The Coconino sun., 1920-09-17

one dramatic moment, balm-o'- gil cad quietude fell upon the house. Then with splendid verve, the singer poured forth his unearthly voice in the dulcet strains of "Everybody's Eatin' En-"
 Signor Ishamo was given twenty three curtain calls if he was given one, but, on the advice of the police, he did not appear again. To the dis appointed audience only one thought brought comfort. The great singer had songed. It was over.
 "Rimmy" Jim Giddings was pain- fully burned few days ago by an electric light bulb in the big hotel at Kai-bi-to.
 "Rimmy" had been assigned to room in which there was only one light and that was in the shape of an cleo tric bulb attached to long wire. He had just disrobed for the night and had put on bewitching suit of dia- phanous, light-blue pajamas, when he discovered that the bed was missing. Taking the lighted bulb in his hand, he started to search for his cot. Sud- denly door opened and a chamber maid appeared on the scene. Instant ly covered with confusion, "Rimmy" thrust the lighted bulb into the waist band of his trousers, darkening the room, and despite the fact that the bulb was hot, assumed the air of ut ter sang froid that has won for him the admiration of the entire nation.
 "Ain't you bright?" snapped the girl, and left the room, slamming the door.
 The Chicago Tribune pragrapher, in illustrating how little's in name, had lot of fun over the fact that man in Peoria, named R. E. Taylor, is a grocer. Jesse. We have an R. E.. Taylor here, and he runs a furniture store.
 Attorney X. N. Sleeves, of Williams, was requested the other day by Mrs, Sleeves to go out and decapitate a couple of hens for Sundays dinner. He amiably complied. When he had killed the hens he discovered both had spurs, and took them back to the kitchen, held them up dramatically, and announced to Mrs. Sleeves:
 See the spurs on those hens legs. That's what comes of giving women the vote"
 With the election of Wick Thomp- son to the vice-presidency of the Ma tional Women's Christian Temperance Union, that organization becomes a more active force in civic life, for Wick is temperance agitator of the first water.
 Talking enthusiastically of the achievements of the anti-souse cru sade, Mir. Thompson outlined his theo- ries to a Squeaker reporter. He de- clared that the preponderance of wat CT in the human organism is deeply significant. Throughout history" he said, "water has made possible the finest achievements of great men. What would Nelson or Farragut have done without water? We owe the modern locomotive to the discovery of steam, which is but one form of water. Alike for the giant steel corporation and the humblest milkman, water is the fountain head of prosperity" ! Mir. Thompson is also an officer of the Society for the Prevention of the Exposure of Naked Fowls in the Mar ket Place, the Society for Supplying Clothes to Nude Statues and the. h. ternational Association for Supplying Smoked Glasses to Bald-headed Bach elors.
 Adolph Boenitsch, hitherto re- spected citizen of this community, is held without bail pending his trial on the charge of non-support. A great mystery surrounds the case, for the police aver that Boenitsch makes a large salary, and that, as he gives none of it to his wife there must be something doing somewhere. What that something is, no one knows, but Burns detectives, who are hot on the trail, propose to make it warm for the prisoner.
 J. Cunliffe Brown, the popular mer- chant on Railroad avenue, has an- nounced that he will retire from active business and open a general store. q have secured a good stand at Lake