Arizona republican., 1912-08-30
CREIGHTON

CREIGHTON DISTRICT, Aug 29-I There was an all day union session of the missionary societies of the South Methodist church held at the camp meeting grounds on the Me DoWell road last Monday, Phoenix, Tempe, Mesa, Cartwright and Glen dale sent representatives. The ladies of Phoenix spread an appetizing lunch at noon which was enjoyed by over two hundred persons. In the | afternoon Miss Wynne gave an in teresting talk on the Friendship ! With God" Business matters con- | nected with the church work were l also settled.
 M. l.. Landis has been appointed delegate to the Missionary Church | Association convention which will be l held at Grabil, Indiana The conven- | tiOn will be in session for a week ! commencing September 3rd. Many subjects covering the work in Ari-
 zona will be brought before the busi- | ness committee of this body. From | this convention MT. Landis will go ! to the Alliance convention which will l be held at Bula Park, N Y. inn mediately after this one, and from ! here he will make a trip to the
 eastern part of New York to visit
 his aged mother. MT. Landis expects
 to be back in about two months. | Charles Murre who purchased the
 Ira Rupp tract on the Mcdowell
 road has let the contract for the building of a house and barn. The
 house will have all modern cOnven- | fences and will be of mission style
 throughout. The well has been drill l ed with water at one hundred and fifty feet
 Mrs. l. Irion is doing some exper- | imenting along the lines of killing
 the Johnson grass on her ranch that has proved successful. The water was l kept from the land for three months
 and the ground has been plowed and
 narrowed continually, thus exposing
 the roots to the sun and wind, which
 finally dried it out.
 w. V. Tellick has moved into his
 new bungalow on the park road. The
 new home is one of the most at
 tractive houses in the valley The
 yards will be graded and lawns planted as soon as possible. , Miss Nancy Hans has installed a | SdSoiiiS pONeI pant Oil iltt large tract of land at Peoria and will start making further improvements l as soon as possible Miss Hans has
 been living on the J. B. Mollett
 ranch for over three years and has } been devOting most of her time along these lines and has also made care
 ful analysis of the soil in different
 parts of the valley and after all this she thinks that Peoria is the best
 for the things she expects to grow The attendance at the Missionary church tabernacle is getting smaller each Sunday. At last Sundays ser , vices the decrease was especially t noticed as there were only about l sixty-five present The meetings an 7 nounced for the coming week are as
 | follows: Sunday school at 9:45 a. f m; preaching at 10:45 a. m. and the , evening meetings are Y. P. L. at 7 and preaching again at 8. Everybody ? is cordially invited to attend these meetings.
 Glen Wood was severely injured about the body, when the team of horses he drove to Phoenix became
 frightened and turned the buggy on
 
 fifty feet. Glen has just recently re- covered from an attack of rheuma , tism and this makes the bruises more 7 rainful The accident happened on ? Adams and First avenue.
 Jacob Kleck Jr. has accepted q f position with the Pioneer Transfer l and Storage company of Phoenix. Mrs. Hale Hortenstein is expected home after spending the summer at , Roswell, N. M
 ? Julian and Firth Powers will be back from their months outing on the coast next Saturday.
 Miss Rena LaTourrette is making preparations to leave for the Uni , versity of Arizona which she will at 1 tend this winter.
 J. H. DeFras has been in this , section for some time looking into
 the water conditions and also the climate of this valley has left for Utah from which place he expects , 1 to bring not less than a hundred
 families to take up land in this val ley. MT. DeF'rias says he likes the , l eastern part of the valley much bet 7 ter than any other. He says the soil l looks better and the location is also
 extraordinary.
 / The Bide- a-wee sanitarium will be opened about the 18th of next month. The lawns are being put in first
 class condition and the cottages are , also undergoing changes. T J. B. Molett has been employed at the Bethany home for a few days \ where he is experimenting the con- ; struction of the new dining room. Hire little salesman at The Re- publican office. A Want Ad will see