The copper era., 1903-01-08

month. Every body should attend 1t; there will be money in it for you.
 Mr and Mrs. w. H. Parks and Mir. and Mrs. Will Holt, Of Clifton, left Wed uc.day morning for d ten days outing at Stockton Pass bulletin.
 Will Wilton, Of the Big Lou ranch, who has mad his family at Safford for some months past, has moved them back to the ranch. A little too much smallpox down that way to suit them.
 Pres byterian Church.-Services this evening iThursday) also Friday 7:3O. Sunday services IO:30, Gods Prom lscs;" go, Communion. Sunday School , p. m. All will be made well come.
 The A. & \. Nj. railway will sell round-trip tickets to the Fl Paso car nival, Sunday, Jan. 1lth, as well as Jan. l2 to l5, as already announced. Tickets will be good to return until Jan. 18th.
 Billy Hamilton visited the county seat this week to make d final settle ment with the board as constable Of this precinct. Billy was constable Of this precinct for four years, and leaves the office with q good record.
 II. Katz has disposed Of his E B E store at Katzville to Tomas Biancs and Rafael Valdez. Mir. Valdez has been with the house ever since it opened, and has been factor in the up-buld- ing of its business. Success to the new firm.
 C. r. Dunn left last week for south crn Arizona looking for a location for a drug store. Mir. Dunn now has two drug stores on his hands in Clifton, and is of the opinion that one Is am pie for the business at the present time.
 The ERA is requested to state that the business men of Clifton have all signed an agreement to close their stores on Sunday, commencing Sunday next. This is certainly q good move, as it gives the store keepers and clerks rest on Sunday.
 Billy Hart, the mayor of katzville, spent few days in Clifton during the past week. He came down to start a boxing school for bar tenders, but ed out that he decided to postpone il for a few weeks in order to give them time to recover.
 Charles Spann and Gus. Williams have purchased the Clifton Bakery from Messrs. Schadc, YOakum and Stevens. Schade & Yoakum will con- tinuo in the soda business. The new proprietors havo taken charge Of the bakery business, and the ERA wishes them great prosperity.
 Last Tuesday there was an explosion in matte furnace at the shelter, and some of tho hot metal thrown out fell in a box of giant powder, there was q cry of powder" and the men scattered in every direction. Cautiously enough the dynamite burned up without eN- ploding, else there might have been a different tale to tell.
 Wm. Woolscy, Of Morenci, has pur chased tho Capital restaurant from Warner X Collins and is now in charge of the business. Mir. WoolScy come; to Clifton well recommended, not only as a caterer. but also as a first-clas: citizen and business man. He has | good location, starts off with a G0DC business, and will no doubt do well.
 On Saturday last Mexican me with a painful but not serious accident He was pushing a wheel barrow loade ( with coal and attempted to eros: Chase creek over twelve-inch board He succeeded in getting half way across when he fell of the bridge, tn, wheel barrow and coal following. II, was badly bruised about the head auC body. He was taken to the hospita for treatment.
 Clifton is few inches taller thar she was last week owing to the fac that the board of supervisors, by tn, issuance Of certificate oi election {, w. F. Beck, have officially recognized her as having a population in exces of five thousand people. This is mos gratifying, and tickles her vanity no little. She is now officially, at least as large as Morenci, and that is great satisfaction.
 Knute T.. Michaelson. the popula conductor on the Arizona tS New Mex ico road, and Miss Amelia BabSt. 0 Clifton, were married in Fl 'asC Tuesday. Miss Babst had been eas on q visit, and was met on her returl in Fl Paso by Mir. Michselson for tn, particular purpose of this wedding Liberal.
 The happy couple arrived in Clifton New Years day 10 take possession O their new home in South Clifton They were given a surprise party b. their many Clifton friends in the eye ming