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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1935
Page
7
An article discusses marriage chances for American women, noting large numbers of single women ages 20 to 34 and comparing prospects to Germans abroad. It suggests cultural pressures, timing and behavior shape marital outcomes amid shifting social expectations.
Mary Margaret McBride reports on S S Normandie staterooms showing warmer feminine modern decor. Pastels like pink lavender and blue blend with dark blue masses, leather furniture and built in pieces. Lighting blends into walls with bed lights and ceiling panels.
Fragments list visitors and relatives from Akron Racine Pomeroy Seville Columbus and Sagara Falls. Mentions hospital visit after a car incident and family gatherings over the weekend with multiple names and locations scattered through the text.
Mrs. H T Wise returned from a weekend in Columbus and Bellaire. Several Wise relatives and Nelson family members visited Bellaire and Akron relatives. E L Nelson, editor of the Weirton Times, hosted guests. Other travelers include Miss Dolores Phelps visiting Glouster area relatives and Seymour Luckoff heading to Culver Military Academy.
Mrs Shirley Wile of 284 Palmer Street Middleport provides a sour or buttermilk cake recipe. Ingredients include butter sugar sour milk flour soda baking powder vanilla lemon and eggs, with a filling of yolks milk cornstarch sugar and lemon, and a chocolate icing suggestion. The method instructions cover creaming, folding dry ingredients, beating egg whites, and layering to produce multiple 9 inch layers.
Sixteen girls cooked and ate beef stew at the Girl Scout camp while twenty four Scouts attended. Handicraft hour led by Mrs Reed Downs and Miss Mary McCune produced designs for lawn decorations. older girls knitted and younger dressed crepe paper dolls. Activities included flag ceremony, patrol instruction, wood prep, a woods hike, handcrafts, games, and singing led by Virginia Porter. Next day features dramatic instruction and storytelling led by Miss Swaim Wheaton Carpenter.
There will be work in the Master Mason degree at a special communication of Glouster Lodge No. 607 F. and A. M. tonight. Refreshments will be served. Visiting Masons will be welcomed. Auxiliary to Meet: Ladies Auxiliary of Eagles meets Thursday at 7 30 p m at Eagles Hall. Output of Canada's 1933 brewing industry valued at 30940000 dollars.
Social calendar item notes an original playlet by Mrs Bing Mrs McVay and Mrs Finsterwald for the League of Women Voters meeting at Mrs Hyde’s Nelsonville home. The Athens chapter program includes the play and a Nelsonville Community Club activities segment. Members meet at the Methodist Church at 7 00 pm with cushions or a deck chair.
A Logan woman reports a Devil's Tongue cactus in her rock garden with 287 buds and blossoms, setting a new daily record over yesterday’s 251. Two letters arrive in the morning mail from cactus owners, including Nell Ziggafoos of Albany with 251 buds and Mrs. Waldo Laughlin of Chillicothe with a 227 bud plant blooming again this year.
The Women's Benefit Association held a bridge and bingo event after its meeting at the I C O F Hall on Tuesday night. In bridge, Mrs Beatrix Rosser took first, and Mrs Sadie Frebault was second. Bingo winners included Malina Griser and Cleo Cowan for women, while men’s top prizes went to Mr Fred Slaughter and Mr Clarence Cooley.
A community ice cream social with special music and entertainment is planned for Saturday, June 29 in Mt Union. A note adds that 1983 was recorded as the worst hurricane year in history.
The July 3 event at the Athens Country Club marks the first mid summer dance and one of two non-subscription dances. Walt Sears and his orchestra the Georgia Revelers will provide music with hosts the James Householder Hale Pickett and Wescott Roach households. Members and out of town guests are invited.
The Pleasanton M. EF Church Ladies Aid met at Mrs. Will Allen's home on Friday June 21 to make quilt blocks. After refreshments plans were set for the annual Home-Coming day on the first Sunday in July and the next meeting was scheduled for July 19 at Mrs. Elizabeth Frank’s home with Mrs. Ethel Bratton as hostess.
The Deborah Class of the First Christian Church will meet Thursday night at seven thirty hosted by Mrs. E D Cooley at 75 West State Street.
All manual arts teachers of the county are asked to attend a special meeting in Super Hall Wednesday at 7 p.m. The meeting is announced by Forest M. Guthrie, chairman of the committee.
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