The copper era., 1905-09-14
MINOR MENTION

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 The local tribe of Red Men gave
 a corn and melon feast last night.
 There will be initiatory work a
 the regular meeting of the Odd Eel
 lows lodge next Monday night.
 The new wagon road from the bet
 of the river to the Polaris mines ha'
 been completed. A good force o1
 miners will be put to work at once
 on development work.
 MT. and Mrs. Minor Simms enter
 tained few of their friends at their residence on Riverside last Tuesday evening. Music, singing and refresh
 ments were part of the pleasures of the evening.
 A fine bouncing boy arrived at the home of MT. and Mrs. J. A. MacLeay last Sunday. Mother and son are doing we'll and it is easy to guess who the happiest man in town is. John has been busy dishing out cigars to his friends.
 Fred Herzke, who has been in the store department of the A. c. com pany a number of year, has resigned his position and moved to Metcalf. Fred is a good man in his line. He will be connected with the Shannon Copper company in the future.
 M Elias Meviran coDSuI local at Tucson, and who formerly resided in this county, spent few days of the past week in the Clifton and Morenci district meeting his old friends and incidentally attending to business. Arturo is always a well many friends in Graham county are glad to see him getting along so we'll.
 J.. c. Gatti, one of the proprietors of the Real Market, left last Satur- day for Bear Valley, Grant county, near Silver City, where he closed a deal with Bill Bates and Jack Elem ing by which Gatti & Hill become the owners of 600 head of cattle. It nis said that Bates and Fleming have one of the incest herds in the countsy.
 O. McWilliams, who recently ar rived from Fl Paso to accept position with the A. c. company, left Sunday morning for Fl Paso, where he has accepted a position in the E. P. & s. w. general office as car accountant. MT. McWilliams was connected with the Southern Pacific company several years in the same line. He is the oldest son of MT. and Mrs. J. A. McWilliams of this place.
 Evening Star Rebekah Lodge of Clifton will celebrate the fifty-fourth anniversary of the order next Tues day evening at the lodge rooms. An appropriate program has been ar ranged and all sisters and Odd Eel lows and their wives are requested to attend. Evening Star lodge is one of the most active organiza ations in an entertainment is an assurance a jolly good time.
 Chris. Fritz, who is now located up the river on the Blue, came to town this week to lay in supplies. He could not get his wagon into town on account of an obstruction in the road this side of Potter's orchard, there fore he hoofed it into town. Chris. ,-,n06 fha ID t., reports cattle in fine condition and everything moving along nicely with him, especially big boil which he was carrying on his neck.
 The new steel wagon bridge across the Frisco is being put up at lively rate and will be finished in the course of week or ten days. The iron is all in place and riveting is in progress. When completed it will be the best bridge in the county with a spann of 220 feet, high enough to es- cape any flood that might occur. | The approaches are being put in and the floor work is to be commenced 1 immediately. It is just wide enough l for two ordinary wagons to pass with | out much room for hesitation.
 The cylinder head of the Corliss l engine which drives the blowers of | the A. c. shelter, blew out last Sat urday morning, putting the shelter on the bum temporarily. The broken parts will have to be replaced with new pieces from the factory which will require some time. In the mean time the blowers are being run by several smaller engines and tie | smelting plant is kept running, though not as fast as usual. Inside | of three weeks everything will be in good running order.
 Hon. Lamar Cobb, member oG the | territorial legislature from this coun- ty, left Wednesday for Tucson and Phoenix, where he will spend several | days on business, after which he will | journey to his old home in Athens, l Georgia. Lamar has resided in Cliff | ton nu mber of years, and this is his | first trip to the old hunting grounds. l It is useless to say that he we It pte pared to have a good time. Lamar is an expert civil engineer, and it is | likely that he will guide a companion l