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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-03-15
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mr. ADVENTURES
udge OpPs Secrets
The Hon "y DADDY
SECRET II
SGrateful COLBY Gull
HEHT I'm going 70 tell you q
Dry OF Colby Gull and the shi
IA M IIoY.a ~ bnnt,d Indga nu,l

I "SIhI III BOulB 10 tel you IiS
Dry OF Colby Gull and the ship
I'd sailors" hooted Judge Owl, as
- rched In tree outside Peggys
Byw. Can you hear me, Peggy and
js" said Peggy from her room.
ts,ryr /" said Billy from the house next
where he was visiting. So Judge
= ope, began his tale; a., ..,
braise ssrg quits In the flock. He was big,
knowsng and fearless, and because he was
rns.t strong and fearless he sometimes
mea. foolish things to show his strength
slowin bravery
pelet tsThus in blowy weather. instead of
Of ticking shelter with the other gulls he
en- aging gale, fighting the wind and DEFY
sstJng the tossing waves. The older gulls
ScSften warned him. telling him that some
u hot overcome. But Colby Gull just
laughed at the fears of the older gulls
and grew bolder in battling wind and
And then one day the warnings of
swept up the coast-a hurricane that
the stoItsst S t,s stSaS9s hnTS9Ss rSe
gulls fled In a panic for the shore all
except Colby Gull
Colby gave a shrek Of Joy! Tn go
ing to ride the storm he cried, soaring
into the face of the bowling wind.
but this was storm worse than
fsobby, had ever known. II tossed MN
fwhiried him TO the right 1t whisked him
to the left and when. at last, he tried
to fiy against Il to reach the shore, ne
found he was as helpless as mosquito
on the front Of a railroad engine. ne
WAS swept away like q thstledown bal
5oon--swept far out to sea.
THE hurricane blew all night, and at
dawn Colby Gull found himself 80 tired
he could scarcely keep from tumbltns
into the wildly tossing waves. He knew
thatfif he fell into that angry sea ne
would be drowned.
Just when things seemed at an end
FOR him he saw Il ships boat rolling
among the waves In the boat were
eailors. Their ship had sunk in the
storm. and they were trying desperately
COLBY Gull would have been afraid Of
that hoatload OF sailors. but now he
saw Il was his only chance of escape.
He swoopcd down as the boat rose on
the crest OF Il billow, and fell among the
men. .'
"'Ah. here is food cried one of the
eailors and he grabbed at Colby Gull
But the captain grabbed first. NO he
Shouted. 1t is bad luck TO XII gull.
I win protect this bird and, perhaps, he
will bring US good fortune
50 the captain guarded Colby Gun
and gave him a drink from his snare
of fresh water and food from his portion
of the few biscuits they had on board.
And he did this several days even when
all but a few biscuit crumbs had been
saten and when the hungry sailors were
grumbling because they wanted to eat
the gull.
AT last the sailors grew so hungry
The captain felt he could guard Colby
Gull no longer. So he wrote a note on
O. piece of paper, and he tied the paper
around Gobby's leg, and when the sail
ors tried TO seize COLBY to eat him, the
captain threw him high in the air.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-03-15

Wait No
Longer.
"[hHAT are we waiting
w for, you and II" asks
the loveress of the lover,
in the old song. If she
asked the same question
to-da y, the gentleman
would no doubt reply,
For lower pri ce S in
se-building."
Is it wise to wait longer?
The supply of materials and
labor now is good, with light
d mand, and prices at
the lowest point for years
past. Can they go lower!
Architects everywhere report
that more buildings are al
ready planned than can pos
sibly be built in the next two
years. Is it likely, then, that
prices will long remain as low
as they are now?
And the labor-cost Of brick
work has already been much
reduced by the increasing eff
cheney of bricklayers. Lead
ing builders in forty-two cities
report that the average work
Of all their men is now more
than 100 bricks a day. At
this rate brick still holds its
old-time leadership as the
cheapest fireproof building
material in the world.
What are we waiting for?
When you want any infor-
nation about bricks, their
kinds, colors, qualities, styles,
uses or prices, the products of
different makers, how to word
specifications, names of COM
petent architects, builders, en-
gineers, etc, call up either of
our Offices:
KEYSTONE BRICK co.
Godfrey mr.. I'd St. Fkfd. 2-S4
F. SETTLERS SONS
Nicctown Lane & G s., Kens. 6G-07
H. NJ. e. c. B. SINER
/ Church and TaCony Fkfd. 1890
JOHN H. FARLEY
/ NIrctown Lane & u St. Kens O8-02
"pUILp WITH RRIcK-IT LASTS
ID FOREVER"
NA llI Sl al ElAR rAH ~ Iln
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1921-06-01
Methodist Notes


The Ladies' Aid Society will meet
at 2o'clock Wednesday afternoon,
June LIST, in the church parlors. Be-
ginning at 4:30 o'clock lunch will be
served in the basement of the church.
The Women's Foreign Missionary
Society will meet at the home of
Mrs. August Teske, Friday after
noon, June3d. Lunch will be served
after the business session.
Children's Day will be observed by
the Sunday School on Sunday, June
18th. Parents having infants to
baptise are invited to bring the little
ones to this service. No previous
notice required. Adults may also re-
ceive this service. An opportunity
will be offered any who desire to
join the church by letter or by con.
fession of faith at this service.
Beginning with the month of June
and continuing until further notice
evening services will change time t.
one-half hour later than as hereto
fore.
A picnic in the woods is being
arranged for the entire Sunda!
school including the parents of tn
children and all the people of tn
church for some date in June. De
finite announcement as to date wi
be made later.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1921-06-01
Dog LOYAL to Playmates

Oelwein, Iowa-A white fox ter
rior guards three little graves lin
Woodlawn cemetery, and his warn
ing bark contains more of grief than
anger when strangers venture near.
Congeto, Mary and Antonio, three
children of Mr.. and Mrs. Dominick
Rubino, died of scarlet fever within
two weeks, and after the last little
mound was finished, May II, their
pet remained when the other mourn
ers left. Night and day, the chill
dren's ever faithful friend maintains
his lonely virgil and returns no more
to the saddened home where once he
heard the laughter and helpd in the
sports of his little comrades.
A fourth child, a daughter, six
years old passed away on May "a.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1921-06-01

ingly gave him to her country and
words cannot express our reverence
for her and our sympathy is with
her in her loss. She is indeed a
worthy descendant of the American
women of our past who have al
ways placed honor before life,-whC
so loved son, husband, brother OF
sweetheart that they would rather
see him dead than to think him
guilty of disloyalty to his native
| land.
The results of the world war are
numerous and still clouded in many
respects. The menace of militarism
has been destroyed and the right of
the weaker nations increased, but all
this has placed America in new po-
sition in the affairs of the world.
She is now the brightest star in
the constellation of nations, and the
responsibilities heaped upon US by
this fact we must not ignore. We
emerged safely from the war but we
must still be watchful of our coun-
try's welfare for she is today in a
critical position. Americas future
is being shaped, our old position in
regard to the outside world is giving
way to changed conditions which we
cannot alter or reshape. But let it
be our first purpose, in the future
as it has been in the past, to insist
on principles of justice, truth and
honor in our dealing with other ma
tons.
Let this hour impart in us true
conception of our duties TO our
country. Let us recall the heroic
men who struggled for the principles
of freedom and democracy from the
first encounter at Concord Bridge to
the final surrender at Yorktown,
! from the first echoes at Fort Sum-
ter to the cessation of hostilities at
IAppomatoX, from the battle at Man
lila Bay to the last stand at Santi-
ago, from the venture at Contingy to
the last onslaught at Sedan-a his
troy that ought to make every
American feel proud. Every con-
flict breathes of heroism and valor,
and if men would serve their country
under such trying circumstances, in
the very face of death and destruc-
ton, why should we not venture a.
this hour-an hour of peace-to
render our country service.
Men must live for their country
if the country shall live. We must
be willing to sacrifice to hasten
normalcy. But in our efforts let us
not forget the honored soldiers whose
lips are forever hushed, and remem-
Der that it is in the spirit of the
soldier that our nation lives.
"These shall resist the empire of
decay
When time is Ger and worlds have
passed away,
Cold in the dust the persisted heart
may lie
But that which warmed it once can
never die"
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1921-06-01
Methodist Church Services

Mid week service on Thursday
evening at o'clock. Continuation
of studies in fundamentals of Chris
tian Truth and Church Membership.
Sunday school at 10 o'clock.
Glasses for all. Everybody welcome.
Morning preaching service at II
o'clock.
Epworth League devotional service
at, z p. m. Subject. - "rhv Ki~o ~
sll
vulne-In Ny Country" Leader;
Gladys Thornton. Evening preaching
service at So'clock.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1921-06-01

The Esthervile school board has
offered prizes to pupils bringing in
the largest loads of plucked dande-
lions. But what is the school board
doing with the product and how
many pounds Of dandelions go to the
gallon?
The Coconino sun., 1921-09-16
AN OPEN LETTER.
(By Commissioner Spry.)

It has been a source of much pleas ure to come in contact with the spirit of cooperation which has marked the work of the general land office. The desire to meet whatever situation which may and does arise from time to time has been much in evidence, and the work has moved along without much, if any interruption. This spirit is not by any means confined to the office force. The unity of action to be found existing between the local land offices and the field service is of a most commendable character. Good men and effective teamwork appears to be the watchword, and desire to serve the applicant is manifest every where. The result of this system has been in evidence during recent years and the public has become better &C., quainted with the aims and purposes of the force of the general land office. And why should not this cooperative work make for the good of the office :?
 Certainly, those who have business with the Land Department are entitl- ed to all proper and correct informa- tion concerning their transactions, and in turn they appreciate the kindly in
 terest manifested by the represent atives of the bureau. After all, there is a common interest prompting the
The Coconino sun., 1921-09-16

movement: first by the applicant who is desirous of going upon the land and utilizing it for his benefit, and then on the part of the officials whose pur- pose it is to see that the applicant not only gets the land, but gets on right with the least possible trouble or an- noyance attending the transaction. To this end the field service and the local land officials confer together, and through their counsel and advice the applicant is able to avoid the many perplexities which otherwise would be- set his pathway. They become to him a friend in court, and he is happy in the thought that purely unselfsh motive is prompting the relationship, and the transaction becomes one of mutual benefit to both the contracting parties. It is pleasing to indulge in the hope that this condition may con- tinue to exist and that an even closer cooperation may be secured SO that both the field service and the local land officials may become more inti- mately acquainted with the purposes of each other to the end that work of even greater magnitude than that enjoyed at present may be the result.
The Coconino sun., 1921-09-16

AND A tear dimmed his eye. so l asked him to come. AGAIN some day. TO THIS place by the way. WHERE you get such run for
 your money. AND HE thanked me and said. IT'LL COME" AND WHEN we go. I'D LIKE to tell you about it. BUT UNLESS the hero. OF THIS little tale. COMES in and orders eggs. OR SPAGHETTI, or kraut. DOUBT if there's much of a
 story.
 E. B. w.
The Coconino sun., 1921-09-16
CHEERFUL CHIRPS
 (By "DEL~ Mostly nonsense except intervals when real idea along and is grabbed of.
(By "DEL."

be removed. Doug. is now training the dog to carry the spuds into the kitchen. So far, he hasn't succeeded very well, for the only way he can get Sam to bring them into the ktch- en is to carry them in himself, then throw them outdoors one at a time. Sam then willingly retrieves them. Doug says he may never get Sam let ter-perfect, but may have to stay around in order to get him to work; but if he can get Sam trained up to the point where all he, Doug, has to do is to sit near the potato box and read, while Sam, thus encouraged by his. masters presence, carries in po- tatoes from the patch, he will be sat- isfed to let it go at that.
The Coconino sun., 1921-09-16

"Rimmy" Jim Giddings is pretty sore over a letter he recently got from an eminent bacteriologist. "Rim- my" had wondered for long time whether the water he was drinking out on the range was good for his health and so sent sample to the bacteriologist for analysis. This is what the latter wrote:
 "Sir: You have Bright's disease"
The Coconino sun., 1921-09-16

There is big difference between a good administration that occasion ally makes mistake and a bad one that occasionally used to get a thing right.
The Coconino sun., 1921-09-16
1drVeSf Time S ere.

As you drive along the country roads these crisp, bright autumn days and note the farmers cutting and threshing their grain, have you ever stopped to consider just what this time of year means to the farmer as we'll as to the whole com munity?
The Coconino sun., 1921-09-16
In cOCOninO County

Three principal crops are harvested---pota- toes, oats and wheat---and from these three crops the farmer can depend on only one for immediate, CASH RETURNS to meet his obligations, and get for that product ALL IT IS WORTH on the market.
The Coconino sun., 1921-09-16
To the farmer it means:

for the past twelve months, he can pay what he owes to the local bank, the local merchant and to his neighbor; PROVIDED THAT HE CAN SELL WHAT HE HAS RAISED.
The Coconino sun., 1921-09-16
Babbitt Brothers received the fol-

Babbitt Brothers received the fol- lowing letter the other day:
 Gents: I just received state ment for ice from you for $2. You have the wrong party. I haven't or dered no ice for five years. 1 am a widow and my husband has been dead for seven years, so it can't be him. He probably would like to have some, though. Tell your bookkeeper to try again. He has another guess coming. Yours truly, Mrs. -."
The Coconino sun., 1921-09-16

Ben Doney, in a philosophical mood, remarks that getting married is like using telephone. You don't always get the person you want.
The Coconino sun., 1921-09-16

Can you tell me why jane Will take many kinds of pain To be certain her complexion's not
 awry? She'll be heater than pin; She will manicure each fin, But the rearward of her neck-O me,
 O my!
The Coconino sun., 1921-09-16

|. BUT THEY couldn't crowd me. FOR I had space.
 AS BIG as dime.
 RIGHT out on the corner. AND THERE l stuck.
 WHILE the last two men. PREPARED for the task ahead. AND THE one next to me. INHALED some water. AND JoYFULLY rattled the A SPOON fell down. AS THEY cleared the deck. LIKE sailors preparing for action AND A knife likewise. WENT overheard.
 BUT I think he didn't need it. FOR IN one grimy paw. HE CLUTCHED some bread. WITH the other he seized spoon NOT AS you do.
 OR I do.
 BUT RIGHT in his palm ht
 gripped it and held it, tight THEN he lowered his chin. TILL it almost touched. THE STEW that waited before
 him.
 AND WITH elbows spread. TILL I grew afraid he would scoop
 up my dinner, too. HE SET to work.
 FOR TT surely was labor. JUDGED by the racket he made. AND MY new-found friend. SAT BREATHLESS there. WATCHING, more eager than I. AS WITH twist of the wrist. AND A dip of the head. FIRST to the right. THEN to the left. ALTERNATELY stew and bread HE FILLED up his mouth. THEN he paused for breath. WHICH he took with gasp. AND He almost choked. WHEN some of the stew. WENT down along with the air. AND WE breathed once more. AND AGAIN he attacked. WHATEVER remained before him HE SUCKED and he gurgled. AND SMACKED his lips. TILL the last little bit was gone. THEN he took his spoon. AND LADLED away. AT THE gravy he'd missed. BUT STILL not content. HE BROKE some bread. AND POISED it between his finger
 and thumb. AND MODIFIED out the dish. THEN holding it thus. HE RAISED his hand. WHILE we watched with bated
 breath.
 AND HE opened his mouth. WHERE he deftly placed. THE FINGER and thumb. AS THEY held the bread. ALL DRIPPING and oozing gravy. THEN withdrew the hand. CAREFULLY licking the fingers. BUT HE must have been careless. AT LEAST so it seems. FOR A crumb of the bread. OR A DROP of the gravy. FELL into his upturned eye. AND HE choked again. AND SPUTTERED and gasped. AS HE clawed away at the optic. BUT AT last he got it. WATEVER it was. AND WE breathed a sigh of relief. BUT WE breathed too soon. FOR HE fiirted This hand. AND THE gravy or bread. OR WHATEVER It was. CAME flying straight at my head. AND I had to duck. TO SAVE my face. AND LET it go by. TO THE wall where it stuck. THEN he cackled and said. FAINT IT HELL?" AND don't know yet. JUS what he meant. FOR BEFORE I could ask. HE MANNED and stretched. TILL he nearly upset the chair. AND HE kept me watching. AND HOLDING my breath. LEST something worse befall him. so HE got away. AT LEAST this time. AND WENDED his way. THROUGH the tables and chairs. TO THE door. WHERE he paid his check. AND HE didn't fall down. OR KNOCK over a table. OR ANYTHING else, guess. THEN my friend and I. BREATHED again sigh of relief. AND HE said to me. WITH little laugh. THIS STYLE at the table. 'IS HARDLY pretty. "BUT IT has it's advantage, see. "FOR WHILE others are watching. HES WORKING with ghoulish
 glee.
 BAND HE surely has speed. WHEN he starts. "BUT HE works so fast. "AS HE forks away. THAT you know it can't last. AND so the show is soon over." HE SIGHED again as we moved
 away.
The Coconino sun., 1921-09-16

Seriously, it sometimes is source for wonder why it is that local people find it so hard to patronize new home industries, but must stand coyly and bashfully back for a few months or years while the industry struggles along and derives most of its trade from other surrounding towns.
 We are actuated in mentioning this condition, this time, by the fact that our local cigar maker, Mir. Augustin, hasn't been able, so far, to induce more than two or three of our local cigar dealers to stock his Navajo cig- ars. Our cigar merchants are kick ing strenuously about the high whole sale cost and transportation charges on Chancellor and other ten-cent and two-for- a-quarter cigars that, honest ly, don't contain half as good or rich ly favored tobacco as the Navajo, which is made right here and, if they will handle it, will give them larger profit and their trade better value for the money.
 Not that we are overwhelmingly interested in Mir. Augustin and his success, but he says that with the CO., operation he has a right to expect from local merchants and smokers, in a year or so he can use eight or ten cigar makers in his factory. And that means something toward Flagstaff's growth, and, incidentally, more busi- ness for the merchants who sell cigars.
The Coconino sun., 1921-09-16

Charlie Isham says friend of his in New York put one over on him dur ing his recent brief visit there. The friend had been showing Charlie the sights and the latter, who was wear ing his kidding garments that day, in- sisted every time an interesting thing was pointed out that we had better, bigger and handsomer samples of the same thing here in Flagstaff. In the afternoon Charlie caught sight of the Woolworth building, towering into the air some half-hundred stories, and asked: "What building is that?"
 "Damfno," his friend answered. "It wasn't there yesterday"
The Coconino sun., 1921-09-16
WHEAT

Weare in the market for every bushel ofmill- ing wheat that is grown in this county, NOT FOR SPECULATION PURPOSES but to mill into flour, which can be passed on to the consumer with no charges added to make for high prices, such as freight charges, elevator charges, termn- al market charges, grain speculator profits, flour broker and flour jobber profits.
 Local farmers are growing hard, spring wheat which is ideal for our use. We have modern equip ment for milling, and our product is controlled by laboratory tests, and in addition we employ mill erwho has had lifetime experience in this busi- ness and for these reasons we are able to put out flour which is just as good as the bes and to ab solutely guarantee it to be satisfactory or return your money.
The Coconino sun., 1921-09-16

She could shake wicked shimmy When she'd jazz around with Jimmy, But her hubby was little bit too fat. He'd waddle and he'd wheeze, Then he'd give way at the knees, Cuss the piano and all the like of that. When they, danced the hesitation He'd hesitate like all creation, The trouble always came in starting
 him.
 Now she leaves him in his chair, Getting fatter, losing hair, While she trips the gay fantastic just
 with Jim.
The Coconino sun., 1921-09-16

Pat O'Houlihan says that while one and one is said to make one, accord ing to matrimonial legend, the calcu- lation is erroneous inasmuch as it doesn't take into consideration the two mothers-in-law who are by the act of marriage created.
 It's bad to laugh too much. It's more fun to cry-at least we've al- ways thought, from their readiness to turn on the salt fount that many peo- pie, especially of the more angelic sex, find it thus; so let's read the follow ing said, sad epitaphs, and weep: Alass Frend Joseph His end was most sudden
 As though the mandate came
 Express from heaven.
 His foot is lip-and he did fall help, help he eries-and that was all. It was a cough that carried him off, It was coffin they carried him off in. Since have been so quickly done for, 1 wonder what l was begun for.
The Coconino sun., 1921-09-16

Douglas Roome has trained his lit tie fat dog, Sam, to dig potatoes, and now all that Mrs. Roome has to do when she wants spuds for cooking is to go out and pick them up. Doug says if all the energy that goes to waste in dogdom were utilized in this or some equally utilitarian way many of the pressing problems of life would
The Coconino sun., 1921-09-16

People should observe etiquette at movies the same as other places. Only recently a Fort Collins boy took girl to a movie for the first time. The folks sitting behind him noticed that he had not washed his ears and were so rude that they remarked about it. The girl heard and refused to go to any more movies with him. People should be more careful.-Fort Collins lColol. Express.
The Coconino sun., 1921-09-16

George Campbell met a young mo- ther a few days ago, and wishing to show an interest in her first-born, then about month old, asked just as though he rally wanted to know:
 How is your little girl, Mrs. -"
 "My little boy is quite well, I thank you, Mir. Campbell" replied the fond mother.
 "Oh, it's a boy" exclaimed George, in confusion. "I knew it was one or the other."
The Coconino sun., 1921-09-16

"Yes," sighs Davy Joy, some things we think are going to be pleasant ain't. Many's the time we pursue the shadow and the bubble bursts and leaving us nothing but ashes in our hands,"
The Coconino sun., 1921-09-16

Henry Albers says he never real ized making love was such hard ship until he read story the other day in the Cosmopolitan (which could more appropriately be named the Tenderloin) in which the hero's coun- tenance fell, his voice broke, his heart sank, his hair rose, his eyes blazed, his words burned and his blood froze. Despite all those things happening to him he pulled himself together enough to marry the girl in the last chapter.