Arizona republican., 1908-01-02
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cRlrreNroN HOME BOARD

cRITTENToN HOME BOARD There will be a monthly business meeting of the Florence Crittenton Home board tonight at 7:30 p. m. in the First NJ. F.. church and every member Is urged To be present at the meeting.
 NEW cLERK.-Albro Robinson has taken Q place as clerk al the Hotel Adams. q vacancy being created by the resignation of Mir. Posey who left for Columbus, Ohio, yesterday. Mir. Robinson is a Kentuckian, raised in Lexington. and for four years held a position in the railroad offices at Gin cinnati He came to Phoenix in Sep tember and likes it well enough to make a considerable stay.
 WON THE DIAMOND RlNG.-1n the voting contest which closed last night at the Electric theater, Miss Ethel Baldwin won the diamond ring as the most popular young lady in Phoenix Miss Anna Gleason being sec ond, and Miss Hartwell third. The contest has created considerable in- terest and no doubt been a paying feature for the theater The show was well attended last night. not only to see the pictures but as well to learn the outcome of the contest.
 BUSINESS BAROMETER READ lNG.-Nothing can be more gratifying in the way of a business indication. than the figures on December business at the Phoenix postoffice. The month is closed and work totaled. in the gen. eral receipts department, which means sales of postage stamps. envelopes etc The sales for the month just closed amounted to $5.532.S7. as against S461Sl4 for December 1906. This is an increase of $9l4.23 or about twenty per cent greater than last year. De- cember business. IL should be stated also that the business during Decem- Der 1906 was much greater than dur ing any previous month in the history of the office.
 PEcKA SATlSFIED.-B. G. Pecka says that taken altogether he does not look on 1907 as a bad year and if he does as well this year as he did last he will be perfectly satisfied. During the year just closed he moved around the titles on a large acreage of real es- tate in this county and bought and sold more houses than some people do in whole life time. While his motto is quick sales and small profits he hasn't figured to lose on any great amount of his business. All this men toned as putting MT. Pecka in pro- per frame of mind 10 properly cele- brate the arrival of a fine girl baby l-s- aA.- s.T . year. He considers this as fine fin ish for old Father Times 1907 heat and fine augury for the new year.
 A GOOSE FEAST.-C. F. Vaughn yesterday entertained a couple of his friends. L. x. Rickerson and F. B. Cook, to a royal spread. which was set at the Wellington after being pre- pared by an inimitable old colored mammy who knews more about cook ing than many ever thought about. The leading role was played by fat goose which proved a veritable won der to the appetite of an epicure such as each were who enjoyed disposing of the meat thereof. IL may have been the one which laid the golden egg. and probably by today they will all know. by their feelings. Each took out an accident policy so that the widows and orphans will be provided for in case anything happens.
 REPRESENTING RED FEATHER. R. w. Priest, business manager for John M. Gates Red Feather a great opera success. was in the city Tuesday making arrang1nents for the appear ance of the company in this city. There are 64 people in the cast and Miss Cheridah Simpson is the star of the play. She achieved notable success in King Dodo with Raymond Hitch cock. Red Feather" was written by Charles Kline who composed the Mu- sic Master and the Lion and the Mouse and the music was the work of the well known Reginald De Koven. MT. Priest says that the company has en- joyed great financial success this year, clearing up over SI0,O00 on the show.
 A NOTABLE WEDDING. - When Arizona people undertake anything they go through with it and in the best and most up to date style pos sible. This is not only true of the transplanted or adopted Arizonians. but il holds good even with the na- tives, for there is nothing too good for even an Arizona Indian if it is within his reach. Following is an account of the wedding of full blood ed Maricopa Indian at the Hollenbeck hotel in Los Angeles. on Monday, as printed in the Los Angeles Times: A novel wedding ceremony was perform ed in the oarlor of the Hollenbeck yes terday afternoon. when J. L. Roberts, full blooded Maricopa Indian from Sacaton. Arizona, was married to Juanita Chubrricut. daughter of an Indian chief living near San Diego. The young woman arrived unattended and at once asked the hotel clerk in broken English to hunt up Roberts. She naively explained that she was to