Arizona republican., 1899-01-24
NEWS
 OF THE
 TOWN

RESCUE PRAYER MEETING. -
 The prayer meeting at the Florence CrittentOn home tonight will be led by
 MT. B. T. Gillette, commencing at 7:30.
 All are cordially invited.
 PIONEER BAND BALL. The an-
 nual ball of the Pioneer band will
 take place tonight. The grand march
 will begin at 9:3O. This promises to
 be enc of the most pleasant events Of l the season.
 UNIVERSITY FOOT BALL. The
 Tucson university is accredited with 1 the organization of a foot ball eleven. l The team aspires to meet the normal | school eleven on the gridiron at PhOe- | nix in the near future
 A YOUTHFUL TRAVELLER. VII l lie Bell D0ugherty, an 11-year-old boy, l arrived in town yesterday morning. having traYeled from his home at Louisville, Ky, alone. He has come on a visit to his sister. Mrs. Frank Steele
 SUCCESSFUL SURGICAL OPERA TION.-An operation was performed
 yesterday cn the spine of Mrs. A. Gal
 pin at Eler home. The patient is getdng along very nicely and in all probability will be convalesc cent with
 in two weeks.
 TODAY7S ELECTION. The bond
 election will begin this morning at s
 o'clock and will end at D. m. It will
 be held at the places where elections
 are usually held Marshal Hooker
 gives notice that during its progress
 saloons within the ely limits will be required to be closed.
 BOARD OF SUPERVISORS. The board of supervisors met yesterday in regular session. Beside approving several official bonds, accepting the resignation of Justice Kincaid and ap- pointing Col. JohnstOne to succeed him, the board decided to resume the monthly allowance Of S25 to the Cen tral Avenue Driving association fol the sprinkling and repair of Central avenue.
 MOODY GOING TO TUCSON-The last Needy meeting in FIce1ix will he held next Friday afternoon. Mr. l Moody leaves here Friday evening fo- Tucson where he will hold a series Of i meetings beginning Cn next Sunday MT. TCwner will lave here ] evening, going cn7 day in | advance of MT. Moody in order to or ganfZe the choir fer the meetings. The ! Tucscn meetings will be held in the l new opera house.
 RECKLESS DRIVING.-The ivar i If Bradley's dead wagon made a fetal | mistake yesterday in trying to drive over an officer. He launched his cam into the middle of crcwd around the Salvation Army, and disTagaTding the six mile driving law attempted to reach his destination as speedily as possible. He sCcn encountered the officer, how sver and will face Recorder Jobs this morning as Q result.
 "A DIMINISHED FACULTY. The high school faculty is bereft of two of ts members Miss Marian Culver, who has been absent several days on ac- count of the late death of her father will likely be with her classes before ong. Although Professor W2sson had to assume his duties much earlier, his cOn;>tiOn has improved very little since the first effects aris- ng from a vaccination. During the ebsence of these teachers their classes lave been assigned to Professor Brown, who was formerly principal of the school.
 NEW INCORPORATIONS. -Artic.es ,f incorporation of the International irrigation and Improvement company, with a capital Of $1 100000, divided into en dollar shares, were filed in the of ice of the county recorder yesterday. The company will operate in the United States and Sonora. The incOr- )orators are R. A. Stewart, L. Miller, 2 H. Lacy and H. Paul. Tucson is lamed as the principal place or busi- less. Articles Of the Arizona. Land ompany were also filed in the record ITS office. The members of the com )any are c. J. Hall, president; E. J. C r Ainsworth, secretary. The object of his incorporation is to deal in real : state and bonds and engage in all /. transactions that natural person may | ngage in. The capital stock is $100C0 U ivided into LOGO shares.
 ARBOR DAY. -Governcr Murphy esterday issued an ArbOr Day procla- r nation calling for the observance of \ he day On Friday, February 3. Except F or needless clause in the statutes he f would not have had to issue a procla- ( nation at all. The date Of Arbor Day 5 fixed by law, the first Friday after he first day of February. The next 2 singularly makes it incum- h ent on the governor to make proc F lma-iOn of the holiday. Speaking of roclamatiGns, Governor Murphy was by some of the territorial pd- CTS last year for neglecting to make reclamation Of Labor Day. While lere was no law to prevent him from 2 Oing so, he had no other authority to lake such proclamation than he would | ave to call upon the people Of the ter | tory tC observe the Fourth Of July. abOr Day is a holiday fixed by con- | ress and is so established in the Dis jet of Columbia and territories. s
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