Life — September 28, 1928 — page 22: what you’re looking at

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LIFE ists of the G. O. P. a good going over in a speech here on Labor Day, removing his coat to deliver same. Clad H. Thompson. QUEBEC A coupte of N. Y. financiers flying to here rec’tly landed on the local golf course and remarked to the crowd how they were looking for the office of Guy Wightman our w.k. broker of mining shares. Right away Guy stepped from the crowd and said, ‘Well, well, George, how goes it!” And yet there are those who will tell you that this isn’t a small world, after all. uw The Tafts, Tiffanys and various prominent furriners are hanging up the shutters on their shacks and Murray Ray is all set to act as Base Headquarters for the next ocean flight to Greenly Island, God forbid. *°*A nice assortment of Gordon Gin, Johnny Walker, Dewar's Special Liqueur and other whiskey made by the Haig boys can be had from the Liquor Commission at reasonable prices. Beware of Imitations.—Adet. ***(Hon.) L. A. Taschereau, who does most of the prime ministering hercabouts, is beginning to exercise his vocal glands ready for the next session of the Ought to Be a Law Club, otherwise our Provincial Legislature. ***Gordon Wiggs’s mother was up to Soo Sainte Marie rec'tly to witness her son's nup tials with the little Thompson girl of that town, ***Colonel Cort Fages and wife are back in town for the winter. Peslie Roberts. DETROIT Bitty Sunpay was transacting business at one of our leading churches recently. © Ata luncheon given for Norman B. Conger, with the weather bureau for 50 years, Norman was presented with a traveling bag EMPLOYMENT AGENCY and an umbrella, but he wasn't going anywhere and it didn’t rain. No one can predict right all the time, ch, Norman? & The rolling pin contest at the State Fair established a new record. A girl threw a pin 100 feet and broke nine out of a possible ten of her own pie crusts at that distance, Hap Church says. ***While Henry Ford was sojourning lately, in Massachusetts, an automobile tried to run him down but couldn't cut the mustard. “There's getting to be altogether too many of these durn-contraptons on the road,” Henty is alleged to have said, according to reports. **°What with these charges of attempted bribery and so on, it looks like we have a right good chance of making Detroit the airport scandal center of America. ***Young people will have no reason for getting married before next spring now, Gus Schantwz thinks. Gus's ‘thoneymoon"’ boat line which people all get married so they can go to Niagara Falls on it, is closing up for the season. ***Buying school shoes is the order of the day. Elmer C. Adams. SEATTLE Tue RECENT primary election resulted in quite a bit of plain and fancy peanut rolling and wheelbarrow pushing along Main Street, our young bloods Eeing great gamblers. @& Nick Occonomacos, our pop. clarinet player, is doing light road work these fine morn- ings in preparation for the coming symphony season, Don’t overtrain, Nichols. eeeWy Hemphill harvested the apple crop in his back yard one recent evening. He says it was good, clear through to the core. **°Vic Elfendahl is collecting money for the Community Fund again. If Vic makes good, “A very wealthy woman writes in for a scullion maid. Do any of you ladies want the job?” —— some subscribers who are a litle backward ig their payments may expect to sce him added this sual, as we ave looking fora henees® *°°°H. Perkins bought the ed. a mi fine dinner one evening recently. Things i that make no difference so far a5 getting yas name mentioned in this department bet even so ye scribe appreciates a good feed as wel as the next man, whoever he may be. & Some say Jim Stevens is working og another story for the magazines. Where fin gets all those notions, blessed if we know, ***Remember, every copy of N. N comes wrapped in a free edition of Lirt whid offers the reader a balanced ration of the mb lime and the ridiculous at one cost only. Hal Burdick, CINCINNATI Jack Frost reigned supreme the othe night, he holding full sway. *°*Don't forget the Central Parkway Dedication Mon., Tue., and Wed. with a bras band, music, and an Evolution of Transport tion Pageant showing progress of same, so com one come all, but leave your car at home avoid congestion. ***The phone booths around the City Hall courtrooms have been removed. Most of ow attys-at-law were prepared, they lining up nee offices some time ago. **°The repairs to Reading Rd. are fio ished. Faster deliveries will now be made by trucks bringing milk, soap, and engineer's wast every night from Detroit and Windsor (Can.). & The Times-Star’s editorial writers, of which Charlie Taft is prop., have been mincing no words lately, they having convinced a ke of staunch G, O. P.’s hereakouts Hoover is a better man than Smith. **°Sol Stephan, our genial Zoo custodian, is in the market for some good snakes. Must be over 3 ft. long, Sol says, and we say the same. Snakes worthy of our town, is our motto. Tupper Greenwald. INDIANA Tue INbIANAPOLIs acquaintances of O. 0. McIntyre, of New York, who writes ‘New York Day by Day,"” are rejoiced to learn that be is driving his first automobile. At present Me. McIntyre is visiting an aunt in California, and hopes to arrange his return to Gotham so as ® pass through Indianapolis in the day time. & Councilman Meredith Nicholson, the author, of Golden Hill, voted for our daylight saving ordinance, and a number of moving Be ture theater managers, milk men, and enemies of the ordinance, thought it would be cute to call him at three a.xt., just to get him out of bed. But ‘*Nick's" daughter, who a swered the first call, was equal to the occasion, and told the fiend in human form, when be asked for her father, ‘‘that he'd just gone © work,"" ***Indianapolis will have a bumper crop of apple butter if the great pyramids of fre gallon crocks displayed by our merchants meat anything. *Angola, Indiana, a division point 00 the Detroit-Chicago eighteen-hour uncut liqut comicbooks.com