The Coconino sun., 1919-02-21

| J. J. Waldhaus is on trip to the
 valley that will keep him away from
 home several dayse.
 The delegation from Utah sent to
 Phoenix to confer with the proper au- thorities in regard to obtaining a DOT tion of Arizona lying in Coconino
 county and north of the Canyon, has returned to Utah with out accomplish
 ing anything worth while. No en- couragement was given them in their
 quest from any quarter and the sub
 ject will no doubt be dropped for good now.
 It has been proposed that a sepa- rate county be made of part of Co.,
 conino and a part of Mohave coun- ties. No official action has as yet been taken on it, however.
 T. A. Stahl, local agent for the Santa Fe, has received wire from a
 soldier boy who passed through here stating that while he was on the sta
 tion platform he lost the much cov- eted and prized Croix de Guerre. The Croix de Guerre is given by the French government only to those who
 have shown exceptional bravery, and the loss of the decoration would cer-
 tainly be deeply felt loss to any one. The snow was still falling yesterday afternoon at the time of writing and the skies and clouds and winds gave little promise of any speedy end to the storm that has been with us for several days.
 Chet Black tells us that, not content with the big business he has built up since he went into the old stand of the Flagstaff Mercantile Co.,, he is going to add another department to his business and handle fresh meats. This new departure for him will no doubt find ready favor among his customers.
 Mir. and Mrs. Morden Wilson re- turned home the first of the week af- ter a pleasant visit spent with Mrs. Wilson's parents in Albuquerque. Tomorrow night at Marian hall there will be big masquerade ball, doors open at o'clock. Several val uable and worth while prizes have been offered by the merchants of the city. Hilburn's orchestra will furnish the music.
 Quite few persons living in the western end of the town were startled yesterday by volley of shots that . started unexpectedly and continued for possibly three minutes. It was only the moving picture people at 5 work. May the pictures be as realistic as the sound of the shots.
 :. John J. Simpson and wife got back ! to Flagstaff Monday after an ab. /, sence of about five months and it is their intention to remain here for tht
 rest of the winter! MT. Simpson is | carpenter and contractor and while !! away was engaged on the erection oi ! the school house at Snowflake.
 - Chet Alexander, for a number oi E years pressman on The Sun, later To- o cated at San Diego, was in Flagstaff! n Sunday visiting his wife and relatives
 He has been working on the News al E Jerome for sometime and came up tt t take his folks home with him. Tht d strike has quieted things down to s great extent in Jerome, Chet says y but there are hopes of seeing thu :, camp booming again in the spring. d J. J. Cummings, managing lum
 berjack, was in Flagstaff this weel S with his secretary, Mir. Buck Smith f Mir. Cummings advises that there wal r a good crop of timber trimming las ]. year and he is offering to dispose ot z that part of the crop he gathered r that is, that portion not bailed ol r sacked. Both MT. Cummings and hi
 secretary, Mir. Buck Smith, expect tt |, return to the treed woods again thi: !, spring for the purpose of sorting ovel next year's'crop.
 Mir. E. s. Carlos returned last weeh from the Globe country where he hat been called by the serious illness o1 his eldest daughter, Mrs. Henderson ,. and her children, all of whom were , suffering with the influenza. All oi them have recovered. MT. Carlos re-
 ports that cattle down in that coun' n try have come through the winter ir . fine shape and that feed on the range is now up a couple of inches, guaran. :. teeing that they will come through e to spring in good shape.
 = Lieutenant Colonel Power Conway a who has been doing power service fol ,. Uncle Sam in France with an engi s neer's corps, passed through Flag
 staff Sunday on a belated train on hi' e way home to Phoenix. Mir. Conway ), went into the service as a captain ant s in a short time accumulated a maple r. leaf on his shoulder and came hom, f with the maple leaf turned to silver S that is army talk for going up to {
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