Visitors and Relatives Gather for Holidays
The column lists families and guests visiting Athens for Christmas and New Year. Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Miller and son Henry returned from Knoxville. Harold Blacker and daughter Margery of Cincinnati visit Mrs. Merwin in North Hill. Out of town relatives attend Ray Hoisington funeral from Akron, Dayton, Guysville, and Camp Shelby. Others travel from Washington DC, Columbus, and Cincinnati to see family. Local hosts entertain in Athens and visitors depart for New York City and Columbus after holiday stays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. E. Miller
Henry
E. State St
Knoxville
Tenn
Harold Blacker
Margery
Cincinnati
Ray Hoisington
Charles DeMolet
Georgia Hoisington
Verle Hoisington
Paul Hoisington
Thomas Corwin
William Wenglouish
Akron
S. A. Hoisington
A. L
Kay Murphy
Columbus
John Murphy
Maple St
New York City
Austin Harburger
Joe
Palmer St
Fred Moorehead
Harold Whaley
N. Congress St
Locke
St. Marys
W. Va
Mr. Whaley
A. E. Whaley
Allen Locke
Frank Cross
Mrs. Locke
New Year Watch Parties and Meetings This Week
The Church of God hosts a New Year’s Eve watch party at 9 p.m. at 15 N McKinley Ave hosted by Mr and Mrs Edgar Bert. Odd Fellows and Rebekahs plan a New Year’s Eve watch party at the LOCF Hall Wednesday night. Athens Grange holds its annual officer installation January 1 with oyster supper at 7 p.m. Rebekah Lodge meets at 7:30 p.m. at LOF. Current Events Club meets January 9 at 5 Arden Place hosted by Mrs. D B Green.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Church of God
Edgar Bert
N. McKinley Ave
Odd Fellows
Rebekahs
L0.c.f. Hall
Women's Council of the Christian Church
Athens Grange
Frank Cross
Rebekah Lodge
Cere
D. B. Green
Arden Place
F.O.O.P Winter Formal Dances to New Year Silhouettes
Fifty members and guests attended the F.O.O.P Winter Formal at Hotel Berry with Rex Koons and band providing music. Decorations featured black and white New Year silhouettes and a baby New Year backdrop, as grand march leaders Bernard Tom and June Pincelli distributed programs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F.O.O.P
Koons
Hotel Berry
Rex Koons
Bobby Davis
Community New Year Resolutions and First Aid Demonstration
Readers offered New Year resolutions including learning to walk again and carrying a market bag due to wartime shortages. Betty Gilham used newly acquired artificial respiration skills in a doctor’s office. Paul Dalton demonstrated rescue breathing, saving a baby, with Harold S. Davis hosting the class. Davis to leave for Fort Hayes as a radio signal operator for the duration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Cross
Betty Gilham
Paul Dalton
Harold S. Davis
Davis
Fort Hayes
Columbus
Messenger
Home Conservation Meeting At J A Walsh Home
The Athens Township Home Conservation Committee met Tuesday night at J A Walsh's Pomeroy Road home with Walsh leading discussion. Members listed diseases combated by proper food and debated The Farm Problem Everchanging. A Christmas program followed. Thirteen attended and enjoyed supper. Next meeting will be at Mrs Amanda Sheridan's Athens Route Four on Tuesday night Jan 20 with a potluck supper.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Athens
Intrigue at the Hotel Lansfield Ends With Tense Confrontation
Aunt delivers a delicate mission to Noel amid Mary Veritzen’s jealousy and suspicions about gangster ties involving Steve Redfield. The scene unfolds with emotional tension as Noel fears anger from Mary and contemplates loss or divorce. Continued tomorrow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary
Noel
Dicky
Stephen Redfield
Redfield
Nancy Carew
Mary Veritzen
Steve Redfield
Marion Morion
Charles
Secret Service
Marion
Madge Graham
Mesv
Sheelie
Lansfield
Philip Veritzen
Philip
Birth Announcement Sally Jo Fulton Born at Sheltering Arms
Mr. and Mrs. Dick Fulton announce the birth of a daughter on Friday December 26 at Sheltering Arms Hospital. The newborn weighs eight pounds one and a half ounces and is named Sally Jo. Grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. D. E. Marquis and Mrs. Alma Brown of this city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dick Fulton
Sheltering Arms Hospital
Sally Jo
D. E. Marquis
Alma Brown
Watch Night Service at Wesleyan Methodist Church
A Watch Night service will be conducted at Wesleyan Methodist Church Pratt Street tonight at 8 p.m. The meeting opens with a missionary service. The bones of the body are about twice as strong as oak.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pblic
Wesleyan Methodist Church
Pratt St
Christmas Dinner at Scott Home Albany Guests Recall Festivities
Mr and Mrs Sam Scott hosted a Christmas Eve dinner near Albany with Santa Claus visiting late. Attendees included multiple Scotts plus friends and relatives from Athens Latham Chillicothe Dayton and New Marshfield. The Plains gathering featured Paul Madru Leslie Coon Lorenzo Coon and others from Columbus Sandusky Sugar Creek and Sand Ridge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sam Scott
Albany
Santa Claus
George Scott
Max
Fred Elliott
Glen Scott
Gordon
Keith Scott
Carl Johnson
Helen Allen
Helen Met
the Plains
Paul Madru
Junior Madru
Virgil Adams
Donna Jean
Donald
Columbus
Pearl Coon
Leslie Coon
Lorenzo Coon
Robert Hatfield
Sandusky
Charles Shields
Son Jr
Sugar Creek
Louise Shields
Sand Ridge
Otho Coon
Mary Louise
Willard Coon
Alexander Church Women Postpone Meeting to January 9
The Women's Association of the Alexander Presbyterian Church has postponed its regular meeting to Friday January 9. The gathering will be held at the home of Mrs. Emory Allen on Albany Road.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Women’s Association
The
Alexander Presbyterian Church
Emory Allen
Albany Road
Westfall Home Hosts Weekend Guests in Amesville
Weekend guests at the Okey Westfall home in Amesville included Morgan Hickman and son Billy Beech Bottom West Virginia Howard Westfall and children Bernard and Fleanor John Westfall Wellsburg West Virginia and their hosts. Christmas Day visitors included Fred Warner Ronald their niece Elmetta and others from Guysville Wes Smith of Amesville Willie Termy and family plus Lucy Audrey Spears from Guysville and a newly married Westfall couple Hazel Varner. Due to fitness the Class Six Church of God watch party was cancelled with attendees planning to attend a Chauncey watch meeting instead.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Okey Westfall
Amesville
Morgan Hickman
Billy
Beech Bottom
W. Va
Howard Westfall
Bernard and
Fleanor
John Westfall
Wellsburg
Westfall
Fred Warner
Ronald
Elmetta
Guysville
Wesley Smith
Willie Termy
Flayo, Lee
Wanda
Lee
Juanita
Lucy
Audrey Spears
Hazel Varner
Fred Varner
Church of God
Chauncey
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Ry Mark
McKee
McKee's
Goa
Athens Ice & Storage Co
Soft Water Dept
Barbara Danford
Bill Roberts
Marguerite Smith
Bill Lewis
June Baird
Frank Baker
Betty Griswold
Frederick Rosser
Jane Maccombs
Jimmy Cumley
Marilyn Covett
Howard Harrison
Lorena Sisson
Bill Palin
Ann Matters
Jack Enghe
Dixie Foraker
David Nichols
Irene White
Willard Reeder
Helen Radford
Verle Hughes
Martha Hooper
Clyde Littler
Delores Davis
Paul Sams
Lillian Cumley
J. A. Walsh
Flying Wheels
Athens County
Paul Britten
Glenn Drager
David Reeder
Seth Lewis
C. P. Eakin
Everett
Dessie Fields
Sadie Hooper
Theodore Kern
Arthur Boyles, Jr
Ernest Grosvenor
Hilda Johnson
Glenn Scott
Walter Kelley
Paul Britton
W. H. Marshall
Adele Garrison
Madge
Watch Night Service
Scott Home
Broughton's
Cole
Bell Center
Arol
Custer
Dred der
New York Town
Enn
Tom Keene
Beatty O'Keefe
Jane
Frank Vacconelli
Betty Miles
Slim Andrews
Sugar Dawn
Nemes
Carole Landis
GEO. Montgomery
Cadet Girl
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