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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1935
Page
7
Kay Murphy advises turning a no vacation budget into a home retreat. Relax on the veranda with cold meals, lemon iced drinks, readings, music, knitting, and sketches. Improve personal appearance and enjoy simple, low cost changes while kids entertain themselves at pools or libraries. Chicago tops with 64 hotels nationwide.
Tips for using preserved fruits as garnishes and flavoring in salads and desserts. Includes recipes for grenadine and mint syrups, canning peaches and pears, and serving ideas with ice cream and fruit in various syrups. Mentions preparing pineapple and pears with ginger, and using maraschino cherries for garnish.
A radio schedule lists the World Scout Meeting coverage on WEAF at 12 30. Programs include Helen Hayes in Bunty Pulls the String and a series of musical acts on WIZ NBC and WABC CBS stations with recurring drama and lecture segments through the day.
A dense listing of radio programs from afternoon to late night featuring Bobb Newhall Lum and Abner Georgiana Bay Horace Heidt’s Orch Ray Noble’s Orch Lupe Lombardo Road and Abe Lyman’s Orch among others. The schedule includes multiple time slots and a mix of variety programs concerts and theatrical acts.
A fragmented radio guide lists multiple orchestras and entertainers with times such as 12:00 Continental Gypsies 12:15 WM Joe Sanders and 2: Johnny Courtney. Other acts include Moon Rives Dalton Brothers Orientale and Masieateene Russian Bear Orch with 5:30 5:55 and 6:15 to 7:30 segments featuring singing and drama along with Louis Prima Fred Waring Edwin C Hill Leith Stevens Carl Hoff Ted Fierito and Bill Hogan orchestras and a symphony at 10:30.
Local society notes list dozens of Athens residents and guests from nearby towns and states. Families such as Basoms in Athens and Brooks in Albany host relatives while others travel to Columbus Buckeye Lake St Marys and Wittenberg College for recreation education or visits.
Mr and Mrs A B Pickering of 100 West State Street announce the marriage of their daughter Mary Margaret to Bert Cosa son of Mr and Mrs B B Coss of Newark Ohio. The ceremony was held at the bride’s home with close family present officiated by Rev Ward Radford Central Avenue Methodist Church. Mrs Coss graduated Athens High School 1933 attended Ohio University while Mr Coss earned an electrical engineering degree from Ohio University this year and works for Ohio Power Company in Newark.
A D H Higgins family gathering took place Sunday at the Higgins home near White Hall. Most immediate-family members attended except Mrs Alice McDougall of Carnegie PA. Attendees included Roy Radford Fred Lee and family Danrel and Bernard Tom and sons Nina Kathleen Luster and others along with Clark Daniel Adrian McVey BE Higgins and family in Gallipolis.
Jimmy Littler and his Ideal Orchestra, led by son of Mr and Mrs Herbert Littler, won a two week contract at Whit Inn near Conneaut Lake Pennsylvania starting Friday August 2. A battle of bands is set for Wednesday August 10 against a Northwestern Pennsylvania ensemble. The group expanded from 19 to 14 members in six months and added a new streamlined trailer and amplifying system.
Miss Edith Humphrey, Pi Beta Phi alumna, hosted a cooky shine Saturday at her home in Hockingport. Thirty five members, including active and alumnae from Nelsonville and Athens chapters, attended and brought refreshments for a lawn picnic.
Athens Grange will meet Thursday at 7 PM in the Grange Hall at the Fairgrounds. A 4 H Club program led by Miss Villa Tippie will be presented. Refreshments will be served.
The freight steamer Steelmaker arriving from the Pacific Coast ran aground Sunday on a sand bar in Narragansett Bay. The ship carried 2,000,000 feet of lumber andwer not reported sunk.
A blaze in Bantiago Cuba destroyed fifteen houses and a Catholic church along the coast to Baracoa on Sunday. The fire marked the third serious blaze in as many months, devastating a large section of the town.
About 300 residents gathered at First Methodist Episcopal Church in Athens for a Festival of Sacred Song despite rain threats. Miss Joy Cutler led the singing with a mixed choir directed by Prof. J. B. Thackeray and Rev. Reed J. Downs offered the closing prayer.
Mr and Mrs Howard Brooks entertained guests at their Albany home on Sunday. Attendees included Mr and Mrs Carrie Tyler and children from See bre Ky, Mrs Anna Powers and son, Harold Albany, Bernice Brooks, Frank Heydenreigh Parkersburg WV, Mrs Ted Brooks and son Pearl Howard, and Mr and Mrs Earl Haning of Albany.
The nineteenth census tallies 29,080,146 families in the United States. Official counts enumerate households across states and regions, reflecting demographic distribution and household composition for policy and historical record.
Mr. FE V Wolfe of Lower Plains celebrated his eighty third birthday with a picnic dinner on the lawn. His brother Riley G Wolfe Con cord was present with relatives including 18 nephews and nieces. Friends attended and he received many letters and gifts for the milestone.
A Friday Food Page correction notes a typesetting error in Mrs Ray Rhoricks upside down cake recipe. The proper ingredients are 1 to 2 cups butter 1 cup sugar 2 cups flour 3 teaspoons baking powder 1 to 2 teaspoons salt 3 to 4 cups milk 1 teaspoon vanilla and sliced pineapple.
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