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The Coconino sun., 1915-12-10
". c. T. U. Lecturer Here

Mrs. Lora S. LaMance, national lecturer and organizer of the w. c. T. U. will speak at the Methodist church on Friday December 17th at o'clock p. m. Everybody is cordially invited to attend.
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Great piles of lumber, apparatus for moving rock and earth, tents, and other miscellany go to show that in about ten days there will be about forty men building the new bridge.
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James Lamport jr., Miss Lamport, Miss Van Deren, and Frank Owenby jr., left via Canyon road for Flagstaff. The wind never seems to cold nor blow to hard for folks to attend the Sedona dances from afar and near.
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Morgan Thompson was business visitor at Flagstaff Saturday. MT. Thompson is a brother-in-law of MT. Wagner's and will probably be re- sident of Sedona the balance of the winter.
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SEDONA NEWS NOTES

Miss Lamport, our teacher, is ab- sent at Jerome attending the Insti- ute.
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Miss Jesse Purtyman, who has been quite sick for several days is some better at this writing.
The Coconino sun., 1915-12-10

Frankie Owenby and Lloyd Van Deren were on the mountain couple of days this week.
The Coconino sun., 1915-12-10

Mrs. Pouthie was hostess to the Priscilla Club last Thursday after noon.
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On December End force of men began work on the new bridge for Oak Creek. MT. E. B. Raudebaugh, the cement man is building forms for the abutments and George Black jr. is getting teams and scrapers to work on the approaches and sinking to bed rock on the west side for foundation for the west abutments. About 12 men are now working and it is under stood more will be put to work.
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Mir. Ed Hart, Fred Moore and an other man are in Flagstaff after more bridge material. Those in charge of the work are very anxious to get the material on the ground before the roads get impossible.
The Coconino sun., 1915-12-10
The Most Popular Books

Christmas is the time for book lov- CTS. If you would know the six best sellers in fiction just nowhere IS list:
 "Felix O'Day"-F. Hopkinson Smith -(Scribner.)
 Michael O'Halloran"-Gene Strat- ton Porter (Dubbleday-Page).
 "Dear Enemy"-Jean Webster Century,.
 "The Research Magnificent"-H. G Wells (MacMillan.)
 "K"-Mary Roberts Rhinehart- (Houghton-M Mifflin.)
 "The Gray Dawn"-Stewart Edward White-( (Doubleday-Page).
 "The Story of Julia Page" is an other popular fiction number-the sor' that finds itself into the hearts o1 folks. This is by Kathleen Norris whom we all love for her Mother Julia Page is just on ordinary woman who developes in just an ordinary way but its a pleasant tale to read.
 A new book of tales to be told tt the toddlers when they settle dowr for "tellus story mother" time, k Mary Dickerson Donahey's "Tales tt be Told to Children"
 Arthur Rachman's gift book thi' year is an edition of Dickens Christ mas Carol" lovely edition it is too Gilbert Parker offers another booi this season "The Money Master" H' himself characterizes it as "perhap the best and surely the most pleasing of all my novels" No doubt this i true for he is writing of his nativ country and in it he weaves old Frencl customs and provincial characters.
The Coconino sun., 1915-12-10

An enjoyable dance was given in the Sedona school house on Thanks giving night by the young men of the settlement. We beg to acknowledge our mistake in last weeks notes in stating that Miss Edith Lamport our affable teacher was responsible for getting up the Thanksgiving dance. While Miss Lamport was in attendance she was in no way responsible for the affair. Among those who were in at tendance from outside districts were the Misses Lambert and Van Deren James Lamport, all of Flagstaff, and MT. Fred Croxen of Mormon Lake The Red Rock district was represented by Irwin Shurman, Fritz Shurman Miss Freda Shurman and others whose names we failed to learn. The music was furnished by MT. Albert Thomp- son who dealt harmony out of the accordion. The refreshments were fine cake, sandwiches and coffee. Four o'clock in the morning the dancers dis persed.
 The following Saturday night few who could dance some more persuaded Mir. Thompson to play while several couples danced until Il o'clock that night.
The Coconino sun., 1915-12-10

Mrs. Frank Owenby returned from Phoenix where she accompanied her daughter Miss Birdie to the teachers institute. The trip was very bene- ficial to her, but withal she was glad to get home.
The Coconino sun., 1915-12-10

Arthur Rachman's gift book this year is an edition of Dickens Christ mas Carol' lovely edition it is too.
Evening star., 1915-06-27

owned plant of Columbus. Ohio. to in
vestigate the general conditions and
especial needs of this city. His report,
which will include plans, specifications
and cost estimates, will be submitted
at the next session of Congress, so that,
if the requisite authority to go ahead
is given, Washington should have its
new plant in operation when the pres
ent contracts expire in 1918.
During the past season the depart
ment has. in conjunction with the De-
partment of Agriculture, been con
ducting some Investigations, not yet
completed. in regard to the waste IN
the several sections of the city and
at different seasons of the year. They
find that the refuse which is richest III
fats comes from such places as hotels.
big apartment houses and the markets:
that where canned foods are largely
used the waste is of little value. While
the data are not compiled. they expect
to find d great falling off in richness
during the summer, when fewer meats
and heavy foods are eaten and more
fruits and vegetables are consumed.
Another fact observed is the absence
of fabrics in the rubbish collected from
those sections where the wealthy or
well to do live. Their cast-ofs are
are taken by the humble and made to
serve, without regard to cut or style,
until they are things Of "shreds and
patches" and such things are not
found where the wealthy dwell When
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kets, hotels and apartment houses shall
out ali the city within the fire limits.
during the summer months, it shall be
collected every day but Sunday, and
III the winter months. three times a
week. The collection of ashes is made
in a similar way. but at different times,
and they are taken in covered wagons
and disposed of TO fill low grounds in
the outskirts of the city. Dead ami
mails are removed under a separate
contract to especial plant about
four miles outside of the city limits.
That this collection work which is
under the inspection of Superintendent
of Street Cleaning J. w. Paxton, has
been done we'll. will be inferred from
the fact that during the past year. out
of total of fewer than a thousand
complaints arising from garbage re-
movals, only forty on investigation
Were found to be the fault of the con-
tractors.
obviously. where the health Of the
whole city Is concerned, this work
must be under municipal control and
the general practice in the cities of
this country has been that which is
now in force in Washington; but for
some time the conviction has been
growing that efficiency and good econ
omics-the best results at the least
cost IN money and efort-require rlu-
hlcipal ownership and operation of the
CITY disposal plants. II seems certain
that such ownership can give either
an equally good service for less money
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DELIVERING RUBBISH AT DUMP.

or better service for the same amount
of expenditure.
AS now carried on in Washington
the contracts which were formerly let
for five years are now Very reaSona ly
given for only three, and the present
contractor has no reason to rely upon
being his own successor. He realizes
that the money which he puts into his
plant-wagons. reduction works. etc
will be of little value if he fails to Sc
cure renewal of the contract. and he
therefore sees that his bid is made
large enough to cover this possible
loss. But a he already has paid for
this plant and can at slight additional
expense make it last for the three
year period of the new contract, he
has SO great advantage over OPP
posing bidders that the city loses the
benefit of keen competitive bidding for
the contracts.
1T seems quite fitting said Mr.
Paxton that, if only for the sake of
the experiment to be witnessed by
the whole country, Washington might
wisely erect and own its collecting
and disposal plants. This can b. done
on much the same principle that the
Department of Agriculture conducts
many experiments such as that of road
building, as an educational object les
son.
With the idea of presenting this mat
ter properly, the Commissioners have
retained Irwin $. Osborn, the sanitary
engineer who designed the municipality
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ways on dress parade--and yet it is not
ostentatiousness The majority are
clean shaven. and appear to have just
Jumped from the barbers chair. A
number wear the kaiser mustache ::
some have a patch of hair, a "bunny's
tall on their chins.
Some of the men ashore Ike their
headquarters at places of business kept
BY local Germans. One-the most
popular because convenient in coming
and going to the lnterned cruisers-is
a jewelers. shop. Americans are vel
coined by the sailors and treated cor
daily. They talk freely of their life
on snipboard and of their hopes Of
German victory. However. under in
structions from their commanding Off
GERS, they Immediately became silent
in the presence of newspaper men.
They have been well drilled in this re
spect
TWO kinds of currency are used by
the German sailors. on shipboard
German coins are used exclusively.
Men granted shore leave use Ameri-
can money. On each ship there is an
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tractor is first sorted. Rags and pa
pers are cleaned and disinfected. and
used in the manufacture of paper and
hand metal dealers. Everything avail
able is put to some use and the re-
malnder is incinerated. Street sweep
ines have some value as a fertilizer,
but those upon which automobiles have
dropped much oil are injurious if ap-
piled to the soil.
The materials obtained from dead
animals and slaushter-house tankage
carry SO much nitrogen that they have
been largely withdrawn from the fer
tilzer trade and devoted to the prepa-
ration of cattle food, which the cattle,
after they have become accustomed to
it, eat with avidity.
The only safe and reasonable way to
dispose of the carcasses of the dead ami
mails is by the use of live steam TO re-
duce them, and recover the grease and
other constituents of value. This proc
ess makes them absolutely sterile, but
if they carry any disease communica BILE
to the men who handle them. they
should be cremated as soon as pos
sible. After the steam has been intro
duced a sufficiently long time, the tank
age is pressed to remove the water and
to recover the grease, the residue is
dried and ground for fertilizer. The
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attempts to adjust matters pertaining
to their work was the real reason of
its being founded
You see, she continued, in a place
where SO many girls are employed,
many difficulties, trivial and otherwise,
come up which must be rectified. Some
of the girls become dissatisfied with
their work or their wages, or certain
actions on the part of co-Workers, for
instance. Some desire improvements in
the restrooms. in the Workrooms, etc.
| could mention a hundred compla ints,
some with foundations, others quite
unjustifable, which are made by the
woman employees.
Because each girl disliked to ap-
proach the proper person and voice her
complaint, conceived the idea of
organizing. A sort of embryo society
was started. \ committee was then
named, and the girls selected to serve
on it we're obliged to take the matters
tending toward the Improvement of
the working environment of the mem
Evening star., 1915-06-27

they are no longer useful to wear or
to stuff into hole in the wall or an
empty window sash they tind-these
rags which as gowns adorned the
danes and damsels of high degree
their place in the city rubbish, not to
be cast out and destroyed utterly, but
carefully culled. disinfected and clean
ed to be converted into paper or some
thing else that can be made OF choice
rags.
present agronomic practice. says
DIR. Turrentine of the Department of
Agriculture, which is conducting in
vestigations and making many expert
ments to determine the fertilizer value
of the products of city waste. demands
that certain materials, called plant
foods, or soil amendments, shall be
added to the soil to take the place
presumably, of those substances re-
moved from the soil with the harvested
crop"-that is, the billions of bushels
of corn, the hundreds of millions of
bushels of wheat. oats, barley, pota-
toes and forage take in their growth
some of the elements from the ground
and to repair this loss fertilizer of
some sort from somewhere must be
paid, not given to the soil.
DR.. Turrentine states that it is con-
yentional to regard the foods" which
commercial fertilizers must supply as
of four kinds-potash. phosphoric acid
nitrogen and lime. Most of the potash
is imported from Germany. The phos-
phoric acid comes from ground bone
or rock phosphate. and abundant de-
positS of limestone are found in most
parts of this country. The nitrogen.
which is the important thing, is found
as salts of ammonia or vegetable
or animal compounds carrying nitro
gen, such as cottonseed meal or fish
scrap. Carriers of ammonia are scarce
and dear. The national resources of
this article for fertilizer purposes are
obtained from coal when it is distilled
to make Illuminating gas, from cotton
seed meal and garbage. All of which
has been told. that Mr.. A. G. c. may
realize that garbage has economic
value If proper means be taken to eX-
tract the virtue from it.
Many brilliant minds, with varyin e
but limited degrees of success, have at
tempted to find a process for recover
ing something of value from all this
waste. Some have even thought to re-
cover a value equal to that of the
plant foods" taken from the ground,
with the grain, which is about as easy
to find as a simple way Of getting per-
petual motion. The fact is that the
city waste, most of which is water
must be disposed of. and under favor
a bic circumstances as to location. den
sity of popula ton, markets for the
product recovered, economy of collec-
ton and rendering, considera BILE grease
and carriers of nitrogen may be recov-
cred in quantities sufficient to pay the
cost of disposal and part of the cost
of collection. But there is no prospect
that sufficient value can be recovered
to pay for both disposal and collection,
for there is entirely too much water.
The city rubbish collected by the con-
Evening star., 1915-06-27
War Stories.

~ EN-. DANIEL H. BRUSH said at a
VI dinner in Baltimore
''It will be hard. after this world war
to get soldiers to give you good descrip-
tions of the fighting. They will all give
you false descriptions-not because they
want to lie, but because so few of US are
able either to see or to describe important
things
soldiers, after the war. will all, uncon-
sciously, talk like the chap who said
with my respirator | got through the
clouds of poison gas all right, and then,
right before me, | saw a new giant NOR
tar. Talk about your 420s, This a
go or 720. Why. l never saw such
mortar.
- believe you,' said d listener. dryly.
OF course, you never saw such NOR
tar
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And Rejected.

a LFRED MOVES. irritation over whose
~ peace poems. it is now generally ad-
mitted did much to bring on the war
Alfred Noyes was talking in New York
about poetry
And they say" he cried. that poetry
isn't widely read. Why, gentlemen-''
Here Mr.. Noyes winked gayly
why, gentlemen, a poem / wrote la st
year has been read. to date by no less
than IFS magazine editors"
Evening star., 1915-06-27

American Federation of Labor. Some
times we hold as many two and
three meetings a week. Just prior to
the establishment of our cooperative
lunchroom we held regular men s
meetings in so far as some of them eN-
tended far into the night. Our discus
sions were detailed and lengthy, and
we found it difficult to wind up our
business at a reasonably early hour.
We give socials. concerts, picnics
and excursions in summer, and sleigh
rides and other sporting events in win
ter. Just now we are arranging the de-
tails of an entertainment to be given
in the near future. A great deal of
my time is devoted to selecting local
Evening star., 1915-06-27

day on the German cruisers by the sale
of intoXicants. 1t was the sensation of
a day, but local police officials found
themselves helpless, inasmuch as the
alleged violations were committed on
q federal reservation and on foreign
warship. The Navy Department ruled
that it had no jurisdiction, further than
request TO the German commanders
not to permit the indiscriminate sale
of intoxicants on Sunday. Such a re-
quest made, and result the
sa lie of beer and other drinks TO Ameri-
cans was discontinued.
But this does not mean that a visitor
on the ship cannot get something to
drink and pay for it himself. The way
to obtain a stein of beer when on one
of the German cruisers is to treat q
German sailor by getting him to treat"
YOU They are always ready to accom-
nodate< you, although treating is not
German politenesS, as It Is IN An1erl-
ca All one has to do is to furnish
American money. The sailor viii ex-
change il for German coin. He also
Evening star., 1915-06-27
WASHINGTON SAW
FIRST BALLOON ASCENSION

betta's soliloquies he passed over
the Prussian troops II ran:
Srv wii Low rif Srisht tin thr PLAIN is siistenins
lmpalement would BE- dreadful
On those spikes Of polished brass.
one of the features of the siege of
Paris, so far the balloon was con-
cerned. was the feat OF Nadar, a mill
tary aeronaut. who. ascending in his
balloon, the Neptune. at Montmartre, by
means of a primitive form of camera
took photographs of the troops below.
Every half hour he sent 4 glass mega
tive sliding down the balloon rope, so
that the complete operations of the
forces below could be strung together.
Balloons We're used by the besieged
Parisians as means of communication
with the outside world. Most of these
efforts resulted in failure, the balloon
ist having no other control over his
air craft than to cause il to go higher.
if the gas was sufficient, or to cause 1t
to descend. He was poWerleSs to con-
troll the direction of his flight. That
WAS dictated by the wind, which as
often favored one side the other. The
account has been preserved of one at
tempt to convey letters by air from
Paris with triple balloon named the
United States. Three balloon envelopes
were fastened together and loaded with
900 letters. TO the great delight of
the citizens it hoated away from the
town and eventually landed with its
solitary occupant at Nantes. Because
of the success of this attempt another
balloon called the Celest was sent aloft
with a load of letters. 1t ended in dis
aster. The wind split the gas bag in
two and the letters and the aviator
tumbled to the ground from height of
over 100 feet. The aeronaut. though
badly injured by the fall, was not
killed
There was another balloon named the
Washington, which was sent up from
companied by a post office delegate
with a collection of 10000 letters and
thirty carrier pigeons. The sailor fell
out of the basket in making an effort
to cast the graphing irons. and the
balloon drifted over and descended
within the German lines.
one of the incidents of the American
campaign in Cuba was the use of a
captive balloon by the American army
in the operations before Santiago.
Evening star., 1915-06-27

talent to participate in this affair We
have a great many girls endowed with
unusual dramatic ability, and they help
US present an entertaining bill"
The dues of the Girls Union amount
to 40 cents month per season; the
sick benefit is 81 week for six weeks
and the death benefit is SIS to the
family of the deceased.
The present officers are: Mrs. Mary
Ganzhorne, president; Mrs. Agnes Muir
ply. vice president: Miss Louise
Dangle, treasurer: Miss Gertrude Nc
Nally. recording secretary. and Miss
Clara Dansle. financial secretary. For
mer presidents of the union serve on
the executive committee
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orders the drinks. But, of course, the
visitors money pays.
Sailors act as walters. But there is
no effort 10 entice you to buy The cost
of stein of beer is about 2 !. cents.
The light lunches served here are also
reasonab BILE in price. one gives his order
and II is filled with remarka Bile quick
ness. One is not presented with a pur-
chase check or request for payment.
one IS expected to place the amount
due on the table. There ii remains un-
til the waiter clears away the stems
dishes. when the visitor gives Il
second order il is expected that pay
nent for the first order has been de-
posted on the Ia Bile. One can lay down
not knowing what is owed. But the
stranger need not be apprehensive: the
waiter VIII take only what is due for
the service, leaving the balance. They
trust you. you can trust them.
x X
ON shipboard, while the rules have
been relaxed sufficiently to relieve mo-
notony. there is no lack of discipline.
The men are divided into watches, and
during their service hours employed
al the occupations necessary to make
life comfortable aboard ship. There are
BARRIERS. tallors, cooks, walters scrub
bers, etc. Everybody seems to work
cheerfuliy and efficiently The ships are
spick and span. Men off duty assist in
entertaining visitors or engage in such
amusemcnts as are permitted by the
officers.
Card playing is allowed, reading
rooms are provided, and on deck games,
such as quot throwing, take place. Like
Evening star., 1915-06-27

bers to the director for adjustment
'Gradually we broadened into a sort
of benefit association, and now we are
"A regular union, affiliated with the A
F. of l.. We send delegates to that
organizations councils and conven-
tions whenever and wherever they are
held.
I'VE who are active members of the
union find that there is no end of the
good we can accomplish, our tasks
ranging all the way from obtaining a
mirror or electric fan for some girls
to supplying others with the real ne
cessities of life. In addition to this.
sentiment enters into our work to a
certain extent. This prompts us to
send flowers, fruit and other delicacies
to the mother. sister or other members
of a girls family when they are ILL.,"
While Miss Rapaport was describing
this phase of the work an office boy
handed her a NUM- ber of letters, which
proved to be the written thanks of
members to whom these thoughtful at
tentions had been paid. One girl.
whose mother had just died, wrote to
thank her companions for the .beauti-
full floral Offering, which touched me
deeply. because it went to show that
INV fellow workers did not forget me
in my time of deepest sorrow"
If Miss Rapaport ever finds sufficient
time she says she is going to take up
the extensive study of parliamentary
law.
I'VE find that a thorough knowledge
of the proper way to conduct a meet
ing is absolutely necessary" she said.
"While none of our members are par
ticularlv endowed along this line we
get along pretty we'll with the aid of
a good set of rules furnished US by the