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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1949
Page
6
A simple popcorn cake recipe uses four quarts of buttered popped corn packed into an angel food pan. Make a sugar syrup, flavor with acid coloring, coat the corn, press into the pan, cool, invert, and decorate with gum drops, red dates, and candles for a festive treat.
Col and Mrs Glenn Gardner hosted after the Ohio University versus Kent State football game at 159 East State Street. Guests included Col William H Speidel Capt Robert McCanna Capt Robert Burns Maj John Lynch Lt James Skinner Lt Rodney Crow Capt John Edwards Capt James Williams Maj Neil Walker Capt Carl Wilson and Capt Robert Daggett.
Ohio University hosts the traditional Newspaper Ball in the Men’s Gym on Oct. 21 under Sigma Delta Chi. Jon Gant and his orchestra provide music from 8:30 to 11:30 p.m. Decorations feature a newspaper theme. Tickets go on sale Monday.
Mrs. Bessie Strong of 8 Fremont St was honored at a surprise party given by Mr and Mrs Don Mc Williams and Mr and Mrs Norman Van Nest on Thursday evening. On Saturday her cousin Mrs Goldie Moore and her daughter hosted a dinner.
Numerous clubs and groups schedule Tuesday and Wednesday gatherings across Athens. Chi Omega Alumnae, Alpha Xi Delta Auxiliary, Progressive Literary Club and others meet with speakers, games, and social duties at various addresses including 3 Watt Street and 70 N Lancaster Street.
William E. McKenney answers readers questions on Canasta rules. Topics include how to count meld values for minimum requirements, when red treys score 800 points, concealing a hand to go out, and adding cards to a completed canasta.
A critique covers D A Bonavia-Hunt s Pemberley Shades and Shelia Kaye Smith G B Stern s More About Jane Austen. It notes their ties to Pride and Prejudice and Austen's voice while offering measured praise and caution for Austen fans. The piece discusses character continuities at Darcy s Pemberley and the new figure Stephen Acworth along with the authors reflections on Austen’s legacy. It concludes with a remark on London s day population rise to 400000 from 13000 night residents.
Mrs Frank Chapman and Mrs C L White Jr hosted a September Methodist class meeting. A program of readings and a contest were led by Mrs H H Chapman. Rheta Cody celebrated her eighth birthday with a six o clock dinner Sept 20. Guests included local and Huntington residents. Several members attended funerals, lodges, and church events in Pittsburgh Watertown Marietta Glouster Parkersburg and Athens with long lists of attendees.
Athens County Women’s Republican Club holds a supper meeting at Mrs. Nora Atkinson’s home on Lancaster Street Monday October 17 at 6 30 p m. Guest speaker is U S representative Hon Thomas A Jenkins with hostesses and committees named. Coffee provided and all district residents invited. A Cannes prize winning French film Antoine et Antoinette screens Thursday at Memorial Auditorium with English subtitles.
Thor Johnson conducts the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra in an all orchestral program to open the season on Friday and Saturday. Selections include Strauss Death and Transfiguration, Giannini’s Vivaldi transcription, and Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5. Tickets are on sale at Wurlitzer's 121 FE Fourth St. Cincinnati.
Pineapple and coconut whip dessert recipe yields six servings using lemon gelatin hot pineapple juice shredded coconut and crushed pineapple. The directions describe whipping with a rotary beater then molding and unmolding in coconut nests. The item notes Mr and Mrs Cranze Brown of Zanesville spent Sunday with Vaughn Brown family in The Plains.
The Faculty Women's Club hosted a Sunday reception at the club house on 35 S. College St. Mrs. James Rice and Mrs. George Starcher displayed dry material arrangements and chrysanthemums. Miss Cora Miller led planning with a committee including Miss Vivian Roberts and Mrs. A. Anderson. guests were greeted by Miss Mabel Olson and Miss Mary Antoinette introduced members.
The Pallas Club met at the Women's Faculty Club with Mrs H L Goodwin as hostess. Miss Amy Weiher spoke on News in Music discussing the New York Symphony Orchestra the Oslo Orchestra and the Salisbury Festival in Germany. Mrs Fred Carpenter led with Chopin Man and Musician noting Chopin’s death centennial this month. her son Samuel Carpenter played Chopin preludes.
At the first meeting on Sept. 13 Rome Canaan Future Homemakers of America elected officers Jean Spears president Christine Russell vice president Wilma Morrison secretary and news reporter Evangeline Dye treasurer May Frost historian Phyllis McInturf parliamentarian Mrs Koehler club mother Mr D C McInturf club father and Joyce Barnhart club sister.
The Plains High School home economics department, led by Miss Beryl Cone, announced an order for five new cooking ranges and two refrigerators for student use on the department’s forthcoming program.
Prof. George Starr Lasher of Ohio University School of Journalism spoke at the University of Nebraska Panhellenic Banquet, the climactic event of a weeklong sorority program attended by about 1000 students, alumnae, and faculty. He then visited his daughter and son-in-law in Gary Indiana and returned to Ohio.
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