Life — August 23, 1928 — page 21: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

walla yeume tl o—- wal STSZSTZSTSZSZS TTS TSS TASSELS SLRS NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS Indiana MeseorrH, NicHotson, author o’ “Cava- lier o’ Tennessee,” an’ lots other novels, wuz one o' th’ big bugs at th’ Literary Field Day exercises at Culver Military Academy, on Lake Maxinkuckee. He wuz lookin’ fine. “Mr. George Ade is summerin’ at his home, Hazelden Farm, in th’ Benton county, Indianny, roastin’ ear belt. He is lookin’ fine. ***Mr. Booth Tarkington, who needs no introduction, is gittin’ out his work at his summer home at Kennebunkport, Maine, and lookin’ fine. ‘Mr, Jonathan Brooks, author o” “High Ground,” an’ others, is lookin’ fine, but still in Indynoplus. ***We are glad t’ note that all Indianny authors are lookin’ fine, all havin’ had ever'thing accepted up t’ date. I'll be glad when summer's gone, So many folks smell like hot lead pencil erasers. ***Four cases o’ Sandy McDonald wuz seized by Sheriff Art Smiley th’ first o° th’ week, an’ Art invited a committee o’ prominent citizens, Rev. Wiley Tanger, Judge Pusey, Dr. Mopps, an’ Tell Bink- ley, tornado insurance, t’ watch him destroy it, but after a very careful ex- amination o° th’ labels it wuz declared ° be genuine. ***Jake Bentley, dyed in th’ mustache Democrat, has come out flatfooted fer Hoover. He says if somethin’ hain’t done purty soon t’ keep th’ middle west from sarvin’ Hoover'll be jest th’ man fer th’ place. Abe Martin, Pittsburgh Frep Sanvers, the sunburned roadhouse man, is praying for a late winter and we hope he Pass, Fre & Andrew W. Mellon, of Forbes Street, is summering in the Old Country, despite or because of those debts. ***Ann Harding, the acting lady who is Harry Bannister's wife, recently departed gets it. Thanks for that season from one of our finest maternity hospitals with twelve pounds of (bouncing) boy or girl. If we were the proud parent we wouldn’t let Mr. Hoover kiss the young man or young woman, as the case may be, if he did want to. ***Speaking of Herbert, it looks like a lot of the citizens are voting in the Sun- Telegraph's presidential straw vote with their tongues hanging out. William Pfarr. San Francisco Qurte a number of folks of the G. O. P. Republican party went down to Palo Alto, calit, for the blow-out which was given Herb Hoover, where he learned some- thing to his advantage. Herb responded in the same happy vein with an im- promptu speech on which he had been working for two months. ***A new innovation has been started here this summer in the hiring of guest conductors. The Symphony Orchestra tried it first and now the idea has been taken up by the Market Street Railway. *°°The Standard Oil Company's aerial beacon on Mt. Diablo is finding con- siderable favor with local moths. & Pete Kyne and Stew White report a good time was had at the Bohemian Grove doings this year. Mischa Elman was there, too, as were others, also. *°°Miss Mary Martin of here and Wilson McCarthy, of Gotham, got themselves married recently, completely disproving the “East is East and West is West, etc.,” theory. **°*We do not like to be too critical but it seems to us the hot dog men at the beach aren't putting on as much mustard as they used to. Chet Johnson. Denver Poto seems to have taken the place of ping pong for the summer months at the Polo Club, Christopher Cusack and Larry Phipps, with their horses, being among those participating. **°William MacLeod Raine, 150 Race Street, is thinking some of writing his next novel on a Western theme. ***Plastering is two weeks ahead of schedule in the palatial home of Mr. and Mrs. P. Hagner Holme on Forest Park- way, now under construction. & Billy Berger has an orchid growing in his back yard and Harold Kountze of the same prominent firm of bankers has had his brakes relined and front end re- bushed. ***Our amiable colleague George Lewis has had some of his articles on public utilities accepted by the Congressional Record. Nice going, George! ***Edward Ring, he having won his fight to get people to say Coloradan in- stead of Coloradoan, is backing the water ouzel for state bird. Henry Van Schaack is leading the meadow lark faction, with Will Grant, as usual, on the left wing. ***An easy and economical use to which to put old horseshoes is to give them to Mr. Charles S. Sidle, who plays horse- shoes behind his beautiful house on Hum- boldt Street with friends, ***Looking back in historical retrospect, we believe that our fellow neighbor Huston Thompson would have got more votes for president at Houston if he hadn't dropped the “Sam” off of his name and ai the “o” in Houston, which is offensive to the Solid South. ***This is a bad year for butcher boys delivering goods after hours. T. H. Ferril. St. Paul Severat of the hot-blooded young sports hereabouts are all out of breath from training their pet turtles for the big tortoise race at the State Wild Life Con- ference at Belle Lake. **°°Wedding bells are to peal soon for Bernard Hilton, son of Cliff Hilton, our popular Associate Justice of the State Supreme Court. Bernie picked an out- of-town girl, the same being Miss Wini- fred Lack wend, of Stamford, Conn. **°Carl Herbert dropped in the other day to pay up his subscription and inform comicbooks.com