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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1930
Page
5
The Women’s Home Missionary Society of the First Methodist Church will meet at 2 o’clock Friday in the church parlors. Mrs. Wagner will lead devo tions and Mrs. J H Berry will discuss What the City Does to People from the Study Book. Special music is planned.
Mr and Mrs A A Chappelle of Columbus visited Tuesday and Wednesday with Mr and Mrs J R Harvey at 215 West Washington Street and left last evening. Mrs Chappelle joined Mrs Harvey as a guest Wednesday afternoon at the Higley Study Circle meeting.
The Delta Tau Delta auxiliary will meet Friday afternoon at 2 30 o clock at the chapter house located at 32 President Street.
Mr. P. G. Dowler Mr. A. E. Kaley Athens and Mr. A. H. San ard of Columbus have returned after a three weeks fishing trip in Morida They visited Brooks ville and traveled through South Tampa Wachula Eustis and Lake City during the outing.
Histories of the national and East Side School P T A were read at a meeting of the East Side School P T A. A paper What the P T A Tree Stands For was read. Founders day program, by laws adopted, music by Mrs. Fred McKay, and student piano solos and duets performed by pupils Anna Margaret Morrison Florence Elkins Alice Bardin Betty Jane Fulton Eleanore Peckham Billy and Bobby Drake race T'llen Foster and Gene Forsyth.
Advertising copy touts MELLO-GLO Face Powder for purity and smooth, long lasting coverage. Claims a new French process keeps skin looking youthful without flaking and is Government approved. By D. Zenner Co.
The Mrs. John Ellis Wool Tent of Daughters of Union Veterans held a patriotic meeting with a potluck supper. Miss Nelle Pickering read a paper on McKinley, Mrs. Mary Burgburger on Lincoln, and Mrs. Cadda Hughes on Washington. The program featured patriotic music and Washington and Lincoln quotations.
Mr and Mrs Walter Arick return from Washington DC and Fort Wayne Indiana where Mr Arick formerly with Athens Flooring Company has resigned to enter the wholesale lumber business in this city.
Myron Marquis Trimble is improving after a serious operation at Grant Hospital Columbus reports his sister Mrs Dorothy Salters Athens.
Dean T. C. McCracken travels to Atlantic City to participate in the National Education convention in session there.
Mrs. Frank Fager of Canton visits her daughter Mrs. George C. Dailey on North High Street as Mr. Dailey recovers from severe facial and hand burns suffered January 30 while working on an electric meter in Superior Ohio for the Southern Ohio Electric Company. He is at Sheltering Arms Hospital after prior treatment at an Ironton hospital.
Mr. Elza Turner of El Cerito California arrives for a visit with his sisters Mrs. George Frashier and Mrs. Joe Lohse.
Mr and Mrs Aden Mellinger of North Lima announce the birth of a son Willard Leroy on February 4. Mrs Mellinger is formerly Miss Ethel Cooley, daughter of Mr J W Cooley formerly of Athens now of North Lima.
BR Auginbaugh of the state education department warns of a two year gang looting rural schools of equipment valued at more than 49000. The gang specializes in motion picture projectors and has taken pianos radios musical instruments sewing machines and other gear. Break ins occur at night with doors or windows forced open and no guards to stop them. They are believed to have stolen over 80000 in protection machines later sold in cities.
A matronly skank and a small force including Euclid Village officials and officers held a fort under the Rose Mary School for Crippled Children after a 21 hour siege. Two of her kittens were bombed out with tear gas. two prisoners were taken to kennels as authorities cleared the field.
Elyria was named by State Fire Marshal Ray R. Gil as having the most constructive fire prevention program of any Ohio city in a statement issued today from Columbus.
Columbus reports State Fire Marshal Ray KR and Electrical Inspector ADD Harris initiated a program to inspect public buildings for fire hazards by examining conditions at Bar berton and other sites.
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