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At Onwentsia Club, Lake Forest, Ill., Mrs. Edward Foster Swift, relict of the meat packer, gave a Swift family golf tournament, for married members only. Husbands & wives played together. Play was over nine holes; each pair was allowed a handicap, combined net score only to count. Couples paid $10 to play, $20 not to play. Among the entries were the Theodore Philip Swifts, the Edward Swift Juniors, the Charles Henry Swifts. The George Swifts, the Charles Henry Swifts did not play, paid their $20 fines. Prizes were $30 in cash, a silver cup.
James Minotto, Arizona-ranching son-in-law, had played once prior to the tournament—the day before. He & Wife Ida May were allowed a handicap of 75. Their gross, combined nine-hole score: 161. But high net (for which there was no prize) went to Mr.& Mrs. Gordon Phelps Kelley (granddaughter) who posted a 91 after a handicap of 41. Low net went to Mr. & Mrs. Huntington Badger Henry (daughter) with a 77 after a handicap of 41.
Down to the footlights in a Los Angeles theatre stepped corpulent Baritone David L. Hutton, husband of Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson Hutton, whom he is suing for divorce. He smirked to the audience: "I'm very glad to be back in the City of the Angels. You know, I married an angel." When he opened his mouth to sing, Whiz! went an egg hurled by a girl in the front row. Plop! a second egg spattered against the backdrop, dribbled down to the floor. Plop! Plop! Plop! Baritone Hutton lumbered off stage. As stage hands mopped up the eggs, police arrested one Jane Thomas. Next day she paid $5 fine per egg, declared: "I believe it was worth it." Mrs. Hutton remarked: "Wasn't that too bad? But the way of the transgressor is hard."
At Shediac, N. B. en route with his seaplane armada back to Italy, General Italo Balbo cut with silver shears a red-white-&-green ribbon across what formerly was Pleasant Street, where he first set foot on Canadian soil. It became Balbo Avenue.
Lolita Sheldon Armour, relict of Meat-Packer Jonathan Ogden Armour, paid $1,000,000 cash* to the estate of Ethel Field Beatty, Countess Beatty, daughter of Marshall Field, for a small (53.2 x 150.5 ft.) lot on the northeast corner of Chicago's State & Madison Streets, "world's busiest corner." Bought t»y Marshall Field in 1876 for $53,390, now part of the site of a department store, it returns $60,000 annually, is assessed at $2,029,193.
*Meat-Packer Armour after the War lost $1,000,000 a day for 130 days, died insolvent in 1927. But the oil-cracking process of one Carbon Petroleum Dubbs, in which he had plunged, made Mrs. Armour wealthy again.