Arizona republican., 1912-07-31


 day night and will remain several days.
 Little Miss Timmie Redewill had as dinner guests at the club house on Sunday evening the Misses Jane and Mary Alice Christy, the young daughters of Mr and Mrs George D. Christy.
 Mrs w. J. Rifley. the guest in camp of Mrs. l. J. Johnson who is chairman of the apron booth at the annual fair of the Womans club. to be held in November, has hit upon happy plan for securing d goodly number of aprons. he has laid in a supply of materials and invited all the ladies in camp who are interest ed to meet at the pavilion Tuesday afternoon with the needles and thim- bles and seW
 Mrs. H. I. Latham entertained two tables of auction Wednesday after noon. The guests from Prescott were Mrs. Morris Goldwater, Mrs. II. R. Trite and Mrs Henry George
 Mrs. AnciI Martin returned from Phoenix on the noon train Monday.
 There has been d terrific thunder storm almost daily for a week and heavy showers come up with little or no warning. sometimes as many as four or five in a day.
 MT. J. H. Hart has just established the new gasoline pump and it has begun to work as if it intended to give good service. People have felt some slight inconvenience and much dismay at the interrupted water ser vice the last two days. In case of fire the supply from the small pipes would not be sufficient to save a house, but ones sense of security is great even as it is and to be without water has caused some worry in camp.
 Those who returned to Phoenix on the Sunday evening train were Judge E. w. Lewis and Messrs Win. Hum- bert. Jay Alkire, Edward Marshall and Leon Tolleson.
 Mrs James s Griffin returned from Phoenix Monday.
 Mrs E. J. Bennitt, who has been touring California, the guest of Mir. and Mrs. Harry Gray, expects to reach Pasadena Thursday, August 1, where they will be joined by MT. Bennitt, who has just returned from a six weeks business trip in the east.
 Illusions have been made from time to time to the epidemic of screen porches which has spread over camp It may be interesting to the readers of the Iron Springs column to learn how truly delightful these screen living rooms are. Whatever the dimensions are they seem just right Soft green stain in the wood work and green and white Scrlm hangings with the same color scheme in cretonne on the wicker furniture produces an ideal effect of daintiness and freshness, which would receive favorable comment in any other and less rustic resort.
 The latest news from Walter Mar tin comes from Cody, Wyoming, which he reports as a great outfit ting place for people going through the Yellowstone park One hundred people started to make the trip the day of his arrival. Evidences of Buffalo Bill are on every hand-the hotel is named after his daughter, Irma; his pictures are in every cor ner. Some very fine oil paintings of Indian scenes nave tNluchIiS pSoh presented to Cody by various paint CTS. The railroad does not enter Cody. but stops across the river. which is in a very steep and wide canyon. It seems the original lnten- | ton was to go on up the canyon to | the edge of the park, but the gov | ernment dam, up the river. headed | them off. The canyon is so wide and deep that it would cost fortune to ] bridge it. so they simply stopped on | the other side and you ride over in auto cars and hacks. The fronts of l the hotels and stores are decorated with quantities of elk horns, some of | them fifteen feet high. The town derives a large part of it's income 1 from the 'tenderfeet" who come to s'do the park" and the streets are ! full of guides. hunters and stage | drivers, like some frontier town in the old days.
 Mrs. A. c. Mcqueen, who has been | missed from camp for several days, | has returned and reports the loss | of twenty-six fine cottonwood trees 1 on their ranch as the result of the | late storm at Mesa