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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1937
Page
6
Fitness advice from Alicia Hart pairs fashion with posture and exercise. Tips include morning stretches, bicycle-like leg raises, and waistline rolling. Diet notes promote light breakfasts, fruit desserts, and appetite spoilers like radishes and celery to aid weight control.
Miss Louise Roach visits Cleveland friends while Rev A H Beckett family plans a West Virginia trip via Monongahela National Forest and Shirley West Virginia. Akron guests Mr and Mrs F H Dalton and Ruth plan return with Mr Harold Hamilton and Miss Irene Shafer. Miss Shafer stays in Akron until September. Kenneth Lands and John return to Buckhannon after visiting Athens and Millfield relatives. Thelma Horner visits aunt D D Chappelear. Miss Edith McBee prepares for niece Jane McBee's wedding in St Louis. C W Henkuing leaves for Mulley Lake Michigan. Clendenin family hosts W J Dickson and others at Walker Street. James A Palmer hosts daughter Vern E LeRoy and Emma Jean LeRoy from East Lansing.
A columnist notes two beauty articles praising relaxation as the key to facial calm and smoother skin. Advice from Antoinette Donnelly and Kaye Farrell urges women to rest, ease forehead tension, and practice relaxed hand positions to improve poise and reduce wrinkles.
Community groups announce a series of gatherings for Friday evening events at Red Men Hall Richland Ave Missionary Society and various clubs. The Frost Homecoming Beech Grove and Longstreth reunions set for Aug 22 and Sep 5 include baskets dinners and programs with invited guests from Gary Indiana and local residents.
Nell Gibbs and Lillian discuss their wary mission as Canadian observers trail the Underwoods. They dodge hotel scrutiny to reach Philip Veritzen’s ornate residence while Mary’s summons hints at a secretive plan, with Mary awaiting on the Veritzen suite’s third floor.
The Girl Scouts will unveil a bronze plaque naming the Casley Spring at Camp Rotan Rocks near the Cabin. Designed by Paul Casley, the plaque credits William A Casley who discovered and presented Casley Spring on June 24 1934. The site includes a drought year discovery water flow and a rock refrigerator for milk and butter. Casley known as Grandfather of the Girl Scouts has built rustic camp features and now adds a seagoing wood structure with masts and rigging nearby.
Mr and Mrs Gus Morris announce the birth of a son at Good Samaritan Hospital Zanesville last week. The couple and infant returned home Thursday with the baby in good health.
The annual Conner Dowd and Hannah Greaves Dowd descendants reunion will be held Sunday at the O. D. Dailey farm grove two miles west of Albany on Route 50. Attendees include Charles McHenry Dowd of Union Mills Indiana and his daughter Edyth, among others tracing roots to 1804 migration from North Carolina. The Dowd family, with Revolutionary soldier Conner Dowd born in Ireland, X, and the Londonderry settlement story, anchors the gathering.
Mrs. Allen Riley of 6 Coss Street hosted a bridge evening with Chloe Harris winning high score Florence Merchant second high Mary Summers consolation and Helen Earich travel prize. Refreshments were served to a group including Helen Swartz Grace Bean Florence Merchant Elsie Ullmark Helen Earich and several guests.
Norfolk Virginia resident Dowd Joynes attended with Miss Jeanette Bryant of Hebron Indiana as part of a Dowd family reunion. The elder Dowds include Dowd and D A Martindall of McArthur at over eighty years old, with officers George Martindall Wellston president Jeanette Cramner Nelsonville secretary and Mrs O D Dailey Albany historian.
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