Arizona republican., 1900-08-02
SOUTH SIDE.
MESA.

MT. Layer LeBarOn IS now working in the Coop. store.
 Harry Hall, representing the Hol- brook. Merrel & Stetson Hardware, company of San Francisco. paid Mesa a business visit yesterday.
 Mesa experienced quite a wind and dust storm yesterday evening. The wind was quite severe, but travelled in streaks or gusts. One of these gusts struck the private barn of J. D. Loper and upset it, demolishing it complete ]y. No insurance.
 G. w. Woy says we're going to have rain. He is putting work with his faith and is having good big waterspouts put on his house.
 The and 11-year-old children of MT. A. P. Wallace are quite sick with typhoid fever, but are slowly inn proving.
 typhoid fever and has been for the past six weeks, but is slowly improv- ing.
 Arthur Forman and H. H. McKelvey, from Ray, Ariz., are in Mesa buying horses.
 The Mesa and Ray Stage company has pulled off it's Florence stage and is now running the one stage direct to Ray and Kelvin. The new route is twenty miles shorter and a better road. The small traffic owing to the closing down of the Ray mines and smelter does not justify both stages. but as soon as the camp starts up again the other Concord will be put on again.
 MT. George Mauk returned from Gila valley, where he has bean the past ten days in the interests of the Ari- zona Mutual Saving and Loan asso- citation. He met Mrs. Mauk in Phoe- nix, where she had been visiting friends, and they both returned to- .gether.
 William Zent and family passed through Mesa en route to Kelvin Tues day. Mir. Zent came over to meet his wife and family a few days ago.
 MT. T. M. Gilbert has leased the front of the postoffice building and will move the Candy Kitchen into it. Carpenter Hawley will go to work today prepar- ing for 1t, and as soon as Mrs. Gilbert returns, which will probably be next Friday. the stock will be moved and she will take charge of 1t.
 W. Flames and H. L. Chandler were business visitors to Phoenix today.
 MT. M. A. Grouse yesterday received the sad intelligence of the sudden death by apoplexy of his uncle, Obe- diah Grouse. at his home at Conrad, Ia. He was fifty-nine years of age and was hearty to within an hour of his death.
 Postmaster William Newell's smiling countenance again greets the people in the postoffice. Owing to the severe illness of his wife he was compelled to absent himself from the office since the 26th of June, since which time his son. in-law. MT. McArthur, has ably at tended to the business of the office. Mrs. Newall is now entirely recovered, but has a very sick child.
 The. business management of the Farmers Exchange has been trans ferred to L. Salter and J. G. Peterson. It is the intention of the new firm to buy out the business from the Farmers Exchange, which has been practically consummated. G. Peterson will go out of the business and will assume charge of the accounts of the Farmers Exchange. It has not been determined what the name of the new firm will be, but as soon as the deal is closed the new company will incorporate and launch into a business career that no doubt will bring good returns. MT. Salter, one member of the new firm, left Mesa in 1898. first going to New York and then to California, but says has found no place that suits him as