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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1929
Page
5
A masquerade will follow the Pythian Sister meeting this evening at the I of P Hath. The gathering starts 6 44 with a 7 80 Maccabee dinner at Hotel Berry. Members are asked to come masked.
Twenty seven members and guests attended a masquerade party in the Chamber of Commerce rooms on Tuesday evening hosted by Mrs. James Jones and Mrs. E.2 D. Cooley. Prizes went to Mrs. Fred McCoy and Mrs. Fred Lee Tom for best costume and quiz performance. Billy Lewis sang solos with piano by his mother Mrs. James Lewis, while Mrs. J. W. Hudson presided over readings and Miss Agnes Kilpatrick played two instrumental solos. Refreshments followed. later Mrs. Milford A Buckley and Mrs. Thomas Watkins traveled from Olean to Columbus to visit relatives and attend Carnegie Tech game before returning home.
Margaret Guthrie hosts 49 schoolmates for a Halloween masquerade at 72 North Congress Street. Virginia McVay and Royal Hixson win funniest costume prizes as games and treats fuel the evening.
Religious teachers from Columbus Chicago and Cleveland will assist Athens leaders in organizing a Religious Training School to begin in December. Rev C M Coulter chairs the instruction and finance committee which named four study courses including Teachings of the New Testament and Religious Training of Young People. A second committee oversight will arrange classrooms and materials with Dr S Ho Bing chairing.
An explosive blast at the Nshantoon Mine in Manchuria killed five Japanese and fifteen Chinese, with about thirty others seriously wounded, according to advices received.
Harmett Kelly age 28 of Wellaton Ohio was sentenced by Judge Saul Yager to life in the Oklahoma state penitentiary for robbery with firearms and theft of 1.65 dollars worth of gasoline. Kelly, a former sailor and ex convict, pleaded guilty after seeking to withdraw his plea. His attorney asked mercy for his wife and child but county officials vowed maximum penalties for all robbery with firearms cases.
A Columbus resident recalls relief from a year long nervous breakdown after taking Konjola. He reports improved appetite, digestion, sleep, reduced dizziness, and regained strength. The medicine is available at Me Kee Drug Store in Athens and other local druggists.
James Forquer 17 a high school basketball player son of Mr and Mrs Frank Forquer of Moxahala sustained a broken leg and other injuries when the car he rode in with Edwin Thompson of Zanesville failed to turn and overturned Thompson was slightly bruised and cut at NEW LEXINGTON Ohio on October 24.
An old advertising block touts Cascarets as a pure vegetable laxative made from cascara sagrada. It claims nightly use clears biliousness headaches and constipation, boosts appetite and digestion, strengthens bowel muscles, and can be given to children. It cites medical endorsement and 20 million packages sold annually.
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