The Coconino sun., 1926-07-09

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/ The lastAnaned, the clever and
pretty daughter of Harry (Indian)
Miller, also did a lively and graceful
/ Charleston dance solo, then a Char
lesion duet with little John Zerby.
Andy Miller and j. w Voight were
the chorus male singers, Phil (Red)
Hollingsworth the peppy and versa
/ tile comedian. Dick Love and En-
! NETT Morrissey had a clever negro
musical act. Miss Virginia Flickinger
was pianist.
The Hopi Buffalo dances were an.
] other main attraction and were we'll
1 patronized. There were 20 richly
! costumed Indians in these.
| The wild man" Mortified thoas-
! ands. He was chap who had just
/ blown in here following his discharge
/ from the navy, and he did good job.
/ He sure was wild. DR.. Vaughn Me-
I Guire and DR.. Felix Manning had
! charge of him, it being necessary to
have specialists in human ailments
/ handy to patch up the people the wild
man mutilated. Monday night, just
/ as the big show was winding up, he
] got away and for several minutes
dashed about through the crowd, DR..
Mcclure in hot pursuit, impeded
4 somewhat, however, by having to
vault over the winrows Of women and
/ children who had swooned from fear.
Cactus FRED Russell's gambling
den was thronged at all hours. With
Gene Burrus presiding st the bar and
! X. j. Nackard cashier, these others
helped to mulct those hardy enough
/ to try to beat some of the various
games Of chance: Billy Robinson, in
4 charge of roulette wheel, Clawham-
mer Clancy with the stud poker ia
i Bile, Frank Ewes at another roulette
4 wheel, Dolph Bassett dealing faro and
Earl Garroutte at the crap table.
/ In one corner of the "den"-the big
new partially completed garage annex
4 Joe Waldhaus is building -old-time
fiddlers took turns playing the old
dance tunes, while all who wished
tried the almost-forgotten dances on
a small floor that had been laid in
that corner. Those competing in the
fiddlefs' contest were Mrs. A. S. Ruth
of Tolleson, formerly Viola Hopen Of
Pinedale; John r. Lyons of Miami,
member Of the seventh Arizona legis-
/ lature, and Jess B. Hill of Claypool.
Mrs Ruth was awarded the prize, $50
cash.
Dean Eldredge conducted the curl
osity shop, a museum in which many
I of the remarkable exhibits were en-
tered by Dean himself. There were
fowls with too many legs, lambs with
two heads and most as many legs as
a centipede, and many other freaks,
as we'll as numerous specimens of
Deans fine taxidermy.
4 The big dance pavilion, managed
by jim Tillnan, with Doc Williams
/ fine orchestra all rugged out as cow
boys, did land-office businesses
Bert Fair handled the "chuck-wag-
on Hugh Tillman the hot dog
stand, Marvin Leamon the ice-cream
T booth, Jack Fuss and Paul Morton
/ the Hopi dances, Jack Mitchell the
/ trading post, Francis Decker the ham
+ and bacon booth, Cecil DeVaney and
/ H. p. Cram the doll booth, Alex
Johnston the blanket booth, Mr..
/ Monoravie the candy booth, Ira
/ Dougherty the balloons, Frank Sufea
| tie Spanish kitchen, Loren Cress the
busy aluminum-keno booth. X X.
+ Henness the Studebaker chances, Ray
( Prochnow the jingle board. Tom
Rees, Teddy Spencer and others took
turns at the general admission gate.
/ Everybody worked willingly and
most of them faithfully, the hard
est and most tedious job of all being
taken care Of by the finance commit
j tee in charge of the bank where
all cashing in and checking was done.
i This committee when the show ended
still had a lot of hard work to do in
! settling bills and making a general
eheck-up of finances. Fred Brown
ing is chairman, the other members
/ being Clarence t. Pulliam, <. j. Mac
kard, Frank Goodman, Robert Pow
4 ers and Paul Babbitt.
There were baseball games on the
afternoons of the fourth and fifth,
both between Flagstaff and Kingman,
the visitors winning both games, the
first 7 to and the last 81.
4 In Saturday nights boxing Frank
/ ie Dugan got the decision over Lee
/ Anderson in the main go. Monday
afternoon, Turk Way and Young
Monte put on four-round exhibit
/ tion with some clever taking by
4 Turk. In the main bout, Tony Cos
/ tillo of Winslow, an old-time heavy
who has been in many a hard battle,
quit in the second claiming he had
seriously hurt his right forearm.
/ What had hurt him most, apparently,
were the terrific punches Johnson had
put on his stomach and kidneys. The
| latter, from Minneapolis, said he was
1 just Swede lumberjaek. He weigh
ed % pounds less than Costello, but
he had more poundage in his fists
/ Young Suthro of Flagstaff and Val
don, the Phoenix welter, wound up
the show with what was charitably
4 announced to be four-round exhibit
ton. AS fighters both are good,
] though Valdon is too experienced for
4 the Flagstaff kid; but as exhibitors"
both were hardly as much as what
j hoss-fly leaves when you make a
healthy swipe at him. The fights
were managed by Logan Champ Of
Phoenix and refereed by Charles
Riggio.
It is believed that the net receipts
! from this years celebration ran
little under last year. But the Elks
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