The Coconino sun., 1925-02-06

Bill Dalton Is engaged greater
part of the time in repairing shoes
for the school children. 1t requires
oiligent and constant attention to.
keep four hundred and thiIty-eight
pairs of feet properly shod.
Another of our Navajo pupils has
had to give up the struggle for a
higher education. Miss Evelyn Dixon
who has been attending Sherman In
stitute at Riverside, Calf, for sew
eral years past has been pronounced
physically unable to continue her class
room work, and consequently was eX
cused by Superintendent Conser to
return home. She arrived at Canyon
Diablo last Saturday morning and has
been resting up at the boarding school
here since that time. Her parents
live in the Castle Butte neighborhood.
Little Billy Williamson came out
from Winslow Saturday with his
mother and visited here until the fol-
lowing day.
Rev. and Mrs. A. K. Locker accom-
panied by Miss Annie Rhodes and two
of the school girls spent Saturday in
Winslow.
With our swift-moving truck drivers
breaking the record ON speed, the mat
ter of transporting three hundred tons
OF coal for Leupp school from the rail-
road at Canyon Diablo, has proven
but a trifle. Lawrence Dixon made
three trips one day and Ernest Holmes
made four, bringing truck capacity
each time.
Great excitement and anxiety pre-
vailed about the campus one evening
last week, when little Dorothy Ann
Dalton, whose mother is assistant ma
tron at the boys building, had quite
violent attack, after swallowing some
cleaning fluid left within her reach.
She was rushed to the hospital and
Dr.. Warren and nurse, Mrs. William
son, hurriedly gave first aid and it
was soon discovered that Dorothy's
condition was not so serious as it had
at first appeared. 1t seems she haG
taken up a pitcher containing kero-
sene, and mistaking it for water had
drawn a small amount into her lungs
when she gasped over the taste of it.
Very little, if any, entered her stom-
ach as most of the contents were
spilled down the front of her clothes
but it was a day or two before the
little one was her former vivacious
self or her parents recovered from
their fright.
The flu has not been the only epi-
denlic that came our way during the
past few weeks. Another and more
fatal malady seems running rife and
Dr. Warren states that no vaccine will
counteract its tendencies once the bug
takes firm hold of its victim. We re-
fer to the marriage epidemic with
which the new year has started.
Supt. Harmon p Marble has been
called upon to perform four marriage
ceremonies during the month of Jan
uary, and if the good work continues
at that rate, there will be lot of
new families established on the
Leupp extension in 1925. To repeat
or print the names given, would put
to shame the cross word puzzle in
dustry.
A sister of Mrs. Eskan-do Spencer
living out on the reservation, has been
very seriously i'll with pneumonia.
Mrs. Spencer has been assisting in
taking care of her during the past
week, and Dr. Warren was called on.
the case.
The weather turned extremely cold
in these parts Thursday night and
those who had not drained their ra-
diators, had some coaxing to do in
starting their cars the next morning.
Mr.. Reed, of the Indian employment
agency at Phoenix, spent Friday night
in Leupp, and early next morning
left for Albuquerque, accompanied by
Marcus Kanuho and Lawrence Dick
son Of this agency. Supt. Harmon P.
Marble took the train at Winslow,
Sunday evening and joined them next
day for the purpose of selecting two
Denly trucks for the Leupp agency.
The cars are to be transferred from
another department and were to be
overhauled under supervision of Mr..
Reed and driven home by the two
Leupp chauffeurs.
Miss Mamie S. Benton arrived here
Sunday from Washington, D. c., hav-
ing been appointed by the Indian of
flee to the position Of stenographer
for this agency. Miss Denton's home
is in southern Illinois, but she has
spent the last six years in Washing