Arizona republican., 1908-09-19
The Weekly News
 OfThe Valley

duties at the board of trade rooms so came out home Wednesday to rest up.
 Jim and Tom LOyd are going in to the dairy business They drove home four cows Wednesday that they had bought at the sale Tuesday. It seems hard for a rancher in this part of the valley to keep out of the dairy busi- ness; and if one does not want life to become dull he should engage in it, for at present we are having enough ex- citement to enliven things for some time to come The cause Of the ex- citement is the fact that the Hassa- yampa Creamery feels that it cannot afford to pay more than 19 cents for butter fat for the month of August and they cannot afford to sell their butter fat at that price. We hope the difficulty will soon be adjusted.
 The Rev. MT. McCourtney and MT. Elliott of Phoenix held services in the Baptist church Friday evening. They were on their way to Buckeye to hold services over Sunday.
 Mir and Mrs. Haynes drove out to the ranch on the Agua Fria Thursday afternoon. Mir. Haynes will go to the ranch next week to stay. He will be- gin to put in grain for the winter. Mir. Haynes is arranging to open a ditch from the Appropriators' canal to his ranch. They brought back from the ranch some fine muskmelons and wa tormelons raised without irrigation; in fact the watermelons, which were very large were volunteer, growing in a barley field where the year before, melons had been planted.
 MT Roberts has subleased the Fow- Ter ranch west of the school house from MT Haynes and will take posses sion next week.
 Miss Bessie Keesler is staying with Mrs. Brownsberger.
 Ernest Mann unfortunately got piece of rust in his eye last week and has had quite a serious time of it. The rust became imbedded in the eye ball and required the aid of a physician to remove it..
 Joe Daniels and family returned Monday from Alhambra where they have been visiting for the past six weeks. He will stay on the Pratt Gilbert place until the 25th of this month and will then go to the Fowler section in the west end of the valley. Since he came home he has had his alfalfa seed threshed preparatory to moving.
 MT. Cross who put in the gas plant at the Pan American Ostrich farm last winter is again in the valley. He went down to the ostrich farm Tuesday with Mr. Horning in his automobile.
 MT. Moore, the carrier on Route 4, was unavoidably detained Wednesday morning. Just as he reached the Prate- Gilbert ranch his motorcycle refused to go causing a delay of a couple of hours in the delivery of the mail.
 Mrs. Kelly and daughter Lucille drove to Phoenix early Monday morn ing Miss Lucille will stay in town and attend high school this winter.
 Dan McDermott and family were tlie guests of MT. and Mrs. George Kay Sunday.
 Frank Bell who has stayed with Frank Bryant all summer is now stay ing with Riley Cosner on the John Maddox ranch. He helps Mir. Cosner milk and attends school.
 MT. and Mrs. Ernest Mann have a fine son who came last week.
 Among those who attended the Bon ner sale Monday were MT and Mrs. Graham. MT. and Mrs. McIlmoil and Mir Newton.
 George Kay and family visited in Phoenix Tuesday.
 Bruce Brooks went to town Tues day and brought out a new light wa gon.
 Ray Bell now rides to school on new wheel which he purchased Sat day.
 The Salvation Army girls were so- liciting in our neighborhood Tuesday for Harvest Home week. If one wishes to do charity work he can not do bet ter than place his donation in the hands of these earnest Christian work CTS for distribution.
 Gladys Kohl returned Monday from Prescott where she has been visiting. She reports a very pleasant visit.
 George Kay brought out another band of cattle Saturday that he had bought in Prescott He has now about 200 head on his ranch.
 Miss Elizabeth Faulkner went to Phoenix Sunday afternoon where she will again attend high school this year For the present she is staying at the Fitzgerald
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