Winslow Mail (Newspaper) - April 21, 1916, Winslow, Arizona is The of Northern The w 9. Clean Local Newspaper For the vol 26. Navajo 1916. no. 12. The Arizona Stae The Arizona State Bank of Winalow is now an established and going Last April 17th, this new bank opened its doors to tne public in the old Bank & Trust Company building under the name of the Arizona State Its strength and substantiability is plainly shown by a statement of its condition at the time of its and any old or may well point with pride to such a and the depositors in such a bank can have only a feeling of absolute security and It is the aim and intent of the Arizona State Bank continue along the same strong and secure basis on which it supplying its every accommodation that is within the bounds of safe and give the same support to the general business of the people of Winslow and vicinity that it expects to receive from Elks The Winslow Mail can state that the biggest attraction for the coming summer will be the Elks carnival which will be held some time early in the exact date not yet hayings been decided It is the intention of the committee having tne matter in sharge to pull off all the stunts known to the and not a few stunts that the never heard making it a week of lively sport and entertainment it will repay going miles to Already o comic opera company has been engaged to give a performance every night during the carnival as a proper and restful out of each day's From a interview with a member of the committee the proposed program they to a restful evening from the exploits of the day's sports will be appreciated by Family April 28tb, the students of the high school will bring to a close their dramatic entertainments for this school year by presenting to the public a three-act comedy Family The cast for this play was selected early in the year and they have been applying to their respective parts with considera bie and not a little ambition to excel previous re cords of other The for the production are authority for the statement that there is a continual round of laughter during the entire two hours required to produce the It will be well to procure your seats as there will be only standing room for the late day honey in Winslow Surprise your Elsinore Elsinore honey for picnic For a store building on Front Inquire of J. F. For seven head of milch C. G. Christian Science services at the Maccabee hall every Sunday at 11 6'clock. For my residence property on west 4th Four rooms and W. E. R. I. Red Baby Chicks 13 White Leghorns 9c Safe R. C. R. 3. Ariz. Commercial Special meeting of the commercial club was held Wednesday evening in the Elks hall to her the report of the committee appointed to draft a constitution arid The committe its report which was Under the provisions of the new constitution an election of officers for the ensuing year was and the following were F. M. M. L. vice P. and A. S. Bray The matter of a delegation visiting Snowflake was and the date agreed was April 29th. The services at St. Paul's church both morning and be Eastertide in In the morning there will celebration of the Holy and a brief and in the evening a large vested will render special Easter and the address will be directed particularly to the Masonic which has been invited to attend this At 3:30 p. m. there will be a special Easter service for the children of the A cordial invitation is extended to all to attend these Methodist Wednesday night Mrs. W. Cole will be hostess to the Woman's Bible who will hold a business session at the parsonage and spend a social hour Thursday night meeting at the Methodist subject are Sunday School at 10 a. m. Easter Program at 10:30 a. m. Baptism and probationers class Sunday worth league at 7:15, sermon at 8:00 p. m. Special Baptist The Easter Program will be rendered at 11 o'clock in the hall on Front This promises to be a service of unusual Come and enjoy the occasion with The pastor will speak at 8 o'clock in the his subject George Creswell in from the mountains this week for the first time in a Loren is again around after a severe attack of which kept him confined to his room for a Mrs. Wyrick and daugh ter are spending a few days in Holbrook as. the guests of the Misses There will be a novel entertainment at the guild April 27th. Refreshments will ' be 15c. The Indian traders from the reservation north of here have been in town the past week making their quarterly purchases of and as a result there has been more than usual ty in mercantile April 22d, the Baptist ladies will hold an apron bazaar and an old-fashioned strawberry festival in the old city market on Kinsley Anticipating Easter they will also sell colored egg and Door opens at 10 a. m. and continues all The Triangle feature pictures which the Electric commenced showing this week are proving popular to motion picture and is the magnet drawing the big Manager Seeger is to be congratulated for having arranged to have them shown in Local Mrs. Joseph Donahue has returned from a pleasant week spent in Los Mrs. J. returned last Sunday from Los Angeles where she has been spending the Myron Heuser has gone to Los Angeles to visit with his who has been in weeks for her Mrs. Ed Clarke and young who now w reside in Los are the city for a short time to visit with Mr. Miss Elizabeth Perkins was called to her home in Tuesday by the illness of one of her James who for four months has been a resident of the Salt River came back Monday morning and will remain for some Mrs. E. A. Parks returned during the week from a two visit with her son in While in the east also friends in Ohio and other Invitations are out for the annual business and social meeting of St. Paul's Episcopal which will be held in the guild Monday evening at 8 p. m. H. J. accompanied her Mrs. left Tuesday evening for the hosr pital at where Mrs. Dooner will go under the care has been very ill for a Mr. J. W. of is in town this week on He reports the southern part of the state in splendid condition and that all stock and sheep have plenty feed due to the late Mrs. Alice of sister of Mrs. C. M. came down Wednesday evening to spend a few with her and they will be joined tomorrow by Allbert Stump a who will arrive from Albuquerque to spend his vacation with Mr. Stump was raised in and made his home here until - a. few years he left for Albuquerque with his Last Friday evening at the Electric a company of Grammar School under the direction of Miss suh of presented the little Cock H A full house greeted the which no doubt stimulated them to their best as the performance passed through to the closing chorus without a William brother-in-law of H. B. arrived here Sunday morning from amd spent a day as a guest at the Takken Mr. Rotschafer has been in India as a missionary for the past eight and at the present on a furlough of six months on account of ill He went from New York where he will take back with him collections for the schools and The editor of the Winslow Mail owes an apology either to Mr. David Babbitt or Dr. Miller of Dr. Miller was in the city last and to the eyes of the reporter he looked like Mr. and it was so Now comes word to the editor from San Francisco from Mr. Babbitt protesting vigorously that he was not in When two such handsome men look so much alike the reporter cannot be blamed for making a mistake once in and one or the other ought to grow red hair as a distinguishing Attempted Last Friday evening about 7:30 p. m. W. W. Scribner made a deliberate attempt to murder Mr. Nick firing five shots at his intended victim through a but fortunately none of them took The origin of the trouble dates back several weeks when Scribner bought the carpenter shop of Mr. and trouble over payments due have been frequent Saturday another dispute arose which terminated in a fight in which a few blows were Smarting under his alleged grievances Scribner armed himself with a revolver early in the and walking up to window looking into Mr. room opened a fusilade with his second shot Mr. Dovas to the and the other shots went wide of their Thinking he had killed Scribner went to the home of Leon and under pretense that he wanted to attend a charivari hired Mr. Schmitz to take him in- an and borrowed gun and an extra stock of He also to the home of Joe Bauer and borrowed another After proceeding in the car as far west as the round house Schmitz asked how far they expected to when out his explained to the now frightened driver that he had killed Dovas and wanted Schmitz to keep right on going as fast as he and lie would tell him when to After proceeding a short distance further with rare presence of told the crazed man that he could not go much further without getting more and the man got out of the machine so the 4rrver could return town for threatening him as he started away that if he was not back in forty he would kill Mr. Officers by this time were on the trail of and he was shortly afterward picked up and lodged in and the next day he was given a preliminary released on a bond for life of and a ' bond to keep the court also placed Nick Dovas under bond to the i Oil Interest in the oil wells has again struck this of the country and considerable excitement has been stirred up over the of crude oil on the north side of the Colorado river near Lee's Oil was discovered floating down a creek a mile from the source where it seeped out of the It seems to be of asphalt base and burns The discovery was made about a month ago by a man named Lee who brought samples to A company was organized composed of S. S. George W. G. Dickinson and An engineer and surveyor was sent over there to make locations and lurther investigate the If their report is work of sinking wells will be commenced this summer on the Experts long claimed that there was oil in paying quantities in that section of the country but no company has so attempted to develope it. A few good oil wells in this section would materially advance the prosperity of Coconino Sun. Store Room for The store room that has been occupied by W. E. Beck & Co. will be for rent after April 15th. Inquire at the - State Tax The state tax commission in full Campbell and in the city Wednesday in close consultation with County Assessor Fay Gardner and City Clerk and there is a strong suspicion in our mind that they were trying to slip something over on our but always cheerful tax The commission are friendly to the unit base for assessing city real and as a starter for this year have taken the four business blocks bounded by Front Warren Third street and j Williamson The four corners at Kinsley and Second are the basic and are assessed at not including improvements It was also ordered that improvements on real estate should be increased twenty per cent oyer last The commission left Thursday morning for Apache ' Murdered in Mr. W. G. secretary of the Elks is in receipt of a written by R. L. Estes on hoard the supply ship off the coast of Lower giving a full account of the coldblooded murder of Walter a member of the local order by some Mexican Mr. Wallace was well-known to many of our as he was employed by the Santa Fe as a brakeman until he left here a few years ago The facts as we gather them from the writer are that on April 14th Mr. accompanied by four other two women and four started from by ' handcar to reach where they to take a train for When within about five miles of their destination they came to a small and leaving one man with the women and Wallace with three others started for the to try to arrange for breakfast for the They had only proceeded a short distance when they were fired upon from ambush and all four were killed within sight of the balance of the party left at the The bodies were brought to Mazatlan the following day for Mrs. Wallace is stil at Mazatlan iir almost destitute as the bandits robbed the party of all their valuables after the For eggs for from Barred Rocks and single comb Brown D. P. Mr. and Mrs. O. B. have returned from where Mr. Sutton has his winter Mrs. Sutton has been spending the last months witb The domestic science class of the high school gave another of their delightful dinners Thursday evening in the domestic science rooms to their mothers and John Ament and parents of Mrs. Homer are visiting in the city this week from their home at N. where Mr. Ament is employed by the Santa I. A. to B. of L. E. met for a social afternoon at the home of Mrs. Riley A pleasant time was with fancy and a delicate luncheon was enjoyed by There was a touch of spring time in the table which were cherry blossoms and Additional C. W. Harp and wife made a pleasure trip to last Mrs. J. M. Russell Tuesday from a pleasant week Mrs. Anna of is in town visiting with her many J. B. returned Wednesday from v a two vacation in Los Mr. and Mrs. Service are home again after an absence of several weeks in R. S. assistant was in. town this week on business connected with his his official J. E. Kleindienst has returned from the mountain fastness in southern Arizona to visit a fetor weeks with his ladies of the Altar Society will hold the first of a series of card parties Maccabee Easter at 2:30 Fred S. Carter will return Phoenix and will conduct Easter service in the tian church Sunday morning and * evening at the Mrs. J. H. White left Wednesday morning for a two visit with relatives ' and in Oklahoma and White will join her and company her The republicans of this county will hold a mass county convention Holbrook to-morrow - and of the faithful will journey seat for Miss Nettie Hey has closed Ber school at and is in city visiting her week she goes to Holbrook to ' visit another and then to her home at for the The report reaches a former boy of our died in Los Angeles last week from heart His family left here al years but young has been back several Misses Dee Moss and Pauline Woods came down from Holbrook Saturday to spend Sunday with their Miss Marguerite Drumm accompanied them on the return trip to spend * the week with her Mrs. The Ladies of the will give their annual May day ball at the Electric May 1st. The ladies are planning on making this the enjoyable affair of the There will be a prize music will be furnished by a Everybody Tickets W. W. who has been in Winslow for the last ten days on returned to his home in San first of the He will stop at Phoenix for a short time on his way Mr. Perkins is another who has migrated to but is always glad to get back even for a few days to greet his many The Holbrook base ball team journeyed down here last Saturday in two with the idea firmly imbedded ih their minds that they would return victorious they much to the disappointment of the local team and Winslow resembled a bunch of kids trying to play but with all that they made some remarkably good The game ended in a score of 10 to 1. The next game ' will be played in Flagstaff with the
