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Newspaper
Holbrook News
Location
Holbrook, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1918
Page
6
Attorney C H Jordan was in Winslow on professional business. Dr A F Switzer debates Clarkdale move while his family stays in Holbrook. Several locals visit, scheme, or ship cattle. Wetzler's offers tools. multiple meetings on poultry and gardening. missing pen found. Regular updates include deputies, oil directors, residents traveling, and military service notices.
Instructions for trapping codling moth larvae in apples by banding trunks with bur lap strips eight inches wide. Fasten bands with a finishing nail, encircle trunks, and inspect weekly to destroy worms. Effective from early July to season end. wind fall fruit should be disposed of by feeding to swine or poultry.
Riverside California listings offer March hatch of pure bred Single Comb White Leghorn cockerels from Sinclair Brothers trap-nested stock. Hens record 180 to 270 eggs yearly. Price 2.00 dollars each with delivery around September 1. Reserve via Mrs. Lee Newman at Je21-2 W. H. Moeur. Counter notices for lodging rental and political references appear in the Holbrook area.
Under sheriff Harp captured Fred 8. Shainovich and Steve Basto about 46 miles east of Holbrook as they traveled toward town in a Hudson Super Six with about 400 pints of whiskey. The pair are jailed awaiting a preliminary hearing before Justice Boyer.
Public notice from Mayor GEO W Hennessey urging residents to stop dumping cans and rubbish in the river near old stockyards crossing west of town and to use proper disposal. Also includes a medical quick tip for Whooping cough using Chamberlain's Cough Remedy and a May 21 1918 tax assessment update from Navajo County officials.
Holbrook market hours weekdays 7 a m to 7 p m and Saturday 7 a m to 8 p m. Deliveries mornings until 11 o clock and afternoons. no deliveries after 5 o clock. Manager John Funk. Five milk cows three with young calves E R Ha C Holbrook Arizona.
Public inquiry item for Woods building located at the corner of First and Kinsley Streets Winslow Arizona. Inquiries directed to Woods Hotel Winslow Arizona. Date March 29 to April 1.
The Arizona Superior Court in Navajo County issues a summons to Leander Tafoya in the case of Exripin Abia Tafoya v Leander Tafoya. The defendant must appear and answer within twenty days if served in county or thirty days otherwise, or a default judgment will be entered. June 18 1918 seal of Lloyd C Henning clerk. Imagination note ends editorial.
The El Paso Herald notes Mesa Arizona uses unusually wide streets and ten acre blocks designed for self sufficiency during Indian raids. Residents say a six block walk feels longer than it sounds as spaces measure around an acre per residence. A stray quote about an electrician lover ends with a puzzle about negative becoming positive.
The U S Food Administration in Washington calls for a 50 percent cut in monthly wheat use to 21 million bushels to feed Allies and sustain the U S Army. It proposes strict weekly per person limits, two wheatless days for public places, and quotas for bakers, retailers, and manufacturers, with relief expected after harvest.
The article stresses the six pounds per person monthly wheat flour limit as essential for Arizona. It notes merchants in some areas have set up carrying items but many counties leave enforcement to consumers, urging strict adherence to support democracy and the fighters with proper nourishment.
Herbert Hoover warns that reports downplaying wheat conservation are false and that laxity now will cause greater suffering. He addresses the people of Arizona and neighboring states in a special message outlining the ongoing need for careful grain use amid wartime shortages.
The Food Administration warns that by June only about fifty six million bushels remain until the new harvest. Exports must take thirty million, leaving twenty six million for domestic use for the next months. Normal American consumption is over forty million bushels monthly, so home use should drop to one third. The new harvest may not reach flour until late summer, and storage for potential shortages is urged. Congress and federal administrators in Washington stress no unlimited bread until the war ends and call for substitutes in bread.
F B Tressey of Richmond Kentucky swears by Chamberlain's Tablets saying they are a wonder and have never sold anything that beats them. He recommends trying them for indigestion or constipation and urges others to give them a trial.
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