Life — August 9, 1928 — page 22: what you’re looking at

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20 LIFE ee right along now, and that they are as popular as ever is evident from the well- filled pews and plate. ***Hermann Oelrichs did not start in his topsail schooner “Cressida” in the ocean race for King Alfonso’s Cup as he had a previous engagement, and Art James did not go in the bark “Aloha,” cither, as his wife had recovered from appendicitis. Lloyd Mayer. Philadelphia May apples are ripening in the glens. ***John C. Martin, the publisher, is wear- ing an imported European tan, which he brought over himself. Welcome home, J.C. ***The Japanese beetles arrived as ex- clusively forecast by ye scribe, and almost broke up a ball game at Shibe Park one afternoon recently, they being poison to our A.’s, and also the umpire. Cures for this pest should be addressed to this de- partment. ***Samuel E. Cavin, 76-year-old lawyer of our town, is spending the month hik- ing through France and England. Better wear out than rust out, ch, Sam! ***Atwater Kent, our town’s enterpris- ing radio manufacturer, accompanied by his charming wife and his lovely daugh- ters, has gone to Sonogee, his palatial home at Bar Harbor, Maine. Our fellow townsman now has two yachts, which if laid end to end, would burn a lot of oil. **°Ed Stotesbury, the town banker, plans to join Mrs. Stotesbury at Bar Harbor this month. *°*Recent visitors to this big little city included Laurence Stallings and Octavus Roy Cohen. Both were warm in their praise of the community. John Forbes. Chicago Quite a few classmates of Amelia Ear- hart are writing letters to the papers these days. *°°A right smart battle is being put up here by our local schoolma’ams for the right to get married, many of them feel- ing that they are row able to support hus- bands. *°°The new Apparel Mart at the south end of the link Fridge will be several feet higher than the Woolworth Tower in N'’Yawk, so as to attract some of the hicks from that village. It will also have | s all the latest improvements, such as run- ning water, lake view and up-to-date ac- commodations for flag-pole sitters. & Gilbert Porter III spent a few min- utes at home yesterday between fishing trips. ***Mrs. John R. Winterbotham, Jr., Miss Peggy Hambleton and Miss Emily Ham- ill, prominent Junior League players, are not skipping any meals these days, they having joined stock companies and now receiving regular weekly salary checks. ***Hot dog stands and the domestic rela- tions court are doing a land-office busi- ness. ***Visit our World's Fair in 1935.— Advt. Asia Kagowan, Portland, Oregon Norman Hackett and Marion Lord, ac- tors from Broadway, have been here lately helping out our local actors in the Heilig Theater. *°°Ray Conway, prominent outdoor en- thusiast, returned from a pleasant auto- mobile tour and reports tourists from al- most all states of the Union working on our detours, both hereabouts and in our sister state. *°°The Willamette River has been suc- cessfully pumped out of the cellar of our fair city—but Sen. Moser thus far has been unable to achieve results on the Port- land baseball team. ***Don and Ray Moe won the annual local brothers’ golf tournament from‘ Frank and Vincent Dolp this year, and now they’ve got to play a third year to decide. Dean Collins, Houston Mrs. Crarence Manrorp is spending the summer at San Marcos. *°°Miss Gertrude Morgan Manford is spending the summer at San Marcos. *°°Hugh Manford is spending the sum- mer at San Marcos. *°*Margaret Schirmer spent the week- end last week with her chum Gertrude Morgan Manford who is summering at San Marcos. *°°Mrs. Edward Joseph Perry who is summering at Junction was the guest of Mrs. Clarence Manford while she was getting her tank filled at San Marcos. Mrs. Manford is spending the summer there. *°*Gertrude Morgan Manford, who is spending the summer at San Marcos, will nd this week end in Houston with her chum Margaret Schirmer. She is pretty well tanned as far as ye scribe can se, but she says that ain’t a circumstance, **°Norma Sterling had her picture in the morning paper not many Sundays ago. It was a good likeness. We knew it was someone we had seen before the min. ute we looked at it. ***Ye scribe had an invite to take his dinners enduring of the summer at the Brazos hotel. Manager Hudson signed the invite and enclosed a schedule of prices, Judd Mortimer Lewis, Cleveland Ovr citizens are all agog over the stand taken by Will Hopkins, our genial and efficient city manager, in reference to the price of gas, the company wishing to raise the rates for the same, and he op- posing it. More power to you, “Bill!” is the sentiment of we consumers. ***Our “movie” theater has created con- siderable favorable comment during the heated spell by placing a sign in front stating that the temperature is twenty de- grees cooler inside. *°°The “flood lights” on the tower of the new depot have been turned on durin several nights when the moon was dak and Mr. Haas of Nela Park claims that the sight is unexcelled in other cities and even in New York. Flo” Allen, our lady Supreme Court judge, made a speech not long since, her theme being ‘Back to the Constitution.” She gave it as her opinion that no indi- vidual, however powerful, has a right to put himself above the moral law. “Flo” . a smart girl and her town is proud of er. *°*Rev. Lupton of the Unitarian Church is vacationing at Star Island near Boston, Massachusetts. Ted Robinson. Detroit Srverac burglars and bombers who would be warmly welcomed by the police here are spending the summer quietly with friends at points unknown. ***°Opie Titus, who dwells up Grand Traverse way among the cherry of chards and writes yarns about the “Great Forest,” was in town Monday giving civ- ilization the once over, he not entirely approving of it. *¢*Harry Heilmann, Tiger outfielder, will have to face a suit for $60,000 when he comes home after the ball season. Slide, Harry, slide! **°Our two local boys, Kinnear and Han cock, gave Johnny Farrell and Gene Sart comicbooks.com