The Coconino sun., 1924-01-18
NEED FOR BUILDING THE
HIGHWAY EAST OCCUPIES
ATTENTION OF ROTARIANS

Roads, facetious personalities and
business methods occupied the atten-
ton of Flagstaff Rotary club at
Tuesdays meeting.
u. S. Engineer C. w. Smiths and
County Engineer j. B. Wright's talks
on local road matters are fully re-
ported elsewhere in The Sun. Joe B.
Rickel, clerk of the county board of
supervisors, cleared up some matters
relative to mutual financing by the
county and the u. S. bureau of public
roads of the Flagstaff Angel prof.
ect. Ray H. Simpsons interesting adj
dress on Combined Interest of Both
the Employer and the Employe to the
Public" will be printed in The Sun
next week.
This leaves us free here to get right
down to the personalities above al
luded to.
Vice-President Fred S. Breen an
nounced the cigars were on Ed Miller,
who'd had another 21st birthday; that
Rollin Knoles would be chairman for
the day.
And Rollin was. He chairmans to
the manor born, like it is the easiest
thing he does. First, after he'd dared
Lynn McMullen to get up on his chair
and baton song out of the crowd,
with Miss Elsa Myers almost keeping
them in harmony with the piano, he
asked Doc Tex Mackey what good
Rotary had done for Fred Breen.
Tex said one thing, it keeps Fred
in cigars from one week to the next,
and also it permits him (Fred) to
soak fines on to him (Tex) as often
and as long as he wants to-. More
Tex wanted to say, but he got kind
of afraid that the S. he had contrib
uted toward the new city flagpole
fined some more, and he subsidized
himself into subsiding.
Then Rollin asked Fred what Ro-
tary had done for Tex. Fred said
when Tex came clean from Texas
there was only one of him. Now there
are three in his family (and, of course,
he may rotate some more); said Tex
can now speak our language and that
he (Tex) is now following in his
(Fred's) footsteps, which, though he
has to step wide at times, is all right
with Tex.
Lee Carron was asked to tell the diff
ference between a combined harves-
ter and Chevrolet. Lee admitted
that according to a recent customer,
there wasn't much of any. Then he
intimated Chairman Rollin didn't buy
a combined harvester to deliver cakes
and pies in, but did buy Chevrolet
and wound up by describing how a
combined harvester, with only two
men operating, does all the work
binder and thresher used to do, and
much more cheaply. But, he admit
ted, he can't sell combined harvesters
out here though he believes he can sell
Chevrolets.
Chairman /. B. Koch of the enter
tainment committee complimented the
ladies who served the luncheon on the
exactly silent quietness that had
prevailed in the kitchen during the
program.
Tom Mccullough acted as sergeant
at arms in the absence of Frank CHS
holm and collected from Earl Slipher,
/. B. Koch, c.. B. Wilson and Joe
Schmidt for obvious felonies.
Rotarian Gaylord Brooks of River
side, Calf, was visitor. Other
guests, Miss Myers, Mr.. Smith, Cap
tain Wright, Joe B. Rickel, John A.
Adams, P. w. Denman, Roger Birds
eye, DR.. Vaughn Mcclure, Rev. ]. w.
Saunders, Newt Shaffer.
The ladies who prepared and served
the savory food were: Mrs. Lewis
Benedict, chairman; Mrs. C. A. Keller,
Mrs. L. B. McMullen, Mrs. w. G. Hart,
Mrs. E. ]. Bakerfi Mrs. c.. A. Phillips,
Mrs Howard Marine.