The Coconino sun., 1923-12-21

convinced ne cuSSeu.
Here's another from the ministry.
Rev. j. W. Saunders, minister of the
Christian church, in The Sun office
the other day, said:
81 admire self-control. But If / see |
a man smash his thumb-nail and keep
on smiling, | can't help but admire his
capacity for deceit"
Jim Lamport talks about the straw
berries he raised down in Oak Creek
last summer like the tourist did that
thought San Francisco peaks were ice
cream cones. Jim says his berries were
so big that this spring he's going to
have special boxes reinforced with
steel. He says no one can come down
there and work for him picking ber-
ries unless he passes rigid physical
examination, because he won't assume
| the responsibility should one of the
/ berries fall and injure a picker while
on duty. Jim claims that frequently
people used to come past, look at his
Strawberries, and say: "HoW much be
them cocoanuts apiece?"
George Harrington, manager, and
/ Joe Tissaw, foreman, of the Flagstaff
Electric Light Co., rode over town in
4 Joe'S flivver last week and someone
said: "Here comes the light brigade"
Some would-be wit in the crowd yell
ed: "Ch, what charge they made!"
4 Two fellows were arguing about
what it cost one of them to keep his
inaFs in he cic en-
it hadn't cost him a cent in four years.
said, sadly: "That son-of-a-gun is
telling the truth. Pm the guy that
did his repair work for him."
A neighbor sent over to R. w. Wat
son of Spring Valley to get hundred
pounds of them nice seed potatoes r.
w. raises. But he didn't get them.
"You go right back and tell your
paw" r. w. told the messenger, "that
won't cut potato for anyone"
tI'll bet that d-d-dam doughnut tn
th-thinks it's flivver t-t-t-ire," said
Bucl1o Sisk when he spit out a tack
he'd found in the doughnut
"Ah wants ticket fo' Angelica" :"
a colored woman told ]. F. Davis at
the Santa Fe depot ticket window.
Mr.. Davis, after looking for about
ten minutes through the railroad
guide, said: Where's Angelica ?"
"She am setting right ovah thah on
that BENCH" the colored woman ans
, wered.
Dear Willie: Much obliged to you
for sending me all that big bundle Of
jokes. Some of them we have seen
before and the rest we haven't seen
, yet.
"That ban yoke on me-" said Axel
! Erickson in Bender's the other morn
ing when the egg splattered down his
shirt front.
/ Dear C. C.-Please print the story
Charlie Prochnow told you about the
crude oil.-Ed Whipple.
: Sorry, Ed, but we can't. It isn't
refined.
And we regret we can't print that
one of Walter Conley's about the
mouse trap. It's too snappy.
A south-side citizen asked Frank
Brooks the other night: "Shay, Frank,
have yuh got time ter help me fin
my hat?"
"Why, man, your hats on your
head" said Frank.
"On my head? Zasso? Well, then,
don bother. I'll look for it myself"
All Beasley and Boss Acker were ar
guing about the respective heights of
two men they knew.
"Why," said AL, "This here fellow
I'm tellin' you about allus lights his
cigarette from the street gas-light."
That's nothin'," said Boss, "This
feller I'm tellin' you about's SO tall
he has to lneel down when he wants
to put his hands in his pockets"
Clarence Sanderson was talking
with tourist from back east who
claimed everything grows bigger back
there where he comes from than it
does here, and Clarence, who handles
this county's farm exhibits at the
state fair, got kind of sore. Eve raise
cabbages so big where | come from, :
said the man from the east, "that five
men can keep dry under one in a
rainstorm." Huh" said Clarence
Sanderson, contemptuously, "We don't
raise cabbages that big, but down
around Jerome, south of here, they
make copper kettles so big that a
thousand men can be riveting in one
and yet be so far apart they can't
hear each other hammer" what
would anyone use kettle that big
for?" asked the easterner sceptically.
ITO boil your damn cabbages in" said
Clarence.
Carter Joy said he never railroad
ed but one day. Il was brakin'," he
said, and when we got to the top Of
long steep grade, the conductor of
the freight he says to me-: Gosh, boy,
I'm glad we made it up that grade
An says to him, says: BY jimmy
don't believe you would only kept
y a