Arizona republican., 1898-09-05

Ing all they met everything about the progressiveness and thrift of Ari- zona's capital. People may com plain,'' said Dr. Hibbard last evening, that so much money is taken out of the community by residents spending he summer on the coast The fact is hat everybody going from Phoenix is ] walking, talking advertisement of he town. The number of people com ng from here astonishes the average esident of southern California and he umps at the conclusion that the peo- ,le here fairly roll in gold. find hat our people talk up the town everywhere they go and do a very great deal of good in that way What impressed me most on my trip, how 'ver, was the burnt, dried-up appear ance of the vegetation all through southern California Fruits, melons md crops of all kinds do not seem as good as we have in Arizona Of course realize that this has been a year of irouth and hardship in southern Cali 'ornia. Wells are dry and people everywhere are lamenting the absence ,f rain. The finest sight I saw on my Tavels, however, was the country ly- 'ng between Tempe and Phoenix on eeturning. Evidences Of agricultural
 hrift were to be seen on every side Fields, trees and shrubbery bore in- 'allible signs of prolific increase. vas more satisfied with and proud of Phoenix and the Salt River valley than ever before. A person is often compelled to go away from home in order to thoroughly appreciate its beauty and value
 TIME FOR LUNCH-The directors f the public schools Of Phoenix have concluded to give the children of the sCentral school building an Incur and half at noon. Many of the scholars
 i've a considerable distance away and nave been compelled in times past to ,arry a cold lunch. This is ipcon yenient, as the remains of their noon lay repast are often left lie on the loors and benches to the detriment of he cleanliness of the latter. A room vas set apart as a lunch room, last winter, and served the purpose reason lbIy well, but the janitor work was as ] heavy, the janitors complained. as in he entire balance of the school build ng. Very few scholars will be com- 1elled to carry cold lunches under the arrangement giving them ninety min ltes at noon, as they can easily go tC their homes and return in that time i During month or two, when the days 1 are very short, possibly only an houl will then be given, but as the day ] ight again increases, the directors promise that the noon recess will also i increase in length
 ! ISSUED A IRCULAR.-William C
 Burns, section director Of the Arizona
 weather service, has issued a circular
 10 the voluntary observers located il
 all parts o' Arizona, in which he says, 'I have the honor to announce that , have assumed direction of the Ari zona section of the climate and cror services of the weather bureau on Au
 gust 2S, 1898, relieving Mr. W. T
 Blythe, who has been assigned as sec
 ton director to another field of use
 fulness, the Mississippi section a.
 NicFsburg, Miss. I am not unadviset
 ss to the character and value of you
 cooperation with the service, havirs
 served at the section center for tht
 past seven months as assistant. ant
 with full knowledge Of the fact tbr.
 lpol you rests, in great measure, tht
 success Of the work of the section.
 earnestly solicit continuance in 1h
 future Of work so well p.rforrned i,
 the past Believing. as 1 do. in the fu
 ture development and progress of tn
 territory, it will be my earnest effort
 as far as I am able, to present in tn
 cest possible form, the work and dat
 as collected by you, and with your val
 uable assistance the work already in , stituted, on such a good basis, will b continued, and it will be my untirin;
 endeavor to develop the service ol , lines commensurate with the rapi progress Of the territory"