The Coconino sun., 1924-01-25

| The pine trees standing stately or
thy crest,
Thy laundry, where they do youl
clothes the best,
Thy sawmills where great logs tc
lumber made,
Shall from my memory never, never
fade.
| John w. Peterson, who is connected
with the Flagstaff Lumber Co., hasn't
been here very long, but friends are
congregating on him like flies on tan
! glefoot, because Johns a genial cuss,
with alternating strata of humor and
wisdom, shot through with ability to
tell stories and with a gorgeous big
fund of them. For three years he
was humorous lecturer on the Eli
som White chautauqua circuits and SO
when they took him into the Elks the
other night and then invited him to
make talk, he surprised them almost
out of their clothes.
| One of Johns best Swede stories,
the kind he's most partial to, being
Scandinavian himself, IS something
like this:
"I was collecting among the pro-
gressive grangers in our community,
and called on Ole.
"'Good morning, Ole, your note has
been placed in my hands for collec-
tion.'
"'Vell, Ay guess you got your
hands full, den.'
"'Now, Ole, this account has been
running for years.
SAY should worry. If it can't run
any longer it can walk
"I called to have it settled
"'Ay bane willin' to call it settled.
"'Where is the bull we have. the
mortgage on p
"'The damn bull he got sick and
vent capute.'
"'Now, Ole, we are in need of
money
$50 Ay bane, too. OATS vat made
de bull sick
"'Have you sold his hide?
"Oh, yas. Ay traded it for yug
of Marconi alcohol. Come by me to
the house and Ay give you one drink
and you see twenty bulls
mo fooling, Ole, we expect you
to pay this note
"'Dat bane more dan Ay expect
Understand, you must pay it in
FULL
"'Ay will be full, all right, when Ay
pay it. -. -. 4, -,
Maybe you got more interest in it
Jo1, 1ooxya
"'Ole, | am going to have the sher-
iff serve papers on you.'
Guide for you! Ay got nothin'
to read now but a almanac. Eff you
tink of it, bring along box of
snoose.'
Another of Johnson's is about a
Minnesota Swede who took out a
membership in the local farm bureau.
About three months later he wrote
the department Of agriculture in
Washington:
cay bane sign up for farm bu-
reau. Not received yet. Scool teech-
er shee bane goin' to board at our
howse. My wife she want bureau for
spare bedroom. Let me know how
soon you will send him."
He received the following reply:
"Dear Sir: Replying to yours Of re-
cent date. We have no bureaus in
Washington that we can send out at
the present time. However, Sydney
Anderson is at work on a No. / farm
bloc, and as soon as he finishes it we
will have it sawed up, made into farm
bureaus and send one to you."
When you get famous, paragraph
ers put all sorts of stories and sayings
| in your mouth, things that you never
thought of saying. We consider that
despicable practice. It's something
we wouldn't do. Imagine our chagrin
and astonished anger then, when this
morning we found this in J. K. Cor
rell's Bremen, Ind, Enquirer:
"Old Del Strong, our Coconino
contemporary, tells Of two fishermen
friends of his who were angling in a
river when one suddenly dropped his
rod.
essay, he calculated, Did you see
that fellow jump off that cliff over
there into the river?'
Don't get excited, Bill soothed
the other, 'mebbe it was movie actor
maxim pictures
But, my stars, How kin we tell z
! "'Well,' counselled the judicious
one, IF he browns, he amt"
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