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Newspaper
Mesa Free Press
Location
Mesa, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1897
Page
4
The Mesa Free Press reports holiday travel notes and social visits in Mesa including Mrs. Turlbert with relatives, Prof. Varnum and Prof. Tipton in town, Geo Wing from Salt Lake, and Miss Para Kimball returning from Denver. It notes hay prices rising due to dry weather, cattle and range moves, local business closings, staff changes at railroads, a $40,000 Jerome fire, and school attorney admissions in Los Angeles.
Prof Hilgard, longtime president of the University of California, notes the unusually cold weather portends a dry winter. Dr. D L Lucas relocates his Mesa dental office to the Free Press building on Main Street and will start January 1 offering Phoenix prices on all work. Extraction fifty cents, deduction from plate work. best plate work from ten dollars. fillings from one dollar. gold crowns and bridges specialty.
Administrator A P Shewmam announces creditors and others with claims against the estate of David A Spragg deceased to present vouchers within ten months of first publication. Claims must be filed at Morton and Shewman law office in Mesa City Salt County Maricopa. Dated Mesa City November 1 1997.
A listing notes an office location above Larnett's Drug Store on Main Street in Mesa City. The brief item identifies the site without additional context or dates.
On W Washington street Phoenix an org designed by A Redewiil is offered for sale at 83 and 40 dollars with 5 dollar payments.
Notice records final proof for Henry Darrington on land in SE Sec 1 T2 R5 He will appear February 6 1898 before the Clerk of the District Court Phoenix Arizona Witnesses are John Anderson Robert Bouts Janos Wilson and Newton Hackney all of Mesa Arizona K Evgent J Prive Register
Students who wish to attend the Normal School at Tempe or the High School at Phoenix may apply at the M. & P. R. R. station general office or the local Mesa agent to obtain ten ride commuting tickets.
Local timetable lists trains from Phoenix to Tempe and Maricopa with arrivals and departures from 8 p m to 9 30 p m and early morning services from Maricopa to Tempe and Phoenix. Connections at Maricopa and Tempe link with Southern Pacific stages and Goldfield routes. Authorities C C McNeil and F E Santorp sign as General Superintendent and General Passenger Agent in Phoenix.
Mesa Florence and Globe Stage Line runs three trips a week with no night travel. Stages depart Mesa on Tuesdays Thursdays and Saturdays at 5 am, arriving in Globe at 6 the next day. Returns depart Globe at 5 am on the same days, arriving in Mesa at 6 pm the following day. Agents listed: C OC Hocket Johnson Bros Mesa Louis Sultan Globe DC Stevens Florence and L W Colling Phoenix.
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