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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1973
Page
11
Dear Heloise describes compiling ads and offers into a personal scrap book to save time locating future purchases. She explains cutting out magazine or newspaper items and pasting them in one place for easy reference.
Elsah Mississippi River town preserved from the 19th century by geography and poverty. Historian Charles Hosmer notes 1853 to 1860 buildings in rustic Greek revival, with four saloons standing though the town is dry. He says the peak was 1861 and decline followed as progress bypassed the town.
A charity carnival at the Mains home raised 7.20 for Muscular Dystrophy. Wendy Mains served as ringmaster with help from Lee Terrell, Brian Martin, Theresa Crafton, Sandra Crafton, Pam Warner, and Michael Warner. Booths included horse shoe pitch, penny sale, milk bottle toss, palm reading, horoscopes, and a Theresa Graf ton beauty shop.
The Salt Fork Festival sponsored by the Ohio Arts and Crafts Foundation will run August 10 to 12 in Cambridge City Park. Hocking Valley craftsmen Jov Lindskold Esther Moses Bill Trout Bill Ford and Brian Hicks will participate with art shows demonstrations displays and entertainment. The Ohio Arts and Crafts Guild will provide volunteer teachers for classes including wheel thrown pottery collage sculpture Chinese watercoloring candle dipping quilting and more. Pre registration is
Dr and Mrs Carl Roberts and their daughter visit with Dr Robert Russell and family in Lexington Mass. Russell teaches political science at Harvard while on Carnegie and Ford grants. Other family members join for a weekend visit and planned return to DeKalb Ill next month.
The Gilkey family gathered for their third annual reunion at a new roadside park on Route 33. A noon basket dinner followed, with many relatives including Darrell Young, Guy Thoma, Frank Gilkey, Maria Gilkey, Jordie Warner, Garold Gilkey, Dallas Forbes, Evelyn Wilbin, Larry Bailey, and Bill Young among attendees and extended guests from Athens Chandlersville Columbus Glouster and The Plains.
Two Athens units of the Improved Order of Red Men and the Degree of Pocahontas back Save the Children Federation in Norwalk Connecticut. Mohawk Tribe 174 and White Swan support Ricky a 12 year old Shoshone boy and Delores a 14 year old Pima girl. The program targets high child mortality disease poverty unemployment and school dropout dangers.
Analysis shows beef prices rose less than 50 percent while average per capita income more than doubled. If prices tracked income, beef would cost about 57 cents more per pound now. Live cattle would fetch around 73.75 dollars per hundredweight instead of 43. This contrasts with the larger rise in income over the period.
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