Arizona republican., 1898-05-18

purpose except drying and as that is not profitable, nothing is lost. In several orchards there will be heavy crops of almonds.
 Fourteen cars of cattle will go out from here Sunday to points in New Mexico
 Considerable hay is being bought to be held for higher price r. C.. Lodge has purchased 800 tons for a Phoenix party and Dabney, Humph- reys & Go. have contracted for over a thousand tons. The price paid for most of it was ST.
 Station Agent Winslow lost his valu- able family COW Monday. She is sup posed to have been poisoned by white lead.
 The dearth of farm laborers still continues. There is no justification under heaven for idleness these har- vest days The wealth Of opportunity has sifted the good from the bad in our floating population and every wan dering mendicant is so purely from choice.
 A Rebekah lodge will soon be organ ized here. This order is auxiliary to the Odd Fellows and effectively fur thers their beneficent work Wives, daughters and sisters of Odd Fellows are eligible to membership and while it exists primarily for women. any Odd Fellow may become a member A meeting will be held in Odd Eel lows' hall on Thursday evening, May 26 to take preliminary steps to organ 1ze the lodge and all interested are in VIted to attend.
 
 Alfalfa hay is now quoted at $750 and strong at that Eighteen cars were shipped the past week from this section and thirteen from Peoria. Four new balers have been ordered by parties in this vicinity.
 The quarterly conference of the To- cal M- E. church was held Wednesday, night. Presiding Elder Thompson was in attendance A decided inn provement in the condition Of the church Is reported.
 MT. F. P. Brigham, a recent arrival from California, has purchased a lot north of Bliss real estate office and will proceed to erect a blacksmith shop thereon at once The building will be of brick, 24x40 feet. Contrac- tor Betz has the job of putting it up.
 Miller and Straw, the water wizards. have just finished boring a we'll on W. s. Hatcher's town property. The popular demand for pure fresh water keeps them busy
 N. T. Franklin and B. M. Eyer, with their families, left Monday night for Toronto, Canada, where they will spend the summer with friends and relatives. While there they will at tend the annual conference of the River Brethren church.
 Judging from appearances Lund is the only patriotic man in town, ex- cept Storment, who hung out a couple of diminutive flags in honor of Dew ey's victory. All the rest of the busi- ness houses present a monotonous waste of sordid commercialism.
 Miss Lettie Mossman has been re engaged as teacher in the Smith dis trict for the next term. Her Glendale friends rejoice at this merited recogni- tion of her work as it insures her con- tinued participation in the social life of the community.
 The farmer who will knowingly work off on the market hay that is damaged or in such shape that it will spoil before reaching its destination is doing a grave injustice to himself and his class Hay making is busi- ness and must be conducted as such if success is to fellow. It is reported on good authority that sixty cars of hay were refused at Los Angeles because when opened the hay was found to be molded, having been baled when green. Such fatal blunders, if continued, will hoodoo even so gilt-edged product as hay is this season, in short order. It has been enormously reported that some of this hay was from Glendale So far as we can ascertain, only three of the cars came from this end of the valley, and those went from Peoria