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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 17, 1932
Page
8
East Side Parent-Teacher Association opened its season with Prof. Emmett Rowles presiding. Fred Lee Tom led songs as Mrs. H. Bing spoke on World-Wide Citizenship stressing education, patriotism, and global responsibility.
Mr. Henri Hess outlined school features to develop citizenship. Miss Ruth McConnell played two violin solos with Miss Mary Helen Kress at the piano. Members voted to donate a penny per meeting to cover social costs. Bake sales, run by Pauline Jones and Hess, fund the school. The next meeting, December 6 at Mrs. O. D. Morrison, will cover clothing and health. Dr EB Hansen will speak on Promoting Good Reading.
Eight year old Mary Jean Williams hosted a party at 307 East State Street after school on Tuesday. Guests included Julie Coe Eugenia Kresge Martha Isbell Cottingham Ruth Ann Grover Betty Lee McCaskill and Martha Lou Dowler. They solved puzzles before cake and refreshments as eight candles were lit on the pink and white cake.
The Home Missionary Society of the First Methodist Church will meet at 2 o'clock Friday afternoon. Mrs Lenora Saylor will give the lesson on The Missionary Movement Among the Indians. Mrs Arthur Hunter and her group will be hostesses. The bank offering will be accepted at this time.
This article notes Sara Delano Roosevelt as the second mother in U S history to see her son elected president. It recalls Mary Washington, and quotes Mrs Roosevelt at age 78 expressing surprise at her son’s ascent and hope for a great presidency. If in Washington on March 4 1933 she would witness the inauguration.
The Phi Delta Theta Auxiliary hosted an annual dinner at the fraternity chapter house on West Mulberry Street with Mrs. Roberts Wood as chair. Eighty members attended the cafeteria service with Mrs. Harry Beckley and others on the committee.
In brief notes readers report rapid easing of pimples itching rash and blemishes with Zemo. Skin clears quickly after soothing cooling treatment. Claims praise rare ingredients vs cheaper remedies and lists prices 35c 60c 1. Extra Strength 1.25.
Mrs. J. R. Gentry hosted the Higley Study Circle at 163 North Congress Street on Wednesday afternoon. The program center was two essays on The Southerner as portrayed by American women novelists, with Mrs. H. G. Vance on Anne Parrish and Mrs. L. W. Russell on Ellen Glasgow.
The Woman's Benefit Association district rally in Nelsonville included Athens Review president Mrs. Francis P. Frebault and speaker Miss Mary Smith. Local secretary Mrs. Frieda Willock spoke for the association during the program at K P Hall after a banquet at the American Legion Home. Guests included district deputy Mrs. Iaa Hoover and state field examiner Mrs. Nellie Heppert along with Dr. Katherine Manion. Twenty Athens Review members attended the banquet and meeting marking the organization's fortieth anniversary.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Stauffer hosted a surprise birthday party Monday night at 208 West State Street honoring twins Gerald and Geraldine Stauffer on their 13th birthday. Twenty six guests attended, including Freda Gleckner and Pauline Rose, with games and a large cake showing twenty six candles.
Geneva November 17 British Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon invited Germany to attend the world disarmament conference on the principle of armament equality for all nations. He proposed Germany have the legal right to possess all weapons granted other powers under a staged disarmament system.
Berlin reports Chancellor Franz Von Papen head of the Junker Nip party cabinet plans to submit his resignation to President Hindenburg. Loss of parliamentary majority after the latest Reichstag election prompts fear of a new dissolution and a delayed convening of the new Reichstag.
Pattern from The Athens Messenger describes a girls frock with a demure yoke pleats contrast collar and cuffs with removable collar and cuffs of pique. Suitable for wool or cotton and for school visiting or other occasions. Includes step by step diagrams for home sewing.
Pattern 2466 available in sizes 6 to 14 with yardage details for size 10. Illustrated step by step sewing instructions included. Send 15 cents for the catalog or 25 cents for catalog and pattern. Mail orders to The Athens Messenger Pattern Department, 43 W. 17th Street, New York City.
A Sayre study circle meeting featured a music program with Miss Surouhee T Arpee and Mrs. William Ruston performing piano pieces including A Study in E Major and Nightingale by Chopin. Mrs. Vance Springer prepared A World’s Greatest Music Masters program, read sketches of Bach Handel Beethoven Schumann Weber and Mendelssohn, with readings followed by their works played by Mrs. Ruston.
Pi Beta Phi Sorority alumnae will be entertained tonight at 7 o clock at the home of Miss Mary Ellen Wood on West Washington Street. Hostesses include Miss Merna Mills Mrs D M Goddard and Mrs Esther Leffier Also Mrs N J Weik corresponding secretary for Chillicothe District of the Woman s Home Missionary Society attends a Pickaway Madison Ross and Vinton Counties group meeting at New Holland today.
Miss Lois Eleanors Ashworth daughter of Mr and Mrs Homer L D Ashworth of Pomeroy became the bride of Mr Frank Newkirk Norris son of Mr and Mrs Edson Ryman Norris 5442 South Braddock Avenue Pittsburgh on November 15 in the Episcopal Church of Aliquippa Pittsburgh in presence of relatives and in-
A quick sales pitch for Emerald Oibore treatment claims no surgery or rest is needed and promises instant relief. It asserts the product heals old sores, reduces swelling, improves circulation, and restores legs to full function with simple directions and a money back guarantee from Quick's Cut Rate Store.
Miss Lillian Henry, 19, niece of former Police Commissioner John Alcock, was released by the gunman who kidnapped her after killing a man in a holdup. He held her prisoner in an automobile for six hours before she made it home, and police intensified the search for the slayer following her account of the attack. The kidnapper seized her companion James Guisinger, 25, during the incident.
Mrs S C Lummis hosted her son Chauncey Lummis and daughter in law from Richmond Virginia at 1 Grosvenings Street. They visited in Athens then proceeded to Columbus for railway work with the C&O Railroad. They returned to Richmond after Columbus.
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