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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1948
Page
12
Lonnie England of Pickerington is seriously ill at Doctors Hospital Columbus following an appendectomy on April 21. Peritonitis developed. His mother is former Faye Goff of New Marshfield. Cards may be sent to Room 206.
The Ohio University Engineers Club stages its first annual campus dance with elaborate decorations. Four thousand balloons create a false ceiling in Men’s Gymnasium, a model steam engine decorates a corner, and a night club marquee frames the entrance. A 14 piece band provides music as a professional show with juggling dancing and pantomime acts runs from 8 p.m. A parade with band and faculty follows at 10 30 a.m. featuring professors in sign backs and students with T squares bearing posters led by John Sabol. John S Clever chairs the dance with Richard Selleck as adviser and Harry G Fabe heads publicity.
Mrs. Boyd Angell hosted the Intermediate CCL Circle at her Route 4 Athens home. President Mrs. Carl Clifford reported on the Spring CCL conference in New Lexington. Guest speaker Mrs. C F E Heft, Athens City Schools music supervisor, spoke on music education for children and its moral value. Refreshments were served by Mrs Angell and Mrs Walter Cornwell. Mrs Heft performed music selections with impromptu group singing. Next meeting will be at Mrs Kermit Blosser's home.
Miss Betty Newton of the Ohio Fuel Gas Company announces a four week cooking school for brides business women and homemakers at the Gas Company Home Service Center starting Monday May 3 at 730 pm. All women in Athens and surrounding area are invited to enroll free of charge by contacting Miss Newton at 0216.
Group III of the Women's Association of the Presbyterian Church hosted a birthday party at 70 Maplewood Drive honoring Mrs. Albert Johnson leader of Group NT. The event featured a candlelight cake, rhinestone lapel pin, corsages, and birthday cards to be opened April 29.
Thursday Past Matron auxiliary meets at Masonic Temple 7 30 p m. Friday East Side Sewing club at 75 E State St 2 p m. Friday Past Noble Grands club hosts pot luck at 297 E State St 6 30 p m. Mechanicsburg PTA gathers April 30 7 30 p m in school auditorium. Belle White Class meets 7 30 p m at the Wolfe home. Athens County 4 H Club meets at Grange Hall with John Sheridan presiding. Harold Denzer and Frank Dennison hosted by Rev. Robert Phillips. Mrs J P Jordan visiting New Rochelle relative in Albany area.
Mrs. Robert Lackey joins the accounting department at McBee Company in Athens with her husband, a former Marine now enrolled at Ohio University. Miss Marceline Paul, from Coolville, enters the offset printing department after six months wartime work at the U S Naval Base Norfolk as a punch operator.
Athens County Farm Bureau Council met last week at the George Snider home with President W. A. Finney in charge and soil conservation discussion led by Earl Cowan. Attendees included Mr. and Mrs. Hope, Finney, Webb, Jacoby, Bobo, Wingett, Williams, Poston, Snider, Mrs. Wright, and visitor Mrs. Hanning. refreshments and recreation were provided. The next gathering will be at the home of Mr. and Mrs. H. R. Jacoby.
A surprise birthday party honored Floyd Beveridge at his New Marshfield home on Sunday April 25. Dinner followed at noon with many relatives and friends from Athens Chauncey Lima Wilmington and other towns attending. Two thirds of college women knit per a recent poll with New England leading.
Mrs. Robert Wren and daughter Susan return from Crooksville and stay with Mrs. Jessie McClain at 19 Ohio Ave. Pauline Floyd and her mother visit Bremen with Mr. Floyds family. Mrs. Flood and daughter from La Jolla arrive in Athens seeking housing. Mrs. Cline plans weekend return. Alpha Xi Delta alumnae attend Founders Day.
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