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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1942
Page
6
The piece advises women to stay busy as duration widows by taking war related work, volunteering, and socializing with other widows. It suggests forming a support network, keeping in touch with family, and finding work to ease loneliness during wartime separation.
Suzanne Danford pursues a long running musical quiz for a big prize, continuing to mail 15 cents per entry. Mary Elizabeth Lasher prepares to depart for the Tobe-C Coburn School in New York City on September 8. A five year old in Athens adopts a Superman persona, then falls from a roof while testing the costume. Dorothy Gentry and Ruth Gentry visit relatives in Kentucky and North Carolina. Mrs Freda Riseley and son Billy Joe stay with relatives in Lancaster. Stitch and Chatter 4 H Club meets Tuesday with a request to bring a handkerchief and project.
Miami becomes a military hub as Army Navy and Coast Guard occupy the coast. Curfews tighten, vice crackdown tightens, hotels and beaches limit access, fuel and travel rationing bite. Military schools and bases reshape the city as civilian life yields to war needs.
The Green-Ogdin-Caster reunion met Sunday at Columbia Chapel Meigs County with a dinner and a brief business session. Officers elected included President Bessie Stout Dexter vice president W D Vale Columbus and Maude Holcomb Carpenter as secretary treasurer. Contests and prizes followed as attendees from Columbus Aurora Washington Langsville Wilkesville and others gathered for the annual reunion.
A Honolulu cloth shortage spurs native fabrics like palaka in jeep suits and blue white trabajs. Local designers add touches with hand block Luana cloth featuring island motifs. Three garment factories begin mass production of sports wear from existing stock.
Pythian Sisters plan a called meeting at 10.0 F Hall on Monday night. Democrat Women's Club meets Monday at 7:30 p.m. with Mrs. Fred Shafer at 464 Richland Ave. Another club gathers Monday at 7:30 p.m. at Mrs. Kenneth Smith's home 58 Walker St. American Legion Auxiliary meeting moved from Tuesday August 18 to Tuesday August 25 with hostesses listed.
At The Plains home of Mr and Mrs Pearl Coon many guests gathered for a Hawaiian themed afternoon with palaka prints Juana cloth and lauhala accessories featured. Attendees included Mrs Aura Basaford of Gahanna and Mrs Elsie Helwig with Earnest, Pleasant Hill.
Mrs. Ralph McDermott and her light daughter Joan return to McDermott after a week with her parents at 315 E State St. McDermott resigns as McDermott High School coach to become physical instructor at Milford High School near Cincinnati and plans to move in September. Other items note Mrs. Wiseman and Miss Faulkner travel to New London Conn to visit Roger Wiseman, secretary at the submarine base, and Mr. Atkinson returns to Logan W Va after visiting family. Cincinnati guests include Mr. and Mrs. George Pierson and Pearl Lemley. Helen McAfee visits Eloise Warner in Flora.
A five question etiquette item tests guest manners including sugar use and courtesy to civilians versus officers. Answers: 1 No, 2 Yes, 3 Yes, 4 Yes, 5 Yes. The suggested solution notes a guest must adapt to the situation.
The Buckley Seaman descendants held their 15th annual reunion at City Park Chillicothe on Sunday August 9 with six living children present and a noon dinner. New members Ann Marie Seaman and Kathryn Jeanne Milless were welcomed. Regrets were read from several relatives and many cousins attended, including families from New Vienna Athens Columbus Marion Dayton and Wilmington.
In a New York hotel suite, Ronald Brixton and Madge discuss Carolyn’s surveillance and a letter from Carolyn hinting at a trip to We Westhampton to uncover Marion Morton’s disappearance. Mrs Underwood may aid, while fear and duty tense the search for truth.
The recipe editor notes abundant cheddar supplies will lower prices. It urges using cheese rich dishes as a budget backbone when meat costs strain family budgets. The article outlines a cheese custard style dish with milk breadcrumbs and eggs.
A meal plan lists breakfast items such as grapes corn meal griddle cakes honey coffee milk plus lunch and dinner courses. The dinner feature includes veal stew vegetables brown rice and a pear dessert with coffee and milk. A recipe note describes folding hot egg yolk mixture into stiff egg whites and baking at 300 degrees for an hour. It also details stuffing green peppers with cheese souffle mix and baking at 275 degrees in a water bath for about an hour.
A refreshing tart drink idea mixes grapefruit juice and crushed ice in a tall glass, sweetened with powdered sugar, topped with ginger ale and a mint sprig, and finished with a maraschino cherry for garnish.
The church announces a change of the Sunday School picnic to Thursday August 20 at Woods Lake. All members and interested persons should meet at the church at 7 p.m. Transportation and table service will be provided.
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