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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1941
Page
6
The Athens Messenger lists July 18 club meetings and social events including AY M. and H. Circle with Mrs Elizabeth Canter Chauncey. A photo feature notes late summer travel gear for women anglers and practical outfits for mountain lake trips in Canada and Jasper Park Lodge. Several picnics and social gatherings follow at local venues and churches.
Sgt. Dutrow of Columbia spends a 10 day furlough at his aunt Mrs. Charles D. Bill’s home. Mrs. A. A. Merrill returns to Boston after visiting in Columbia. Claude Clark and wife take a fort night motoring trip through the Carolinas and Great Smoky Mountains. The Fulton family visits Syracuse Ind. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Rock Jr. host them at Syracuse Lake. Mrs. Charles I. Eddy returns from Schenectady after three weeks with her son and daughter-in-law. Packhams vacation at St Marys Lake with Dayton friends. Miss Suzanne Danford returns from ten days in Atlanta with relatives. Clifford Wade and wife announce birth of son Clifford Jr at nine pounds on July 17. grandparents listed. The note ends with a historical remark on the phrase bone to pick from 1565.
Miss Millett argues women cope better with aging than men once it arrives. She cites independent widows with resources, social lives, beauty routines, and leisure interests like gossip and bridge that persist into old age, contrasting them with older men who struggle to find activity or purpose.
An advertisement or guidance piece urges women to invest in expert makeup classes manicure hair styling and wardrobe coaching. It argues professionals can teach makeup application nail care hair setting shopping posture and figure improvements for a more attractive appearance. It notes benefits of voice training and posture exercises for lasting results.
Recipe narrative lists ingredients and steps for frost topped molasses cookies. Includes shortening brown sugar molasses flour baking powder salt cinnamon baking soda milk and confectioners sugar. Directions: cream shortening and sugar beat eggs add molasses mix dry ingredients then alternately add with milk, drop onto greased sheets and bake at 425 degrees F, then cool and frost.
A historical recipe outlines making peanut butter ice cream using milk flour sugar salt peanut butter and vanilla. It describes scalding milk melding dry ingredients cooking in a double boiler cooling straining blending peanut butter cold milk and vanilla, then freezing and ripening for about one quart yield.
A "Jitney Supper" sponsored by Circle Three of the Central Ave. Methodist Church will be served tonight in the church basement with serving beginning at 5 p.m.
The Soapbox Derby drew a cross section of Athens including doctors, clergy, merchants, and families. Attendees filled streets and rooftops while emcees broadcast from a porch, with Jaycees selling drinks and spectators enjoying treats as Derby winners were paraded.
A recipe collection shows enriched bread used like white bread in a breakfast platter with baked eggs and a summer bread pudding. Instructions detail toast nests with corned beef, butter, and spices, plus a chilled pudding with bread cubes, milk, raisins and vanilla for four to six servings.
The What-So-Ever Class of the First Christian Church met at teacher Mrs Mary lin Porter home Tuesday night. Officers elected: President Beverly Davis vice president Mary Ann Sarver secretary Virginia Dabritz treasurer Ted Neutzling news reporter Ellis Marie Shafer. Present were Virginia Dabritz Margaret Ann Sprague Ardith Hansen Beverly Davis Mary Ann Sarver Alberta Clouston Ellis Marie Shafer Ted Neutzling two guests and hostess Mrs Porter.
The Alexander Home Conservation Committee met Tuesday evening at Mr and Mrs Frank Pugh s home The Ever Normal Granary and White Marketing Quotas were discussed Refreshments were served to several local residents The next meeting will be at Floyd Williams s home on Aug 12.
Dr N S Gamertsfelder dean of Graduate College and Arts and Sciences at Ohio University will be the vesper speaker for Westminster Fellowship services Sunday at 6 pm. His topic is Faith and Reason in Religion. Miss Dorothy Goetz leads worship and Miss Joan Wooley sings. Washing Lace When provides tips on laundering lace household accessories with mild suds and starch and pressing on a padded board.
Mr and Mrs Edward Terrell of Harmony Road announce the engagement of their daughter Ellen to William B Thompson of Gallipolis son of Mr and Mrs W E Thompson of Amesville. The wedding is planned for Friday July 25 following an announcement made Tuesday evening July 15 at the Terrell home by a gathering of friends.
Bowles Williams Reunion set for Sunday July 20 at Athens County Fairgrounds. Reeves family annual reunion also July 20 at Carpenter State Farm, joined by Jacob Rupe family. Homecomings listed at Salem M E Church July 27 and New England Presbyterian Church July 27 with Sunday School at 9 30 am. Basket dinners, songs, recitations and reminiscences noted. Freeze your regular brew of coffee in ice cube trays.
The Albany P T A will host an Ice Cream Social in the Bank Building Albany on Saturday July 26 starting at 5 p m. Attendees can enjoy ice cream cake pie and hot dogs at the event.
A narrator explains to Nancy Carew how his father led a secret service circle fighting international plotters. He notes his wife Mary and Marion’s kidnapping tied to a coded letter the gangsters seek, while acknowledging a crucial detail remains untold.
Mary holds information which certain gangsters are desperately pursuing. They have even attempted murder but the threat appears not tied to the government. The sender notes Mary learned this only tonight after his arrival, and Stephen Redfield is suspected of allied opposition groups.
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