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Newspaper
Winslow Daily Mail
Location
Winslow, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1931
Page
3
Personal Mention covers visits by state livestock inspector J. W. Richards en route to Joseph City with family, plus relatives meeting in Winslow. Notables warn of travel to Minnesota and Kansas, fishing trips to White Mountains, and local officials like L. Cadwell and H. J. Fouts departing for business.
Akron infant Loretta Turney is shown at nearly one month old pointing to her prominent front tooth. The photo from the Akron bureau invites readers to inspect the unusual birth feature.
C. M. Pitts a Holbrook barber faces a preliminary hearing before Justice A. G. McCloskey this afternoon on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon. Lealand E. Christensen sen swore to the complaint alleging Pitts threatened him with a razor after a dispute over an automobile trade. Christensen suffered a torn shirt sleeve but no injuries. Justice J. B. Drumm in Winslow disqualified himself for the prelim hearing.
Miss Jessamine Bargeman, after spending the winter at Arizona State Teachers College, is in Winslow visiting relatives and friends. Miss Mildred Winn, an ASTC student, has returned home and is staying with her mother, Mrs May Winn, a local junior high school teacher.
Desert Twelve hosts a quilting luncheon at Mrs. Kaufman’s on West Third Street while Third Street Club and others gather for bridge at East Maple, La Posada, and West Maple homes. Parties honor visiting guests D C Hutton and Gladys Hoelzle with prizes and refreshments.
The Woman's Benefit Association picnic in Walnut Canyon drew 37 attendees with a cliff dwellings visit and a lunch followed by games won by Mrs May Rothwell Mrs C E Garten Rosalee Bennett Ralph Garten Mrs G C Franklin and Mrs Elizabeth Henry. A morning at Mr and Mrs Herbert Weiss hosted pastel colors breakfast for young guests. D K W club luncheon at La Posada featured bridge with prizes to Mrs O Hara and others.
Twenty seven bombing and observation planes of the ninth seventeenth and thirty-first army squadrons passed over Winslow at 9 50 p m en route to bases in California They head to Rockwell Field San Diego for bombers and March Field Riverside for observers They left Albuquerque this morning A Liberty powered eight place Douglas plane carried tools for the unit and landed at Winslow for fuel Most planes planned to refuel at Kingman Lieut Charles H Dowman chief pilot said his plane carried a heavier load and noted nine heavy bombers and eighteen observation planes in the flight
Mrs. Robert Westfall presided as hostess to the W. O. W. Supper Club on Thursday evening May 28 at her East Oak Street home. After supper, the group played bridge with seating including Mrs. George Partridge of Phoenix and others. Miss Benson received a guest gift and Miss Kerlin won high score.
Arizona and New Mexico residents may book special rates to California on June 13. The plan lists round trip Albuquerque to San Diego or Los Angeles at 20 dollars, Gallup 18, Holbrook 16, Winslow 15.50, Flagstaff 13, Williams 11.50, and Phoenix Prescott and Wickenburg 10.50, with about ten dollars more to San Francisco and return.
Jess McCasland of Sherman became the first of 14 defendants tried for arson in the Grayson county jail mob attack a year ago. He faced a two year term after a jury convicted him of taking part in burning the courthouse to force confessions from George Hughes, a Black man who had admitted assaulting a white woman and died in a vault during the blaze.
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