The Coconino sun., 1927-07-29
Grady Gammage and Mart Fronske,

two docs in different spheres, were
shooting golf Monday. 1t was Grady's
second game. He came up to his ball
and found it between two rocks.
s'What shall / take now?" he asked
Mart, meaning what club.
Mart studied the matter very care
fully ''Well," he said, "you have
three alternatives. You might take
me back to town and buy me an ice
cream soda. You might take all your
clubs home and give up golf. Or you
might try THROWN the ball.
Speed Campbell says once when he
proposed to girl he was pretty ex-
cited and he suffered some.
"W-w-w-will you m-m-m- m-marry
m-m-m-me ?" he asked her.
What? Say it again." she said.
"G-g-g- good g-g-gosh," Speed said,
81 s-s-said it t-t-three t-t-times t-t-the
f-f-first t-t-time."
Arch Ude bought hissef new port
able garage last week and set it up in
his back yard. Then he tied his aire-
dale pup in it. Then a cat happened
along. Ever since then Arch's been
lookin' for his new portable garage.
Mayor l. B. Koch telegraphed us
the other day:
''It's great to be alive"
1t took us two minutes to study out
what l. B. meant. You see, he had
just been in Chicago.
Joe Blumberg says he amt 20 young
like he vas vonce. Now after he's
worn a hat couple hours his ears
gets tired.
A style correspondent from Shanghai
Says clothing is getting so danghai,
That it's not a fox pass
For ladies in grass
To go for walk out in Shanghai.
FRANCIS DECKER.
"Speakin' of Ed Whipple as an
undertaken" Dad Compton says, che
sure knows his buries."
Sometimes these astronomers get
all mixed up. Asked Dr. v. M.
Slipher, director of Lowell observa-
tory, what the name of the dog-star
is. and he said it is Sirius. Any feller
what watches the movie news a-tall
knows it's Rin-Tin-Tin.
Manager George Garfield of Hotel
Monte Vista started calling down a
porter for shining a pair of shoes in
the corridor next to one of the guest
rooms, telling him to take them down
stairs. The porter said he couldn't
because the Scotchman who owned
the shoes was a hanging on to the
shoe laces under the door.
Rimmy Jim Giddings writes that
maybe the women's dresses nowadays
don't leave nothin' to the imagination,
but they sure does leave lot to self
control.
Our bootlegger informs us he's right
up to the latest. Now that they've in
vented flexible glass he's a goin' to
sell his hooch in flexible bottles that
when you've emptied you can turn in
side out and lick up the remainder
Folsom Moore of the Bisbee Review,
up here this week, rushed into Ed
Babbitt's garage Tuesday and asked
Walter Bennett if Henry Ford of De-
troit was in town. "Not that / know
Of" Walter said. 'sWhy?"
'I saw his car standing just out
side here" Folsom explained.
Speaking about warts" says AL
Beasley, 81 once had wart on my
toe. But it went away after while.
/ walked so much wart off,
There was young girl named Minta
Who went to the gym in the winta;
She slipped on the floor
And ran into door
Oh, my, how the splinters went intal
HARRY RICHWINE.
Dean Lockwood of the State uni
versity at Rotary last week briefly
described the functions of a dean as
one who does what he can. A scientist,
he said, is zone who knows more and
more of the less and less"