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The Coconino sun., 1926-05-07
COLLEGE FACULTY GIVE
PLAY FOR SCHOLARSHIP

Money will be raised toward the
first faculty scholarship at Flagstaff
Teachers college next Friday night,
May IA, when the faculty will pres
ent 1.-THE Three Live Ghosts" a
dramatic comedy, in which Miss Mary
Boyer, as the "old sweetheart" will
have the stellar role
The money raised from admissions
will go into fund to provide a facul-
ty scholarship to some worthy third
year student of the school year 1926
1927, and it is planned to award these
scholarships annually hereafter
The comedy is full of laughs. The
faculty members who will support
Miss Boyer are: R. R. Powers, T. d.
Jessuppe and T. @. Bellwood as the
three live ghosts, Mrs. T. D. Jessuppe
as Rose, an American girl; Miss Mary
Lutz as Miss Woofers, Mrs. Thelma
Davis as Lady Leicester Grady
Gammage as an American detective,
Z. Fl. Lynch as a Scotland Yard de-
tective, Is. G.. Glass as Benson, a
plain clothes man, and Howard Dem
man as a policeman. ).
Tom Billwood is business manager
and E. G. Claus is stage director.
The play will be at college auditor
ium and needless to say it will BIZ
filled to capacity on that night.
The Coconino sun., 1926-05-07

/ - Ipening with luncheon at the
s. onan's club Monday noon, May 10
' ne stock-selling campaign for the
new hotel will be well under way
/ Under the able leadership of DR.. a.
| j. Mackey, a sales organization num-
bering ~ statesmen representative Of
various types of business and profes-
sional lines will begin active work in
selling the hotel stock to the people
of Flagstaff.
Daily luncheons for the sales fore
will be held at the Woman's club
when daily reports viii be made and
averaged, supplies distributed and
campaign plans discussed.
Senator Charles B. Hamilton, pres
ident of the Hamilton Hotels com
pany, inc, the operator of Flagstaff's
new hotel, will be on hand some of
the time during the campaign, and
/ is just possible that T. III. Moorhead,
representing H. L. Stevens & com
pany, the construction engineers, will
also be here part of the time.
Three meetings of the executive
committee have taken place this week
as well as one meeting of the entire
sales force of n men and one meet
ing of the II group, and division
managers with the general sales man
ager.
The meeting of the general sales
force Tuesday night showed a keen
appreciation of the problem in hand
and the entire organization expressed
themselves as absolutely sold on the
IN n
put it across with the people of Flag
|staff
The entire sales organization, num-
bering rs men, was present at the
coaching meeting Tuesday night in
the campaign headquarters when J..
a. Webster of the Hockenbury Sys-
tenn Inc outlined the work of the
campaign relative to the individual
salesman.
"This campaign is a challenge to
the real men of the community" said
Mr.. Webster, and in all fairness to
Flagstaff, you must accept that chal-
lenge and build the hotel.
But, first, in order that you may
do this job right, you must know the
proposition; all points relative to the
selection Of the site, cost of the build
ing, H. e. Stevens &. company, the
operators in the form of the Hamil-
ton company, and an explanation Of
preferred and common stock must be
clearly understood.
"These questions are sure to be
asked and you are the fellows who
will have to answer them. In my
opinion, there is not question that
can be asked of you that can't be
satisfactorily answered. All the cards
are on the table and all you have to
do is to understand the proposition
and all questions are answered.
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Statesmen ARE ORGANIZED
FOR THE BIG HOTEL DRIVE
BE GINNING NEXT MONDAY
SF1ATOR HAMILT TON HERE

In discussing the site, Mr.. Webster
of $4,000 covered the purchase Of
five lots which included The Sun
building as we'll as the post office
building.
Seven percent preferred stock will
be sold at a par value Of 800 per
share and with every share Of pre-
ferred will go one share Of common.
The preferred stock, as we'll as the
common, is worcestershire.
The control of the hotel company
will at all times be vested in the local
board of directors while the manage
ment of the hotel itself, viii be sub
ject to the control of an executive
committee, half of this committee to
be selected by the local board of di-
rectors and half by the Hamilton Ho-
tells company.
In the event that this executive
committee cannot agree, the local
judge viii be called in to decide the
issue This situation, however, ac-
cording to Senator Hamilton, has
never arisen in any of his other nine
hotels.
The Stevens contract was very
clearly explained by Mr.. Webster and
it was shown that this company does
not do contracting. They are super
vising engineers. They supervise the
entire construction of the building;
however, the local board of directors
handle all the funds and pay out all
the money for labor, materials, etc.
Insofar as possible, all materials,
labor, equipment and supplies Will be
secured from local sources.
In considering the Hockenbury con-
tract, it was explained that this com
pany receives four and one-haf per
cent of the amount raised as their
commission and they do not receive
this unless they raise their guarantee,
The service Of this organization
started last fall, when they came in
and made a very comprehensive sur
vey of the situation, satisfying them
selves and the hotel committee that
Flagstaff was very decidedly in need
of a modern hotel They are now
here on the ground directing this
campaign. At the close of the drive
they viii continue to be of assistance
to the committee and the people OF
Flagstaff until the hotel is built and
is ON a paying basis.
With their valuable fund Of infor-
nation relative to hotels and the IL
nancing of hotels, this company wall
give some very fine assistance TO
Flagstaff. The only charge the Hook
enbury company makes IS the four
and one-half percent on the amount
of stock sold, and this fee covers their
entire service, as outlined above.
Senator Charles B, Hamilton, pres
ident of the Hamilton Hotels COM
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NEW HOME BASEBALL
TEAM PLAYS WILLIAMS
SUNDAY AFTERNOON

Flagstaff is to have a base ball
team this year and every man on it
is Il Flagstaff man, Grover Hutson,
manager for this season, assures US
an interesting schedule of games
from next Sundays game throughout
the summer. He assures US that
there will be no importations; the
team will be composed strictly of To-
cal men. F. r.. Shuck is captain and
next Sundays game here with Will
Jams viii show what fine material
can be assembled right at home. The
present lineup is as follows; Clarence
(Swede) Johnson, catcher; Clyde Et-
ter pitcher; Ben Bear first base;
Stanley Cronin, second base; Turk
Way, short stop; Harry Birmingham
third base; John Kunzelman, left
field; Homer Byron, center field;
and Roy Wakefield, right field.
The Coconino sun., 1926-05-07

shall Charlie Murray of Williams
were there. County Attorney Frank
Harrison and Under-sheriff d. L. Nc
Kinney arrived there long before day
break, DR.. Felix Manning, county
health officer, about day-break.
A search was made for the weapon
with which the murder was commit
ted. No trace was found Of it. Then
Mr.. Harrison, obeying a strange i'm
pulse-a hunch that the weapon was
close by, walked east from the cot
tage where the dead woman lay and
directly to the death-weapon, small
hatchet stained with blood, on the
handle of which was cut Johnson's
initials. The murderer evidently walk
ed hundred feet or so from the cot
tage, then threw the hatchet as far
as he could.
Justice of Peace George N. Nc
Dougall empanelled a coroner's jury
and the verdict was that the woman
was killed by hatchet in the hands
of her husband.
DR.. Manning performed an autopsy.
The woman's skull was found to be
unusually thick 1t had not been brok-
en- nor even cracked. But the blows
had fallen with sufficient force to
leave the effects plainly visible on the
brain and death must have been in
Simultaneous.
Johnson did not testify before the
coroner's jury, saying he did not
want to. He did tell the officers that
he had gone out riding, with a
friend" about IL o'clock that night,
going to Williams and then, returning
and going past the camp-ground west
a couple of miles, there turning
around and returning to the camp
ground. He said that he'd had a cou-
pie of drinks. No one seems to have
heard the car when he drove out, as
he alleged, in the night. But he evi-
IDENTIFY had been out with the car, for
the engine was warm when the Off
GERS got there.
Johnson was brought to jail here
following the inquest. Monday night
he telegraphed to his mother-in-law,
Mrs. j. w. Meyers of Los Angeles,
protesting his innocence. The dead
woman's father arrived in Williams
Tuesday night.
Johnson is 81, medium size, of fair
complexion. He seems to be suffering
from heavy mental strain or ner-
vousness and his hands tremble con-
stantly. His wife, Hazel, was about
26.
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ANNUAL RAZOR VACATION
BEGINS APR. l6, ELKS DAY
MAY lis IS the fatal date!

May is is the fatal date!
Oh! Oh! Oh!
As Joe Blumberg says, "We'll all
be orthodox then"
For why?
Because that's the day the Elks of
Flagstaff decree all Elks shall begin
to let their boards and hair grow.
From then until the Fourth Of July
you're to let 'em grow This is a
firm request made of all local Elks.
It is also requested that all men IN
Flagstaff who are not Elks also let
their hair and boards grow.
That was a wonderful celebration
that days of '49'' celebration we had
last year. 1t will be even more Won
derful this year. Clyde Zerby, direc-
tor last year, will be here June 6 to
take entire charge. You know how
well he did before.
There is a feeling on the part Of
some that repeating the days of '49n
celebration this year is too soon. But
the committee in charge feel that it
is just the other way around Cities
have their carnival of roses every
year. Prescott has the Smoki dance
every year. Other cities have other
sorts of celebrations annually The
result is that instead of OVERRIDING it,
each year the celebration is a little
better, is better attended, makes more
money. The effect Of the cumulative
advertising is great, tending to in
crease attendance and profits. There
fore, the committee feels, the cele-
bration should do better this year
than last.
Exalted Ruler Henry Albers is in
general charge as chairman Of the
executive committee for the celebra-
ton. On of his members, Fred
Browning, is chairman of the finance
committee. Other members of the ex-
ecutive committee are Loren w
Cress, Ray H. Simpson, Tom Z. Rees,
Frank Goodman, Dan L. Hogan, Alex
A. Johnston and Walter Carlson.
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Whether Johnson was actuated by
anger or was insane is moot ques-
ton. No one seems to have overheard
any quarreling between him and his
wife. He, himself, while denying
guilt or knowledge of who the guilty
one is; told the officers that he was
shell-shocked in France and that an
aunt and uncle of his are in an in
sane asylum.
Johnson and his wife and their three
four-year old baby boy drove into
the. camp ground in their new Hud-
son Kept repeating that his wife had
first secured camping privileges, then
shortly afterward rented one of the
cottages.
During the afternoon Johnson ask
ed the man who runs the store at the
camp ground where he could get
some liquor. The store man told him
he didn't know, though he guessed
he could get it all right.
About one o'clock that night john
son raped at the door of a cottage
occupied by Mr.. Conrad, tourist
from Ashtabula, Ohio. Conrad hesi-
tated about opening the door. john
son kept repeating thot his wife had
been killed and said he had his baby
there and asked them to open the
door and take the baby in.
Conrad, revolver in hand, opened
the door and his wife took the baby.
Conrad took Johnson to the cottage
of another Ashtabula couple, named
Rugg. Conrad and Mr.. and Mrs.
Rugg went to the Johnson cottage,
where they found Mrs. Johnson, in
bed, dead, two gashes on her head,
toward the front, one on either side.
The body was warm. There was no
evidence of any struggle, it appear
ing that she had been struck without
warning while asleep, or if awake,
without warning.
The bedding near her head was
saturated with blood There was none
on the baby's night-clothes, nor was
any noted on Johnson.
Conrad and Riggs kept their flash
lights on johnson, who was standing
around, acting excited but keeping
fairly quiet. Finally he asked: "Why
do you keep the lights on me? Do
you think | killed her ? They told him
they didn't know anything about that,
but there had been a murder COM
mitted and they were taking no
chances.
Officers were phoned and soon
Deputy Sheriff Fred Holden, Con-
stable E. II. Merritt and Night Mar
The Coconino sun., 1926-05-07
HONOR STUDENTS AT
FLAGSTAFF HIGH SCHOOL

These students distinguished them
selves during the second semester at
Flagstaff high school:
Freshmen: Honor roll-Eleanor
Brown, jamie Burns, Harriet Bush
nell, Margaret Matson, Shelby Me-
Cauley, Isabella Wallace; honorable
mention David Slipher, Norman Sol
berg, Vivette Wilson.
Sophomores: Honor roll-Ann Ja-
kle, Elizabeth higgins; honorable
mention-James Shirley, Meredith
Palmer, Herman Dunham.
Juniors: Honor roll-Stuart An
derson, Alice Beeson, Weldon Brinton,
Harold Burman, Margaret Mercer;
honorable mention-Florence Cooper,
Minnie Hilkins, Josephine Wilson.
Seniors: Honor roll-Ruth Mary
Switzer, Pauline Smith, Clyde Caffey,
Irene Frederick, Edward Koch, Cath
crime Miller, Florence Meyer, Marcia
Slipher; honorable mention-Kath-
leen Conrad, Elma Dickinson, Buster
Raudenbaugh, Walter Runke, Alberta
Kinsey.
The Coconino sun., 1926-05-07
MISS MARY BOYER TOLD
ROTARIANS OF ARIZONA

Miss Mary Boyer of Flagstaff
Teachers college was the principal
speaker at Tuesdays Rotary meeting,
her topic ARIZONA" In the course of
her fine talk she read from several
Arizona poets and the net result on
the hearers was greater love for and
greater faith in Arizona.
Miss Selma Aas and Miss Elsa
Myers pinned the new Rotary badges
on the members. Miss Aas, accompan-
led on the piano by Miss Myers, sang
Always" with her usual charm.
Professor A. Maxemin, accompan-
led on the piano by Mrs. G. c..
Schwarz, played violin solo in his
always faultless style.
Just-was President Mart Fronske
spoke for a moment on the progress
of the club during the past year and
of the responsibilities now shoulder
ed off on to Ed Miller, the stalwart
new president, who hadn't recovered
enough to respond since the arrival a
short time before by special messen-
ger of big basket of red roses, sent
by the outgoing officers and MEM
bers to the new officers.
/. B. Koch introduced Senator
Hamilton, head of the hotel chain sys-
tenn which is to manage the new
Flagstaff hotel, and L. A. Webster,
of the Hockenberry system here con-
Quoting the hotel drive. Mr.. Koch an
nounced that DR.. A. j. Mackey's
staff of 72 hotel statesmen will meet
next Tuesday noon with Rotary.
Del Strong was chairman for the
day. Alfred Skeels Of Williams was
the only visiting Rotarian. Guests:
Miss Boyer, Miss Aas, Mrs. Schwarz,
Miss Myers, Professor Maxemin,
Senator Hamilton, Mr. Webster, J.
Leland Barber, Earl Brewster and A..
L. Claussen of Phoenix, w. G. True
of Los Angeles, Bob Waldraven,
George Miller, deputy regional scout
executive of Los Angeles; R. r. Hill
of Washington, d. c.; Arthur B.
Young of Albuquerque, L. G. Boggs of
the state university.
President Miller announced that
Earl Slipher will be chairman next
Tuesday.
The Coconino sun., 1926-05-07
TWELVE GOOD MEN ARE
NOMINEES FOR COUNCIL
ELECTION TO Be MAY "a

Without preliminary noise, fuss or
feathers, with no campaigning what
ever, petitions were quietly circulated
the first of the week and filed with
City Clerk Clarence Pulliam putting
into nomination IL candidates for
city council members, seven of whom
are to be elected at the biennial cleo
ton May "a.
Contrary to expectations, no wom-
en- have been placed in nomination.
While it is not too late for any
women who wish to become candi-
dates, it is too late to get their names
ON the official printed ballot, the time
for filing candidates having expired
at 5 O'clock Tuesday afternoon.
These are the candidates: I. B.
Koch (present member), Dan Hogan,
Jos. J. Waldhaus, Herb. Babbitt, Jack
Mitchell (present member), VIM. Bee
son, K. J. Nackard George Negray,
Stanley Sykes, DR.. E. S. Flett (pres
ent member), DR. Vaughn S. Nc
Guire and Joe Tissaw.
Petitions for the nine first-named
were circulated and filed by Ernest ].
Hogan, for DR.. Flett and DR.. Nc
CURE by Rex Goble. and for Joe Tis-
saw by Charlie Kelly.
Four of the present members of
council refused to become candidates,
feeling that the strenuous work of
the last two years, which has occu-
pied a great deal of their time, is all
they could afford to give and pre-
ferring to let others do it for a
while. Those four members are May
or L. w. Cress. Earl G. Slipher, Tom
Pulliam and w. B. Raudebaugh.
Flagstaff always has been singu-
larly fortunate in having good, able,
conscientious city council. With the
IL men nominated to pick from no
matter which seven are elected, Flag
staff is assured of having fine, cap
able set of men at the helm. That
is as it should be always and under
any circumstances, but particularly
under the present circumstances,
when the city is growing rapidly, the
city water improvements are not
completed, extensive paving repairs
must be made, the tourist park re-
uuires a good deal of attention, and
the sentiment is growing stronger to
change from the town to the city
form of government.
Flagstaff needs experienced busl-
ness men on the council. That 1T IS
assured of having them for the next
two years is evident when one reads
the names of the nominees.
The Coconino sun., 1926-05-07
TEMPORARILY INSANE
LUMBERJACK TRIED TO
KILL HIMSELF WITH AK

After failing to kill himself with
his axe, with which he cut two CASH
es. in his, head, Avarid Hard, 28 years
old, was brought to county jail, Flag
staff, on Wednesday, and is held for
examination tomorrow as to his san
ity.
Hard worked for Charlie Lind
strom in the Saginaw & Manistee
Lumber Co. logging camp west of
here. He is subject to spells of tenn
porary arrangement, during which he
does not seek to harm anyone else
but is likely to harm himself. Last
winter Hard took off all his clothes
and started into the woods through
snow knee deep, but was caught and
brought back before he suffered any
i'll effects.
This week Hard fell into canyon
near the camp, bruising himself,
principally about the head. 1t is be-
lieved the accident occurred just af-
ter he had been siezed with one of
his spells. He climbed out of the
canyon and went to his shack, where
he tried to kill himself with the axe.
The hearing was to have been held
yesterday, but recent rains had made
the roads bad for the witnesses to
get over, and Mr.. Lindstrom phoned
to Sheriff John 0. Parsons, asking
that it be held tomorrow. Hard is a
Swede and is steady, reliable man
when normal.
The Coconino sun., 1926-05-07
BETTER HOMES" WEEK
HAD MANY FEATURES
Ny Home


Dearest place the earth has seen,
Bordered round by richest green,
Adorned with lovely springtime
flowers
That lift sweet lips to kiss the
showers.
Undulating vineclad hills,
Shady hooks and laughing rills,
Groves of stately giant trees,
Swaying in the summer breeze.
Lovely glens and meadows wide,
Where crystal brooklets dance and
glide.
Fields of waving wheat and corn
God bless the home where | was born!
The above is a thought that came
to Sister Mary Godfrey of ST. An
thongs academy while supervising
the making of the attractive Better
Homes posters displayed in down
town shop windows.
Mrs. Lorna Jessup, Miss Gladys
Colver and Miss Ruth Dotson, domes-
tic arts teachers of the college, high
school and Emerson schools, respect
lively, fitted up in Kinlani a model
home, furnishings and accessories
loaned by business houses Of the city,
employees asd, in some cases proprie-
tors themselves, taking the goods over
and helping with the manual labor
involved. A complete home--from
kitchen containing every modern cleo
trieal convenience to comfortable liv-
ing Toom-dreW crow d S of adj
miring visitors Business firms who
cooperated were Babbitt Brothers
Flagstaff Furniture Co., Flagstaff
Electric Light Co., Tissaw Electric
shop, J. G. Penney CO., Wilson Il Cof-
fin, w. H. Switzer Hardware, Schmidt
Jewelry Co., Gassman's Newsstand
and City Drug CO.
A lecture accompanied by lantern
slides Illustrative Of Better Homes
was given by Mrs. Earl SHpher at the
Orpheum one afternoon, when chill
dren from the grades and girls from
high school attended. Better books
and better magazines were stressed in
show windows at Gassman's News
stand, Rabbits Curio, Jehnston's Tog-
gerry, and at Browns Newsstand.
A clever feature of the demonstra-
tion home was number of miniature
rooms furnished with tiny homemade
furniture and accessories, even to lit
tie braided rugs, made by school chill
dren.
Mrs. Gold says that we must not
rest on our laurels and be too proud
of our wonderful start toward our
goal. Last week was just the spring
drive Of a steady, forward movement
which is to continue indefinitely until
Flagstaff as city will be worthy its
setting of unrivaled natural beauty.
The Coconino sun., 1926-05-07
NORTHERN ARIZONA HIGH
SCHOOL MUSICAL CONTEST
BEGINS THIS AFTERNOON

The musical contest between the
northern Arizona high schools under
the auspices Of Flagstaff Teachers
college, begins at the college auditor
ium at 1870 this afternoon, and con-
tinues this evening and tomorrow
forenoon.
There will be four cornet, six vio-
lin, nine voice, one clarinet and 10
piano soloists, three boys quartets,
four girls quartets, two mixed quar-
tets, one boys chorus, four girls
choruses, three mixed choruses, two
orchestras, two bands-a total of 21
ensembles. Each entrant performs
twice and In case of a tie then tied
groups will give other numbers.
President F. A. Cotton of Teachers
college originated the idea and Prof
essor G. v. Ridgely, head of the music
department at the college worked out
the details and is in general charge.
He will be assisted today and tomor-
row by the following musical in
structors, who also will do the judg-
ing: Donald Jessop of Eagar, Miss
Selma Aas of Flagstaff, Miss Vera B.
Arnold of Kingman, j. r. Crandell of
Snowflake, Rulas Ostler of St. Johns,
Miss Bernice Hawkins of Williams
and James p Lee of Winslow. All
of the towns above named have en-
tries in all or several of the various
classes
The Coconino sun., 1926-05-07
RAIN PREVENTS PICNIC
AT THE BELLEM0NT CAVES

Many who contemplated taking in
the big picnic and christening of the
big cave north of Bellemont last Sun
day were disappointed on account Of
the rain which prevented their TAX
ing the days outing. Despite the
rain about twenty-five people went
out from Bellemont to visit the new
national wonder.
However, Forest Supervisor Geo.
Kimball of Williams and Thompson
Brothers of Bellemont, who have been
sponsoring the picnic, say the big
day will be pulled off, Sunday, May
10th rain or shine and request all to
come prepared with searchlights,
lunch and suggestions for giving the
big cav popular name. Hot dogs
and cofIc will be served free.
The Coconino sun., 1926-05-07
LOCAL PYTHIANS VISIT
BRETHREN AT WILLIAMS

Seventeen members of the local
Knights of Pythias lodge went to
Williams Monday night to confer the
rank of knight on four members of
the Williams lodge in amplified form.
Williams has always had one of the
livest Pythian lodges in the state and
the Monday night affair was in the
nature of fraternal "get better ac-
quainted" affair. Following the in
itiation ceremonies refreshments were
served and happy speeches were made
by boosters of the organization.
The Knights of Pythias lodges in
the north have been taking on new
life and enthusiasm the past year and
is growing rapidly.