Williams news., 1918-04-11
P|TMAN VALLEY NEWS
By Mrs. Platten

C1lC O(1lOO1 1AOOoS O1A Ao octV March 3Oth, not a very large attendance but a nice meeting where two trustees were elect ed regardless of their religious creeds. It seems a pity the school elections are being abr used in the way they are. It is not helpful to the childrens' future, and that is what schools are for. Marion Fix and Roy Nagiller were elected for this year. Let us hope we do not hire substitutes for a teacher who wants to be a hog. Re member there are plenty of good teachers waiting for schools and give all a chance, and give the preference to our home teachers.
 Bert Johnson, wife and baby moved out to their homestead after spending the winter in Williams.
 MT. and Mrs. J. Penninger and family have leased the old Nagiller ranch and will farm it again this year.
 MT. and Mrs. Marion Fix drove to Williams Monday. MT. Fix is preparing to blow up a large area this year.
 Government Prairie ranches are preparing for another good crop this year. Mrs. Parker says she raised some fine cauli- flower last year and will try it again.
 Cattle are drifting in and do not look bad for this time of the year.
 Vim. Ruby is shipping pota- toes from Challender to the southern part of the state.
 Mrs. Fred Holden has moved to town again. MT. Holden will remain on the ranch, putting in crops, etc.
 George Penoyer, wife and baby were visitors at the Plat ten Ranch during the storms. MT. Penoyer is from Wyoming and thought of touring in Ar izona to see the country. His big Franklin Sedan would not pull thru the mud so he decid- ed to leave it here and go by train to Denver. He later re- turned for his car and we hope he sees enough of this country so as he will want to come back again as he is the kind we need here.
 Lew Michey and wife, of Holbrook, were stranded with his Dodge" coming down hill. He left it on the roadside and proceeded by train to Phoenix, where he intends to take place with the Johnson Cattle Company. His car is now in Williams.
 Mrs. O'Brien, of Spring Val ley, says her section is growing. Dourins, O'Connors and O'Bri- ens--looks like the Irish hold sway in that section. Here's wishing them luck.
 Hank Ritter and outfit are working on the State Highway east of Pitman Valley. It was a bad half mile there during the storms.
 I wonder why one sees so many cars go by without a h- cense and then kick about the awful roads. 'We are going to California where they have good roads," they tell us and you may be sure they get a li- cense to run in the roads, too. They pass thru here and tear our roads up then kick about | our roads, They should have a license or be made to show where they have applied for it | You may bet it is not in Ari- l Zona.
 Miss Anna Chestnut has gone to Seligman to live. Davenport Lake has plenty 1 of water now and the ducks are safe we hope.
 Miss Cecelia Ford, niece of | Mrs. Fred Platten writes from Washingto n,D. C., where she | is employed in the Government | Department of Soldiers Insur- ance, that she has just recover ed from the measles, what they | once called German measles, but now term them the Liber- ty measles. They are free, any one can have them. We have | been wondering if one will 1