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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1935
Page
7
The piece outlines a dress-up theme for spring and summer nights featuring slim tailored daytime styles with dramatic evening gowns. It highlights favored prints, bold colors like red and gold, and a bright red crepe frock with rhinestones, emphasizing glamour and theatrical style true to Cinderella's universal rule.
Athens soprano Ruby Mercer gave a debut recital at Town Hall New York under the National Music League receiving praise from critics and admirers. She is noted for fresh voice, high moments of charm and delicate pitch as she tours the East with scholarships and honors in music.
The Legion Amateur Night Club will start Saturday with musicians and dancers competing. Registration at Hotel Berry is required before Saturday. a radio amateur hour precedes dancing from 9 to 9 20 o clock. Five prizes will be awarded, with judges selecting winners for an eventual grand prize on the final program.
A large bridal shower for Mrs Crabtree was held at her parents home on a Saturday. Dozens of guests attended including Theodore Boring and family, Mr and Mrs Gayly, Mrs J K Crab, Leonard Wood, and many others. The event featured a bus bridge game with yellow roses as decor and finished with prizes awarded to the top players.
Athens residents joined the Southeast Ohio District Conference of the Ohio State National Association of Letter Carriers in Lancaster Saturday evening. Attendees included Mr and Mrs B H Gallagher Mr and Mrs Stanley Nida Mr and Mrs R C Orr Mr and Mrs G L Atkinson plus F A Lavelle Co A Cooley M F Hawk J E Medges and A F E McConkey. The event featured remarks by state and national officers and a meal provided by the Lancaster Branch. The district meet semi annually with the next gathering planned for Zanesville in October.
Miss Jeanette Campbell of Cleveland Heights was chosen president at a chapter meeting. Other officers include Bernadine Sprague secretary Ruth Huggins chapter correspondent Mary Lou Hudson vice president Phyllis Duerr treasurer and Margaret Stark named chapter H.
Miss Marianne McKay hosted formal initiation of 11 pledges into C. M. C. a high school girls group at 37 Elmwood Place. Club president Miss Betty Baker led candlelight rites for Ann Loring Dorothy Ann Schilling Alice Shuler Dixie Lou Williams Helen Baker Martha Jones Sue Woolley Dane Kelly Jean Houf Harriett Musgrave Katherine Sherrard. Ill members Jean Finsterwald Virginia Porter and Hester Creed to be initiated later. A Cottage Tea House breakfast followed and attendees went to church.
Relatives attend the funeral of Miss Mary A. Shepard of Elizabethtown Kentucky. Survivors include two brothers of a family of eight. Mr. and Mrs. Shepard and Mrs. D. R. Zenner traveled by car to Cleveland for the service. Another brother and family visited the Elizabeth town home en route from Florida.
A hard time party is set for Thursday night at 7 30 at Mechanicsburg School. Mrs Dallas Wooster will lead the devotional period and Mrs William Smith will supervise the social features. Hosts are Mr J R Baker and Mr A Hooper.
The Willing Workers Class of the Methodist Protestant Church on Richland Avenue met at James Tom's home Saturday. A poem and story were read, officers elected, games played, and refreshments served. The next meeting will be at Margaret Shafer's home on Friday May 3.
The Athens Girl Scout Council will hold its annual meeting Friday, April 13. Mrs. Cuba Weaver, the Cincinnati local Girl Scout director, will be guest of honor at a luncheon at Hillcrest. Troop committee members, council members, and leaders are welcome. Weaver plans to show camping pictures from Cincinnati camp during her visit. Mr. and Mrs. Weaver will be weekend guests of Mr. and Mrs. R. F. Beckett of Morris Avenue.
A birthday party hosted by Mr and Mrs Francis Colley on the New Marshfield Road honored Francis Colley Elizabeth Landrum and Robert Rathburn with gifts before dinner. A noon cafeteria meal followed. cakes baked by Mrs Ed Hatfield and Mrs Harry Chadwick formed a centerpiece as guests included the Rathburns Landrum McHarg Slagle Chadwick and others from Athens Waverly and Alexandria.
Jack and Hannah Dempsey write in The Woman Today about their infant daughter Joan Hannah showing early signs of a wrestling future. The child’s hands resemble her father and she is a tall, sturdy baby who has grown to twenty one pounds in eight months and stands above peers.
Two Ohio painters Miss Frances Gray Elliott and Miss Edna Martha Way are featured in the first Ohio Exhibit at the Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts April 1 to 16. The Ohio Federation of Women's Clubs sponsors the show part of the state convention April 10 to 12. Contents include seventy three paintings in oil and watercolor. The board will host a tea April 11 for juried artists and federation members, with visits by officials and a Governors mansion reception planned. A British airline plan to operate flying boats across the Atlantic is noted.
The Athens County Commissioners report paid sheep claims to Bart Allen for 14 dollars and Frank Clark for 18 dollars, with other claim entries such as Mrs Elica Akers noted but amounts unclear. The notice lists paid claims by name and amount.
Ruth Grover and Martha Isabelle Cottingham were invested by Mrs Thor Olson at Troop Two meeting at Hast Ride School. After dancing Reap the Flax, the girls prepared Slumber and chose patrol names Sycamores Violets and Pirates. The Sycamores will present a skit next meeting and Mrs Cora Frame closed with Wind by Robert Louis Stevenson.
The recital by soprano Miss Elizabeth Close of Millfield in the Ohio University School of Music is postponed indefinitely due to the illness of her accompanist Miss Martha Lowry.
Shade Fraternity and Teacher Association will meet Friday at 7 30 p m in the school building. Men will run the program and serve refreshments.
New York reports that low and flat heels are the season’s latest footwear trend. Flats in gold or silver finishes range from elegant to bright Tyrolean styles, matching dresses for evening wear. The shoes promise grace, better balance, stronger leg muscles, and toned hips for wearers this spring.
Nora Kelley announces the Flower Garden Quilt was awarded to Mrs. B. R. Sanders. Charles H. Harris traveled to Columbus on business. Mr. Gordon K Bush and Publisher attended the Ohio Select List meeting. Ann Beasley returned to Ohio Wesleyan for studies. Mrs. Isaac Perry, recently operated at St Francis Hospital Columbus, returned home.
Girl Scout Troop Two members Betty French and Mary Croy completed Second Class requirements in table setting and thrift before the May Court of Awards. They learned a Swedish folk dance Reap the Flax and participated in patrol corners, games, and tests under Mrs. Thor Olson. Troop Five missed a meeting due to illness, with Marjorie Malone working on First Aid under Olson’s guidance. Troop Three hikers visited North Hill for an Easter Egg hunt, built a bonfire, toasted marshmallows, and noted birds including a flicker pair.
The funeral of Adolph Ochs, who rose from a newspaper printshop to publish The New York Times, will be held in Chattanooga Wednesday morning. Afterward the body will be shipped to New York for Friday services at Temple Emanu-El.
Athens High School Band presents its annual concert at the school auditorium Tuesday at 8 p.m. Senior Paul Lewis will perform Parade of the Wooden Soldiers as a marimba solo and conduct Col. Fitch's March. The program includes El Capitan March His Honor March American Patrol a college marches medley and Lustaphel Overture as the sole overture.
Several clubs schedule Tuesday gatherings at various locations including Mrs Frank Cone 123 Franklin Avenue and the North McKinley Avenue home of Mrs Harold Linscott. Events include library club, literary anniversary dinner, needle club and athletic band concert.
Dean Irma BE Voigt of Ohio University and president of the National Association of the Deans of Women travels to Chicago for the Ohio University Alumni Association banquet. Miss Frances Hatch, daughter of Mr and Mrs Henry Hatch, will perform at the Chicago University event. Voigt will be a guest speaker and Hatch plans to sing before returning to Athens later in the week.
Alpha Gamma Delta sorority hosts a benefit bridge party at 20 University Terrace on Thursday at 7 30 pm to raise funds for a summer camp.
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