Arizona republican., 1908-09-24
OF LOCAL INTEREST

BACK FROM THE CoAsT-Mrs. J. NJ. Jamison and Mrs. Harvey J. i Lee returned yesterday from their
 summer vacations in Los Angeles.
 RETURNED FROM CANADA-Mrs.
 J. A. Parks and baby have returned | from a visit to Alberta, Canada, where | they spent the summer.
 A FORMER PHOENICIAN.-Gus | Ellis, who many years ago was en- 1 gagged in the dry goods business in this city, was visiting friends here yester- cay. combining that pleasing Occupa
 tion with business matters.
 RoSH HASHONA-Rosh Hashona or Jewish New Year begins Friday evening at sundown. There will be services in Melczer hall Friday even | ing at 7:3O and on Saturday morn ing at S:3O o'clock.
 BIBLE STUDY-A Teachers train ing class was organized last evening
 at the Christian church, with a mem bership of nineteen. Any one desiring to study and learn more of the Bible, is cordially invited to join. Class meeting each Wednesday evening be- ginning at eight o'clock
 ROCKY FORD ARRlVALS.-A. R Mccoy and family of Rocky Ford, Col. arrived in the city a few days ago, and
 have been thus far very favorably i'm
 pressed with the valley and decided toI
 remain. They will later purchase a
 home. The summer climate at Rocky
 Ford is somewhat similar to that being
 enjoyed in Phoenix at Present
 FORESTERS WILL ENTERTAIN.-l The Independent Order of Foresters will intertain their members and
 friends at Melczer hall. Thursday even
 irg. Sept 24, after initiating a large class of candidates, there will be music dancing. cards and refreshments, spec ial invitation to the ladies whether members or not. Territorial Deputy J. A. McCahill will be the principal speaker of the evening.
 FIRST TO ARRIVE-The Republi- 1 can has been advised by telegraph l from Albuquerque that the Salt River Valley exhibit at the New Mexico fair | was the first to arrive in Albu- 1 querque and was UnlOaded on Tues | day. Six hundred feet was allotted 1 to the exhibit and the choice of space | was given Mir Cowgirl who is in | charge of it. The same advices say | the fair buildings are completed and | the city is beautifully decorated.
 BUSINESS INCREASING. - The | Postoffice News store since its recent | opening has enjoyed a wonderful in | crease of business, so much in fact | that already it has become necessary | to enlarge the storeroom. The parti- tion that separated the ladies rest Fa hae removed. giving that much more space II to the latter. The former will by no means be abandoned for it is one of the chief features of the business, but new and similar facilities will be add ed still further in the rear.
 PROMOTIONS-The authorities of the United States land office took of the absence of Land Craftsman Jack Adams to promote him to the position of chief land draftsman. That forced a promotion on J. NJ. Barney to fill the position vacated by MT. Adams and he ac- cepted his fate without protest. Clay \ Parker and O. c. Thompson have II been appointed temporary draftsmen | in the mineral department. to help II along the work on mineral surveys which is always pressing at the end of the year.
 JUAN CASTILLO DEAD-Juan Castillo, a Mexican about v years old, died Tuesday at the county hos pitaI of general debility attending old age. He was buried last evening at 5 o'clock. Juan Castillo was an old Arizona pioneer and was well known in Prescott. Phoenix and Nogales. At one time he owned considerable prop srty in Prescott but lost a large part {, of it through litigation and in other ways until he had to depend upon his friends in his later years. Be coming unable to care for himself t was necessary to send him to the ' county farm. It is understood his only known surviving relative is a son who lives in Oakland.
 WATER Ex-Governor Eibbey yesterday announced the fol- owing as a revised list of the delegates appointed to attend the Sixteenth ses- sion of the Irrigation congress. It is believed that every delegate named will Y go unless something now unforeseen oc- ,urs. Following is the list: J. w An lJ