Arizona republican., 1912-07-10
NEWS NOTES
 0F OSBORN
Black Canyon Club Dis cusses Rise of Civiliza- tion; Wheat Crop Passes Expec tat ms; Other Items of Interest

week; the grain is expected to % 1 over Twenty-Five sacks per acre The ground was well ploWed and disced l before the grain was soWn. a fact 1 which the owner thinks accounts for 1 the extra heavy crop.
 1 The Black Canyon Indian club held 1 it's regular meeting Monday night at which number pf interesting topics were discussed. The real subject of
 the evening was the Advance of Civ 1 lilzaton,' on which Joel Whitney l spoke. Mir. Maloney gave a few com parisons of modern civilization to the 1 He Tn the garden of Eden down to 1 the queen of Sheba as she rode over 1 the hot sands at the rate of fOur 1 miles per hour on the back of q | camel. He said if she had lived in
 this day she could have called King 1 Solomon over d telephone or could 1 have travelled to his place in a cool ! electric car, speeding over the desert at the rate of fifty miles per hour. Then down to the early seamen, who 1 traVeled the rough seas in boats on modern palaces on water The war shlps of Rome and Greece were push 1 ed over the seas by men chained to their oars while today huge auto matically fired engines drive the ar l tificial islands at a terrific rate of ] speed After the talk the members sang the Star Spangled Banner The rest of the evening was spent at 1 cards and refreshments
 1 After an absence of over twelve years Lee Kayser has stopped with 1 relatives here to renew old acquain- 1 tances and look into business oppor ! tunities in which he may become in ! terested. r. Kayser says that this valley looks good to him and ex- 1 poets to move here as soon as pos sible. is first visit to this country
 was in 1878.
 Smith Chittock has just returned 1 from Kansas City. where he was 1 called to the bedside of his mother
 who died shortly after his arrival 1 Smith says the heat in Kansas City | is almost unbearable but the crops
 are in fine condition. He also says 1 the more he visits other places the
 better he likes the Salt River valley 1 J. F. Cleaveland has moved to his ! liCNly puill DuAiSoioN OIi lilt iDltoh | Canyon road where he will live tin
 the first of August, when with his wife he will leave for Denver to make a short stay. From there they will make a tour of the eastern l states. returning in the early fall ] The famous herd of red poll cat 1 tie has been moved from the Penn 1 berton ranch on the Cave Creek road 1 to q field along the car line where the people travelling over the Indian 1 school and Glendale line can see | them.
 President Mitchell of the Phoenix l Street Railway company says the work on the proposed second track | for the Indian school line will not be 1 started before the early fall Several 1 business negotiations are hindering 1 this work
 ] The alfalfa in the orange groves of ] George Hahn has proved a perfect l success Two tests have been made | in the same grove; one strip has
 been left implanted and the other, 1 which has been planted to alfalfa,
 shows larger and more oranges and l seems to hold the moisture much l lcItStT lIdb tiiS CllillNdtCu ptli IN l leaves are also in a healthier cor- | Ciition. r. Hahn will plant alfalfa Tn al! his groves this fall.
 The ranch owned by s. s. Sculi has teen sold to l.. K. Leaver, who has 1 take possession and expects to make 1 extensive improvements.
 The Pacific Gas & Electric com- l pany has purchased enough material l tu extend the electric line as far 1 north as the Grand canal and will 1 soon finish the work already started 1 The line now runs two and hall miles north of Phoenix on the Black Canyon road.
 1 Work has been started on the J. w 1 Doris house on the Black canyon i and Thomas roads. The house Will cost upwards of $30,000 and will be a l credit to the valley. The house Will l be of brick and plastered on the outside. A well has been drilled and
 a tower erected.
 H. c. Smith is here from Ann Ar bor Mich. where he has just fin-
 ished his third year of his six year law course which he will finish MT Smith is staying with his sister, Mrs |
 the Phoenix high school.
 1 Miss Marie Felch will leave TOT noints in southern California the 2'th of this month Among the places which she will visit are Los An geles, San Diego, Santa Barbara, Rlv- erside and Yosemite park. Miss Felct
 will be gone about month.
 Mrs. G. H. Bailey and Miss Geor- gia Bailey are spending a few days iat the beautiful country home ol l Mir and Mrs. J. F. Cleaveland on the 1 Black Canyon road
 MT. and Mrs. Ernest Bishop ah'
 children left for Prescott where they
 will spend the remainder Of the sum
 mer They will make several camp Ling trips from there
 Miss Ursula Weber spent rev
 days last week with friends in Tempe
 Many are planning camping trip'
 to various parts of Arizona TOT th''
 summer.
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