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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1941
Page
7
Mrs. William Strauss hosted fifteen Laurel Cliff Health Club members at her parents' home for a Monday evening business session followed by a program of readings and singing. Refreshments of sandwiches cookies and lemonade were served.
An all day picnic at Wood Lake was hosted by Pleasant Valley Ladies Aid Pleasanton Aid and Circle Five of the First Methodist Church of Athens. Forty members and guests dined as Athens Circle performed a program._SOCIAL visitations followed with multiple local residents stopping by.
Mrs Evelyn Turner and family plus Mrs Theen Johnson and others spent Sunday at Lake Zaleski. Rachel Church of Pomeroy is visiting her brother Milton Hysell and wife. James Church of Pomeroy and family joined James Smiths for Sunday. Sidney Leifheit of Zanesville visited relatives here. Joan Finlan stayed with Sara and Louise Burdette. P F Parker and Dale Rose attended the Eagle convention in Ironton.
Paul Arnott Brooks Sayre Floyd Clark and Charles Mallory spent a week camping in Portland. Gandee household goods moved to Middletown. Paul Wolfe serves in Will Rogers Field Oklahoma. Baptist Missionary Society meets Friday at Miss Carrie Bell's home. Bobbie Dye returns home from Marietta. Reithmiller visit from Columbus. Theiss family weekend in Racine with relatives Mrs Wilcoxen hosted.
The loneliest policeman in the world is the Royal Canadian Mounted Constable stationed 1,000 miles north of Hudson Bay.
At Troop 40 meeting in Middleport the number of prospective scouts was enough to register the troop. Scoutmaster R E McKay announced the reforming troop sponsored by Heath Methodist Church. Prep tenderfoot tests occupied most of the evening as knot tying practice began at McKay's home on S Third Ave and the window display at Martin and Roller Drug Co was decorated for Middleport Scout Week.
The fragment notes a hummingbird amulet linked to Aztec war gods and mentions stories of love charms in Mexican villages. It references the Summing bird as sacred and notes hanging the dead body of a hummingbird as a charm.
Racine pair Carrol Neigler and Wanda Eynon secured a marriage license in Gallipolis and were wed in Delaware Ohio by Rev. J. J. Halliday. Neigler, from a Canton area family, and Miss Eynon will reside in Canton after the ceremony.
The article notes that in 12 presidential elections a winning candidate earned under half the total popular vote. In three of these, the winner also trailed the opposing major party candidate.
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