University High School - Tower Yearbook (Carbondale, IL)

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s lslivniwqi . Ai'-N-,Q.gi e aren't surprised af finding this. Lefs see: How Frenchy Met Death First, we think foraging might have caused it. We know that is positively not in now. Then, too, no man can scorn an Anthony Hall girl who announces her desire to forage with Frenchy and continue to be well and happy. Secondly, anyone who had to read an Egyptian half-written by this slangster has real cause to get violent. Thirdly, that Sparta girl? Why women are said to kill with only glances. Fourthly, after watching the rush of the Femmes at every Freshmen Hop toward this Maurice-this dancing fool and genius, we have decided that surely he was killed in the rush that Thursday we missed going. The moral? wnd here was a fomh of Hazel Towery. The theories advanced are: Strange Death of Hazel Towery She was assistant-register of Dean Wham, and the strain of hearing students beg for courses they weren't allowed to take probably lowered her vitality and her spirits until she cast herself into Lake Ridgeway and drowned. Foul means might have induced such a leap, too. Remember it was she who wrote the letters in the Sphinx column of the Egyptian. Professional jealousy between feature writers, or outraged writers-for-advice at having their hearts so publicly exposed is the two-fold explanation of this hypothesis. Lucille, Florence, Mike, Lillian, Mary Eleanor, Eva Marie, Mary, Marguerite, and several Hall girls seem to be hiding something regarding the aifair. Hazel was a kind- hearted girl, and could not bear quarreling. After the word-sparring of Leo Brown and Earl Shipley over her, she seemed melancholy. We believe that in order to keep jealousy out of the lives of these model young men, that she took the easiest way out of their lives. Anthony Hall mourns, and Miss Crawford never regrets having loaned her her typewriter night after night. Tlru Humlrvil Niiivlri' -lu - Q, U- u ' - misty: A 1 ' -G . I, 'i W I' W ii . 'P 3iV-2-- , ll- f ' ,gi fella Q 1 ' I ,' V F 1 XA ll Jlicih .N in V .1 .Th ijt -A H -- 1.5441 ,FL . je Q . . . gg -'-fr -' vl x-'rs Wir 4'lQ i' 'fr -if , , L .r ,' ., . .--.,, - i I . - ,A-f ., ' I .. ' - l 'n 4: 'Ili .. ... lil Y 'M.l1'l.l.!4Z4 W f

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ombs and tombs, rooms and roomsg shadows, secrets, and we can discover nothing. We were about to give up when we came upon a startling row of mummies. Before each tomb we found with a brief explanation, that the person therein had died mys- teriously. Also, with it some theories were advanced for their decease. Here under one explanation were three tombs-Tom Entsminger, of Ents-minger's Cafeg Chris, from the University Cafe, and Teddy, from the Green Mill. Strange Death of Cafe Owners Whatever caused the strange death of one of these business men caused the death of all three, for beside each victim there was found a tennis shoe for the left foot, and a book, with apologies to John Riddell, who advanced the theory that professional jeal- ousy killed them, until Philo Vance, after much debate, decided that all died as the result of shock. H A few of those held in the case were: Ebby Hodge, Ruth Berry, Emilie Switzer, Viola Shenk, Pete Peterson, Dr. Beyer, Dr. Holt, Doc Hiller, John Lewis, Liz Harris, Eileen Neilly, jack Hanigan, Jimmy Barrow, Eugene Baysinger, Don Haege, Freddie Finley, and many others seen frequenting these places. They were charged for being indirect causes of the deaths. First, this group had deserted Entsminger's, going out to the new University Cafe, until the bright lights from the Green Mill caught them like flames. Then Entsminger's new Spanish mecca enticed them back there again. The three men were furious, but made peaceable terms to divide the business alphabetically, counting students, allowing only those whose names they drew to enter their establish- ment. Then that little Coney Island Shoppe came. When everyone went hot-dog crazy, why these men just naturally died of shock! Two Hundred Eighteen r t.frv mt H flltitfraitfa 1' t.,., .45 ffl . If l pt Ig H - . Z ',-1 M., ww.. 4 I A -Y sl i - .Srl y I - , ,. egg 538, ' Z E ,H 1. ,, tb n 7 ,ul i y..1V 3 H 'fa-'Bs Tx: ,, . T J ' if s o ' 1, ,M F lt: x W cs. V if 'Will'-fr af U ?Al!:'irl1.. x 1 .1 N' ,V ' ll' Z, , ' - v,A:7 ,-it ri. ' ',-', I

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Xvhut cz fickle, fickle world, we decided. Was it only love that stirred men thinly? But here was a regiment of tombs mapped of. Sorority girls buried here? What could cause this? Here was the explanation: Sudden Craze Causes Tragic Deaths All was quiet on the Sorority front, not a boat was stirring in the creek behind the house, nor a strand of rice growing in the swamp, not a colored flannel was flapping in the breeze, the mail man still came twice a dayg Mother Means rang the gong promptlyg everybody was late for dinner nightly, all was as usual or more so until Madolyn Bagwill and Helen Dollins went down town one day and bought a Hve cent purchase which started the fireworks. just a tiny rubber ball and nine jacks to go with it. Then it was every girl went Jack mad. Meals, cards, dancing, baths, lessons, friends, were all neglected for the new craze-even the faithful old boy-friends, who were forced to sympathize among themselves, read newspapers, while the girls worked and quarreled and counted jacks far into the night. Then one night something dreadful happened. We don't know whatg even Mother Means couldn't be located, but every girl was found stone dead. None of the boys, usually found there, could be found either. Suspicious are that the most jealous of them, Te-Thompson, T. L. Stearns, Byford Webb, Lowell Bailey, Curtis Hill, torn by insouciance, threw the jacks away, hence killing the girls with anger. Perhaps the girls assassinated each other through jealousy, though. Certainly Helen and Madolyn were more mutilated than all. Why Madolyn had no lip-stick on, and I-Ielen's hair was combed back perfectly straight! Only force of a dreadful kind could have caused the girls to go to their graves so illy-shrouded. This account is unnecessarily brutal, per- haps, but we are mystery-solvers, not sentimentalists. Two Hundred Twenty - if 2113 'Lili I 15-11 -Us if i ii -if . 1 ff Y r lfitf.m'usf'e LV Y-la.. ig T.: 1 , ggi - 59 'T-flip! - r - its ,L 'age l Q -' ' . ' '2 - , ' ' Xgby -slugs-i . .. '. fl- ' , gm Mags. - r--J'F!??s-4.5 : , r , .,. ..-, , . ,1.., , . - . Q-A , pr'-Af ., . N .., -- V- -. y I grglfilff- :rf - my , ., 1