The Coconino sun., 1923-03-09

Frank Brooks counts as his most
distressing experience during his boy
hood days on the farm the time he
and his father started out to haul a
load of hay to man in town. The
load tipped over short distance from
the customers house and Frank ran
there to tell him. 1t was just dinner
time and the man told Frank not to
worry about the hay just then but to
come in to dinner. "Pa wouldn't like
it." said Frank. But the man assured
him he'd fix it all right with his faith
er and Frank reluctantly sat down at
the table. After dinner the man ask
ed Frank if he wasn't glad he'd stay
ed. "Pa won't like i" he said.
"But why should he care 2" the man
asked.
"'Cause he's under the hay" said
Frank.
When Doug and Mrs. Roome were
driving in the southern part of the
state last fall they inquired the way
to town and the distance. They
were told it was about fifteen miles:
After some time they met man Of
whom they inquired the distance. oh,
about Is miles," he said. 1t was near
ly an hour later when they met an
other man and asked him how far the
town was. "Not more than Is miles" ="
he said.
"Well," Doug sighed, "thank God
we are holding our own, anyhow.
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Judge Jones says the recent deep
snow reminded him of the fellow who
was on a train stalled in a snow-drift
and got off and waded to station
and wired to his boss: Wont be at
office today. Not home yesterday
yet"
Pat Moran told Rotarians about a
very wicked man who was dying and
was being urged by good man of
the church to repent. "Renounce the
devil" pleaded the good man. Hell,
man." retored the dying man, "this is
no time for me to be maxim enemies"
DR.. E. S. Miller comes along with
new one. Doc gets lot of new
ones (and he he's a few old ones,
too).
This one is about Jew and his wife
who wanted to take ride in an air
plane. The aviator told them it would
cost them SIS apiece. The Jew said
that was too much. He finally offer
ed $40 for the two of them. The avia-
tor turned him down, then made a
counter proposition:
"I1l take you up" he said, "and if
neither of you yell, or cry out, or
make any disturbance at all, | won't
charge you a cent. But if either of
you do yell or make any fuss it'll cost
yuo $780,"
The Jew agreed. He and his wife
got in. Up they went. Not muir
mur out of the passengers. Present
ly the driver began to evolute, and
he tried everything he knew. But still
not a zip out Of either the man or
his wife. Getting down again and al
most at the landing place, the avia-
tor called back over his shoulder:
"Well, you didn't yell"
NO." said the Jew, ''but almost
did when Rachel fell out"
Attorney Frank NJ Gold says every
plumber he ever had for a client was
opposed to going before a jury. Not
| long ago he asked one whether he
wanted his case heard by the judge
or a jury and the plumber said he'd
take the Judge by all means, as he
had done plumbing work for nearly
everybody in town and jury would
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judge.
John o. Parsons reports that when
"Rimmy" Jim Giddings set up his new
cooking range in his new house, so
that after this he won't have to keep
warm and do all his cooking with a
fireplace, as he did in the old house,
he brought in lot of wood and built
big fire in the oven. Bobby Rein
hold, who lives out there with him,
told "Rimmy" he'd built the fire in
the wrong place. Jim argued he didn't
because where put it was the biggest
hole in the contraption, and he reck-
oned the fire ought to be built where
there was most room for it. Then,
when she didn't draw good, Rimmy
told Bobby to build the fire to suit
himself and he'd stay outside to see
if the smoke came out the chimney be-
cause the thing might blow up any
way, and he'd rather be outside than
in.
Along with other utensils that
came with the new range was one Of
those big double broilers. Kind with
big pan with another big pan upside
down on top, you know. "Rimmy"
studied 'em long while before he
made up his mind what they were for,
and then decided, he said, they were
Just what he wanted. He filled each
of them with water, set 'em both on
the. floor and stuck one of his feet
into each. "First time in long time
that I've enjoyed the luxury OF wash
ing both feet at the same time" he
said.
A patient, patient because he has
to be since the country got Volstead-
ed, had been pestering DR.. A. J. Scher-
mann to write him prescription to
temporarily relieve his thirst. The
Ion+o,. ,r,o,,Idp1f Finally the man p0t