Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1902-12-31
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From Fridays Daily.


 Christmas with her parents.
 T. c. Archer, the mining engineer,
 went south on today's train.
 Do not fail to see the little play
 and drill next Monday night at K. of
 F. hall at Miss Thew's entertainment. c. F. Cox came in from Yaeger can yon to spend Christmas with his son
 in law and daughter, MT. and Mrs.
 June Freeman.
 The Epworth League of the NJ E.
 church made a number of people
 happy on Christmas by providing
 them with good dinner.
 The Right Reverend J. NJ Kendrick
 will preach at the Advent Mission church (Episcopal) on Sunday morn
 ing at the II o'clock service.
 w. J. Martin. superintendent of the Poland mine, came in Wednesday evening to take his Christmas dinner with his wife.
 Yesterday Christmas day. the fol lowing received the sacrament of the holy baptism at the Advent Mission (Episcopal) viz: Mrs. Beck and Lily Ethel, daughter of Mir. and Mrs. Moser.
 Mir. and Mrs. Geo. c. Ruffner re- turned on Wednesday evening from their outing of six weeks in the noun tains. both of them being in excel | lent health. After spending a few days in Prescott they will go to | Tempe for a visit Of several weeks | with Mrs. Ruffner's relatives.
 Refreshments were served at the | Congregational parsonage on Wednes- | day evening at the close of the Christ | mas tree entertainment. This proved | a very pleasant inovation on the usual | Christmas entertainments. Another pleasing feature of the entertainment | was the appearance of Lady Bounti full
 The Advent Nilsson iEpicsopal) re- ceived several costly gifts in honor of Christmas. among them being a richly ornamented Font cover, two hand some altar vases, presented by St. Margaret's Altar Guild; a surplice gown for use of the clergy and fine twill cassock. for the Rev. Mir. Ben nett. who was also generously remem bered in other ways. In acknowledg ing the thOughtfulness of his people, Mir. Bennett spoke with much feeling and was filed with emotion as he ap- preached the subscription to the card accompanying the gifts With the love of his flock. ''
 The Krause-Taylor company ap- peared at their very best last evening { in that ever interesting play, Rip Van Wrinkle Jack Taylor appeared in the leading role of Rip Van Wrinkle, r-hzla ha ha alaSSaH as c ] rival of Joe JeffresOn. his conception of the old German character was eX- cellent and his acting very credit , able. His support was also good and the entire performance was very I creditable to the company. The . specialties which have always been good. were also better than usual last night, as well as the pictures, the lat ter alone eing worth the price of ad- mission Dr. Jekyl and MT. Hyde ( will be produced tonight and the com { pany will close its engagement tomor l TOW evening with the sensational play Jesse James. ''
 The Chattanooga Medicine Co.,, : the manufacturers of McElree's Wine l of Cardui and Thedford's Black drift. l have just issued the 1903 edition of T the Cardui Weather Chart and Calen- dar. This clendar has sprung into universal prominence by accurately V foretelling the Galveston flood and I predicting the droughts and floods of | the past summer. a year ahead of each a occurrence This office has just re- 3 ceived one of these calendars, which t consists of twelve sheets of paper, i 13x20 inches in size. all fastened to- gether with a gilt tin strip and a brass loop hanger. Each sheet con J tains the calendar for one month in ( . large figures that can be read across l the room. Under the figures potent y weather signals indicating Prof. De | Voe's weather forecasts for every day f in the year appear We understand Q a few copies of it can be secured by J sending 10 cents apiece in postage t stamps to the Chattanooga Medicine l Co.. Chattanooga. Tenn. I
 Jim Rybon McCabe business man f spent Christmas iE Prescott.
 Dr. and Mrs. Blain were the recipi- ents yesterday of a very fine St. Der q nard dog for Christmas present. a
 Miss Mason. a school teacher for V merly of McCabe. has been elected I teacher of the public school vice Miss i Bliss, resigned. q The directors of the Free Reading l room served coffee and doughnuts to V all those who visited the rooms yester- day Lady Bountiful as represented by i Miss Amy Nelson at the Christmas eX- { erciseS at the Congregational church C was beautiful characterization and I Ormed one of the pleasing features of 1 he evenings entertainment. \ newspaper man named Beebe has been expected here daily from Los Banos. California. It Is reported that l he intends starting a paper in Pres colt 2
 A Liquid Air entertainment will be given in the opera house next Tuesday evening" December 90. It will afford a rare treat for all who attend Do a not miss it 1t will be given for the benefit of the Prescott Free Reading room Price of admission % cents. ' children 23 cents. reserved seats S1. td
 The Prescott Christian Scientists Il had a very pleasant entertainment t last eveDin Judge E. W. Wells de- lvered a very interesting address and d Miss Bessie Belle Thew gave a recita- e tiOn which were highly appreciated by those present. There was also music and dancing. and refreshments were d served during the evening. The \ entertainment was held in the banquet E room of Odd Fellnows hall
 A four -year-old boy was brought in f to the authorities this morning. hay ing been found in the possession of Sam PembertOn. Mrs Pemberton z was divorced from her husband. Sam e PembertOn. some time ago and has 2 had possession of the child until within a few days when Sam is al o legged to have taken it from her by 4 force. Mrs. Pemberton now comes d forward w a writ of habeas corpus and seeks protection and the custody of the child. a
 Mir and Mrs J. D. WakeIy are re- !, joicing today over the birth this f morning of a daughter. their first born Mr Wakely says it is the finest looking baby. for its age. that he Il has ever seen in all his life. and if ( any one doubts his word. he says he }