Mesa free press., 1899-08-18
MESA FREE PRESS.
FRIDAY, AUGUST l8, 1899
LOCAL NEWS.


Arizona.
The NJ. & P. R. r. will run the regu-
lar Sunday excursion. Round trip Toe.
III. L. Chandler left Thursday for Los
Angeles to be gone several weeks.
The nights are now delightfully."-
cool.
Quite an amount of rain fell in the
county last Tuesday.
Pomeroy Bros has plenty of money
to loan at reduced rates of interest.
Don't forget the band entertain :
ment to-night.
Mrs. j. I'll. Barnett visited Phoenix
last Tuesday.
Mrs. John Terry has been quite i'll
with fever for some time.
1t iooks as though we would have
very prosperous fall and winter.
: The cake walk at the band enter
tainment promises to be great sue
cess in every way.
LOST.-4 keys and small key
chain. Finder leave at this Office and
get reward.
w. J. and D. A. LeBaron Of
Kenllworth near Florence We're in
Mesa this week for several days.
Mr.. Furgeson of the Westinghouse
Manufacturing Co. spent last week in
Mesa.
Mr.. Sarmiento of the s. p. d P. R.
r. has been in Mesa several days as
! the guest of DR.. Chandler.
Mrs. w. j. and B. F. LeBaron are
expected home in a few days from
California.
Phil Nets Will put in four horse
buss in his barn soon, for the benefit of
excursion parties.
Alvin Ste and John Brooks will
leave this week for Provo. where they
vii! attend the B. Y. academy.
w. A. Burton returned from Cali
fornia last Monday. He reports hav-
ing had good time.
Mrs. Charles Peterson and Mrs.
Ida Hobson left last Monday for
Flagstaff for short vacation.
George Wilbur has bsen in Florence
the past few days looking after bust
ness for his hardware firm.
A. P. Shewman, editor and pub
Usher of the FREE Press returned
last Sunday from seven months visit
to Canada and the East.
The wife of Malen johnson, the
popular city jeweler, presented him
with fine boy on Thursday morning.
Mother and son are doing nicely.
1t has been suggested that the city
institute street cleaning brigade, to
give our fine broad streets tn cir just due
in appearance.
Leonard Nets shipped carload of
hogs to Globe on Wednesday Mr..
Nets accompanied the, shipment and
will retnrn Immediately.
M. Sanders of Los Angeles was in
Mesa on Wednesday. Mr.. Sanders in
tends exchanging his property in Les
Angeles for Mesa Property. :
DIR. j. E. Drane left on Wednesday
for Chicago. DR.. Drane will take a
post. graduate course. in medicine, of
several weeks.
J. 81. Hcrn, who ran his blacksmith
shop for, 80 maaY years in Mesa, has
opeaed up shop in Globe snd is doing
good business. :
It was rumored that the 34th infantry
lately mustered in would not see service
in the Philippines, Lieut. Luna is re-
sponsible for the statement that the
regiment will be sent to the islands be-
fore spring.
Calvin Phelps who has eeen working
in the missionary field in the Southern
States returned last week. Mr.. Phelps
reports q very pleasant and prosperous
sojprh in the South ! ~
The Ladies improvement elpb have
commenced work on the'park, and have
made,a decided change in its appear
ance even in the short time that they
have had the matter in charge.
The fruit shipments by the local pack
ing companies are daily growing larger,
the shipments last week having averaged
about 200 crates daily. The Thompson i