Arizona republican., 1908-03-13
OF LOCAL INTEREST

SOcIALISM.-I.en Morrow Lewis of San Francisco. member national and state lecturer for the socialist party of California. will speak at the City Hall plaza Friday night at 8 o'clock The subject will be 'The Cause and Cure oe Panics."
 HERE ON VlSlT.-James M. B. IT, vine of Los Angeles is in the city for few days visiting with his parents From here he will go to Mexico for business trip. returning to Los An geles by the time of the arrival of the fleet.
 MINISTER ARRlVED.-Rev. J. A. Geissinger and wife and Miss Lizzie and May Jones of Fl Paso have ar rived in the city Rev Geissinger has located here as pastor of the First Methodist church.
 A DEMOCRATIC DISTURBANCE. Secretary Lyman of the county dem ocratic club has issued a call for a meeting tonight at O'Neill hall. The object of the meeting is to lay wires for the coming campaign and incident ally to formally launch locally the boom of Eugene Brady o'Neill. MT. I,ylnan will probably be retained as secretary of the club. J. D. Loper of Mesa may be made the chairman.
 PRACTICE FOR SUNoAY.-The Fraternal Brotherhood team held a practice game yesterday afternoon at the Polk street grounds. in anticipation of the struggle with the Mexican Ma rooms Sunday at Eastlake park The team has acquired one or two new men and is working industriously to get into good form. The Maroons are having evening practice and promise q better exhibition than given in the game with the Woodchoppers.
 MISSIONARY MEETiNG-The la dies of the Baptist church hold the annual meeting of their Woman's Home and Foreign Missionary society in their church parlors this afternoon. They open at 2:30 with devotional eX- ercises. which will be followed by the
 election of officers and miscellaneous
 business. At o'clock they will open a most interesting program and ad-
 iourn at 1 o'clock for a social hour,
 during which refreshments will be
 served and birthday or thank offer
 ings received At 4.45 will occur the annual opening of mite boxes. Ii is hoped that everz- lad,- of the church
 and congregation will be present. and all visitors wil be most cordially well comed.
 A REAL ESTATE DEAL.-An- nouncemenI is made of the recent sale hv J. M. Sears of his forty acre ranch north of the city in the Osborn dis trict to H. E. Thomas for S325 an acre. That may seem like a fancy price but a good deal of land in that neighbor- hood has been sold for as much or more. w F.. Thomas. clerk of the | board of supervisors in the same To- cality. has been selling small tracts for as much as S350 an acre. It is eX- plained that that is not an unusual price and that all the land as near | Phoenix in, every direction is really worth that amount. So. as many
 might suppose. that price was not | fixed by MT. Sears on account of the
 well known educational. religious and social advantages Of the osborn neigh ! borhood. N
 !, POLICE sUSINESS.-John Doe. a | lone-legged man. who was found sleeping drunk, was jailed by the po- | lice yesterday afternoon. Vim. Brady
 vag. was given ten days. q. Smith | F. Mendez. Daigo April and T. s. Cas- | tanado. common drunks. with no trim | mings. were sent below for five days ! Juan Orneas and Pedro Norkgo. sneal thieves. were arrested while loiterinl \ around the Vermont house They were | evidently looking for an easy picking but no crime could be lodged agains
 them except vagrancy, for which thel
 got a five day sentence. On beint II searched d bunch of skeleton key'
 was found 4 horse and buggy wa' |l taken up by the police and cared fol
 in the city corral waiting claimant.
 FALSE BUT TRUE.-The H. H. Me |, Neil company has show window
 that is attracting considerable atten ton and it's unique dressing is due t' | the genius of an Irishman in the com | panys employ. IL purports to be bi of the Emerald Isle in all its realism and for a fake it is about as near tn
 real thing as anything gan be. Ther , is shown a "bit of the old sod whicl of course grew in Phoenix; the 'harl | that once through Taras halls. | though of course it was differen | harp: the "Blarney stone" whicl | some Toltec used to kiss; shamrock of all kinds probably manufactured J Germany. picture cards of Pat am Colleen dancing on the green; Mick lighting their pipes and exchangini
 greetings: Irish flags galore; ''feS friends tried and true as represente by pile of burned bricks; a bottle O good Irish booze done up in green pa per and whole lot of things that gtv so much local color the observer Ina
 an impluse to go straightway and ap
 ply for a job on the police force. An it is all because of the near approac of St Patr.clI's day in the morning. --O---
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