The Coconino sun., 1919-10-24

and not able to be at his jewelry counter at Kahl's-with bad cold. MT. ond Mrs. Mercer Hemperley are in Phoenix this week, where the former has legal business to attend to- Wilson & Coffin have recently in stalled plumbing outfits at R. E. Tay- lor's ranch home, Mrs. Dan McDon- aids home, and L. A. Cross ranch. Mrs. Tom Rees and Mrs. Chas. Isham left last night for San Fran cisco. They are delegates to the Y. M. c. A. convention to be held there on September 25-27.
 Mrs. Lou Charlebois, who had been in Prescott for several weeks visiting, returned to her home here this week. Husband Lou put in a part of this week on business at Glendale. Harry J. Gray, of Bellemont, will go to Phoenix this week to join his family, who have been at their win ter home there for some time, and to keep track of his sheep on their win ter range.
 Miss Mary Duffy, who arrived here last week from her home in Nogales, to visit Mir. and Mrs. M. A. Murphy and see the king and queen with them. returned to Nogales the first of the week.
 John W. Weatherford arrived here on Tuesday night from Los Angeles. and expects to be here several days before he goes to Phoenix, where Mrs. Weatherford is. He is at the Weath- erford Hotel.
 Eli Giclas, engineer for the Arizona Lumber & Timber Co.,, had a long personal talk with the king at Grand Canyon on Saturday, and says that, while he sure never wants to leave America, he thinks any country that King Al rules must be pretty fine.
 City Council on Monday night granted the request of the Flagstaff Electric Light Co. that it be allowed to raise its rates; added the Mount Elden Heights blocks to the city, and raised the salary of George See, the driver of the fire truck, to $150 month.
 Lewis w. Kelly, who, with Mrs. Kelly, arrived here several weeks ago to visit his brother, the popular J. C.. has decided that Flagstaff is so much nicer to live in than Albuquerque that he will stay here. He is now work ing for the Northern Arizona Motor company.
 Mir. and Mrs. w. H. Power have received word from their son Lester that he has received his discharge from the navy in San Francisco and will be home some time soon. He was offered job as baker on a mer- chant vessel for a trip to Australia, but thought he had enough of the sea for time at least.
 With others who saw the king and queen at the Grand Canyon was a party composed of Lon J. Reed, of Oakland, Cal; Grady Martin. of Bis COG, N. C.; Miss Rosemary Reinhold, and Miss E. Linn Kaasgren, of Glen COG, Ill.,; Miss c. Emma Vandervort, of Wapello, Iowa, and Eli Giclas and Earl Sisk, of Flagstaff.
 J. W. Mercer and Henry Hays, both of the Flagstaff Garage, went out ta the Westover ranch at Dead Mans Flat last Sunday, and Mir. Westover led them out into the wilderness ad- jacent, pointed their guns at big six-point buck and told them to pull the trigger. They did, and brought the buck back with them.
 Miss Kinsey, who came here from Winslow few weeks ago to take charge of the local telephone office until permanent manager could be secured, was relieved this week by D. F.. Jeffery, until now manager of the Winslow office, who will in future manage both that office and the one at Williams from this point. Miss Kinsey will remain here until the first of the month.
 Manuel LaScala, who has been the chief of the Babbitt vegetable and fruit department for long time and one of the best in his line of busi- ness, left Monday for New Orleans, where he expects to go into business with brother in the wholesale fruit business. It is an old established business and the brother has been in- sisting that Manuel come down and go in with him.
 The Western Mercantile Co.,, G. c. Becker and K. G. Stevenson, proprie- tors, have leased the store from Fred Hensing that was until recently occu- pied by the Style shop, and will oper- ate it as a branch store for the sale of holiday goods and then, later on, will put in a big stock of cutlery and other light hardware. They also con template devoting part of the room to restaurant, but do not intend to launch out in that direction before spring.
 J. J. Dooley, who farms it out in Doney Park, says he isn't so gosh darned ashamed of his oat crop this year, even if the yield was light for this section. He got 66 bushels of white oats to the acre and 93 bushels of red oats; but he says he won't feel that he has raised any oats to mention until he passes the 100-to-the-acre mark The potato crop on MT. Doo- ley's farm was rather light, but he reports several excellent yields in his vicinity.
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