Life — July 5, 1928 — page 27: what you’re looking at

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Spokane We could use a little rain. i) ***Will Heaton, the popular bookseller, reports the sale, for a cash consideration, of a copy of a book called “The Bridge of San Luis Rey.” Will says the book must be a hummer, that being the third or fourth call he has had for it. « Tom Corkery is a candidate for Con- gress. This has happened once or twice fore. ***Independence Day was observed yes- terday with genteel restraint. There was some talk of firing Harry Goetz’s brass cannon, but nothing came of it. ***Colonel Tom Aston and his National Guard boys are back from Amertican Lake, having fought it out on that line without having to take all summer. «7% A party of Los Angeles motor tour- ists drove over from the Coast the other day to find fault with the climate. ***A man wearing a brown derby was seen on Sprague Avenue last Sunday, but he turned out to be a bone-dry Repub- lican from out Camas Prairie way. Stoddard King. Montreal Ernte Le Messurter and wife, ex-Betty Dawes, will be home from their European wedding trip the 14th to keep house on Holton Avenue. NetcHsorHoop News wishes these popular younger settlers the cust’mary health, wealth and happiness. *°*Bud and Lena Stillman were visitors in the city enroute to their little place at Grande Anse. All and sundry remarked Lena’s Paris clothes in which she posed for pictures at the railroad station. U% The stork has been well occupied in these parts since the advent of warm weather. *°°W. H. (Judge) Taft, formerly of the White House, Washington, D. C., U.S. A., is summering at Murray Bay as usual. ***Mons. Leo Dandurand, the popular race track and hockey club operator, fs D the cynosure of all feminine eyes at Laval sur le Lac in his new cream-color golf pants, but Odie Cleghorn says the season 1s young yet. Our money, however, stays on Mr. Dandurand’s trousers. eeeSir Arthur Currie, our popular army commander, college principal and after- dinner speaker, is all better and will be right out on the firing line for the big football games, as per usual. d. Beatty, who is doing pretty well these days in the C. P. R. offices, has a rew summer hat pulled down over his eyes. ***Your cor'sp'nd’nt’s young son, with- out whose invaluable assistance _ these paragraphs could be written in half the time, has gone away for a spell. Leslie Roberts, Minneapolis Mayor Leacn deemed it his sorrowful duty to remove Police Chief Brunskill, saying that the Chief's health is very, very poor. ***Quite a few local residents spent the week-end in our suburb, St. Paul. &% Don't forget the Lawn Party and Card Social given by the Ladies’ Aid of the Gospel Church tonite.—Advt. ***Minneapolis is getting all grown up, what with the 30-story Foshay Tower, the Northwestern National Bank Build- ing, and the 22-story Rand Building, not to mention the new $100,000 organ in our Auditorium, which 10,000 people heard Eddie Dunstedter play not long ago. They don’t make organs too big for Eddie to handle. ***Former Chief of Police Brunskill says he never felt better in his life. Michael Fleming. Chicago Juttus Rosenwato, one of the boys over at Sears and Roebuck, has donated $10,000 to the Hoover campaign fund. Ye scribe also wishes to report the reccipt of fifteen cents to help elect Rogers and is awaiting instructions as to what to do with same. Also what to say in case ques- tioned by the Senate investigating com- mittee, ***Ye ed. is wearing a new straw hat as a result of his old one having come in con- tact with a baseball which had collided with Hack Wilson's bat. Luckily for the baseball, the hat was not on the head at the time. ue VOTE FOR ROGERS!!!!!!—Advt. ***A reward of $25 is being offered for the thief who stole the landscape garden- ing from around the Rock Island station at Brainerd. ***Our bathing beaches are now officially open and in spite of the water being very cool yet our virile young men and women are daily crowding to the lake front with their ukuleles. ***Several public-spirited citizens would like to revive the noble game of fox hunt- ing in our midst. Anyone hearing of a fox please write in. ***A good many of the South Side folks was treated to quite a big surprise when the new bldg. at 64th and Woodlawn turned out to be a cathedral instead of a filling station. «~ UP WITH THE JOLLY ROGERS, Asia Kagowan. Seattle Mayor Bertua K. Lanoes held a regular old-fashioned broom and dust pan house- cleaning before she left office at the ex- piration of her term. It didn’t seem to satisfy Frank Edwards, the new incum- bent, as he did some housecleaning on his own account right after his inauguration. *°*J. Monk Saunders, formerly of here, was in town for the opening of his film play, “Wings.” The literary life is the stuff, said he. ***Quite a few summer tourists have been reported as buying post cards, gaso- line and groceries the last few days. ***By unanimous vote the Cafeteria Owners Association has gone on record as refusing to put signs bearing the motto