The Holbrook news., 1916-06-09
ARIZONA, FRIDAY, JUNE g, 1916.

Miss Fay Hey of WinsIow ha
 accepted a position with the Hol brook Mercantile Co.,, taking tn, place of Mrs. c. H. Wisdom who resigned last week. Mis-
 Hey has been connected with tht Calm dry goods store in Winslov for several years; she has haC
 wide experience in the business
 and will no doubt be a valuable
 aid in maintaining the hief
 standard of merchandising eff
 ciency which has been establish
 ed under the management of w.
 J. Hookway.
 Judge Sidney Sapp and c. B.
 Perkins, county engineer, drove
 to Ortega lake about 20 miles northeast of Snowflake, Wednes- day, for the purpose of securing measurements of the capacity ot the lake for water storage. A suit to determine the owner ship of the water in this lake is now pending in superior court and Judge Sapp desires to deter mine the capacity of the lake by the expert report of MT. Perkins.
 Lord Kitchener, British minis ter of war, lost his life by the sinking of. a ship upon which he was enroute to Russia. His ship was either torpedoed or it struck a hidden mine. The ship upon which Lord Kitchener and his staff were travelling sank off the Orkney Islands, in the north Atlantic ocean. Monday night, June 5.
 Thirty-eight car loads of cattle will leave here today in a special train for Garden City, Kansas, consigned to Brown Bros. 6 Hope feeders of that place. The cat tie are mostly yearling steers and were sold by local raisers, among whom are Wallace 6 By, Hennessey Bres., James Dono- hoe, l.. D. Divelbess, Dick Grigs- by and J. w. Walker. The price paid for the cattle was S33 per head for yearlings and $40 per head for two year olds.
 Albert Warren, Holbrook's old established tailor, cleans and reblocks Panama and felt hats in the best style. He also cleans and presses clothing, and does all work in first-class shape. Give him a trial. Adv.
 Some excitement was occasion. ed in town last n-Ssht about 9:3O) o'clock by a stampede of cattle through the streets. Part of the cattle confined in the stock wards broke out and came up town to look at the bright lights. Fortunately some of the cowboys were the first to learn of the stampede and they soon rounded up the bovines and drove them back to the yards.
 Manager w. R. Black of the Pastime theater has started a movement for Fourth of July celebration in Holbrook. He is meeting with some encourage ment from people who have not arranged to attend celebrations elsewhere, and he hopes to be able to arrange for the necessary funds is insure a big celebration in Holbrook.
 Chairman Creswell of the board of supervisors received yesterday his credentials as delegate to the national democratic conven- tion in St. Louis. Owing to the press of business matters at home MT. Creswell will not attend the convention, but will leave to the other delegates the work of selec- ting the presidential nominee.
 SpringervilIe is arranging a big Fourth of July celebration, an advertisement of which ap- pears in another column of The News. A good program of sports and other features has been arranged and the celebra- ton will be extended over three days beginning July 3rd.
 John M. Rogers and Virgil Bushman left Holbrook last Sun day night to act as missionaries for the l.. D. s. church in Ten- nessee.
 Buy your porch furniture now at Wetzler's and get the full sea- sons benefit. Adv.
 Miss Ruth Wallace is again at her desk in the Merchants 6 Stockgrowers bank, after an absence of nearly week caused by illness.
 Mrs. H. A. Cooper arrived in Holbrook early this week from Long Beach, Cal. to join her hus- band, who has been engaged in the blacksmithing business here for several months.
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