Thursday, September 22, 2016

Some Martin, Shaw Genealogy, Galena, Kan.

FAMILY REUNION AT GALENA Galena, Kan., Aug. 25.—A family reunion was held at the home of Mrs. A. J. Shaw, 801 Chicago avenue, Sunday. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. Earl Lane of Richmond, Calif.; Mrs. Nancy Lane of Henrietta, Okla.; Mr. and Mrs. William Lane and son of Picher, Okla.; Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Shaw of Joplin; Mr. and Mrs. Jim Shaw and sons, Tack and James Gale; Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Overstreet and children; Mr. and Mrs. Ross Shaw and son, Claire; Mr. and Mrs. Jess Shaw; Mr. and Mrs. George Shaw and son, George Jr., and daughter, Colleen; Mrs. Maude Montgomery and daughter, Billie Jane, and Mrs. A. J. Shaw and daughter, Mildred.
August 26, 1924, Pg. 3, Joplin Globe
[Mrs. George Shaw was my aunt, Sarah Ohnes Martin]
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Ada Jean (Killian, Killion) Shaw was granted a divorce from George M. "Junior" Shaw in August 1944, in the Galena division of district court. Also, at the same time, one of my father's drinking buddies and his wife also split the sheets, Leatha Joe Noe was granted a divorce from Donald L. Noe. As for Ada Jean and George M., all seemed okay earlier in the year when Ada Jean, their son Gary Gene, and George's mother, Ohnes (Martin) Shaw trekked to George's bedside where the U.S. Army lieutenant was hospitalized at McCloskey General Army Hospital in Temple, Tex. Not long after, when Ada Jean and entourage returned to Galena, PFC Paul Gust and wife Betty (Shaw), and young daughter, Betty Jean, residing in El Paso, Tex., visited in Galena with Betty's parents, George F. and Ohnes (Martin) Shaw, and Paul's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Emmett Gust, Crestline.

Saturday, August 06, 2016

WITHROW AND KUHARSKY MUCK UP OUR LANGUAGE




104.5 THE ZONE NEEDS TO AVOID ASPECTS OF GRAMMAR
    For myself it is quite apparent that Tennessee’s education system is totally clueless when it comes to basic grammar instruction. No teacher in the state has ever instructed a student about short vowels. Only long vowels exists. That helps to explain how when I was grading TCAP essays years ago that the simple two-letter word "on" was often spelled "own." That's how Tennessee-grown adults speak.
   So, when Tennessee born and raised Chad Withrow delved into a grammar area during midweek I knew he was headed for trouble. He didn't let me down. The eternal sophomore with the annoying and never-ending spiel addressed how the Tennessee city of Milan is pronounced differently here than it is in its namesake city in Italy. Of course it is. The vowel "i" in "Milan" is going to be long in Tennessee whether it is supposed to be or not. Worse, he mispronounced the word "Italian" in pointing out the Milan disparity. This particular mispronunciation of the word "Italian" or "Italy" is so common a mistake you can usually find it in top ten lists pertaining to such matters. In fact, "ahy-tal-yuh n" is heard primarily from uneducated speakers and many Italians find such a pronunciation offensive.
   Withrow's sidekick, Paul Kuharsky, who suffers from delusions of adequacy, made some sort of comment about his proficiency in such matters, completely missing the "Italian" slip-up, all of which added up to a classic show of inefficiency. It's true, incompetent people do not know they are incompetent.


Sunday, July 31, 2016

TITAN PRAYBOOK



TITAN FEELING THE HEAT, SOCCER UPGRADE PLAN UNVEILED
  
HUNTER SEASON MAY BE OVER
The longer the Tennessee Titans have Justin Hunter in tow the longer the inept wide receiver prolongs his destiny: as another Titans castoff shuffled off to Jeff Fisher and the Rams. It’s likely he would already be adjusting to the smog in Los Angeles if not for getting shelved due to an injury last season.
TITANS TREATMENT OF MARIOTA BORDERS ON THE CRIMINAL
   Get this man some receivers. Here are the facts, the Tennessee Titans during the preceding two seasons, 2013-14 and 2014-15, were one of the worst football teams in the history of the NFL.  I would say in the top ten worst all-time without even looking up the statistics to prove such. Sure, that illuminates how they have many needs to fill to improve substantially. But is this, the current crop of receivers, really the best the Titans brass can do in supplying their prize young quarterback, Marcus Mariota, reliable route runners and pass catchers? He's a sleek and ready Lear jet with no flight path.
ANSWER TO HOW AMERICAN CAN BECOME SOCCER ELITE
   It’s not our sport.  Let’s stop there. The reasons are many why our top America soccer teams are not on par with the world’s elite soccer teams, why there appears to be little progress year after year in fielding a topnotch unit of soccer players. It’s a favorite topic of debate for radio sports talk shows around the nation in looking for ways to fill airtime. The answer is simple, and never has the answer been broached before, not until now. Field a team of black players. That’s right, get black youths involved somehow, someway, and in due time America will be great in soccer the world over. It has worked superbly in the NFL and in the NBA. See, that wasn’t so difficult to figure out now, was it?

Wednesday, July 20, 2016

2016 Tennessee Titans Welcome New Season


2016 Tennessee Titans as seen from crow's nest, me being the crow.

Season finish: 8-8 optimum, 6-10 more likely

Biggest deficit: No receivers
Biggest asset: Delanie Walker

COMEDY TIME RERUNS COMING UP
In observing 60-plus years of pro football, Dorial Green-Beckham is the worst receiver I have ever seen. Don't rattle off his stats to me. Those were balls he somehow managed to catch. It's the ones he didn't catch, and how he looked in not catching them, that remain real headscratchers. It's not so much that he failed to haul them in as it is how he reacted to the throws. A receiver is supposed to always be looking for the ball, no matter what play was called. You run your specified route, make the look, and assume it is coming to you every time. But he, with the pretentious hyphenated surname, looked like someone new to the sport just pulled off the streets. And they call it professional football.

PERISH THE THOUGHT?
How can Perrish Cox even be on the team? The guy did not even attempt to tackle a runner going into the end zone in a game last year. It's as if it never happened. He should have been gone before the next sunrise.

TAYLOR UNMADE
Taylor Lewan. His name comes up sometimes regarding whether or not he might be moved to right tackle, creating the assumption he would be all right playing tackle on the right side in lieu of the left. I am not one to make that assumption. Too many bad things happen on his left side. I am not sure he would be even adequate at any position on the offensive line.

IT'S YOUR RECESSIVE GENES, CHIEF
The obnoxious, arrogant, and on the wrong side of everything -- okay, I should just cut to the chase and say Yankee -- Paul Kuharsky, recently said on 104.5 The Sports Zone, after admitting having trouble reading the small print on his computer, "I don't want to show my age," meaning he did not want to pull out his eyeglasses. That's not an age issue Chief, it's a vanity issue. With Kuharsky though it's not either. It pertains more to his recessive genes: bald early, needs eyeglasses, probably hard of hearing as well.