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City To A llow Sale of Fireworks In StoresBaseball Diamond Will Be Called ‘Tine BowP, According to Vote of CouncilColored Man Ii Seriously ShotOllie Gardner, colored is in the county jail, charged with shooting James Riley, his brother-in-lawwith a shot gun.Riley is in the Aiken county hospital in a serious condition.Gardner surrendered to the sheriff. The shooting took placenear Wagener where Gardner lives. Riley’s home is in Florida.The City Council in regular session Monday repealed the ordinance which prohibited the sale of fireworks in the city of Aiken and voted to permit the stores to sell fireworks in the stores, hutnot from stands on the streets.After hearing a complaint from _.—the Valley Coaches, Inc., which company operates a bus line between Aiken and the Valley and Augusta, to the effect that taxis were interfering with their established schedules, the council voted not to issue licenses to taxis to be operated to and from Aiken. #A letter from MeCleskey Garlych was read, which letter requested council to officially approve the name “Pino Bowl” to be used in connection with the baseball playing field in Eustis Park. The letter stated that the suggestion had in no way anything to do with the eh^ngiryg of the, name “Eustis Park, or any part of such property, but referred to that part of the baseball diamond, enclosed with a fence,” “During the spring when the Orioles* are practicing here there will be much publicity in the sports sections of all northern and eastern metropolitan papers. With this word “Pine Bowl” used by the writers in all theircopy it would at all time make the City of Aiken svnonomous of the pine tree, for which the resort is famous;” said the letter.Council voted to officially name the diamond “Pine Bowl” provid-in that it in no way interfered vith the name Eustis Park.An ordinance was passed in re-‘YOU CAN’T TAKE IT WITH YOU’m—mmmmmmmmmammmmmmmrnTo be Presented by the Aiken Littie Theatre“You C an't Take It •W ith A ou,which recently completed a successful run for nearly 400 pertor-mances on Broadway, will be the first production by the Aiken Little Theatre some time in January. After a careful study of many suggested plays. Mrs. M. A. Wilder and Miss Florence Eppes of the play reading committee announced this decision at the per-
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Aiken Standard and Review
Aiken, South Carolina, US
Fri, Dec 15, 1939
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