The Holbrook news., 1917-11-09

Holbrook.
 w. M. Peterson, the well known cattleman of Pinetop. left Hol- brook Wednesday for Kansas City with shipment of cattle.
 Mrs. A. M. Boyer will leave Holbrook this evening for Agua Caliente springs, near Phoenix, to take the cure for rheumatism.
 For hog wire, corral fence and everything in the fence line, see i Wetzler's. If.
 Children's free dance Saturday from 3:3O until 5 o'clock at the Pastime. Dance every Saturday evening.
 J. c. PauIsell was in from his ranch this week for short visit with his family. MT. Paulsell's advertisement of brands appears on the last page of this paper.
 Wm. Morgan and family will leave Holbrook in a few days for Phoenix where they will spend the winter. They will travel by auto and MT. Morgan's sheep will be driven overland to that vicinity.
 l. Dr. J. W. Bazell and family left here Wednesday night for a ten days stay in Los Angeles. They will be joined there by MT. James Scott. Mrs. BazelPs father. who has been in Phoenix for several weeks. Mir. Scott expects to submit to a surgical operation and desires that Dr. and Mrs. Bazell be present. M. L. Colby, a real estate broker of Prescott. is in Hol- brook this week looking into the oil situation. He will probably organize a company to put down a well.
 MT. and Mrs. Emmet Wallace arrived in Holbrook Wednesday morning from AlbuQuerque where MT. Wallace underwent an operation for appendicitis about two weeks ago. The oper- ation was successful and MT. Wallace is now rapidly regainlng his normal health.
 B. L. Gibbons of St. Johns has purchased the Ortega meat mar ket. which was owned for two weeks by Vincente DeBaca. MT. Gibbons owns a market in St. Johns and will continue to run that also, dividing his time be- tween the two places.
 Indian Day at State Fair, dur ing the week of Nov. 12-17 will present a newer and better pro- gram than eyer before. There will be all manner of contests and races, exhibition drills by the pupils of the Phoenix Indian school including particularly fine flag drill by the Indian girls, and the Indian exhibits in the various departments will be re- plete with both native wares and their creations under the white tutelage.
 The Apache Railway company this week let contract for con- siderable grading to the Miller Construction Go. of San Bernar- dino, Cal. Other smaller con- tracts have been let to ranchmen in the county. The bridge across the Little Colorado at this place will be put in very soon so that track laying can be started as soon as grading has progressed some distance
 Vernon Taylor was arrested yesterday morning in the Pull man Cafe. where he had been working for several days. He is charged with being implicated in the theft of the Hudson auto mobile stolen in Gallup recently and later located at Allentown. Taylor was recognized by con- ductor Chas. Roland. on whose train he rode into HoIbrook next morning after the automobile was stolen.
 Considerable building is now being done in Holbrook. notwith- standing the high price of mater ial. D. Y. Avon, the we'll known contractor, has four modern re- sidences un d CT construction. These are homes for Mrs. Julia Braam, w. w. Franklin, c. R. Kelly and W. w. Newman. Be- sides these, MT. Avon completed last month three bungalows, two for Mrs. M. A. Purcell and one for F. c. Purcell.
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