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Athens Messenger

Location

Athens, Ohio, United States of America

Date

May 25, 1961

Page

15

Garden and Nature Club plans frothy hats for events

The Garden and Nature Club met at Ohio Fuel Gas Company with a menu including beef barbecue sandwich orange sticks 24 hour salad coconut crunch pie and mocha torte. Mrs Camp was re elected president with officers Mrs James Josten vice president Mrs Clyde Beasley secretary and Mrs Norman Engh treasurer. Members discussed garden therapy for Athens State Hospital and collected flower seeds plants and pots. Mrs James Josten won the mystery prize with twenty members present.

Garden and Nature Club Ohio Fuel Gas Company Betty Newton Home Service Camp James Josten Clyde Beasley Norman Engh Ira Burnfield Raymond Lee Ernest Baughman Athens State Hospital

Plan Lodge Centennial Dinner and Open Meeting Planned

Coolville Lodge No 337 F&AM marks its centennial with a dinner, ladies night and open meeting on Tuesday June 6 at 6 30 p m in the Coolville High School Auditorium. Grand Master Charles H Strayer and other grand lodge officers will attend. Reservations by May 28 through lodge secretary or Coolville Lodge Coolville. Grant Boring is Master and Robert Dixon Secretary.

Coolville Lodge No. 337 F&am Charles H. Strayer Ohio Masons Grand Lodge Coolville Lodge Coolville Coolville High School Grant Boring Robert Dixon

Mrs H G Stalder speaks on Old Athens at DAR Center

Mrs. H G Stalder traced the area’s history in her paper Old Athens at the Nabby Lee Ames Chapter DAR meeting at the OU Center. She linked regional events from 1787 Northwest Territory formation to Athens infancy, Burr Hamilton duel, Blennerhassetts and Irish settler schemes.

Athens Nabby Lee Ames Daughters of the American Revolution OU Center Stalder Northwest Territory Thomas Jefferson Napoleon France Aaron Burr Alexander Hamilton Burr

Civilian Defense Talk At Route 33 Club Meet Tonight

Route 33 Home Demonstration Club meets tonight at 7 30 with Dr Ruth Matthewson at 28 Pomeroy Road to discuss Civilian Defense and local preparedness plans.

Route 33 Ruth Matthewson Pomeroy Rd

Reception To Honor Rev Koontz At First Methodist

Rev and Mrs John G Koontz will be guests of honor at a reception Sunday evening May 28 in the Fellowship Hall of the First Methodist Church Athens. They have resided in Athens four years and will move to Wilmington where he becomes superintendent of the Wilmington district. The reception runs from 7 30 to 9 p m with plans by the social committee led by Prof B A Renkenberger and Dean Rush Elliott of the pastoral relations committee.

L. E. Burnelle Glouster Gordon Gray H. L. Atkinson Dow Grones Betsy Gray William B. Wolfe C. B. Dillon Frank X. Rauch, Sr Leona M. Pickard C. A. Pride D. E. Addington Harold Wise Grace Morley Paul Beckley John G. Koontz First Methodist Church Koontz Athens Wilmington Prof B. A. Renkenberger Dean Rush Elliott

New Teens Books Featured at Ohio University Library

Ohio University Library hosted a Children's Room Spring Book Festival drawing 225 plus visitors. Miss Josephine Loughrey says 190 new display titles will become borrowable after 3 p.m. May 25 with talks and bookmarks for children. Teenage titles cover college careers and etiquette guides, plus biographies of scientists, nurses, and musicians. A Clark's Chapel WSCS rummage sale is set for Friday 1 to 9 p.m. and Saturday 8 a.m. to noon at Ohio Cleaners on N Court St.

Ohio University Library Josephine Loughrey Engeman Greenleaf Ludden Armstrong Vetter Clark’s Chapel WSCS Ohio Cleaners N. Court St

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