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Newspaper

Athens Messenger

Location

Athens, Ohio, United States of America

Date

Oct 23, 1956

Page

7

Shower honors couple at Albany Grange Hall

Relatives and friends are invited to a shower for Mr. and Mrs J James Cross Wilma Elliott at the Albany Grange Hall Friday at 7 pm. Grange plans party Amens Grange will host a masquerade party Saturday night at the Grange Hall 7 30 pm. The public is invited to attend the rent and those who wish may attend masked. Refreshments will be served.

J. James Cross Wilma Elliott Albany Grange Hall Spm Amens Grange Grange Hall

Lydia Lash Evans Club Hears Schindler Speech and Fund Drive

Mrs Flor ence McBride hosted a Thursday meeting in the Ohio University Alumni Room where Dr John Schindler spoke on living long and his book ideas How to Live 385 Days a Year. The standing rules committee proposed by law changes and members voted to support the Vetera Stocking Fund. Twenty one members attended.

John Schindler Florence McBride Lydia Lash Evans

Lessons in Bridge Flaw in European Championship Overcall

A bridge column warns of dangers in weak overcalls after a misjudged one spade overcall in the Ireland versus Switzerland match. West doubled, placing the bidder in trouble as South had to take seven tricks but fell short, with a king of hearts appearing.

Ireland Switzerland West South

Bridge hand recounts a misfined ending and misplay

A bridge column fragment shows East taking a finesse and misplay under pressure. West ruffs, then a last club, and East loses a trump lure. A diamond return leads South to misread the play, missing a key finesse and leaving South in trouble after the bidded auction.

Advices and diamonds in discard lead to a lost finesse

A bridge problem describes discarding a diamond on a club, a diamond finesse failing to the king, and South losing another trump trick. The hand ends down 800 points in a part score. The column presents a bidding scenario and a sample answer, then offers a shrimp skillet recipe as a separate item.

South

Young and pretty as a picture sewing pattern ad

This notice promotes pattern No 8318 for a yoked dress with full skirt in sizes 10 through 20 and three quarter sleeve options. It also highlights additional patterns No 5006 with iron transfers and a Fall Winter 36 catalog, offering pattern book Basic Fashion and Needlework Album for 25 cents.

Sue Burnett Athlens Messenger Ave. Americas New York Anne Cabot Athens Messenger N. Y

Circle Hears of Ohio Obson Study Circle Guest Night

Circle Hears of Ohio Obson Study Circle met Tuesday at the Cottage Tea House with forty five guests and members present. Mrs C G Houck introduced Mrs Ethel Sargent who spoke on Ohio noting its early settlement in 1788 and that the state has produced many illustrious men and more colleges and universities than any state of its size. She also sketched famous Ohio statesmen doctors scientists industrialists inventors educators. Hostesses were Mrs David Hughes Mrs Houck Miss Florence Zanner and Miss Delle Finsterwald.

Obson Study Circle the Cottage C. G. Houck Ethel Sargent Ohio Sargent David Hughes Houck Florence Zanner Delle Finsterwald

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