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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 28, 1939
Page
7
The 1940 Gasco Food Institute opens tomorrow at 2:00 PM in the High School Auditorium Athens with participation from The Messenger The Gas Company and local merchants aiding homemakers in the annual cooking event.
Miss Dorothy Duncan serves as assistant food lecturer and local home service representative for The Gas Company. Mr. James Cole is Food Institute Manager in charge of arrangements and physical properties of the Institute.
The Gasco Food Institute enters its fourth year with a redesigned lineup of lectures demonstrations and dramatic skits led by Miss Esther Roehm and assisted by Miss Dorothy Duncan. The model all gas kitchen has been rebuilt and prizes including a Tappan range will be awarded. Opening session is tomorrow at 2 pm in the High School Auditorium with subsequent programs Thursday and Friday.
Attractive kitchen cannisters are made by covering empty coffee cans with oilcloth. Cut the oilcloth wide enough to wrap around the can and lap one inch. Bind with tape and sew on snaps to fasten.
Oak Grove reports a Sunday School attendance record of 95 on Nov 19 and 87 on Nov 26. The brief notes Thanksgiving visits, births, illnesses, and family events across Oak Grove, New Marshfield, Columbus, Nelsonville, and Athens with multiple Hartman and Cagg family ties.
An unsightly scratch on dark furniture can be made less obvious by coloring with iodine and then waxing the entire surface. If the piece is valuable, it is wiser to have it repaired by an expert.
Athens merchants are highlighted as part of the Gasco Food Institute opening on Wednesday at 2 p.m. The list includes Ohio Food Market C. D. Shafer Co Coca-Cola Bottling Works Athens Bottling Works Gillilan Jewelry Logan's Book News Richardson's Bakery Kerr Hardware Sunnybank Greenhouse Harris Furniture Athens Home Telephone Athens Lumber Acme Dry Cleaners and The Ohio Fuel Gas Co.
A guide urges well planned box lunches for schools lacking cafeterias. It recommends hot drinks in vacuum bottles, crisp salads, moist sandwiches, fruit desserts, cookies or nuts, and varied fillings kept in a gas refrigerator to keep meals appealing and nutritious.
Scientists redesigned the gas range to become a versatile cooking machine with automatic oven lighting, lifetime burner guarantees, and streamlined one piece top designs. Modern models emphasize bake broil performance, wider ovens, deeper broilers, and adaptable top configurations to fit any kitchen layout.
Athens merchants and manufacturers cooperate with the Gasco Food Institute to supply quality products for demonstrations. The Food Lecturer inspects all items and local firms will have their goods displayed and used. Twenty four baskets of food will be given as prizes over the three day institute.
D D MacLellan sells his 47 acre Fairfield Green Township farm to Mr and Mrs Frank W Porter of Kenova. MacLellan visits relatives in New York State and may return to the county.
The text suggests buying a finer model gas range and adding a couple of necessities such as a time reminder to free the homemaker for other tasks during cooking periods.
James Smith returned home from Sheltering Arms Hospital after surgery. A series of visits and small family events dot the area with residents traveling to and from Columbus Huntington New Martinsville Athens Wilkesville and Hamden. Community members include Adriene Holcomb Evelyn Knapp Woodrow Jeffers and the Morris Morris family with school bus duties noted for Lauren Hoffman.
Wheat insurance gains in New York with a 30 percent rise in paid-up applications for all risk crop insurance on the 1940 winter wheat crop. Tabulations show 818 farmers insured for next year, up from 635 for the 1939 crop.
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