Arizona republican., 1906-10-21

6SO D. m Subject: "Faithfulness' Mrs Jennie Johnston leader. Evening worship and sermon at 7:3O. Sub ject: How to Study the Word" Miss Venezuela will assist in special music This congregation stands for the re- storation of the primitive church in the name of faith ordinance and life. A most cordial invitation is extended i to all. Strangers in the city will find | hearty welcome
 DEATH OF YOUNG WoMAN-AIiss i Nellie T. Jones. daughter Of D. P. Jones, died this morning about 1 o'clock ! at the family residence. 515 North | Third street. The funeral will be held | Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the ! parIors of Easterling & Whitney and | interment will be made in Greenwood i cemetery. Rev. MT. Maclean will of i ficiate The family came here about | a year ago.
 MUSIC IN scHooLs-Miss Grace ] Helen Biting of Sperry. Iowa. arrived here about a week ago to take charge ] of the instruction of music in all ] the city schools and has devoted the ] last week to organization of her work She is highly recommended as an in | structor of ability and her first weeks ] NOIh l4luICdAtS LGldl SEe VIII De most ] successful. She has made a good inn 1 pression on the pupils and teachers. and both are delighted with her first weeks work.
 l A LONG ROCK HAUL-The work ! of stopping the Mexican intake at the 1 SaltOn Sea has presented to the engi- neers in charge a new difficulty to solve. The rock in the quarries at Pilot Knob which has heretofore been ' used breaks into small fragments while large masses are needed in part of the work. Arrangements have been made to bring the rock from Declez, near Cotton. and from, Patagonia. near i Nogales. Spur tracks are also being i laid to the mountains near Ogilby ! and near Tacna. Twenty-Five carloads are to arrive daily from Declez and at the same rate from Patagonia. Many of the blocks that have been ! received from these places within the last two days weigh two and three tons.
 SIGNS OF WlNTER-The down i town streets of Phoenix yesterday all i day and last evening showed beyond q doubt that the winter season had set in and that a large number of vis- ! itors and strangers are here. The big l stores report one of the best days
 
 1 spring. That winter visitors are ar irving in large numbers every day is i attested by the trainmen of both tha north and south roads who say travel ! has been very unusual for this period i of the year. The winter rush is also ! notable at the hotels which report an unusual number of guests. The post office receipts are also indicative of the fact that the population of the city is heavy for this month. If the re- ceipts of the postoffice continue for i the balance of the month what they have so far in October it will show an increase of 40 per cent over October a year ago.
 DOMESTIC scIENcE-Miss Lillias B. Francis of New York. who has been placed in charge of the domestic science instruction in the grammar schools. has spent the past week in perfecting arrangements for the open ing of that department of the school work The pharaphernalia is not quite ready yet but it is believed it
 will be by Wednesday. It is proposed for the present to teach cooking and
 sewing and dressmaking to the sev- enth and eighth grade pupils and sew | ing only to the lower grade pupils ! Later on it is expected that the sew
 
 ! lower grades and only cooking will be 1 given to the seventh and eighth. their instruction in the other line having been completed in the lower grades. Miss Francis is a graduate of Pratt | Institute in New York and 1t is be- lieved will prove a most competent di- rector.
 FUNERAL OF MRS. 6IEeRIsT- | With the demise of Mrs NJ A. Sic grist, mention of which was made in | these columns. the community loses a 1 good woman. Always ready to lend 1 sympathy and aid in a practical way | Through her influence many a one has ! been led to see the better way" Her 1 gospel belief was the uplifting of hu- manity to an ideal level. Her church loses consistent member the husband a devoted wife. and friends a friend of the true type. Mrs. Siegrist was born | in August. 1850 in Chatham England i lived many years in London England and practiced the profession of grad 1 uated nurse in various hospitals in | England. Canada and the United 1 States. In this line of work she ac- | quired the talent of reading human | nature. There were few individuals | whose past lives were not an open | book to her. In her noble profession she came in contact with every ele- ment of humanity. The funeral will take place from the residence, sos 2. | Third avenue, this afternoon at 8 o'clock.