The Coconino sun., 1918-04-12

AhSy aIC dicO CVuSShhB tiH SdHo aHu selling them to the copper companies for use in the precipitation tanks.
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 A Tucson registrant changed the number on his draft certificate and is now in jail with a Federal charge lodged against him.
 Prof. Fred Arthur Nims, of Flem- ington, N. J., has succeeded Harold Steele as superintendent of the Tue son schools. He is a graduate of Yale. The Tucson National bank, new institution with capital of S100,000 is now open for business. R. R. Cook, formerly vice-president of the Con- solidated National bank of Tucson, is president.
 A temporary organization of g. branch of the National Association to Promote Universal Military Training has been formed in Tucson with 200 members.
 R. E. Souers, superintendent of the Douglas schools, has been made Y. M. c. A. secretary in war camp community service. He has not been notified when he is to report for duty. -X-
 Half the Cochise county road bond issue of $1,00O,000 has been sold to the Phelps-Dodge corporation at par and accrued interest. There were no other bids, but it is expected that the other half of the issue will be sold at later date. The $5OO,000 becomes immediately available.
 A Douglas postman sold S650 worth of Thrift Stamps in one day while making his rounds. Here is a postman who is entitled to more than passing recognition.
 The Miami Red Cross has a mem bership of more than 5000. Guess the concentrator city holds the record.
  Pro-Germans are at work in Saf- ford They are circulating reports that sweaters made by Red Cross ladies are being sold in the stores of the Gila valley, and that it co.ts $1 to put ten cents in France. Thu matter is being investigated Colonel Dave Hughes, who was with the Rough Riders in the charge up San Juan hill, was found in Miami profusely bleeding from wounds in the wrist, believed to have been self inflicted. Hughes had been i'll and Respondent for quite while. The school children of Douglas have purchased over $3,500 worth of thrift stamps, or over 14,0O0 stamps, since January 22d.
 Bill" Cleary, attorney for the wobblies of the state, and who was notified recently that a coat of tar and feathers was awaiting him at Bis bee, has gone to Chicago to assist in the defense of the hundred odd I. w. w. on trial there for the alleged vio- Iation of the espionage act. -x-
 The Santa Fe, according to a report from Phoenix. has appropriated $741.- 900 to rebuild their line from Ash Fork to the capital city.
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 Springerville. Apache county, is to have movie show.
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 The famous ruin at Casa Grande is to be made one of the "show places" of the national park system accord ing to statements made recently by officials of the department.
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 The Miami Red Cross chapter. dur ing the first eight months of it's or- ganization in 1917, raised more than S8,0O0, according to a recent report of the chairman.
 The plan of making tests this sea- son of fabrics made from Arizona Pima cotton in actual flying tests of the U. s. signal corps, which was brought to the personal attention of Howard Coffin, chairman of the Air craft board, has at last definitely ma terialized.
 The following shows that the Red Cross workers in Apache county are not at all idle. They have sent since October, 1917, for our soldier boys: l03 pair of socks; 28 sweaters; wristlets; mufflers; hemIet; 6 pair pajamas; 4 hospital shirts and almost completed 10 layettes.-St. Johns Her aid.
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 The Age of This Age.
 Age is now a time
 When pulses seem to quicken, And each old hen wears clothes
 She thinks she will look chic in.
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