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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 24, 1938
Page
9
Local residents and relatives travel from Columbus Cleveland Mansfield Zanesfield and elsewhere to share Thanksgiving dinners and attend events in Athens. Families host guests including professors doctors and students from Ohio University and Denison University with trips to the Army Navy game in Philadelphia and gatherings at multiple homes and hotels.
The Progressive Literary Society hosted its annual guest meeting Tuesday at Mrs. A. R. Harmon’s University Terrace residence with assistive hostesses Mrs. Garfield Porter and Mrs. John Lockard. Dr. L. A. Hamilton spoke on Public Health Problems and Mrs. H. M. Bennett led the program while 32 members and guests attended.
Katerine Hartenbach and Don B. Millikan united in marriage Tuesday evening at 6 in the living room of Mr. Millikan’s parents home at 24 N High St Athens Ohio Rev A Y Wilcox officiated. Pink roses decorated the mantel and two living rooms. The bride wore white satin with lace and carried long stemmed roses and sweet peas. Only immediate family attended followed by a Thanksgiving buffet. After Dec 1 the couple will live at 74 N High St where Millikan runs a magazine subscription business and Katherine runs the local Wurlitzer School of Music.
Maecenas Literary Club met at Mrs. William Tom's home in Athens for a Thanksgiving gathering. President Mrs. E W Bingman led the pledge and business while hostesses Mrs. Fred Stauffer and Mrs. J R Harvey assisted. The club plans for new members and charity work, including scouting sponsorships and baskets for shut ins.
The First Christian Church Married People’s Class met at Mr. and Mrs. Vermillion’s Earich Road home with Mr. and Mrs. Dupler as hosts. They discussed redecorating the classroom and voted to pay forty five dollars on the five dollar monthly church pledge.
In celebration of Mrs. Burdette Hunt birthday anniversary Mrs Joe Walburn hosted a turkey dinner at her mother 84 1 2 W Union St. Attending were Mrs Lee Coffin Mrs Emma Hoffman Cincinnati Ed Clark Byesville O O Welch Chillicothe Bud Wilson Thomas Wilson Alda Wilson Athens Margaret McHarg Marshfield and others. ANNOUNCE MARRIAGE Miss Pauline Radford to Homer Strohmeyer Gloucester and Miss Evelyn Radford to John Gibson Athens.
Mr and Mrs Leo Hooper hosted a birthday gathering for their son Frankie with relatives and friends in attendance. Guests included Mr and Mrs William West and their sons Ralph and Gene, Mr and Mrs Clovis Chesser and son Gerald Albany, Mr and Mrs John Keogh and son John Dayton, along with Mr Lawrence West, and others from Albany and Dayton.
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Fultz of New Marshfield announce the birth of a daughter named Jill Earlene born Tuesday at Sheltering Arms Hospital. Grandparents are Mrs. Anna Nanna and Mrs. Bertha Fultz.
Nannie Allom Rebekah Lodge will meet Thursday at 7 30 p m at the IOOF Hall. Officers will be nominated and members urged to report on the quilt project.
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