Life — October 26, 1928 — page 23: what you’re looking at

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noo hag a[Sietelee _f NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS DETROIT Bit Crare who runs the hotel on the oath side of the park served a delicious chicken Ganer to the Adcraft Club last Friday, the same heing hugely enjoyed by all. Bill's chickens are the kind that have no necks, the boys say. & Among were a M Orange. N and Televor. we did not | of surprise at **Our Representative W. Frank James bas Bown 20,000 miles to get a true knowledge of housing conditions at army posts. Go it, Frank. su speak on the subject in Congress this nobly can say you are hot air-minded. recent out-of-town visitors Tom Adison, or Odison, from said to be in the inventing line, a mechanical man whose address rn. Both were full of expressions he growth of our lite city. ‘Ata football pep meeting last night J. Fred Lawton led the singing of **Varsity, we’ for you, here for you to cheer for you, etc.,”” » wrote. Fred is a U. of M. alumnus, itis getting to be generally known, “William governor . Comstock, candidate for ¢ Dem. ticket, is circulating about thi hood and shaking the political bushes. He says he'll win, but Gov. Green just smiles and says he heard different. & Mallard ducks are ripe in the land of Michigan. Elmer C. Adams. BOSTON Lous K. Liccerr, who runs the corner drug store, says it beats all how people keep on © cream even though summer is all bout 2,000 students from Hanover, . H., in town this week-end for the Harvard-Dartmouth game. If the Dartmouth toss win, it will be Hangover, N. H., Monday | political observers say they t scen an automobile with a Norman te on at, ***Joe D. Hayes, our prominent wool man, is out in a natural camel's hair coat and is mighty careful where he sits down or what be brushes up against. "One of our leading churchmen was foed this week for obnoxious talk. He called a an "mister" at the Rotary Club luncheon, & The new and elegant $5,000,000 Keith Memorial Theater will open shortly and is ex- fected to cut in quite a bit on the Art Muscum’s Susiness,, “Our traffic dept. is all set to arrest jay kers who go bumping into trucks, colliding wih Chevrolets, etc. It's got so drivers in our Pincipal streets can hardly go out for an evening's joy ride without getting their front bumpers bent or their radiators dented. ***The Boston University football team is called the Terriers this year and if the Ter- riers chew up their opponents, it's news, and if the other team chews up the Terriers it's just 100 words and a summary. ***Local P. O. inspectors are watching the mails closely to see that there are no re- peaters in the Literary Digest's straw vote. Neal O'Hara. DENVER Onxtons have leaped to five cents, spuds weaker, u* No word yet from the epic poem on the peace treaties sent by Newcomb Cleveland, Gertic’s father, to Physical Culture, a big N.Y. magazine. No news is good news, Newcomb. They wouldn't keep a big thing like that 19 days if they didn't intend to print it. ***Cecil W. Doherty is the proud purchaser of a new floater for his hydrometer. **°*On Monday and Tuesday, resp., inst., the stork brought little visitors to the well known law firm of Grant, Ellis, Shafroth, Shaf- roth, Toll, Shetterly, Holland, Maroney, John- son & Macbeth, same being Baby Diana Holland and Something Johnson, we not having asked Stanley yet about his or her weight. ***Thankful Bickmore is helping Amy Stearns cook for the threshers over at Bob's place. ***Well, school is going good. Our old- est boy Ned is getting along fine with Miss Jones in Room 16, Ned had Miss Smith in Room 2o2 all last year until she left to get married. «% A book-agent named Harry Bellamy recently got past the clevator boy in the Foster Building. ***lf a swarthy party giving his name as John Ball offers your wife a pressure cooker for a subscription to ‘‘N. N.,"" same saying he is working his way through college, delay him and ye ed will bicycle over by telephone, being deputized. ***George Shaw was recently seen sitting on one of the Busy Corner benches reserved for the G, A, R. Shame on you, George. What if everybody was to do that! **As we go to press City Fathers George Steele and Doc Lucy are locked in conference framing the biggest Tolstoy Centenary ever staged in these parts. *°*We view with alarm the increase in immorality among GALLEY FIVE PICK UP DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE HOLDOVER...... Thomas Hornsby Ferril. SEATTLE Ene Bacsaw who teaches Football, Theory and Practice, at the U. of W., is about as blue as he usually is this time of the year but no bluer. ***Fall sports are the Order of the Night at the University Club and Warren Bell, our waggish Dr., says he is throwing 7's and 11's in mid-season form already. «* B. Collins’ new book, “The Rome Express,"* has caused quite a lot of excitement among folk of our town some of whom seem to think they were characterized in it. “If the shoe pinches it’s a horse of a different color,” says Bertie, which to us sounds like a pretty snappy comeback. **°C, Mattice is back at his annual job of taking the duck census. For a brace of Mallards this dept. will be glad to say some- thing nice about your nimroding, Clyde. Marion Lay, the scribess, is lecturing twice a week at the University and oftener than that at home if the word of her husband who is H. Davis, the poct, is as good as we think it is. **°O, Ahlblad and wife had the ed. out to dinner one recent evening and if more people would do that more people would sce their names in print and the aforementioned ed. would lose a lot of what his friends sometimes refer to as his worried look. Hal Burdick. CHICAGO We saw Mayor Thompson on Clark St. the other day, looking greatly reduced, ue Ye ed rec'd a pleasant postcard from Perce Hammond, showing a cheerful view of the Herald Tribune plant, where Perce now has steady employment. It’ is always a pleasure to hear from local boys who have made good in the Big City. F. P. Adams, Chas. MacArthur, Ben Hecht, Burns Mantle and Jack Lait please write. ***Our taxicab war has been hard on the incomes of the surviving drivers, but the Drive- Ur-Self stations have far from suffered. The Western Division of the Repub- lican National Committee is still headquartered at 333 North Michigan Ave. (only a short ele- vator ride from the Tavern Club), although of- fered fine rooms and rates in the Pure Oil Building. ***Now that James Weber Linn has re- turned from a too-long vacation and resumed his ‘Round About Chicago" column, we have been again persuaded to become a ‘cash sub- scriber for the Herald and Examiner. «> “The slightest thing will change a man’s appearance and nobody but himself knows what caused the change,"’ we reflected the other comicbooks.com