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Newspaper
Tombstone Epitaph
Location
Tombstone, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1922
Page
8
Tombstone hosts a flood of visitors from Bisbee Courtland and Willcox including Jas Allison Ed Massey and Walter Jushin who came for business and sightseeing. Officials from Douglas Willcox Cochise Stronghold and Lordsburg delivered reports and bids while candidates and inspectors surfaced for state mine and county posts.
County jailer Gabe Choate returns from New Mexico on vacation. Attorneys and business visitors from Bisbee and Webb pass through the county seat. Clarence Cavanaugh of Columbia Drug Co returns home after a brief trip to Douging. Mountain States Telephone manager C W Mangum spends Sunday in Willcox with family. Mrs Hila Barrett and relatives visit Tombstone from Huachucas. Frank Hand and Russell Pyeatt also travel. Mr and Mrs FS Davenport visit from Bisbee, L A Boedecker notes good rains in Turger district. Miss L Grace Kolb leaves for the coast on a two week vacation. Vera Smith undergoes a slight operation at a Bisbee hospital and expects to return home soon.
Mrs. Dave Struthers returns home after a week with relatives in Douglas. Notices report gatherings, travel, births, and local visits, including Hereford to Tombstone movements, jailer absence, and a county budget meeting. Fort Huachuca visits, peach harvest notes, and road camp activity are also listed alongside remodel projects and police notices.
In Bisbee and Tombstone areas, homes and schools near completion include the Charles Bach elder residence and the Eckerman High- Gramafic school painting, with ice plant repairs nearly finished. Visitors include Tommy Cowan in Bisbee, Mrs. George Crone in Warren, and Tom Young on business in Bisbee.
Douglas and Gleeson residents are listed as visitors and local figures in the county seat. Arthur Curl and Percy Howden are noted as visitors, with several others named. A minor operation is reported for Loris Woolery in Indianapolis, and Wm McPherson bought a Chevrolet touring car. Local meetings in Pomerene discuss voters. several names appear. A Touchstone High School band concert is described, scheduled for Wednesday but postponed due to rain. The note also records housing moves, court entries, and a large fund transfer to the Roosevelt dam project by the Salt River Valley Water Users association, signaling ongoing irrigation and hydroelectric profits.
Last year saw little cattle shipment and there is no prospect of movement this year says Lt. Frazier, supervising engineer for the state highway department. He notes cattle regions benefit from rains that have left grass knee-high in Santa Cruz and Cochise counties.
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