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St, Johns is having a healthy substantial growth. Lands are cheap but rapidly increasing in value. Best climate on earth.
VOLUME 35
ST. JOHNS, APACHE COUNTY, ARIZONA, JANUARY 30, 1919
NO. 23
if VI
Local Items
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Lorin M, Farr, of Hunt, was a
business visitor here Saturday.
Treasurer, Mrs. Susie R. Ten
ney, is still confined to her home
and bed with a very badly sprain
ed ankle.
The small-pox is about over in
St. Johns.' We are informed
that the quarantine has been
raised on all cases.
Graham county has been placed
under quarantine by the county
superintendent of health in order
to control, the Spanish influenza.
John H. Udall, who has been
at Hunt looking- after his cattle
interests there for the past few
days, returned home Saturday.
Another beautiful snow fell
here last Saturday night. It was
the heaviest fall we have had at
one time this winter as there was
a gdod plump 7 inches.
Dr. Mayer, who has been ill
for the past ten days, is able to
be out again, but is very weak,
and from appearances is still
far from being well.
County School Superintendent,
Mrs. Nancy L. Gibbons, left for
Phoenix yesterday to attend a
meeting of the county school su
perintendents of the state.
Crescencio Gomez and Adelaida
Trujillo of Springerville, . were
married at St, Johns, Wednes
day, Jan. 29. Father Derich
mont performed the ceremony.
Too important a happening not
to chronicje happened in our midst
some ten days ago when a son
arrived at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. John Eagar. We were not
informed of the affair until just
this week.
In another column of the Her
ald appears the professional
card of Sidney Sapp, of Holbrook.
Mr. Sapp has been practicing law
for a number of years, and any
one in need of legal advice will
do well to call on him.
State Treasurer Harry S. Ross,
of Phoenix, was here last week
and went to the Lyman dam to
look over the works there. He
was joined here by R. L. Cook
ingham, a new engineer who
will probably succeed Frank Asp
lind as engineer at the dam.
James W. Johnson, who left
last week for Utah with his
brother A. E. to place him in a
hospital, returned after going as
far as Winslow where he turned
him over to the tender mercies of
a train porter. Ye gods, what
won't some fellows do. A. E.
was in a very critical condition
and needed some one to attend
him all the time.
While out riding on the range
last Tuesday, Judge A. S. Gib
bons met with a very painful ac
cident. The horse which he was
riding fell with him, throwing
the judge, when the judge struck
the ground which was head first,
he tried to plow up about a sec
tion of ground with his smeller
but the ground being frozen his
nose was broken in the ordeal.
His neck was also very badly
sprained. Dr. Mayer was called
and dressed the wound and the
judge will soon be able to attend
to his regular routine of work.
The Lyman Dam.
The question that now faces
the people of St. Johns is not how
to help win the war, or how to
put such and such a person in of
fice, but how to finish the Lyman
Dam. This problem has been
facing St. Johns for three or four
years; but every year it comes up
as a bigger question, and the real
necessity of its being rebuilt is
shown.
One of the greatest, problems
of the reconstruction of the dam
is the financial proposition. With
the great lack of funds it is al
most impossible to continue the
work. But what is the cause of
such a shortage of money? The
main reason is, there are too
many parties working for their
own interests. Two separate
factions are working for their own
selfish interests; and we might
say, in some cases, working
against one another. The con
tract agreed to, was not lived up
to. Therefore we have the dam
in no better condition, or of no
more use, than it has been for
the last year. "Too many hands
in the pot spoils the broth" is an
old adage, and a true one. At
least it has proven so in this in
stance. The trouble now remains to be.
settled what engineer shall have
dominion over the finishing of the
work. The state has reasons for
wanting its own engineer, but
what is that reason? Is it be
cause they have any selfish inter
est? Is it because they want a
strong hold here and want to
push others out? Or, on the
other hand, is it because they
want to see the money spent
right, the dam finished, and this
part of the country developed?
Which seems reasonable?
It is true that work on the dam
has been delayed, but this alone
has not been the cause for the
slow progress. At the present
everything has stopped. The
next thing is to start it out again;
but not as before, with the stumb
ling blocks (as they may be call
ed), or with "crooks." First the'
thing should be cleaned out and
started in a good clean way with
no "little" people or no under
handed work, in the business.
Then the dam can be built, and
with success.
We little realize the importance
of the dam; what it means to the
country and to each individual.
The dam must be rebuilt to re
duce poverty, and make it possi
ble for the people to live.
This must all come sooner or later
if everyone will work to that end.
"Down with the trouble-makers
and up with the dam."
Emily Patterson.
In a contest among the student
body of the St. Johns Academy,
for the best article written, the
above article written by Miss
Emily Patterson received the
highest award .
Chamberlain's Tablets.
When you are troubled with in
digestion or constipation, take
Chamberlain's Tablets. They
strengthen the stomach and en
able it to perform its functions
naturally. Indigestion is usually
accompanied by constipation and
is aggravated by it. Chamber
lain's Tablets cause a gentle
movement of the bowels, reliev
ing constipated conditions. Adv
158th Infantry Band
Entertained President
The 158th infantry band fur
nished the music at the banquet
given by Ambassador Sharp in
honor of President Wilson on
Tuesday evening. The musicians
were highly complimented by the
President and the other guests.
Probably this will be the last
time that this band will play on
such an occasion, as it expects to
rejoin its regiment and will re
turn to the United States. Stars
and Stripes.
To Whom It May Concern:
The report, "The Live Stock
Industry and Grazing- Conditions
in Arizona." prepared by E. C.
La Rue, Hydraulic Engineer, U.
3. Geological Survey, will be
available to any person who cares
to review it in the office of the
U. S. Geological Survey, Federal
Building, Pasadena, California,
on and after February 1st, 1919.
Very respectfully,
E. C. LA RUE,
Hydraulic Engineer.
According to information fur
nished by the war department to
the local board at Phoenix, Gnly
250 men who enlisted from Ari
zona and left the state have as
yet been mustered out and return
ed. Next month the number will
be largely increased but so far
nearly all who desired it have
srone to work attheob they left.
Mrs. Minerva Gillespie, of Con
cho, passed through Holbrook on
Saturday on her way to Kingman
where she goes to secure medical
attention forhsr little boy, whose
arm will have to be broken and
reset, and for the purpose of re
joining her husband, who is work
ing in that city at present. Hol
brook Tribune.
At an annual meeting of the
Bank of Winslow last week W.H.
Dagg was elected president of
that institution to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of N. S. Bly,
who had held that position since
the. first organization of the bank.
Mr. Dagg is one of the most in
fluential merchants of Winslow.
Roy Lewis, aged 22, son of
John Lewis of Taylor, is reported
as having died re2ently in France
as a result of wounds received in
action. He was a member of the
158th (Arizona) regiment. The
news of his death was received
through the Red Cross.
A good second hand wagon for
sale. Inquire at Herald office.
Cured at a Cost of 25 Cents.
"Eight years ago when we first
moved to Mattoon, I was a great
suffererirom indigestion and con
stipation," writes Mrs. Robert
Allison, Mattoon, 111. "I had fre
quent headaches and dizzy spells,
and there was a feeling like a
heavy weight pressing on my
stomach and chest all the time.
I felt miserable, Every morsel
of food distressed me. I could
not rest at night and felt tired
and worn out all the time. One
bottle of Chamberlain's Tablets
cured me and I have since felt
like a different person." Adv.
Shoes 10 Per Cent Off
To better introduce our splendid stock of shoes. During
the month of February we will sell from our entire shoe
stock at 10 per cent discount-which is allready marked
below the market value.
This is an opportunity
no one should overlook if they
reach farther than usual.
Anderson Mercantile Coe
Aerial Mail Cars to
Land Near Kingman
Among- all the towns of the
state, Kingman has been the one
b be honored as the first terminal
in the aerial mail service between
the two oceans. At this po'nt
will converge the main lines from
Los Angeles and San Francisco,
and the big planes will land at the
Wallapai Field to discharge mails
and to take on oils and gas. Word
has been received to this effect
and the maps of the aerial service
show Kingman to be the one
place in the state to have this
honor thrust upon her. Orders
came a few days 'ago to prepare
the field at once for the big squad
ron of machines that were soon
to be put in service, and already
the greater part of the field has
been smoothed up and by Monday
it will be ready to land any num
ber of planes. The field will be
1000 by 1800 feet, but there will
be enough ground smoothed up to
give it still greater possibilities.
Kingman postoffice, it is under
stood, will become the distribut-
ing 'center for a wide territory,
possibly covering the country
from Winslow on the east to
Needles on the west, as well as
the immediate territory in the
county It will be the means of
getting this section mail from
San Francisco within five hours
from the starting of the planes
on their way and less than four
hours from Los Angeles. Mails
will probably come through from
New York in two days. The ser
vice is expected to be daily or
more and each plane will handle
about 1200 pounds of first class
mail. While the amount of mail
to be delivered here will at first
be small it will grow in every
communitv until there will be a
squadron of these mail-carrying
planes through every state and
parts of states. While we feel
quite jubilant over being the first
delivery station in the state we
recognize the fact that within a
short time there will be one at
every neeessary point. Big bus
ness towns will not be neglected
by the government and as soon
as the delivery system is worked
out and found to be expedient,
the mail deliveries will be made
by local planes. The trunk mail
lines will deliver mails to the var
ious towns that are not to be
reached through the trunk lines.
The new field is at the crown of
the Wallapai valley, two and one
half miles north of town and is
reached over the National Old
Trails road and the Stockton Hill
highway. It is one of the best
desire to make their dollar
landing places in the country, so
one of the airman told the writer.
Air currents are right for an easy
landing and the ground is hard
and smooth. 'Landings were
made on this field early in De
cember and the aviators were
more than pleased with the con
ditions. Kingman Miner.
A. C. M. Stockholders Meet
The annual meeting of the
stockholders association of the
A. C. M. I. was held in Holbrook
last Wednesday evening1. The
majority of the stockholders were
represented which included mem
bers of Holbrook, Snowfiake and
St. Johns. Among other busi
ness transacted was the re-election
of the old board of directors,
of which John R. Hulet of Hol
brook, is president.
Moeur Reappointed
W. A. Moeur has been re-electd
by unanimous vote of the Land
board, as state land commissioner
for Arizona, which position he
has held for four years, giving
satisfaction. The commission is
appointed by a board of five, con
sisting of the governor, secretary
of state, treasurer, auditor and
attorney general. The appoint
ment is made for a period of two
years. Holbrook News.
"Flu" Bad Again at Clifton
The influenza epidmic hps return
ed to Clifton in full power and
there are hundreds of cases of
the disease in the city, very few
families without sick persons in
their midst. Several deaths have
resulted the past week and there
are many cases of pneumonia.
Clifton Mining Jounral.
Influenza at Phoenix
All school and places of public
gatherings have been closed in
Phoenix on the aqcount of the re
currence of inflnenza. The number
of cases in the Capital City have
crrown alarmingly large and every
thing possible is being done to mi
tigate the Cvil.
Winslow had a mad dog scare
last week. The dog bit three
school childred before he was
killed by an officer. The head
of the dog was sent to the labor
atory at Phoenix for examination
for rabies.
R. L. Newman, formerly sheriff
of Nayajo county, has been ap
pointed county ranger by the
board of supervisors and Sheriff
Harp.