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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1935
Page
7
The Athens Auxiliary held a second meeting with a quartette, music, and social prizes. Mrs. Connett led the event and distributed mimeographed song words for future meetings while Mrs. Bolin became the first Gold Star mother to join the group.
Residents report a wave of chain letters circulating in Athens with promises of easy money. Donors and receivers across Florida New York and beyond send a dollar or more, sparking warnings from officials and a note about a fake charity scam.
The Social Calendar lists events for Tuesday through Thursday including Hobson Study Circle dinner at Eastwood with regrets to Carl Fuller by Monday noon. Philathe a class at First Christian Church hosted by Mrs Olive Kittle. White Shrine meeting in Odd Fellows Hall. MaeBcenas Literary Club postponed to May 14. Chi Omega Alumnae gathering at Morris Avenue with Mrs Rose and hostesses. Higley Study Circle picnic postponed indefinitely. Child Study Club meeting at 4 Casas Street with Trace Imhoff. Pocahontas Lodge at Red Men's Hall with Bunco. PEO Sisterhood at 305 East State Street. Thursday Ladies Auxiliary in Eagles Hall with officer elections and initiation.
A 1920s oration notes how rapid money loss shrinks wealth. The piece laments dimes draining away to big money elsewhere while chain letter promises lure many to seek quick riches.
A trio of student performers from Ohio University will present a recital in Music Hall at 8 15 p m Tuesday. Miss Marjorie Vorkes Nelsonville pianist Miss Chelsea Stapleton Parkersburg soprano and Mr Robert Whitaker Jackson bass will perform under Professor Lynn Fontaine and Professor C C Robinson. The same issue notes a railway group meeting at the Chamber of Commerce with speaker J F Whittington and a school heating plant using hot spring water in California's Imperial Valley.
Mrs Theodore Roosevelt Jr turns hunting memories into a petit point chronicle for posterity. She began nine years ago in England with a stool design and now stitches a life sized sampler detailing Theodore Roosevelt Jr’s hunts and the animals slain. The work includes a mountain scene and depictions of a giant panda and animals like the tamarao and seladang.
In a climactic scene Millicent frees Norman Happ as Dick Gentry fights. Sergeant Mahoney overpowers Gentry and arrests a male suspect while pressuring him to reveal Phyllis Faulconer and Jarvis Happ. Norman recounts the trap and the plan to lure Millicent into danger.
Mrs. W. W. Connett hosted the Esther Class meeting on East State Street. Mrs. N. Cuil lams led the program and Devotions on Mother's Day were given by Mrs Do. R. Cline. W. P Porter spoke on the beauty of nature in southeastern Ohio. prizes were awarded to Mrs. Roy Andrews, Mrs. Swan and Mrs. D. K. Seward. June’s meeting will be a picnic at Nice Picnic Grounds on the Pomeroy Road.
Members met at Mrs T. W. Graig's home Monday night to organize a bene ft bridge event at the chapter house on Tuesday evening. May
Mrs Roosevelt discusses her plans to develop her needlework career including petit and gros point. She notes no formal art training yet can reproduce pictures on canvas and is preparing a panther and python piece in nine shades. The exhibit runs May 6 to 11 for charity.
Athens Troop Two rehearses for the annual Court of Awards on May 17. At the last meeting the scouts practiced the dance The Ace of Diamond and worked on First Aid, Second Class tests in signaling, nature study, and Tenderfoot work. Second Class badges and Tenderfoot pins will be awarded at the Court of Awards.
The Progressive Class of the Richland Avenue Methodist Protestant Church will hold a business and social meeting Thursday night at 7 30. D C Wooster will preside over the business session with devotional led by Mrs Williom and entertainment managed by Mrs R E Burson and Mr and Mrs A Hooper. A German invention, a greenish yellow glass for greenhouses, is said to admit light that speeds seed germination.
Dr Herman G James president of Ohio University arrives in Athens to stay with Dr and Mrs T R Biddle at 29 Park Place and speak at convocation Wednesday at 9 40 AM after addressing Democracy and the Radio in Columbus. Also notes travel and visits of local residents and family events.
Sigma Phi Gamma Sorority held pledging for four new members and installed officers for the year after a 6 PM dinner at the home of Mabel and Margaret Croy on South Congress Street. New pledges were Mrs. George Blake Mrs. Kenneth Dunn Mrs. L B Francia and Miss Ben Sanders. Officers include Madge Croy president and Margaret Croy treasurer.
The Sayre Study Circle at the City Federation Club presented a program titled Glimpses into the Lives of a Few of This Country s Political Leaders. Mrs. William Stehr reviewed figures like Norris Borah Owen Roosevelt and Huey Long while musical selections on marimba by Paul Lewis with Richard Imes accompanied the event.
More than one hundred Zetas from active and alumnae chapters gathered in Columbus on May 4 for the second annual Ohio Zeta Day. Alpha Pi Athens members attended, with Irene Witham Seetz and Thomas Garrison among the featured participants. Constance Andrews was elected general chairman for the Athens event to be held next year.
In Los Angeles a federal judge ruled on the sale of Japanese made electric light bulbs banned under fringe American patents. Judge Paul J. McCormick issued the decision affecting import and distribution within the United States.
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