Arizona republican., 1906-11-10
OF LOCAL INTEREST

THE COUNTRY CLUB-Mrs. C. F. l AinswOrth, Mrs. Frank AinsworJh and Miss Ainsworth will serve this after noon at the Country Club Cards will be played during the afternoon from ? to o'clock.
 BALL AT EASTLAKE PARK-The 1 Industrial Liberty band will give its usual grand ball at Eastlake park ] Sunday afternoon at ? D. m.. as thu nights are a little cold. Fair visitors are cordially invited. Ladies free. BASEBALL AT. GLENDALE-The | Lamson baseball team will today go to ] Glendale and play for the supremacy of the diamond with the Glendale nine. Both teams have been practic- J ing hard for some time past. and a ! well contested game is anticipated. ! FIXING UP A FAIR EXHIBIT 1 Warren II. NJ. Drescher, secretary and I treasurer of the Arizona Mine Supply ! company aof Prescott, arrved in tho 1 city yesterday morning and will re- main here several days arranging an l exhibit at the fair grounds for his 1 company.
 NEW RINK oPENED-The Adams ] street rink, next door to The Repub- 1 lican office was opened for business last night and large crowd made merry until closing time The new
 rink has an excellent floor and the pa 1 irons were entertained by the music of an orchestra
 A SPORTSMEN'S EXCURSION- l The sportsmen of Phoenix are plan ming a big excursion for tomorrow over the NJ. &c P. road to the Gila river. The 1 train will leave the NJ. & P. depot al ! 6:3O city time and will return to town about noon. The hunting of, both quail
 and duck is said Go be very good in thc GHa river bottoms. The fare for the
 round trip will be S2.0O
 A FAIR RATE-On account of Thanksgiving day, the territorial lines of railroad have published a round trip
 rate of one and one third fare for ali
 local points in the territory where the distance travelled is less than one hun
 dred miles and a rate of one fare where the distance is greater than one
 hundred miles. The dates are Novem-
 Der 2S and %. and the final limit on l the tickets in November 30.
 THE RANGES ALL RIGHT-H C. Ward arrived here yesterday morning from his ranch near SunflOwer and will remain in the city during fair
 week. He brought to the Phoenix
 market 12O head of beef cattle. The
 range. according to Mr. Ward, could
 not be in much better shape. The feed is now well matured and the rain about two weeks ago started the un- dergrass which if favorable conditions . remain will be heavy in the spring. . LAIRD - Announcement; has been received from Los Angeles Of the engagement of Miss Alice La mar Laird to Mir. Charles S CIopton ! The wedding will be performed oo
 Christmas day. Miss Laird will be re-
 membered very well in Phoenix hay
 ing spent all of last winter here and Q part of the preceding summer. She is [ an artist of rare ability. MT. CIoptor was for several months associated witE . the Ben l.. Bear company and after , wards one of the propTietors of tho ! store. = The couple will reside in Los t Angeles, where MT. Clopton is in busi- . ness.
 COMING FROM NEW ZEALAND b Secretar Van der Neer has received al 2 letter from New Zealand. addressed tc . the board of trade, Phoenix, Salt River
 Valley. California. The writer seems ! 10 think everything west of the Rock 1 ies is California and Salt River valley
 one of the dependencies of the great
 state. In many respects it is, but mol - geographically speaking. The writer
 says he proposes to come to this coun-
 try in a short time to engage in asri-
 l cultural pursuits and having heard a
 great deal about the Salt River valley , he wants some information direct from ! first hands. It is good to know how eyer, that the Salt River valley has
 made a name for itself by its own in
 dividuality, whatever state or politica r subdivision it may be placed in. Ari-