Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-02-21
The Once Over
MORE NEWS FROM I'll WINTER RESORTS
Copyright, 1880, by The Associated Newspapers)

st. Augustine, Fla.-Mr. and Mrs. Winfield ZIlch
Dayton. Ohio. The unhappy couple make the trip
by car every season If 1t kills them. This year Mr..
Zilch looked particularly weakened by back-seat driv-
ing. I'll We all right again by the time we're ready
to start back" he sighed YEARLY from his hotel bed
today.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gregory DiIldoch and their police
dog Napoleon also fooled into town by auto this
morning, looking much the worse for wear after a
1.4Oo-mile drive from Springfield. Mass. The dog
stood it as long as it could but turned on Mr.. Dill
doch and bit him passing through Brunswick. Geor-
gia. Mr. Dilldoch stood it as far as Jacksonville
where he bit both the dog and Mrs. Dilldoch.
Colonel and Mrs. Jeptha Willetts. who come here
year after year without having much Of an idea how
weeks arguing with hackmen and storekeepers over
rates.
The croquet players are at 1t in the public square
and the enmities incurred have exceeded the 1929 fig
ures by 20 per cent. so far, with the season still
young.
The guides outside the old Spanish fort or the
waterfront are pretty disguised. Two Northern
schoolgirls walked up to them this week and asked
If it was off here that the Maine was sunk.
ORMOND
Gathering at the first tee every morning at 10
o'clock to see the worlds most famous golfer drive off
is still the chief outdoor sport here. No. not Bobby
Jones; John D.. Rockefeller.
Mr.. Rockefeller plays eight holes a day. He Is 90
years old and that is also his average score.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wesley Prunedish, who are spending
a few days here, will wait one day more. If the oil
king doesn't give them a new dime they viii de-
nounce him and leave.
Motoring up and down the beach between here
and Daytona Beach continues to be the favorite
recreation Of thousands Of visitors whose ideas Of
diversion are hard to understand.
FAC
Mr.. and Mrs. Emory ID. L.. Whipsay are both con-
fined 10 their beds under the care of doctors. They
answered one Of those newspaper advertisements
reading. Lady and gentleman motoring South in
ive-passenger car can another con-
genial couple" The gentleman turned out to be an
unreformed dirt-track AUTOMOBILE racer. The lady,
according " A1Io- NAIp>dN. a AO A1Iss
Mr.. and Mrs. Casper Mullgitawney Of P~enobscot,
Maine. who came here by flivver. are very indignant
because, although there are three or four free
bridges across the Halifax river they had to choose
the one toll -bridge.
MI. and Mrs. Luke Cupcake and their daughter.
Abbie. who arrived here with a new camera Thursday.
have used up their tenth film taking pictures Of one
another IN front Of the swell hotels. although they are
putting up at a clearinghouse.
Major T. Haithwaite Palooka, who came here by
auto. is waxing quite indignant because he was held
up by police put on the roads in the Florida fruit
fly quarantine. do I look Ike a f~ruit-fly?' he
demands. People are slow in answering him.
Can you fancy the broodings IN after life Of a girl
chosen Miss Universe and who later loses her looks
and becomes just plain Mrs. Addison Gimlet or some
thing Ike that?
The rediscount rate has dropped to 1 per cent. and
Ina Dodo says she doesn't care as she sold hers at
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