The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-01-30
ON, SECOND THOUGHT
BY JAY E. HOUSE
lFrom Philadelphia Public LedgerJ

The News of Shaw and Vicinity.
From the Shaw Starsand Argus.
The Woman's Political League of
Shaw will have its annual dinner IN
kMcInteer hall next Tuesday night.
While there are a number of oStensi-
bic members. the Woman's Political
League consists of Mrs. Mehitaole
Gossett and Mrs. Matte Caplan Breen.
Mrs. Gossett got into politics because
! she hates County Clerk Henry Pavey
and wants TO beat him next time he
runs. Mrs. Breen got in because she
had nothing else to do.
Everybody has quit talking about
Judith Something's grand party, ex-
cept the clerks at the Cash-and- Garry
department store. The week after the
party. Ed Stoneking, father of Judith
1 and proprietor of the Cash and Garry,
cut the salaries of all his employees
| 10 per cent.
Henry Linthicum was in town Satur
day, ostensibly to have his boots half
soled at the Little Gem Shoe shop.
/ But the real object of Henrys visit
was to express his opinion of Eugene
| V. Debs to larger and less sophisti
Gated audience. Henry has talked so
much about Debs that his neighbors
| out on Crazy Creek run when they see
him coming.
1t is the opinion of Star and Argus
rand many others with whom its re-
! porters have discussed the matter that
Leonidas Cans talks too much about
woodrow Wilson The boys have be-
gun to call him "TYpulty."
Dewey Cradle and Ida Selby were
married last week. The boys who
went away to the Spanish-American
war are beginning to grow old.
Monday the sheriff took Ed Cash
bone to the state hospital for the in
sane. Mr.. Casibone had become so
violent that his family thought it best
to place him under restraint. He
went crazy trying to think of the name
of the Indiana man Lizzie Overbay,
4 formerly of the Pigeon Milk neigh
ii borhood, married. Mr.. Casibone lived
in the Pigeon Milk neighborhood at
the time and knew the Overbay family
we'll; Re attended the wedding. He
started trying to think of it one night
in Bragg's store. In three days he
had lost his mind.
The tragic thing about the CasibonS
case is that Jim Yallack, who also
lived in the Pigeon Milk neighborhood
finally thought of the fellows name
it was White. But by the time jim
remembered it Ed was so crazy III
couldn't understand what they Wer'
trying to tell him.
Oscar Hughson made great hit
the farmers meeting at the State Cap
ital last week with his story abou
shipping a carload of cattle to marke
and receiving less in payment for tn
load than the amount of the freigll
charges. Oscar Hughson is an intelli
gent market gardener and a good citi
zen, but the only carload of cattle h
. ever owned was the Jersey heifer hi
father-in-law gave Mrs. Hughsol
when Oscar and she were married. .
A good many of the best stories ar
like that.
The women are shifting about Ger
aldine Paulen's fur coat. They re
member she went riding with a travel
ing man one evening last summer. an
they say it is mighty funny when gil
who works for $12 a week in tn
Glover Leaf Department store buys
, fur-coat. The Star and Argus ca
tell them how Geraldine got it. Sh
fhad $40 saved up;- she obligated her
, self to pay the remainder of, the pur
chase price in sixteen monthly install
ments of $40 each.
t The subject at the Diadem Motto
Picture theater this week is "Wha
= Men Want" But it isn't what yO
! think it is. The title is sucker bal
1 and most everybody in Shaw will swal
S low the hook before the week is ovel
= Eph Link says he never heard of tn
t Crime of 10" and Josh Bartlett
: wants to chase him out of town. Jos
I says he doesn't mind being insulte
] when he tries to talk to a man; he
= used to that But ne says ne Jus
E can't stand plain ignorance.
, Jake Hemans says the only remed
for the present depression is single ia,
: Whatever one may think of Jake
o opinion, it has the merit of being un
prejudiced. He~wouldn't have to pa
k anything either way.
r The community has just learned c
the disappointment suffered by Ever
t Hinkson at Christmas time. Evers
= naturally close mouthed, but his VIII
h talks enough for both of them, an
s 80 the story finally leaked out.
4 seems that just before Christina
Evers received a postcard from hi
= cousin, Andy McGill, saying he Nigh
expect something nice for Christmas
Since Mrs. McGill raises a good man
n turkeys Evers thought the McGill
n were going to send him one. Blu
: when the present came it was a grou
= photograph of the McGill family. Sine
e the McGills have a family of min