The Coconino sun., 1920-01-23

H. c. Sanders and H. L. Benham were up from Williams yesterday, the former helping the latter prove up on his homestead.
 Miss Laura Paris, cashier at the J. c. Penney store, returned Sunday from Dodge City, Kans., where she had been visiting her parents.
 The world is one--all humanity is one. This new religion born of the world war will make sacrifices for the Near East relief an easy task.
 Assistant County Attorney George w. Harben was back at his office the first of the week after several days absence in Kingman and Phoenix.
 One reason that T. A Slattery looks so happy is that little new daugh- ter came on Wednesday to make her home with him and Mrs. Slattery.
 Sam T. Johnson, resident of Flag staff good many years ago, now of Maple, Arkansas, writes they are still doing fine and send regards to their many old time friends.
 Dave Babbitt, Jr., of Babbitt Bros garage, has sold new Ford sedan to Joe Bender and Albert Peck, the new proprietors of the Shamrock auto line, who last week bought out Earl Sisk and Peter Barden.
 Mrs. J. B. Jackson, whose husband has been here for some time clerking in the grocery department at Bab- bitts', has arrived from her former home in Pittsburgh, Pa. They are living with the Runyons, on North Beaver street.
 Durward Mckinney, in Kansas City, Mo-, is studying automobile battery mysteries, will not return to his home here as soon as anticipated. Mrs. Me Kinney receiving letter from him conveying the news that he is quaran- tined with very bad case of the humps.
 Claude C. Black came in from Se- donia on Saturday to meet his father George w. Black, ST., who had just arrived from Los Angeles. Claude says everything is going mighty we'll with his big cattle outfit. He left Sunday for home, by way of Clark dale and Jerome.
 Justice Lewis, of Fredonia, has postponed the hearing in the test case to determine whether Utah. stockmen shall pay grazing fee on this side of the state line, to March 1, the roads up there being so bad that neither County Attorney Gold nor the defend- ants attorneys can get to FredOnia before then.
 Ben Rectdol and Carter Joy, under the firm name of "Joy & Ben," have already established themselves in their new place of business, at IA N. San Francisco street, and are fast ac- cumulating a stock of second hand , goods, which will form the bulk of their stock, as we'll as grain, feed , and "Flavo" flour.
 : Mrs. James G. Swinnerton is out again after very severe attack of tonsilitis, with which she had suffered for several weeks. She plans to leave in few weeks for visit in Los An , geles, and then will go to Honolulu, to spend some time visiting her sister and brother, the latter is in charge of the U. s. aviation corps there. Lester Power writes his dad, w. H Power that he is now baker on the U. s. s. army transport Mt. Vernon the largest ship ever docked at San Francisco, which left there Tuesday for Vladivostock, to get load of Checko-Slovaks, whom they will take home. He has fine stateroom, he writes, and is clearing big money.
 Denny Corey, son of Mir. and Mrs. Charlie Corey, who had a mighty close call with spinal meningitis, left Milton hospital on Saturday, and on | Moplov laft a<roiy fo,- b;c na.,ol 1,, ties, though before going on active duty again he will probably put in a few weeks at the Mare Island naval hospital. His mother went part of the way to the coast with him.
 Edgar Whipple, who went to Oat- man last week to see how things are going at the Almalgamated gold mine, returned much elated over the way Mine Superintendent Fred Hensing has showed the work along down there. He says Fred is a wonder at efficiency and getting work done, and that the mine has already given substantial proof that it will eventually become one of the big paying producers.
 Henry Aphold, deputy county as- sessOr, is spending all but the week. ends during several weeks at Will liams, asking people all manner of questions about their property. Lorum Pratt is taking care of the assessing north of the Canyon, w. H. Power and County Assessor J. D. Dunn are doing the work here in town, and Mr. Dunn will later do the assessing in the Sedona and other southern sec tions of the county.
 Dr. c. F. Portz is again back at his dental offices, he and Mrs. Portz having arrived the last of last week from Pennsylvania, where they both originally came from, and where they had been visiting for several weeks. Dr. Portz says they had a most en- joyable time. Out there, he says, since the bringing in of the big oil gushers in the western part of that state. Pennsylyania is as oil crazy as