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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1939
Page
7
The Athens Garden Club convened at 26 Sunnyside Drive to discuss an Everybody's Flower Show set for September. Speakers urged wide participation, noted show styles and judging, and highlighted beautification projects including tree planting and riverbank landscaping.
West Side PTA holds 7:30 p.m. meeting at the school with speaker Mrs. O C Bird on self reliance. Fourth and fifth graders present a musical program. Houston Study Circle hostess Mrs Don Clippinger at 7:30 p.m. AAUW dinner reservations for Jesse Stuart speaker. dinner 6:30 p.m. April 20. Nazarene Chorus of 28 to sing at Athens High April 18. Wednesday brings a Married Couples party at the Presbyterian Manse and a film showing at Fine Arts Auditorium. English titled The Pearls of the Crown sponsored by the French Club. Pocahontas Lodge benefit at Red Men’s Hall. Social Sewing Society at 142 Mill St. Higley Study Circle at 2:00 p.m. with Dr George N Bur ger as guest. Woman’s Auxiliary meets 7:30 p.m.. Daughters of Union Veterans meet at I O O F Hall. Safety Education topic in East Side PTA 2:45 at East Side School. Sunday christening of Patricia Marie Beckert at St Paul’s Church with godparents and a post-ceremony dinner at the Beckert home. Out-of-town relatives listed.
A humorous personal essay on dreams of daily luxuries such as fresh sun dried sheets. The narrator contrasts weekly machine laundry with longing for two clean sheets per bed and recalls Amsterdam bed practices and Dutch cleanliness. Tomorrow asks about children’s piano practice.
Mrs. F. J. Beasley returned from Florida with granddaughter Jane Galigher, visiting relatives in Philadelphia and Huntington before heading to Athens. A string of weekend guests includes Judge Clyde Lotich and Mrs. Lotich en route to DAR, and Mr. and Mrs. Clay Mueller from Cleveland with their families. Community groups met at the American Legion Building and Wesleyan Needle Club for sewing and planning, with fifteen members and several guests attending.
The Richland Ave M P Church Christian Endeavor held a Tuesday business meeting. They planned an amateur program for Friday May 5 at Athens Township School and scheduled a Wiener roast for Friday April 21. Twenty six members attended with three guests Mary Pierce Betty Coffman and Richard Coffman present. Easter dinner guests and visitors were listed from several nearby towns. Grange 691 of Glouster Homer Grange will meet April 21 at 7 30 p m.
Mrs. Russell P. Herrold of Zanesville spoke at the annual Girl Scout Council luncheon at Eastwood, urging service beyond duty as key to youth work. She outlined regional reach for Ohio, West Virginia, and Kentucky and announced a May 8 regional conference in Lexington.
Serialized melodrama unfolds in Sag Harbor as Philip Veriteen faces a marriage proposal to Queen Olga’s protégé Madge. Past passions resurface when Olga recognizes Veriteen as Philip Schaumbein, causing a tense confrontation and a dramatic eavesdropping escape. Continued tomorrow.
Thirty one members of the Married Peoples Class of the First Christian Church gathered at Mr and Mrs John Hoons new home for an open house. John Hoon led the business session and the group voted to pay 20 of a 100 pledge to the church.
An old advertisement touts Dr Caldwell’s Laxative Senna with Syrup Pepsin as a dual remedy. It asserts Pepsin digests undigested food in the stomach while Senna stimulates lazy bowels to relieve constipation.
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