Arizona republican., 1911-05-17
THE ROYAL NeIcHeoes =


Royal Neighbors of America win meet
IN X of p. han Wednesday evening
Members requested to come earl,
for drill. Visiting Neiehbors cordial,
invited.
PUPILS WILL GIVE PLAY-Tbe
coming thursday evening Miss Caro-
line Reed Thompson Of the depart
ment of expression of the school of
Music. win present some of her Young
pupils IN the play DIR Hardhack's
Prescription. from Harriet Reecher
stoves Little Pussy Willow" The
affair IL one Of the many Interesting
events in the series of recitaIs now
being presented there. which arr. omen
To the public
A MAY EcoRO-During the inst
fifteen days Of May the receipts of
the Phoenix postoffice were "A per
cent greater than during the same
period last May. The receipts were
S3,lH7 as against $3.50 during the
same period in MAY. 1910. and last
years figures also included one DAYS
business Of over $500. made unusually
large By the collection all at once. of
the cost of a large quantity of
stamped envelopes previously ordered.
Postmaster McClintock says that no
incident of that kind has contributed
10 the May business thus far this
year. II seems L. Ice just the natural
Increase in retail postage business.
FIRE BUGS-The country around
about Mesa seems to be suffering
somewhat from the fire-bug pest these
days as well as Phoenix ON Sunday
two tent. houses burned at loss of
5000 or more in each instance. in
Guiding their contents. one of the
fires was on ranch owned by W. b.
COLON, six miles south and half
mile east of, Mesa. The tent house
was occupied by man named Gil
bert in the employ of Mr.. Colon.
Mr.. Gilbert was at work in a field
some distance away and his first
OF the fire was when his
dog came running To- him. telling of
the event in dog language that was
not very clear but was sufficiently
to make Mr. Gilbert look
up ana see the house in flames He
had had no fire i'm the tent house
ana knows of no way it could have
been lighetd except by some mceu-
diary The other fire destroyed
house Of similar kind for J. X. Nc
Carthy, three or four miles distant.
II was occupied by the drilIer in the
employ of Mr.. Mccarthy who is sink
ing a well enar by. He asserts also
that there was no fire in the house
and that il must have been set by
some miScreant.
VOLUNTEER WHEAT-B A Fow-
Ter has raised a considerable acreage
IF wheat on his Alhambra ranch this
year in spite Of all that he and his
foreman. John Forney. could do To
prevent it. \ good crop was raised ON
the same land last year. about a
quarter section Of il, hut there was no !
Intention Of raising wheat this year
Ihe land was leveled. plowed and some /
II II was planted to alfalfa. while |
some of II was not planted owing to /
NE fact that Mr. Fowler'S new ditch !
system was not yet ready But it /
Vas all leveled and disked and worked /
~ inns my AA4DN6A4 no MtLtI Was ]
ipplied 10 the part in question until /
about the first of March. The wheat /
which had been lying i'm the ground /
III winter decided that il would grow /
anyhow whether any body wanted il !
O or not and good stand came up |
'ver about a hundred acres II was
inallN allowed 10 have its own way
md sometime ago Mr.. Forney cut a
'art of II for hay along with the al
alta that came up with it, Yester-
lay he began cutting the rest of it
Intending To use it mainly for chicken
eed. There are three varieties i'm
he tract. all good and the heads
veil filled. A fine sheaf about four
Get tall was brought to the board of
rade