Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-01-05
Holbrook Ariz.

George @. Tenney Of Taylor was q
| business visitor in town the latter part
! OF the week.
| Arthur Miller, stockman, of Wins
| low, was transacting business in towr
+, Saturday.
jim Donohoe and wife, OF Adamana
were in town Monday visiting friends
| and relatives.
i Florence Smith and Elva Howell
came down from Navajo Monday &c
attend the dance New Years eve.
Mrs. Sanford Hunt of Hunt, Ariz.
spent Christmas with her mother, Mrs
IL. D. Greer.
Mr.. and Mrs. Will Stoddard of Sauls'
bury, Va, stopped in Holbrook sew
eral days to visit Mrs. Thorwald Lar
SON They were on their way to Cali
fornia to spend the winter months
Mrs. Stoddard is a sister to Mrs. Lar
SON.
Lieut.. Fred Turley OF Snowflake
passed through on his way to st. Jo-
seph to visit his sister, Mrs. Tanner
He will then go on to Prescott.
Levi Brinkerhoff of Woodruff, made
q business trip to Holbrook the latter
| part of the week.
'Chas. Wyrick and family of Winslow
came up to spend New Years day with
friends and incidentally took in the
big dance given in the Pastime theater
on December 31st.
About twenty-five couples from
Winslow, came up to dance the old
year old and the new year in.
| Glenn Howard returned home Sat
urday from Provo, where he has been
attending the boys training school.
| DR.. Geo. p. Sampson of Winsow,
was appointed county superintendent
of health by the board of supervisors.
New Years eve was tho coolest that
has been known in Holbrook for sew
eral years. The government thermo-
meter registered II below zero.
Lieut. j. w. Bazell came home Tues
day to spend a seven-day furlough
Lieutenant Bazell has been in training
at Camp Kearny for the past four
| months.
Warren Brinkerhoff of the B. Y. U.
at Provo, Utak returned home the
first Of the week.
G. /. Houck, sheepman and farmer
of the Salt river valley, was~a business
visitor here the first of the week.
The county board of supervisors was
in session Monday checking up the an
nual business at the court house.
Frank II. Owens, forest ranger at
Lakeside, was in town the first of the
week attending to business matters.
w. b. Woods fine pressed brick
building facing the railroad on Front
street burned to the ground Wednes-
day night with total loss of all it's
contents. Fire was discovered in the
basement about II o'clock, evidently
starting from the furnace of the heat
ing plant. An alarm was sounded but
before help could arrive the flames had
spread beyond control and to make
matters worse the hydrants of the wa
ter system We're frozen and the fire
hose could not be used. The night
was bitter cold with the thermometer
standing at eighteen degrees below
zero, an unusual thing for Holbrook.
The building was the home of the
Mems Toggery shop, owned ty L.
Caldwell company, the offices of the
Postal Telegraph and government sig
nal service, and the local telephone
exchange. The loss of each of the
owners was partially covered by in
surance and 1t is estimated that about
40 per cent will be recovered when
an adjustment is made by the COM
panies writing the policies. Aside
fro mthe loss by the fire the frame
building On the east was pulled down
to prevent the spread of the flames,
and contents of several more in the
neighborhood were moved to place
of safety as it appeared at one time
that the fire would spread through the |
whole block.