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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1934
Page
6
Society editor Marian Bush Snyder invites residents to a Halloween parade on Court Street starting at the Armory at 7 pm. The piece encourages everyone to wear costumes and masks as a community Mardi Gras style event with red fire torches.
Halloween parties light up Athens area as many gather in homes and at the Izaak Walton League cabin with more events planned tonight. Nelle Wayne Roach of Athens to wed Meeker Terwillinger of Circleville Ohio on November 15 at the bride’s home. Terwillinger is a Circleville lawyer and former Rotary official.
Thirteen year old Sue Woolley led a 14 mile cross country bike race from Chauncey to The Plains in a field of eleven girls. Ruth Lewis and Wanda De Toffel followed, with spectators lining the road and bikes riding beside police and cars in festive chases. Betty Gilham and others trailed, while Mary Joe Twiss and Ellen Biddle finished last. Earlier, a Halloween party at the Davis home hosted by the Child Conservation League featured games and costumes with twenty members attending.
A Debor ah Class Halloween party at 28 Curran Drive featured a doughnut eating contest won by Mrs E D Cooley and a burlesque audition for a ladies chorus led by Mrs Pearl Drake. The evening included songs readings and a Schumann Heink impersonation by Mrs E G Pedigo. Thirty members and three guests attended with a district missionary report and a business meeting presided by Mrs J Ross.
Mr and Mrs Phil Hess hosted a Halloween masquerade with cats owls and witches decorations and pumpkin lanterns. Raymond and Clarence Bayles provided music while games and recitals by Mrs Alma Madson kept guests entertained Refreshments were served to a long list of attendees and several guests won prizes in various contests.
A Halloween social at the Salvation Army Hall drew about 75 attendees including men women and children. Highlights included duck and turkey bobbing for apples and Sunday School class contests with the Men and Women's Bible Class winning a tug of war and candy corn prize awarded to Misa Ada Burnside.
Mrs. Harry Foster opens her Foster Home at 220 Fast State Street Thursday afternoon from 3 to 5 for a Girl Scouts tea. Scouts assisting on hostess badges, with a local committee of Mrs. Fred McKay and others, invite parents and friends and those helped with Camp Rotan.
The Izaak Walton League hosted a gala Halloween party at the cabin drawing about 175 guests. Attendees danced to old time fiddlers, played cards, and enjoyed a lantern lite driveway and pumpkin decor throughout the porch and interior.
Quote by Helen Welshimer on women valuing themselves and demanding respect. The piece argues a woman who asks nothing receives nothing and that self-worth impacts how others treat her. It frames self-valuation as essential to lesbian? No, to personal pricing and regard.
Samuel Coffee and Catherine Carpenter won peanut scramble events in the Young People's Class. Alice June Gates took the Sand Trays race by eating a marshmallow from a string. In Mrs Lizzie McKibben's class the sugar doughnut from a string was first. Sandwiches, cake and doughnuts were served.
Twenty eight children in costumes such as troubadours gypsies witches and cowboys attended a Halloween party Monday afternoon in the Episcopal Church School rooms. Guests included Mickey Mouse John Paul Jones and a Polish peasant. They played games watched a Halloween puppet show and enjoyed chocolate milk and Halloween cookies. The event was organized by Church School staff led by Miss Margaret Abel Miss Betty Baker and Mrs Earl L Funk.
The Theta Upsilon chapter hosted its annual Halloween party at the house Monday night with grinning jack o lanterns snarling cats and glowering witches. Guests were greeted by a deep voiced ghost and the room featured bobbing for apples and marshmallows tied on strings.
A Halloween event featured pinning stems on a pumpkin while blindfolded and telling spooky stories. Madame Question Mark, identified as Jane Werner, acted as a gypsy fortune teller who read past present and future for attendees. Refreshments included doughnuts baked apples tea and Halloween candy. The organizing committee was Clara Mae Eisele Lucille Benlehr and Edna Mann.
Seven year old Paul Donald Boyer lies in Sheltering Arms Hospital after being struck by a car in front of the McBee Plant. A McBee Company delegation brought him 8.60 in gifts from employees. Paul plans to buy a wagon with part of the money and save the rest in the bank for safe sidewalk use.
All Girl Scouts assemble in the Junior High Scout room at four this afternoon to hear Mayor Len B. McCune discuss how Girl Scouts can assist their community.
The Athens Aerie of Eagles will initiate ten candidates this evening. An oyster supper will follow the initiation ceremonies.
Miss Louise Stahl former Ohio University Art Department head visited Dr and Mrs T R Biddle in Cincinnati. Miss Louise Banks hosted Miss Violet Briggs from Portsmouth over the weekend. Mrs Sarah Richey returned to Morgantown after visiting relatives in Alexander Township with Mrs Wesley Gray. Mrs R P Imes and Mrs J A Fuller join a Columbus meeting of League of Women Voters to boost membership and finance.
The Past Chiefs Club will meet Friday night at the Hillcrest Inn for a dinner at 6 30. This marks the regular meeting night for the group.
Columbus Golden Chapter of the Woman's Relief Corps will gather at Red Men's Hill Friday at 7 30 p m for their meeting as announced by local officers.
The ten ton vault door swung shut at the Bank of Athens yesterday afternoon while a group of Girl Scouts watched. Mr. Forsyth guided the girls through the interior and explained emergency procedures for accidental confinement. They learned about the ventilating system and a tube for delivering liquids to a trapped person.
Mr Forsyth explained the vault alarm sensitive to heat and mechanical disturbance. The bank clocks set as the vault door swung shut for 16 hours. He noted Ninety five per cent of business is done by check and described check usage and where cancelled checks are stored.
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