Arizona republican., 1909-08-15
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 RINEHART HOME-Jack Rinehart
 of the McDougall X Cassou store has
 returned from vacation trip in Colo | rado.
 GONE TO IoWA-Mrs. George Lut- gerding has left for her former home
 in Iowa and will visit friends until
 about October l.
 VISITING OLD FRIENDS Floyd | Stroud. a talented young man who
 was raised in Phoenix. but who has made san Francisco his home for sev- l cral years, is here on a visit of a few | days with his mother and his many | friends Mir. Stroud, who in earlier | life devoted considerable study to elo- ] cution and dramatiCs, has been doing | well on the vaudeville stage in san | Francisco and other coast cities. and at | the conclusion of his vacation intends | to go to New Orleans. whence his
 team partner has preceded him.
 MIR. AND MRS. NORRIS HoME.- | V. R. Norris and wife returned yes | ter1ay morning from visit to Den | yer. Kansas City. Chicago and Indiana | points MT. Norris says it was his l first trip cast since he came west as { q small bcy, and while he saw some big cities and some fine country there is lacking that western atmosphere. both ! mental and physical that to him | makes life worth living He has noth- ing against the east only he likes the
 west better. MT. Norris had his cleo
 trical supply house closed while he
 was away. but is now ready for busi-
 ness again.
 MOTOR CARS ARRIVE TODAY The long eNpctced motor cars which will be run between this city and
 Mesa will arrive today. The cars were
 due in this city more than a month ago but delays Tn the publishing of the rates kept the cars standing in Oma- Ina. The new service will be inaugu- rated immediately after the arrival of the cars Beside furnishing a con venient schedule for the Interurban traffic between this city and Mesa and ] Tempe the new cars will be much in demand by excursion parties. It is | new cars will be that of the Elks ball team which makes the trip from this l city to Tucson on August % for game with the Elks' team of that city. RIVER AND CANALS-The report ! from Roosevelt yesterday morning was | that the water elevation was 1117 or | six inches higher than ever before and ! it is presumed the water was still ris- | inG slowly as the indications are that | rains continue in that direction. The l gage readings in both rivers at Rich ! ins' station were about the same yes | terday as the day before Beside all | the water diverted by the canals on l both sides of the river. there was a | very wet sort of a flow past the site | of the Center street bridge yesterday. | the water being rather too high for | safe fording. The repairs on the Ari- | zona canal have been finished and the ! ditch is now in good condition. All ! the canals are now carrying good | heads of water.
 LAST PERFORMANCE TONIGHT The Grand theater, because of the | threatening appearance of the evening ! | night, which would have been two i side splitting farccs. Quiet Hotel and The Battle of Crazy Snake They | will be presented tonight, however,
 and will offer in each a series of | funny situations that cannot be ex- ] celled for comedy. The tickets which
 were sold for the performance last | evening will be good tonight This will close the successful engagement | of the Raymond Teal company, which ! for four weeks running. never ceased i to draw large houses. The company | leaves for Tucson tonight, where they
 will fill an engagement of some | length, and win no doubt please the | Tucson showgOer as they did the l Phoenician theater attending public FIRST GAME WITH TUCSON | ELKS-The first game of the fall SC
 ries to he played by the Elks will come 1 off in Tucson on the twenty ninth of l the present month. Just what the | lineup of the team will be has not been 1 decided but it will probably be about | the same as that which met the city 1 team here in the spring and then lost 1 to Prescott by a large but close score. l Before the game IS played the new
 white uniforms. adopted by the team | for the coming season, will have arriv- | ed and the antlered ones will appear | in all of the glory of q new regalia l The natty appearance of the team | ought tO add to it's popularity with ! the stand if not to their chances of success on the field. The management | is hopeful of selling considerably more | than the one hundred tickets required
 by the railroad for special train. If
 a sufficient number of the tickets are
 sold the excursion will he made in the
 new motor cars of the Phoenix and | Eastern.
 SEEING WESTINGHOUSE A
 Goodrich has received letter from c.
 B. King who writes from Spokane that
 George M Hahn and wife of this city