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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 18, 1958
Page
8
Step Out MR JOHN showcases casual daytime wear suited to city and suburbia. The collection includes a pleated skirt with a versatile blouse, a jumper with a split level panel back, and a tweed skirt with a sixteen inch zipper paired with a jersey blouse.
The First Methodist Church in Athens consecrated its library on Sunday at 3 p.m. Paul Ullmark opened with invocation. Miss Katherine Davis read scripture. Mrs. Maude Matthews and Miss Irene Hand presented library history. Rev. John Koontz led the service. Miss Arminda Kimes sang as benediction. a tea followed. Library hours are listed. Miss Ann Pickering is church librarian and Miss Katy Davis Wesley Foundation librarian.
County Home Demonstration Council sets a 10 30 a m gathering at the Athens State Hospital recreation therapy room with reservations advised after last Saturday. Farm Bureau Council No 2 plans a 8 p m meeting at the home of Mr and Mrs Ross Wright on Long Run Road this Saturday.
Jeffrey Steven Cox born November 2 at Greenville General Hospital Greenville South Carolina. Parents Jeffrey Steven Cox Sr and Mrs. Jack FE Cox welcome brother Gregory Michael. Grandparents Mr and Mrs R J Cox Woodsfield and Mr and Mrs V O Kail Athens.
Mr and Mrs David Sayers of 186 N Lancaster St announce the birth of a son Byron Gregory born November 10 at Sheltering Arms Hospital. The couple also have two older sons Charles Davis age 5 and James Lee age 3. Grandparents are Clair Sayers of Route 1 Millfield and Della Jordan with great grandfather C Keirns of Athens.
The Ohio University Symphony Orchestra conducted by Dr. Karl Ahrendt performs a program spanning Baroque to contemporary. Highlights include Bach Third Brandenburg Concerto in G major and Haydn Farewell Symphony, Rimsky-Korsakov Capriccio Espagnol, plus works by Riegger and York and a fresh piece by Ahrendt for Leighton Conkling. Seventy musicians perform in Memorial Auditorium at 8 p.m. Sunday. admission is free.
The Naomi Bible Class of The Plains Methodist Church met at Edith Barrows home. Devotions were led by Mrs. Paul Tipton and Mrs Lloyd Kittle conducted the meeting. Plans were made to give Thanksgiving baskets to the needy. The Christmas meeting will be a pot luck dinner at Everett Hanning home at 6 30 p m on Dec 10. Members to bring a gift and a red stocking.
Nabby Lee Ames chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution met at the home of Mrs. Fred Carpenter at 136 N Congress St. Miss Mary Stalder presided as regent with assistants Mrs. James R. Ebright Mrs. William Harmon Mrs. Al Bechtel Mrs. Byron Wolfe and Mrs. John Hartley. Mrs. Dow Grones substituted for speaker Mrs. Lowell Burnell and presented an account of her travels through Europe.
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