Arizona republican., 1899-02-16
NEWS
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 TOWN

Ing CT the Orphan base ball club va:
 held last night at which the following officers were elected: George Cisney
 president; w. + Rippey, secretary
 Frank Burgess. treasurer, and H
 Taffe captain. The nine is making al 1 effort te play the Tempe team Sunday MORGAN HARRIS FUNERAL. =
 Morgan E. Harris, who died February
 l3 of tuberculosis will be buried Gt II
 o'clock this moaning from the funera
 parlors of Davis & Soper. The 1 services will be conducted by Rev Lapsley McAfee. Deceased was \ 31
 years of age, and was a native o1 Wales. He is survived by his wife His remains will be inferred in the LOT ing cemetery.
 STREWN WITH FLOWERS. The funeral services of E. w. Persons were held at Bradley's undertaking Parlors yesterday afternoon at o'clock. Rev | L8'psley MdAfee officiating Tho fu- neral coTtege was imposing and a pro
 fusion of flowers were strewn over the bier by the large number of high
 school pupils who had collected to pay their respects. The daughter of de- 1 ceased is member of the senior class Cf that school.
 UNITED IN MARRIAGE. Eugene
 A. Brown and Eleanor l.. Dygart were
 united in marriage Tuesday at the flu ! tUIe home of the couple 926 North Fourth street. the Rev. John Evans l officiating. The bride has for some i time been employed at the Alkire i store and has made a large circle of i acqaintances. The groom is repu- table young printer of this city. \ number of friends were present at the ceremony and extended their best fJan n ys,a ,,5-i01 oO7171Ia PLAIN GENEVRA JOHNSTCNE.- Mrs. GenevTa JOhnstOne-Bish-ls, the famous sopr. ) whose appearance in two concerts delighted the music low ing people of Phoenix, is now only Genevra JChnstone. On February s she was granted a divorce at Marion, O., from her husband, Dr. Bishop of Chicago. Her petition alleged ncn- support and it was not contested. Now that her matrimonial affairs have been satisfactorily settled the sweet singer is preparing to start out on another concert tour
 THE FIRE QUEEN VOTE. The first count of the ballots for fire queen of the fire department ball to be given on the night of Wasking gt-1's birth day was made last night. The follow ing contestants were put in the field. and the c-der of their strengJ n on the first count is as follows: Misses Jessie Roberts, Annie Monihon, Grace Shields. Clara Jacobs and Annie Boyd According to the original plan the time for voting would end tomorrow night. It may be extended until Saturday night The voting places are Keefer's. the Hotel Adams, G0odran's and Butts drug stores.
 lSTENOGRAPHIC NOTES. - The current number Of the Students Jour nal, the leading periodical of the United States, contains a portrait and biography Of Mr. " N Tiffany of this city. They were furnished at the re quest of the Journal and the biography .1as written in the hope that the strug- gles accounted would lend encOurag ge- l Elent to many young student Of sten- Og-aphy, The Journal also contains | two pages Cf stenOgTaDhic notes and ! their translation. They happened to ! be notes of the trial of H. 2. Slossar ! vs. the Salt River Valley Canal com ] pany. in which judgment was rendere1 | last Saturday.
 "A CHURCH SOLD. The Christian | church of Phoenix has sold it's present | lot and h1ilding to the African M. F. church and will probably give posses sion next week. The members will f q evening in the church and invite their friends to join them in it. The last services will be held in the old building on Sunday next at the usual hours. Until a new building is erected services will be held Cn Sundays in the new Good Templars hall in the Padget building. The church has bought Q 75-foot lot on the corner of Fifth avenue and Monroe street, and will proceed at once to the erection of church building.
 GOOD TEMPLAR LECTURE. - Bishop Serkens. the Armenian mission ary. now in the valley, has consented to deliver three lectures next week for the Good Templars, on the Philip pines. a subject in which all Americans are deeply interested at the present time. The bishop has resided in Ma nila for six years and is thoroughly familiar with the islands and their in habitants. His two daughters will ar rive tomorrow morning from the east and will assist a t the lectures WICh na- tive FilipinO and Armenian songs and dressed in the gaIb Of the natives of those countries. These lectures will be delivered in the new Good TemplaTs' hall on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday evenings of next week, the proceeds to be divided between the Armenian fund and the lodge.
 AN IOWA POLAR EXPEDITION- Among yesterdays visitors in town was Sheriff Frank C. Young of Bloom field. la, 8 former townsman of Dr. William Dufeld, Captain c. D. Gray md other IOwans now living in PhOe- lix. When AGr. Young left Bloomfield ast Saturday the thermometer was .wenty-six degrees below zero, At Kansas City the next day it was thirty below. and the farther the sheriff trav- 9led the colder it seemed to get. He got to imagining that he had been dele gated by the state of Iowa to hunt for he north pole. He wondered why oeary, Nansen and GTeely had never