Arizona republican., 1908-10-04
ROOSEVELT
 IN DANGER
An Old Fashioned Flood Would Submerge the Town
Removal Being Rapidly PrOsecuted--SOcial Hap penings.


 berton and Thad Fraizer were married
 Sunday night in Globe. The affair was
 rather sudden as they did not expect to get married for sometime but Mir. 1 Frazier had to go to Globe to meet a drummer SO thought they might as | well kill two birds with one stone. l Miss Pemberton is very well known around this country as she has resided l here for some time. Mir. Frazier is a young business man being one of the 1 firm of Frazier Strait company, shoe merchants and cold drinks. The cOu- 1 pie have gone to housekeeping in a small cottage. They arrived in Roose- welt on the stage Monday evening and | quite late were given a charvari by a bunch of young people. They invited ! the visitors in to treat them to cigars and candy.
 Work on the dam is progressing | rapidly and the facing on the low part 1 has reached such height that good ! old fashioned flood such as they have ! experienced here several times during | the last two years would unquestion- | ably put the old town of Roosevelt under water. The low part of the dam ! is having the last course of stone laid 15 feet below the top of the high side which is as high as it will be allowed to be built before additional stone is tdded to the higher portion of the dam. The lower part of the dam is not supposed to come any closer than l5 feet below the higher part of the dam on account of having the higher part kept enough above the lower part to afford ample protection to the pow CT house that lies below the dam. The l cylinders for the gates in the dam have been placed in position as far as possible and as some of the opening in the rock above them is not large enough for the extension of the rest of the lifting machinery controlling the gates. a carpenter gang has been put to work putting in some heavy 12X13 timbers to protect same while the work of further eXcavating is done. The cement work connected with this part of the works is finish ed as far as can be allowed in con nection with the progress up to date.
 J. R. Rees took a trip to Phoenix today to attend to business in connec- tion with the Masonic lodge of which he is a devoted member.
 Miss Willie Boone who has been visiting her sister Mrs. Ed Atkinson left for Phoenix on Fridays stage.
 MT. and Mrs. George Pemberton are very busy this week tearing down their tents and moving to the new townsite.
 Ed Atkinson is on the sick list this week and is taking a lay off, MT. Greene is driving one of the Globe stages in his place.
 Lou Asbury one of the Mesa stage drivers is about laid uD with a very bad cold in his lungs.
 Mrs. S. S Thompson who was threatened with typhoid fever is i'm proving
 Mir. Bacon is very busy moving the dance hall to the new tOwnsite. He has the end out of it. As they say, the town is beginning to fade away" piece by piece is going and when the postoffice goes the rest will follow.
 MT. and Mrs Jay Locks have re- turned from California where they have been visiting friends and rela- tives for the past week. They say Los Angeles is dull and they are glad to get back to Roosevelt.
 l.. Reynolds who hsa been the cook at the government mess house. left without giving any notice. It was inn possible to get another cook in time for supper so Duncan Dean, govern ment timekeeDer came to the rescue and cooked supper. The boys never fared better. Mr. Dean however does not seem to care for the job so they had three JaDs sent in.
 Miss Minnie Brown stopped over night in Roosevelt on her way to Mesa. She has been teaching a sum mer school on the rim above Payson. As the weather is to extremely cold in winter for a-school they make it up through the summer.
 Miss Lupie Middleton and Miss Hooker of Pleasant Valley and Living ston spent Wednesday in Roosevelt, ! shopping and visiting friends
 The final orders have been issued for the moving of all government works above the high water mark. the commissary is being torn down and moved. It is expected the ice plant will go soon.
 s. $. Thompson has resigned his pO- sition with the Shattuck X Nimmo foNtASt NblilIdllN cl0 eStlAA AANA e anu ilclo gone to work for the government as carpenter under MT. Selley. MT. C. A. l Gale of Mesa is now the agent here for the Mesa Roosevelt Stage com pany.
 E. Bluet, the boollkeeper at Mesa for the Shattuck & Nimmo Stage com pany spent a couple of days in Roose- welt looking after the company's in terest
 Last Saturday night, Duncan Dean. timelleeper for the government. gave a stag party to a few of his friends in honor of his birthday. It lasted well into the night. The government cook fixed up a fine lunch and plenty of cold bottles were on hand so all expressed themselves as having a fine time.
 The ice cream parlors of O'Rourke's camp have been closed for the win ter. E. II. Noel has been running it through the summer
 l.. H Noel will leave for Globe in the morning to be gone a few days.
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