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Newspaper
Mesa Free Press
Location
Mesa, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1897
Page
4
A busy Mesa Phoenix section notes social events, weather, trials, and campus activity. Highlights include the Rio Grande show at Social Hall, a grand jury report, Christmas greetings, record school enrollment, and plans for mining and butter shipments to Globe. Also mentions visits by officials, church events, and a farewell dance for missionaries.
The listing promotes Kimball organs for sale at $85 and $40 with $5 monthly payments through agent A Redewiil, located on W Washington Street, Phoenix.
Students may apply at the general office of the M P ER R or the Mesa local agent to secure ten ride commutation tickets for attending the Normal School at Tempe or the High School at Phoenix.
The timetable lists daily passenger trains from Phoenix to Tempe and Maricopa with connections to the Southern Pacific at Maricopa and to Goldfield at Tempe. It covers departures from Maricopa Mesa and Phoenix with specified arrival times, and notes signals for on-demand stops. C. C. McNeil is the General Superintendent.
Three weekly trips with no night travel. Outbound departs Mesa Tuesdays Thursdays Saturdays at 5 am reaching Globe next day at 6 pm. Return departs Globe Tuesdays Thursdays Saturdays at 5 am arriving Mesa next day at 6 pm. Agents listed in Mesa Globe Florence and Phoenix.
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