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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1927
Page
5
Active members of Cresset the Ohio University women’s honorary group hosted a tea in Dean Irma Voigt’s apartment honoring an alumna. Twenty four guests attended with hopes to make annual teas for elder members. Numerous society notices follow about parties lectures and visits.
A group of 61 students and faculty attended the first International Night dinner at Hotel Berry hosted by the Cosmopolitan club. Nelson O Hara Woody presided as toastmaster and guests from several nations shared their descent while Naoichi Ishiguro of Ohio State addressed the need for school spirit.
A newspaper note explains letter golf where you change one word to another in a fixed order of letters. Each intermediate must be a valid common word, with three example steps COW to HEN and a par solution printed on the last page.
Fire trapped guests on upper floors of the Buckingham hotel annex in St Louis injuring many as four were reported missing. Tenants fled from fourth floor windows into freezing weather. Nurses from nearby hospitals were among those forced to jump to the streets. The dead include Mrs M L Susanka Miss Ella O Mora Mrs Jessie Groat and a woman believed to be Mrs Luther H Conn aged 69.
Charles Kilinger, 40, a Dayton bus driver, was recovering at home in Springfield today from injuries suffered near Dayton Saturday in a car crash that claimed his wife’s life. In Madrid, wolves raiding Pyrenees villages have killed several children.
Paris reports a determined push to halt a growing avalanche of divorce suits filed by Americans. The effort aims to curb delays and backlogs as international cases spike.
The Ministry of Justice ordered the civil court of Versailles to halt pending cases until the status and residence duration of plaintiffs, and their reasons for being in France, could be verified. The Bainbridge Colby suit is among those affected.
A county board member secured a restraining order preventing Myrtle Dennis from taking the Jefferson County superintendency. The ruling suspends the appointment, leaving the county without a school head as the legality of the appointment is challenged.
Several hundred attended the Athens Elks memorial service in the Cline building. Dr. Edwin W. Chubb of Ohio University spoke on immortality and praised the lodge for the service. The Elk quartet performed, and officers gave the ritual while Robert Wood eulogized the deceased: Ralph P. Jennings, Hugh T. Mulligan, S. M. Goodrich, D. M. Green, and Charles DeMolet.
Ray Thatcher an oil operator aged 50 died in Newark last night from wounds linked to a recent injury. Authorities suspect illness and pain contributed to the fatal outcome.
Common Pleas Judge James B. Thomas of Portsmouth conferred with J A Meckstroth, secretary to Governor Donahey, on appointing a successor to Judge Sayre of Athens on the Court of Appeals. Sayre died recently. Thomas, a Democrat, is seen as a potential candidate serving his third term in Scioto County. Governor Donahey was away at Indian Lake.
William Tyler aged 80 won his fifth consecutive plowing championship this year in Woking England marking another achievement in rural sport.
Robert Bruman died in Aberdeen Scotland after asking that none of his relatives attend his funeral.
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