The Coconino sun., 1920-08-06

the other day and ran into the lamp post in front of Mrs. Powers millin- cry emporium.
 Speaking of Doc Miller's yarn about the frog churning the butter, Frank Brooks says he knew woman who, while giving her old man raking over, fell head foremost into tub of cream, and before they could pull her out she had chuIned forty pounds of butter with her chin.
 Judge Jones says he saw saloon- keeper in court once try to get away from punishment for beating his wife on the ground that he had a Ticker license.
 What lot of fun we could have in this colyum with jokes about people blowing out the gas, etc., if we only had gas to make our jests more un- derstanable and timely. There's the one about the guy who when he saw sign reading: Don't blow out the gas; turn it off," took a monkey wrench and turned the burner until it broke off, and another about the man who saw the same sign and under it reading: "All gas burned after 12 o'clock will be charged extra for" and beat the game by pouring water on the flame, and lot of others we should like to use if we didn't use cleo tricity here.
 Wl;ob l, ,,o,,-,, woman who recently arrived here from the east and upon hearing that her hostess did all her ironing with an electric iron, remarked:
 "I hope you have good fire in the kitchen so l can get the electric iron hot, because l want to smooth out few things"
 Did l ever tell you," asks Jim Till man, of the White Garage, about the teamster who tore his trousers while on duty and thought he was on the right track when he read our sign: Repairing in rear?'"
 -Four calf shows were held in Pet tis county last week, girl winning first and second prizes in every in stance but one" ."-Missouri dispatch.
 Sometimes in cross-examining a witness a random question will have more effect than an hours we'll questioning, says Assist ant County Attorney Geo. w. Harben, and gives his statement point by tell ing about a pig-stealing case in Georgia and the cross-examination of a colored witness.
 "Is it possible, Uncle Billy" asked the lawyer, "that you would swear to what you know is not true for a single paltry dollar?"
 "No, sah," the witness replied, in "No, sah! De gem'men gib me two dollars"
 Rimmy Jim Giddings was pointing to various hills and other spots of in terest for the edification of carload of tourists he met the other side of Martin Buggelin's ranch. A young lady in the party didn't have any eyes at all for the scenery about which Rimmy was expatiating, but kept watching a bovine few rods from the road. Finally she interrupted with:
 What a charming COW. How l should love to pet her. Might l do you suppose?"
 Rimmy eyed the "cow" doubtfully.
 "Well," he said, "you might, mum, but unless you've got an accident in surance policy with wild bull clause in it, you'd better not"
 To Johnny Asker: A wooden we'd ding, my son, means that if the we'd ded parties were free they wooden get married again.
 Harry Embach says that the home Hest girl he ever saw made a good liv- ing hiring out to different farmers to wean their calves. She would go to the other side of the cow when the calf was-ah-nursing, and looking under the COW, the calf would see the girls face and flee, never daring to approach there again.