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Newspaper

Athens Messenger

Location

Athens, Ohio, United States of America

Date

Apr 28, 1939

Page

10

Mothers' Week End in Athens Highlights Four Day Schedule

Athens hosts the 14th annual Mothers Week End with hundreds of guests and events. Activities include art exhibitions, a track meet against West Virginia, convocation by Dean Irma Voigt, a comedy in Memorial Auditorium, lantern festival, concerts, and multiple special dinners. Mrs C C Leighty and daughter Marilyn returned to Philadelphia after visiting Mrs E L Atkins in Athens.

Athens Women's League of Ohio University Ellis Hall West Wing Ohio University West Virginia Irma FE. Voigt Music Hall C. C. Leighty Marilyn Philadelphia E. L. Atkins

One Woman to Another in a Framing of Life and Letters

A column by Marian Bush Reeder opens with a note on handling reader correspondence and the author’s limits. It includes a local cleaning solution shared by Mrs. Harry Burns, a light quip about housemaids knee and cramps, a call for letters to the column, and a brief item about the Clarks Chapel Ladies Aid rummage sale on April 29 at City Hall, plus a blurb on Seattle beer samples and early in-flight refueling aircraft.

Sammy Splash Sweetness and Light Dorothy Dix Olive Roberts Barton Harry Burns State and Lancaster Sts Clarks Chapel Seattle William R. Bell British Imperial Airways

Joan Davis Dizzies Columbus Fans At Chi Omega Tea

Ohio University student Katherine Hall reports on Joan Davis American film star visiting Columbus for a Chi Omega tea. Davis, chatting and posing for photos, notes rain and her Hollywood life while drummer Jack Powell entertains and Davis hints at stage marriage.

Katherine Hall Ohio University Joan Davis Kartherint The Green and White Chi Omega Mise Davis Ohio Grate America Columbus Miss Davis

Band Concert in Memorial Climax to O. U. Festivities

Ohio University Band performs Sunday at 8 p m in Memorial Auditorium under Curtiss W Janssen. The program lists members by instrument including clarinets flutes oboes saxophones brass and percussion with Ms Neil Crawford on harp and Prof C C Robinson on organ.

Ohio University Dance Club Memorial Auditorium O. U Ohio University Band Curtiss W. Janssen Clarence Smith Grace Wood Robert Durbin Robert Morgan Richard Barber Neil Crawford C. C. Robinson Newman Powell Pete Hlinka

PTA Hostess Mrs Staats Appointed for National Congress

Mrs L C Staats state magazine chairman of the PTA serves on the hostess and speakers committees for the national Parent Teacher Congress meeting in Cincinnati next week. She departs Sunday for Cincinnati.

PTA Leader to Welcome National Congress in Cincinnati

Mrs. C. Tracy LaCost, state PTA president, will give the address of welcome as the National Congress of Parents and Teachers meets in Cincinnati from May 1 to 4. A number of Athens women plan to attend.

C. Tracy LaCost Parent Teacher Association National Congress of Parents and Teachers Cincinnati Athens

Ohio University Band Concert At Stadium As Lanterns Light Night

Ohio University's band directed by Curtis W Janssen will perform a 20 minute concert at 9 30 pm in the Ohio University Stadium as part of the Festival of Lanterns and fireworks Night The program opens with Sousa marches King Cotton and Washington Post then King of the Air Excerpt Ballet Egyptian Alma Mater and Golden Jubilee as finale. The Fiftieth Annual Conference of the Ohio Society Sons of the American Revolution takes place at Hotel Berry April 28 29 and Athens Township PTA meets April 28 7 30 pm at Mechanicsburg School with a talk on Home Economics and Industrial Arts and officer elections.

WAA Ohio University Curtis W. Janssen Sousa King Cotton Washington Post Melson Lugini Ohio Society, Sons of the American Revolution Berry Athens ‘Township Parent- Teacher Association Mechanicsburg

Faculty Cast in Old Lady 31 Saturday Night

The Women's League presents Rachel Cruther's three act comedy Old Lady 31 at 8:15 in Memorial Auditorium to raise funds for a Loan Fund aiding women students. An all faculty cast features Dr Edith M Wray as Angie Norman R Buchan as Abe and Dean Irma FE Voigt as Abigal with additional faculty members in the ensemble.

Women's League Memorial Auditorium Glee Club Dean Voigt Hillcrest Athens YWCA Presbyterian Irma E. Voigt Norman R. Buchan Ohio University Rachel Cruther League Edith M. Wray Angie Abe Dean Irma FE. Voigt Abigal Melvin Danielson L. J. Otis Thor Olson L. C. Staats Dana Kelley George Clard Joseph

Youth's foot amputated in Columbus hospital

Lawrence Limo a 14 year old boy from Glouster had his right foot amputated above the ankle at St Francis Hospital Columbus after gangrene developed following an injury while crawling under a train two weeks earlier. He was brought to Columbus in the C F Wallace Ambulance with his father Carl Limo and Ava accompanying.

London Hollywood Bing Crosby Powell Crosby Miss Davis Buddy Ebson Glouster Lawrence Limo St. Francis Hospital Columbus Lawrence C. F. Wallace Hir Carl Limo Ava

Play at the Old Lady's Home Draws Inmates to Abe

Thackery and Miss Mary Flannagan star in a stage piece set at an old ladies home. Abe refuses to part with his wife and joins the residents, becoming a hit with all 30 inmates. Admission is 5 cents at the door.

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