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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1939
Page
8
Glouster begins holiday preparations as city linemen and workers string laurel ropes with colored lights along High Street from the Ice Plant to Main Street. Merchants decorate storefronts and show windows hint at the Christmas season. completion expected within a week with a 24 man street cleaning crew in yesterday’s work.
Glouster on Social Notes reports a Church of Christ class meeting set for Thursday evening November 30 at seven in the classroom to plan the Christmas party. Personal items note visits from Robert Brunton Sr, Lalla Danford returning from Columbus, and Thanksgiving guests including Hale Williams and Bertha Williams Key.
GLOUSTER The third birthday of Roger McClelland was celebrated Monday with a party hosted by his aunt and uncle, at the home of his parents. Locust Street friends gathered from 4 to 6 PM, bringing gifts as ice cream and cake were served from a festively decorated table.
Trimble Methodist Church invites members and friends to a social evening on Thursday night November 30. The program includes a one act play recitations and musical numbers. Rev Samuel Elsen and his wife will speak and a social hour with refreshments follows.
Approximately one hundred people attended a barn dance Friday night at Millfield School. The event was sponsored by Millfield WPA Recreation Center under Freddie Russell, with Glouster musicians providing old-time music and lanterns lighting the affair. Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Mingus hosted Thanksgiving guests in Millfield and Chauncey, including Christine Mingus and son Larry from Erie, Pa.
Mrs. Bessie Wilson wife of George Wilson was honored at a birthday gathering at their country home on Sunday afternoon. Generations present included Walter Spears, Elizabeth, Virginia and Paul Spears, Carl Shafer, Lois Ann and Clifford Shafer, Andriew Simpkins and children Donald and Rita Ann, and George Wilson. Ice cream and cake were served.
Alfred Grange members elected officers including Master Genevieve Guthrie Overseer Guy Dean Lecturer Helen Woodyard Steward Albert Warner Assistant Steward Lee Henderson Chaplain Osie Henderson Treasurer Emma Findling Secretary Clara Follrod Gatekeeper D. F. Russell Ceres Eloise Warner Pomona Jaunita Childers Flora Dorothy Adkins Lady Assistant Steward Sarah Estella Findling Legislature Agent Albert Warner. ANNOUNCES BIRTH CHANCEY Nancy Sue newborn announced for Mrs Augustine Kirkendall. WILL ENTERTAIN MILLFIELD Pocahontas party set for Daughters of P W in Millfield with 7 30 start.
Chauncey residents and guests filled a holiday weekend with family visits and hosting in nearby Columbus. Lois Ann Shafer and brother Clifford joined parents in Chauncey while relatives from Athens Marietta Utica and Rushville attended gatherings at the Kirkendalls and other local homes.
Plans for organizing a Chauncey Woman’s Club will be made Friday December 1 at 2 30 p m in the Chauncey High School Home Economics Department. Women interested in home and community activities are invited to join Mrs T M Wolfe of the State Department of Education.
Mr and Mrs F E Boudinot entertained friends at their Millfield home last Friday night A coon dinner with trimmings was served Attendees included Mr and Mrs Albert Dusz Jacksonville Herbert Dusz Columbus Mr and Mrs William Cole Mr and Mrs Orris Boudinot and children Bonita K Merna Rae and Mr and Mrs F E Boudinot Millfield
RKO's historical melodrama Allegheny Uprising opens Thursday at the Athena Theater led by John Wayne as James Smith and Claire Trevor as a frontier woman. The film dramatizes Pennsylvania settlers resisting British profiteering traders who armed Indians, triggering early frontier conflict.
George Civille and Mary Guerra hosted a dinner party at their Athens home to mark the 10th wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Muzio of Millfield. Attendees included Lucy Ann and Delores Muzio, Carolyn Guerra, Joe Guerra, John Civille Sr and family, Mary Civille, John Civille Jr, Dan Civille, and others from Chauncey and Millfield.
Mr and Mrs Floyd Stanley of Chauncey hosted a turkey dinner on Thanksgiving Day at their Converse Street home. Guests included Mr and Mrs William Robinett Jr and children Billy Lee Norma Jean and Stanley of Columbus, Mrs Herold Sherlock and daughter Betty Jo of Athens, and Mr and Mrs John Stanley and daughter Janice Sue of Chauncey.
William Pyle and Mrs. Charlie Pyle from Millfield traveled to Cutler on Saturday to attend the funeral of their cousin Mrs. Lizzie Law.
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