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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1941
Page
6
Fifty children from the junior Methodist Church choir will carry flowers for a cross display at the YWCA Palm Sunday service in Memorial Auditorium on April 6 at 8 p m. Ohio University choir will sing religious music after the cross is raised, with Arvin Knisely directing staging. The public may attend.
The Ohio University Men’s Glee Club of 39 voices performed a Sunday Memorial Auditorium concert directed by Prof. P. L. Peterson. Selections included A Hunting We Will Go, Softly at Nightfall, The Hundred Pipers, Drums, The Pilgrim’s Song, Hound Dog, It’s a Lovely Day Tomorrow, Sea Fever, I Got Plenty O’ Nuttin’, Black Eyed Susie, Chicken Pie, Wake O Wake, Scandia, and A Man of Words with encores from the Varsity Quartet.
The Business and Professional Women's Club held its Thursday night meeting in the Cline Building rooms with executive board members hosting Geraldine Hope Maybelle Durst Josephine Garvin and Ethel Beekman. Edward Broughton manager of social security for five Southeastern Ohio counties spoke on evaluating government service and costs with two educational film reels shown.
Mr and Mrs F D Forsyth returned home from a month in Florida traveling by car along both coasts to Naples and back. Mrs J Alonzo Palmer remains in Palm Beach as guest of Mr and Mrs B F Stout while daughter Jean Forsyth arrives for spring vacation from Wheaton College. Other local visitors include Miss Lucille Shuler and Pvt William Farrell with family, plus a list of relatives attending Mr Charles Weber funeral in Athens and a trip home of Mrs W F Carey from Chevy Chase Maryland.
Mr and Mrs John Arthur Stois announce their marriage on August 24 1940 in Russell Kentucky where Rev E Smith of the Methodist Church united them Mrs Stois former Phyllis Ellis is daughter of Mr and Mrs James A Summerfield of Huntington West Virginia She has resided in Athens over a year John Stois son of Mr and Mrs Eli Stois of Cleveland is a senior at Ohio University School of Journalism and will graduate in June They were joined on their wedding by Mr and Mrs William Cleary of Athens.
Community clubs hold meetings from Tuesday to Friday in various locations. Notable events include Sayre Study Club at Eastwood at 1 pm, Social Literary Club at Mrs A R Kresge’s home 2 30 pm, Hobson Study Circle at Cottage Tea Room 70 N Lancaster St 7 30 pm, and 900 Friendship Club at Mrs Esther Mingus 477 Richland Ave 7 30 pm. Additional gatherings cover Phi Mu Auxiliary, Alpha Gamma Delta Alumnae, W C T U meetings at the Christian Church, and Logan area observances with Neighborly Night at Athens Chapter O E S Friday.
Dicky and Madge Graham abandon Brixton for urgent calls to their niece Mary Veritone and Charles Spencer in New York. They devise a plan to contact Marion Morton while disguising their movements as a car repair, racing between a drugstore telephone booth and a garage to avoid Brixton scrutiny.
The Women's Society of Christian Service at First Methodist Church will convene this Friday at 2 p m. with Circle 1 at 127 Franklin Circle 2 at Northwood Drive Circle 3 at 82 May Avenue Circle 4 at 44 W Union Circle 5 at 116 Franklin Circle 6 at 50 Sunnyside Circle 7 at Strathmore Blvd Circle 8 at 81 Grosvenor.
The Past Matrons' Auxiliary of the Eastern Star held a dinner in Mason Club rooms at the Masonic Temple with prize winners for an Easter hat contest. Hostesses Mrs Emma Drake Mrs Adda Glazier and Mrs Ruth Funk and president Mrs Alma Hudson oversaw the event. The next meeting is a picnic the fourth Thursday in May with planning by Florence Atkinson Millie Earich Irene Olson and Mae Huffman.
Business and Professional Women’s Club members meet Tuesdays at 7 pm to sew for war refugees. No sewing experience required. bring size 5 6 needles and practice yarn for knitting. Club rooms are in the Cline Building second floor. Also notes on University Theater program covers and cast, and local cultural happenings.
In a dialogue filled with plans and schemes Adele Garrison builds tension as characters arrange a late night journey. Dicky details a train to New York and a final supper with Helena before departure while the narrator frets about Mary and Lillian's possible reactions. The scene ends with a promise to continue tomorrow.
A navy gabardine purse with red calf piping and a miniature swagger stick is featured among bag counter items. A large round button bearing a patriotic eagle decorates it as the Ladies Auxiliary of N A L C. holds an event Friday at 8 p m at Mrs. R C Orr's home at 54 Stewart Street.
The forecast highlights a lively day with strong lunar and mutual aspects. A accelerated pace and practical tactics push new ventures and reforms, with pressure and initiative powering dynamic momentum. Elders and authorities may drive direct action.
The Waterloo High School music department will present the operetta Crocodile Island in the high school auditorium on April 3 and 4 at 8 p m Leading roles include George Pidcock Charles Mace Donald Gulley Wesley Rice Harriet Dicken and others The program also lists more cast members and supporting details from the school event.
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