Arizona republican., 1910-07-17
SOUTH METHODIST CHURCH

clave of the Knights Templars which
 will meet next month in Chicago.
 SOUTH METHODIST CHURCH
 Sunday school at 9:45 a. m. Preaching
 at II a. m. by the pastor, Rev. C. R
 Gray. Subject, The Healing Waters
 The EpWorth league meets at D. m.
 Miss Pearl Irwin leader. Subject, The
 Christians Reward Here" At this
 service there will be a round table
 conducted answering the question.
 What has Christianity meant to me?''
 Also short sermonette by the pas
 ton. Everybody invited.
 CHORUS REHEARSAL-The first
 rehearsal of the chorus which will par
 ticipate in the ceremonies of the Mex
 iCan independence celebration on Sep
 tember Is, the day before the anniver-
 sary, will be held this afternoon at 3 80 o'clock at the home of Serafina Righet
 ii. 120 East Monroe street The mem
 bers of the chorus are Rosa Linsey,
 Elena Linsey. Margarita Valdivia. LiZ- zie Van Harren, Carlota Corona, Ma riana Garcia, Justa Righetti. Elodia
 BorqueZ, Viviana Melendrez, ChOna
 Pena. Isabel Serrano, Triny Embrick. Concha Sota and Sara Acosta.
 COMMERCIAL HOTEL PLANS Architect J. M Creighton announced yesterday that he had begun work on the plans for the enlargement of the Commercial hotel, and will have them ready some time this week. for the contractors who care to bid on the work. The plans will include the construction of twenty additional guest rooms and six bathrooms. and will complete the building as a three story structure on the three sides of the square, just as the proprietor, G. H N. Luhrs. designed it to be when he built the present structure twenty years ago.
 ENGLISH LUTHERAN SERVICE The Lutherans of the city of Phoenix and the neighborhOod thereof will meet for service Sunday, July 17th in the South Mestodist church, opposite the poStoffice. Services will begin in the afternoon at o'clock. It will be the first service of the Lutherans by their newly installed pastor, Rev. George Lueke. All Lutherans are cordially in vited to attend. A short business meeting will be held after the service to talk over the change of place and time of service. All Lutherans are herewith fervently invited to come and hear the gospel as they are used to it in their respective churches.
 A FINE RAlN.-Between : and .sc lag ct ,Ay regular evening dust storm, Phoenix mad fine rain. IL would have been a finer one if 1t had lasted all night, but m the half hour or so that 1t did rain no time was lost and the precipitation was sufficient to fill the gutters. soak the streets. and produce general of mud. IL rained hard while it did rain and the preceding wind rather interfered with telephone and telegraph wires for time in the early evening. Whether the rain was general throughout Arizona could not De learned. but the clouds all day In Heated rains to the east toward Roosevelt
 THE CAUSE OF lT.-Some people may lay it to the diplomacy of the weather bureau in handling meteofJ- logical conditions, and some to the of a watchful providence. but it is suspected the real cause oi the rain was something else entirely One year ago tonight the Grand the iter vas opened under the manage ment of Henry Meyers and an associ- ated bunch of renowned showmen, with the Raymond Feel company on the stage. And on that date, within m hour of one year ago. it rained just as it did last night There can be no getting away from the fact that last nights storm was in of the first anniversary of the opening of the Grand.
 PoSTOFFicE ECONOMIES - The postoffice department is endeavoring -o introduce various economies in ad- Some have already gone nto effect and others will be adopt ed as fast as possible. One for in stance is the pink card return receipt hat the sender now gets after the de- livery of registered letter pr parcel. Hereafter this receipt will not be given lnless the sender of the register eX- Dressly requests it by writing on the address of his letter or parcel receipt iesired.' This will save a great deal 'f time on the part of the registry 1 Jerks as well as the postoffice and | postal clerks who handle thousands of | hese receipts daily, as we'll also as | he expense of furnishing the cards in arge quantities. Another reform that he postal guide announces will be | made effective as soon as the old | orms can be displaced by news ones. will be the discontinuance of the use | if postmasters' advices in the send | ng of money orders.
 NEW BUILDING FOR GLENDALE Glendale is soon to have a public lall which may be used for all pub lc gatherings and also as a dancing 'avilion. Chas. A. Stauffer will 'uild it and work will commence bout August l, when Mir Stauffer eturns from a trip to the coast The hall is to be 42x6O feet and the loor will be of hard wood. The ost of construction will be about 4, 4,50O. It will be built just back of 1r. Stauffer's present brick block, he three frame houses occupying he place having been removed to