Arizona republican., 1904-09-08
WIVES RETURNINe-The {

WIVES RETURNlNG-The city hall
 boys are beginning to wear their old
 time smiles Policeman Moore, Jailor
 Bloomhorst and Zanjero Troops all an
 nounce the return of their wives from
 their summer vacations.
 EPWORTH LEAGUE MEETING
 The September business and social
 meeting of the South Methodist
 Epworth League will be held Friday
 evening at the home of MT. and Mrs.
 J. D. Marian, corner 5th avenue and
 Monroe street. All members of the league are requested to be present.
 WILL WED-William c. Hedgpeth leaves this morning for Kansas City. near which place he will claim as his bride Miss Lena Smith. a charming school teacher of the Salt River valley. They will then visit the worlds fair and return by way of Texas to visit relatives of the groom.
 THE DUCK SEASCN-The duck season has begun and hunters a@- be- ing well rewarded for their trif-5 to the river and other watering places. The ducks came a little earlier this year than usual on account of the water and it is supposed that they will stay later. They are also coming in larger num- bers than usual
 SOCIAL-The young people of the First Baptist church are going to have a social at the home of Mrs. Burtis 323 N. 2d street, Thursday. Sept. Stn. lee cream and cake will be served on the lawn and a good time is anticipat- ed. All are cordially invited to attend. No regular charge will be made but a silver collection will be taken.
 CRYSTAL WEDDlNG-Aaron Gold berg leaves this morning for Iron Springs to join Mrs. Goldberg in the celebration of their crystal wedding. They were married at San Francisco fifteen years ago, MT. Goldberg being a resident of Phoenix at that time. One of Mrs. Goldberg's sisters, Mrs. E. Heyman, afterward became a resident of Phoenix Mr. and Mrs. .Heyman now reside at Tacoma.
 ACTIVITY AT THE DAM-W. P. Medley, who is connected with the sur veyor generals office, returned home yesterday from a two months trip afield. He spent most of the time in the Sierra Ancha mountains and re- turned home via the TontO reservoir basin. He says that part of the earth is alive with men and teams and the amount of work being done is nothing less than marvellous. > One cannot ap- preciate the magnitude of the enter prise or the magnitude of the opera tions in its furtherance unless he visits the ground and sees for himself.
 WRECKED WATER TANK-Tues- day morning about o'clock the peo- pie living on Harry Rays ranch near the Indian school and all their neigh bors, heard a roar like a cyclone and thought the world was coming to an end. Those who could locate the direc- ton of the noise went to the Kay ranch where they learned that his 5000 gal lon sheet iron water tank had toplei | over to the ground and been smashed into a pile of wreckage. The founda- ton sunk under one of the supporting posts, throwing the entire weight of the structure in that direction and the i post gave way. Fortunately it fell in ] an opposite direction else the wind | mill would also have been torn down. | The tank was erected but a few months | ago.
 BASEBALL FOR NEXT SUNDAY Both the Phoenix Ladies and the Phoe- | nix Juniors are going visiting next | Sunday and each baseball team ex- | poets to do a Htle stroke of business | before sundown. Tucson has never | been satisfied since the dressing down. l received sometime ago at the hands | of the Ladies. She has been camping | on the trail of Manager Walden till | yesterday when he telephoned to the railroad town that his team was in pretty good form now and he would take the boys down next Sunday for an cutting and incidentally give the Irays another exhibition of baseball 1 IS she ought to be played. The full 1 team has agreed to go and unless some body falls down between now and l