Arizona republican., 1911-09-24


 chapel of Eastcrly & Whitney Mon day afternoon at o'clock. Rev. Har- vcy Deere officiating. Intcrment in Greenwood cemetery. Friends are in vitcd
 CANTALOUPE GROWERS TO MEET=The Cantaloupc Growers as sociation will hold meeting next Saturday at o'clock in the Water Users building. The Arizona Pro ducers' association. which has been meeting there every Saturday after noon recently. will hold its next meet ing at the cIll of the board of di- rcctors Unless something occurs to make it advisable. there will bc no meeting next Saturday.
 PRISON CONTRACTS LET.-Thc board of control has let contracts for mill supplies at the territorial prison as follows. Soft wheat flour. Era- ham flour and corn meal, to the Mesa Milling company; hard wheat flour. to the Valley Mills. The only other bidder was the Phoenix Flour Mills These supplies are for the year ending June 30. 1912, and the bids were to have been lot some time ago. but owing Co Irregularities in bidding. it was necessary to re- advertise.
 Y. Nj. C. A. CENSUS OF sOYS.- The V N C. A management in or der to get a good working basis for its operations has undertaken d cunt of the boys of Phoenix between the az es oc and IS. The boys themselves who are members of the association, were pressed into service as enume- rators and began their labors yester- day. About three-fourths of the city was covered and the result was the listing of 469 boys. but the other fourth of the city is more densely pop ulated than that which has been GOV cred The management expects to lind between zoo and 500 boys in Phoe- nix between the ages mentioned. The taking of this census will probably be finished either Monday or Tuesday.
 MIR. DAVIS IN THE FIELD.-Ho- mcr Davis of Buckeye Wno made tn" race for county superintendent of schools three years ago against the present incumbent and was only beat cn by a hair is ready to undertake it .aCain and in this issue announces his candidacy subject to the republican primary. Mr Davis says that with his past campaign experience. the changed conditions. his longer residence and wider acquaintance he believes that ffrrhf He has been a resident of Arizona for eight years. has taught school five years in Arizona and four years in In- diana. SD he has a practical knowledge of school teaching. and believes he un- derstands the conditions and needs of the country schools as he has made a special study of them.
 ..EQUALIZATION.-Equalization by the city council of Phoenix sitting as board of equalization on city prop erty. is finished for this year, except that there is one day of final appeal, on the first of october, or there abouts. as the first falls on Sunday, this year. Of all the numerous raises in the assessments Of property, made mainly in the business heart of the city. and of which notice was giv- en bv mail to those who own the prop erty. only seven citizens objected to the raises made on them by the board, or each on the raise on himself, and in most of those cases the board finished consideration of them by lowering the assessments down nearly to whore they were in the first place. In two cases of these seven, the raises went s2,OOO or a little over. but in only two.
 WHITE PEARLS-The large. round and rather shallow-eyed potatoes brought to the board of trade rooms by Wm. J Morgan, which he raised on the D II. LennoX homestead. are of the same kind that John Wilson, recent visitor from Denver in the seed line. was recommending through The Republican as one of the best kinds now raised in Colorado. They are the White Pearl, and although they have been in the board oi trade rooms for four months. with out water and in the heat of a closed room, they are almost as firm and sound as when placed there They will weigh nearly pound a piece and are an unusually white po- 1 tato. Those at the board of trade were raised by dry farming. in which many farmers of this valley are be coming interested. and which is feas- | ibIe on many acres not under any
 ureSent water system.