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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1934
Page
6
New furniture shown in late summer sales lets homemakers express individuality in the home. Variety is the keynote of modern interior decoration. buying only one or two pieces can refresh rooms without making old furniture seem dated.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank R. Murphey host Ohio Farmers Insurance staff including F. H. Hawley and C. Don McVay with Mrs. McVay visiting Elmwood Place. Others travel to Monroeville and Philadelphia for family visits, graduations, or hospital stays while Ada and Price families journey to Washington DC and Englewood for leisure and scouting events.
Albany Aug 10 The Ladies Aid Society will host an ice cream social at the M E Church Saturday evening Aug 10 serving begins at 5 30 o clock to raise funds for the church actions reflect a church benefit event with local society involvement
Athens County Probate Judge 8 M Johnson admits the will of J E Cline to probate. The action makes the document eligible for settlement under probate laws and warrants further administration steps.
Miss Jane Gill daughter of Mr and Mrs C M Gill will broadcast at 7 pm over Station WBNS Columbus with Eddy Willis in a double piano program as guest artists of Frank Ferneau's Band. This is their second Ferneau appearance and Gill a College of Music Ohio University student has spent much of the summer in Columbus rehearsing and broadcasting.
A busload of twenty seven Boy Scouts and leaders completed a five day trip to the Chicago World's Fair. They left Friday morning, camped at a Cook County Forest Reserve cabin, toured the fair by day, and rode the S Roosevelt and the Loop before returning to Athens last night.
A new FERA sewing unit for women starts at Coolville bringing county total to six. Twelve workers are at Coolville with about 125 employed countywide making bedding on a piece-work basis in exchange for bedding clothing or other goods. Other units operate at Glouster Jacksonville-Trimble Chauncey Stewart and New Marshfield.
Mrs H L Fox of Salem Colorado daughter of Dr and Mrs E G Pedigo underwent an operation yesterday at Sheltering Arms Hospital and is reported recovering nicely today. She has been visiting her parents at 26 Elmwood Place for the past month.
John Bolin a George Washington University law student and prosecuting attorney found an antique Dutch Hague chair beneath layers of paint in a landlady’s basement. A senator offered to buy it, but Bolin kept it as a gift for his mother Florence Bolin. Also found was a walnut whatnot from long possession.
Ohio censor Dr. B O Skinner blasted national movie producers for selling the chastity of grandmothers for box office dollars and warned that the nationwide drive for clean films is slowing down as he spoke in Columbus.
Dan David, nephew of Miss Juliette David and Athens High School graduate, displays charcoal drawings and linoleum cuts in a local shop window. His works include the Union Terminal in Cincinnati and the Sears building at the World's Fair. Ann Brown praises his bold technique. his pieces resemble magazine illustrations but carry his signature.
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