The Holbrook news., 1921-04-01
ADAMANA NOTES

take a try for that $1, 100000 golden ground gripper, accord ingly wrote the Examiner stat ing height, etc., as required also enclosing a pattern, or dia- gram of her foot, cut from wrap ping paper, which she attempted
 to mail with the usual two cent postage, but the very next day
 she found her letter her mail box with those magic words on it: Held for postate." Must have been some foot!i
 A tourist party, consisting of H. L. Hotchkiss, his two daugh- ters and splendid assortment of grandchildren, spent the greater part of last week here, as the guests of MT. and Mrs. Nelson. During their stay Miss Gertrude, granddaughter of MT. Hotchkiss, consented to have her seventh birthday in Adam ana, which, with the help of our people was celebrated in true western style, singing cowboy songs and roasting marshmal- lows. The entertainment was closed by Ernest Poole singing that beautiful lyric, You'll nev- CT miss the water till the pool goes dry" MT. Hotchkiss was heard to remark that he had wis ited London, Copenhagen, Paris and Holbrook, but nowhere did he find such hospitality as was accorded him in Adamana.
 Miss Mary Beasley is busy these days writing a short story entitled, fNo Baggage Re quired." This beautiful romance as portrayed by Miss Beasley tells the story of a young man who commenced his wonderful career as a grocery clerk in a small village near the Petrified Forest, where he fell in love with an Adamana lassie and was spurned by her, which seemed to fire his ambition to forge ahead to the very pinnacle of financial and social position until-Well. I think you had better buy the book. It is published by Double day, Page and Company, New York. Price $2.OO.
 Mrs. Charles VonAchen, wife of Mayor VonAchen, of Bibo. spent the Easter days with hel daughter, Mrs. Thomas Walsh, of Williams, Arizona.
 Sheriff and Mrs. R. L. New man and family, MT. and Mrs Wp. Cross and family Forded over from Holbrook Sunday, the 27th, to one of our forests that is not quite petrified yet, to get 2 few of those beautiful and very rare cottonwood sprouts, known in the horticultural world as the Rio Puerco Slim. As is the GUS tom with all owners of a certain make of autos, the estimable young people brought their lunch with them, and while it is now known for certain that they had 1 chicken in their lunch kit, yet | the fact that Major George. Jen- sen lunched with them is a very l strong indication that they did, | as the major can smell chicken | fine at least two miles away.
 MT. and Mrs. M. J. Clossey at tended eight o'clock mass in Winslow Easter Sunday.
 Prof. Pete Beasley has return ed from a tour of the principal cities of northern Arizona. Peter that business is very quiet all along the line.
 The Adamana Sunday school Easter Sunday, in addition to the regular session of the Sun day school gave a very interest ing program at the home of MT. and Mrs. w. O. Morgan, which. was very prettily decorated with of Eastertide for that occasion. Among the flowers used for decorative p urpose es were some very pretty poppies and blue bells sent by Miss Mattie Johnson, from California and some daisies and carnations that were bought by the school. The program was as follows: Vocal solo by Mrs. Joe Thomas. Recitations by Miss Mary Beas- ey, Mrs. Leona, Violet and Incl ma Flynn, Miss Bower and Mrs. Joe Thomas. Miss Bower pre- sided at the organ.
 Adamana is to have regular religious services from now on. Rev. Frank R. Speck, of Hol- brook, gave a very helpful East er sermon in the school house Tuesday evening, the 29th. There was a good crowd in at tendance. Rev. Speck says it will De possible for him to be with us every second Tuesday.
 BerI Johnson, nephew of MT. md Mrs. w. O. MOrpan. arrived l