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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 11, 1938
Page
6
Dr E LeFever newly elected Athens County representative in the Ohio Legislature will receive a fifty year Masonic medal from Glouster Lodge No 607 at its regular meeting next Wednesday. M M Bryson, JT High School superintendent, will present the award and Dr H E LeFever of Columbus will speak.
Trimble Church of Christ hosted Evangelist Watkins who spoke on The Difference Between the Church of Christ and the Christian Church, captivating attendees from several communities for about fifty minutes. Reverend Foster is set to preach at Grace A. M. E. Church Sunday at 7 p.m.
Middleport shows Armistice Day decorations with bunting and flags. the bank post office and many stores close for the holiday. Schools dismiss for a parade and reopen at 6 pm for Santa's Bonus distribution.
The statement lists Greenland New Guinea and Borneo as the three largest islands and notes Australia as a continent. It contrasts island sizes with continental classification.
Sewing Club met at Mrs. Ethel Riley's home on Braun Street with devotional led by Mrs. Helen Leach and prayer by Mrs. Bertha Binford. Gladys Viney presided. dinner articles to be sold Nov. 11. pledges fulfilled for church home-coming. OES officers elected include Lillie Galloway and Gene Galloway and others. December installation planned. Birth announced for Pamela Jane Huddy in Columbus MT Carmel Hospital with maternal relatives named. Bridge Club entertained by Mrs. Alvin Lamborn at her Athens home with Agnes Melligan. fall-themed dinner. awards to Mrs. Charles Harper and others.
The Catholic Ladies Study Club made their annual membership donation to the Boy Scout Finance Drive at their last meeting.
King's Heralds of the M. E. Church to meet at Miss Anna Louise Logue's Cherry Street home Saturday at two o'clock in the afternoon. Mrs. George Carter travels to Decatur Illinois for her husband in hospital after a mine accident with pelvic bone injury. Mr. Carter will stay several weeks in hospital.
The Gallipolis focal branch of the American Association of American Women met at Mrs. Harold W. Wetherholt’s home. Miss Anne Bradbury reviewed A Southerner Discovers the South. Flor ence Chubbuck of Rio Grande College remains chapter president. The program includes talks by Dean Irma Voigt of Ohio University and Dean Eich of Capital University, a talk by Mrs. W. A. Lewis, a self help plan by Rio Grande College, a play read by Mrs. Leo Bean, and music nights.
Social notes report multiple welcomes visits and events. Entries mention birthday dinner for Mrs. Lando Phillips hosted by Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Rayburn along with several Rayburn relatives, and various trips and visits among families in Huntington Ironton Columbus Youngstown and Gallipolis. A public bridge party is announced by the American Legion Auxiliary for November 14 at 8 pm in Legion Hall. An estate notice lists inventories appraisements and debt schedules with a hearing set for November 28 1938 and instructions for objections.
The Dionne Quintuplets headline the 20th Century Fox film Five Of A Kind shown Saturday at the Athena. The story follows two reporters trying to bring the Quins to New York for a Broadway appearance, with a cast including Claire Trevor Cesar Romero Jean Hersholt Slim Summerville and others. The article notes the Quints have grown into entertainers with singing dancing and music. It also lists production credits and other film details.
Schedule reveals East Bound and West Bound trains including Diplomat Daily and National Limited. Noted times show arrivals at 2:23 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. with service variances on Sundays and Mondays.
The First Baptist Church in Glouster announces a homecoming on Sunday November 13 with a 9 30 a m Sunday School 11 00 a m sermon by Rev James T Crable a 12 00 noon homecoming dinner and social hour a 2 00 p m program featuring songs prayers readings and Bible messages and an evening service with Y P A family greetings and church history The committee includes Mrs Ethel Riley Mrs Helen Leach and others
Mrs Julius Bratka was surprised by a birthday gathering at home with relatives and friends from Carbondale Millfield Columbus and Jacksonville. The Women's U M W A Auxiliary planned a party for Nov 16 at Odd Fellows Hall. Various visits and travels among families in Glouster Columbus Dayton and Flushing are noted, plus lodge activity and a resumed dance date.
Glouster residents learn church schedules for Sunday at Church of Christ and Methodist Episcopal Church. Bible School at 9 a.m. Lord's Supper at 10 a.m. sermon "The Leaven of Christianity." Evening services at 7 p.m. topics include "Universal Obedience" and "Man's Inner Life." Glenna Morris leads Epworth League at 6 p.m.
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