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Newspaper

Athens Messenger

Location

Athens, Ohio, United States of America

Date

Dec 11, 1928

Page

5

Local Society Notes Highlight Alpha Tau Installation

A Sunday Alpha Tau installation in Chamber of Commerce rooms featured a luncheon at the Congress Tea Room. Miss Mabel Ballentine presided, with Gladys Jones giving welcome and Marie Lines delivering the Psi chapter Logan response. Officers elected included Ballentine as president and Worley as vice president.

National Chaptis Alpha Tau Sigma Phi Gamma Chamber of Commerce Congress Tea Chamber of Comerce Mabel Ballentine Gladys Jones Marie Lines Psi Chapter Logan Thelma Lehew Grace Hawk Mildred Butts Nelsonville Pearl French Esther Murphey Psi Mary Frasch Esther Thomas Agnes Smith Faye Walker Marguerite Blassey

Wool crepe and satin dress pattern with revers design

This pattern blends wool crepe and satin or velvet with crepe facings. Fronts cross under a V neck, form a left side revers above pointed edges, with plaits and soft shoulder gathers. Sizes 34 to 46. 3 1/2 yards of 39 inch material for a 38 size. pattern mailed for 15 cents.

Pi Beta Phi Grand President Visits Athens Chapter

Miss Amy Bonken of Chapin Newfoundland national Pi Beta Phi president since 1921 makes her first official visit to the Ohio University chapter. Activities include a cookie shine at 16 East Union Street, luncheon at the Colonial, and a tea and dinner at the chapter house with alumnae, advisory committee, and pledges. Also notes return visit by Mrs J Chapman Ward and family from Marietta.

Amy Bonken Chapin Pi Beta Phi Sorority Ohio University Pi Beta Phi East Union Street Miss Bonken Colonial Athens

Resting Up Express Employee Covers 1 300 000 Miles in 46 Years

Alliance December 11 William Davidson 64 earned rest after traveling 1 300 000 miles in 46 years as an expressman for Adams Express and American Express Company He this week moved to the retired list and begins his rest after a long service career.

Alliance U.R William Davidson Adams Express American Express Company Davidson

Local Men Finish Unusual Textbook on Health and Physical Education

The new book Health and Physical Education for Elementary Schools is edited by Prof. O C Bird of Ohio University and Dr Alonzo F Myers. Published at week’s end it runs over 350 pages with about 40 illustrations from Rufus Putnam School. Sample copies go to leading professors and to high schools and colleges.

O. C. Bird Ohio University Athletic Department Alonzo F. Myers Rufus Putnam Bird

Autoist Drowned in Creek Near Wooster

In Wooster Ohio on December 11 a 35 year old Akron man U P B N Flowers drowned when his auto plunged into Killbuck Creek west of Wooster after missing a bridge detour. Passenger William Doger 25 of Zanesville was injured but expected to recover.

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Honeymoon Tragedy: Couple Shot in Chicago Hotel

In Chicago a hotel manager 88 and his fiancée 23 were found shot dead in their room hours before a planned westward honeymoon trip. Detectives consider a possible murder suicide with jealousy as a factor. A telegram from Omaha signed Zimmy found in the room supports the jealousy theory.

Chicago U.R Frank W. Zimmerman Florence Willliams Zimmerman Siance F. W. Zimmerman

Max Hoff Manages Nation's Largest Boxing Stable

Philadelphia promoter Max Hoff oversees 16 boxers, the largest stable in the United States, shaping careers and the boxing scene through his management and events.

Max Hoff Philadelphia United States

Prescription for Colds Grippe and Malaria Remedies

It claims to be the fastest remedy known for colds grippe flu bilious fever and malaria and promotes rapid relief through a prescribed formula presented as an effective treatment.

Kappa Sigma Pi Initiates Six New Members at Church Meeting

Six new members joined the Kappa Sigma Pi chapter at a Presbyterian church meeting last Thursday raising total membership to about 30. New initiates are David Reading John Lee Marquis William Cooper Ted Preston Roscoe McKibben and Fred Helwig.

Kappa Sigma Pi C. D. Glauque David Reading John Lee Marquis William Cooper Ted Preston Roscoe McKibben Fred Helwig

District names chaplain and church leaders

Harold A. Moore was chosen as chaplain by the district. Chaplain C. D. Gianque and church pastor the Rev. M. iChatley will announce plans within a few days after a meeting of the boys.

Harold A. Moore C. D. Gianque M. iChatley

Indicted man confesses to third murder in Jersey City

Peter Kudzinowski, already linked to two murders and charged in the death of seven year old Joseph Storelli, confessed to a third slaying. He admitted choking five year old Julia Miodzianowska in Jersey City on August 19, saying he dismembered the body and disposed of the bundle in the Delaware Water Gap.

Jersey City N. J U.P Peter Kudzinowski Joseph Storelli New York Julia Miodzianowska Kudzinowski Harry Walsh Delaware Water Gap

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