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Newspaper
Winslow Daily Mail
Location
Winslow, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1927
Page
4
The Epworth League of the Methodist Church holds a cooked food sale next Saturday morning at Babbitts to raise funds for a youth delegation to the Epworth League Institute at Groom Creek near Prescott from June 20 to 26. Eight of ten city delegates plan to attend, with other delegations from Arizona bringing camping outfits to Pine locations.
Holbrook cattle inspector Norman Bennett traveled to Holbrook yesterday on a business trip to inspect local holdings and oversee regulatory compliance. He met with ranch operators and reviewed cattle records during the visit.
Miss Marie Kraemer and her sister Mrs Emma Nickels plan an extended visit with brothers in North Dakota. T H Hathaway will drive the party. Verla Care will depart for Dayton Ohio to join Gamma Phi Beta sorority convention at Mackinac Island Michigan. J B Fussell and wife and O Brown and wife started a several days trip through Hannigan Meadows to Clifton Roosevelt Dam and back via Mormon Lake and Flagstaff.
Flagstaff resident T Meredith visited for several days. Holbrook officials W B Woods Apache Telephone Co and A J Hudson and wife visited in town yesterday. Miss Care plans visits to Detroit and other eastern points before August via New Orleans. Joe Romero returns to work after several days sick leave.
New firemen Difford Kidwel H G McMurty W O Hurbirt James J Bales Wyatt Ferris and Ray L Mitchell have this week been accepted as locomotive firemen on the Santa Fe working out of Winslow.
Earl Cunningham arrived back Tuesday evening after a trip to Phoenix. He was welcomed home by family and friends, with plans to resume daily activities in his community.
Charley Hitchcock came home yesterday after a brief visit to Los Angeles.
Melvin Rushing was fined 10 dollars yesterday by Justice of the Peace J B Drumm for operating a truck without a license. This is the second fine of the week, following O A Blanke who received 15 dollars for a similar offense.
Mrs Wanda V Warren has accepted the position of stenographer in R C Kline's office. Mrs W R Barnum left Thursday morning for an extended visit to Kansas.
Roy Savage of Clendale departed Wirslow today as he travels to Laguna New Mexico.
The Arizona pardons and paroles board will convene at Florence State Prison on June 14. Chairman Lin B. Arme announced the session in the parole clerk’s office to review parole applications from inmates whose minimum sentences have expired.
Sixty four candidates for initiation into the Globe Elks lodge were paraded through Globe Arizona streets this evening in pajamas and fanciful costumes. Music and large red lights highlighted the event, marking the second largest class since the lodge was organized.
General Enoch Crowder presented his resignation to President Coolidge in Washington today. The move makes him the second top diplomat to leave Cuba duties this year.
At the Winslow Rotary meeting G W Harrington manager of the Winslow Flagstaff and Holbrook power plants discussed the evolution of electrical power from the stone age detailing production costs water power and Colorado river development possibilities. Dr John Walls Winslow city health officer urged Navajo county to build a county hospital in Winslow and secured signatures on a petition.
Col Lindbergh will be decorated with the Distinguished Flying Cross by President Coolidge at the Washington monument grounds. An official reception committee from the House, plus a large guard, will honor the aviator as he moves from the temporary White House to Arlington and Walter Reed hospital.
Mrs Frances Burrows aged 46 wife of G W Burrows a Santa Fe extra gang foreman near Albuquerque was buried in Williams cemetery with Knights of Pythias rites The Rev C W Harshman spoke mourners include her husband her mother Mrs Goodnight and nine children Ruth Inspite Marvin William Paul Lucile Vida Ruth Gretchen Geneva and Dildred Burrows Cancer caused her death
Six bandits robbed the Farmers and Merchants Bank in Hauron South Dakota escaping with fifteen thousand dollars. Authorities launched a manhunt as details emerge about the caper and the attackers.
Navajo and Apache counties agreed at Holbrook to share assessed value on stock grazing yearly. The $100,000 plus taxable property, mainly sheep and cattle, will be split per case rather than taxed in total as before. Apache attendees included W Porter J F Greenwood Loren Farr and J A Minecr ex assessor. Navajo attendees included J L Willis G W Chamberlain Ja A Greaves Wallace Shumway and county assessor.
Eighty-one new memberships were turned in by four contesting teams at a luncheon at the Monte Vista. The highest tally came from Ray Simpson's team. Seventeen recent high school graduates attended as guests, with a speech by President Gammage urging youth to pursue living and life with high ideals. Professor Frank Gyberg outlined Foxberg School prospects. A mid summer rodeo plan was assigned to a committee led by Sid Gassman.
Moscow reports two terrorist outrages within 24 hours shocking Soviet circles. Bombs injure 26 at a Leningrad Communist discussion club meeting and a second bomb kills Opansky and two assistants with Lt Yani injured. Counter revolutionary involvement suspected. Building permits in Phoenix April total 81,575 282.
June 8 Williams notes report visits to Prescott by Mr. and Mrs. Arnulfo Luna and returns of Mrs. James Kennedy from Phoenix. Mrs. Lee Kennedy accompanied by niece Margaret Lee. Local residents Williams and Von Kuhn back home. Baseball practice and Fourth of July game planned. Guests of Mrs. Tracy Rice include Mr. and Mrs. J G Greene and family from Kansas. Free moving pictures by John D. Jones on forests shown in Williams Saturday. No preaching at Community church Sunday. bacchan laureate address to Flagstaff teachers college graduates. Sunday School at 9:00 a.m. Mrs. R D Mitchell sang at morning service.
In Flagstaff on June eight, Jack Miller paid a $75 fine in Judge Richwine's court after a Sunday crash when a borrowed machine struck a California tourist, H J Hopper, on the highway south of town. Officers found knucks on Miller and charged him with carrying concealed weapons. Mrs Minnie Miller was jailed after attempting to dispose of illicit liquids. Judge Pullian set her fine at $150. Both fines were paid immediately.
Thomas Ladd aged 80 was found dead in his Williams home. Doctors say apoplexy caused the death after years of hardship and illness. Neighbors reported his doors shut. police investigated. He had a brother in Washington and relatives in Los Angeles. He was in destitute condition.
In Nogales Arizona a June message says General Alvaro Obregon may not speak on his political ambitions until late June. The dispatch notes that Francisco R. Zerrang is actively campaigning in major West Coast cities along the Mesiec region.
Chamberlin and Levine meet Chancellor Mark and Gustav Stresemann after their abortive landing near Kottbus. German officials praise the feat and hope the achievement links American and German peoples. The aviators receive a light blue gift car and autograph crowds surge around the embassy.
FLAGSTAFF June 8 An ex citing time is anticipated at the Grand Canyon justice court tomorrow when Mrs. Claudia Hastings and Mrs. Tom Bender, both residents of Anita, are to appear for trial each on the charge of assaulting the other with a deadly weapon. The battle occurred last week with loaded revolvers said to be used though neighbors say two guns were wielded. District Attorney F M Gold urged the women to bring the artillery to court to reenact the scene for Judge Hammiliton.
The Rev. H. D. Softley announces his resignation as pastor of Flagstaff’s Federated Church. In a two page letter to members he thanks the congregation for four years of support and urges a new, progressive program with a younger, stronger leader to carry the Federated plan forward.
The pride of San Diego, sistership of the Spirit of St. Louis, landed in Dallas at 6 p m en route to Washington to greet Col. Lindbergh. The y e plane reported no trouble during its stop and will depart tomorrow morning.
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