Arizona republican., 1899-10-15
SOUTH SIDE.
TEMPE.

VNNAyevNAAAAAAAA
 TEMPE.
 E. A. Hough was business visitor in the capital yesterday.
 Captain w. A. Hancock spent yes terday in Tempe.
 R. E. Daggs of Phoenix was Visi- tor in Tempe yesterday.
 John Nets of the Mesa public schools spent last evening in Tempe.
 J. B. Mullen spent yesterday in the capital city.
 A special train of stock left Tempe for Maricopa yesterday.
 The public school trustees have been compelled to elect another teacher on account of the large increase of pu- pills, and for this purpose the trustees held a special meeting last night
 The rain yesterday morning was quite general throughout the country south of Tempe and the ranchers are full of joy for the farms are well soak ed with water.
 The stockholders of the Western Branch of the Tempe canal held their annual election yesterday at this place
 Ashby flows, Harry Hancock and w. T. Cummings were elected direc- tors for the ensuing year.
 The new organization of the normal school literary societies was effected Friday night. The following officers were elected: President, Dean Good win; vice president. Miss Edna Green leaf; secretary, Miss Nellie Crocker; treasurer, Elmer Ruse; critic, Miss Jessie Smith; editors, J. Clarance Laney and Charles A. Stouffer- After the organization was completed the following programme was rendered:
 
 Hough; reading. Miss Nellie Crocker; debate, Resolved that the United States has reached it's zenith;" in strumental music by Miss Helen Ste wart and Elnor Merriam; the normal oracle, J. c. Laney; reading, Alma M. Davis.
 MESA.
 William Newell, J. Holdern, Oris Holdern, D. L. Rose, James Bark, A. P. Snowman and Malcolm McLish were among the Mesa visitors to Phoenix yesterday.
 The Arizona Bicycle Store has changed it's quarters from Phil Nets building to the Code building in the room formerly occupied by the Bicycle Store. John Nets, owner of the store, will fit it up and place a first-class man in charge.
 Nate Brundidge will put in forty acres of grain under the Highland canal
 A. L. Post returned from Florence yesterday. MT. Post says the GiIa is dry at that point.
 Malcolm McLish came down from GoIdfeld yesterday. The weather is too wet to run the cyanide but what men are left are changing the ash pit. Friday evening the Mexicans held labor meeting and decided on a new schedule of hours as a days work. Eight hours were declared to be sufIi- cient for a man to work. There are five of them on the road to Mesa as the schedule could not be enforced. The Mesa schools have an enroll 1nent of American children equal to the school census of those children. The Mexican children are not in full attendance. This brings the enroll | ment to something over 360 and that | without any enforcement of the law. Mrs. PoppenweIl died Friday after ! noon at o'clock. The body will be snterred today at 10 a. m- by the Odd | Fellows lodge. Mrs. Poppenwell lived | three miles east of Mesa. She was an old-time Arizonan and ran a hotel at Silver King in the early sos. This summer she went east to visit daughter and relatives and had return ! ed but a few days ago when death | came.
 J. E. Bettler received a letter yes terday from Florida requesting him | 10 come at once. In calling up some | "reminiscences MT. Bettler told of the | experience in almond culture of Mir | Stevens. a rancher and business man | at Florence. Under MT. Bettler's care | MT. Stevens orchard was resuScitated | from a dying condition and last | spring there was splendid promise of a | large crop. MT. Bettler gave direc 1 tions as to how the smudging should | be conducted and these MT. Stevens followed with great success. The crop | yas assured and looked fine. One | night MT. Stevens went to bed with the remark that there would be no | need of a watch that night as it was so warm. Fatal thought The next morning the unfortunate surveyed a frost-bitten and ruined crop.