Show 1 w S r The spectacle of a crowd of young r rowdies scuffling sculling on the sidewalks inthe in inthe f. f the business district on Sunday af afternoons afternoons after after- ter- ter is a disgrace to the town an and 5 should he bp st stopped snapped at once If it If-it it f was permissible it surely in iA not ati at i present present present-Ephraim Ephraim has passed be beyond y- y the status Considerable comment vas was occasioned shortly after I I the completion Of tho new new sidewalks I when some of ot the tho city city- cit officers arrested ted on complaint of f severa several young men for obstructing the l side side- de- de walks It appears that the officer were attending to business whet they t y were arrested but it cannot be bo urged that the rowdies who crowd law abid abidIng Ing off the sidewalks are arc arca a t- t performing any other duty duLy than that tha l' l w which they seem to assume making assume making king s themselves obnoxious to say the th least leas t. t r rz f z A case in point took place last Sunt Sunda Sun Sun- t u da day da when two elderly lad ladies es were wei S compelled to yield the sidewalk to fur four strapping youngsters who h were e scuffling It is f fortunate for such ouch l' l ruffians that they usually deal with wit 1 ladies and gentlemen who are Ire r nor tor e n intent observing on tho the ordinance s tr than on enforcing th them m. m Otherwise t there ere mig might be some painful colli ns And Aad perhaps a few such sach collision w. w would uld have bave a beneficent influence e. e There is is' is still another thi thing g tha hat t A y might ight help matt matters rs m These usually gather in m front of one cue or or tw two lO of tb hi l ai it t ithe I he proprietors ors r-ors r would diner r a a. P I protect against the a assembling of tho the afore aCor aforesaid Jr said you young young i men the they would thereby end a disgraceful condition of affairs affairs and merit the everlasting gratitude of J a lon suffering long su crin public r |