Arizona republican., 1900-11-23

the bend of the road from the hillside, hitting the ground every 37 feet, his long legs singing through the air like a nail thrown from a shotgun His boy iSh face was pale with excitement and a prayer was on his lips. He sadly picked up what remnants he could find of the load of goods the mule delivered and proceeded to secure a club, of am pie proportions, and to belabor that animal before and behind. He gave him a Christian dressing down and then procured a rope with which to tic the cuss when he goes delivering over town again. Pete and the mule are fine pair and look well togs ther when Pete is not mad at the old animal. Judge McKinnon. who has a reputation cs a friend in time of need, sprinted at the heels of the old mule for 900 yards, and rattled off the last 19O in 24 seconds. He would have. been running yet had not a dozen eggs bounced out of one of the baskets and hit him in the ear. That stopped the good judge, who is serving the good people of Jerome as a democratic official, under a republican form of government.
 Wm. Lubin has rented the Merrill building, which is now almost com pleted, and will get moved into it by the first of December. He will have one of the finest stor5s- in the territory when he gets his new place fixed up. He will have a gallery in the rear of the building for the hat department anl then he will have dressing rooms for men and women underneath the gal lery. There will be mirrors, toilet ar- ticles, warming stoves and other at tractive and necessary features. He will have a sewing machine in the la dies dressing room for the free use of any lady who does not own such a lux ury and who desires to do little sewing. The store will be fesitooned with electric lights and will present a beautiful appearance when lighted up.
 A piece of machinery was unloaAeG at the store of Myers & Jackson yester- day that was the cause of considera ble speculation as to what it was a!id what it's mission in Jerome might be. A large crowd soon surroundei the ob- ject and many gu5sseS were made on the nature of the thing. When every one had given up out rushed Myers and Jackson from the store and began to put the thing together. At first 1t re- sembled a threshing machine, then q header. then a laundry wagon, and lastly what it really was-a peanut roaster and corn pepper. It is 1aisy, all painted red and green. There are rollers and wheels inside and out. And th5re is a funnel inside that shakes out the corn into the glass department as fast as it is popped. It is operated with gasoline and whistles like a locomotive on an uphill grade. The owners of the machine swear that they will now sup ply the United States from the Verde Valley to Jerome Junction with the finest popcorn and peanuts ever roast ed in the world.
 Ike Ii9skin will move into his new store building in the Bartlett hotel by the first of next month. He will have gents furnishing goods house, eXclu- sively in the new store. He will then convert the present New York store into store for the ladies to patron ize. The increase in his business which has been growing ever since the first day he opened for business in Jerome, made the present. move necessary. Mi Laskin will then have two up-to-date stores in the town. He has been the cause of reducing the price of furnish ing goods of all kinds in Jerome, and especially in the price of boots and shoes. He is a thorough business man and has an able assistant in his brother Louis. He has good clerks, too, which helps gain new customers and keep the old ones.
 D. D. MCDONALD.