Weekly journal-miner., 1918-10-16

Mayer public school, was brief visi
 tor yesterday. reporting that com
 munity as in a healthy state. the flu as yet failing 10 make its appsaranc, ! there.
 Getting Dry.
 Mir. and Mrs. William Akard anC
 children are in the city from Stanton
 where the first named IS engaged 1T
 farming and cattle raising. He state
 weather conditions are bad and rair IS again needed.
 Come to Reside.
 Mir. and Mrs. ]. R. Fletcher. un iil recently residing at the Blue Bel
 mine, have moved into Prescott tC make their future home, buying ar improved place on Mt. Vernon ave. nuc.
 Mining Man Returns. c. V. Norton, operating mines or
 Big Bug creek, has returned from .Muskogee, Oklahoma, where he had been consulting with associates, and leaves today for his camp to resume development.
 TO Bouse
 Mrs. C. ?. Wells, Mrs Harry C. Hood and their children, numbering Tive, passed through yesterday from Winslow for Bouse, where they will visit with relative of Mrs. Hood leaving on account of the influenza. Teacher Visits.
 Miss Katherine Coughlan, teacher bf the public school at Middleton, was a visitor to the city yesterday and reported not a single case of in- iluenza among her pupils, number -ng fifteen. The school of course is closed.
 Leave For Coast.
 MT. and Mrs. F. Bryan Clark. the former for many months an employee of the Edwards Drug Store. left yes terday afternoon for Los Angeles, where Mir. Clark will take a position with one of the big coast retail drug firms.
 Sells Mining Interest.
 Mrs. Lena H. Hooker, a former resident of this city, now of Phoenix, has sold her interest in the New Cen tury group near Walker to the Black Diamond Co.,, her co-owncr being D. l.. Booker, the separate deed being recorded this week.
 Mining Business.
 William Christman, who has min ing interests in Eureka district, is in the city on a business trip, and re- ports only limited operations incl dental to the war. with owners wait ing to close deals after hostilities end, several properties being ready to change hands.
 Vacation Trip.
 (. F. Rees. with the s. F. P X P. in the machine shops, left yesterday jor San Francisco to join his wife and enjoy a vacation for few weeks. He states his father, Joe Rees, loco motive engineer, is rapidly recovering from an operation at Mercy hospital and soon will resume his run. Postal Official Here.
 C. F. Dutton. postoffice inspector of the Arizona division, is in the city and has abandoned a trip to Jerome, owing to the quarantine shut out. He says he does not stay long enough in any locality to get the microbe on his trail and so far has escaped in lection.
 Light Rain.
 F. Ml Mann, an arrival in auto yes terday forenoon from Phoenix, re- ported a light rain out of Bumblebee early in the morning, lightning being a feature of the storm Mir. Mann comes to take his family home and states they will reside somewhere" in Salt River valley away from the flu-afflicted region. Starts Camp.
 A letter from Tiptop states that a Colorado mining man named Vickers has closed a small deal and is es- a camp about eight miles distant toward Crown King at point known as the old Stockade ranch Supplies and material are being pack ed in, and the new operator is pre- pairing to close another option deal for adjoining claims. Called Home.
 Steve A. Mapes, business man of Las Vegas, New Mexico, who has been looking over conditions in diff ferent localities, with view of re- moving to this section. received ad vices from home yesterday of the serious illness of a daughter eight years old, and he will leave today It is believed the girl is an influenza victim. Mir Mapes is quite favorably with the outlook of Mayer. All For Nothing.
 A C Gilmore. who had been SCOUT