Arizona republican., 1909-02-10
Of Local interest

l ..BUYS A NEW cAR.-Roy Anderson
 has purchased a fifteen-horse power | Ford runabout from the Southwestern | garage.
 ATTENTION. GUARDSMEN.-E cry member of Company B is request ed to be present at the armory Friday morning at o'clock to take part in ! the Lincoln day celebration.
 1 WATER RENTAL DUE-Patrons
 of the city water works who have not paid their monthly rental are up ! against it hard today unless they have | the amount on hand and time enough
 to report at the captains office. This
 is the last day of grace and it bids fair | to be a cold day, too.
 DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN | REVOLUTION Maricopa Chapter. 1 Daughters of the American Revolution,
 will meet with Miss Fowler at the In-
 dian school. on Friday afternoon at two o'clock. The business of the meet ing will include the annual election of officers and payment of dues for 1909
 REDLANDS MAN PlEASED-Dave Donald returned to Redlands, Cal, Sunday evening, after stay in Phoenix of two weeks in the inter est of A E. Taylor, who has been experimenting the alterations on the Fleming block. MT. Donald Is very much impressed with the possibilities of the valley and Phoenix especially. As a builder he sees the opportunity for much construction work in all di rections. Besides, he says. T like it. '
 COMPANY B WILL DANCE.-At the regular drill of Company B, N. G. A, held last night, there was also a meeting of committees appointed previously to arrange for a social function on the night of the 18th. They reported that everything had been ar ranged for a big banquet and dance that evening in Melczer's hall. all guardsmen and their ladies being in- vited.
 HUNTING PARTY.-One of the many hunting parties which have been rnanicuring the desert recently in search of quail went out Saturday in a Stoddard- Dayton automobile. Those in the party were J. W. Walker. Prof, J. F. Stilwen ". B. Twitchell and Hughie Hughes The Indian reserva- tion was the scene of the conflict be-. tween the hunters and the birds. Be tween IlIlN anu SlAll Hudli hClt SllOA. On the return trip Hughes drove the car about as he did the Christie record breaker at the auto races. There were times when the indicator wavered be- tween forty and forty-five miles. speed that is hardly conducive to calm state of mind when the charac- ter of the roads is considered.
 FEBRUARY PEACHES-If there is any other region of the United States which can produce peaches at this time of the year let it come forward and it will stand some chance of get ting into the class with the Salt River valley. February peaches. almost ripe, nearly enough so as to make good pies are now on exhibition in the windows of the Southwestern Realty company They were brought in on Monday night by MT. King of the company who found them on the ranch of Thomas Wiles near the. junction of the Cross cut and the Arizona canal Mir. Wiles has several trees three years old but this is the only one which has peaches on now but it is laden with them. The tree bloomed late, in the fall and it was supposed that the blossoms would quickly fall off and that that would be the end of it But on the contrary all most every one of the blooms develop ed into an incipient peach which grew and it grew like those devoured with fatal effect by little John and his sis ter Sue. until now they are almost ripe. The tree has not had the bene- fit of shelter.