Local social notes recall two week trips and visits
Society column lists households returning from vacations in Quebec Michigan Florida and Georgia. Families include the Lamborns Bolins Knott winchells Smiths and others visiting relatives in Amesville Sunnyside Dr Chicago Orlando and across the Southeast with tours from Fort Myers to Daytona Beach via Coral Gables and the Blue Ridge region.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nora F. Bardin Mansfield
Morris Ave
V. D. Mansfield
Columbus
Florida
St. Petersburg
Fla
Hugh Thompson
Norria Dam
Tennessee
Fort Myers
Bonita Springs
Gulf of Mexico
Everglades
Coral Gables
Fort Lauderdale
Miami Beach
Dayton Beach
Atlantic Ocean
Jacksonville
Newport News
Blue Ridge Mountains
Charleston
W. Va
Pomeroy
Miss Moriarty Makes Free Call at Great Lakes Expo
Helen Moriarty of Athens visiting the Cleveland Great Lakes Exposition used a free long distance call from Ohio Bell exhibit. Nearly 200 visitors win daily free calls to any Ohio point, with Moriarty talking to her mother Mrs. T. B. Moriarty. She teaches third grade at Central School and visited relatives in East Cleveland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Helen Moriarty
Union St
Athens
Ohio Bell Telephone Company
Hall of Progress
Moriarty
Ohio
T. B. Moriarty
Central School
W. C. Clifford
East Cleveland
Miss Moriarty
Ralph McDermott
Lorene Rodehaver
Mary Helen Lee
Shopping About Town With Mary Lou
Mary Lou Lammers shares tips on lighter, easier cleaning with new lighter brooms and improved long straw designs. She reviews a mouse trap jar cover that seals in mice and advises cheese bait. Cold packing canners are promoted to steam multiple jars, preserving flavor while simplifying canning tasks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Lou Lammers
Avoid Tight Waves and Ringlets Then Go Natural
A columnist cites a business executive who dislikes tight artificial waves and heavy makeup. He urges clean skin, sparse powder, natural looks, wide waves, and thorough brushing both at home and after visits to the beauty shop.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alicia Hart
Lacy Bedspread Pattern Pattern and Crochet Instructions
The notice promotes a lacy bedspread pattern and crochet square instructions with a sample square and joining instructions. It invites readers to send 10 cents to The Athens Messenger Needlecraft Dept. for Pattern 1139, with name and address, and lists locals at a social event and visits in nearby towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Athens Messenger
Needlecraft Dept
Eighth Ave
New York
N. Y
Oldest Tree Claim From 1895 BC Timber
A Douglas fir felled in 1895 in British Columbia measured 417 feet tall and is believed the oldest tree, though its growth rings were not counted to confirm age.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
British Columbia
Social calendar highlights week activities
The week lists Monday events for the Catholic Ladies of Columbia at the K of C Hall and WBA Travelers Club with Mrs Thelma Hamilton for bridge and bingo, plus Order of Eastern Star in the Masonic Temple. Tuesday includes a Woman's Benefit Association meeting with initiation. Thursday features a Progressive Class silver tea at Ralph Barker's home and a Business and Professional Woman's Club meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Catholic Ladies of Columbia
K. of C. Hall
WBA Travelers Club
Thelma Hamilton
W. Washington St
Order of Eastern Star
Masonic Temple
Woman's Benefit Association
IOOF
Central Avenue
Ralph Barker
Business and Professional Woman's Club
Old Athens Journal Adlets Tie Teeth to Traveling Public
An 1876 Athens Journal advertises Castoria as a remedy and a row of false teeth guaranteed to stay in place for eating and talking. Local ads note hotels catering to travelers, post offices, grocers, and a range of trades while fashion mentions centennial stockings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. L. Clutter
Race St
Athens Journal
Philadelphia
House of Representatives
Charles H. Grosvenor
Florida
E. R. Lash
John Perkins
T. A. Beaton and Company
Main Street
Athens
Elmer Golden
Brown House
W. H. McMonigal
Warren House
Jacob Grones
Castoria
Journal
Stars and Stripes
Miss Ransbottom Weds Earl Drake at St Marys
Announcement from Baker Settlement that Em ma Lou Ransbottom and Earl R. Drake were married at St. Marys West Virginia on a Wednesday. A miscellaneous shower and bell ringing are planned for Aug 10 at the Drake home followed by a benefit ice cream social at the Townhouse Church near Albany on Aug 15 for church funds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Ransbottom
Baker Settlement
Emma Lou
Earl R. Drake
Walter Drake
St. Marys
W. Va
Drake
Townhouse
Albany
Just Between You and Me Gossip on a Hot Day
A gossip column notes Joe Penner tired of Goo Goo in a next film and eyeing Chicago stockyards for dramatic roles. It mentions P G Wodehouse and Margaret Mitchell titles, a Pigskin Parade football film with Yale and Texas State, plus a farmer boy tossing watermelons and the line What for I ain't done nothing. Honey ants are said to gain eight times their weight from a single meal of money dew.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joe Penner
Chicago
Pennerward
C. O, Dd
P. G. Wodehouse
Margaret Mitchell
Yale
Texas State University
Unger Families Hold Sixteenth Reunion at Lancaster
The sixteenth annual Unger reunion was held at Lancaster Faire grounds on Sunday July 26. Attendees included many from Clarksburg West Virginia and Columbus Ohio among numerous families sharing a day of gathering and memories. Also noted the Sons of the American Legion plan a 7 p m meeting in the Legion building.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Unger
Lancaster Faire Grounds
Clarksburg
W. Va
William Anderson
Arthur, Allyn
Mary
Norma Jean
Eleanor Stitt
Richard Hickey
Glen Timberman
Carolyn Ann
Raymond
Billy Irwin
Albert Salta
Juanita
Harold
Newark
James Anderson
Velva
John Unger
Pearl Unger
Maryland
Joe
Will Unger
Nita June
Bonnie Gay
Billy
Gibsonville
Rosa Culbertson
Violet Irene
Gerald
Charles Unger
Leegan
Harry Wharf
Lola
Mildred
Myrtle
Cecil
George Burgoon
Will Burgoon
Laurelville
Mary Anderson
Tom Anderson
Hattie Black
George Anderson
Amanda Shaeffer
Harry Straw
Florence Ellen
Lester
Martin
Evangeline
Laura Smith
John Kern
Columbus
Anderson
Charles Anderson
Iona
William Stuller
Wallace Stuller
Homer Stuller
Leo Stuller
Russell Streets
Pauline
Marvine and
Russel
Nancy Anderson
Dorothy Kemp
Jess Sims
Nina
Harry Rohr
Donna Jean and
Donald
Sara Oxford
Bernice Jacobs
Leah Creaver
Burrel Mullard
All of
Legion Sons
Sons of the American Legion
Legion Building
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Michigan
Canada
Alvin Lamborn
Quebec
Vern Lamborn
Glouster
J. W. Bolin
Beverlee
Jack
East State St
Lake Otsego
Houghton Lake
Roger N, Christman
Patricia
Muskegon
Mich
Frances Winchell
Walter Winchell
Miami, Fla
Walter Christman
Betty Shuff
Vernon
Dana C. Smith
Amesville
Caroline Knott
Stanton Knott
Sunnyside Dr
Henrotin Hospital
Izura Creamer
Stewart St
Fred E. Brown
Maplewood Dr
Mary Lou
Ilice
Cambridger
Southern Ohio Electric Co
C. V. Whitney
Charles Payson
Sophie Tucker
Mrs. Potter Bourne
George Bostwick
Janet Olcott
Saratoga Springs
Saratoga
Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney
Paddock
Grandstand
Chauncey Olcott
George “Pete” Bostwick
Harold Whaley
Patty Jo
A. E. Whaley
William Whaley
Woodrow Wilson
Nellie and
Marie Locke
Locke
St. Marys Park
Neil Thomas
Mrs
Louis Heil
Mrs. Hoodlett
Lancaster
Walter Gadberry
Marian Bush Snyder
Blackstone
W. G. Cooley
Court
Union Sts
H. K. Blackstone
Miss Ransbottom
Mr. Drake
H. V. Masters
E. State St
Sheltering Arms Hospital
Jane
Powerite
Wlodery
Bettes
B-Ettes Co., Inc
DuBois
Cline Pharmacy, CO
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