Life — August 16, 1928 — page 28: what you’re looking at

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20 LIFE now all he needs is a good backfield and a couple of ends. «> Your corr. is vacationing at Victoria, B. C., where subscription renewals, com- plimentary tickets and demands for re- tractions will reach him. *°*Mr. and Mrs. George Greenwood are visiting Glacier Park with Percy Grainger and bride. We understood Mr. Grainger to say he was in the piano business. **°The days are getting shorter. ***Gcorge Fuller, our efficient librarian, has written a history of the Pacific North- west, and has got the footnote habit so bad that he puts them in his letters. ***Passenger planes are flying daily be- tween here and Portland, Ore. They are equipped with pontoons for landing at the Webfoot metropolis. Guess that will hold Dean Collins for awhile. Stoddard King. Kansas City One of our genial grocery boys had a coyote bite him on East Twelfth Street the other day. The groceries were deliv- ered next day. ***There was a serious case of bathtub slipping in our town Saturday night. The vicum is carrying his arm in a sling, ow- ing to having run same through the window by the tub when he slipped. ***Mrs. Schumann-Heink, veteran oper- atic alto, who gave lessons in our town this summer, says she is coming back for same next year. ***Editor Bill White of our thriving metropolis on the west, Emporia, is mix- ing business and pleasure in Europe this summer, accompanied by the wife. « Marshal and Chief Night Watchman Link Towne would appreciate your vote for sheriff. Clad H. Thompson. Ottawa Ernest Laporte, the well-known Minis- ter of Justice’s wife is back from England where she met her daughter Odette and the King. *°*Colonel and Mrs. Jimmie Woods, Elbert Soper and wife, the Tommy Gor- mans, Norman Smiths and a lot of others are amongst those who have plenty of uncashed pari-mutuel tickets fete over from the fn meet at Connaught Park. ***Lindsay Gordon is back to his job of wing commanding for the Air Force, following a recent visit to the Thousand Islands with his Commander-in-Chief, Mrs. Lindsay Gordon. @ The rock drills which formerly ran all night outside our bedroom window at the Chateau Laurier have been supplanted by riveting machines —Advt. ***Plans to make our community the City Beautiful and fully worthy of the two quart hats which a national capital naturally attracts are going ahead, as Premier King says, “apace.” Even Federal District. Commissioner Tom Ahearn has caught the spirit and is hoarding packets of seeds against next spring. ***Attendance at the Post Graduate School of Draw and Stud in the Lauren- tian Club has been light of late weeks, due to the fact that most of the students are taking extra-mural courses during the summer months. Leslie Roberts. Cincinnati A MAN was seen registering for the presi- dential election the other day. *°*Pearl Besuner and Grace Divine have obtained responsible positions with the Metropolitan Opera Co. Congrats, girls, and listen, be kind to those opera sing- ers, for an opera singer never forgets, we hear. *°°H. C. Blackwell, Pres. of our C. of C., is getting up a club known as the Society of Ex-Cincinnatians, which will be nation- wide in scope and democratic. All you will have to do to get in is leave town. *°*Dorothy Ellin, who acted in a Gotham drama called “The Squall,” visited the home folks recently and it rained and thundered here so much that it was all Dot could do to keep from going into the big passion scene. ***Instead of sending their straw hats to the cleaner’s, some of our citizens are cleaning them themselves, which is all right, say we, there being enough bootleg gin hereabouts for all purposes. ***Myers Y. Cooper is running for Gov. again and is speechifying all over the state. Some folks say My should keep a stiff upper lip and some say both upper and lower. Tupper Greenwald, Milwaukee Watt Berson, the jolly trade news bureau man, bought a nobby two-pants suit here last week, but he was only wear- ing one pair of same when we met him yesterday. *°°Ted Carpenter, well-known publicity man, let out another notch in his belt the other day, it being the third notch this year. Too much hasenpfeffer and wiener schnitzel, is our guess. ***Stewart Johnston, of Johnston's choco- lates fame, mixed up a dandy batch of assorted hard centers out to the plant yes- terday. Better keep them in your cellar next to that other stuff, Stewied *°°Dr. Charles Albright, of here, still holds his title as the world’s champion life insurance salesman. Last year Charlie sold $2,832,500 worth, including a little to some of his former patients of the days when he was a medico, twenty-two years ago. Jan Hartnett. Omaha Joun Gricrrist is in Scotland, conclud- ing a deal for a dozen golf balls. *°°Now that we have overnight air mail to New York, NetcHsortHoop News from here will be fresher than ever, is our aim. ee*Walter Head has returned from a month at his farm and gone to Alaska for six weeks. Walter must be in pretty good at the Omaha National. *°*Henry Allen, late of Wichita, Kans., is a new member of the Chamber of Commerce, Ad-Sell League, Ak-Sar-Ben, Country and Hoover-for-President Clubs. ***Jack Shannahan, formerly of New- port News, Va., is making people love the street railway but not so many ride as Jack would like.-Our hint is, let the passengers drive the trams and have parking places to hunt for. @ Miss Edith Tobitt, at the Library, where Jim Tully got the notion to write, has some new books in, including one by Jim. B. F. Sylvester. Saratoga Springs Avoison (Av) Ketty, former football star (Princeton 1896), at present popular broker, is a great shouter for Saratoga as a health resort. Keep up the good work, “Ad.” ***Any number of prominent Blind- folded Cigarette Identifters and Indorsers are seen daily at the track, most of whom are usually smoking brands probably identified by them. *°°The popular Billy Hitts of Middle- burg, Va., are once again cottaging at the Springs for the season. Both are en- thusiastic devotees of the Sport of Kings and Ye Ed hopes to see their colors flash down in front before the meeting ends. & A well-known owner of racers, who is a bit hard of hearing, while attending a c—kt—I party recently was asked, comicbooks.com