Life — July 26, 1928 — page 17: what you’re looking at

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Se eEE Leet FR SSS ZEST NSS SST OS NRO EESTI NEIGHBORHOOD Philadelphia A creat many of our young swells are much put out, Miss Norma Gray having married an Englishman, Mr. Christopher Kemball, and is now honeymooning with same. ***Horace Wiggins, popular and enter- prising mine host at the Benjamin Frank- lin, was cited officially by the Bureau of Aeronautics recently for his air guidepost on the roof directing wayward aviators to our airport. Times can’t get too modern for you, Horace! & Fircflics are being seen these eve- nings hereabouts. **Public Library officials wish to state that the original copy of “Alice in Won- derland,” on view there, is not for loan. "Ye scribe wishes to answer the recent sur against the fair name of our town, i.e. that a store window here still bears the sign “Food Will Win the War.” This sign is in a Chinese French hand laundry, and there is a right good-sized war in the hundryman’s country, as any educated person will tell you. ***Men are at work hundreds of feet up, repairing the hat on William Penn's satue, atop City Hall. Those boys are our idea of Mad Hatters. John Forbes. Chicago Mr. Joun Hertz, who has several extra radiator caps, is thinking about buying some more cars to put them on. ***Some of the men over at Swift & Co. butchered a hog yesterday. ***Doc Kegel, our popular health com- missioner, is busy investigating our orange juice stands. Doc thinks he ought to fix a legal limit on the no. of bbls. of orange juice that can be manufactured from one orange, © Hip flasks are now on sale at the tencent store.—Advt. “Talk of building a subway is again being heard here. Ye ed bets if they ever get this thing dug it won't be long before the White Sox are in it. ***Local florists are complaining of busi- ness being sort of dull, due to none of our big gangsters being buried recently. Asia Kagowan, Cleveland Vacations are the order of the day. *°°The Van Sweringen boys were East on a business trip recently. fany of our fellow-townsmen are loud in their praises of “Johnny” Risko, the Cleveland pugilist or “prize fighter” as some call him, experts predicting that he will meet the winner of the Tunney- Heeney “go.” «* Not many on the sick list at this writing. ***Carmi Thompson, our able ex-candi- date, has retired from the senatorial race, he having retired from so many of the same that it does not bother him much any more, ***Newt” Baker gives it out as his opinion that “Al” Smith will win, and “Newet’ is often right. ***Mr. Woolworth has opened his new emporium at the E. 105 St. corners and there is every prospect that the venture will be a success, he being well liked by many of our local shoppers. Sce his adv. ***Yc scribe heartily agrees with ye Editor anent his choice for the presidency, Our ticket: For President, Will Rogers; for Governor of Ohio, Pete Witt. **°Your correspondent took our vaca- tion as usual on Cape Cod and enjoyed many a fine dip in the “briny.” But after all there is no body of water more beautiful than good old Lake Erie though it is too dirty to swim in on acc. of the sewer. © Bring in your items if you want to see them in print. We can not get around to everybody every week. Ted Robinson. Houston Tue stockrnes or bare legs for chorus girls controversy which has been raging in our fair city for some time culminated NEWS in a committee of business men being appointed to attend a bare-legged show and tell the public just how outrageous it was. Ye scribe was invited to accom- pany the committee, but the move failed of its purpose because the members of the committee forgot what they were there for and had a good time. ***Our well-known citizens, Jesse H. Jones, W. W. Fondren and J. M. West, each gave $50,000 to St. Paul’s Methodist Church the other day. Everyone is won- dering what they have been up to. ***Ye scribe attended a birthday party at the palatial home of Col. (“Colonel” not “colored,” the abbreviation being used to save space) Andrews the other night. Ye scribe wishes the Col. many more of the same, and may we be there. ***Norma Sterling is still pleased with her visit to Sewanee University to attend the social functions which marked the close of the term. Ye scribe asked Norma if it was a girls’ school or a boys’ school, and she said it had always been a boys’ school previous to her visit, but now it is a girl's school, and she knows the girl. © Logan Waterman who was married recently and has been having his wife de- appendicized has got quite fat and strong while he has Been living at restau- rants, *°*Mrs. Forrest Smith has been spending a few weeks in Gotham with her daugh- ters Rosalee and Kathryn. The young ladies are very beautiful and popular and ye scribe is awaiting their return with considerable curiosity, as up to the time of their departure neither of the young ladies had learnt to smoke. Judd Mortimer Lewis. Seattle Qurre a few housewives are putting up fruit and with their husbands, these sum- mer days. **¢*The Karl Kruegers have been in Vienna and places this season where Karl is leading a symphony orchestra and look- ing up new tunes for the town band to play next winter. comicbooks.com