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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1934
Page
2
Historical quiz questions ask about Athens Town ship Woolen mill location rare brick pieces first Athens post office Burr overnight stay and Daniel Boone beaver trapping site in the district as noted by local tradition.
A blackface comedy will be staged at Mechanicsburg School on Friday night at 7 45 for the benefit of the Parent Teacher Association. The cast includes Mr and Mrs Arthur Walsh Mr and Mrs George Gaver Mr and Mrs Virgil Maxwell Mrs John Ashton and others with old time music featured.
The Athens City Federation of Women's Clubs held its December meeting in the Chamber of Commerce Rooms. In the absence of the Women's Music Club, routine business was discussed including Red Cross memberships and the Christmas Seal Sale. Dues are due by March 1, and plans to invite a forum leader from a neighboring city were made. Mrs Arthur Boyles will be away, with first vice president Mrs Rey Lash in charge.
The Ohio University Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa held an initiation at Memorial Auditorium on Monday evening. A dinner at Colonial followed, with Dr Edith Wray delivering Echoes of Eighteenth Century England in Our Life Today. Initiates include Charles Adolphia Priode, Mary Kupir, Mildred Mae Fisher, Bernard Elijah Goldstein, Noah Wilford Skinner, and others.
Libby Holman headlines a revived New York stage run after a three year hiatus singing her sobbing tunes in Revenge With Music. The torch singer performs You and the Night and the Music and When You Love Only One as audiences flock to the operetta based on a Spanish folk tale featuring a three cornered hat.
Professor and Mrs George Starr Lasher return from New York after attending Interfraternity Council meeting. They met Dr and Mrs Morse and Mr and Mrs Allen Oviatt in the Hotel Roosevelt dining room for a wedding in New York. Mrs Morse plans to return to Cleveland then Pearl River for the year. In Rinard Iowa Professor H E Bens called due to a relative's death. Numerous guests visited Athens over Thanksgiving from Cincinnati Morgantown and Park Hills. Holiday visitors included Miss Ida May Rodenbeck and Miss Metta Jeffers among others.
The Ohio University Department of Speech and Dramatic Art will present The Late Christopher Bean at Memorial Auditorium on Thursday night December 6. The local cast includes Ford Betz as Warren Creamer and Margaret Farmer as Susan Haggett with Beatrice Steiner also in a key role, supported by alumni and new talents under Prof. W. H. Cooper and Vincent Jukes. The comedy follows the discovery of paintings left by Christopher Bean, leading to witty twists and a humorous finale.
Two Hartley children of Chauncey were diagnosed with scarlet fever and placed under quarantine after a Health Office report. The Athens County Health Office announced the cases and the quarantine yesterday.
Leadership courses start Monday and Tuesday evenings at the Athens Senior High School Building. Rev. Fowler initiated the programs to train people for church and community work with Dr. W.S. Gamertsfelder and Prof. James Patrick teaching religion philosophy and child psychology respectively. Sessions run 7 to 9 p.m. with many locals enrolled.
Athens city officials led by Mayor Len B McCune will report on visits to municipal electric light plants in Ohio. The aim is to advise Athens on building an electric light plant. Also named appraisers Roach and Williams for land for the Carpenter Street relocation. November report notes $60.80 in fines for intoxication fighting and traffic violations.
A Wednesday evening series at Athens Presbyterian Church begins with studies on Orientals in American Life led by E. T. Hellebrandt and others. A follow up set on World Tides in the Far East will follow later. Sessions start at 7 PM with Mrs. George S. Putnam in charge and the Westminster Fellowship male quartet to sing.
Dr Emil Lengyel, author journalist and lawyer born in Budapest, will speak at Ohio University Alumni Memorial Auditorium tomorrow at 9 45 am. He survived Siberian captivity after World War I and later studied law in Budapest. Lengyel wrote for major papers and authored books including The Cauldron Boils and Cattle Car Express.
The Community Drama League donated ten new plays to Edwin Wat. Chubb Library at Ohio University. selections were made by librarian Anne Keating based on authorship popularity and recent stage success. titles include Twentieth Century Plays and Yellow Jack among others edited for circulation.
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