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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1935
Page
9
A columnist urges modest home leisure when funds are tight, suggesting veranda relaxation with cold drinks and magazines, home crafts, music, and self care routines. Readers consider occupying the afternoon on a front porch, while noting Chicago has 604 hotels as a contrast.
Home canning tips describe using grenadine and mint syrups to flavor fruit jars. Recipes cover peaches pears pineapple mint syrup and ginger flavoring, plus serving ideas with meals and desserts.
Radio listings recount program segments featuring Helen Hayes in Bunty Pulls the String, various musical acts, and scout meetings. Tue previews include tennis on WJZ NBC at 9:30 and 11, WABC CBS at 12, and daytime theater and lectures on WEAF NBC and other stations.
The schedule lists radio time slots and programs for a station’s day, including Bob Newhall, Bob Nolan, Edgar A. Guest segments, music by various orchestras, and literary or dramatic readings. Entries name times, program titles, and performers such as Connie Gates, Jack Armstrong, Lavender Lace, Louis Prima, Fred Waring’s Orchestra, and Leith Stevens.
Many Athens residents hosted relatives and friends over the weekend and for visits. Listed are guests from Marietta Moundsville Huntington Huntington and other towns with durations and travel details. Activities include dinners birthdays and court visits as well as upcoming trips and institute assignments.
Miss Mary Margaret Pickering and Bert Coss wed in a private ceremony at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Pickering, 100 West State Street in Newark Ohio. Rev. Ward Radford officiated with only immediate family present. Mrs. Coss, a Athens High School Class of 1933 alumna, has attended Ohio University. Mr. Coss, a recent Ohio University graduate in electrical engineering, works for Ohio Power Company at Newark.
A Higgins family reunion was hosted at the Higgins home near White Hall on Sunday with all immediate members present except Mrs. Alice McDougall of Carnegie Pennsylvania. Attendees included Roy Radford Fred Lee Tom and sons Darrel and Bernard J Maxwell and children Nina Kathleen and Luster F D Higgins and Kaby son Clark Daniel Adrian McVey of Athens and Professor and Mrs E E Higgins of Gallipolis.
Jimmy Littler, son of Mr and Mrs Herbert Littler, received word his band has a two week engagement at Whit Inn near Conneaut Jake Pennsylvania. The engagement begins Friday August 2 with a battle of music against a Northwestern Pa band on Wednesday August 10. The orchestra has shrunk from 19 to 14 members in six months and has a new streamlined trailer and amplifying system.
Miss Edith Humphrey hosted a Pi Beta Phi Cooky Shine Saturday at her Hockingport home. A group of 38 members from Nelsonville and Athens, including active and alumnae, attended and each brought refreshments for the lawn picnic.
About 300 people attended the Athens Community Festival of Sacred Song at the First Methodist Church. Miss Joy Cutler led the singing with a mixed choir of 27 and readings by Rev A Y Wilcox and Rev Reed J Downs. The program featured classic revival and Sunday School tunes such as In The Garden and The Church in The Wildwood and closed with prayer.
Mr and Mrs Howard Brooks hosted a Sunday dinner at their Albany home with guests from See bre Ky and Parkersburg West Virginia. Attendees included Currie Tyler family Joyce Ann Bobby Katherine and Jackie Harold Powers Bernice Brooks Frank Heydenreight Ted Brooks Pearl Howard Earl Haning and others as listed. The article notes the 19th census count of 29 980 146 families in the United States.
Athens Grange will hold its recruitment meeting Thursday at 7 30 PM at the Grange Hall Fairerinds. A program on 4 H Club work will be directed by Miss Villa Tippie and refreshments will be served.
The freight steamer Steelmaker en route from a Pacific Coast port with 2,000,000 feet of lumber ran aground Sunday on a sand bar in Narragansett Bay near Portsmouth R. I. No injuries were reported and salvage operations were underway.
A large fire swept Baracoa destroying fifteen houses and a Catholic church. It followed two other serious blazes in the past three months, signaling a pattern of damaging fires in the coastal town.
Mr. FE V Wolfe of Lower Plains marked his 83rd birthday with a Sunday picnic on the lawn. His brother Riley G Wolfe of Concord and 18 nephews and nieces attended alongside many grand-nephews and grand-nieces, plus other friends who brought letters and gifts.
A typographical error listed 3 teaspoons of salt instead of 1.2 teaspoons. Correct proportions are 1 1 2 cups butter, 1 cup sugar, 2 cups flour, 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder, 3 4 cup milk, 1 teaspoon vanilla, sliced pineapple.
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