Arizona republican., 1907-07-25
OF LOCAL
INTEREST

GONE TO COAST-Thomas Arm
strong and wife left last night for a
visit i'm San Diego.
RETURNS FROM eISBEE. &C. NJ.
Baum returned yesterday from a
months visit in Bisbee.
cRITTENToN HOME eoARD.-A
called meeting of the Florence Crit
tenton Home board will be held tonight
in the parlors of the NJ. f. Church and
every member is urged to be present
A TRIP TO EURoPE.-Park Ben
jamin left last night for New York City
where his father resides If the health
of the latter is sufficiently improved
father and son will sail for Europe to
spend the remainder of the summer
TO MAKE PICTURES ON. - The
surveyor general has secured a new
table for the drafting room in connec-
tion with his office that the map max
ers think is about the proper thing.
II is heavy enough for a meat block
and about as pretty as a wooden In
dian. but ii is a mighty nice piece of
furniture in its own quiet and modest
way.
Y. M. c. A. LECTuRE-The Indian
school band will be home by next
Sunday and a free concert will be
given on the lawn at the school at
7:15 p. m. Sunday evening. At Sis
Eugene Brady O'Neill will deliver a
lecture under the auspices of the Y. NJ
G. A, on Man a threefold being"
The lecture will be in the open air.
and will be free. The school grounds
are pleasing retreat on summer
evening and all are invited TO attend
MUNITIONS oF>WAR. : Five car
loads of tents. hay. horses. provisions.
etc. left last night for Camp Brodie
accompanied By a detachment of four
teen men. The munitions are for the
supplying of the First regiment n. G.
4. encampment early next month. and
the men accompanying will have
charge of the supplies and attend to
the preliminaries of making camp. The
men are mainly from companies c and
ID of Tempe and Mesa City.
A COMING WEDDlNG.-Invitat
have been received by Phoenix friends
10 the wedding of Miss Marian Artil-
issa Porter and Francis Morris Grace
which will be celebrated in Los An
geles on the evening Of August Z at
2057 Hobart Boulevard. The bride is
the daughter and only child of Mrs.
Lulu c.. Porter. and was born i'm Phoe-
nix, WHICH is the family home. though
she has spent much of her life else
where during her school days. The
prospective groom is said to be a
wealthy mine owner
T. Smith returned a few days ago
from a business trip in the east. He
visited several cities. among them
Philadelphia, but left there just a
few days before the Elks arrived for
the grand lodge session. Preparations
for their reception were being made
on a very expensive scale. the grand
lodge. the local lodges and the city OF
| Philadelphia, spending an aggregate of
100000 for the entertainment of the
visitors and the painting of the town
| in festal colors. one feature he no.
| ticed wah that at intervals all over
| the city newspapers desiring to enter
| Ohe animaD each OF which had been
erected purely for ornamentation and
each of which was at night Illuminated
all over with electric lights. One OF
i, thecity newspapers desiring to enter
| fully into the spirit Of the occasion
sent a special representative to an elk
preserve and got the largest animal he
could find and brought him TO the city
He was placed on exhibition and a
placard announced that he had come
down to Philadelphia to meet the
| brethren from. all over the country. 4
! prize of $500 was also offered by some
| body to the largest Elk who visited
the city during the session. and an
other placard on the four-footed Wis
itor, said he rather thought he would
| get the prize. as he weighed 1906
pounds. and he didn't think Bill Taf
| was a member OF the order