Arizona republican., 1914-08-12
BOARD OF TRADE AND
 N. AND N. PLAN PICNIC
Will Make Things Lively on Coming
 August 20

Will Make Things Lively on Coming
 August 20
 Look out for the goth of August! It's a Thursday on the calendar but that is not all, not by a long long way. Through q decree issued by the Phoe- nix Board of Trade and the Merchants and Manufacturers association, Thurs day August 20. is Farmers Day. committee consisting of J. M. Ormsby of the Valley bank, N. D. Sanders of the Phoenix Savings Bank & Trust Co.,, and M Roy Murray of McDougall and Cassou has been appointed by the two organizations to take charge of all arrangements and make it notable event and probably an annual one.
 The plan is to have all the business men of Phoenix meet the farmers from all over the valley in a great picnic at Riverside park, forgetting business care and worries in a good old fash toned time. A program that will pro vide a world of fun and of a distinctly novel nature is now being drawn up and invitations are being mailed to every farmer in the valley to come and spend the day and bring his family with him
 Although a day of this kind has been under consideration for a long time it has only now been decided on because the committee felt that they should wait until the bulk of the summer work | on the ranches was over Now mid summer is here in all it's glory and it IS time for all hands to take a day off and have a good time. Up to this sum- mer there has never been a place where an event of this kind could be held conveniently and satisfactorily but now Riverside park provides an ideal set ! ting for it. In all probability the ball park will be used for the track and | field events and the great pool will of course be the center of the main cele- bration while in the evening there will l be genuine old fashioned barn dance. | the kind they held long before the new | fangled dances became the rage, and they will provide even more fun right now than they did in the good old l days. Watch out for the 20th.
 COL. BOWLER AWAY-Col Fred l Bowler left yesterday for Humbolt, to superintendent some cement work on 1 the Shill mine.
 BRIGGS RECOVERlNG.- C. Briggs. who has been quite i'll lately l ing. according to information re- |
 SOME PACKARD TRUCk-Mc- Arthur Brothers. agents for Packard trucks in Arizona, were yesterday driving around the city one of the finest specimens of heavyweight trucks ever seen in these parts. It is five ton Packard, one of the several bought by the Standard Oil company for use in this city at the new branch being established here. The truck caused all sorts of at | tention.
 CANDIDATES AT ALHAMBRA- Alhambra is to be the scene of the lspeaking tonight for the candidates for the democratic nominations for state and county officers. The meet ing will open at s ?. m. sharp and ten minutes is the time limit for Ispeeches. This course was decided lupon at a meeting of the candidates
 in order that all might have an lequal chance Rivalry is strong among the various candidates and jthis will result in some warm speeches.
 CLEAN UP THE lOTS.-City
 Manager Parish is now conducting q campaign to get the owners of prop
 erty in the city to make a genera
 cleanup of the vacant lots and back yards This is the season of th'
 year when the insurance inspector!
 generally visit the city and with |
 spotless towns, sans rubbish, sans olC paper, sans old boxes, the insuranc,
 rate will be much lower than i would be otherwise. Inflammabl' 1 material of any kind kept around al lways increases the insurance ris! i and automatically increases the rate , HELD UP IN TOWN-R r. Bobo { a carpenter who lives at Thirteenth l and Roosevelt, was set upon las . jeans at the ice house at Fourtl , (street and Washington, and beatel p and robbed of his money He ha' 7 stopped there to get a drink of coo s water Two Mexicans approaches s him one of them asking him if h Y knew anything about ranch work. H p replied he did not and leaned dowl f to get a drink, and then they jumped 9 him. He fought with them awhil but as soon as they got his none , they left He immediately gave tn , alarm The men answer the descrip ton of those who committed tn
 holds ups on Saturday night. One O them had knife or some instrumen |, with which Bobo was struck owe e the head.
 ORATORS AT WiLSON-Resident
 of the Wilson district, last evening ', met at the school house for the pur pose of hearing the democratic pri o mary candidates explain why tn democratic voters of that distrC q should honor them with their vote r at the primary to be held Septem