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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1934
Page
8
Friday is a carry-over day for homemakers and working women to plan groceries, Sunday dinner, and housework. The piece notes weekend plans vary from sports trips to Ohio State Indiana to social events, but most women focus on feeding families on tight budgets and managing chores without new clothes or recognition.
A home kitchen recipe from Mrs George Ballinger of Logan Route 2 offers a simple sandwich spread. It combines four dozen mixed peppers or gourds with onions pickles and vinegar plus sugar butter mustard and flour boiled briefly and seasoned to taste.
Kappa Phi Sorority held a Thursday evening event for Methodist preference girls. Mary Margaret Kelley led as president with Mrs Benz as sponsor. The party featured object hunts, a candle parade, and a play Sue Finds Herself by five members. Mrs Saylor and Mrs Fowler attended, with Halloween colored refreshments.
Miss Margaret Porter daughter of Mr and Mrs Harvey Porter and a senior at Ohio University was elected president of the Ohio Alpha Chapter of Pi Beta Phi at a Thursday meeting. Her new post makes her president of Woman's Panhellenic for the school year as rotation of the all sorority group president occurs annually. Porter has been Pi Beta Phi rushing chairman and is a member of Sigma Rho honorary journalism sorority and has written for the Ohioan for two years. She also held a staff position on the Athena yearbook for three years. Miss Helen Townsend
Hollywood blonde Helen Vinson shares her beauty routine covering hair care skin protection and makeup. She stresses flat wave hair setting nightly brushing weekly sham poo and light rinse foundation cream sunscreen and hand and eye care with color glasses to avoid squinting and lines.
The article lists numerous alto performers including Virginia Hayes Helen Haskins Lucile Shumway Lenora Wood Ann Snyder Martha Sams Kathleen Shannon Dorothy Gentry Virginia Goldsberry Eileen Decker Evelyn Fishbaugh Normandie Burgett Virginia Sams Alice Pierce Eula Pendergrass Mary Larzelere Madine McLeod Emma Strahl Louise Bailey Betty Biddison Dorothy Schilling Marjorie Herdman Alma Acomb Ann Loring Katherine Wolfe and Patty Mackinnon.
A Saturday afternoon event for the church's Mothers' Jewels. From 2 30 to 4 30 children under 6 are invited. A program will be offered and refreshments of ice cream and cake served.
Sereno Lodge I C O F 479 will meet tonight at 7 30 p m at the I C O F hall on North Court Street.
Miss Phyllis Pettit a senior at Ohio University and Harold L Ross son of Mr and Mrs W L Ross Grosvenor Street were married at four thirty Wednesday afternoon at the Christian Church parsonage in St Mary's W Va Attendants Mrs Shirley Watson and Mr Robert Powell joined four other couples at a dinner party for the bride and groom at the Lafayette Hotel Marietta Dinner was in a private room overlooking the Muskingum River The couple will reside at Congress Apartments Pettit is a Chi Omega member Ross Phi Kappa Tau graduate of Ohio University 1930 and with Southern Ohio Electric Company]]>
Delegates from local federated clubs left for New Lexington to join the two day Ohio Federation of Women's Clubs meeting. Attendees include Mrs. William A. Shepherd and other southeastern Ohio leaders. several members unable to attend. Irma Voigt travels to Detroit for Michigan Division AAUW state meeting as a national board representative. Additional readers head to Corning New York and Nelsonville for related conferences and ceremonies. James A. Hester and family visit relatives in Canada for two weeks.
Funeral services for Mrs. Martha J. Paynter age 77 will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday at the Portland Methodist Church. She died Wednesday night. She is the mother of Prof. Roy H. Paynter of 1 Grosvenor Street and leaves four daughters Mrs. Mary Baker Pittsburgh Mrs. Nell McCullough Rochester Pa Mrs. Frances Barnett and Miss Grace Paynter Holiday's Cove W Va and five sons George Delaware Clyde New Matamoras John Butler Albert and Oakey Portland. Burial will follow at Portland Cemetery.
Temperatures fluctuated from a high near 75 to a low around 50 yesterday as clouds linger in Athens. Forecasters predicted possible showers on Saturday with a morning rise forming a steady climb.
The Rev. L. R. Roberts district superintendent of the Ohio district will fill pulpits in several district churches for four days starting Sunday. His schedule lists Carbondale Saturday night Stewart Sunday morning East Cannaan Sunday afternoon Athens Sunday night and Luh
Stewart October 5 a rally will be observed by the Newb land Sunday School with special music and readings along the regular lesson. Members and friends are urged to be present.
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