The Coconino sun., 1920-07-16

her sister, Mrs. Woodlow. Mrs. Bis sonnette is much better, but is still far from well.
 Leonard Schaffer, of Cincinnati, cousin of A. G. Bader, who had been working in the hardware department at Babbitts' for the last few months, has returned to his southern Ohio home, giving as his reason that he feared his presence here was putting the jinx on the rain.
 l.. A. Cross managed to find his way as far as The Sun office the other, day without getting lost. He visited a while, then carefully wrote down the directions how to get to Babbitts' store, and the last we saw of him he was headed tha. way, so assume he found it without accident.
 Captain Carroll c. Dolman, local agent of the federal board for voca- tional education, headquartered at Holhrook, was in town on Tuesday, and will be here again Saturday. He wants to get in touch with all disabled sol diers and with those who have not vet received their compensation.
 Rev. Father Francis J. Finn, S-J.. of Cincinnati, the famous author of short stories for children, is here visit ing MT. and Mrs. John c. Verkamp for few days. Mir. Verkamp took him to Grand Canyon and an auto trip through the National Park and other adjacent points of scenic interest.
 V. G. Sadler, well-known through out this state, where he was in the newspaper business for several years, and who now is located at Dallas, Texas, was here with his wife for a couple of days this week. They will visit Grand Canyon. Mr. Sadler is now representing a newspaper advertising service.
 At the community house, on Sunday, the Doney Park and Black Bill Park ranchers, with lot of townspeople, had most enjoyable picnic. There were about POO persons in attendance. After the eats, which, it is reported, were unusually good, were dis posed of, the crowd spen, the after noon dancing.
 Harper & Co. have bought out Joy Brothers secondhand store on North San Francisco street, and will run both stores. Garter Joy, who worked for MT. Harper before he and his brother opened their place, will remain in charge of the store, Miss Pearl Harp CT staying there much of the time to attend the bookkeeping.
 Mrs. G. c. Becker and children are expected home the latter part of next week from Los Angeles, where Mrs. Becker has been for several weeks and where the youngest child was born. Mrs. Becker's mother, Mrs. G. w. Brown, of Phoenix, who has been with Mrs. Becker in Los Angeles, will ac- company her here.
 George T. Harrington, the U. S. weather observer, is the man to blame for the drought of the last few weeks. He practically admitted it yesterday, when he said that the reason we hadn't had rain was because he wanted to get the steam heating main laid across the River de Flag before that stream assumed it's midsummer turbulence.
 J. Duff Brown, who doesn't get away from his ranch in Ash Fork once in coon's age, did manage to get in for one day last week. He came to transact lot of business; but first thing on getting here he ran into his brother, R. Tom Brown, and of course the two had to gas, and gas, and gas until Duff said he might as well let business go to thunder, as it wasn't very important anyway.
 Dr. J. o. Creager and Professor O.. H. Richardson returned from the con- vention of the National Education as- sociation, at Salt Lake City, on Satur- day and Sunday, respectively. M. l. Powers, who also attended the con vention, went from there to his old home in Hampton, Ia., and to Chicago. There were 10000 people in attend ance during the meetings, which were held in the Tabernacle.
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