The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-04
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tFrom Philadelphia Public Ledssf.1
The News of Shaw and vicinity.


From the Shaw Star and Argus
Bill Ransom says IL he were presi-
dent he could put stop to the coal
and rail strike in a week. But running
| the country is neither the extent nor
the limit of Bills capabilities.' The
cut since May. He could cut it in
ten minutes. One of the hinges on
the screen door on his back porch has
been loose for months. He could fix
| it in five minutes
What this country needs is more
| Bill Ransoms.
Mr.. and Mrs. Pete BoIes have re-
turned from their motor trip to Chi
cago and Intervening points well fed
up on sightseeing. In Chicago they
building, the stockyards and Lake
Michigan. But PETE says the thing
he liked best and enjoyed most was
| the ten-cent. store. He visited it three
times. and would have gone again had
he had little more time at his dis
posal.
Boyd Pellew won $500 in the poker
game at the Peace and Amity club
Saturday night. Screw" Hooper. who
banked the game, says $3.50 of it was
in money.
All records for Shaw and vicinity
were broken Friday evening when Ert
Waddle hauled fourteen persons to
the swimming home in his Henry car.
! The previous record was held by Hank
Pong. who in the fall of 1919 put
| eleven persons in his Henry and took
them to a dance at Trotters Ford.
There is some talk of organizing a
country club. The Star and Argus
suggests that it be located on the va
cant lot next to the Clover Leaf de-
partment store. There Is ample room
on the lot for every loafer in Shaw,
and it is not more than a three-minute
walk distant from the outskirts of
town in any direction.
If we are going to have a country
Club, 1T is important that it be CEN
trally located.
Miss Mamie Waddle. who has just
returned from a visit to school friend
in the East, got her skirts muddy
walking downtown after the rain yes
terday morning. It's long time since
anybody in this town wore a skirt
long enough to draggle in the mud
Evans Pellew, who has been stand
, ing at the corner of Main and Fourth
streets since 1893. has formed CO.
partnership with Jim Poag. who har
nothing to do either.
Shaws Annual Street Fair and
Jubilee will be held next week, be-
ginning Monday noon and closing Sat
urday night. No issue of the Star and
Argus will appear during that time
1
Ialrs and jubilees held since 1903
Nothing worth printing has happened
yet. and it is unlikely that anything
} will happen.
: Bud Deagle's vacation is over Mrs
beagle, who had been visiting he,
: mother in GriEsby City, got HON,
Thursday night.
e editor and wife called on Slim
Possett and wife Thursday evening
Later in the evening We editor ant
wife took Slim riding their car, bu
. Mrs. Possett had no boudoir cap ant
5 couldn't go.
Orm Petty, who quit-his job in Nc
Garrigle's drug store in 1897, is still
out. Orm says hell-win the strike
yet.
Her friends in Shaw and elsewher,
1 viii regret to learn that Miss Ora Pei
lew is down with nervous prostratior
!. and that the physicians in attendant,
have ordered that she be sent to
sanatorium. Miss Pellew took care Of
Mrs. Ed. McRafferty's two children
while the latter attended the weddin,
! last week and collapsed under tn,
strain.
The argument about daylight savini
! which has been going On in front o.
McGarrtgle's drug store all sumne
was interrupted several times las
week.
So much that is exciting goes on II
this town that it is almost impossibl,
to keep up q continuous argumen
about anything.
The debate at the Crimson Rambler
meat market on the question whether
it is better to be a barber, than it is Il
be a detective was called a draw b,
the referee. Some contend that Pit
Willing, who was for the BARRIERS
had all the best of it
L, l.
a visit to her sister in Kansas City
I. has a fine new line of talk about auc
ton bridge.
Miss Susie Pedeau, who has re.
; turned to her home in Memphis after
) a visit with Miss Guss.e Folsom, Ger.
: tainly left her imprint on this com.
munity. Pretty nearly every girl In