which, by the way, is a joy to listen to.
 Miss Flora N. Cohn gave very in teresting and instructive talk on lit <arary society work.
 The debate, Resolved, That the Hawaiian Islands Should Be Annexed to the Unitej States, was well handled ny lena F. ttartSNelG ana Fn1IO H. Ozanne Op the affirmative and Lillian A. Vaughn and Harry c. Hendrix on tine negative. The audience was left in doubt as to which side did the best. The affirmative declared they should be annexed for commercial reasons, for naval reasons and to preserve this, the frontier Of American civilization, from foreign aggression. It was farther stated that President Monroe made it constitutional, and the case of Texas was made use of. The negative brought out the facts that the people of Texas were people in harmony with our institutions and the territory was adjacent Hawaii was so far away, its acquisition would increase our coast line 2.000 miles, and we had not the 1avy to defend what we had. The islands were not needed as naval