The Coconino sun., 1918-04-05

addition to her many other superior attractions, is the best watered town in the valley.-Verde Copper News.
 The Maricopa county board of supervisors has appropriated $400 of the county's~ money to advertise and otherwise advance the thrift stamp movement. In so doing they express ed the hope that the legislature would make state appropriation for the same purpose.
 Brigadier General Der. c. Cabell, commanding the Arizona military district, believes that Jules Verne's suggestion of gun that would "shoot to the moon" gave the Germans their idea for the arm they used to shell Paris from a distance of seventy-six miles.
 The University club of Tucson will this year give two $1250 scholarships to the engineering department of the State University.
 | There is one young woman in Phoe- nix who is more than determined to do her bit toward winning the war. She is Miss Helen Ives, daughter of the late Senator Eugene s. Ives of Tucson. At present Miss Ives is work ing with the Arizona State Fair com mission. When the call cane for thousands of young women able to speak French and to operate cen tral telephone switchboard, she could do neither. But she lost no time in learning. Recently she successfully passed the examination in French giv- en to girls who offer their services as telephone operators for the army. x
 In a letter to F. W. Nelson, w. A. Moeur, state land commissioner, stat ed that he would leave Phoenix for St. Johns on April 1. The purpose of his visit here will no doubt be to look over the land titles and abstracts which will be needed to secure the loan of $150,000 from the state to finish the work on the Lyman reservoir. It is understood the papers are ready and no time need be lost in getting the loan arranged for. St. Johns Ob- server.
 Scott White, of Florence. has been nominated to succeed the late John Birdno as receiver of the U. S. land office at Prescott. His name has been sent to the senate.
 Mrs. Julia Braam, of Holbrook, probably the only lady lawyer in Northern Arizona. recently was ad- mitted to the bar in California, which gives her the right to practice in all the courts of that state.
 Snowflake people have voted bonds in the sum of S25,000 for a public school building for that district. |
 | Mayor Barclay of Globe has started opposition to proposed Fourth of July celebration. He says the money and powder can be used to better ad- vantage.
 The Red Cross society at Tucson has refused to sanction a bull fight benefit that is soon to be pulled off in | the Old PueDl0.
 A saloon keeper named August, who lives in Saskatoon, which goes dry April 1, has hung this sign in his saloon window--"The first of April will be the last of August.' D. E., better known as "Nancy" Hanks, died recently of pneumonia at his home in Winslow. Mir. Hanks was well known all over Northern Arizona, having been resident of this part for many years, and was formerly a conductor on the Santa Fe railway. The first arrest under the new re- gulations requiring that cases of ven eral disease be reported has been made in Phoenix. A young man was fined $50 and given thirty days in jail. He is of draft age and another six months period of confinement awaits him after he is inducted into the army.
 Mrs. Christian Agner of Phoenix, American patriot of German birth. at the age of 60 years, has enrolled as a pupil at business college in order that she might read the letters from her son, who is fighting for the cause of democracy. Mrs. Agner is well versed in the language of her country by adoption, and while she is able to read the newspapers. she has some difficulty in deciphering handwriting.