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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1949
Page
6
Poo Seeee visited Athens for the Lasher Day celebration on Tuesday April 26 1949. Mrs Barnette and Betsy plan a two week stay in Athens. Mr Barnette serves as advertising manager with the Gary Post Tribune.
Pallas Club held its annual Guest Day at Mrs. O D Morrison’s 20 Sunnyside Drive with a flute duet by Elinor Baker and Mary Ann Hanes, violin and vocal solos, piano selections, and a tea service. The Albany Methodist Church women’s group meets Thursday at 2 pm with Mrs Harriet Moodyard presenting. Priscilla Needle Club hosts a luncheon April 29 at 1 pm at Cottage Tea House hosted by Mrs Esther Sprague. Homemaker's Club meets Wednesday at Mrs Alma Davis’s home.
Ohio University band under Director Charles E. Gilbert schedules a Wednesday April 27 children’s concert at 2 15 p m in Memorial Auditorium featuring His Honor March No Name and a cornet trio with Fliration Jack and the Beanstalk and Toyland selections The best ticket seller will conduct a band number Also on May 1 the band hosts the annual Ohio intercollegiate band contest with 100 plus participants May 3 matinee and evening at Jackson High School and an evening at Zanesville May 11
Ohio University hosted three major weekend dances. Senior Ball drew about 200 couples with Ronnie Ayers and Denison’s Tommie Williams providing music in a battle of the bands tie. Phi Delta Theta Ohio Gamma held a combined dinner dance at Athens County Country Club with co chairs Robert Bowen Munday and Raymond Reyes and chaperones. Theta Rho’s Heaven on Earth themed formal at Berry Hotel featured Paul Allens Ohioans for music with Roslyn Kaatz as dance chair and multiple chaperones.
Mrs Paul Sauvageot visits Akron and New Marshfield while attending Lasher Day events and joins a journalism round table. Nell Foster returns from Paris to Athens and plans to study in Paris again after a New York bout. Ohio University Glee Club and University Madrigal Singers embark on a four venue two day tour with broadcasts in Wooster. Phyllis Bean visits Columbus and the Nannie Allom Rebekah Lodge hosts a Past Noble Grands gathering in Nan at State Street venue.
Michael Swyers of the Round the Record column shares delight after receiving a note from Richard Rodgers. The reply notes potential interview plans and recalls Rodgers’s Broadway start at seventeen, now nineteen, with warm regards. Plus local notices feature Margaret Scott stepping into a role in Seven Sisters and details of coastal fishing trips by Mrs. Dow Grones and Mrs. Frank S. Baker, Sr.
Representatives from the United States Department of Agriculture will host an all day food preservation program on Wednesday April 27 in Athens. The training targets Extension service Farm Bureau Grange 4-H leaders teachers and others interested in canning and freezing. Four demonstrations are held in Ohio with Southeastern Ohio participants invited. The session runs 9 30 a m to 4 30 p m at the Ohio Fuel Gas Company kitchen 508 Court Street Athens.
Delegates from many universities met in Athens for a two day session. Dolores Neff, an OU sophomore from Cuyahoga Falls, was elected national treasurer to succeed Marian Malham, an OU senior from Warren. Faculty advisers included Victor D. Hill and Paul R. Murphy. Hill was elected chairman of the National Board of Trustees for a three year term.
An offer promotes using four ounces of Rennet mixed with fruit juice to lose weight. The claim targets overweight women and promises refunds if the first bottle fails to show fat loss and slimmer curves without strict dieting or vitamins. The ad emphasizes low cost and no hunger during reduction.
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