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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1934
Page
6
College closes at noon today as Athens sends off its annual Christmas exodus. By afternoon over 200 students had departed with teachers and professors joining the cavalcade. Many heads for Eastern or Southern holidays including Professor Lasher and family bound for Miami, while others head to Florida and the Southeast for two weeks of vacation.
The U C D Club held its annual Christmas party at Mrs. P G Hibbard's home on Thursday afternoon. New president Mrs. I B Ash led a business meeting with sixteen members present and a Christmas quotation read. Guest Mrs. George Coe attended, gifts were distributed by Mrs. P G Dowler and Mrs. O O Mantz, a card from Mrs Pilcher in London Ky was read, and refreshments were served by Mrs. N Welk and Mrs. John Gross. The meeting adjourned with the Club Creed and plans to meet January 10 at Mrs. Harry Cromiey's.
A four year old kindergarten at Ohio University staged a Christmas party with a decorated tree, plays, songs, and a puppet Santa Claus show by Miss Kate Hall of Ohio University. Children, mothers, and church groups joined in festive activities with refreshments and carols across campus dorms and church halls.
The store highlights grand and studio pianos as family gifts, notes radios with short wave and foreign broadcasts for modern homes, and recommends practical items like electric irons and toasters. It also promotes guitars ukuleles band instruments and drums for a strictly musical Christmas.
Bishop Clase of the Central Avenue M E Church will host a Christmas party in the church basement tonight at 7 o clock. Gifts will be distributed by organizers who added a realistic touch, with Christmas games hot chocolate cookies and candy served at low tables. Miss Margaret Able Miss Betty Baker Mrs Victor Whitehouse Mrs W S Shepherd and Mrs Ee Fount, Church School teachers and assistants, led the event.
Mr and Mrs can McConner announce the birth of a daughter Charlotte Anita on Friday December 14 at Sheltering Arms Hospital.
Advice on staying attractive after forty emphasizes grooming details. Focus areas include neat coiffure, smooth skin, pressed clothes, deodorants and depilatories suited to skin, safe usage, and clean shoes hats and gloves. Emphasizes daily fresh underthings and spotless white accessories for a polished look.
A 70 guest pageant at East Side School featured all pupils with sixth graders handling speaking roles. Carols and readings framed scenes from the nativity with students portraying Caesar, Mary, Joseph, inn keeper, shepherds, wise men, and angels, concluding with the first grade singing Cradle Hymn.
The Ie He choir sang Oh Come All Ye Faithful as part of a school program with a chorus of fifth and sixth grade students performing the classic carol.
The Christmas dance of the C. M. C. high school girls will be held at Hotel Berry on Saturday night December 22. Mrs Waldo Meeker and daughter Patricia Ariene of Moundsville W Va are guests of their aunt and uncle Mr and Mrs C C Millikan. The Meekers halted in Athens en route to Marion to spend Christmas with Rev and Mrs E P Angle. Agnes Angle a student at Ohio University returns for Christmas vacation. Ruth Miller a teacher in Gallipolis schools visits her parents E L Miller and wife. Joe Bardin, broadcasting in Chicago, spends Christmas with his aunt Nora S Mansfield at 109 Morris Avenue.
Dr. A. A. Allen of Cornell employs bantam hens to hatch ptarmigan eggs, showcasing a curious farming technique.
About 256 pupils from Rufus Putnam School staged the annual Christmas pageant with white coat outfits on bleachers and a Bible pantomime. Mary, Joseph, shepherds, wisemen, and angels acted parts, read by Philip Zenner and Virginia Stansbury, with songs from kindergarten to sixth grade and candlelight processional.
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