by W. C. Tuttle
In the rough-and-ready town of Piperock, a newly formed Chamber of Commerce sets out to prove that civilization has finally arrived on the frontier. With a secondhand menagerie, a pageant of progress, and a rivalry with neighboring Paradise, civic pride soon becomes a comic trial of nerves for Ike Harper and Dirty Shirt Jones. Told in a lively vernacular voice, this Western farce captures the absurd collision of frontier bravado, small-town ambition, and the unpredictable march of modernity.
Transcribed from Adventure, June 10, 1925 (The Ridgway Company).