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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1935
Page
7
A refined party with tuxedos and velvet gowns featured 48 couples dancing to a live orchestra. Guests included Clyde Herron and Miss Mae Bernard Moriarty among others, with Mrs J E Vertfield hosting and the night ending with an encore.
Mr and Mrs Louis I Brown hosted a formal dinner for 50 at 7 pm with Mrs A B Roe and Mrs Gordon K Bush presiding over the first course and Mrs T W Craig and Mrs Frank X Rauch for the second. An impromptu Major Bowes style program followed with several couples performing solos duets and readings. Additional guests included Mr and Mrs Theodore Morlang from Parkersburg and Mr and Mrs Alonzo Palmer in town for the visit.
Stanley Dow Wood son of Mr and Mrs Howard Wood and nine second grade friends at East Side School attended a Halloween party hosted by Mrs Wood. The party featured costumes jack o lanterns and games with prizes including pin the tail on the cat corn pitching and a fish pond. Refreshments followed with ice cream cake popcorn balls and candy. Attendees included Bill Coe Jo Tritipo Billy Smiley Jimmy Westia Bobby Cable Max Duncan Tommy Dowler Danny Morrison and Stanley Dow Wood. Past Noble Grands Club hosted a masquerade at 10 East Union Street with prizes for best dressed and most unique dress during the event.
Adele Garrison continues the Beth and Katherine circle at the Gibbs New Hampshire estate where Betty Gibbs alternates between charm and risk. Mary directs breakfast and babysits Faith as Noel, Roderick, Junior, Williams, and Scottie join in laketime while Betty's temperamental grace unsettles her parents.
Patricia Bolen hosted a Halloween party at her home on Morris Avenue Tuesday night. The event featured a fortune telling booth by Sylvia Schuler, a fish pond with George Bolen in charge, and guests vying for prizes. Bets and games included tap numbers by Martha Jo Kinsel and friends, with ice cream and cake served by Bolen and aides. Several guests attended including Seymour Luckoff and Barbara Lee Elkins, among others, while Kenneth Dunn of the Ohio University News Bureau prepares to cover Washington Pa events.
A fashion note profiles Anne Shirley as a Hollywood newcomer wearing a dark brown wool coat with a small three cornered scarf tucked under the collar and tied at the back, completing a coordinated sports-inspired look.
Social calendar lists a tea hosted by Mrs Rush Elliott for the Foreign Missionary Society at 2 Marietta Ave from 3 to 5 pm Wednesday. Catholic Ladies of Columbia plan Masked Halloween party Wednesday 8 pm. Pocahontas Lodge meets Wednesday 7 pm with a masquerade dance. Thursday events include a Grange masquerade party and potluck, Central Avenue M E Church Halloween party, Central School PTA 2:45 pm, Athens League of Women Voters tours of Courthouse and Water Works with a tea, Episcopal Church Children's Choir at 4 pm, Nannie Allom Rebekah Halloween party with pumpkin pie, Ladies Aid quilting all day, Roosevelt Sewing Club Halloween party 7:30 pm at Wyatt Cabin.
Leonard H. Tinker of Bond Hill Cincinnati and Georgia Louise Reeves of Norwood were married October 18 in Norwood. The ceremony was in Rev Karl Alexander's study with only immediate family present. Tinker, an Ohio University 1924 graduate and Phi Kappa Tau member, teaches commerce at Norwood High School. The couple reside at 1771 Dale Road in Bond Hill.
Harrison Scott hosted a Halloween party for 13 friends at Highland Forest Street. Activities included peanut races and cat string games with pumpkin center desserts. Guests listed include James Patrick and Ann Gentry, with Mary Pearcy attending a Grand Chapter event in Cincinnati.
Mrs. D W Robinson Mrs Helen Mansfield spoke on Reaching Deficiency and Subnormality before the Central Ohio Teacher Association in Dayton and traveled with Miss Martha Jane Porter of Chicago. Mr and Mrs Neal Helsel visited Columbus for a family reunion and paused at Serpent Mound in Adams County. William Gilkey aged 79 is seriously ill with pneumonia at his son Grants home in Athena after wintering in Pratts Fork.
Mrs W L Whaley and Mrs Dale Cast were honor guests at a birthday dinner held Sunday at the former home. Guests included Hart Stansbury of Pomeroy Odla Whaley of Downington Welby Whaley of Pomeroy Carl, Howard Duckler of Nelsonville, and Tracy Whaley of Darwin.
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