Life — August 30, 1928 — page 23: what you’re looking at

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Portland, Ore. Even this carly in the campaign, there’s a good deal of politics going around. Judge Charles Latourette, the well-known Democratic war horse, was heard to offer to bet Guy Webster Talbot $30, and let Mr. Talbot take his choice of Hoover or Smith. No money was posted. ***Rear Admiral Thomas J. Senn was in our midst recently, and was handsomely mentioned at the Chamber of Commerce by President Frank L. Shull, who aroused cheers by saying there was no longer any doubt about who won the war. & Dave Honeyman, well-known leading hardware merchant, whose ad. appears exclusively in this paper, says he hasn’t made up his mind yet, but thinks he'll vote for Will Rogers if Will agrees to cut out the bunk about the bunkless platform. ***As an evidence of how rumor exag- gerates, we point to a paragraph which sid that a number of our leading jeu- nesse dorées had been severely ptomained by cating crawfish at the golf club. The story all grew out of the fact that Bill Wheeler got cramps by staying in the swimming pool too long. Hugh Hume. Montreal Tut tocar stock market and your cor- resp't took one on the nose the other aft. ***By the look of things around the corner of Peel and St. Catherine Sts. some fashion expert south of the line separat- ing the Eighteenth Amendm’t from the Dominion of Canada must have declared golf pants the smart attire for buying liquor in, & Brian Devlin, our local columnist and golf writer is about to commit matrimony with a girl from a place known as, we believe, Ottawa. “The inside story of the reported at- tack on Howie Morenz, the prett fair hockey player, by lightning while paying golf at Forest Hills rec’tly is that he was bodychecked by Sprague Cleghorn when about to drive from the tee, the lightning gag merely being an invention of the sub- sidized press to cover up the scandal, they having been playing two-bit syndicates at the time. ***By the time this reaches print Edie Cornell will be ladies’ champion at Knowlton, providing she can cure that slice and is good enough to beat Fred Monk’s wife and one other in the order named, Leslie Roberts. Saratoga Springs Tue publishers of the Social Register and the editors of Who's Who in Amer- ica report a quorum present at the Spa. the past week-end. ***The Kermit Roosevelts of Oyster Bay paid the Springs a brief visit recently, which, Ye Ed. hears, they enjoyed to the limit. Come again, Kerm. & The Widener lads, George and Joe, have some smart bangtails in their stables, winning three heats in a row not so long ago. ***A number of New York's well-known columnists and Merry Andrews are taking in the sights of the Spa. these days. A conspicuous absentee is Franklin (Pooch) Adams (F.P.A.), who says he's so busy putting up a new silo on his old farm that he can’t visit Saratoga this summer. ***Jack Pickford, brother of America’s Sweetheart, and a_ well-known screen actor, is enjoying aquatic sports at Sara- toga Lake. Clarence H. Knapp. Louisville Mrs. A. T. Hert, vice-chairman of the Nat'l Rep. Com., is erecting a new domi- cile on the site of her old one, “Hurst- bourne.” It is to have a special room in which silver will be cleaned, of which Mrs. Hert has plenty, her guests not being of the kind that carry it off. *°*°The Owsley Browns have bought an abandoned rock quarry and converted it into a swimming pool, where all of their friends in the swim can get in the swim. ***®Miss Jane Lewis Morton will be one of the fall brides, she having pledged her troth to George W. Norton, Jr. This wed- ding will be a merger of two of the largest fortunes in the grand old Com'nwealth. «> Hundreds of our prom. cits. attended the conflagration of McCrory’s 5 and 10- cent emporium, which was gutted. ***The Am. Tob. Co. branch of here is reported to have turned out several car- tons of Lucky Strikes last wk. ***Grover Page, our popular cartoonist, has returned from his vacation, he hav- ing taken during it a course in spelling. Raymond Daumont, Boston Hay fever is in season. ***Local oyster openers will start work promptly at midnight Friday, after a four months’ vacation. ***Robert Benchley, Lire’s drama expert, sneaked out between the acts long enough to spend a week-end at Nantucket last week. (This column covers the Massa- chusetts coast with a spy glass.) **°°The synchronized cinema has ar- rived in Boston and has caught on almost as well as synthetic gin. ***Labor Day will be observed here Mon- day. The Braves are getting ready to drop two games. Neal O'Hara. Houston Our esteemed fellow citizen J. W. Neal recently presented his Avondale street home to Rev. E. P. West. Rev. E. P. has lived in it two or three weeks now and ain’t found out yet what's the matter with it. & Little Edward Andrews is out of the hospitak where he has been to have his tonsils removed, He has the appearance of having been promised something that didn’t come up to his expectations. ***Bessie Heafer’s husband had ordered him a new car with a rumble seat but since the news has come from Paris that skirts are to be made longer he has countermanded his order and is going to get another kind of car. ***School is going to take in about the middle of September and a good many comicbooks.com