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Newspaper

Athens Messenger

Location

Athens, Ohio, United States of America

Date

Aug 12, 1938

Page

8

Country Club Dance Features Percy Lowrey Band Saturday Night

Country Club members dance to Percy Lowrey's color band at the mid summer club event this Saturday night. Music will run from 10 to 2 o'clock, creating a lively spring evening atmosphere.

Country Club Percy Lowrey

California Here I Come No Age Limit for Clothes or Life

The author contrasts California's permissive apparel and active lifestyle with aging stereotypes. In California, people of all ages wear shorts and one piece swimsuits, enjoy outdoor games, and pursue new hobbies, suggesting freedom from East Coast age conventions. The piece ends with a desert scene and a reprise of the title phrase.

Marian Bush Reeder San Diego Court Street California Athens Thompson Golden State East

Personal travel notes of Athens residents

A parade of locals plans vacations and visits from Athens to Wisconsin Michigan New York and Canada with trips to Niagara Falls and Ohio. Families include Bird Horn Wood McElroy Hughes Humphrey Householder Harmon Kayser Morris Cross Pierson Atkinson and other residents visiting relatives attending funerals picnics and church events between trips and gatherings at home and in nearby towns.

Frank Cross Carl Roberts Cleveland Oscar Roberts

Garden Club Absent This Month and Local Nuptials

Athens residents learn the August Athens Garden Club meeting at Mrs. Carl H. Beasley’s home is canceled and the club will not meet until September. Stella Diehl and Eugene Atkins, both of Harrisonville, wed at Prof. Houf’s home in Lancaster Street Athens, with relatives present. The couple plans a Washington D C honeymoon and will reside in Harrisonville after travel.

Athens Garden Club Carl H. Beasley Garden Club Stella Diehl Eugene Atkins Harrisonville Horace T. Houf Lancaster St Athens Houf E. V. Atkins R. A. Diehl V. S. Atkins Rutland Ray Alkire Felix Alkire Coelle al

Fresh Peach Desserts and a Peach Cake Delight

The piece presents two peach based dishes an individual fresh peach salad and a peach cake dessert. The salad layers peach pineapple green pepper and pistachio with cream cheese on lettuce and olive oil lemon lime dressing. The cake dessert blends peaches with a tapioca batter baked to a browned top for six to eight servings.

Community Gatherings Planned This Friday Evening

Past Noble Grands' Club hosts annual picnic at Mrs. M. C. Stalder home in Chauncey at 6 30 p m. Progressive Class of Richland Ave M P Church meets at 7 30 p m in the church basement with Mae Smith leading devotion and Villa Tippie directing entertainment. Class Six Church of God picnic set for the fair grounds at 7 p m with water melon. attendees asked to bring fork and salt.

Noble Grands’ Club Richland Ave Mae Smith Miss Villa Tippie Dallas Wooster Church of God Fairgrounds

Marriage Meddlers A Sequel to Married Comrades

Adele Garrison sketches a domestic scene as Lillian reenters the narrator's life and Dicky's troubles surface. Katie the cook grouses over delays while Queen Olga fainted and Mrs. Bickett tends the children, hinting at further developments to come.

Jim Katie Olga Ting Keetchen Mrs. Bickett Madam Graham

Why Not Mix Your Vegetables And See What You Get

A set of simple 1940s style vegetable dishes includes CORN AND TOMATO AU GRATIN STUFFED ONIONS and CREAMED TOMATOES ON TOAST. Recipes provide ingredients like corn tomatoes bread crumbs beef stock cheese and butter with baking steps and temperatures.

Lillian Dicky-bird Dicky

Richard Van Dyke Surprise Birthday Party Held

Richard Van Dyke was the honored guest at a surprise birthday party hosted by Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Starlin at their home on Saturday night. Refreshments included ice cream and cake, and games filled the evening with guests from the Helping Hands Class of the Presbyterian Church and many Starlin family members.

Richard van Dyke H. H. Starlin Richard Starlins Helping Hands The Presbyterian Church Raymond Leta Gould Lewis Thelma Smith Mary Florence Catherine Winner Rollo Kenneth Loeffler Foster Ward Starlin Bertha Matthews Mary Helen Copeland

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