Williams news., 1922-12-08
DAY CELEBRAT. ED BY A HARD TIMES''DANCE
 AT GRAND CANYON

If stranger, in wandering around looking at the "most sublime of all earthly spectacles" had gotten off the beaten sightseeing paths, and peered through one of the windows of the Harvey Recreation Hall, Thursday night, November 3Oth, he would have at once jumped at the conclusion that all the inhabitants of Grand Canyon National Park, were either down and out, broke or badly bent, and per haps all three. Surely, he would have thought, and rightly so, that they were all fit subjects for the County Poorhouse over the hill.
 However, his or her mind would have bsen readily set at ease, because a poverty-stricken community would not have burst forth in song and merriment' as did the Canyonites on the 3Oth- They were just holding their annual Hard Times dance.
 If clothes make a man and are a measure by which the financial stand ing of either man or woman is deter mined, circumstancial evidence most certainly pointed to the fact that ''hard times (with all due apologies to Octavus Roy Cohen and Hugh Wiley) is somethin' the Grand Can yon folks don't know nothin' else but.
 The spirit of the affair was entered into by all who attended, and altho the smell of grease on overalls and the fumes from moth-eaten old clothes hung heavy in the air, due to the desire of the attendants at the dance to make it look "reaP', it is doubtful if there ever was a greater collection of "ol' clo'es" anywhere else in the world, outside of a rag picker's back yard.
 "CoIorado'' Red Mclean, it was noticed, had to pull his shoes up on several occasions, due to the fact that his overalls were too short, but when he pulled the pillow case out of his hip-pocket for use as handkerchief it was conceded that he won the cleo tion. Fat Harbin, our handsome brute of a Ticket Agent for the Grnd l Canyon Railway, as busted down millionaire (mostly air) wore the handsomest cordovan color shoe string for neck-tie, and the way the new idea met with success, 1t looks very much as if shoestrings will be all the rage this winter with our "cake- eaters'' and ''sharpshooters" The | Town Dauber wore a very becoming rig. with a decided split-pants-teg effect. The ttMayor" was almost 1 lost on several occasions, due to the ! fact that he wore a pair Of Lew l Straus" best and a couple of cow hide boots Gone on each foot, of 1 course) about four sizes too big for him. As one young future President remarked, "Where's the boots taking 1 the Mayor?
 1 The Ladies, ah! the ladies, were also there, one hundred per cent, in their gingham and calico dresses and aprons. and it all looked so realistic, that it would not have surprised any | one, to have seen one of the flair and fanciful'' come tripping with a bucket of milk.
 i As usual, the Pinon Nuts orchestra ted. Huff sed! One cannot help ! but admit that they are getting bet ter every day. The orchestra was ali dressed up in "hard times" clothes, and to make the effect stand out more < they even had the piano patched up. "Red" Keen the dashing fiddler must h ave been a twin brother to Hiram Perkins of Pinkin' Center.
 i In passing, it might be stated that the Pinon Nuts have secured the ser i vices of a new "tooter', but as yet they will not divulge his name How
 ever, it has been ascertained from perfectly reliable source, that the new member of the orchestra is to play a new instrument on the market, called
 "shoe horn'. Yeh! He's going to play all the foot-notes-
 (. Home Sweet Home'' was played at
 12:3o, and they all "wended thel1 weary way homeward" voting that
 the Hard Times dance was the best
 one held in many, many moons
 Bob Daggs shipped fifty carloads
 of sheep to Skull Valley this week
 for winter range.