The Coconino sun., 1923-05-18

Joe P. Wilson is breaking in a big
Studebaker six touring car.
H. Dixon of Prescott is spending
a few days vacation in Flagstaff.
Former State Senator Charlie Lar
son was up from Ashfork on Tues
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert T. McCrory
have new boy. Mr.. McCrory works
at the Harper store.
/ John Zalaha, one of the chiefs of
the Cooley lumber interests, spent
Tuesday in Flagstaff.
| County Recorder Howard Marine
spent a couple of days the first of the
week at Grand Canyon.
Mrs. R. B. Hampton left this week
! to join her husband on the p. d. Ber-
ry ranch at Grand. Canyon.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Fleming re-
turned the other day from Los An
geles where they visited few days.
& Joe Dolan is burning up the pave
ment between down town and his
sawmill with a new Studebaker sport
sedan:
/ Mr.. and Mrs. J. C. Brown and
| daughter, Miss Estelle, spent yester-
day afternoon in Williams, calling on
/ friends.
"UncIe" Tom Brown got home the
latter part Of last week from Castle
Hot Springs, where he spent the win
/ ter looking after his sheep.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Compton are
4 4 4. Il -.0f
pound girl on Wednesday. Mother
and daughter aregetting along nicely.
! Mr.. and Mrs. c. P. Rouse of New
York recently arrived in Flagstaff to
visit Mrs. Rouses sister, Mrs. j. j.
4 Waldhaus. They expect to remain
here at least through the summer.
/ Recent visitors: w. F. Seidel, j. G.
1 Gillespie, C. l.. Morris and wife, B. B.
Lee, Gordon Elliott, W. A. Post, G. C.
Hymer, Phoenix; R. H. Rhinehart,
/ Camp L; f. M. Mooney, Jerome; Mrs.
I L. NJ Napier, st. Johns.
4 M. r. Willis and Bryan Willis of
Snowflake were here the past week
making arrangements to handle a
/ logging contract at the McGonigle
mill. They will start work as soon
as wagons can be obtained to do the
hauling.
Frank M. Gold got to his law of
1 flee Tuesday morning poorer by one
good tire and rim, which some one
/ had taken from his car in his garage
/ the night before The thief was un-
usually considerate, bringing along
! his own wrench to do the work with.
/ Mrs. Fred Myers went to Jerome
last week and returned Tuesday by
auto with husband Fred, who had been
+ there several months. They spent a
week camping and fishing. Fred has
I started up his bread and ice cream
auto again for the SUMMER season.
George Washington, the well-known
/ Ashfork merchant, and Mrs. Washing
ton, drove up on Wednesday, Mr..
I Washington to get some lumber to re-
4 place the hay barn and corrals he
4 lost by fire few days ago. A car
load of hay went with the building,
4 his loss amounting to more than
X $1,000, with no insurance.
4 w. r. McClurken got back from
4 Phoenix Tuesday morning in time to
4 take care Of the collection of fines at
the Rotary meeting, and left later in
the week for Kingman, where, it is
i assumed, he will sing for the Rotar-
ians. He neglected to take with him
Il the fines he collected here to pay the
fines he should be assessed there.
4 1t was a very lively runaway on
h Aspen avenue through the business
section on Wednesday afternoon. A
Mr.. McMullen had brought in a car
load Of horses and two, hitched to
heavy wagon, were being. tried out.
They sure were speedy. Their plucky
driver, lying in the wagon bed, hung
on and steered straight course be
tween the cars parked at either side
of the street and stopped the team
near the Emerson school.
On Friday a brazen-looking and
much emblazoned young woman mlnc-
ed into The Sun office and announc-
ed that she was taking orders for Gus
: tom made shirts. They're much bet
J ter than you can get in this place,
she said. The fellow she tackled first
said: "Well, | make my living in Flag
staff and here's where buy my
: shirts" "Oh, indeedw she shifted, Il
thought it was Dallas!" and she slam
med the door as she went out.
]. E. Thompson, of Wright Bros,
Bellemont merchants, was in town on
Wednesday. Not much use trying to
kid him about that balky airplane he
and his brother bought last year from
the two former navy boys who bought
it to fly home to Colorado in and then
: couldn't get it to leave the ground
here, where they stopped to rest. The
Thompson boys sold the machine,
: making couple of thousand on the
deal. They only paid $500 for it.
Bert Sullivan, son of Mrs. Jack Kes-
ter, came home on Tuesday from San
Diego, after an absence Of two and a
: half years. The best of it is he
brought his best half home with him,
formerly Miss Cloud, whom he welded
in San Diego ten months ago. She
4 is a charming young lady. Bert and
: his missus are at the Kester ranch
/ helping Jack put in the crops. Bert
, ic in fine health again, having fully