Arizona republican., 1906-10-20
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FOLKLORE socIETY-TbA Ar,-
 zona Folklore Society win hold .
 meeting here some time during fair
 week The date and place of meeting
 mas not been definitely decided uDoo
 and will be announced later.
 NOt GOlNG-The report that the ] football team of the Phoenix bigb | school was going to Prescott to plav
 game with the Prescott team on sunday was erroneous. No such plau
 has been contemplated by the team
 ENTITLED TO REcocNITIoN- | Frank Alkire is entitled to the hoot.- prize as quail hunter. Yesterday the
 Alkire brothers drove across the river on business, Frank taking along his shotgun in the hope of getting a few quail He found plenty of quail and whanged away at them regardless. but the only one he captured was a bird with a broken wing. which. alarmed at the noise of his gun. tried to fly 1 and falling into an irrigation ditch
 was drowned. It is believed that the game laws ought to be made more , exacting for with ruthless slaughter of quail by such men as Mir. Alkire , quail will soon become extinct
 PREHISTORIC URN-While ex- i caVating a cesspool on the property of . Col. J. H McClintock, corner of Fifth and Washington streets on Thursday. Worhmen dug up a burial urn in which were a number of bones. It was broken to pieces and the contents scattered before the nature of the find was noted. The urn undoubtedly con tained the bones of some resident of this valley belonging to a prehistoric civilization. There is nothing partic- ularly unusual about the find. as many similar ones have been made hereabout but the townsite has been so thoroughly dug up at one time and another that almost everything of the sort has been removed. and the relics of the real old timers are about gone.
 BASKET SOcIAL-There will be a basket social at the Creighton school house next Monday night for the pur- pose of raising money to dig a well. The social will be given by the resi- dents of district No. 13 and all ladies living in the district are requested to come with well-filled baskets. The wives of the democratic candidates who are expected to be present, are specially invited to come also and bring baskets. The proceeds of the basket social given last Tuesday night on the occasion of the visit of the re- publican candidates. were not for the digging of a we'll on the school grounds, as erroneously- reported. but were for the benefit of the Sunday school in that district.
 METEoRS TO BURN-This is be- coming a famous country for meteors Thomas Armstrong Jr., reports that ha and Mrs. Armstrong on Thursday evening about o'clock or about the same hour that the big meteor was seen a week ago, saw another large one. though it did not appear to be quite so large as the first mentioned This latest one travelled from west to east, and seemed to be just over the first range of mountains to the north considerably further away than the first one. Later during the same night an employe of The Republican saw a meteor of creditable. though not unusual brilliance and a similar one is reported as having passed over the country on Sunday nssHt. Last night a lady living in the eastern part of town telephoned The Republican of flee that she had discovered a blood red star in the southwestern sky that was really worth looking at and favor able mention in the paper. 4 little in vestigatiOn however, disclosed. the fact that she had discovered the red light over the city hall that is displayed