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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1959
Page
6
A crowded schedule lists social and club meetings across Monday and Tuesday at locations including St. Pauls Hall Masonic Temple Albany High School and First Methodist Church. Activities include card games auctions lectures literary club luncheons and religious society gatherings with hosts and addresses noted.
Local clubs and meeting notices list events from Thursday to Saturday. Includes Home, business meetings, Eastern Star, Athens Duplicate Bridge Club, Ride-a-wee Club, PTA, Eagles Ladies Auxiliary, Fashion Show, Garden Club, Needle Club, Temperance Legion, Grange, and a square dance at Waterloo High School gymnasium with public invitation. Mentions times, locations, hostesses, and ticket details where provided.
The Lydia Lash Evans Club met Thursday at the Cottage Tea House with Mrs. Robert Lantz as hostess. Mrs. Leland Stokes, program leader, highlighted Art Linkletter's book Kids Say the Darndest Things. Linkletter says 15 000 youngsters interviewed were never coached and their remarks are original. He notes children under 10 and adults over 70 make the best interviewees on the air. 70 members attended and answered roll call with current events.
Sears patterns offer Printed Pattern 4542 for Girls' Sizes 6 8 10 12 14 with a spring dress in color matched cottons or print and plain contrasts. Size 10 requires 3 4 yards of 35 inch fabric plus 4? yards for lining. Send fifty cents plus ten cents per additional pattern for first class mail to Anne Adams Pattern Dept The Athens Messenger New York.
Easy embroidery transfers inspire cheerful designs for sunsuits dresses and nursery linens. Pattern 573 offers 12 motifs about 5x7 inches with color schemes plus 35 cents and 5 cents extra for first class shipping. Send names addresses and payment to The Athens Messenger Needlecraft Dept.
A Waterloo PTA sponsored clinic for preschool children in the New Marshfield School area will hold its first of three dates on March 10 from 9 30 to 11 30 a m at the high school gym. Free inoculations will be given and parents with children entering school next fall are urged to attend.
Virginia Margarette Keirns and Harold Hanna Jr. wed at the First Christian Church Millersburg in a Feb 14 ceremony with Rev. Manley Pierce officiating. Attendants included Sally Miller and Dean Waltman. The couple resides in Millersburg Route 1 after graduation years 1958.
The Plains Methodist Adult Fellowship class met at Dorothy Cade's home with Miss Evelyn Aleshire as co host. Fifteen members shared Bible plant references, heard Easter readings, and planned two new collection plates for the church. The nominating committee will prepare a slate for the next meeting. The next gathering is in April at Mrs. Otho Coon home with Mrs. Sam McDonald as co host.
Mr and Mrs Julian M Snyder of New York City announce the birth of a son named Keith born March 5. Grandmother is Mrs David Reeder of North Hill and great grandmother is Mrs F W Bush of 55 Avon Place.
The Association of Childhood Education International met at The Plains Elementary School on Wednesday evening at 7 30 p m A UNESCO program preceded a silent auction Also note a health tip about cleaning lamp bulbs to improve light output by up to twenty percent bulbs should be wiped with a damp cloth then dried
The Girl Scouts of Neighborhood 3 including Mechanicsburg West Side Shade Glouster New Marshfield The Plains and Millfield hold a Thinking Day dinner at West Side School Auditorium Thursday from 6 to 8 p.m. Girls bring their own table service and Mrs James Mitchell will share slides from Switzerland. Funds raised support sending scouts to the Chalet in Switzerland.
Music critic celebrates the Athens Chamber Music Series finale featuring the Juilliard String Quartet. The program spanned Mozart and Webern with Wolf’s Italian Serenade, highlighted Leighton Conkling’s second cello, and praised the performers’ technical mastery and interpretive depth.
Patronesses of Zeta chapter of Alpha Gamma Delta were honored Sunday with a tea at the house from 3 to 4. Hosts included Miss Carolyn Rathburn and Mrs. Audrey Haley with Mrs. John W. Stewart directing the executive council. Mrs. C. N. Mackinnon and others attended.
Weekend visitors celebrated Mr. P. E. Droz's birthday at 51 Mill St. with guests from Columbus The Plains Belpre Athens and others. Funeral services for Mrs. Izetta Wise Gilliland were attended by the McKinniss and Barnhill families. Vinyl impregnated fabrics offer wipe clean wall coverage for easy maintenance.
The Ohio Fuel Gas Co promotes the Mrs. America contest open to all married women with no age limit. Entrants are judged on homemaking ability personality character and attractiveness with $50 000 in prizes for the winner Mrs. America and a national publicity venture. Call for a questionnaire.
The Canaanville MYF elected officers for the coming year. David Spencer was named president and will host next week’s meeting at his Route 50 home. Jack Gaston is vice president Patty Thompson secretary Suzy Russell treasurer Sandy Storer secretary and David Kempton reporter.
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