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The Coconino sun., 1925-10-16

taxes be, and the same is hereby made
Of NINE HUNDRED EIGHTY FIVE
EIGHT H in DRIED
SIXTY FIVE MILLIONTHS (.0O098-
1869 MILLS on the dollar of and on,
the assessed valuation of all real and
personal property within the corporate
limits of the Town Of Flagstaff, Coco
nino County, Arizona, as shown by
the assessment roll of the current
year for the purpose of defraying the
salary of Librarian and the ordinary
and contingent expenses of the public
library of said town for the fiscal
year ending May 31st, 1926.
SECTION
That levy and assessment of
taxes be, and the same is hereby
made of ONE CENT, SIX AND
THREE HUNDRED EIGHTY ONE
THOUSAND SIX UNDRED
ONE MILLIONTHS
MILLS (.O16381621) on the dollar of
and ON, the assessed valuation Of all
real and personal property within the
corporate limits of the Town Of Flag
staff, Coconino County, Arizona, as
shown by the assessment roll of the
current year for the purpose of pay
ing interest on One Hundred Twenty
Five Thousand ($125,000.O0) Dollars
Sewer Bonds, Sixty Thousand $780,
100000 Dollars Park Bonds and -Four
Hundred Seventy Five Thousand
(S475, 100000 Water bonds and estab-
fishing a sinking fund for above men
toned Sewer Bonds and Water Bonds,
of the Town of Flagstaff and for the
fiscal year ending May 31st, 1926.
SECTION 5
All ordinances, resolutions OF mo-
tions in conflict with the provisions
of this ordinance are hereby repealed.
SECTION 6
This Ordinance shall be in full force
and effect from and after thirty days
after its passage, posting and publi-
cation according to law.
Passed by the Mayor and Common
Council of the Town of Flagstaff, Co.
conino County, Arizona, this 21st day
of September A. D. 1926, and pre-
sented to the Mayor for his signature
and approval, and by him signed and
approved this 21st day of September,
A. D. 1925.
APPROVED:
T. E. PULLIAM,
Acting Mayor, Town of Flagstaff
ATTEST:
Clarence PulIam,
Clerk, Town Of Flagstaff. 9-25-5t
The Coconino sun., 1925-10-16

SEVEN THOUSAND FOUR HUN
DRIED ELEVEN MILLIONTHS
(0025o741I MILLS on the dollar of
and on, the assessed valuation Of all
real and personal property within the
corporate limits of the Town of Flag
staff, Cocomno County, Arizona, as
shown by the assessment roll of the
current year for the purpose of con-
struction and repairing streets, side
walks, sewers, cross-walls, bridges,
and culverts upon the streets, alleys
and sidewalks of said Town for the
fiscal year ending May 3fst, 1926.
SECTION 3
That a levy and assessment of
The Coconino sun., 1925-10-16
ORDINANCE NO. 267

AN ORDINANCE LEVYING AND
ASSESSING THE TAXES FOR
THE TOWN OF FLAGSTAFF,
3 ARIZONA, FOR THE YEAR OF
1925, AND ORDERING A WAR
The Coconino sun., 1925-10-16

Horizontal.
FLOATING object TO mark posi-
tion of something in water
4-Converts into cash. as check
10-Foam of the ocean waves
11-Unmarried gentleman
13-Sea eagler
14-An avifauna
I5-To prevaricate
IA Presidents Initials
Ito powder by friction
19-Note of scale
20-Highest part 22-Self
23-That woman 25-Pitcher
27-An amount payable yearly
30-To peruse again
32-Weight to secure a boat to one
place
34-Form of speech marked by To-
cal peculiarities
36-Prefx meaning a thousand
3s-Lady Literate n Arts (abbr.)
39-Not In
41-Carte Z, visite fabbrl
42-That thing 44-Pale yellow
45-Regarding
46-To make a mistake
4s-Pertaining to the nose
49-Gentleman's title
5O-Yellow spring flower
52-Nags for payment OF debt
s3-Kind of oversboe with who'd
en- sole 54-A melody
The Coconino sun., 1925-10-16

'I don't take any stock in there
'ere patent medicines" says Bill Hick-
lin. They're an enemy to the human
race. S'pose now you air a gettin
long all right, unable to work becuz
you're sick. You're considerable
miserable, of course, but people SYM
pathize with you an respect you. An
then somebody'other talks you inter
takin' a few bottles of so-an'-so, an
you air cured an maybe git your pic
ture in the almanac. An allus after
ward everybody wants to know why
you don't go to work, daggone your
ornery hide"
Jerry Duffy says the meanest man
he ever knew got real, generous when
they struck oil on his place an his
royalties got. up to over a thousand
dollars a week an be bought his wife
a new ave to- make her chopin cas-
Ter.
Al Beasley says the worst automo-
lille vreck he. ever was in was when
a Jew was drivin' the car an he asked
the Jew a question that took so long
IN ancuer that before the lew could
The Coconino sun., 1925-10-16
CROSS WORD PUZZLE NO. 43

HOW TO SOLVE A CROSSWORD PUZZLE
rrecte pIacedn n
horizon he
ehNin
Blacks
dicated in + .k4
The Coconino sun., 1925-10-16

pressed as "Atom and Eve"
George seems to believe the modern
woman has advanced in prerogatives
and privileges since the days of
Mother Eve. 1t is to be admitted that
some of hem seem tc have outstrip-
ped her.
The Coconino sun., 1925-10-16

Jedge Miller says another fel1el
shuahhuf got off lucky the other day.
He called Jedge prevaricator, the
fellera. did, Eff he'd called Jedge ies'
plainrli liar he'dagot his block knocked
off right there, but azzitwuz by the
time Jedge had foun' out what pre-
Varicator meant the feller he was sew
eral miles from there.
When Tom Pulliam was on his way
back from Minnesota a few months
ago a pretty young woman asked if
she might sit beside him. She rode
tfor few hours and as she got ready
to leave the train and was wishing
him a pleasant journey the rest Of the
way, he said:
IF you'll come out to Flagstaff
some time, III marry YOU"
She blushed and asked him if he
wasn't getting in an awful hurry,
NO" Tom replied I'm in no hur-
ry at all, and you needn't hurry any
on my account. But come out any
time Pm justice of the peace there
and will be glad to marry you any
time you find fellow"
Art Riordan has an awful cold.
Got Chile on the radio.
Rev. f. l.. Freeland says the worst
break he ever heard preacher make
was during a funeral sermon, when
he alluded to the departed thusly:
Friends, all that remains here is
the shell-the nut has gone.
Ben Doney told feller that had
fliyvered in here and was rampsin'
'roun bout how he couldn't be con-
tent to stay in a small place and see
The Coconino sun., 1925-10-16

the rest of the world go by:
"Feller, i KANT see no difference
atween what Ian. a.. doins. an what.
you air doin'. set here on stone
an watch the fhvvers go by, an you
set there in flivver an watch the
stones go by"
Seeing in an Albuquerque paper
that some diggers into pre- historic
iruins around there somewhere had
| dug up a human skull that was COLI
ored green, Pat Moran remarks that
| it only goes to prove that the Irish
were among the earliest globe -trot-
ters.
"Bet a nickel can kiss you without
| touching you," Bob Taylor Jf told a
pretty girl. She took him up on the
bet. Then she said: "You touched me "
l"I know it, said Bob. Here's the
nickel" st
John Kelly says as now son;e #
these girls talk SO much you'd think
they'd been vaccinated with a phono-
graph needle.
"Beats all how eXtravagant some
people are" says Carter JOY. 81
know feller what bought fire ey-
itinguished more'n a year ago an he
amt never even used it yet"
[ Five-room bungalow with bath on
concrete street.-Want adv in South
Carolina paper.
| In our five-room bungalow. we take
our baths (using the plural only be-
cause there are four in the family,
and not plural in the singular sense,
you understand) in a tea-cup when
we need the bath and when there's
water and when there's a spare tea
cup.
a don't see why people object to
anonymous letters says Davy Jo Z.
"Ef they don't like them what do they
want to open them for?"
"Ah ain worried none bout de
water situation" remarks ledge Mil
ler. ''It all am in de hands of a all
wise an unscrupulous providence,
II see piece in the Los Angeles
Times about man who slept past
the time for his wedding" says RIM
my Jim Giddings. 1T has been my
observation that most men don't wake
up until after the wedding"
+ Zennie Mccoy was showing one of
his fast hnrses to a fellow from the
east who wanted to buy nag.
\ gtCooJ I,n~-cr +l.o .1,.,, oo.,,.0, k,.l
"There amt none BETTER" said
Zennie.
"Who was he sired by ~
| Zenne wasn't quite sure Of the ami
mails pedigree. but didn't intend to
admit it, "Well sir" he replied, NO
body knows that. This colt is so fast
that he ran away from home before
ever he'd heard his dads name"
One dav when Manager H. G.
Myabb of the local telephone company
was fishing at Mormon lake just as
he started to cast he caught the hook
in the seat of his trousers. "Some-
body on the line, isn't the~e?" the fell
low with him asked 'No, the party's s
hung up" Myabb retorteG.
Twisted Expressions
Times upt' said the young man
who had pawned his watch to get his
Igirl present.
Let's call it off" said the head
Ialienist, testing a patient for insanity.
II dislike that chap" said the pret-
Ity girl as she rubbed cold cream on
iher lips.
''Pm getting it in the neck, /" grum-
Ibled the bull as Ursus gave him an
Icther twist.
Your face is certainly familiar" "
said the indignant girl as she wiped
away the stolen kiss.
Here endeth the first lesson" said
the young cleric as the auto he was
learning to drive crashed into tree.
| Why does a pedestrian cross the
Istreet? We give up. People do fool
The Coconino sun., 1925-10-16

get his hands back on the wheel again
they'd gone over the bank.
The Coconino sun., 1925-10-16

The stuff in your windshield is the
same skinds of stuff they have in hos
pital windows. Look through one or
the other.
The Coconino sun., 1925-10-16

Now al Ddnkiin wants to know.
since all drivers of cars have to have
permits if a man has one and is driv-
ing don't his wife inssthe back seat
have ta have. one, too
The Coconino sun., 1925-10-16

A syndicated series Of dancing les
sons in some of the daily papers adj
vises the dancers tosfofgee their feet.
This advice, is being generally follow
ed, and feet, in many cases, are not
being used at all.
The Coconino sun., 1925-10-16

John Kelly says as now son;e +
these girls talk SO much you'd think
they'd been vaccinated with a phono-
graph needle.
The Coconino sun., 1925-10-16

"Bet nickel can kiss you without
touching you," Bob Taylor Jf. told d
pretty girl. She took him up on the
bet. Then she said: "You touched me
I know ii" said Bob. Here's the
nickel.,s t
The Coconino sun., 1925-10-16

George AtfsrBury remarks that the
usual relati@e snportance of man
and his wife nowadays, may be ex-
The Coconino sun., 1925-10-16

Squire Fuller says you amt goin'
ter git mughTgood from readin' the
bible ef all5yoal' 's iookins fer is some
fin to start an aieument about.
The Coconino sun., 1925-10-16

RANT DRAWN FOR THE SAME.
Be it ordained by the Mayor and
the Common Council of the Town of
Flagstaff, Arizona as follows, to-wit:
SECTION
That a levy and assessment Of
taxes be, and the same is hereby made
Of THREE and THREE HUNDRED
THIRTY TWO THOUSAND TWO
HUNDRED TWENTY TWO MIL
LIONTHS (.0O3332222) MILLS on
the dollar of and on, the assessed
valuation Of all real and personal
property within the corporate limits
of the Town of Flagstaff, Coconino
County, Arizona, as shown by the as
sessnnent roll Of the current year, to
defray the salaries of officers and the
ordinary and contingent expenses of
said town, and not herein otherwise
provided for, for the fiscal year end
ing May 31st, 1926.
The Coconino sun., 1925-10-16

See they are giving harp lessons
over at Teachers college. Would be
kind of handy to know how to play
the harp in case one gets to heaven,
but not Knowing how and never ex-
pecting to know how we are thankful
anyway that we've had lot of exper-
fence shovelin' coat.
The Coconino sun., 1925-10-16

"Beats all how extravagant some
people are" says Carter JOY. 81
know a feller what bought fire ey-
tinguished more'n a year ago an he
amt never even used it yet"
The Coconino sun., 1925-10-16

Seeing in an Albuquerque paper
that some diggers into prehistoric
ruins around there somewhere had
dug up human skull that was COLI
ored green, Pat Moran remarks that
It only goes to prove that the Irish
were among the earliest globe-tro
ters.
The Coconino sun., 1925-10-16
he rest of the world 90 by:

the rest of the world go by:
"Feller, i KANT see no difference
atween what liam. a. doinss an what
you air dom set here on stone
an watch the flivvers go by, an you
set there in flivver an watch the
stones go by"
The Coconino sun., 1925-10-16

veftlcaI.
dug into Background. as alsfnail
animal 2-Burial vase
3-Pre po ziksNH
4--Artill era spteda 5-Tart
t~6-Fellow OF the Historical society
(abbr.) Y THAT man
8-Measure of cloth 9-Earth
I0-Kind of hunting Cog
II-Body of troops consisting or
two or more regiments
12-True ~ l4-NatiVe metaf
1S-Dense Z, szsf 21-Danger
23-Source OF light
"a Pertaining to moral action
26-Kingdom 2S-Regular
29-European canary
s1-According to (Fr.)
33--W andegers
S5-Yours uneIe's son or daughter
-Prevartcated 40-Sesame
A2-SnarA 44-To load
47-Royai Field Artillery (abbr.)
4S-Negative
.A9-Source of light
6r-Foot (abbr.) $40 ac'
~
Solution will appear In next issue
go ar
The Coconino sun., 1925-10-16
SECTION 2

That levy and assessment of taxes
be made and the same is hereby made
of TWO AND FIVE HUNDRED
The Coconino sun., 1925-10-16

Why does a pedestrian cross the
street? We give up. People do fool
ish things.
The Coconino sun., 1925-10-16

"Ah ain worried none bout de
water situation" remarks ledge Mil
Ter. ''It all am in de hands of a all
wise an unscrupulous providence"
The Coconino sun., 1925-10-16

II don't see why people object to
anonymous letters says Davy Jo
"Ef they don't like them what do they
want to open them for ~
The Coconino sun., 1925-10-16

II see a piece in the Los Angeles
Times about a man who slept past
the time for his wedding" says RIM
my Jim Giddings. ''It has been my
that most men don't wake
up until after the wedding"
The Washington times., 1925-10-05

KKYE living "a more amazing age imam were inc
w days of Jack and the Beanstalk and Aladdin and
his wonderful lamp
Children enjoy about the Magic Carpet that trans
ports anywhere the Cap Of Fortunaas which may
render one invisible, and similar tales.
to go wall and punch button and flood the
room suddenly brilliant light to have fire immedl
atey gas which will fry beefseak to nothing
the Of the telegraph the telephone and the RADIO
indicate this age marvellous than any that has
preceded it.
hidden forces of nature have always been present IN
matter enough energy drop of water to move
steamship, if could be extracted. Constant rays OF
force py every particle and the who
will discover how to take atom apart will be great
inventor.
Most people believe luck and dream of the great hidden
gods as minsering to themselves individuality They are
minister's they the ceThey the wsest
and who wisdom enough to find out their work
ngs -,
An inventor is simply who discovers the hidden
giants and tells us how to use them.
earth air full of the force OF health and
ready operate upon who desires them good
doctor simply who leads back to nature and who
knows how its hidden forces
is great independently but only IN SO much as
he the forces of nature
It would be great thing to make the dead speak, as the
necromancers claim do but is quite wonderful to
have monograph recording their voice
We cannot President Wilson IN action, but on the
moving picture screen we can his perfect imitation
Education is simply discovering what these hidden laws
are and finding their universally of operation
The foolish look make money by gambling specula
ton The wise cooperate with nature and live little
less than they make Thrift using law OF nature to
ones wealth It operates automatically and regu
lary. Speculation is uncertain
The Washington times., 1925-10-05
,RY OF THE SKY By GARRETT P. sERVIsS

VIII you kindly inform us
as to whether the sky is a
stance. or is it space? IL it is
space we would like to know
where it gets it's color from.
Are the planets. the sun, and
the moon in a vacuum between
this earth and the sky, or are
they so close to the sky as to
be held by grayitation from the
sky? Your answer will be
very much appreciated. "-Edi-
son Boys.
II FELICITATE YOU. boys, on
i your evident disposition not
only to think for yourselves, but
to find pleasure in mental exer-
else A principal object of these
little articles is to induce every
body to give more attention to
the things of the intellect"
Now, let us see what your
question implies. We are living
on an isolated ball which we call
the earth, and which circles once
a year around the sun. Under
our feet We feel the solid ground:
Immediately around us is an in
visible atmosphere. the air, of
whose existence we have album
dant physical proof through
other senses than sight: above
us. at an indefinite distance, we
perceive II dome, blue by day and
frequently more or less covered
with clouds; and black by night.
when ii is filled with glittering
The Washington times., 1925-10-05
Heavier Bonds for District
Criminals
By BILL PRICE

There will be hearty commendation for FEN
MING and Judge JOHN p MCMAHON in their attitude as to
heavier bonds for District criminals
Light bonds for bad men are par with small fines for
dangerous auto drivers They do not deter Iney
really breeders of crime in that criminals look light
bonds reecng the opinions Of police and court officials
that their acts not serious.
Washington be kept of the class of other crime
ridden cities the authorities here must tighten the strings all
along the ine-mply make Washington too hot for unde
sirables
The other day mentioned the of narcotic drug
pedder times arrested and each time OBJ
finally him. because they thought he
getting in too,deep to take further risks
gun toter released by police precinct $125
collateral satisfy Judge Mcmahon, and when
tachmen papers about be served for his arrest he
again picked up the police and found to be supplied with
the everhandy gum with which he intended to shoot
neighbor Judge Mcmahon his would
have kept him Jail if justiceof the Supreme Court had
not ordered the bond reduced $4,000 Judge Mcmahon
refused to reduce the bond between the
judges brings about the freedom of the gun toter.
The community is safer with such men behind the bars At
liberty bonds that easily obtained they feel bit more
confident than before that they great danger OF the
exacting grasp of the laws
habitua gun potential criminal He does not
go armed matter of self protection but to shoot first il
gets tight place. bond of 1926 in these days of
ANY good citizen may get into trouble
being for trial. his record good, light
bond sufficient to meet the requirements Of the law The
police record behind him light bond an incentive for him
TO continue his criminal more convenient to skip
his bond and go elsewhere
Our former recommendation worth repeating Make bonds
for bad and much heavier In TINS city and In the
of the desperate and dangerous make them prac
ticay prohbve Let these sort OF gentry remain in Jail
The of heavier criminal bonds becomes apparent in
terribly congested condition Of criminal dockets in
Trials Of criminal often delayed for
years delays resulting to the benefit Of the accused
under indictment free comparatively small
bonds prospect that their trials will be long delayed
there isn't much TO worry over
Swift Justice the of every criminal is out of
question this inability failure to promptly
sppy added obtaining bonds then justice
crippled condition The stern hand of the
law" becomes the softened hand.
Washingtons criminal record is not par with some
cities don't want it to get that The soil is ripe
for it. however and should prevent much sowing of
criminal seeds by general Tightening the part OF
police prosecuting and court officials.
The Washington times., 1925-10-05

cluded within a limited distance
from the surface of the earth,
not exceeding, in any case, the
height of the atmospheric shell.
whose density becomes negligible
as far as light is concerned, at
twenty miles or so. II you went
up smear the top of the atmos-
phere you would see only the
black sky of the stars. That is
evidently the only sky that could
be perceived from the moon,
where there is practically no at
m0sphere to scatter the sunlight.
Night Sky
But now, about the night sky.
Has that, too, a material base?
No, for it's darkness is produced
by the absence of sunlight. That
absence withdraws the screen of
the day sky, and permits the
feeble rays of the immensely dis
tant stars ia reach the earth I'M
interrupted. The quantity of
light falling from the stars is not
sufficient to produceSthe appear
ance of blue sky by. a per-
ceptible scattering of the. short
Waves as OCCuTS Win SunIfanl,
and so the armament at night
appears black, except where the
direct ray from star pierces
it, coming straight to the OBJ
servers eye.
But let the full moon rise, and
although IL gives only about one
six ndred-thousandth as much
light as the. sun, yet that is
enough to cause, by the scat
tering of its short waves for
moonlight is nothing but reflect
ed sunlight, a faint image, a
sort of ghost, of the cerulean
dome of day.
We can assign no limit of dis
tance to the black dome of night.
1t extends even beyond the most
distant stars, for they are not
set upon it's surface but. are con
tanned within its Unreasonable
depths.
1t represents what we call
empty space, through which the
earth, the moon, the planets and
the sun and stars also, are con-
tinually moving. But even this
space must be filled with the
ether, which conveys light and
other radiations throughout the
universe, but whose constitution,
as far as we can infer its nature,
is so peculiar that we do not
know whether to call 1t SUD-
stance or not.
The Washington times., 1925-10-05
Do You Feel Discouraged?

young man lost his money in stocks and himself.
young heart when things go against them and
drift through life helpless useless derecs Let give such
men a bit of advice
Don't let discourage you Almost all the brilliantly
successful characters history early trials and
The great philosopher. Epictetus was slave
wandered through the swamps fugitive
got cued the for letting the cakes burn Column
bus from court to court like beggar to try to raise
finally won the Spanish Queen poor that
he could until Isabella had advanced him
enough to buy decent clothes
when Frederick the Great was fighting Europe fell
into such desperate straits that he carried bottle of poison
he had taken that dose the whole history of time would
been different Instead Of shaking mailed fist at the
medazd prncelet the lookout for American heress
there might have been Leipzig Waterloo there
certainly would not have been Sedan and the heirs of
Napoleon might have been ruling
ing all Central Europe, from the Tiber to the Baltic
Nobody had for encouragement than
George Washington had when he led the struggling remnants
Of his army the Delaware in December 1776 But in
the very darkest hour when absolute ruin seemed inevitable
and British gaows appeared the probable ending of his
he struck blow that cleared the way to the highest
place in the worlds history.
Andrew jackson was born in cabin suffered every sort of
adversely lost his mother and brothers from the suffer
ngs of war; cut with sword for refusing to clean
British officers boots and up almost without education
Abraham Lincoln ignorant sprung from the lowliest
pck deprived of all advantages for culture for money
king distressed by domestic troubles might have had
for encouragement But he kept with what results
world
If ever there was man who seemed doomed to failure it
u g. Grant in the spring of 1861 He had loose from
profession for which he had been trained and after drift
ng from occupation another and failing in ALL he
at thirty nine DID, clerk in country store and
unable to make ends that Three later he
lieutenant general of the armies of the United States and
five years after that he was President
So don't be discouraged fortunes in temporary
eclipse The in despair when the goes
it, and that there will be any daylight again. But
the astronomer eclipse merely interesting opportunity
daylight the astronomer your moments Of darkness
win trouble you no more than his trouble him.