Arizona republican., 1898-04-07
Jones and Dr. and Mrs. Brack went

lO uOculA IOudy.
 James Bark and Frank Criswell of the Superstition mountains went down to Phoenix this afternoon They re- port their cattle range in good condi- tion, as no cattle have yet died.
 Mrs. Chamberlain of Phoenix, w. l.. Pinney and Mrs. Riley of Phoenix made Mesa call today The rise in the price of meat is in dicated by the amount of vegetables that go out of W. J. Birchett's market every day.
 MT. E. Emery is putting a new ad- vertising desk in the Kimball house, A horse race was matched last night by Mesa parties for $1 ,O00, $500 on each side, between Henry See and Frank Watkins The rare will take place six weeks hence on the Mesa track MT. See will run his gray horse. 1 Johnny Woods, against either the Bradley sorrel or the black mare, Polecat
 | Tom Metts' new house will soon be ready to occupy.
 The young ladies of Mesa object to i the recent orders received by the mi 1 litia company, which require the members to meet every night for one hour.
 John X. Jones says nothing in his orchard has been injured by the frost The farmers Cn this side of the river will cut most of their grain with | binders this year. It will be cut sooner than usual on this account, stacked and allowed to sweat, which gives the grain better price in the market It is an unpleasant fact that the valley wheat will not bring as much in northern markets as northern grain will. The reason for this discrep- ancy is believed 70 be the lack of sweating the grain before it is threshed.
 i Yesterday Mrs. John Furbough was taken seriously i'll.
 Ben F. LeBaron will paper the | Peterson brothers ntw house.
 A car of buggies came up for the Abel-Wilbur- Mullen Hardware con- pany today.
 George Felton will leave in few days for the upper Tontc Basin to as- sist M. E. Curry in the gathering of his cattle, the Flying W. brand. There is little girl at W. A. Nc Donald's and a little by at Lyman Levett's. Both gentlemen are boost ! ing the soda and cigar business.
 sCoTTsDALE. ] Scottsdale, ~Ariz., April 6.-(Special ] Correspondence of The Republican)- It is expected that Mrs Maud Green ! and Miss Henderson, the "chalk talk ers'' in w. C. T. U. work for the cause of temperance, will arrive here and 1 rix o1,o 111 toll ,ioI They will arrive in Tempe on Thurs day and will give a temperance chalk | talk at the Rural school soYSn of Tempe on Thursday night, and one at the M. B. church in Tempe on Friday night. They are both from Colorado, one being a state organizer, and the 1 other a national worker
 DISTRICT 14. | MT. Thomas Etter has been very fsick with fever during the past week. He is improving fast.
 1 MT. Pool commenced cutting hay i last week. It can be truthfully said i that MT. Pool was the first farmer to break the ice this year. T he election for school trustee was 1 held at the school house Saturday be- fore last. MT. H. H. Creighton, the retiring member of the board, was re- elected.
 Messrs. Roy Frankenburg and Rob- ert Wingfeld of Tempe were visitors in the neighborhood this week. The district IA school closed last Friday. The pupils of the school presented a taking programme to the large number of visitors present The | teachers of the school, Professor w. H. Lee and Mrs. C. D. Williams, re- ceived numerous compliments for keep 1 ing such model school and maintain i ing such good attendance. The Ideal Literary society held a meeting last night and rendered the following programme: Music by members of society; recitation by w. R. White; instrumental music by Miss Kunz; speech by MT. Hielman; instru- mental music by Miss Bobby; debate Resolved, That Country Life, Rather Than City Life, Is More Beneficial tc the Human Race;;" affirmative, MT Fred Snyder and T. B. Etter; negative Glen Baker and B. Wilson,. general discussion, "The Cuban Question
 After the rendering of the pro- gramme refreshments were served by the members of the society.