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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1934
Page
7
Chauncey NCEY hosts an eighth grade field and track meet on Friday April 26 featuring teams from Pauncey Millfield Sugar and local rural schools. Events include 50 60 and 100 yard dash a three legged race shuttle relay basketball and football jumps. Start time 9 45 AM. The meet follows last year's inter class event.
Members from PNCEY and Mill attended the event at the home of Mrs Paul Theisen. Wesley Wai-Fiske Paul Theisen Ferre Christine Brown Pearl Henry and other class members enjoyed refreshments and entertainment at the close of the evening.
Mrs Liby Evoner attends funeral for Charles Eid in New Marshfield on Tuesday Shields returns to work in Colorado Mrs J W Hickman and Martha Ellen of Nelson visit Mrs Fielding's mother Mrs B Fielders in town Tuesday
Greens Run Church of Christ held its annual class banquet at Mr and Mrs Pearl Brown's home. Attendees included Mr and Mrs Emmett Olbers Mr and Mrs Wayne Snyder Mr and Mrs William Dalton Mr and Mrs Charles Cordray Mr and Mrs Virgil Fierbaugh Mr and Mrs Harold Brower Mr and Mrs Dave Swartz and Rev and Mrs J B Courtnes. Prayer meeting tonight at 7 30 hosted by Mr and Mrs John Smith in Batley Run. Chauncy PTA meets tonight in the high school auditorium with seventh and eighth grade pupils presenting. Pythian Sisters and Past Chiefs Club change meeting to Friday at Mrs Pearl Henry's home.
A large audience welcomed Chauncey High School seniors for the Tuesday night performance of Attorney for the Defense in the school auditorium. The plot centers on an unscrupulous attorney who wrongly convicts his own daughter. Cast includes Lewis Tracy Robert James Charlies Sweeney Jr Jack McCafferty Richard Howard Dan Civille Elinore Close Annie Kott van Immogene Lock Evelyn Barnes coached by Miss Floride Sprague and Paul Fiske.
Trimble Church of Christ hosts a 7 30 p m service with Bible School and a reception for 37 new members. Choir music led by Mrs Pearl Christman, a 20 minute address by Rev Fred J Gardner of Middleport, baptism certificates presented by Pastor G B Courtney, social hour by the women s classes. Attendance expected near 200.
Schilling and Harold McBride were each paid one dollar by Mayor Len B. McCune for overtime parking fines.
The article promotes a cotton panel that converts into a girdle with a sash and shoulder flounces, suitable in cotton print, plain fabric, silk, or chiffon. It highlights pattern 1890 sizes and prices, plus a book and pattern bundle offer. It also notes a funeral for Mrs Samantha Johnson, age 95, with services by Rev O W Williams and burial at Elk Cemetery, McArthur.
Dorothea Dix counsels a 50s wife to consider leaving her husband after discovering infidelity. She argues a clean break can restore happiness, or unhooking may prompt the husband to return if his affair subsides. The column also offers broad friendship tips, urging proactive, considerate outreach and respect for privacy.
Murray City The Christian Endeavor Society of the United Brethren Church will hold a bake sale Saturday April 2. Local families, including the Cooks from Columbus and the Coleman family from Nelsonville visited relatives over the weekend. Residents returned from Cleveland and other nearby towns as Sunday visits continued among neighbors.
A County-Wide Library Service representative recently visited Torch Area schools and donated books and magazines for students. PTA plans a May 3 picnic and postponed officer elections until May. Local residents Mrs. Carrie Dinsmore of Lincoln Neb and family were visiting county friends.
In probate court Judge 8 M Johnson fixed inheritance tax for Emma Buxton estate at 700 on a gross estate of 3500 1209 68 was subject to vi or grant bolin omitted to probate and the estate of William Willard was declared not subject to inheritance tax
Fox Film presents Coming Out Party at the Ohio Theater revealing debutante pressures behind the scene. Frances Dee and Gene Raymond lead a cast with Allison Skipworth and others. John Blystone directs from a Gladys Unger/Jesse Lasky script. The Show-Off at Majestic Theatre starring Spencer Tracy also draws attention as a high grossing stage-to-screen hit.
The new RKO comedy drama Meanest Gal in Town opens Friday at the Majestic Theater featuring El Brendel as a barber seeks to expand his shop to join big business. ZaSu Pitts plays his fiancée while Skeets Gallagher adds a city salesman and Pert Kelton adds local color as manicurist. The five comedians portray town life romance and ambition with scenes shifting to New York City where Zasy and Fl pursue a department store comeback.
The horizontal clues reveal an ice skating star in a vintage puzzle, with cross references to words like sea, flower leaf, and citadel. Vertical clues include godly person, vessel for preserves, and arid wilderness, hinting at a themed grid from an old newspaper page.
Universal's The Trail Drive opens Friday featuring 3500 Texas longhorns stampeding filmed near Kern River Valley with Ken Maynard and horse Taraan. Also showing Private Detective 62 with Margaret Lindsay and William Powell revealing a glamorous gambling house and a framing plot.
New Straitsville will see a new entertainment venue after Friday April 27 when the Princess Theater opens on Clark Street. The town also notes a marriage announced by Mr and Mrs George Jewett for their daughter Maude to Al P Martin of Akron and a weekend visit from Ralph McCannon of St Louis Michigan. The Giffins marked their twenty fifth wedding anniversary as other local events include Eagles lodge initiations and a funeral for Philerman Burgess in Gore. Rebekah Lodge met with noble grand Mabel Stoltz absent due to illness.
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