The Skylight kicker., 1897-12-23

| Mohuay or luesuay TOT fh0cDiX t( spend the winter.
 Charles Davis, the passenger agent at this place left for the east Monday to spend the winter.
 The travel west is so large of late that passepgtr train No. is frequent ly in two sections.
 Flagstaff will have q steam laundry in the near future, and then soap factory will be in order.
 F. o. Christy, representing the h. ternational Society of Chicago was here the first of the week. Mrs. Coyne who keeps boarding house at Walnut was doing business with our merchants Tuesday.
 Miss Edith and Gertrude Tolfree e. turned Monday from an extended visit to friends in Southern California.
 Grandma Pattee, accompanied by her two granddaughters left for the Verde Saturday to spend the winter.
 Henry Heller's family. who have been at Los Angeles, Cal, for the past two months returned home Mon- day.
 A. II. Spellmirc. bookkeeper for Babbitt Brothers, left Sunday for Los Angeles, Cal, to spend the holidays with his family.
 Several evergreen trees were ex- pressed from here to Los Angeles and Albuquerque Tuesday to be used for Christmas trees.
 George Babbilt and family left Fri day last for an extended visit to rela- tives and friends at their old home in Cincinnati. Ohio.
 The city meat markets of this place are filling orders for meat to Califor- nia points. Coconino county has the finest beef and mutton in the west.
 All persons whose subscription to this paper expires Jan. l, 1898, will please renew on or before the 3rd day of said month, as we desire to revise our subscription list the first of the new year.
 E. N. Gray of Williams, electrician for the Postal Telegraph company was m town Monday and Tuesday putting in Il call bell for the telephone com pany, connecting the postoilice with the court house.
 Messrs. Stailey and Crow, accom- Ipanied by San Francisco capitalist,
 Aose name we failed to learn, left |fhe first of the week for the San Juan country. They are contemplating the putting m of machinery to work the mines which they own in that section.
 Forest Camp No. w. of w. elect ed on Monday night the following of iicers: E. S. Gosney, c. C.; George Martin, Ad. l.; Frank l.. Beal. banker; T. 5. Bunch, clerk; Harry Beasley, escort; William Gibson, watchman; Charles Kuop, sentry, and John Pouthie, manager.
 The old adage 'That what is worth doing at all, is worth doing well'' ap- plies 10 the newspaper work the same as any other. We shall use every effort in our power to make the SKY LIGHT KICKER for 1898 one of the foremost journals in Arizona. No item of news will escape its columns.
 The Holbrook Argus in speaking of that town as ! shipping point says: During the eleven months ending No- vember 30th, of the year 1897, there were shipped from here 693 cars of cattle containing 24,942 head; F cars of sheep containing 1l,144 head; 46 cars of wool containing 1.0s8, 405 pounds. or merchandise there were received 9.S67,92o pounds, and the receipts by the end of the year will amount to, at least, 10000, 900 pounds equal to 300 carloads of 10 tons each
 The Santa Fc Pacific railroad com pany finished their large dam at Wal nut station last Friday. Fred Hoch- derifer was the inspector of the work for the company and completed his report of the entire work on Saturday. The first thing done toward the erect ion of this dam was the surveying by J. M.. Vanderworker on the 3rd of last May, and active work commenced in June. The company did the ex- cavaiing. and the Langtry Brothers