Arizona republican., 1898-09-26
SOUTH SIDE.

Tempe, AriZ., Sept. 25.-(Speclal Correspondence of The Republican.)- S. Moot and w. K. Bowen of Mesa drove through town on their way tn Phoenix this morning.
 Mrs. Boon Lewis and Mrs. Charles N. Taylor returned home from Cali fornia this morning. The ladies were greatly benefited by their outing.
 Ira Saylor returned on this morr- ing's train from California.
 Oscar Penn and Stacy Penn left last night with medicines for Mrs. Perkins at Pinal Dr. Moeur left this forenoon for the same place.
 H. F. Collins is a very sick mcn.
 Yesterday J. B. Sturgeon closed a . long pending deal whereby he comes into possession of the Shultz and Franklin east half of section i2. The amount of exchange was $9,500 and the transfer will go on record Monday. This land adjoins the l6U .:oo--os recently leased of P. J. Meyers for three years and makes a solid block of 480 acres of the finest Gand in the valley. It is .watered dk 1ctly out of the Tempe ca nal and because of these and other ad- vantages of the place for stock and all falfa MT. Sturgeon is one of the hap piest men under the Tempe canal.
 Wesley Hill has been given the Be- nita school. As there are but five or six months school and but $60 a month salary, and also because it will require some railroad and stage fare to get there and back, MT. Hill has not yet decided to take the school.
 At mass this morning the church was crowded Father Westhoff is a hard worker and is doing very effective work among the Mexicans. After mass the matter of refreshments on election day was considered in the new school house. The necessary preliminaries were gone through with and the mat ter gotten under way in good shape
 The Arizona Republican is being highly appreciated because of it's early delivery in Tempe. If any one sup poses that the reasons for taking a newspaper have passed into history they should have been down to the train yesterday morning and watched the passengers eagerly buy The Re. publican until all the supply was ex- hausted. More were wanted, but more could not be had and the disappointed ones were compelled to exist until they reached Phoenix. Merit always wins, which is right, for nothing else should win. People have become weary of buying a newspaper merely to support it and have gotten into the habit of going where they get their moneys worth. The people of Tempe are particularly a newspaper reading people, as the almost unanimous sub scription list of The Republican will show. That list shows no preference to political beliefs nor party affiliations and is a magnificent indication that the journal which has been able to secure it is a newspaper first and something else afterward.
 MESA.
 Mesa City, Ariz., Sept. 25-(Special :. Correspondence of The Republican.)- E. B. Goodell and Superintendent B. F. Porter came up from Phoenix today.
 MT. and Mrs. Burt Winger returned this morning after short visit with their parents in Tempe.
 Joel B. Johnson's baby died this morning after six weeks struggle to live. The funeral was held at the home this morning and was largely attended by the sympathetic friends of the bereaved parents.
 Mrs. Porter, wife of Brakeman Porter of the M. & F., took an outing on the Mesa train today.
 The stereopticon show last night for the benefit of the Y. M. and Y. L. M. I. A., thou . largely attended, was disappointl.- as the programme was but half carried through. Some of the singers advertised to appear were unable to get to Mesa in time.
 A large force of men is engaged in enlarging the head of the Highland canal to it's original capacity. There is two weeks work yet to be done be- fore the work will be finished. Pres ident 7omeroy says the canal will be able to carry all the water it ever r did and the ranchers under it will be