Arizona republican., 1903-03-18
MESA
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 Osborne Richins came down from Tonto, Saturday. and spent Sunday visiting with relatives and his many friends.
 The Ladies Aid of the Baptist church will meet at the residence of Mrs. William Pearce on Thursday af- ternoon.
 Hon. Elliott T. Slocum of Detroit Mich, is visiting his nephew at the residence of H. D. Evans. The nephew is taking Q, course of study at Fl Rancho Bonito.
 Wellington Richins returned Satur- day from a trip to New Mexico where he uIchased a lot of work animals
 for the geologic survey party, and yes terday left for the camp at Stewards S ranch.
 H. M. Lewis has entered the ranks of Uncle Sam's employees, and tomor- row will go to the geological survey
 camp at Jack Stewards ranch and from there will have charge of the work of leveling and triangula ting be- tween that point and the Tonto dam site. MT. Lewis is an expert engineer and will do good work for the survey.
 The presentation oi "A Fisherman's s Luck by the Home Dramatic company at the opera house Friday and Satur- day nights, was a revelation to strang- CTS unacquainted with the ability Of our local players. In the first place. the play is Ore of the best ever writ ten, full of bright dialogue, rapid ac- tion and choice bits of pathos that
 made the ladies sob audibly and many of the gentlemen furtively use their handEerchtefs. In the second place a most happy cast had heen made, and the players had studied hard and to some purpose. Such errors as occurred were unimportant and did not destroy the generally pleasing effect of the per- formance. Lucille Peterson, the four year-old daughter of Mir. and Mrs. H. $. Peterson, was easily the iavorite, her natural acting. freedom from self consciousness and distinct enunciation won all hearts. In her deathbed scene she had fully half the audience in tears.i Miss Winnie Richins had the
 heroih s/ role, and sustained the char
 aoter of Rose Prescott in her usual able manner. She is a clever little lady i In any character for which she, is cast. | Miss Vera Burton makes handsome appearance on the stage and won addi- | tional laurelS in the light comedy part
 of the sailors sister, Ruth Manley.
 Mrs. Eli Openshaw as Mrs. Manley.
 the widow, would have been hard to improve upon. She was as natural throughout as though she had passed
 years Of her life behind the scenes.
 Eli Openshaw. as the Squire. was very good. c. M. Brimhall, as Uncle Davy. made decided hit. In makeup voice
 and action he had a proper conception of the character. D. s. Lewis made his second appearance on the stage and in the character of James Hammond was typical william. In some O; the scenes his work could not have been improved upon. George M Fryer car rled off the comedy part of Si Kidder in his usual happy manner. In fact. he seemed especially fitted to the charac- ter. and his laughter provoking acting was the cleverest piece of work we
 have seen MT. Fryer do. James Miller
 had the leading role that of Tom
 Manley. and atquitted himself with
 great Grcdit-in fact in two scenes his acting vas something really fine and won Well-merited applause. The Mesa band furnished some excellent music. and between acts Mrs. NJ. c. Phelps en- tert2ined the audience with vocal and
 instrumental music. As a whole, the |, entertainments of Friday and Saturday nights are soma thing of which Mesa can truly be proud.
 The slXty-first anniversary reunion or the organization of the Relief so-
 clety was celebrated yesterday in the
 Mesa Opera house. The stage and hall were handsomely decorated with palms ana evergreen and bunting and appro-
 prlate mottos. A la1ge "Welcome''
 graced the front ot the stage. The la
 oles never do, anything by halves, and eVetJpody Was made welcome and to | Ieel at nome who entered the building. me programme was splendid and well
 rendered, embracing speeches. society
 history and other literary end musical l features. The Mesa brass band was
 out Tn full reg2lia and was driven in q decorated band wagon over the city. dlsperslnS sweet music. The enthusi- asm ot the boys was accounted for
 when the dinner bell rang. for the ta- 1 bles in the Relief hall fairly s-roaned
 under its load of tempting viands. It ! is estimated that about 25O people as
 sisted in leasing the tables groans.' ''
 A programme was continued in the af ''--A ct iiiSi4t grand Oall was 1 indulsed in and many people, strangers
 to the society. will long remember this
 siXty-first anniversary
 President C. R. flakes was a business
 visitor to Phoenix yesterday.
 H. Simkins of Lehi was a business
 visitor to Phoenix yesterday. He saws
 he has had good success in getting
 signers for water storage-in fact has
 caught everybody that he has present.
 ed the matter to. NIT. Simkins is a good
 single handed talker and is enthusias-