The Coconino sun., 1916-09-22
Local Brevities

Mrs. E. E. Oldecker left Thursday for Los Angeles.
 J. L. Munds, of Kingman, was in Flaagstaaff aagssataaf yesterday on short busi- ness trip. gun
 Rev. Father Murphy, of Dalhart, Texas, will speak on the dry amend ment in Flagstaff next Tuesday even ing. ,sbr9i1l 5liR s3 a'
 Mir. and Mrs. A. J. Diamond and daughter, Miss Ruth, left Wednes- day morning for Los Angeles on a short visit to the coast.
 Mrs. V. F. Steel, who has been wis., iting in Flagstaff for some time, went to Seligman yesterday to join her hus- band, who is a switchman at that point.
 Mrs. Frank Livermore, who has been the guest of Mrs. T. E. Pollock for the past month, left yesterday for Glendale, to visit friends on her way Dack 10 1uma.
 Dan Francis came in from the Hol- brook country Sunday where he had been looking after his cattle interests and left Monday for Mayer to look after his sheep interests.
 MT. and Mrs. w. A. Pollock, of Iowa, are the guests of MT. Pollock's s brother, T. E. Pollock, this week. They have been visiting on the coast and stopped over on their way home.
 Mrs. Gus Reimer, of Williams, was in Flagstaff Monday accompanied by her attorney, F. M. Gold, to enter the will of the late Gus Reimer for pro- bate. Mrs. Reimer has been seriously i'll since the death of her husband.
 R. w. Watson, the Government Mountain rancher, was in Flagstaff yesterday. MT. Watson says he has the largest crop of oats he has ever raised on his ranch, and that he will have some of his ranch produce on exhibition at the state fair this fall,
 J. S. Amundsen, formerly of Will Hams, now of the big mining camp of Kingman, was in Flagstaff yester- day. Mir. Amundsen now has charge of the Arizona Stores Company's string of big stores in Mohave county.
 E. S. Lawrence, of Winslow, was in Flagstaff Monday.
 Assistant Postmaster Frank Noble received an increase of $100 per an mum recently and has agreed to accept it. He believes he can use consid- erable portion of it in maneuvering with the high cost of groceries, and utilize the rest for new pair of gal fuses. 's4
 John Shorty" Flynn, the famous "pan- handler" "stew starter" and skillet scalder of the northern woods, was in Flagstaff this week from Tuba. He can keep more hot cakes in the air all at one time than any other man of his weight in the business; with one match, chunk of wood and an old tin can, he can "pie" out banquet.
 T. A. Turpen, the Indian trader at Tuba, was in Flagstaff last Friday on his was to Prescott as a witness in the Taddy Tin killing case. While he did not mention the fact, the great government of the United States has stirred up splendid mess in the case which will take some years to get back to normal conditions, all over an Indian who would have been in prison years before if he had been a white man.
 MT. and Mrs. J. D. Houck have been spending the past few days in Flagstaff with Mrs. Houck's sister, Mrs. Frank Leslie. They are on their way back from Wisconsin, where they spent a part of the summer. MT. Houck. attended the c. A. R. reunion while back east. They left Wednes- day for their home at Houck Station, Arizona, where MT, Houck has lived a good many years. There are very few sheepmen who nave been taking their bands south who do not know him.
 Senator Ashurst Is in Flagstaff. Hon. Henry F. Ashurst, United