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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1974
Page
5
Athens consumers gain help from Annie Anybody in a pilot poster project by the Ohio Cooperative Extension Service. Betty Reese leads volunteers who update leaflets monthly with tested recipes and buying tips for homemakers.
Readers quote Abby and offer personal anecdotes on alimony costs and marriages. A letter discusses a backseat driver spouse, a fatal outcome, and a warning about wealth not equaling life enrichment. Also includes advice on marrying Roy, a confession about misjudged fidelity, plus community notices from Athens about choral society and senior citizens planning events.
Mr and Mrs Charles Thomas Smith reside on Logan Route 3 after their ceremony at the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints Logan with Elder John David Mingus officiating. The bride Dixie Lee Grubb is daughter of Mr and Mrs Donald Grubb. Marjorie Belville organist and Richard Bumgarderer sang. A reception followed at the Logan Federal building.
The Quota Club of Athens County hosts a winter fashion show at the OU Inn on October 15 at 7 30 p m to aid the Speech and Hearing Clinic on Ohio University campus. Martings provides fashions for all ages with local residents modeling coats dresses suits lingerie and more. A card party with food follows and tickets are 2 from Martings Chap mans Jewelers or any Quota Club member. Officers include President Mrs Eileen Ferguson Vice Hostess Mrs Mary Mingus Miss Gertrude Linnenbruegge Treasurer Ruth Seaman. chairmen are Mrs Elizabeth Elmore Iris Fierce and Pauline Fierce.
Athens Woman's Music Club met at Betty Raymond's home for a program on the harpsichord with Karl Witzler detailing instrument construction. Mary Noss reflected on the club's 1914 start, while Helen Selleck and Sally Gnam performed violin and oboe sonatas. The club received the 1974 Parade of American Music Award from Nancy Burson and announced the state convention dates. Olive Renkenberger and Elizabeth Beckley Higley hosted the social hour. The Higley Study Circle viewed slides on fire fighting in southeastern Ohio at the Hocking Valley Motor Lodge presented by Lee Cates.
The Athens natural resources office listed hostesses Mrs. K. D. Shull Miss Florence Brewer Mrs. W. B. Drake and Mrs. H. M. Sedwick. A guest day luncheon was announced for Oct 16 at Baker Center with Oct 13 reservation deadline.
Alpha Lambda Chapter of Delta Kappa Gamma opens its academic year with Athens County Commissioner Helen Baker speaking Oct. 16 at 7 30 p.m. at Columbus and Southern Ohio Electric Co. The November meeting features Ohio DKG president Helen Stephenson. Other events include April luncheon for new members at Hocking Valley Motor Lodge and May 21 officer installation at East Side School. Ends with a 6 30 p.m. potluck at Trimble Elementary School.
Mr and Mrs Homer Hockman of Ryger announce the marriage of their daughter Becky to David Meaige son of Mr and Mrs Nichols Meaige. Rev George Jones officiated a double ring ceremony at the Church of Christ in Christian Union with attendants Miss Candy Meaige and Gary Casto. The bride wore pink and white polyester and is a Kyger Creek High School 1974 graduate. The couple resides on the Hockman property in Kyger.
Miss Shauna Pierce bride elect of Charles Horvath received a bridal shower hosted by Mrs. Fred McKibben at The Plains with help from Mrs. Paul Duckler. Attendees included Mrs. Alvin Pierce and others. Lydia Lash Evans Club schedules a guest day at the Electric Company on May Avenue for Thursday at 2 p.m.
Thusians Captain and Mrs Daniel Golberg announce the birth of daughter Marea Lise on September 20 in Texas. Grandparents Ben Golberg and Myron Schwartz of Columbus and tissue details follow a chain of relatives across Ohio and Puerto Rico. A second birth, Shawn Montantez, born September 27 in San Juan, is announced by Augustine Montantez and Carolyn Allman. Grandparents Thomas Ables, Basilio Montantez, and others cited. great and great great grandparents listed. A third note reports Collin Taylor Paige born August 24 to William and Mary Paige of Atlantic Beach. Grandparents Don Nuzom and F T Paige named. A fourth item notes Mark Allen Stanley born September 15 at O Bleness.
A guest at the Lydia Lash Evans Club watches Joan Lancaster present recipes from the Columbus Electric Company. The excerpt provides a flank steak broiled to medium rare with a blue cheese chives butter, plus crumbled cheese and butter mix served on top. It yields 4 to 6 servings.
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