The Coconino sun., 1920-12-24
THE COCONINO SUN


 Monday night, to remain with his family here until after the first of the year.
 Mrs. Archie T. Hogan is spending the holidays at the home of her par ents, in Albuquerque, Archie taking enough time off to be with her over Christmas.
 Mrs. c. E Phillips, who has been visiting relatives and friends back in Maine and Massachusetts since Sep tember, is expected home the first of next week.
 Tuesday w,ls the shortest day in the year. From now on old merry sun shine will commence to string out and give us more hours of daylight until about June 21, 1921.
 Gladstone Matejka, who for the>past five months has been bookkeeper at the Breen-Lewis drug store, left Sun day for his home in Chicago. He does not expect to return.
 MT. and Mrs. J. c. Clarke, c. E. Phillips and Miss Florence Aver mo- tored out on the reservation on Sun day, to look at ruins and look for rab- bits. They found the ruins.
 Two of our town boys stepped on her little too muchly Saturday. Re- suit, $5 and $10 fines imposed by Po- lice Magistrate Gilliland. The boys admitted that they had been speeding.
 They are taking John Barleycorn off the human as a motive power and now contemplate using him on ma chinery. If he can make machinery go like he did humans, it will go some.
 State Auditor Jesse Boyce dropped into town on Tuesday, on business, and proclaimed the weather we were enjoying after our snow storm bet ter than any bootleg whiskey that ever was made.
 George F. Campbell left the first of the week for Forepaugh, in the south ern part of the state, where he will remain most of the time during the rest of the winter looking out for his livestock interests.
 John Weatherford came down town again the first of the week after be- ing laid up for about two weeks with a severe attack of the grip, in the course of which he had a narrow es- cape from pneumonia.
 Adolph Boenitsch returned Monday morning from trip to San Francisco, Oakland and Los Angeles. He reports lot of rain in California, evidently part of general storm, which here took the shape of snow.
 Mrs. Annie B. Gray left on Sunday morning for Aguila. She has mining property there and after a few days there looking it over, she will go to Phoenix, where she plans to stay dur ing the rest of the winter.
 Father Webber, the noted Navajo linguist of Ganado, stopped over in Flagstaff couple of days with Father Vabre the first of the week, on his way home from Los Angeles, where he had been for medical treatment.
 The Spanish-American lodge in- stalled new officers for the coming year on Saturday night. They are: President, Joe Mondragon; vice-pres- ident, A. Sarabia; secretary, E. Mata; treasurer, Mrs. Joe Mondragon.
 Mir. and Mrs. J. R. Douglas came up last Friday from Phoenix to visit the latter's parents, Mir. and Mrs. Dave Lewis. Mrs. Douglas will remain here until after the holidays. Her husband returned to Phoenix Wednesday night.
 Flagstaff business houses have been showing many splendid holiday decor ations. Their windows have been works of art this year and have att tracted most favorable attention from visitors far and wide. Flagstaff is a holiday town the year around.
 Charlie Woolfolk returned Tuesday from Canyon Diablo, where he had been for a few days looking after his ranching interests. He says they had no snow down there, and that Sum- days and Mondays storm did not ex- eend more than dozen miles east of Greenlaw's.
 A letter from H. L. Tepe, who with his family left last week for Los An geles, advises that Rev. O. s. Baum is mending slowly after very trying ordeal at the hospital. MT. Tepe be- lieves he will eventually regain his former good health, but says that he is still very sick.
 D. J. O'Brien, who served for four years with the Canadian Tight horse" during the recent war, dropped in from British Columbia few days ago to give our little city the once over. Mir. O'Brien is brother of Dave and Billy O'Brien and also has quite a large number of other relatives in Flagstaff.
 John Zalaha, general manager of the manufacturing plants at Cooley, here last week, went back to Cooley for few days, then came back again, showing up Monday at the Arizona Central bank. Mrs. Zalaha and the children arrived Monday night, to visit her mother, Mrs. G. N. Baty, until af- ter the holidays.
 The three inches of snow was well eomcd by people generally and the kiddies especially, because it decor ated the thousands of thousands of Christmas trees around Flagstaff. It also brought good cheer to the ranch CTS who have in mind next years uo,rz.,1,, kLn .nnr, ,,,o,