The Coconino sun., 1918-03-15
Local Brevities

Dr. Thos. r. Manning was in Will Hams yesterday on professional busi- ness.
 Mrs. Antonio Chavez, of St. Johns, is in Flagstaff for few weeks visit with relatives.
 Fenton Jones and family, formerly of Flagstaff and Phoenix, are now making their home in Los Angeles.
 J. c. Simmons, the Williamsburg staff painter, returned here Monday after two weeks stay in Williams.
 Mrs. Jos. w. Grammar, daughter of Mir. and Mrs. Pete Michelbach, left the first of the week for Chicago to join her husband.
 Wallace Howard, who has been making his home in Flagstaff for the past few months, left Monday for San Jose, Calif., to reside.
 Leo. F. Verkamp returned Saturday from several months stay at his old home in Cincinnati, O., and visited many other cities in various states while gone.
 MT. and Mrs. Wm. Lockridge and two children, of Grand Canyon, ar rived yesterday for visit with rela- tives and friends. Mrs. Lockridge is a sister of T. E. Phelan.
 Art Williams and Tom Davis, ranch CTS of Fort Valley, arrived in town yesterday and report that they also had some storm up in their part of the country.
 Sheridan Brown returned Sunday from Los Angeles, where he spent a couple of weeks sightseeing. He re- ports plenty of rain and sloppy wealth CT in the Angel City.
 l. P. McConkey, formerly of the firm of Johnson & McConkey, merch- ants of Williams, has accepted the position of manager of the Arizona Lumber & Timber Co.'s store in Mill ton.
 Corporal Harvey Ballard, brother of Mrs. D. Featherstone, passed through here Saturday on his return to Camp Kearny from visit with relatives at Snowflake. He is with the 158th in fantry.
 James Montoya, formerly of Flag staff, now residing in Los Angeles, left Saturday on his return home from a few days visit here with relatives. Jim has position with an auto ac- cessory company in Los Angeles.
 Charles Bigham, foreman of the Whiteriver Cattle Co.,, in southern Ma vajo county arrived in town yester- day from the Verde, where he has been visiting friends and his old haunts for few weeks.
 Mir. and Mrs. D. A. Gilchrist have leased cottage on North Beaver St., and will reside in Flagstaff until Mo- vember. MT. Gilchrist is head of the prairie dog exterminating forces of northern Arizona.
 Mrs. Lee Doyle, who has been spending the winter with relatives in St. Johns, returned home Tuesday. She was accompanied by her sister, Mrs. A. Chavez, who will visit here for few weeks.
 Mrs. J. D. Jackson returned Tues day from Camp Kearny where she has been for month visiting her son Elmer, stationed at that place. Elmer is assistant camp clerk at Kearny, a promotion he received few weeks ago.
 Victor Meyers and family, late of Kingman, are recent arrivals in Flag staff, and will make this place their home. MT. Meyers, who was former ly connected with the Arizona Stores company at Kingman, has accepted 8 position with Babbitt Bros. Charles Canal, formerly of Flag. staff, now making his headquarters ir 2 Los Angeles, was in town the first oi , the week. He is still with the Western Union Telegraph Co.,, having held g position with this company for owe, twenty years.
 : Mrs. Harry Timmerberg and two children left yesterday for St. Louis Mo-, their old home, where they will reside in the future. The remains oi MT. Timmerberg, embalmed some time ago by Undertaken Whipple, was shipped on the same train and will be inferred in St. Louis.
 Don A. Gilchrist, head of the prairie dog exterminating forces of northern Arizona, arrived in Flagstaff Monday from Tucson and left the following day for Eager, Apache county, to at- tend meeting of the farmers of that section. He intends to return here soon and will make Flagstaff his headquarters this summer