Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-12-26
TUESDAYS DAILY

Don Campbell came in from Jerome on Saturday suffering from blood poison.
 Raymond Belcher has returned from California to spend the holidays.
 Mrs. J. S. Douglas left on Saturday nights train for Bisbee to spend the holidays with her husband.
 Invitations are out for the celebra- ton of their silver wedding by NIT. and Mrs. J. c. Herndon, Saturday evening, December 29, 1900.
 Mir. and Mrs. Harry R. Tntle came up from Phenix on Sunday mornings train to spend the holidays with friends.
 W. H. Smith has moved his meat market into its new quarters in the Smith-Cook block on the north side of the plaza. The new location is on the site of its location prior to the fire in July.
 The Congregational Sunday school has made great preparations for their Christmas exercises tonight. There will be a musical and literary pro- gram followed by a distribution of presents. Exercises commence at 7:30 o'clock.
 Prof. D. NJ. Martin, who arrived on Friday evening, has been kept busy ever since shaking hands with his old time friends, whose number in Pres cott are legion. Prof. Martin has been absent from here for nearly ten years, leaving in June. 1890. but has not changed in the least during that period. He is a professor in Hills 1 dale, Michigan, university.
 The ink on the Journal Miners an nouncement of storm symptoms. on Saturday, had not dried when a north wind, accompanied by a cold wave, set in, freezing the symptoms to 1 death. The Journal-Miner is neither a pessimist or a weather prophet. but l 1t will remark that the recent threat | enings of a storm, of which there 1 have been several, which have in every case been diSsipated by north wind. | Is but a repetition of former years. ] in which dry winters were experi- l enced. I There will be a midnight mass at l the Catholic church tonight. Excel i lent music will be rendered by the choir, which includes Farmers cele- brated mass. The offertOry solo. | Adore" by Gounod, will be sung by | Miss Dewitt. This choir Is composed | of Misses Dewitt, Murphy, Camp | bell and Mrs. R. E. Morrison. sopra- nos; Misses Ines Morrison and Agnes l COnlon, contraltos; R. E. Morrison and Don Campbell, tenors; Jules Bau- man, bass; with G. 4. Allen. organist. | One of the weddings announced by the JOurnal-Miner recently as being on the tapis, came of on Sunday, De cember 23d. The principals to it were June s. Freeman and Miss Francis B. Cox, the ceremony being performed at the Methodist parson- are bv Rev. H. W. Peck. The groom
 of Prescott's efficient mail car
 thile the bride is the beautiful
 ',complished daughter of ex-
 Itendent of Schools c. F. Cox.
 Journal-Aliner joins with the
 other friends of the couple in
 jag them happiness and pros ..lty.
 i-s Sharlot NJ. Hall has a short
 ltitled "O'Dulin's Duff: a
 lds Tale of Early Arizona. in
 day special of the San Fran
 ronicle. Miss Hall has just
 ine typewriter in a short story
 competition and her poems of
 e,iem life are attracting wide
 elIion. Edwin Markham of ''The an With the Hoe" fame. has pro- noUnced them the most vivid word pictures of the desert that have ever been written and a collected volume will probably be issued during the coming year.
 The beautiful center piece made by Mir. Bagby will be disposed of at the Owl saloon tomorrow night.
 While this is the Peace on earth good will to men, season the principle does not seem to be working out very satisfactory, from the number of rows reported on Saturday night. One or two gun plays were made, but they proved harmless, while a number of fist fights occurred.
 J. H. Jacks returned Saturday evening from a sojourn of several weeks at Octave. He is greatly i'm proved in health and will leave in a few days for Walnut creek to try the ozone of that section, and to spend season in hunting.
 Saturday and Sunday nights were the coldest So far of the season. The mercury this morning dropped to the seventeen-degree-above-zero notch.
 Mir. and Mrs. Doane Merrill. form erly of Jerome, have taken up their residence in San Francisco.
 About half the men save money by getting their hats at J. W Wilson's. The other half don't care how much extra profit they pay into some ones pocket. Why pay 5 for a hat when you can get its equal for S350.
 The Methodist Sunday school will have their Christmas entertainment at the church this evening, commenc- ing at 7:30 sharp. The church has been beautifully decorated for the oc- casion, among the decorations being a festoon of evergreen extending en- tirely around the interior of the building. The distribution of pre- sents will be prefaced by the render ing of a short literary and musical program.
 Railroad Boys Generosity.