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Newspaper
Mesa Free Press
Location
Mesa, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1893
Page
3
Rain yesterday and a busy week in Mesa include dances, rail and street activity, mine mill startup, alfalfa expansion, and social happenings. Notables: Netherton trip to Pacs, Ball family to Escondido, Zula Brizzee home from Utah and Idaho, Co Op grocery move, World’s Fair sights, and Lehi baseball victory amid community updates.
The Argus reports vast orchard and nursery developments along Rio Bonito and Feather River road from Reed & Johnson to Alexander Hammond and Hatch & Roc as 400 to 550 acres of trees mature. About 1,000,000 budded trees and 500,000 shipping vines prepare for market with a 128-variety experimental tract. Frank M Hammon promotes Rio Bonito nurseries. Consolidated Canal irrigates vast tracts. mining veteran William Williams notes Goldfield boom prospects.
Ed Jones of Mesa stood as a pioneer miner in the Superstition district and sent the first gold to the mint from his arastra. Rich mines remain, and he is hoped to become a millionaire. The M E conference meets in Phoenix on the 28th, with Bishop Andrews of New York presiding and preaching October 1. Public invited to attend services. The MFE conference year ends at the Baptist church on Sunday the 14th, likely closing Rev Wilson’s tenure as he plans to return to California around October 1.
In district schools we have everything needed for the year. Send your orders for all supplies to Pratt Bros. Phoenix for school materials and equipment.
Stafford's Magazine in New York promises a one dollar yearly subscription plus fifty two complete novels mailed weekly for a year. Authors include Trollope Verne Thackeray Braddon Collins Besant Oliphant and others. Readers must remit by P.O. order or express and mention this paper.
The Common Council of the Village of Mesa enacts that any minor who smokes any tobacco product or any merchant or saloon keeper who sells to a minor shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. The ordinance takes effect after publication and approval. Passed September 7, 1893. Approved September 8, 1893. W. S. Leebaron, Mayor. Attest R. H. Swarn, Village Recorder.
Ordinance No 17 adds a rule making minor loitering in bawdy houses saloons streets or public buildings on Sundays or nonholiday days a misdemeanor. It repeals conflicting ordinances and takes effect after publication and approval. Mayor W J LeBaron signs. Village Recorder R H Smith attests.
We have the sole agency for this fencing system and can offer it free of charge. We sell the material and pay for your license to use it ourselves. Adapted to either barb or smooth wire. Protect your stock.
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