Frances Hatch Leads Kings Mountain Event Chorus
Miss Frances Hatch of Athens sang with a 100 voice women student chorus from Winthrop College at the Kings Mountain North Carolina celebration. The group performed Southern Belles Peal in Melody at the Majestic theater amid city notices and film coverage. A second brief item notes a spectacular fire at a Standard Oil plant on the East River waterfront in Brookyn destroying 20 tanks of crude oil and turpentine, with flames visible on the river until control was gained by firefighters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pathe News
Kings Mountain
N. C
Frances Hatch
Athens
H. A. Hatch
Winthrop College
Rock Hill
8. C
New York
Standard Oil Company
East River
Brook
Lyn
Foreign Society Christmas Program at First M. E. Church
The Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the First M. E. Church will meet Friday at 2:30 PM for a Christmas offering and an illustrated program led by Mrs. Mary G. Noss with devotions by Mrs. W. L. Slutz. Hostesses include Mrs. Nelson McDaniel's group.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the First
M. FE
Mary G. Noss
W. L. Slutz
Nelson McDaniel
Peterson's Ointment Claims Quick Eczema Cure
Suffering with eczema is stopped by one application of Peterson's Ointment says a Birmingham man after four to five uses. The advertisement promises fast relief from inflammation itching and a smoother skin with repeated use.
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Peterson
A. W. ‘Turner
Birmingham
Ala
Pocahontas Lodge Elects Officers
Pocahontas Lodge elected officers at the Wednesday meeting. Names include Mrs. Anne Shaukis Pocahontas, Miss Helen Dorr Wenonah, prophetess, Mrs. Ora Hails Powhacan, Miss Mildred Wise. Hostess Mrs. J. B. Heidler, 76 Morris Avenue, hosted Higley Study Circle.
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Pocahontas Lodge
Anne Shaukis
Pocahontas
Helen Dorr
Wenonah
Ora Hails
Powhacan
Mildred Wise
J. B. Heidler
Morris Avenue
Higley
World Vision
W Gard
Claude Bowers
Mrs Velma Burow Visits Aunt in Athens
Mrs Velma Arnold Burow of Portland arrives in Athens to see her aunt Mrs Mary I Henson who is confined in Sheltering Armes Hospital with paralysis Her condition remains about the same She is guest of her cousin Mrs Carrie Herdman at West State Street Also Mrs Lucy Brown and son Veil return to Guysville after visiting her mother Mrs Mary Kelley sister Miss Nora Kelley and her daughter Miss Eaith Brown Friendship Music Club will meet Friday at 7 PM at Bobby Hutchins 60 Central Avenue
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Velma Arnold Burow
Portland
Oregon
Athens
Mary I. Henson
Lucy Brown
Son Veil
Guysville
Mary Kelley
Nora Kelley
Eaith Brown
Friendship Music Club
Bobby Hutchins
Central Avenue
Inmate Leads Asylum Break at Mattea wan State Hospital
William H. Nelson or the escape gang overpowered five guards and attendants at the Mattea wan State Hospital for the Criminally Insane in Beacon New York. Nelson, a burglar, was the alleged leader of the plot as dozens of inmates escaped or were aided in breaking free during the incident. State police had been seeking Nelson since his disappearance from the facility.
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Beacon
N. Y
Senior High Band To Present Concert At Joint Assembly
The Athens Junior and Senior High School bands will present a 2:80 p.m. Friday concert for students and the public. selections include March Normal Summit March Zenith Overture Safety March and Activity March with solos by Robert Singley Joe Bardin and a reading by Maxine Westfall. A high school party in the gymnasium will follow, funded by a newly purchased radio.
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Athens
Harold Bennett
Bennett
Maxine Westfall
Wooden Soldiers
Robert Singley
Joe Bardin
Sons of the Black and Red
Athens PTA Plans Christmas Party for Students
At a recent Athens Senior High School PTA meeting arrangements were completed for a Christmas party for students on December 16 from 7 80 to 10 30 p m. The organizing committee includes O D Morrison, Mrs F B Gullum, Mrs J W Craiz, Mrs John Sprague, and Mrs H B Srigiey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Athens Senior High School
O. DD. Morrison
F. B. Gullum
J. W. Craiz
John Sprague
H. 8. Srigiey
Athens Senior High Dance Night Plans Noted
Principal A. L. Hughes outlines a plan with a four-parent committee assigned to each room to supervise the dance hall and refreshments. Students will enjoy games like ping-pong checkers dominos chess 600 bridge hearts and more while the orchestra provides music in the gymnasium.
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A. L. Hughes
Athens
Rockefeller Donate Million to Unemployment Fund
John D. Rockefeller and his son John D. Rockefeller Jr contributed $1,000,000 to the Emergency Unemployment Fund. The Emergency Unemployment Committee aims to raise $6,000,000 to address current unemployment conditions, bringing total receipts to $4,138,000.
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New York
John Y. Rockefeller
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
Reward Hitch-Hikers Return Across States
Aurora Nebraska dispatch reports Jack Carroll of Akron Ohio and William Martin of Philadelphia reuniting with a reward after helping two hitchhikers. The incident concludes with the travelers receiving a total agreed sum of money totaling 1,500 dollars and a 50 cent bonus pension or tip noted in the brief.
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Aurora
Neb
U.P
Jack Carroll
Akron
William Martin
Philadelphia
Honest Huskies Reunite Wallet at Rail Station
Two youths found a wallet containing 1500 dollars at a railroad station and turned it to an agent who found the owner. The owner rewarded each with 60 cents, then five notes of 60 dollars 20 dollars and 10 dollars yielded a single one dollar bill. He asked the boys to split it, praising their honesty as they were hitch-hiking to the Pacific Coast.
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Pacific Coast
Hoover assigns Senate duty for World Court ratification
President Hoover will send an executive message with the Root formula to the Senate to push early ratification of the World Court. Leaders were told privately that the White House plans forwarding the message today or tomorrow after finalizing it yesterday.
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Washington
U.B
Hoover
Senate
White House
United Press
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0. T. Williams
Walter Arick
Forest Hill Golf Club
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John Dowler
Limberlost Tea Room
Eczema
Alabama
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Eloise Hooper
West Washington Street
Nelsonville
Eddie Harrison
Fred Hooper
M. B. Pedigo
Ben Hooper
Glouster
Ed Morris
W. S. Southerton
Homer C. Clark
Columbus
L. G. Gribble
Hart Stansbury
Pomeroy
Courtland
Miss
Southerton
Ideal Barber Shop
Curity Bank
Columbia
King OF Jazz
Paul Whiteman
America
Queen of Opera
Grace Moore
Reginald Denny
Wallace Beery
News and Cartoon
Ronald Colman
Raffles
Asylum
Criminal Hospital
Association
Party For Children
Stella T. Culkosky
Delaware St
Gary
Indiana
Lydia E. Pinkham
Dorothy L. Fairchild
Walnut St
Freeland
Medicine Co
Party
S. Court Street
Athens, Ohio
Jlandners
World Court
Pep
Fea
Kayser
Rollins
S. Court le
Francyl and
Grace Cochran
India
Kay
Tom
Rinson
Prestons
BIG Daylight
Una V. Goss
Parkersburg
MKS
MNAV
Goffinia Avenue
West
Vae West
Lever Brothers Cow Cambridges
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