Bisbee daily review., 1918-07-12
County NeWS

Frank Tessman, of the Huachuca Water company, is in the mountains for a few days repairing inlet pipes for the company.
 Paul Davis, formerly of COurtland, but now of Swansea, was in Tucson yesterday, having been called here by the local board for examination by the medical advisory board.
 The machine gun troop of the 17th cavalry arrived in Tombstone yester- day from Ft. Huachuca, where they have been on a practice hike from Ft- Huachuca and camped there for the night. resuming their hike to Doug las this morning.
 After nearly two months in Los An geles where he has been having dental work done, w. M AdamsOn returned to Douglas yesterday. MT. AdamsOn Is looking well and says he is glad to be back in Douglas, where, he says, he finds more building going on than in any other city of the southwest.
 A. E. Stevens, one of the big cat tie men of Texas, as a result of his visit here recently, purchased uF- wards of 4O0O head of cattle. These will soon be shipped to his grazing lands in the Lone Star state. This purchase was one of the largest ever transacted by cattIemen in this city. Several hundred head will be shipped from Sonora. Mir. Stevens left for San Francisco Tuesday.
 J. NJ. Sparks of Douglas, announces that the lumber required for the con- struction of the two Red Cross build ings for which he has a contract, has arrived and that work will be under way in a few days. The two buildings will be at Camp Harry J. Jones in the vicinity of the base hospital
 Mrs. James Marrs and daughter. Mrs. J. E. James of Tombstone, left for Fl Paso today, where they will spend several days with Mrs. VeTnette Elliott, daughter of Mrs. Mars, who has enlisted with the Red Cross and leaves for France shortly. She has been stationed at Ft. Bliss for some time but has received orders to go to France. Mrs. Elliott is a Tombstone girl and an expert trained nurse and ig one of the few who will be sent across for war service.
 NJ. Cunningham and Johnny FOst- CT, of the Warren district, were in the city yesterday. coming down on busl- ness. Mir. Cunningham has just re- turned from a vacation trip of one month which carried him to Reno, Nevada. and to Lake Tahoe, where he had a fine time fishing Now he is at home pondering over the deportation suits filed in Tombstone and Just how much money would be left in the bank deposit accounts in BisDee II Bill Cleary anu StTuckmeyer should be awarded all the money they have asked for and are likely to ask for Mir. Cunningham is looking to be III excellent health. after his vacation trip.-Douglas International.
 Evidence that the big central school huilding at Tombstone which is now closde for the summer vacation months was struck by lightning during one of the electrical storms or the past two weeks was found yesterday when E. H. Reeves. one of the trustees or the Tombstone district visited the building. He found where the bolt and struck the cupola of the building, traN- cling downward and tearing consider able plaster off the wall 1t entered tbe telephone wire and grounded which undoubtedly saved the building from catching fire. Had the building caught fire it would undoubtedly have sained considerable headway before noticed as it is vacant. The ground ing of the lightning bolt can be taken as a piece of good luck by the citizens Inf Tombstone, alse they would have been placed to the expense of erecuns a new building.
 Theer has been some confusion among housekeepers in Douglas re garding the signing of the pledge cards for flour and sugar l. was thought by many that all cards shOuiu he signed by a certain date which mas caused considerable of a rush and confusion to the people signing up the customers. This fact does not apply