1921
Within a six-hour period Feb. 12, New Orleans police reported a dozen acts of violence: shoot-outs, stolen cars, rape, armed robbery, and beatings. Among victims were Bob and Minnie Elsasser. Returning home at 9:45 p.m., they were accosted by two Negro men. One held a knife against Minnie's throat and threatened to slit it; the other, against Bob's back. The thugs promised death if they were not admitted into the Elsasser house. Minnie was forced to lie under her bed; Bob, on the floor. The Negroes took two diamond rings from Minnie's fingers, one worth $700, the other $300, and ransacked the rooms. Though Bob talked them out of his watch, inscribed and so unpawnable, they absconded, $2000 richer, and have not been caught.
Stan and Evelyn White will never become Florida sun worshippers; they are devoted to Mt. Kineo and Moosehead Lake, wild and unspoiled. A pyramid of flint, the mountain attracted Indians for arrow heads. In forests are many animals, some "unwild": deer, raccoons, woodchucks, and squirrels, but raccoons and squirrels are hand-nippers. The present Mt. Kineo Hotel was built by Louis Oakes of Greenville, "the town angel." He worked steadily in the woods department of a paper company, and he staked his restless brother Harry in his prospecting for Canadian gold. Harry found it. The Norana mines made him rich. He became a British citizen, was knighted as a philanthropist, and as Sir Harry Oakes was murdered in the Bahamas. Louis had no such grandiose dreams. He was content to hoe potatoes at 5 in the morning, settle down in Greenville, and travel modestly. Stan first trekked into Moosehead 32 years ago to fish.
About the Roaming Earth They Girdle: For Nels Smith retirement is wonderful: several weeks in Spain, Portugal, and Madeira. . ... Mrs. Ben Salzer after writing as many as four letters to each of 14 hotels in England on her behalf and friends' should be well taken care of there following visits in Switzerland and Holland. ... Still preferring the United States to Europe, Harry andMary Garland again headed for Florida. ... Though Francis Hickman has sold Doannee, his home in Bray, England, he and his wife will spend June at The Compleat Angler, Marlow. Rog Wilde, Ellis Briggs, and DickHart will inform you that Isaac Walton, a proficient angler, though he successfully championed Piscator (a fisherman) against Venator (a huntsman), knew little of fly fishing. ... Now retired, Em and Olive Corbin will burn up a lot of gas between New Britain and Stockbridge to see their actor son Albert at the Berkshire Playhouse and at other theatres to watch him in Shakespearean roles. ... George Harris flew recently to San Diego on business before he with Madelaine embarked on a South American Cruise. ... Hilt and Mildred Campbell left Pinehurst briefly for a few warm and sunny days in St. Petersburg Beach. ... Sandy Sanders' Dellwood Oil Company is now MACPET. As Houston Manager of Operations, he is busier than ever. After a week reorganizing the Denver office and ten days in Houston he flew to California where his company has made a major discovery. ... With the decentralization of oil companies, Took Welch travels all over the U. S. and abroad to keep in touch. He understates his noiseless and speedy operations when he writes, "We are banging along as usual." ... Bord and Burd Helmer are back after a January sojourn in Portugal and a February tour of Morocco and Spain. ... Bill and Teeter Alley will dream of wild animals for a long time. After boarding in London the "S.S. Vaal" they headed for Cape Town and have been enjoying spectacular mountain passes to the Wilderness and to Port Elizabeth via the Garden Route. Ask them about African buffalo, nyalas, kudus, and giraffes just to get them started on what else they saw. ... Art Ross hopes this summer to climb Mt. Katahdin, Maine. Why? Because as an undergraduate he so enjoyed the DOC New Hampshire Presidential Range and the conquest of Monadnock and Mt. Ascutney, Vermont. Two years before college he climbed Mt. Hood in Oregon. ... One of five consultants from Williams College, Brown University, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Harvard, Blair Watson, Director of Dartmouth Films, represented the Hopkins Center film programs at a recent meeting at Wesleyan University. The committee exchanged ideas for the planning of a new Institute for the Visual Arts, bound to interest Ralph Steiner.
Andy and Harriet Valentine "still pull a mean trailer." In Old Mexico they found Mexicans to be "delightful," the country "so rich and varied as to be a land of enchantment," the Valentine command of the language to be "Kitchen Spanish" (point to Carnation and it becomes "leche"), and their health good enough to escape the "Guadalajara Gallop." The colors, hot sun, noise, and smells of Mexico were as unforgettable as the gilt and jewelled rococo frostings in great cathedrals. Pilgrims crawl on their knees for the length of a football field to pay homage to the Virgin in the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe near Mexico City. Dead and dying animals along highways are devoured by buzzards. Speaking of food, Andy and Harriet ate just as well as at home, even better. "The native fruits and vegetables are beautiful." They never tasted such pineapples and other exotic fruits made even more delicious by a squeeze of lime. But lettuce ... not on your life. The effects of a black widow spider if fatal are pleasanter.
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