Weekly journal-miner., 1919-01-22
City Ne1Us In Brief
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 ley was visitor yesterday with friends in the city, returning home later.
 Visiting Sister.
 Miss Peters of Clarksburg, w. Va, is in Prescott for visit at the home of her sister, Mrs. s. c. Johnston of Garden street.
 Clark Gets Clerkship.
 Homer Clark was yesterday ap- pointed to the position of clerk at the Pioneers Home, and has already assumed his duties
 Valley Visitor.
 Mrs. Harry T. Southworth left yesterday for Skull Valley where she will visit for the rest of the week with Mrs. J. V. Dickson.
 New Teacher Arrives.
 Miss Mayowen Edwards of Berke- ley, Cal, graduate of Stanford, is a recent arrival and will go to Hum boldt to teach the pubic school. Valley Visitors.
 MT. and Mrs. Grant Carter of Kirk land were in the city yesterday visit ing with friends, stating that cold weather is still prevailing, but the cattleman and farmer are well pleas ed with the outlook.
 Ingalls Leaves
 Captain Frank s. Ingalls,, who came to Prescott to accept the su- perintendency of the Pioneers 5 Home, but declined to serve for pri- vate business reasons, returned to-. Yuma yesterday.
 Leaves for Oklahoma.
 County Assessor C. E. Gentry left on Wednesday night for Carnegie, Oklahoma, having been called there by the news that his sister was in a critical condition as a result of an attack of the influenza. Business Change.
 Austin Mulvenon yesterday closed the lease of the lower floor of his building on the corner of Granite and Gurley streets to Hicks & Nash of Phoenix, the place to be occupied as a general commission business. More Plants Junked.
 The big milling and mining plants at the Alvarado, in Fools Cullen, and the Rincon, near Congress Junction, are being wrecked for junking main ly by Rosenburg & Co.,, who have purchased the Congress works and are now demoGshing the same. Called Home.
 Mrs. Benjamin Ebbitts left yester- day for Gro Grande, Cal, receiving news that her sister was i'll with in fluenza. MT Ebbitts remains in this section, and is investigating the min { eral country He will probably re- [; main here. I Verde Visitors. f
 Dell Higgins and C. C. Galloway, l Verde Valley farmers, who are inter 2 ested in the oil boom now going on, ' visited the city yesterday on busi- ness. They are sanguine over the 1 fluid, outlook, and report plenty of ! country as covered with locations. t Back from Coast. i
 John Kelley, who had been on the f coast for the past two months on a mining business pertaining to his in- [ terests near Jersey Lily, returned ( yesterday, and reports satisfactory S trip, anticipating at an early date by which his holdings will a be active. Come to Reside. I
 Mir. and Mrs Paul T. Murphy, the S first-named 3 son of former Govern 2 or Oakes Murphy, of Arizona, have { decided to make Prescott their per r manent home, and are at the Hotel f Vendome for the present MT. -Mur- z phy comes to Prescott as representa- ( tive of Pratt, Gilbert & Co.,, of Phoe- nix, hardware merchants. { Slowing Down. f O. O. Ardrey, interested in mining r on Big Bug Creek, was visitor yes f terday and states that some of the i principal mines have started to cur ! tail the force employed. Several of q the smaller properties continue in ac- ton, and favorable reports are heard V from them. Y Resigns Position. r ]. C. Kicker, chief material inspect T or at Fort Whipple, has resigned his position and returned nome last r night to Brooklyn, N. Y, to engage , in other pursuits. He had been rep \ resenting the government His sis- [ Ire, Miss Frances Kicker, who arriv- c d a few days ago, accompanied him I east I Country Visitors. f Mir. and Mrs. c. H. Miller of Santa Maria are in the city visiting with -elatives and others for short time. The first-named states that the coun- try is facing one of the best years ,ver known to rangemen, late storms | nsuring good grazing everywhere ', md water holes filled up for the first inc in many years.
 Entertained Friends. \ MT. and Mrs. L. B. Maxwell of the first-named manager i, ,f the Hart Cattle Co.,, have return fl d home after a week in the city as F
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