Arizona republican., 1899-01-13
SOUTH SIDE.
TEMPE.

w. s. White is reported very sick.
 J. J. O'Connor is sick with the grip.
 Five cars of cattle and two cars of sheep went out last night. William Penn accomraniel them to California.
 The city council held it's regular monthly meeting last night.
 M. L. Spear was in Tempe from the asylum yesterday.
 Will Trumau of Florence passed through Tempe yesterday on his way to Phoenix.
 The plans and specifications of the new Congregational church are in Tempe. The church will be a credit to the town. It will cost $4,O0O and will seat 300 people. On the northwest corner will be a tower fifty feet high and a study room and two church par lors will be joined to the main build ing. The floor of the auditorium will be an inclined plane, raising from the pulpit, which will be in one corner, With the seats ranging in fu1It diag onally across the room. The ceiling will be auched to brighten the acoustic properties of the room. The building wiI be of brick, which is now being piled on the ground.
 George W. Nichols drove down to Phoenix Wednesday and remained over night.
 MESA.
 Col. Roundtree went to Phoenix yesterday to remain until after the races next Saturday.
 Jack Mcfarland is down from Gold field. MT. Mcfarland reports consid- erable pneumonia and grip in Gold field.
 Snow could be seen on the mountains north of Mesa yesterday morning. The rain is so warm that it will start the grain and alfalfa to growing sufficient ly to make all the pastures green and abundant.
 Yesterday was a day of sales for Mesa. Davies & Sons sold their trans fer business to George and Will Els worth. MT. Davies has long had this step in contemplation and matters -apok turn this week which decided him. He thinks he can do better at something else and will perhaps en- gage in the chicken business
 Dan Kleinman yesterday sold his butcher snop to Charles Dana. MT. Dana will take possession next Mon day. MT. Kleinman was a successful butcher, but the field life attached to the cattle and horse business suits MT. Kleinnan far better. The sale was ' hardly consumm when MT. Dana was met by Messrs. Birchell and Mont gomery with an offer to buy. Mir. Montgomery is from New Mexico on a pleasure trip and has become infatu- ated with the valley. He is butcher of long eNpe.Genice and having decided | to stay he is endeavoring to get a bus mess. If MT. Blrchell and MT. Mont | gOmery succeed in buying the market of MT. Dana the two markets in Mesa will be run under one mana cement.
 Hod Fuller is indeed severely | stricken. A little babe died yesterday | with pneumonia, another baby is not l expected to live because of the same i disease and a 3-year-old boy and a 12- year-old-boy are also down with pneu- monia. The funeral of the little babe | will be held today at 1 o'clock.
 Bloomer is, praying about the | streets of Mesa today like an Arizona | buruo. It will be remembered that a | little girl arrived at A. P. ShewmanS | house the ether day. Because he lost | dollar on bet MT. Bloomer declares he will never back the territorial su- | perintendent any more.
 Last Sunday the second annual re- union of the Mormon missionaries was | held at the tabernacle. The | returned missionaries told of their ex- periences while in the field, and very | interesting these experiences were. | Between the talks vocal and instru- | mental music was rendered. In the | afterncon the elders spoke in the or | der mentioned: George F. Ellsworth | labored in Kentucky, Lafayette Dana | labored in Florida, Lewis Ham in the | Samoan islands, James Broadbent In South Carolina and England, Henry c. | Rogers in Indiana, and Alma Millet in | North Carolina. In the evening the | elders who spoke were: George A. NGSpna1d, Mississippi and in the of fees of the headquarters of the south ern states mission at Chattanooga, | Tennessee; Hyrum Phelps, SoutI Caro- lima; at this junjcture the mandolin and guitar club rendered a selection; David T. LeBaron, South Carolina and Georgia; F. T. POmeroy, Mississippi. | The tabernacle was crowded at both | meetings.
 O. Merrill's children are all down with pneumonia, but all are improving.
 A lot of horses and mules belonging to Fletcher NJ. Doan Of Florence ar rived in Mesa or Tuesday. Part cf them went on to Phoenix and part of ttem stayed in Mesa.
 Charles Wing furnishes 1I7s2 with me finest bread made. When H.. Uin0'S haxa- is Tn 9 strike the fovyn