Arizona Government Land Practice in Territory Courts
Will practice in all the Courts of the Territory. Government land business. a specialty era. ca-In Vernon & Spracy's Real Estate.
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Newspaper
Mesa Free Press
Location
Mesa, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1893
Page
3
Will practice in all the Courts of the Territory. Government land business. a specialty era. ca-In Vernon & Spracy's Real Estate.
The column lists social events and happenings in Mesa and nearby areas including a Christmas wedding, a grand mask ball at the Social Hall, a teachers association meeting in Tempe, and the Territorial Institute in Tucson. It notes property sales, almond and fruit grove plantings, a brain fever illness, a postmaster returning to town, upcoming Maricopa county jockey club races, and local boundary surveying between Maricopa and Pinal counties with Goldfield mines shifting county lines.
Fred Mason returns with apples from Carwagon and Haskell ranch near Jerome. Fifty apples weighed 1½ pounds each and were sent to the Midwinter Fair with fifty dollars offered. 250 barrels sold at ten cents per pound. Dredger and canal project progress, local growth, and visiting guests highlight a bustling Fort McDowell era.
Mr Palmer of Phoenix visited town last week to prepare a Mesa souvenir for the Midwinter Fair. The illuminated lithographed book will be issued by the Republican office if enough support is found, modeled after a Phoenix edition, while Frank Miller returns home with his newborn child and holiday goods face no competition this year.
Purchasers receive a silver souvenir spoon for five dollars in holiday promotion. Uncle Charlie Burton’s grandsons hosted a bonfire that burned his hay stack. B. F. Johnson, Sons & Co. offer a fine goods line at bed rock prices. Sunday School entertainment successful. Store invites names for a free 50 cent doll. Wiley Simkins and Miss Pethero wed in Lehi yesterday evening.
After warning of a scam by a fraudulent tree dealer, the Mesa Nursery Co asserts it offers fruit, shade and ornamental trees and vines at very low prices with a guarantee of satisfaction to deter buyers from being taken in this season.
A display titled A Miniature World’s Fair shows the Berris Wheel and Midway Pleasant in full splendor at Mesa Nursery Co. The ad promotes true Texas Umbrella trees and warns buyers not to select wild umbrellas while visiting the home nursery.
FRANK M HAMMON agent of Rio Bonito Nursery Co. offers plum prune almond apricot apple and other trees at 12 to 15 cents with No 1 guarantee and inspector certificates. Umbrellas offered 10 to 50 cents. Catalogue available by mail from Phoenix Arizona. Contracts to supply to buyers with assurance of health and dues.
Martha E Collins of Tempe Arizona filed notice of intention to make final proof on desert land claim No 2046 for the SE4 of section 15 township 1 south range 5 east before the district court clerk in Phoenix on Saturday January 11 1894. She names Clay C Hockett George J Murts Frank Watkins and A J Chandler all of Mesa Arizona to prove irrigation and reclamation of the land.
Stafford's Magazine in New York promotes a one dollar yearly subscription that includes fifty two complete novels delivered weekly plus monthly magazine issues for a year. Authors listed include Wilkie Collins Trollope Doyle Braddon Verne and others. Send one dollar and receive the first weekly novel by return mail. remit by P O order or registered mail to Stafford's Magazine.
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