1912–13 Volume 37 No 1–5 - Phi Delta Theta Scroll Archive

94 THE SCROLL.of police. The motive is said to have been a grudge caused by ejectment fromoffice. Brother Brown was a charter member of Indiana Theta.Nebraska—Herbert Johnson, '03, cartoonist for the Philadelphia NorthAmerican, has recently become associated with the Curtis Publishing Companyof Philadelphia and is drawing for The Country Gentleman, one of the threepopular publications of that Company. Brother Johnson's cartoons are one ofthe leading features of that magazine,U. of Washington—The engagements have been announced of Will J.Coyle, '12, to Miss Minnie Dalby, a sister of David Dalby, ex-'o6, and EdwinDalby, '08; of Ezra Osborne, ex-'14, and Miss Esther Cline, of Seattle; andof Herbert A. Cooley, ex-'i2, to Miss' Lura Pendleton, both of Everett, Wash.The marriages will be solemnized this fall.Ohio University—Carl D. Sheppard, '01, graduated in Law at George Wash-..ington University In June, 1912, taking the Ohio State and District of ColumbiaBar examinations shortly after, passing both. He is a member of the G. W. U.Chapter of Phi Delta Phi, of which Edgar F. Baumgartner, Lehigh, 'ii, andEdward Stafford, Dartmouth, 'ii, are also members.Knox—'"The Pearl Maiden," the comic opera, the music of which was thework of Harry R. Auracher, '97, was recently the attraction for several weeksat the Colonial Theater, Chicago. Another Phi, Earl C. Anthony, California'05, was one of the authors of the book of this opera, his co-worker beingArthur F. Kales another University of California man.Michigan—John Wesley Judson, '01, has recently joined the forces of theChicago office of the Butterick Publishing Co. Brother Judson solicits advertisingin the western territory for the Butterick Fashion Quarterlies. He wasformerly In charge of the advertising department of the Chicago office of HarperBros. His new office is in the First National Bank Building,Northwestern—Frank J. R. Mitchell, '96, who is now a resident of SantoDomingo writes that he is sending his family to the -States and that they willspend the summer at Spring Lake, Michigan. His present plan is to returnhimself in September spending the time until Thanksgiving in various partsof the United States but mostly in and near Chicago. Brother Mitchell volunteersto render his valuable assistance to the Convention Committee after hisarrival In Chicago.Vanderbilt—The Government Printing Office has printed a report on thestrike of miners in Western Pennsylvania in 1910-11, the most serious strikethat ever took place in the bituminous field in that state. It is a pamphlet of255 pages, and was Issued as House Document No. 847,. B3d Congress, 2dSession. A prefatory note states: "Practically the entire investigation hasbeen carried on by Mr, Walter B. Palmer, '80, of the Bureau of Labor, andthe text of the report has been prepared by him,"Amherst—Thomas S, Cooke, '11, of Whiting, Ind, was married on April9th to Miss Clara Jeanette Thieme, Smith College, '10, the daughter of Mr. andMrs. John A. Thieme, at the home of the bride's parents in Fort Wayne, Ind.A S. Gormley, '11, and D, F, Cass, 12, both also of Massachusetts Beta, andRaymond Storer, '09, Wisconsin Alpha, acted as ushers at the event. Brotherand Mrs. Cooke will move into their new home after June ist at Whiting, Ind.,where the former is special chemist for the Standard Oil Company.Purdue—J, Clifford Turpin, '08, the noted aviator, met with a most distressingaccident on May 30, 1912, at Seattle, Wash., when before a huge crowd Instriving to avoid an amateur photographer crossing his starting field, he strucka corner of a. pavilion and dashed full tilt Into the crowd before the grandstand.One man was instantly killed by the machine's flying propeller and ascore of spectators injured. Turpin himself was badly hurt but has sincefully recovered. No blame whatever attached to Brother Turpin as the accidentwas entirely unavoidable.