Weekly Arizona journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1903-1908, 1903-12-23
THE LOCAL NEWS.
; ......QTY And COUNTY
From Saturdays Daily.

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business trip to Los Angeles.
The BIB. store will be open even.
ings until after the holidays.
r. r. Coleman left for Naco a few
days since, on a brief business trip.
Charles Waddles, the we'll known
St.Joseph commercial man, is in town.
W. A. Clark, of the Rigby Reduction
company of Mayer, is in town today.
William NJ. Hardy, of Poland, is in
town today on Christmas shopping
trip.
F. A. and Earl Poison, of Williams.
we're arrivals here by last nights
train.
NJ. B. Hazeltine went out to Juni-
per today, accompanying DR.. j. NJ.
Criley.
Secretary and Mrs. L. T. Stoddard
came up on this mornings train from
Phenix.
Judge ]. ]. Hawkins left on last
nights train for Nogales on profess
ional business.
d.. Criley was called out to Juniper
today to attend Mrs. John &. Walls
who is quite sick.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. c. Ruffner will
leave within a day or two for the Salt
river valley to spend the winter.
Mrs. W. r. Gray took her sick hus,
band to Phenix last night. Mr..
Gray's condition has improved some
what during the past few weeks but he
is still very sick man.
The evening guesser has ehristened
itself the "roaring tornado" Judg-
ing from its roars the apellation is a
good one.
John Philbin, a prominent Chicago
business man, who is interested in
mining in this section arrived in Pres
colt last evening.
Mrs. r. n. Looney, of McCabe, and
her sister, Miss Mamie Mayer. of
Mayer, came in this afternoon to do
some Christmas shopping.
Geo. Tisdale, superintendent of
bridges, on the S. F. P. & P. railroad
returned yesterday from a trip over
the Phenix & Eastern road.
Miss Helen Burmister will come
this evening from Pasadena where she
has been attending school. to spend
the holidays with her parents.
Fred Petit had two fingers cut
nearly off the other day by getting
his hand in contact with buzz saw
while engaged in saving wood.
A car load of young pine trees,
mistletoe and green live oak branches
we're shipped to Phenix today for
Christmas trees and decorations.
Miss Finnie, a teacher in the Tempe
normal school was a passenger on this
mornings train, en- route to Flagstaff
to spend her holiday vacation with
friends.
Mrs r. G. Parker and Miss Tillie
Elsener will take advantage of the
holiday excursion rates to visit Los
Angeles. They will leave on tomor-
rows train.
The bids for the new hopsital at
Whipple will be opened at the Office
of the constructing quartermaster at
Whipple on next Wednesday afternoon
at three o'clock.
Every teacher in the Prescott pub
lie school was the recipient of pres
ent from her pupils. Miss Mason re-
ceived handsome chatting dish from
the boys and girls in her room.
The Prescott National Bank is dis
tributing calendars today which for
beauty of design as we'll as for artistic
execution are ahead of anything seen
here. They are genuine works of art.
Geo. A. Teadwell and Miss Myra
Martin, of New York, who have been
spending few days at Mayer, where
Mr.. Treadwell has extensive mining
interests, came into Prescott on this
afternoons train.
E. A. Haggott and his brother W.
A. Haggott, who has been visiting in
this county for some time, came in
from the Blue Bell mine last evening.
W. A. Haggott left for his home in
the east this morning.
Miss Winifred Fredericks, who is
attending college at Mills seminary,
near Oakland, arrived home last
evening to spend the holidays with
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. R.N. Fred
ericks, and to visit with her numer-
Gus friends.
Mrs. Frank NJ Metzgar entertained
the euchre club yesterday afternoon
at her lovely home in east Prescott.
A number of invited guests were pres
ent, the guest prize was awarded to
Mrs. J. c. Herndon. Very dainty re-
treatments were served.
Benjamin Heller of Chicago, who is
interested in the Orc Mining COM
pany, arrived in Prescott on Friday
from the east. He left last night for
Kirkland and will go from there today
to visit the company's property. He
expects to remain in this section for
some time.
Col. H. NJ. Maus, an army surgeon
formerly stationed at Whipple. later
health officer at Manila, and more re-
Gently in charge of the medical sup
ply department at San Francisco, has
been transferred to Fort Riley, Kan
sas, and will be in charge of the med
ical department of that post.
G. Gordon Green, the Cincinnati
mining man, who arrived in Prescott
yesterday has gone out with J. H.
Hise to take charge of the mines, of
which the latter has been superin-
tendent. Mr.. Hise will go to Los An
geles to spend Christmas with his fam
lily and will take two months vaca-
ton.