Weekly Arizona journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1903-1908, 1903-12-30
THE LOCAL NEWS.
$ ......QTY And COUNTY
From Saturdays Daily.


valley.
Number 40 won the pillow at the
rattle of Mrs. Pierce. The lucky
holder was Miss Vera Love.
Chief Engineer Drake, of the s. f.
p. & P. remembered all the employees
of his office with nice Christmas
present.
Coop. Harrington came in from the
Bradshaws yesterday afternoon and
will leave tomorrow for business
trip to Illinois.
Miss Saunders has resigned her posi-
ton in the Sunset Telephone CON-
pany to accept a position with the
Prescott Electric company.
Billie Gregg, private secretary in
the Office of F. NJ. Murphy, spent
Christmas with his parents in Phenix,
returning to Prescott this morning.
The receipts of the Prescott post
Office increased thirty one per cent
during the present year. The post
Office is good index to the business
situation.
Miss Helen Adams, who is attending
the territorial normal school at Flag
staff, came home day or two ago to
spend the holidays with her parents
and friends.
The Prescott Athletic club will hold
q smoker for its members on Satur-
eiay ere, January ., 1904. Those pre-
senting membership tickets will be
admitted at the door.
Mrs. C.H. B. Carter went to PheniS
to spend Christmas with her husband
who is in the employ of the Pheni2
& Eastern railroad in the construction
department.
President F. NJ. Murphy, of the S.
F. P. & P. railroad, sent instructions
here from the east to have .every EN-.
pIoy of the road presented with fine
Christmas turkey.
The BIB. company presented each
one of its thirty or more employees
with substantial Christmas present
in the shape of a check for ten pei
cent of their months wages.
B. B. Dolly left this morning fol
the Baumann Copper company neal
Dewey, to assist in putting up some
camp buildings. He will be engaged
there for several weeks.
Joseph Farrell, a good natured sec.
tion foreman on the P. & E., spent
Christmas in Prescott with his
friends. He declared he never had SC
much fun in his life for the price be
paid.
The wife of Prof. Jack McMahor
presented him with a 40 pound
daughter Thursday morning, Dec. "a.
Mother and daughter are doing nice,
ly, but the professor can't eat hi:
meals for smiling.
James Pillod, one of the best hoist
men in the county, who has been hold.
ing position for several months at
the Iron King mine, as hoist man, i:
spending the holidays in Prescott Oh
leave of absence.
The remains of the late Frank Willis
were taken to McCabe today where
they were buried by the Miners union.
Funeral services we're conducted in
Miners union hall at that place this
afternoon.
Mrs. S. G. Wilson, of this city, re-
ceived a telephone message yesterday
from Congress, Arizona, that her sis
ter, Mrs. a W. Mckay, presented her
husband with fine eight pound son
on Christmas eve.
A telegram was received this morn
ing from Mrs. VIM. Nelson, at Hous-
ton, Texas, where she was called to
the bedside of her son, who was re-
ported to be critically ill. She sends
word that he is better.
Mrs. A. B. Clark and her daughter
Miss Alberta Clark, of Sioux Falls,
South Dakota, arrived in Prescott on
Wednesday evening to spend Christ
mas with the formers brother, S. W.
Higley, and family. They Will re-
main here for several days.
The Beaver Creek water suit was
brought to an end today at twelve
O'Clock. Judge Sloan announced that
be would apportion the water to the
three principal users as follows: Mr..
Back 100 miners inches, Mr.. Schroeder
Rev. S. A. Thompson, superintend-
ent of missions of the NJ. E. church
in Arizona, arrived in Prescott on
Wednesday and will conduct the SER
vices at the Methodist church on Sun
day morning when the sacrament of
the Lords supper will be admins
tered.
DR.. l. c. Gonzales, son of Mrs. j.
M. Watts, came up from the south
on Wednesdays train to spend Christ
mas with his mother and greet his old
Prescott friends again. DR.. Gonzales
is at present located in Bisbee. and
he says the town is very fiourishing
and prosperous.
The Baptist Sunday Eschool gave
their Christmas exercises at the Bap-
fist church on Wednesday evening, the
church being filed. The exercises
were appropriate to the occasion and
very interesting the church being fill
ed with the members of the Sunday
school and their friends.
The Congregational church Sunday
school departed little from the usual
Christmas eve exercises and Christ
mas tree this year and instead of that
there will be Christmas party given
at the Masonic hall next Wednesday
evening at I: 30 O'Clock, which will be
for the benefit of the church and Sun
day school.
Lewis ]. Alters, an old time resi-
dent of Prescott, died on Christmas