The Coconino sun., 1922-09-01

| Stlddy worker when dat nlggah nap nothin' to do, but when he am done got job he am he mos unsteadiest man ah knows."
 This weeks problem: What is the most graceful way to scratch mos quito bite in public? | It has now been established by sci- entists that the water-dog, the lizard- ike looking reptile that frequents wet places about this part of the country, is species of alligator. He is ex- actly like the alligator except in size, and the reason he is smaller, the sci- entists say, is because he has not been fed on nigger-meat like the alligators down south have.
 Not long ago the feller that digs the County Chronology every week out of the old files of The Sun found where Miss Susan McGonigle, 20 years ago, won a sack race. 1t came to our attention the other day--though we suppose we'll get a call for telling it--that the same lady, who is now Mrs. John J. Britt, of this city, and the mother of four chill dren, few weeks ago while attend ing the alumni meeting of Ramona college in California, at which there were 125 graduates gathered, took part in another sack race, and won that, too. Mrs. Britt was on the coast for expert medical treatment and Dr. Morton, the specialist in charge of her case, nearly had fit when he found what his patient had done.
 Rev. Frank Bloy of Mesa, told a couple of stories in his goodbye talk at the Rotary club Tuesday of last week that have points it will do to emphasize.
 A New Yorker, typically in hurry, was rushing down street in the me- tropolis when he ran bump into a newsbody. carrying him along several feet and knocking him over, scatter ing his papers,.
 What good are little rascals like you, anyway" angrily exclaimed the man.
 "Well, mister, they sometimes make men out of such stuff as me-" the boy replied.
 A preacher came across lot of boys playing in the mud. They were building something with the mud. He asked them what. They told him church, showing him the pews and the pulpit.
 Are you going to put a preacher in the pulpit" he asked.
 "Yes, if we have mud enough" they told him.
 We mustn't forget--apropos of the wonderful good the Boy Scout work is doing and can do--Frank admonished his hearers-that, while the boys could make preacher of most any thing, all men are made from boys, and the better guidance the boys are given the better men they will make.
 Rimmy Jim Giddings says the req son he doesn't get married he can't make up his mind what kind of a wo- man to have. Says she ought to be like town clock, cause then she'd only speak once an hour, but on sec ond thought, he wouldn't like that kind of woman either, for when she spoke the whole town'd hear her. A wife like an echo'd be all right, 'cept she'd allus have the last word. Her being like snail wouldn't be so bad, only every time she moved she'd take the house with her. Thinks maybe she'd better be like stick of candy, | so every time he wanted to he could kicker.
 Joe Kelley says there's big diff ference in girls, depending much on where they come from. Requesting a kiss from Tempe girl at the Normal, she said: Owing to the scarcity of observers, think it is perfectly prop CT we should allow ourselves to float away in ecstacies of osculation." But | when he made a similar request of little Apache county flapper, she said: "Quitcherchinnin' an git ter work at once!"
 California's having a wonderful time trying to get rich at Arizona's | expense. The papers out there are devoting pages to propaganda for stealing our electric power rights and | have now begun telling their readers how nice it will be when Arizona votes two million dollars to build con- crete highway to the state line.
 Al Beasley says he was fishing down to Mormon lake when he lost his bill-fold out of the boat with $10O in bills in it and hundred shares of railroad stock. Then, Al says, week or so later, he was fishin' there again