The copper era., 1910-11-18
Big rain last Sunday night.


 The Frisco is running quite buncl of water since the recent rain.
 Don't forget the enchiIada dinner Sunday at Riley's from 5 to 10 p. m.
 George Gilliand, the Hot Spring, hotel man, spent Thursday in town.
 E. E. Wall is an addition to the legal fraternity of the city, and has come to stay.
 O. J. Cotey and his construction gang are now working between Lords burg and Hachita.
 Leave your order early at Riley's for enchiladas Sunday.
 The Byrd Restaurant, on Chase creek, sets the best meal to be had in town. All white help.
 It don't look very much like hard times in Clifton with four-mile long loaded freight trains pulling in each week.
 Roy Beck, who for the past year has been in the employ of the tele- phone company, left Tuesday for Mexico.
 J. F. Niccolls is home from the Phoenix Fair and, like all who at- tended, says il was the best Fair he was ever at.
 J. O. Baylor, Bay Shannon, Sam Abraham, John Patty, Henry Hill and Dr. Burtch, Phoenix Fair visi- tors, are back to Clifton.
 The dog catcher was out last week, and the bow-wows are scarce by a hundred or more. Pay your dog tax or more of the canines will go to the happy hunting grounds.
 George Olney, one of Graham coun- tvs supervisors, and capitalist and enterprising citizen of the lower val ley, spent few days in Clifton last We elk.
 Be sure to attend the enchilada din- ner at Riley's Sunday from 5 to 10 o'clock P. m-
 Mangus Eldridge and Betts Fen derson came in from Black Jack last Saturday with fifty head of fat beef steers for the popular Gatti Palace market.
 Gid Thom pson, the live city officer of Morenci, and automatic hot-air information artist, spent Saturday down from the hill city for a change of atmosphere.
 George s. Verden, travelling man for c. P. Force & Co.,, of Rochester, N. Y, the oldest shoe firm in the United States, spent the greater part of last week in Clifton.
 Col. Ben Crawford returned from Phoenix Monday, and states that the Fair was most excellent one. Over 10000 people passed the gates in one day. Good for Arizona.
 The Empire theater is fast becom- ing decorated on the interior with paint of different hues, and soon this populaI play house will outshine any place of amusement in the south west.
 The foundation for the new post office building, near the ERA office, is and the brick and stone work will be pushe rapidly to con- Dletion by Contra ctor w. G. Jolly of El Paso, and his efficient manager, Frank Cox.
 Along the north side of the Chase creek wall, opposite the Dunn drug store, bill board 40x15 feet has been put up by Charley Dunn, to be used oy the public at large, as we'll as the Empire theater.
 The Chinese Inspector last week at Morenci one An Jim, who had his trial before Commissioner Kelly. An claims to have lost his papers in the San Francisco earth quake, and the commissioner put him Iuder bonds till January 10 to pro- luce them.
 Col. La Fave, owner of the Wonder ul mine, just above town, is working :ull blast, having shipped one car of Ire to El Paso the past week, and VIII follow with another the coming week.. The colonel has a fine prop
 
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 W. F. Harrison, tonsorial artist at he Fashion barber shop, on the east ide, started last week for Honolulu, ia San Francisco, Seattle and Puget Sound. He stopped over at Phoenix, md after taking in the Fair, con- .luded there was nothing else worth eeing on the coast, and returned to Jlifton Monday.
 Columbus, N. M., in the Miembres alley, on the Southwestern railroad, 0 miles from Deming, is having a loom. Many wells are being sunk md farm houses built. MT. John Potts, of Birmingham, Ala, a gen. leman of means. is building a fine esidence there and making other to his large land hold ngs.