The Coconino sun., 1919-10-17

| MrS. WethenIS lnQlan helpers, HaZel and Mamie, to John Wade's place on the San Juan, where MT. Wade took them on to the Shyrock Indian school. Mir. Wetheril returned September 30 with six-horse load of freight.
 George M. Post and MT. Louie, of the Albuquerque division of the rec lamation service, arrived September 21, and after thoroughly going over the reclamation project here, MT. Post left for Albuquerque the 25th, to take charge of the project under way at Jernez and Zia Pueblos some 50 miles north of Albuquerque. Mir. Louie re- mained here and resumed work on the ditch and dam On the 18th. The ditch is to be lowered four feet to facilitate the plants circulation. Also, one of the wings of the dam is to be put in a Plaster Paris cast, and the rent in it's apron that was caused by tree being hauled over it in the late flood is to be patched.
 Philip Johnson, of California, son of the missionary at Fort Defiance, was here on business September 28; but, not finding any goats to buy, he left the next morning for better field. September 27 and 28 MT. Duff, of Shonto, and Dr. Rosnik, of the .veteri- nary department, were here through duress. They got off of the beaten path when looking at the Segi ruins of Keetseel and Betatakin. Their horses got tired of waiting for such slow humans, and took it on them- selves to travel to more suitable cline. So the delinquents had a two day hike on foot to Kayenta.
 William Reed, who has been visit ing at Cortez, returned the 28th.
 October 4, Stockman Swarz took over 78 head of the Red Cross goats and sheep for the use of the Marsh Pass school. The sheep and goats had been donated by the Indians to the Red Cross through Mrs. Lulu Wetheril's soliciting last year; but on account of the flu they could not be sold last fall. There were about 140 head donated, a great number of which died during our extremely hard winter last year.
 John Swarz commenced working on the Marsh Pass road October 6. The roads since the heavy rains are badly in need of repairs.
 John Straus left for Kansas via Tuba City to join his wife at Junction City, where they will take care of. the poor farm. Mrs. Julian Buckbee ac- companied him as far as Tuba City, from which place she will proceed to Flagstaff to visit her daughter Har- riet. who is in the Normal school.
 Automan Dodge Black, MT. and Mrs. Burt Harwood, and L. Gaspard, of the Taos (N. M.) art section, visit ed here September 29 and 30. They came by the way of Hopi-Walpi, and went from here via Durango, Colo, to Taos.
 Mir. and Mrs. John Wetheril and In dian Maid Yazzie left October 6 for Tucson, where Mrs. Wetheril will make her headquarters as state chair man of the Woman's Roosevelt Mem- orial Association of Arizona. YazZie | will enter a Bible school in che same city little later in the year.
 Notes from Our Gun Club General Gee Ike Doolittle has been nominated for city dog pelter here, and though the election is five weeks off, the general is already setting lem up at a most liberal rate. How he came to be nominated is best explain ed in his speech at the September primaries, as follows:
 "Feller citizens and ladies and gen tlemen of this honorable assembly: l am here to present my name as a candidate for the important and ex- haulting position of city dog pelter; and in order to make plain to you who am, seeing that l am only six months from Arkansaw, l will give you short outline of my life, barring few exciting incidents of adventure that I may relate on some more au- spicious occasion.
 q was raised, as President Wilson, my old schoolmate, will testify, be- tween two rows of stumps on one side and a row of yaller pumpkins on the other, near the little town of Tater- smasherville, Ohio. When l reached sugar sixteen,' I, like all my sex, fell in love--in love with cross-eyed gal -so cross-eyed, in fact, that when she cried the tears ran down the back O. her neck; and, as is natural, thought I'd marry her. So I screwed up my courage to high pitch and went down to her fathers house, and when opportunity permitted l axed her to be mine. Now, feller citizens, what do you suppose she said? "Huh?," said she, you ain't the last possum on the limb
 Hence it was that when the great uncivil war broke out--in the fifty twelves-I interrogated the old gent if might go to the war, whereupon he told me to perambulate as soon as possible. So on the same day enlist ed in the Swinehide Fussileers from Hominy Ridge and marched with the boys to the alligator swamps and the skeeter regions of the land of cotton, cinnamon seed and sandy bottoms. Then, after I had been promoted to high private in the rear ranks, l