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5123331 Yourlntcrest is Here VOLUME 34 SUNSET PASS ROAD GRADE NEARING THE FOREST LINE Between twenty-four and twenty seven miles of grading on the Sun set Pass road is now completed, according to an announcement made yesterday by C. H. Payne, chairman of the board of super- j visors. This distance takes the I road almost to the forest boundary line and the work under the direc tion of County Engineer G. T. West has been progressing at the rate of one mile of finished road per day much of the time. Two bridges remain to be built on the •* road already finished. Completion of the Sunset Pass road, which is expected to be ef fected within the next sixty days, will put Winslow on a main trav eled north and south road which will be almost as important to Winslow as the Old Trails high way, those who have worked to obtain the road declare. The Sunset Pass road branches j from the Old Trails highway half | a mile west of the roundhouse and ! four miles west of Winslow and i will meet the Phoenix-Flagstaff road in Long Valley. About six miles of road from the Phoenix- Flagstaff road to the foot of Blue Ridge already has been graded so that the Sunset Pass road will be completed when the foot of Blue Ridge is reached. This point is about twenty-miles from where the crew is now working. From Long Valley the road goes byway of Payson, Pine and Roose velt dam to Phoenix, making the distance from here to Phoenix about 240 miles. The road not only will make it possible for people of Long Valley to do much of their trading in Winslow, but will give Winslow a good and shorter route to the capital as well as a very scenic one. It will provide a splen did one-day pleasure-trip also for those who wish to drive to Flag staff, making it possible for mo torists to go by one road and re turn by another. Winslow people have been work ing for the Sunset highway for five or six years, but it was not until this year that the forest service, through the efforts of Forest Su pervisor E. G. Miller, of Flagstaff, decided to help finance the build ing of the road through the re serve. The amount in the hands of the supervisors thus far from the forest service is SI,OOO. Coconino county also contributed SI,OOO to the road. , Local Boys Will Go To Training Camps In addition to those young men i who already have passed the re quired examination for the Citi zens’ Military Training camps, four Winslow High school boys were accepted last week and recom mended by the board to attend the ; camp this year. They are Clyde Brady, Lee Dover, Lewis Wetzel, and James Edwards. These boys j will be given elementary training j at the cavalry school of the Eighth Corps Area. Others who already have been accepted are Bud Clark •and H. P. Doolin. They will leave about Aug. 1 and will train at a camp in Colorado. The time limit to receive appli cations has been extended to July 20, and it is hoped by the commit tee in charge that many more young men will take advantage of the opportunity to get this vaca- j tion free. Applicants must be in good physical condition and pos- ! seas a fair education. Training! will be given in all sports such as baseball, swimming, races, track work, target practice and athletics of all kinds. Competent officers, including about eight from the Winslow sec tor of Reserve officers, will be in charge of the boys at all times and ! the schedule of training is such that the boy feels he is on a vaca- ' tion instead of going through a training period, it is said. Those who wish to take advan- j tage of this free training may get j in touch with Capt. C. L. Hatha-j way. Lt. C. J. McQuillan or any Reserve officer. Everything, in cluding transportation to and from the camp, is furnished the boys who take the training free of charge. o YUMA MAN BUYS SHEEP HERE TO GRAZE IN YUMA VALLEY F. S. Manifold, of Yuma, was a Winslow visitor a few days this ‘ week while on a sheep buying trip through this section. Mr. Mani fold says that they haven’t been wearing their overcoats in Yuma i for some time; in fact, it is con sidered correct to wear very little clothing of any kind. He remarked, however, that he hadn’t found it necessary to send for his blankets here. * • TWICE A WEEK—OFFICIAL ORGAN OF CITY OF WINSLOW AND ARIZONA LIVE STOCK SANITARY BOARD ARIZONA PRAISED BY WELL-KNOWN WORLD TRAVELER “I love Arizona. I love her ! scenery. I love her people. I love I her climate. I love her ways. And what more could you want?” said Mrs. Helen E .S. Mead, who stayed a few days at the Brandt Hotel last week while seeing this part of the state. Mrs. Mead has been in Arizona since February and during that time she has vis j ited almost every mesa and town. “Arizona appeals to me more than any other place in the world,’’ she said. "Its scenic wonders can not be matched. One thinks one surely has seen all that can be seen when another trip will dis close something more. It is abso lutely unequaled.” Mrs. Mead is a most interesting i talker, as she has traveled all over ! the world. She has been given ad mittance to temples in Egypt where before entering she had to put moc casins over her “infidel’ shoes. She has toured all parts of Europe and she has spent considerable time in South America. In the United States she has traveled in every state, “but I have spent more time in Arizona than in any other but my home state,” she said. Mrs. Mead is from Boston. * She is traveling at present in a seven-passenger Lincoln sedtln which she purchased recently at El Paso. She left Boston in August of last year, traveling in a Cadillac, j Her speedometer showed 40,000 i miles when she sold the machine I and bought the Lincoln at El Paso. “Now,” she says, “I am a west j erner. I have adopted western ways—love them—and even my license plate is western. You can see,” she said, “that I am fond of local color.” She referred to the four silver and turquoise bracelets she wore on each arm, the beauti ful Indian rings that adorned every finger except the index fin ger of her left hand, the turquoise I necklace, and the turquoise ear rings. Her chauffeur, too, wore a touch of local color in an Indian made vest. “I like the Indians,” she said, “and more than anything else, I marvel at their impregnable re serve. I find their hogans fasci nating places and the Indians themselves are exceedingly inter esting. Mrs. Mead has spent a great deal of time on the reservations, visit ing Walipi, Pollaeca, Oraibi, and other places. She has visited also the old Indian ruins both at Flag staff and in New Mexico. “I like these ruins,” she declared, “because they are so untouched. Their an tique interest has not been de stroyed by modern man.” She visited the lava beds at Flagstaff and the ice caves. “I think Williams is a beautiful little place,” she said, “and so is Pine. The Grand Canyon of course is the greatest wonder of wonders. Really, there is no place equal to Arizona.” Although Mrs. Mead has two homes in the east, she plans to sell at least one and come to the land of perpetual sunshine to live. She will he in this part of Arizona for several months, however, before she returns to the east even tem porarily, and among other places she plans to visit, she will take a horseback trip down Navajo moun tain. “You can talk about the culture of the east,” she said, “but the courteousness and sincerity of the ! western people is a culture in it ■ self.” Mrs. Mead was in Tuba City last ! Wednesday to see the first show ing of the picture by Zane Grey called “Wild Horse Mesa,” which has just been complete at that place. The picture was shown two nights in the Tuba City school house to be tested for imperfec tions. The release date for it has not yet been set. She was very en thusiastic about the picture, and ! especially about the riding scenes, I of which there are many. | Mrs. Mead probably will be in : Winslow again in six weeks, she ] said. j o . Sunday Evening Union Services Well Attended That the union Sunday evening services being held on the Wash ington school grounds are meeting | a real need and serving a good purpose is evidenced by the crowds | that have attended each of the four services that have so far been j held, churchmen say. Inspiring j sermons by local pastors and good ! music have featured each meeting. Rev. Frank R. Speck, pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church, ! will preach next Sunday evening ! at 8 o’clock, taking as his subject | “The Greatest Thing in the World.” Mrs. H. B. Matthie will sing "The ! Earth Is the Lord’s.” and Mrs. G. j T. Stevens will play a piano num ber. o Miss Claudia Turnbull Appointed Free Nurse Miss Claudia Turnbull has been | appointed free nurse for the mem bers of the M. B. A. organization by the supreme review of the Mac cabees. All Maccabees are entitled to the services of Miss Turnbull free of charge and may call for her by notifying Mrs. Giliia Hos ier. >. WINSLOW. NAVAJO COUNTY, ARIZONA, FRIDAY, JULY 17, 1920 Our Pet Peeve FOREST OFFICER TO INVESTIGATE DUAL GRAZING SITUATION Pursuant to the recent confer ence held in Flagstaff between Col. William B. Greeley, chief of the United States forest service, and Arizona sheepmen, C. E. Raeliford, inspector of grazing from Washing ton, D. C.; John Kerr, assistant district forester from Albuquerque, N. M., and,T. T. Swift, of Phoenix, supervisor of the Tonto National forest, will go to the Cave creek : district of the Tonto forest today to investigate the situation of the dual grazing of sheep and cattle on those ranges. The forest serv ice officials will be in the forest for about a week. They will be ac-1 companied by a committee of Ari- ; zona sheepmen and by some inter ested cattlemen. ~~ _ . I New Position Is Being Added to Switchboard Connections for 100 more tele phones will be available within about three weeks, W. C. Callaway, l manager of the local telephone ex- j change, advises. A. K. Urton, from the Denver office of the Mountain ; States Telephone company, arrived in Winslow Monday morning to in-, stall the new connections which make up an additional position for the board. Mr. Callaway has had to refuse service to people wanting new phones for several months because | of lack of room for connections at the board. Mr. Urton probably will be on the ground here for at least a month. Mrs. Urton accompanied him from Denver. o New Ruling to Govern Parcel Post August 1 Beginning Aug. 1 those sending packages through the mail by in sured parcel post or C. O. D. will 1 be required to sign and place on every parcel a guarantee that re turn postage will be supplied in case the package is not called for at its destination, according to an announcement made this week by Postmaster A. L. Kleindienst. Word that a new standard elec tric canceling machine is en route to the local postoffice also was received from the department this week by Mr. Kleindienst. The ma chine is of the most up-to-date de- i sign, and is the same as is used jin the largest postoffices. It will replace the hand-operated machine for canceling stamps now in use ! at the local office. Sulphate Plant at Verde To Be in Operation Soon Dale Lantz. superintendent of the Western Chemicals, Inc., plant at Camp Verde, states that orders for 170 cars of sulphate are on hand and that with completion of ; the plant production will be started 1 in tiie near future. He stated that there are 30.000,- | 000 tons of sulphate in sight. o FORMER NEWSSTAND MAN VISITS HERE WEDNESDAY F. E. McCullough, former man- I ager of the newsstand at the Har ! vey House, stopped in Winslow j Wednesday. Mr. McCullough left ! here in the early part of June to 1 take charge of the Harvey news j stand at Albuquerque. Although he is still manager of the stand, he will travel on the California Lim ited for a few weeks as curio sales man between Winslow and Albu querque. L. J. Bennett Says ! Anderson Pass Road Best to Mormon Lake In response to an article pub lished last week in The Mail ask ing for information as to which road is the best to Mormon Lake, L. J. Bennett, of the Arizona Elec tric company, says that in his opinion the Anderson Pass road is the best and shortest route. I Mr. Bennett drove to the lake by this route Sunday and, according to his speedometer, the distance from Winslow to the point where the | road strikes the lake is fifty-one | miles. From that point the road j i follows the lake for a distance of | ! two miles until it reaches the cab- j | ins and resort, making fifty-three i j miles the total distance from Wins- j ; low to the resort. The trip can be j . made by this route in from two and j 1 a half to three hours, Mr. Bennett j ; says. Many people already are travel- j ing this road, but as there are j several places where a stranger \ could take the wrong road, the route probably will have to be j j signed before much traffic can be \ j directed over it. The road leaves i the Old Trails highway at the sec j ond turn to the left on the south j ; side of Canyon Lodge, which point J I is about half a mile from the lodge. | From there at every fork the right hand road is taken except in one j j instance, where the road to the I Anderson ranch cuts off. The | turns leading to Anderson Pass are j | the best traveled in every case, ac- j | cording to those who go to the j j lake by this route. “If everyone using this road would throw out ten boulders every j ! time they made a trip to the lake,” j | Mr. Bennett suggests, “the road j would soon be in excellent condi- i tion. Os course, it wouldn’t be i ! necessary to impose a fine if some j one happened to throw out eleven," :he added. “If everybody in the car i felt like getting out and throwing i i rocks so much the better, but if i those driving the trip would throw out at least ten, the worst boulders would soori be out of the way.” Mr. Bennett says he is going to adopt this practice anyway, and as : he makes trips frequently, he may, run out of boulders before long himself. At any rate, his sugges ; tion seems a good one, and The Mail will be glad to start a roll of ■ honor and publish the names of j | those who follow Mr. Bennett’s j I suggestion, and The Mail would ; i like to hear also of some one who ; would take it upon himself to sign the road. If the great playground j ! at the lake can be brought within j j fifty-three miles of Winslow for j | everybody, it will make it possible j j for many more people to enjoyj i the camping and fishing that the: lake offers. Who will put up the signs, “This j Way to Mormon Lake”? jScorse Fashion Shoppe To Open Next Monday | The Scorse Fashion Shoppe, ear-! j rying a full line of ladies’ ready-to- ' ! wear, will be opened to the public ! ; Monday, Mr. and Mrs. Henrv j i Scorse, proprietors, announce. The j i shop is located on Kinsley avenue i I in the building formerly occupied j | by the City Market. Millinery, ready-made dresses j l and coats will be carried, as well j jas a line of silk hosiery and i underwear. The interior of the shop has j been redecorated and newly paint- | | ed and the shop will he conducted \ along the lines of the most up-to- | j date fashion stores, Mr. and Mrs. i Scorse have announced. FOUR FIRES IN ONE DAY IN PRESCOTT NATIONAL FOREST ♦ Four forest fires, all on the Pres cott district and all caused by j lightning, were reported to the Prescott National Forest office Tuesday afternoon. The blazes were easily extinguished and were confined to an area of less than j a quarter of an acre. The fires were reported on Lynx | Creek, near the Jersey Lily road, on the north slope of Granite Mountain and on Mount Tritle. Rangers oi» fire guards were sent ! to the different blazes from Pres- I cott as soon as word was received j there. Very little damage was i done. So far this season the Prescott forest has been unusually fortunate ! in the number of outbreaks, which j usually is considerably larger than j that reported to date for the sum | mer, forest service officials de j dare. The forests in the south |em part of the state have been ! hard hit, however, with a larger ! area burned over than the average of former years. j Forest service officers in this I part of the state say they have re ] ceived excellent co-operation from the public in eliminating fires on the reserve, and this is believed to | have been no small factor in keep | ing the number of outbreaks down. I Those who may see a fire on the i forest are requested to report it at i once, and thus prevent small fires | from gaining such headway that | they may cause much damage be fore being brought under control. SPELLMIRE & LYONS PROPERTY TO BE SOLD BY RECEIVER July 27 has been set for the sale of the remaining sheep and other property of the Spellmire & i Lyons Sheep company. The sale will be held at the courthouse at : Holbrook, where J. S. Dodson, re- I ceiver, will receive and open sealed bids. About 8,070 ewes will be offered j at the sale with 5,358 lambs. Auto- i ' mobiles, trucks, water rights and all the remaining assets of the | company also will be up for bid : at that time. 0 " ! Winslow Meteors and Indians to Play Game j Winslow Metors will cross bats with the Leupp Indians on the [ | Winslow baseball diamond Sunday ] : afternoon, A. R. Kleindienst, man- j ager of the Meteors, has an- j | nounced. i In a practice game early this j spring the Meteors won from the | Indians. The Indians, however, I are putting up a stiff game now, it i is said, and Winslow baseball fans : are looking forward to a lively ! game. —_o Tourist Machine Burns On Road East of Town A Reo touring car belonging to | two westbound tourists was totally | destroyed by fire Wednesday aft | ernoon when bedding on the back 'of the machine was ignited from : the exhaust and caused the gas tank to explode. The fire spread so i rapidly that the tourists barely ! escaped with their lives. Fire- ex ; tinguishers from town were rushed | to the scene, but arrived too late I to be of any service. The fire oc | curred about half a mile east of ! Taylor’s service station. NORTH ROUTE IS j STILL FAVORITE WITH TOURISTS The Arizona highway depart ment counts the traffic on the vari ous highways leading out of Phoenix once a month, covering twelve-hour periods. The June count, taken twenty-one miles east of Phoenix, showed 397 Arizona licensed cars and 84 cars carrying license plates from other states. The count at Ashfork on the Na tional Old Trails route showed twenty-five Arizona cars and 150 from other stat?s. The count at Williams, also on the National Old Trails highway, showed seventy four Arizona cars and 169 from other states. This proves that the National Old Trails route still re tains its popularity with the Pa cific coast bound tourists. Doubt less this is helped by the desire to visit the Grand Canyon of the Colorado river. As a means of interesting the transcontinental automobile tour ist travel in remaining in Arizona a few more days, the Automobile Club of Arizona is contemplating an advertising campaign to reach i the tourist before he starts on his j Pacific coast trip. Robert E. i Ames, a motion picture director j with much experience in out-of- J door photography, is preparing an outfit to tour the state and secure j views of the wonderful scenery ! that abounds in Arizona, moun-1 tains, desert, lakes, rivers, forests, j prehistoric views and highway! scenes, to show that the various | places of interest are easily! reached by automobile. These j films will be turned over to a big , distributing concern that supplies | a large circuit of motion picture, houses with news reel films to be | shown as an Arizona advertise- j ment. I o | Methodist Sunday School ! | Board Meets Tuesday An inspiring meeting of the | Methodist Sunday school board was J held Tuesday evening in the : church parlors, at which ways and | means of increasing the efficiency jof the Sunday school were dis- I cussed and new plans laid to be j put into effect in the immediate future. One decidedly forward movement was the adoption of the graded course of study for all j pupils up to the adult classes. In j the past graded courses have been | offered only in the lower grades.! The new order will go into effect the first of October. Superintendent L. L. Day gave j an interesting talk on the Sunday j school program and the work in ' general which led to a spirited j discussion in which all present j participated. Mrs. L. L. Day was elected super- 1 intendent of the home department j and Mrs. F. R. Speck was elected i director of the junior choir. W and S Coffee Shoppe Open to Public Saturday Opening of the W and S Coffee ■ Shoppe at the corner of Kinsley avenue and Third street will take place tomorrow, Mrs. Helen J., Warnica and Mrs. Rose B. Sylves- j ter, proprietors, throwing open the 1 doors to the public at the breakfast hour Saturday morning. The coffee shop is neat and | unique in appearance and a color | scheme of gray and blue is carried I out in all decorations, even to the | menus which are found on the ta- I bles. The tables and chairs are lof gray enamel with blue trim- 1 j mings. while the linoleum on the, floor is of gray and blue blocks, i o ' i Dance Well Attended Last Saturday Night One of the largest crowds yet to j attend the dances given by the j | American Legion at the Green Mill j was present last Saturday night. The hall was filled with merry- j I makers and at 11 o’clock Frank Howe presented two pairs of silk | hose to those in the crowd who ( held lucky numbers. Ethel McCor- i mick and Rex McCoy were the j lucky ones. Many people are be- j coming enthusiastic over the music which Sam’s Melody Makers are putting forth these summer nights. o Carload of Over lands Received This Week i A car of Overlands was received ; by the Franklin-Overland company j i this week, three of which have al ready been delivered to their new < owners. Mr. and Mrs. H. J. McGlamery purchased an Overland six sedan, Lorenzo Martinez a touring car anil John Brown, of Holbrook, an Over land six de luxe sedan. Tom Isaac son, representative of Franklin- Overland at Holbrook, was in Winslow Wednesday and returned Wednesday evening with a new de luxe sedan for display at the Holbrook showroom. New Chrysler 4 to Be Displayed Here Soon W. W. Franklin, of the Franklin- Overland company, has just re ceived word that a shipment of the new Chrysler four-cylinder cars is en route to Winslow and prob ably will arrive here tomorrow. City ‘ DOUGLAS OUT; HUNT HOLDS STOCK BOARD RESIGNATION The state of Arizona remained legally without a state veterina rian Wednesday and Thursday while Gov. George W. P. Hunt de ferred action on the squabble which Tuesday precipitated the resignation of members of the Live Stock Sanitary Board. Other than that iie had received the resignation of the live stock board members, there were no de velopments in the situation, the governor declared. Members of j the live stock board are B. J. Mc j Kinley, Casa Grande, chairman; : I. L .Neal, Wikieup, and P. T. Hur j ley, Phoenix. The resignation of the board members followed the request made Ito them by Governor Hunt that ■ they reconsider their removal from ' office last month of Dr. S. E. Doug j las, state veterinarian. The gover ; nor further advised the board that , he would reappoint Dr. Douglas to ; the office. The edict was followed i by the resignation of the board. | Dr. Douglas was removed in j June by the board not because of j too rigid enforcement of the scab ‘ ies quarantine in certain sections of the state, it was declared, but j because he was inconsistent in the | matter, refusing to allow some cat ! tie to move while other cattle were I permitted to be shipped. Senator I Thornburg answered the accusa -1 tion by declaring that the cattle referred to were moved against the j wishes and orders of Dr. Douglas, i The shipment moved, he said, be cause the California state veteri narian was willing to pass them into the state. The governor then asked the board if they had any other charges to make and, receiv ing no reply, advised that he de sired them to reconsider the matter. | Governor Hunt’s only comment on the situation was that he had ! the whole matter under considera ! tion and that he had taken no ac tion. Dr. Douglas, he declared I yesterday, has not been reappointed \ to the post and the resignation of | the board members has not been j accepted. He declined to indicate j what his action in the matter may i be. or when he will take action. . o ! Gvpsv Hike of Scouts To Start Next Week Maxwell Hathaway, of the Wins low Boy Scouts, has had his appli cation accepted to join the gypsy i hike of the Grand Canyon council | scouts, which begins next week. ; Only first-class Scouts who have to meet several special requirements are permitted to join on these hikes. One more Sc'out probably j will go from Wonslow, but no oth -1 er application lias been accepted at this time. i Twelve boys from the Grand Canyon council will make up the group of gypsy hikers who, accom panied by Scout Executive Charles McCormick, will leave by truck next 'week for California. Each boy. is given the trip, including all ! expenses, for $25. They will visit many different Scout camps along i the way and spend considerable I time taking in different places of j interest. The trip will last two : weeks. 1 The first of the gypsy trips was : taken last year. Included in the j entertainment which the Scouts re- I ceived on this trip was a dinner at the Biltmore hotel. I. O. O. F. Installs New Officers Monday Night New officers of the I. O. O. F. lodge were installed in office for the coming year at a meeting of the lodge in Community hall Mon day evening. The new officers are W. H. Mor ris, noble grand; E. A. Johnson, vice grand; Gene Byrd, recording secretary, and W. W. Baker, finan cial secretary. It was announced at the meeting that H. J. Fonts had been appoint ed district deputy grand master of the lodge by Fred Moore, of Pres cott, who is grand master of the Arizona district. Cantaloupe Shipments Decline This Week Cantaloupe shipments from the Salt River valley to eastern mar kets have declined appreciably in the last few days, due to the fact that the fields are now being irri gated in preparation for the second crop. The shipments have dropped from 225 cars per day to seventy or eighty. It is expected that shipments of 150 cars per day will be reached next week, but the peak of the movement has been passed, according to reports. A total of 2.285 cars have gone through up to date, with abodt 1,500 more cars expected to be moved before the season closes. NUMBER 41