Arizona republican., 1909-04-03

| in about twenty minutes, one of the 1 finest was dead from bloat. Later an other died from the same cause, mak- | ing five that he has lost since buying
 the bunch.
 Sam Rogers of Cartwright was in our neighborhood Wednesday after noon on business.
 Mr. Smith has begun early to try the virtue of the Salt River canal as a swimming place. His diving board however is rather unusual, being a bicycle. He began Wednesday even ing. While riding his wheel along the canal the call of the water was too strong and he plunged in wheel and all.
 Mrs. l.. c. Haynes moved the last load of her belongings to the ranch on the Agua Fria Thursday morning. and Jerry Irving took possession of the house and store vacated. MT. IT, wing is putting in a full stock of goods in the store and expects to sell at Phoenix prices. This is a good place for store and we see no reason why Mir. Irving wil not succeed A good store will be a great convenience and the people should do all they can to help it be a success.
 Mrs. NJ. J. Miller and Mrs. Joe Cole man visited Mrs. NJ B. Brooks Thurs day
 Those from this place who attended Mrs. Morlin's funeral Friday afternoon of last week were MT and Mrs Hil- bers. Mir. and Mrs Hansen. Mir and Mrs. Kay. and Mrs. Brooks.
 Mir and Mrs. Harry Palmer have a little baby girl in their home who came Wednesday.
 Mrs. Charles Olmstead is entertain ing this week at her home. Mrs Brown of Los Angeles.
 Mrs. Nelson and Miss Nellie Nor lin visited Mrs. C. Bright Monday.
 M. B. Brooks and family and J. A. Higgins and family attended the League sociable at J. A. Vinson's last Friday evening.
 Mrs. J. A. Vinson was in our neigh borhood Friday morning visiting those who attend church at Cartwright ar ranging for the entertainment of the visitors at the district conference which will be held at Cartwright this month
 Mir. and Mrs Ritchie of Glendale were visitors here Wednesday anu Thursday with a view to investing in real estate. They called Thursday/on Mir. and Mrs. J. A. Higgins
 Mir. Holly who has been i'll is re- ported somewhat better
 Fred Peterson is again in the neigh borhood. He is working for Frank Bryant
 Mrs. Emhuff from Charleston. VI. is a guest of her niece, Mrs. J. A Higgins. Mrs. Emhuff arrived over the Santa Fe Monday morning and will spend several months in Salt River valley
 Wedding bells have been ringing quite merrily this week Mrs. Hor. -n and Mir. Dills stole a march on their friends Tuesday and were married m Judge Phillips office in the afternoon after which they returned to the Horson ranch which will be their home The bride was becomingly dressed in a blue silk. 4 large crowd gathered at their home Thursday night and gave them an old d-fashioned charivari. They have the best wishes of all for their future happiness.
 Not satisfied with one weddin. a week, which ought to be enough for any neighborhoOd, Ger-ey Sapp and Miss Lydia Snider were unit ed in mar riage Tuesday evening. by the Rev. MT. Williams of Phoenix They en- deavored to keep their wedding a se- cret but MT. Sapp's brother found it out and instead of having a quiet we'd dino inc al number of guests. Thursday evening the bride and groom were surprised by about 150 neighbors and friends at the home of the groom's father and fiber ally showered with presents.
 Lewis ". Higgins. a mining man from Ray. passed through here Sum day and seeing the name J. A. Higgins on the mail box stopped and succeeded in establishing a relationship with Mir. Higgins. They soon found that they came from the same family of Rig ginses but neither had known of the existence of the other
 All is excitement now over the com ing of the Buckeye railroad. We feel that it not only means the opening up of the Buckeye country but will bring about better development of our own country.
 Harry Miller being no longer needed on the Horton ranch since MT Dill has come there to live has gone to his 
 Mir. Bright's children have been out of school a part of this week on ac- count of chicken-pox
 MT. and Mrs. ohm Ellison were out from Phoenix Monday afternoon to at tend the meeting conducted by Miss Austin.
 Mrs. George Rays baby is still sick. l