Sans Souci Dance Follows AHS Commencement in Athens
Percy Lowry's orchestra plays for Sans Souci annual graduation dance after Athens High School commencement on June 3 at the Athens Country Club. Dancing runs 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. honoring the class of 1944 with caps and gowns shed after the ceremony. Tickets available from Sans Souci members or at the door.
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Athens Country Club
Percy Lowry
Sans Souci
Athens
A.H.S
Country Club
Guests in Athens pass along return visits and assignments
Local social notes list guests and departures in Athens. Marjorie Wheaton and Lieut. Homer von Behren attended graduation exercises at Fort Benning and travel between Rockford and Athens before von Behren reports to Fort McClelland. Numerous families host relatives for Athens High School commencement and weekly visits, including the Dixons, Blaines, Burns, Downards, Kelleys, Littlers, and the Elliott family.
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Marjorie Wheaton
Fred Wheaton
Northwood Point
Fort Benning
Homer FE. von Behren
Ashland
Wheaton
Lieut
von Behren
Georgia
Rockford
H. F. von Behren
Athens
Lieut. von Behren
Fort McClelland, Ala
Attend Funeral of Mrs. F. J. Beasley
Out of town relatives and friends gathered for the funeral of Mrs. F. J. Beasley. Attendees included Bart Johnson Trimble Eldon Howard Merwin Staulf fer The Plains A. L. Elliott Lovell Elliott Perrysburg and many others from Cincinnati Paris Texas Dallas Camp Atterbury Huntington Amesville Pataskala and Marietta.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. J. Beasley
Bart Johnson
Trimble
Eldon Howard
Merwin Staulffer
the Plains
A. L. Elliott
Lovell Elliott
Perrysburg
C. L. Strecker
Charles F. Strecker
Richard Strecker
Alfred Fisk
Cincinnati
Robert Mathews
Paris
Texas
Carl H. Beasley
J. W. Himes
York
Joseph C. Briggs
Max M. Sanders
Dallas
Norris Beasley
Suzanne Beasley
Camp Atterbury
Ind
R. H. Galigher
Jane Galigher
T. A. Galyean
Huntington
W. Va
Frank Smith
Amesville
George Smith
Pataskala
L. A. Guehl
Troy
William Ritter
Ely Hite
E. M. Starr
J. J. Hoodlett
Lancaster
E. FE. Rosser
Frank Muddy
Carlos Ogg
Nelsonville
R. M. Grogan
Middleport
Myrtle Lortz
Jessie Lortz
Harry Henry
F. L. Thomas
Owen Linscott
W. R. Phillips
B. F. Davis
Glouster
Betty Grandstaff
Stewart
B.N
Stone
Coshocton
R. Lily
R. Neil Grove
F. Mulligan
Jesse Watson
Columbus
Wesley Ogg
Logan
Charles Hess
Fostoria
Pat Lockary
Pomeroy
Be Your Age Says Bonita Granville To Girls
Bonita Granville urges girls to embrace their real age and avoid pretending to be older or younger. She warns 13 year olds that dressing like 18 or acting childish can backfire and notes that shops now market to the in between group. Emphasizing self acceptance she says to stop apologizing for age.
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Bonita Granville
Bonita
When You Are Without A Man War Etiquette For Wives
Advice to war wives on maintaining home duties and decorum while husbands are away. Avoid turning home into a hotel and resist excessive dress when going out alone. Do dress neatly to greet other women, reflecting new wartime etiquette and prudence learned by British women.
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Women and Beauty
Messenger Mailing Room Goes All-Girl for Mailing Jobs
In a historic shift at The Messenger, seven women take over stamping, wrapping, addressing, and sorting duties once done by men. Helen Grace leads addressing at high speed while Margery Browning and Betty Lee McCaskill handle machine work and sorting. The crew, earning 60 cents an hour to 12 dollars biweekly, processes over 14 000 newspapers daily alongside male staff, marking a first for the paper's mailing room in Athens Meigs Gallia Hocking and Mason counties.
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Messenger
Margery Browning
Betty Lee McCaskill
Helene Bowman
Mary Brown
Ruth Wright
Jane Maccombs
U.S
Edwin A. Brown
Robert Brown
Frank Brown
California
David Goldsberry
Bill Sprague
Robert
Charles Gilkey
Ralph Perry
Mary Ann Calvin
Club Calendar Tuesday Meetings and Dates
White Shrine meets at Odd Fellows Hall Tuesday at 7 30 p m with a 6 p m potluck for all members Mrs Grace Kelch district deputy will join officers at 5 30 p m Also on Tuesday June 1 Higley Study Circle host at 1 p m Wednesday Nannie Allom Rebekah Lodge meets June 2 at 7 30 p m I O O F Hall 65 W C T U meets Wednesday at 2 p m First Methodist Church Women's Auxiliary Episcopal Church meets Wednesday 8 p m with Mrs Ed Bolin at 9 S Congress St
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Odd Fellows Hall
Grace Kelch
C. L. Atkinson
N. High St
Higley Study Circle
Nannie Allom
Women's Auxiliary of the Episcopal Church
Ed Bolin
S. Congress St
Pitfalls of Love sequel to Marriage Meddiers
Madge Graham and Katharine Bickett conspire to pose as a nurse for Mary Veritzen while an exiled Transylvanian princess Olina visits. A telegraph messenger delivers a mysterious note from Georges, complicating suspicions of forgery and espionage in a Greenwich Village hideaway linked to Charles Speer.
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Adele Garrison
Olina
Maman
Papa Veritzen
Philip Veritzen
Georges
Jack
Madge Graham
Katharine Bickett
Lansfield
Madge
Mary Veritzen
Katharine
Mary
Greenwich Village
Charles Speer
Transvania
Philip Veritren
Trees
Stephen Redfield
King of Trees
Brooklyn players win bridge titles in charity event
Harold M. Halstead and Dr. F. C. Costello of Brooklyn won the Brooklyn and Long Island open pair championship while Mrs. Clementine Van Slochem and J Horace Block of New York took the mixed pair prize. The tournament netted $1000, donated to Memorial Hospital's League children's ward in New York.
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Harold M. Halstead
F. C. Costello
Brooklyn
Clementine van Slochem
J. Horace Block
New York
League
Memorial Hospital
Block and Van Sloch Em Triumph In Five Spades
In a six spade tournament hand Horace Block and Mrs. Van Sloch em played top defense. Block used a safety play to trump diamonds, finessed the ten of spades to keep the lead, won the remaining trumps, and made five over East after a heart.
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Horace Block
Mrs. van Slochem
Block
East
Mind Your Manners Quiz and Birth Announcement
Mind Your Manners answers emphasize returning favors and offering help, with a note that gratitude should be shown beyond casual thanks. A birth notice follows: Mr. and Mrs. Merel Love announce a son, Stephen Edward, born May 19, with grandparents named Clarence Love and Charles Barnhart.
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Merel Love
N. Lancaster St
Stephen Edward
Clarence Love
Logan
Charles Barnhart
Chesterhill
UC Cadet Corps at Cincinnati University Learn Wartime Service
University of Cincinnati 300 coeds form military style Cadet Corps joining home defense efforts. They drill weekly, study nursing first aid and map reading, and may create an Officer Candidate School as ROTC instructors depart for war. Major Carole Ginn leads the unit and plans a Victory Garden on the stadium campus.
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John Frye
Cincinnati
WAVES
WAACS
University of Cincinnati
Cadet Corps
USO
OCD
Red Cross
Carole Ginn
University of Kentucky
Ginn
Carole
U. C
Mary Daugherty
Betty Luckhardt
Esther Fischer
Adah Lee Emmich
Bunnies for Fur and Cheap Meat in War Effort
Betty MacDonald outlines backyard rabbit raising as a wartime aid to food supply. Rabbit fur and meat support the Food for Freedom program and 4-H clubs promote breeding and keeping hutches in small yards. CHUBBIES rules limit dresses for WPB, while bookbinder wire and fuel oil ration adjustments affect households. wood substitutes for baseball bats are studied using hackberry.
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Betty MacDonald
Washington
Make Skirt From Pair of Trousers
Wartime salvage tips describe converting men’s trousers into women’s skirts. Cuffs become the waistband and hip fit is checked by comparing hip measurement to the combined leg circumference. Pattern advice notes an inverted pleat front. Pattern counters in Athens offer a plain skirt option.
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Mom
Sis
Athens
Garden Sass Pudding Uses Abundant Rhubarb Time
Rhubarb time appears in home gardens and markets with a recipe for Garden Sass Pudding. Cream shortening and sugar, mix in remaining ingredients, then bake half filled muffin pans for 25 minutes at 350. Serve with sauce.
Cheddar Sandwiches Spiced with Parsley and Butter
Butter spreads ease sandwiches with cheddar and parsley. Sweet pickle relish enhances flavor. Mr and Mrs Robert Davidson hosted guests Sunday including Mrs I L Gage and daughter Mary and son David of Logan at 170 W State St.
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Harry Burns
S. Lancaster St
Wellston
William J. Davidson
Maplewood Drive
Dallas Downard
Sharon and
Michael
London
Dorotha Matheny
John Allen
Cleveland
Homer E. Stanley
University Terrace
Athens
Albert Matheny
Jobs
William North
First St
Stanley
Robert Davidson
State St
I. L. Gage
Mary
David
Logan
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J. F. Dixon
Morris Ave
Athens High School
Charlies R. Blaine
Ruth Dixon
Judy of
Lois Dixon
Paul Fontaine
Marietta Ave
Dana Kelley
Perry
Washington Courthouse
Kelleys
Kelley
Ohio University
Thomas Littler
N. Congress St
H. E. Littler
Ruth Ann
Roseville
Clyde Littler
Springfield
Orville Elliott
H. E. Gilson
Albany
Tampa
Florida
Sgt
Elliott
Chanute Field Tech School
Toni Porter
Chicago
Alicia Hart
Helen Grace
Meigs
Gallia
Hocking Counties
Mason County
Katherine
Olivia
McKenney
William FE. McKenney
South Pass
North
Girl Cadet Corps
Cincy
Vermont
The
Presbyterian Church
Churc
Chubbies
WPB
Ieee Ge
Minear
Guysville
Cline
Courthous
Ynusway
Verind
Thinnir
Hal
Ball
Diphia Wolff Piiory
Pirates
Philad
Cubs
Annou
Chau
Hetfken
Carr Nounce
Ther . Militiela
Tay
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