The Holbrook News

News of Holbrook and Vicinity

W. J. Hookway was a Winslow visitor Sunday.

Jas. Scorse and Houston Monger drove to St. Joe Monday.

John Williams was a Winslow visitor the first of the week.

Norman Bennett of Pinto was a visitor in town this week.

C. Hesse, Jr., of Pinedale was in town Saturday shaking hands with old friends.

Chas. Gardner left this week for St. Johns, where he intends to remain a couple of weeks.

J. E. Cox and A. Vandewart attended the Sheep Growers' meeting at Flagstaff Saturday.

Traveling Auditor F. L. Hanna of the Santa Fe railway, was a local business visitor here Monday.

Wallace Larson left this week for Whiteriver, where he will spend a few days angling for the finny tribes.

Cherries, canteloupes, water melons and similar fruits are now getting to be quite plentiful on the local market.

C. E. Perkins returned Wednesday from a surveying tour in the neighborhood of the New Mexico-Arizona state line.

That harvest is near at hand is indicated by several wagon loads of binders making their way this week to interior points.

Dr. E. E. Oldaker of Flagstaff, chief of the U. S. bureau of animal industry for the district of Arizona, was a local business visitor this week.

E. C. Parks, who was looking after the interests of the Parks Transportation company at the southern terminal points, returned here Wednesday.

Isaac Barth, the well known attorney from Albuquerque, was in town Wednesday enroute to St. Johns to argue some cases in the superior court of Apache county.

Judge and Mrs. Sidney Sapp returned Saturday from an outing in California. They visited Los Angeles, Long Beach, San Diego and other California cities and enjoyed the trip and a pleasant vacation.

Buck dipping in accordance with the state sheep commission order, is claiming the attention of the sheepmen. Dipping on the C. E. Owens, John Nelson, and Tomas Ortega ranches was in progress Wednesday. W. E. Floyd, county sheep inspector is supervising the work.

The campaign against the fly is taking a good foothold in Holbrook. Several places around town have installed fly traps and if such a campaign were conducted in Phoenix where the Gazette offers a theatre ticket for every fifty flies the Chicago Coliseum would be required to seat the crowd and a Rockefeller bank roll to purchase tickets. In the yard back of Louie Sam Kee's restaurant, one Efner and two smaller fly traps are catching enough flies that at the rate of fifty flies per ticket Louie could take the entire population of Navajo county to the show twice every day. Louie says the fly traps are by far the cheapest fly exterminators.

Dick Grigsby of Adamana was a local visitor Tuesday.

Tom Pickett made a business trip to Winslow Monday.

Tomas Ortega returned from a business trip to Albuquerque Saturday.

Dr. W. H. Wilks of the U. S. bureau of animal industry, was in town Monday.

B. Cooper of Winslow was in town Monday enroute from St. Johns to his home.

A large centrifugal pump arrived here this week consigned to the Lyman Irrigation company.

Mrs. L. C. Henning returned to Flagstaff this week to resume a special course of study at the normal school.

The regular weekly shoot of the Gun Club was not held Sunday on account of a delay in the shipment of clay birds.

S. J. Bowen of Mesa, who was working in the Taylor neighborhood, was in town Tuesday enroute to his home.

Miss Oaoma Hale, who had been visiting for several days at Prescott, was in town Monday enroute to Snowflake.

Walt. McLaws returned Monday from an auto trip which embraced Whiteriver, Snowflake, St. Johns and Lakeside.

R. V. Redewell, representing the Redewell Music company of Phoenix, was in town this week enroute to Whiteriver.

Mrs. J. W. Bazell left Tuesday for Los Angeles where she will spend a couple of weeks enjoying a vacation at the seaside.

Wm. Wooster has carpenters at work completing his two story adobe building on the north side. The building is to be leased.

Tomas Ortega left Wednesday for Navajo, where he intends to purchase a consignment of goats to ship to Gallup, New Mexico.

C. L. Hart, who has been visiting with his daughter, Mrs. C. H. Jordan, left last week for his home in Centralia, Washington.

Prosecuting Attorney J. E. Crosby went to St. Johns Tuesday to appear in some cases on trial before the superior court of Apache county.

Work on the new Hotel Holbrook barber shop building is progressing rapidly and the building will be ready for occupancy by August 1st.

An eastern subscriber having read about trips by the "Stanley steamer" wants to know if the Little Colorado is navigable. Not at this season.

A. Vandewart of Boston, the pioneer wool buyer in this section having made Holbrook his headquarters during the wool shipping season for thirty years, left Sunday via Kansas City for his home in the east.

Rev. J. M. Ocheltree, superintendent of the Arizona Anti-Saloon League, residing at Phoenix, filled the pulpit at the meeting conducted by Rev. J. Andrew Arnett at the old school house Monday evening. Rev. Ocheltree is a forceful and logical speaker.