The Coconino sun., 1920-12-31
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Rev. Father c. Vabre left Monday
 for Grand Canyon, to hold services,
 returning Wednesday night.
 Miss Pearl Curtis left Monday to
 visit friends in Skull Valley. She will
 return about the first of the year. 1 Robert K. Hill, of the forest serv-
 ice, stationed at Tucson, came up to
 spend Christmas with Judge and Mrs.
 F. w. Perkins,
 Abe Caufman, the wealthiest cattle
 king of the north, was in Flagstaff
 the first of the week from his head
 quarters at Seligman.
 L. c. Ashley, who has been doing
 repair work at Camp Number One of
 the Navajo Copper O., left Tuesday
 for Phoenix on business trip. He
 will be gone for about week.
 Dean Eldridge, who had been at
 Cody, Wyo., for several months, is
 back at his old place at Alex. John
 ston's tailor shop, tailoring away as
 though he had never left town. His
 wife and little son will be here soon. They are now in Iowa, where the boy has been very sick.
 Geo. T. Harrington, the electric | light company man, surprised his
 many friends and patrons this week by sending each of them very pretty and useful thermometers. Now they can all assist him in his work of of ficially recording temperatures and forecasting the weather.
 Dr. F.. S. Miller left last Sunday morning for Calexico, in the Imperial valley, to accompany the remains of Mrs. Harriet A. McAllister to their last resting place. He planned re- turning by way of Phoenix and prob- ably will not be back in Flagstaff be- fore the first of next week.
 Jimmy Lewis was poking up the coal fire at the Breen-Lewis drug store on Sunday morning, when the coal gas exploded, the flames striking him square in the face, singing his hair and eyebrows and blistering his eyelids and one ear. His eyes were swollen shut for several hours.
 Chester Nay has taken the place of Franklin D. Walker at Alex. John- ston's cleaning establishment, Frank lin now being on the briny deep on his way to England, where, as one of the winners of Cecil Rhodes schol- arship at Oxford University, he will remain during the next three years.
 City Clerk Clarence Pulliam, after working until midnight Saturday get ting up some matter for the members of Battery A." thought it pretty near time to go home, especially as he didn't feel good. Next morning it was discovered that he had the humps, and he is taking an enforced vaca- tion in bed.
 James Buckley arrived Christmas morning; from Phoenix, where he is connected with Rabbit Brothers wholesale dry goods house. to spned Christmas and the weekend with his sister, Mrs. Chas. P. Heisser, and MT. Heisser. He returned to Phoeh'x the first of the week to bc on hand for inventorytaking.
 Members of Battery "A" are hav- ing regular drill and instruction work now at the new armory building, which is practically completed and will be turned over by the contractors, Gum and Solberg, within week or so. The work has been well and con- scientiously done and the contractors are justly proud of it.
 The Misses Louise and Barbara Rickel, who are teaching at Hayden, and Miss Mary Rickel, teaching at Jerome, came home for Christmas ,,,;tb fba;, x,oranke M,. aod Mre Thos A. Rickel, Miss Mary to remain here a couple of weeks, the others leaving on Tuesday to attend the state teach ers' meeting at Phoenix.
 City council at meeting last Thursday night, instructed City Clerk Clarence Pulliam to confer with Mrs. T. E. Pollock regarding the appoint ment of a board of trustees for the public library, which is to be formal ly taken over from the Woman's club by the city on the fiist of the year. It is understood that the trustees may number not more than hne nor less than five.
 While running the heating plant at the Northern Arizona Normal school, last Sunday, George Lamport, son of MT. and Mrs. J. A. Lamport, stu dent, was burned about the face and hands. One of the burners in the heating plant was not working as it should, and in repairing it some of the oil caught fire from one of the other burners and burned him painfully, though not seriously.
 "Nick" (most people don't know how to spell his last name) the very obliging "Mine Host" at the White | House Cafe, has returned from two- weeks vacation spent ih Phoenix. To his friends who daily surround his counters and tables he is very earnest ly explaining that he did not spend | most of that vacation in jail. notwith- standing the fact that such report | reached the ears of the aforesaid | friends.
 Cecil c. Mccormick, the big 6-foot-3 | soldier, son of Mir. and Mrs. George | Mccormick, came home Christmas from Fort Bliss, Texas, on 30 days furlough. He has nearly two years yet to serve in the regular army. He is one of the boys recently so fatteringly mentioned by newspa-