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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1948
Page
11
The article advises mature women to dress neatly for trips with outfits like seersucker suits or wrinkle resistant fabrics. Slacks or culottes suit active sightseeing, while a small casual hat or scarf keeps hair tidy. Practical footwear should be low-heeled and easy to clean.
A young mother of a large family keeps her gaiety by leaving work at the door when socializing. She trusts a competent babysitter and avoids thinking about tomorrow. The piece argues that escaping cares for an evening preserves youth and vitality, unlike the anxious drab woman.
A new aluminum nail polish applicator, resembling a fountain pen, releases polish in a controlled flow from a reservoir. Pressing a button delivers drops to a square topped brush, smoothing color evenly for home manicures. The Barrows reunion is set for Sunday August 15 at City Park Parkersburg West Virginia with a noon basket dinner, secretary Golda I Barrows says.
Hollywood producers push war themed pictures as audiences lean toward wartime memories. M G M drops Command Decision while Fighter Squadron and 12 O Clock High push dramatic battles. Lasky recalls Battleground veto and notes ex soldiers seek glories of war in fiction. Zachary Scott to portray Texas cattle king Robert Benjamin Masterson in Cattle Baron.
A special Girl Scouts and Brownie Scouts meeting is set for Friday at 2 p.m. at the junior high school Girl Scout headquarters. Mrs. Thor Olson states the girls should bring crafts from Camp Rotan and practice dancing for a county fair program.
A memo advises those who attend bridge parties to improve by learning proper bidding and scorekeeping instead of admitting weaknesses and not acting. The note also mentions Mrs. C. W. Fulton from Columbus visiting her sisters Mrs. L. C. Baker and Mrs. Edwin Finsterwald.
Mr and Mrs Henry Hutchinson of New Marshfield and son Thomas leave for a month long vacation to visit son James Hutchinson in San Antonio Texas where he serves in the Air Force They plan to travel to California Mrs B F Beckler Jr from El Centro California visits her mother in town until September when her husband the Atomic Energy Commission resident engineer joins for the California return trip SHADE VISITORS Mr and Mrs Raymond Dew and sons from Rock Island Illinois visit Shade area relatives Mr Dew is Rock Island Division Superintendent for Chicago Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Mary Lee Hardy returns home to The Plains after a four week Detroit visit with sister and brother in law William Oliver
The Belle White Class of Central Ave Methodist Church moves its annual family picnic from Aug 1 to Sunday Aug 8 at Lake Hope after church. Families should bring a picnic. Transportation help available by calling Frances Meek Mullen at 22442. Mr and Mrs Jack L Scott have returned from visits to Huntington and Montoursville and Gettysburg en route home via Maryland.
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