Arizona republican., 1908-11-19
OF LOCAL INTEREST

MISS MILLER BETTER-Miss Elm ma Miller of Tempe. who was taken sick in Phoenix last Saturday, was little better yesterday and is stay ing at the home of w. P. Dowell on Van Buren street.
 GOING TO CASTLE HOT SPRINGS-Dr. Grant Monical and wife leave tomorrow morning to spend a month at Castle Hot Springs. The | doctor will take a much needed rest at this popular resort.
 THE LADIES' AlD-The Ladies' Aid Society of the First Baptist church will hold its regular meeting in the church parlors Friday after noon at 2:3O o'clock. A full attend ance of the members is requested as business of importance is to be trans acted.
 CHILD STUDY cIRCLE-The Child Study Circle of the University school will meet this afternoon at 3 o'clock ! in the Five Points school room The program is iii the hands of Mrs. Dos ter and Miss Stauffer and promises to be unusually interesting. All moth CTS and others interested in the study are cordially invited to attend.
 A JUSTICES OFFlcE-Captain P. P Parker, justice of the peace-elect. is having offices fixed up at No. IT South First avenue, adjoining the of fices of Justice Johnstone. so that lit igants can take their choice. Thus the seats of justice are to be re- moved finally from Wall street, which enjoyed a monopoly on them for many years.
 A REVISION PRAYED FORA bill was filed in the district court yester- day on behalf of Jack Gibson the prin- cipal defendant in the suit of Lucy Ellen Gibson against the defendant Gus Hrschfeld, Lee Perkins and James Gibson a divorce and an injunc- ton suit combined. The divorce de- cree awarded the custody of a minor child, Floyd NJ Gibson, alternately for six months in the year to the plaintiff and the principal defendant. The lat ter now asks for a revision of that de- cree giving him the sole custody of the child. The complaint states that since the granting of the decree the child has been in the custody of the defendant only one year altogether
 that the mother took him to California out of the jurisdiction of the court and that he was kept there until last Sep tember when the defendant brought him to Arizona. The defendant alleges that he is amply able to provide for the child and to educate him while the plaintiff is not The original decree was granted on December "A, 1900.
 RACkENSAcK RETURNING-Last summer E. G. Cave, better known throughout this country for the last thirty years as Rackensack, left for Missouri. where he expected to enter the Confederate Home. He intended first to visit a sister at Moberly. For 6 great many years he had been a charge on this county and it was with a sense of financial relief that his departure was noted, though Rack ensack personally was held in high es- teem. He was well along in years and it was not supposed that he would be an inmate of the Home very long It was therefore with some surprise that a telegram was received at the office of the board of supervisors from the mayor of Fort Worth, Tex, saying that F.. G. Cave was there, stranded. and that the city would pay half of his fare to Phoenix if the board would pay the other half. That is impossible It is stretching the law a little to pay any part of the fare of an indigent out of the country and it would be plain violation of it to pay any part of their fare into