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...woman newspaper correspondent's story of that "quaint old Down East fishing village, full of quaint old interesting characters and quaint old interesting furniture and fashionable summer people," sends the Masseys with their daughters, Enid and Clarissa, to Mary's Neck. Their first mistake is to arrive in April, with the snow still flying. The interval before the arrival of the summer colonists they fill in with hiring native help, buying and remodeling their cottage, antiquing, motorboating...
When "they" arrive the Masseys have some trouble breaking the social ice. But Enid and Clarissa soon attract the younger set. and the life of the colony follows them. Enid and Eddie Bullfinch, two of the most comic portraits from Connoisseur Tarkington's album, make life almost intolerable but all the more enjoyable throughout the summer. After several wrong guesses as to whether the Bullfinches, Allstovers or Timberlakes are the people to know, the Masseys find they are all about the same, all worth knowing, if you like to chuckle. The colony gets some chuckles out of the Masseys...
...troopers had got the wrong man in Virginia, that he had escaped to Mexico. When sober, he would deny the whole yarn. There was just enough doubt about the identification of Booth's body to make St. Helen's story sound plausible. In 1903 at Enid, Okla., he committed suicide with arsenic. Finis Bates who later became Attorney General of Tennessee, believed his story, had his body embalmed, exhibited the mummy at circus sideshows about the land as Lincoln's killer. A Chicago woman bought it for $8,000, submitted it to physicians for examination and identification...
...children, survivors are Andrew Jackson Houston, custodian of San Jacinto battlefield, and Mrs. Nettie Houston Bringhurst of San Antonio. Living descendants: 20 grandchildren, 34 great-grandchildren, 35 great-great-grandchildren. Living grandchildren are: Mrs. Margaret Bell Probert, New York novelist; Mrs. G. H. Loe, Toledo, Ohio; Temple Houston Jr., Enid, Okla.; Sam Houston Ill, Claremore, Okla.; Richard Houston, Woodward, Okla.; Mrs. W. C Henderson, Tulsa, Okla.; Adriane Houston and Margaret Houston, La Porte, Tex.; Mrs. R. E. McDonald, Stamford, Tex.; Mrs. Josephine Paulus, Pearsall Tex.; Mrs. J. B. Heitchew, Abilene, Tex.; Harry Houston and Temple H. Morrow, Dallas...
Helen Hicks played Enid Wilson in the semifinals. In the second round, after being one down at the 16th, she had barely managed to beat Marion Hollins with a perfect iron shot at the 17th and another on the 19th. Her match against Enid Wilson was close but not quite so exciting. Helen Hicks got the sovereign on the 17th green, played out the bye hole for a 79-two under women...