Graham guardian., 1901-12-06
Local News.

| "uu ''uhudy III Ine Guy.
| On Saturday last large num-
Der of people were in the city from
Solomonville.
| Go TO Mrs Howarrs Candy
Store for your Santa Claus good
les. II
An arrangement has been made
SO that taxes can be paid u. the
Bank of Stafford.
We are informed that the attcn-
dance at the Methodist Sunday
school has threbled during the last
six months,
VIM. Moore Clayton has opened
a shoe shop in the Curtis tin shop
and is prepared to do all kinds of
shce making and reporting.
All the leading brands of chew.
ing tobacco, choice cigars, smok.
ing tobaccos and snuff at Sparks
and Mattice. 1t
Judge J. NJ. McCollum, J. C.
Robinson and H. W. Hudgen left
for Naco last Tuesday. Mr.. Hud.
gen expects to go on down into
Hexico.
AL Kenpton, of Eden, was in
the city last Tuesday on business.
AL says he is getting fatter and
happier every day.
A lively and interesting comedy
drama, desperate Chances" will
be played by the Arizona Comedy
company in Thatcher Christmas
eve and in Stafford New Years eve.
The finest and most thrifty look
ing lot of fruit trees and orna.
mental trees ever shipped to the
valley are now at Thatcher, hav-
ing been brought in by Geo. J.
Clough.
D. w. Wickersham left for Los
Angeles last Thursday. When be
left his leg was but little improv.
ed. He will spend Christmas
with his family.
Judge T. T. Hunter and Mr.. Ben
Maurer will start for Texas in q
few days, where they go to pur-
chase 1000 goats which they will
ship to Graham county.
On Monday Anda Carlson, of
Pima passed through Ssfford on
his way home from Mexico.
Andy had spent about three
months at Cananea and vicinity
and says that is the greatest min.
] ing country he ever saw.
! Supt. Knowels, of the Marivilla
Copper Company and the Gila
Valley Copper Company, was in
the city from the mines last Sat
urday. Work is progressing
satisfactorily at both camps,
Mr.. and Mrs. James Finley and
family arrived last Saturday from
Beverly, Texas, and are at present
living at Thatcher. They expect
to make their permanent home
somewhere in the valley.
The air compressor for the Horse
Shoe Copper Mining company ar
rived this week and is now in
operation at the mines. With this
piece of machinery the process of
sinking the shaft will be verr
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Every property owner in Stafford
should set out ornamental trees
along their sidewalks this winter.
There is no danger of them being
destroyed by stock and in two or
three years they will make your
property much more valuable.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Il. Giles and
two children arrived last Saturday
from Tonga Islands, located about
600 miles south of Samoa. Mr..
and Mrs. Giles are the parents of
George Giles, of Layton. They
will make their home here.
Burt Dunlap who has for the
past two months been in quaran
tine in Los Angles, suffering with
an attack Of varioloid, was a few
days ago discharged and is now
at his home in the southern part
of the territory-Enterprise.
George Foote and Will Els
worth and their families arrived
home last Sunday night from Utah
They started on an overland trip
to Utah last August, going through
New Mexico and Colorado, max
ing very leisurely trip and enjoy
ing themselves as they went.
The new Court of the Independ-
ent Order of Foresters will be in
stituted in hall over DR.. Platts
Drug Store, on Tuesday evening
next, the 10th inst. We under
stand that the charter list is quito
large and that many of our leading
citizens are availing themselves of
this excellent order as
charter members.