Arizona republican., 1901-06-14
MESH

The Ladies. Aid Society of the Bap- tist church of Mesa will serve ice lcream and cake at the home of Mrs. Spragg next Saturday evening from 5 D. m. throughout the evening. The pro- ceeds are for the benefit of the church.
 l.. F. Lambs hay stack of about ten tons burned up this morning about 10 a. m., and they had hard time sav- ing the two wheat stacks which were located about sixty feet from the hay stack. One of MT. Wa!laces boys dis covered the fire first from his home across the street. and by the time he reached the stack and gave the alarm the blaze was mounting mountain high. The neighbors rushed to the scene and as luck would have 1t, they found plenty of water, and by the use of wet blankets. sprinklers. etc.. and good engineering the two grain stacks were saved. The origin of the fire is unknown. but 1t Is supposed that cigarette was dropped by some of the men who were working on the place lsat night. and that 1t lay smoldering until picked up by the wind this morn- ing and carried to the stack.
 MT II. M. Cooper. who recently re- turned with his family from the Tonto Basin country, had quite an accident which. however. resulted much differ ently from what might have been ex- pected, and the friends of Mir. Cooper declare that his faith and prayers are the only things that saved his outft from destruction. The accident oc- cured at what is known as Brady Hill in Tonto. MT. Cooper let his family out of the wagon at the bottom of the hill and started up the mai route. which Is very steep and on dug-way. When about half way up his team stopped, and there was no brake on the wagon 1t started to run backwards, and went off an embank- ment of about thirty feet. Mir Cooper jumped to the ground as the wagon went over the precipice, and escaped the fall that the horses and wagon had The wagon 1t upside down. and one horse on it's back and the other one lit on his feet. an dthe strangest thing about 1t was that the wagon was not injured, except the neck-yoke was broken. and neither were the horses hurt.
 Next Sunday is Home Missionary day with all the ward of Maricopa stake. The following elders will visit the following wards on that occasion: Eli openshaw. Frank Openshaw and R. F. Johnson. Mesa ward: w A. Me Donald. C. R. flakes. Jr.. and J. w. Vance. Lehi. Lehi ward: l.. R. Lewis, Don C. Rabbit and George M. Fryer. Nephi ward Dudley Jones, Isaac Jones and David II. Jones, Alma ward Jos shp II. Rogers. w. O. Phelps and Frank T. Pomeroy. Papago ward
 Lancisco Hill of the Indian school of Phoenix Is spending a short vacation with his parents In Lehi, and was !n Mesa yesterday. Lancisco has alway. been an ambitious Indian boy and a worker He has been at the Indian school for, four years and expects to graduate in about two wars more He says he is not satisfied with what he knows now and will go to the In- dian Normal school in Virginia ami finish his education. He is also a member of the now famous Indian hand. and with that band will go to Prescott for the summer. they having an engagement there. They will also go to Flagstaff for the big Fourth of July celebration. He is an thusiastic musician as well as scholar and will be heard from in the future, if his. plans do not miscarry. When asked what effect the schooling would have on the boys and girls of the Pimas he c a of hnn Ia and go back to the old way of living that most of them would live like the white people and surround themselves with good houses and farms and would vie with the whites in an agricultural way as well as in a mechanical way The crops are the best in years among his people and most of the parents are more than willing that their child fen have the privilege of schooling
 MT. Fl. Erb and Charley Bowman of Phoenix are clustering the new home of J. l.. Waring. They are giving it a white finish. MT. Waring expects to move into his new home about the 10th of July, but Contractor Elder says he will have 1t ready for him by the lst of July.
 Mesa has new fruit shipping and packing firm which shipped it's first order today The firms name on the boxes read. 'E. M.- LeBaron. Mesa. Ariz. Fruit and Produce Packers and Shippers" The new firm shipped the first peaches shipped in the valley to- day. They were from the orchard of e. T. Wilson and were as fine an early fruit as we ever saw. Mr .LeBaron has had some years experience in the business of fruit packing with the firms of E. NJ. Johnson Bros. and of J.