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The Coconino sun., 1919-01-24

Attorney General Gregory has re- signed from the cabinet on the plea that he has got to go to work and make some money for his folks. MT. McAdoodle seems to have set the pon- ular pace. What this country needs is more money and food and less work
The Coconino sun., 1919-01-24

It is estimated that there are still over a half million Germans armed. Half of them should be cut off: it might make lop-sided army, but that is what the world needs.
The Coconino sun., 1919-01-24

Movie actors in Los Angeles es- corted MT. McAdoo from the train to his hotel. MT. McAdoo seemed to be at home with them.
The Coconino sun., 1919-01-24

Gregory Page of Gallup has pre- scented that city with park in honor of Eieut. A. E. Lyon, who died in the service of his country. The trouble with too many of our patriotic citi- zens is that when they build any mon uments or make public donations. they want to do it in some part of the country out of this altitude.
The Coconino sun., 1919-01-24

When the armistice was signed the people thought there would be let up on the numerous "gimme" drives, but it seems to be a regular habit.
The Coconino sun., 1919-01-24
DEAD MANS FLAT NEWS
 By DOCK SOPER.

(Attorney at Law, Justice of the Peace, shoemaker, groceries Notary Public, hides bought and sold, hats, caps and boots and shoes, also laundry work when my wife is able, Friendly un- dertaking a speciality
The Coconino sun., 1919-01-24

The latest weather reports mot much change in temperature; if there is, we can't help it."
The Coconino sun., 1919-01-24
FLAGSTAFF BOYS ARE r,
 ANXIOUS FOR HOME

Deputy Sheriff John Sheehan is in receipt of a very interesting letter from his brotherinlaw, James A. Treat, better known as "Dolph.' 1t reads as follows:
 Dear Jack:
 We left Brest on December 3lst and pulled into the dock at Hoboken on January 18th. From there we were shipped to this point, Camp Mills, N. Y. What we are going to do now or where we are going from here is as unknown to us as 1t is to you. Our whole unit is made up of regulars and they can hold us for seven years if they take a notion. l sure hope they decide to let us off soon as l am "raring" to get home. There, is q rumor afloat now that we are going from here to Fort. Tolten, coast ar tillery fort close to New York City. l have been hoping that l could get back to Fort McArthur, and may yet if l have any luck.
 We spent Christmas in Brest and considering everything it was not such a bad Christmas season at that. l got my Christmas box on Christmas morning. Everything was Jake. l am using the pen now. Just after l opened the box, a fellow from Flag staff, Earl Hyde, dropped in and ask ed the three AriZonans to goose din- ner with him. We would have thought we were doing fine if we had gotten enough slum. We did not wait for anything but started for Brest where his outfit is stationed We were in camp about four miles from the city. | They sure. gave us dinner from goose to mince pie and champagne. After dinner we bummed around Brest for while and got back to camp about o'clock.
 Our trip across the pond was not so bad. We came over on the battle ship Seattle. We hit some awfu, rough weather but as l did not get sick, did not mind it.
 We have the best quarters and hunks we have had since we left here thirteen months ago. We have had no kick on the grub.
 Well, it is time for supper, so l will close.
 With love,
 JAMES A. TREAT. 3rd A. A. Battery.
 Mir. Sheehan has also just gotten a letter from a Flagstaff sailor boy in California. The call of home is hitting all of our boys now and they want to get back just as bad as we want to see them.
 Dear John:
 It has been long time since l re- ceived your letter and l would have written sooner but I have been work ing pretty steady and this is the first real opportunity have had to answer it. l made the officers clas and I am due for a commission about August the 18th. We certainly have some work in this class but it is all new and interesting, so we don't mind the work part of it much. The thing that interests me most right now is when I can get a discharge and get back to civil life once more. I don't think we will be able to get out before nine months or possibly year. The government needs more officers for the merchant marine and they are go- ing to hold us as long as they can.
 I have not heard from Dolph since came down here so l wish you would let me know where he is and how he is. Write me all the news of Flag staff. Down here I very seldom see anyone from Flag or get any news from there.
 I will have to close for this time. Answer soon and l will try and do the same next time.
 Your sincere friend,
 BRYAN JONES.
The Coconino sun., 1919-01-24

The American people never realiz- ed before that they could get along without a president in the white house
The Coconino sun., 1919-01-24

Count Won Bernstorff wept when he left America, but, he was weeping for Germany.
The Coconino sun., 1919-01-24

If Mexico and Russia would only organize a "Sons of Revolution" so- ciety, it does appear that it would do well, also one for the fathers of rev- olutions." They could also add about all their relatives who happen not to have been caught in some of the wheels of some old revolution or other
The Coconino sun., 1919-01-24

A headline in the Jerome News says: Resignation of Secretary Baker is looked for" Wonder who is looking for it and where they are looking, also what kind of a micro
The Coconino sun., 1919-01-24

The government is now requesting free advertising.for "big income tax drive" There is many a newspaper that would have to pay income tax if the government paid for it's advertis-
The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1919-01-28

LOO Lace Curtains, sale price :.
$1.25 Lace Curtains, sale price.
$3.50 Lace Curtains. sale price.
$500 Lace Curtains, sale price.
Odd and Single Pair Lace
reductions.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1919-12-11
a Few DOn'fS
for Christmas
Don't court indigestion.

Don't court indigestion.
Don't grumble whatever you do.
Don't half fill the kiddies' stockings
Don't give presents which will be
useless
Don't forget the mistletoe Romance
still lives
Don't forget that it ought TO be
merry Christmas.
Don't deny the little ones ideas
about Santa CLAUS
Don't worry about unpaid bills--at
any rate until tomorrow
Don't scoff ut the lingering super
stitions of the good old days.
Don't for the show of things buy
presents which you can't afford.
Don't expect too many presents
Take what you get and be thankful
Don't. if you get up on your wrong
side, make everybody else miserable.
Don't forget to think at least once
during the day what Christmas really
means.
Don't give present unless you want
10. Better not give at all than give in
sincerely.
Don't forget that the giving Of
Christmas boxes. like charity. should
begin at home.
Don't, If you are a girl. stand under
the mistletoe until you see the right
chap approaching.
Don't kiss somebody else'S best girl
even though she is under the mistle-
toe. There might he n row
Don't work on Christmas day if you
can avoid it, If you have to, however
don't make song about il.
Don't give Johnnie a trumpet and
Peter a whistle and expect to have a
quiet time. It's unreasonable.
Don't put off buying presents until
the last minute. You'll get better value
and avoid the crush If you shop early.
Don't send an electric runabout TO n
freezing widow with five starving chill
dren. This is like throwing a rope of
pearls TO a drowning man.
Don't look panied when somebody
tells a fifty-year-old Christmas story
That's one of the unavoidable circum-
stances of the festive season.
Don't give a new song TO some one
who doesn't sing; but be still more
certain that you don't give new song
to some one who magines he can sing.
Don't refrain from giving because
you can't afford to give much. The in.
trinsic value of gift counts for noth-
ing. II is the thought which prompts
II that matters.
Don't let the wife give you Christ.
mas present in the form of cigars. II
she persists in doing so. don't smoke
them-give them away again, without
letting her know about IL, Of course.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1919-12-11

to keep my poor old grandma Morris.
who's got white hair now. from wOr
rying and crying any more over her
boy Dan You see. Mister Santa. my
uncle Dan ran away from home a
long long time ago. before ] was born.
and my grandma keeps saying she
can't rest until she sees him again.
She's visiting my papa and mamma
AT home now. and saw a present she
has all wrapped up and labeled for
uncle Dan il you'll be good enough to
find him and bring him out TO our
house tonight. Won't you do that.
please. mister SantaY"
With choking cry the white
whiskered one stumbled to his feet,
nearly upsetting his little snow h6use
and searching Bobbie's wonder round
ed eyes in hungry disbelief
"You are Julia Morris little boyY
he muttered dazedly. And you say
that -. that your grandmother really
wants her worthless runaway Dan 10
come 10 her? -. is waiting here
in tho ity for him now? oh, my
God !"
Fred, Bobbie's father, caught AZ
the Santa's arm as he reeled un-
steadily sidewise as if about To faint.
and in so doing knocked off the bushy
white whiskers.
"Aww walled Bobbie, facing his
first childish disillusionment, "he ism [
a real Santa after all"
Back through the amazed and
rather indignant crowd of shoppers
old mother Morris was coming us fast
as her trembling legs would permit.
and above the noise and calls Of
clerks at the counters. could be heard
her thrilling quavering outcry:
Danny oh. Danny Danny I've
found my lost boy AT last -
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1919-12-11

hearty husband. welcomed them at
Ike station and thrilled them with "A
ride out to tlrrr daughters apart
ment on the elevated railway. II was
a joyous reunion, but--as mother said,
with sudden break in her voicf-
'it can't be as if my baby. our Dan.
were here with us too"
There. there. mother" said father
Morris. patting her quivering shoulder
consOlingly. You mustn't think about
Dan Just now. He'll return 20 Us some
day when he's become rich and IA
nous. Just look here, Juia---and you
too. Fred all the mountaineering
stuff that Mas brought you from the
farm. Home-churned. uncolOred but
ter rolls those arel And here's
three stuffed six-pound turkeys thai
were gobble- gobbling around the
barns not many days ago. Hey, little
Bob D'you see those pots Of jam.
and splced watermelon pickles? And
here are the Christmas presents
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1919-12-11


all wrapped and tied ready for the
tree. hui not To he opened by anybody
until Christmas morning. Here's
why, mother, You've got one parcel
here marked wrong! 1t has Dams
name on il !"
Mother Morris dabbed at her eyes
with her handkerchief.
please, don't laugh at me, chill
dren." she said sadly, ITS my Dams
Christmas rs much as it is that for
any the rest of us. and / | was
hoping that maybe we'd find him here
in the city now that we've come here
ourselves"
II was pathetlcally absurb. that
barren little hope of the bcrcaved old
mother. but none of them even let
her see them smile at 1t.
The afternoon before Christmas
Julia persuaded her husband, to take
little Bobbie downtown so that he
could not surprise her trimming the
tree. Brother Jim and the old folks
went along.
Little Bohhie naturally was most
of all interested in The toy depart
ments and hardly con 1c made leave
hold some Of the pl ngS he most
fancied.
"Oh see. daddiei A horsR that
rocks, with a name and bride and
everything l.... And oh, grandma
lookit' lookiti There's real live
Santa Claus talking TO those other
little boys and girls -
II was indeed The big store had
hired a rather sho bby-looking young
man that week, No for S15 was sup
posed TO sit at the door Of an imita-
tion snow house and Solemnly encour-
age visiting youngsters 10 tell him
their fOndest wants i'm the line of pres
cnts. Little BObbie was impatiently
waiting in line. holding fast with one
chubby fist to his fathers hand, in no
time. Mother and fathet Morris. and
big brother Jim watched and waited
smilingly for them on the edge of
the crowd.
We'll, my little man, what is your
nameT asked the scarlet-coated and
long white-whskered Santa Claus In
tired husky voice when Bobbie's
turn finally came.
I'm Bobbie Wallace. dear Mr.. Santa
Claus. and live al 560l Byrne street, ="
the boy chrruped at him. round-eyed
and devoutly believing in the identity
of Santa. "My mammals name is Julia
Wallace and I've got n little baby
sister now, too"
The long-whiskered Santa patted
his head in perfnnctory WEAKNESS.
And what do YOU most want me to
put i'm your stocking this Christmas
Eve. Bobbe?' he asked with side
long glance at the tolerantly smiling
father.
"we-ell," drawled Bobbie uncer-
tanly, there are lots and lots OF
things I want awful, awful much,
Mister Santa Claus. but ! heard my
mamma say this morning that it's
ever so much nicer TO wish for things
for those that love you than for your
self. SO L.. guess, I ought TO ask you
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1919-12-11

likes il, let him do IL" he had told the
family defantly. I'm going To some
big city where a fellow has some
chance To see life and make his for
tune In through with haying all day
Tong in the ScOrching sun. milking
cows and feeding hogs and then hay
ing 10 sit in the dark on the porch
listening TO nothing but frogs and
katydids until you have 10 go to bed
If you want To get up in time 10 do ii
all over again next day. I'm through,
| tell you :"
The family had tried to reason with
Dan, but it was Of no use. One morn
ing they found him gone. leaving bnly
the briefest note of good-by to his
mother. And now the third Christmas
since his going had come and the fam
lily Itself was going in to the big city
10 spend holidays with Julia. who had
married and lived there.
Ordinarily Julia and her husband
with little Bobbie. came out to the
farm visiting the old folks and
brother Jim at Christmas, hut this
year Julia had a new baby. scarce
four months old. and hadn't felt equal
TO the trip So father and sweet-faced
mother Morris-thor hair already
white and with the years anxiety for
their missing Dan reflected in wrin-
kled faces-packed up all sorts of
homemade eatabes in baskets and
had sun-hurned brother Jim take
1t was bewildering adventure 10
those simple souls each incident OF
The journey and novel sight after ar
rival was never-to-he forgotten cX-
perience Fred. .Iulia'S brisk ana
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1919-12-11

II was while they were watching
their focks-ihe common duty of their
common days-that the word OF
shepherds II is when we are faith
fully busy with common duties that
Gods revelations usually come to us.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1919-12-11
Tasted Suspicious.

M dear, did you make this Christ.
niIe adding out % the cook book?"
Yes. love"
4 i.Ylsh. i tasted one of the GOV.
.t i"
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1919-12-11
Mrrry Ghrtstmaa

! Whether it be prattled on baby lips
that scarce can shape the words, or
saying them thinks not, but only feels
. the insensate overflow Of giving
! from soft full heart >.
Although it be mumbled inarticulate>
r ly by the shabby nonentty whose
whine for charity one acknowledges
in the spirit Of the season. even
while knowing that the words be
said in servle mockery.
If it be breathed by mother mouth
the sad sweet lines Of which were
! nodded SO by yearning, prodigal
: tenderness and an unfatering de-
votion, be its object worthy or not e..
Whether it be painted from between
the warm. moist lips Of maidenhood
: -tremulous, pal pitant, shame>faced
3 and shy because Of an ardor which
4 it breads to comprehend
3 Althoush it be uttered by maid,
. matron or man. friend, chance ac>
. quaintance, ,tradesnano or servant =.
4 Mrrru Christmas In 1gnu ann III pusus
q BY De H. ttNkt5 CAsS
y esev1seelgegegegeges9ges = =
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1919-12-11

With Embroidery or Any Needlework.
May all your years be glad and bright,
Deep filled with pleasant days,
And all your hours know sweet delight
or love that lives and stays
With some such wishes, true and kind
Each Christmas should begin.
While some OF these must surely bind
Because they've been sewed in!
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1919-10-31

The case tried in the Circuit court
last week, that of the State VS.. Will
Watson, colored, charged with shoot
ing at Harrison Maness, white man
resulted in ! hung Jury or mistrial--
as good many cases go these days,
In many cases chung jury" means
that the man tried sooner or later
goes free and it is a pity that the
same men who listen to the same evil
dence, the came charge and the same
speeches by counsel so often fail to
agree. The law requiring an unani-
nous verdict either way, ought to be
kicked out and three-fourths MAORI
ty verdict substituted.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1919-10-31

When in Nashville last Saturday We
were surprised to hear men make thG
statement that the Commercial Clut
of that city, and similar organizations
in other cities, exist principally and
are maintained at great expense foi
the purpose of preventing from com.
ing to the cities large enterprises
which would compete with the bust.
ness of the various men who compose
the membership Of the Commercial
Club. 1t seems peculiar at the first
glance-yet there is selfish logic in
it.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1919-10-31


Warren S. Stone, Grand chief Of
the Brotherhood of Locomotive En-
gineers, says that cooperative buy
ing with the elimination Of the mid
dleman between the farm and the
home, is one of the biggest objectives
sought by the conference of labor and
the farmer to be held in Washington
Dec. IS. Twenty-Five per cent. Of our
people feed themselves and the re-
naming seventy-five per cent. are at
the mercy of the middleman-and
God help those who are at the mercy
of any uncomfortable class.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1919-10-31

In glancing over the columns of the
Nashville Banner of last Monday af-
ternoon, we were forcibly struck by
what was said of Mrs. Laura Gardner
Settle, an aged lady, who died Sun
day night-for instance: Although a
born aristocrat in blood, in culture
and in comfortable fortune, she was
essentially Democratic and never pre-
ferred one person above another"
And this: "She literally lived to bless
others and in blessing others she her.
self was blessed" There have been
many of the old type of woman of
whose lives such could be said in
truth.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1919-10-31

The Southern Newspaper Publish
ers' Association met in Nashville last
week and the advance notice Of the
meeting stated that the Association
would deal with ''honest advertising"
The Association tackled a big prop
osition and if it did anything at all,
doubtless went off after the little fell
lows, the agencies and others who do
not pay the prices reaped by city da-
lies from their local advertisers. We
believe the city clothing advertiser
to be the biggest, the most dishonest
liar in the world-and evidently dis
honest advertising pays for We see no
cessation of it. People who go to the
cities to trade, attracted to a great
extent by clothing advertisements.
say the ads are almost invariably mis-
leading II not outright lying. The
general scheme in such advertise
ments Is to place the value much high
er than the prices asked, when as
matter Of fact, the lowest prices
found are extertionate-for instance
Ladies suits worth $40, $50, $50,
now s2s.7s." At the present, decent,
well-made suits, especially for women
can not be found in those advertised.
1t has been said that "God hates a
liar"-and we can add that everybody
ought to do so. The clothing game is
skin game, to q great extent, and
the only way to heat it is to wear your
old clothes. The published word of
the average city clothing seller is not
worth the scrap Of paper on which it
is printed.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1919-10-31

1t may be that our former Governor
Benton McMillin has or will get away
form Puru just in time, for thatcoun-
try has been reported on he verge of
revolution. Mr.. McMillin goes to
Guatemala, Central America and Mr..
Gonzales, of South Carolina, if we are
not mistaken, gets the Peruvian job,
which has been put up a notch in the
consular service.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1919-10-31
CYTHEREANS.

The Cytherean Society met Tues
day, Oct. 18th, and elected the fol-
lowing officers for the next term:
President-Annie Mae Holmes.
Observation-Disclosures McHaney.
Sergeant-Marietta Pearson.
Editor-Mary ThreadgiIl.
Reporter-Geneva Waller.
Critic-Ida Mae Moss.
Vice resident-Violet Butler.
Mary Threadgill, Reporter.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1919-10-31

Every living working man has the
right to strike-that is the right to
quit his job if the wages and condi-
tons do not suit him, but, except in
war, no man has the right to resort
to violence to carry his point With
all that it is selfish and heartless
trick in the coal miners to try to put
on a strike just on the verge of win
ter A coal strike right now, Of any
duration, would result in death BY
freezing to many, should the APP
preaching winter be a severe one.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1919-10-31

Friday evening the school is to give
Halloween party, and the pupils
are happily eager with preparation
for the good time in store. Various
societies and classes will have booths
for the sale Of refreshments but 9TH
erwise there will be no charge. Ev-
cry friend of the school is invited to
come.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1919-10-31

Humboldt had a deplorable occur
renee Sunday night when unknown
persons visited the Jail and through
a window shot six times a negro, who
had been committed to prison on the
charge Of having attempted to at
tack white woman in the absence of
her husband. Gov. Roberts was noti-
fled of the happening and expressed
regret over the occurrence. The ne
gro, Henry Booth, was reported to be
fatally wounded.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1919-10-31
William Randolph Hearst, who is

William Randolph Hearst, who is
reputed as being the "yallerest0 Of
"yaller" newspaper publishers in the
United States, declines to meet Gov.
Smith, of New York publicly or pri-
In keeping with the general ad-
vance in prices, Mexican bandits have
increased their ransom on individuals
to $150,00O-the sum demanded for
Oscar Jenkins, American consular
agent at Pueblo, Mexico, who was Ia
ken by the bandits and for whom that
sum has been demanded. Friends of
Jenkins in Mexico, have tried to pre-
vail on the bandits to cut their de-
mand in half and accept $4,000. Ma
jor Howard B. Shofner, Of Shelbyville,
Tennessee, is brother-in-law of the
kidnapped consular agent.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1919-10-31
GOOD WORD FOR LOCAL FIRM.

Mr.. Joe Warren, of the Warren
Paint and Color Company, of Nash
vile, was here last week and had this
to say for Threadgill Brothers, local
distributors of the famous Warren
paints: That Threadgill Brothres are
the most satisfactory customer on the
Warren books and that Threadgill
Brothers have been exceeded in vol
umn of sales in 1919 only by Chat
tanooga firm. This is a compliment
deserved by Threadgiil Brothers who
have worked and advertised to sell
the Warren Paints.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1919-10-31

The papers of Tuesday afternoon
reported a strike of 100000 trainmen
imminent-that the heads of the
Brotherhood and other unions had
been to Washington to present the
last wage increase demands. Four
teen bodies at Washington had, on
that day, declared for a walkout,
while others were voting, with the
walkout sentiment almost unanimous.
The Lexington progress. (Lexington, Tenn.) 1884-current, 1919-10-31

Tuesday three companies of FEEDER
al troops arrived at Knoxville, on ac-
count Of the trouble connected with
the street car strike in that city. Gov.
Roberts was also on the ground. In
addition, general strike for Nov. /,
had been voted on and authorized in
the general labor council.