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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 11, 1938
Page
8
War era economy meals revive for today with BAKED COWPEAS AND CHEESE serving 4 to 6 and BEAN ROAST loafs. Recipes use cowpeas beans cheese peanuts crumbs and tomato sauce with moderate oven baking for economical meals.
Codfish cakes recipe from Concord Massachusetts serves 6 to 8 with codfish potatoes and egg yolks fried in breadcrumbs. A letter asks for lemon pie help. Also a notice says Toledo and Ohio Central Railway and New York Central filed in 1938 with the Interstate Commerce Commission to abandon 1.43 miles of line in Dover Athens County Ohio.
Saturday meals show breakfast with stewed pears dry cereal parsley omelet toast coffee milk luncheon features escalloped sweet potatoes apples crisp bacon caramel custard tea milk dinner offers fruit cup round steak patties old-fashioned potato cakes spinach apricot pie coffee milk
The piece notes Aztec and Mexican traditions of spicing hot chocolate with cinnamon and suggests adding clove to tea or consommé. It also describes spiced grape juice and cider made with cinnamon bark cloves and allspice in a cheesecloth bag, boiled then steeped. It advises serving hot with sugar to taste, about 1 4 to 1 2 cup per quart.
The regular Athens County Union Class Meeting will be held next Sunday at 2 o clock in the Morristown church. Special music will be provided.
The Department of Agriculture predicts a significantly larger sweet potato harvest this year. Use moist or dry types for baking and meals, and try Sweet Potato and Almond Rosettes with turkey for a festive side.
Modern holiday desserts lighten the menu for Thanksgiving. The Sugarplum Mold uses cherry gelatin with glazed fruit and a whipped cream topping, while a chocolate sponge cake with steamed baking technique ends with autumn sunshine sauce and optional whipped cream.
Start on 75 housing units under the national housing act with sale prices between 3000 and 4000 dollars. Notice to contractors for Stewart Stewart Athens County Ohio fireproof auditorium and class room building. bids due Nov 18 1938. plans by Mills and Son Nelsonville. bids include general and mechanical lots with 5 percent bid bond. right to reject bids.
Christmas fruit cake instructions adapted from a North Pole wire report highlight Lucy Maltby of Corning New York. The Casseropele bake yields two cakes about five pounds and uses raisins peels cherries walnuts citron and spices baked at 250 275 F for about 2 1 2 hours.
A new son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Elda Calaway on Thursday in Joppa. Horace Barr, son of Mr. and Mrs. L. R. Barr, wed in Pittsburgh. Local families, including the Folans and Dyes, visited relatives here. Deaths include Lewis Kibble of Eden. An infant Linthicum is ill with pneumonia, with Mrs. Linthicum assisting.
Evangelist Russell S. Balsinger of Portsmouth opened meetings at the Buchtel Methodist Church Monday night. He and Rev. L O Lineberger are preaching at Haydenville and Murray City services with the Official Board meeting to follow the Murray City service. Balsinger is a singer trained by Homer Rodeheaver.
The Presbyterian Church schedules 10 30 Sunday services with Rev Fred Luchs speaking Does Christianity Pay Soloist Mr Peterson performs Beethoven Come to Me Organist Eleanor Styles plays Grieg Ave Marie Stella Dean Irma Voigt addresses young married couples and older young people on What Religion Does to Me at 6 PM Sunday evening
The Guysville-Stewart Charge lists Sunday activities for Guysville Canaanville and Stewart with times for church school Epworth League worship and sermons. J N Bice is the pastor. Tuesday at 6 the catechism class meets. Bethany hosts church school and preaching.
The Albany Circuit of the M. E. Church led by pastor R. A. Black announces Sunday activities. Sunday School at 9 30 with Mrs. Clarence Vorhes. 10 30 church service with the sermon Obeying the Scripture. Pearl Chapel at 1 p m Snowville 2 30 p m Epworth League 6 45 and the 7 30 sermon The Church.
Quaker City clergyman Rev Benjamin Green will preach at the Chase Church Sunday evening at 7 30. The event invites local residents to attend and hear the sermon.
Fresh ground beef and cottage hams headline a selection of bone less products. Two pound averages for bologna and jumbo pork steaks shoulder cuts round out the meat mix.
Pastor E Nicholas leads morning worship at 10:30 on Hocking Street with Church School at 9:30 directed by John Bailey. Youth meeting at 6:30 discusses Spiritual Development followed by an evening service at 7:30 ahead of a song service and sermon Ready or Not Ready. Cottage prayer Tuesday 7:30 at Beckley home. Mid week event at church Wednesday.
Letart Falls M E Church lists services for Sunday November 13 with details for Letart Falls Apple Grove and Plants and Fairview. Activities include Sunday School at 9 30 a m Epworth League evening preaching sessions and Bible contests across locations. Charles L Thayer John Wolfe George Hoyman Frank Shane and Mr Cline cited as leaders.
Logan repairs are closing St. Pauls Episcopal Church for at least two Sundays. Rector Rev. Robert G. Purrington says plaster damage from leaks and chimney removal during furnace installation is being fixed along with roof and gutter work. Painting will follow with hopes to reopen by the first Sunday in December.
Mary Neal of Tyron Nebraska sliced a backyard melon and found a ten cent coin dated 1925 inside the heart of the fruit. Harvard University is noted as the richest in the United States with an endowment over 128 million dollars.
In Athens County Ohio Probate Court notice filed October 27 1938 by Ralph Wolf to relieve from administration the estate of Nancy Gunder deceased and transfer all real estate to Ralph Wolf to satisfy a mortgage. Hearing set November 16 1938 at 9 AM before L Tyroler Probate Judge.
Pastor A L Clary lists preaching at Joppa Church at 9 30 with communion, Long Bottom services at 11 with communion, and a 7 30 sermon at Reedsville. Congregation details unclear.
English ornithologists determine the average length of a robin's life is between ten and fifteen years. The study highlights longevity expectations across wild populations and notes variation by habitat and predation pressures.
At The Plains M. E. Church Rev. Stanley Jeffery delivers a sermon on Methodism Faces Its Third Century at 9 15 a m The sermon precedes Fellowship Week joint observances planned with Central Avenue Church next week
A mature maple exposes nearly a half acre of leaf surface to sunlight, highlighting the scale of its canopy and photosynthetic area in a single-tree context.
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