The Coconino sun., 1925-01-30
LOCAL BREVTTES
Billy Kerr left Monday for Gallup

| night from trip to Sedona.
| II. c. Scudder asks for divorce from
| LaVinme Scudder Frank M Gold is
plaintiffs attorney.
Robert Curry will leave Tuesday
for Prescott to attend the sessions of
the grand jury which will begin on
the fourth.
A. O. Kirby, who has a homestead
at Government Prairie, returned Mon
day from Ohio where he had been for
the past year.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Goodman en-
tertained Mr.. and Mrs. Loren Cress
and Kathryn, Leighton and Dale Cress
at dinner on Friday night.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence. Moser have
moved from the Knoles house on West
FCherry to the Hennessy and Moran
house at Birch and LerouX.
The Shakespeare club viii hold its
monthly luncheon tomorrow at the
home of Mrs. William Rudd, who with
/ Mrs. l. E. Hart will be hostesses.
Fritz Schuerman spent Tuesday
/ here on business. He has sold his
| butcher shop in Clemenceau and will
devote his time to his cattle interests.
Mrs Herbert Asselin and Mary Jane
! left Wednesday night for Albuquerque
to visit Mr.. and Mrs. J. H. Asselin,
father and mother of Mr.. Asselin, for
| two weeks.
Arrangements were made on Mon
i day for the entrance to the Pioneer
home of Wash Henry. Application for
him was made by Judge j. &. Jones
of Flagstaff.
Cleon Btter has been laid up for
some time with rheumatism, which
first attacked knee and later shifted
to one of his eyes, giving him a great
deal of pain.
Mrs. John Cook, wife of the former
ranger at Cliffs, came from Grand
Canyon, where they now live, to visit
! Mr.. and Mrs. A. A. Johnston from
Sunday to Tuesday.
DIR. and Mrs. J. o. Fordycc and son
are leaving overland tomorrow for
Phoenix. DR.. Fordyce will attend a
convention of chiropractors next week.
Mrs. Fordyce will not return with him
but will stay there for month or
more.
Mr. and Mrs Ben Wetherill and a
troupe of five Indians passed through
Flagstaff Thursday on their way back
to Kayenta from Los Osa ranch,
where parts of famous Indian dances
were given for the benefit of winter
guests.
Williams town is entirely out Of
water and the citizens there have to
depend on melted snow AS soon as
the spring thaw begins there will be
water for all needs and the advent
of warm weather is being looked for
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Harrison Conrard, who has been in
town since he was driven in by the
cold last fall, will return to Robbers
Roost on Monday by means Of horses
and sled, accompanied by Neil Bertel-
ing who will help with the completion
of Conrard's two new books, "Aisles
of Peace" and Peggy of Lone Peak"
which are to be published in London
about March first.
Johnson Curry, successful rancher
and clerk of the school board at that
! place, spent Wednesday and Thurs
| day in town on business, visiting his
daughter, Mrs. Frank Compton. He
reports that the work of tearing
down the country school houses at
| Spring Valley and Government Prairie
is progressing nicely and that soon
there will be as fine a school plant
at Maine as anyone could ask for.
The Literature division of the Flag
staff Woman's club will meet tomor-
row afternoon at 2:30' at the club
house. An invitation to be present is
extended to all club members and
others interested in the subject Of
bringing boys, girls and books to-
gether. Mrs. V. NJ. Slipher viii be the
leader. There is also important bust
ness to come up before the DEPART
ment.
When Current and Patterson were
recently tried here for uttering bad
checks in Williams, Current assumed
all the blame and was sent to the
state penitentiary. This week Sheriff
Parsons and Under-sheriff Durward
Mckinney took Patterson to Williams,
where Mr. McLeese, the druggist,
positively identified him as the man
who passed the bad check on him.
Patterson is back here in jail await
ing trial
Ray Downer, contractor on the ma
tiollal highway east of town, and wife
are enjoying visit from party of
relatives who arrived on Wednesday.
fThey are his mother, Mrs. j. Francis
Downer; his sisters, Miss Marian
Downer and Mrs. H. Tackabury, all Of
Berkeley, Calf and Mrs Downer's
mother, Mrs. NJ. Morrison of Oak
land, Calf. They will go to the Can
yon for day or two, after which
they will return home overland in M.
Downer's Lincoln car.
Dee Wright had the bad luck to re-
ceive broken nose and bruised
chest in a smashup near Humboldt,
Monday night on his way home from
Phoenix where he had been to visit
his family over the weekend. Blackie
Hoffman, who was accompanying him
in another car, rushed him to Pres
colt for first aid, after which they
were able to come on home. The car
was badly damaged, having run into
an unpainted division between the
FOOT path and the vehicular traffic.