Life — July 12, 1928 — page 21: what you’re looking at

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RACKET ! car | STORE - eke || | 29 mi | a ee Sa eos NEIGHBORHOOD New York Crops are late around here, the corn look- ing quite puny. ***Ogden Reid of here says he thinks Hoover will be elected. ***Several New Yorkers who are abroad such as Harpo Marx and Alice Duer Miller will celebrate Bastile Day Saturday. ***Rollin Kirby and Paul Palmer are up in the State of Maine, also Charles D. Gibson and Cy Curtis. ***Mr. and Mrs. Efrem Zimbalist are spending the month of July at Kamp Good Gluck, New Hartford, Conn. & If you don’t see your name here this week, the chances are you never will. Ah there, N—] O'H—ra! ***Quite a lot of interest is being taken in the forthcoming fistic encounter, none of it by ye scribe. ***Roark Bradford whose book ‘Ol’ Man Adams an’ His Chillun” is the best book we have read this summer was a N.Y. visitor from New Orleans recently he having come to call on the trade. ***Laurence Stallings was driving his new high powered car up in Connecticut last Wednesday and was forced to stop while a bunch of swine was crossing the road. “Ha,” said L. S., who likes a joke even when it is on him, “The Pig Parade.”” Franklin P. Adams. Denver Waite watching the ball game at Twenty-third and Welton last Sunday we asked several parties if Tommy Guinan’s sister, Texas, would be home this sum- mer. Understand Texas is doing social service work, ***Our fellow townsman Henry M. Blackmer is in Europe at this writing. “The class reunion of East Denver High School was marred by Ernest Truex and Douglas Fairbanks not being present to water the class tree, which is an elm. ***Right around Father’s Day there was a vacant week hit us about the middle of the month which the Chamber of Com- merce filled in as Achievement Week, calling attention to Denver's many fine achievements, including deepening the harbor at Galveston and reviving mining. me W.L. Petrikin is talking some of buying a horse. Don't let "em fox you on the price, Squire, say we. ***Thanks to being rescued from the “Titanic,” Mrs. J. J. Brown has opened a memorial to Eugene Field and read many of his poems in public. T. H. Ferril. Pittsburgh Harry Tuaw, the local boy, was not a visitor to England recently. **°The editor wishes to regret that we cannot announce as promised the number of vehicles which have thus far crossed the new Liberty Bridge, because of Thurs- day’s rain. **°°The Gotham correspondent is here- by warned that Milton D. (Dance) Crandall, who put on the big N. Y. dance marathon, is a Pittsburgh boy. & Mentioning no names, unless certain subscribers pay their back dues, they will soon have to depend on Pathé News for information. ***Mayor Kline fired his chauffeur because he (the latter) wrecked the city limousine. The front left fender was twisted and there was no insurance. ***Everybody is talking about the tough luck of Bishop McConnell, the well- known Methodist, who was shunted off to New York. William Pfarr. Detroit A arce six-cylinder car was found by the police one morning half way in and half way out of the window of a depart- ment store. This is an unusual place for a car to be, the detective in charge of the case said. && The new and commodious addition to the state prison is open now, and nice quiet boys who come well recommended will be taken in from 1 year to 99 all found, Warden Jackson says.—Advt. NEWS ***Chet Shafer, Grand Diapason of the Guild of Former Pipe Organ Pumpers, was greeting friends on and about the square last week. Chet has vowed to buy a new hat in 1932, if a Democratic presi- dent is elected in that year, we are cred- ibly informed. ***Dr. Haldor Barnes, our rising young physician, expects to while away the sum- mer hours with Dick Byrd and a select company at the So. Pole and vicinity next year, weather permitting. ***The new Penobscot, Fisher and Union Trust Bldgs. are attracting much notice from visitors. They would reflect credit on a town twice this size, a celery drum- mer from Kalamazoo told one of our leading merchants yesterday. ***A regular goose-drownder fell Monday morning, wetting the ground to a depth of two inches, which will sure be a toe thing for the golf courses. ***Mortimer E. Cooley, long Dean of the U. of M. engineering college, having re- tired, old grads returning to Ann Arbor will find Dean Sadler running the engines there from now on, ‘tis rumored. Elmer C. Adams. Boston C. Coottnce and family, formerly of here, are spending the summer at Brule, Wis. ***The Braves have decided not to win the pennant this season and have taken down the left field bleachers as an evi- dence of good faith. «% The Scars-Roebuck catalogue has ar- rived in town. It contains many items of interest, from absorbent cotton to zithers. ***Robt. Choate has fired himself as Washington correspondent and made himself an editor of the Herald to get jaway from the heat. ***The Eastern Steamship Company, which recently had a $50-a-week clerk steal $600,000 on them, reports none of their boats is missing in the check-up. ***Most of our hotels are not putting up any awnings this summer, so there is practically no incentive to throw lighted cigarette butts out the window. comicbooks.com