Arizona republican., 1910-04-26
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CT andyit Is expected there will be large attendance -to greet her. Also there viill be q considerable amount of club business to attend to. the present ation of annual reports. etc.
 MAccABEE EvENTS-The school of instruction given for the Ladies of the Maccabees closed Saturday even ing. After the drill the ladies served a delicious lunch of ice cream and cake MT. Brought invited she ladies to attend. a performance at tae Won derland. They attended in a body and a special program was put on for their pleasure Mrs. Helen T. Burt, who had charge of the school of instruction left on the midnight train for Los An seles. Before her departure the ladies presented her with magnificent bunch of American Beauty roses and a brooch of antique. silver set in Ari- zona amethyst. She also carried with her the love and best wishes of the Phoenix ladies.
 THEY LIKE PHOENix-Mr and Mrs. Davis Johnson of Ney, York lefr last night for California and after q short visit there will return to their home in the east. Mir. Johnson says they will he back here again next win ter sure. They have spent the entire winter in Phoenix and Mir. Johnson says that although he has heard Il great deal to the effect that the sea son was unusual. he regards the Phoe- nix climate as the best he has ever encountered for residence in the winter time and he has spent num- Der of winters on the Mediterranean. in Florida and at other much adver- tised and far-famed places. He is q stock broker when he is in New York but hereafter he expects to be found in Phoenix most of the time during the winter seasons.
 THE FIRST coPY-B A. Fowler. president of the Eighteenth National Irrigation congress. yesterday received a bound copy of the proceedings of the seventeenth congress held in Spokane, together with letter advising him that it is the first copy of the edition bound and was forwarded to him as testi monial of regard and as a compliment 10 the office he holds. The hook con tains 54t pages. is bound in red boards. ornamented with gold letters and is by far the finest edition and perhaps the largest ever issued by the con gress. Compared with most of the former annual issues and especially with the little volume containing the proceedings of the congress held in Phoenix in 1896. it is to say the least splendid volume. and represents the ,.I If he mic in the last fifteen years.
 MRS. BARRETT'S DATES-Mrs Kate Waller Barrett yesterday deliv- cred a fine address in the Presbyte- rian church. to an assemblaee com posed of the missionary and ladies aid societies Of all the churches. This afternoon she will address the Wom- ans club and tomorrow afternoon at , o'clock in the Central school she will speak to the assembled members of the child study circles of the city, in the Central school building. In the evening from to ' o'clock re- ception win be given in her honor at the Crittenton Home. II has been ar ranged also for her to address the prayer meeting in the Baptist church Wednesday evening after the recep- ton. Mrs. Barrett particularly desires at the prayer meeting to meet all the working girls of the city that she may address herself especially to them.
 SUeTERRANEAN AND ALTi- TUDlNoUs SURVEYS - To secure more definite data for use in nesotia- tions with the Tempe Canal company looking to the members of that organi Zation signing their lands to the reser- voir project, Engineer Hill has two parties of reclamation engineers en- gagged in making surveys on the south side to more definitely locate the pres ent water plane As all interested are aware, the chief question for consider ation between the farmers and the government is that of drainage for a large area of the Tempe lands. and more can be told of methods and prob able results only after added informa- tion has been secured. This will in most cases be by noting underground conditions as evidenced by the wells in those parts. but in some places the water table, is. so high the engineers will have to get up above the land to locate IT,.
 MAY DAY CELEBRATION-Ow to the unusually warm weather May will arrive this year a day earlier than is customary, or lo state it more clear Iy the Woman's guild of Trinity Epis- copal church which holds ai lawn fete on May day. has slated that function for next Saturday. April go. at East lake park The afternoon and even ing will both be devoted to May day pleasures and everybody is invited to attend. The program for the after noon however is designed to appeal more particularly to the children while that of the evening will be more en- tertaining for the grown-ups as the chief feature in the evening will be dancing The day program will in clude May pole dance and there will be various booths and commercial centers where those who are famish ing or athirst may secure ice cream cones. soft drinks. coffee, cake. sand viches, candy and other things of