Life — July 26, 1928 — page 18: what you’re looking at

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*°°H. Firestone of Akron and sons visited here recently. They talked some about Hoover and tires. Harve says he would like to vacation here this year if Henr Ford and Tom Edison will come wit him, which we think they won't. ***Lots of conventions are being held here with extra-territorial sessions in Victoria, B. C. The Reps. and Dems. are at each other’s throats as usual, Some mud is being thrown but most of it is the in- your-cye kind, we observe. **°Ted Hatch, president of our Chamb. of Com., delivered another Welcome to Seattle speech last week, Ted says he’s made so many that he can do it without looking at his cuff once, now. ***The new Seattle Airport has been named Boeing Field after Bill Boeing the home town boy who has run the trans- continental air mail for a year without reading a post card. Hal Burdick. Kansas City True to ye cd's steadfast prediction after all others had despaired, summer arrived in our midst this month. **°A couple of bob-haired girls hiking from N. Y. to Calif. were put off a train here the other day. **°Will Rogers, our favorite candidate for Pres., who was a prominent figure at the natl. convention here and at Houston, stayed over a day between conventions and gave a benefit for the family of “Happy” Smith, a brave policeman who was Wied by bank robbers here during the convention. Will didn’t hurt his chances by this kind act, either, is our opinion. *°*Opal Hill of our town beat Miriam Burns Horn, the Nat'l champion, also of our town, for the Trans-Mississippi golf title for ladies at Minneapolis, and look out for another good match between these 2 in Virginia in Sept., when the-national tournament is played, is our tip. «% The new yellow paint on the fire plugs makes it difficult for anyone to park near one and get away with it, except yellow taxis. **°Parson Bill Stidger, who played host to Sinclair (Red) Lewis, when Red was here getting dope for “Elmer Gantry,” has accepted a call to Boston, Mass. ***Lawyer Jim Reed announces that he will support the ticket nominated at Houston, and will doubtless take the stump against the Hoover ticket. Jim flings a mean aspersion when he is right. C. H. Thompson. Boston Mosguttoes are in season, ***Ab Lowell is enjoying a three months’ vacation from his job as president of Harvard. He is spending it riding around Cataumet on a bicycle, although he could afford an automobile. That bicycle stuff is probably just a blind to keep this year’s crop of seniors from trying to sell him bonds. ***Several Massachusetts boys will enter West Point this fall to study to be Roxy ushers. u> Essence of juniper is enjoying a nice sale at drug stores this season. ***Excursions are being run this sum- mer to let out-of-towners see Plymouth Rock. What the railroads won't think up next is beyond us. ***John F. Fitzgerald, the popular song plugger who put “Sweet Adeline” on its feet, is already on his second straw hat of the season—both new. ***Joe Toye of the Traveler wrote a piece the other day about an actor dying with- out saying the curtain had rung down on the deceased for the last time. There ought to be some kind of Pulitzer prize for novelty writing like this. Neal O'Hara. Newport Most folks here are of the opinion that at least two of the statues proposed for erection on the Mount Hope Toll Bridge, which will be finished come next July (1929), ought to be of Herb Smith, our popular meat market prop. and chairman of the Chamber of Commerce, and Art Sherman. Herb thought up the original idea of the bridge and Art draws a con- siderable salary as chairman of the Bridge Commission, as well as having been one of the Republican senators who eloped to Rutland, Mass., when the famous Democratic gas bomb went off in the Senate Chamber. « Outboard motors are popular with the younger set this season. ***Only two schooners on Rum Row, so far, reports Ed, our society bootlegger, who can remember the day when there were sixty at this time of year. Although the Coast Guard makes things hot for Ed he says they are square shooters. **°As a result of the efforts of “Fifi” Widener, Muriel Vanderbilt Church and others of the younger generation the ba at Bailey's Beach and Le Newport Casing have been let down this summer so th “men and women of good character,” 35 well as folks prominent in society, are being admitted to these formerly exclusize jeccas. ™ Lloyd Mayer Detroit We wish to correct a statement appear in these columns in a recent issue tut Chet Shafer would buy a new hat in 193. Chet says he has no such intention. **°A new bridge and tunnel, over anj under the river respectively, will be fin- ished within the year, it being a vey popular trip to Canada for those on bus- ness and etc, bent. ua News items are scarce this week, 3s nearly everyone is busy going on yaa tion, getting blown up with bombs, being married and so on. ***Our hustling Prohibition agent is charged with smashing up a blind fig, but we are told the case against him wil not be pressed. “I do not believe be would have done it if he had been sober,” the owner of the place said. ***Henry Ford bought an old-fashioned horse car in New York, but is working at home on a gas wagon which he ex to ride in mostly, ‘tis said. Besides being a smart farmer and mechanic Henry s a regular bear at dancing. ***Miss Sheba, the flapper elephant, at home to many callers of the youthful persuasion at her country place on te island these summer days. Elmer C, Adams. San Francisco Rev. Cuauncey J. Hawkins delivered at interesting sermon on “Sex” recently. *°*Mr. Harry Lyon and Mr. James Wa ner are expected back soon from Austral where they went on a recent business tp via Hawaii and Suva. *°*Some scoundrel dented the left ret fender of Reed Hayes’ snappy Wintos last week. Mr. Hayes was able to giv Policeman Gus Reaer a good descriptoa of the fiend. *°°Mr. Idwal Jones, who writes pieces for the exclusive American Mercury and & over in fashionable Europe, is report to have bought himself a Schnauze Pinscher, but we don’t know if it is? sedan or a coupé. **°Mrs. Elizabeth Hayes (no relation ® comicbooks.com WwW