Skeletons and Spectacle Light Up Halloween Benefit Show
A large audience cheered a Halloween program featuring magic, skeletons, and a rabbit and rat trick at the Athens High School auditorium. Funds raised supported new band uniforms as the Col. Plummer Folk company staged the event, with Ohio University students providing interludes and the Athens High School Orchestra performing between acts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Athens
Plummer D. Folk
Southwest
Athens High School Orchesta
Floyd Prince
Fund For High School
Postmaster Parsons and Verona Russell Wed in Athens
Postmaster Vern Parsons of Frost and Verona Russell of Guysville were married in an eleven o'clock ceremony at the Athens First M. E. Church Parsonage with Rev. W. H. Fowler officiating. Parsons wore a midnight blue silk crepe frock with white accessories. they will reside near Frost. Attendants were Mrs. W. H. Fowler and Albert G. Jenkins.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Athens
M. E. Church
Verona Russell
George F. Starkey
Guysville
Vern Parsons
Frost
W. H. Fowler
Challenge to Leadership Dominates O U League Dinner
One hundred and two women from Ohio University including Athena members attend the Women's League rally dinner at Hotel Berry. Dean Irma Voigt urges leaders to exemplify gentleness, modesty, genuineness and good taste while stressing reliability and respect for authority as essential leadership traits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ohio University
Athena
Women's League
Hotel Berry
Dean Voigt
Hats Add Winter Flair With Velvet and Mink Coats
Two elegant hats pair with winter furs. A rust felt design features a bow atop a gray krimmer swagger coat with raglan sleeves. The right shows white velour shaped like a flower pot with violets and a black mesh veil. The coat is mink.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jean King
Social Calendar for Athens County on Oct 31 and Nov 1
area events include a masquerade by Athens Pomona Grange at Athens Grange Hall with a potluck, a Halloween party at Central Avenue M E Church, a PT A report from the Ohio Congress, a courthouse tour by the Athens League of Women Voters and a tea at Grandview Heights. Several church and club meetings dot Friday with guest days, study groups and a municipal water works tour.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Athens County
Pomona Grange
Athens Grange
Central Avenue M. E
C. E. Chandler
Central Avenue Central School Parent-Teacher Association
Jack Quest
Ohio Congress of Parents and Teachers
Athens League of Women Voters
Athens
F. F. Kittle
Athens City
Grandview Heights
Episcopal Church
Church of the Good Shepherd
Nannie Allom Rebekah Lodge
Central Avenue Church
Oliver Dahl
Roosevelt Sewing Club
Wyatt
Jerseyville Road
Paintings Displayed at Benefit Tea of Foreign Missionary Group
Mrs. Rush Elliott hosted a Wednesday tea at 3 Marietta Avenue to benefit the Foreign Missionary Society of the First M E Church. Seventy five attendees included officers Mrs. M M Kerr and Mrs. A H Volwhler, with assistants and servers. Six paintings by Edna Way were shown, including Cliffs and Sea, once in the Ohio Water Color Show.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Foreign Missionary Group
Rush Elliott
Marietta Avenue
Foreign Missionary Society of the
First
M. E. Church
M. M. Kerr
A. H. Volwhler
Clara Weiher
Mary G. Nossa
W. L. Stutz
Ohio
California
New England
Mina Way
Isabel Works Arso
The
Universit
Constructivism
Doris Cullums Hosts Halloween Party At Home
Miss Doris Cullums entertained with a Halloween supper at 9 Franklin Avenue for her cousin Miss Frances Jane Norris of Guysville visiting Ohio University. Guests included Miss Mary Florence Hedges Miss Evelyn Ruston and Mrs Louise Cullums. Prizes were won by Miss Hedges and Miss Ruston during bingo and games. Harvey Baker and B J Drury were in Portsmouth and Huntington W Va Thursday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Doris Cullums
Franklin Avenue
Frances Jane Norris
Guysville
Ohio University
Mary Florence Hedges
Evelyn Ruston
Louise Cullums
Miss Hedges
Ruston
Phyllis Bean Hosts Halloween Party for Nine Friends
Miss Phyllis Bean entertained nine friends Tuesday at her parents home 100 East Union Street with jack o lanterns orange and black decorations and two hours of games and contests won by Charlotte DeMolet Lois Sickles Analee Riley and Betsy Bailey Refreshments followed and each child received a Halloween favor. Also noted is the birth of Myrna Joy Judy on September 30 weighing eight pounds and family connections in New Marshfield and Athens.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mrs. C. B. Bean
East Union Street
Charlotte DeMolet
Lois Sickles
Analee Riley
Betsy Bailey
Donna Jean Buck
Anna McCombs
Shelia Jean Summers
Virgene Fox
Ruth Ann Littler
Ernest Judy
New Marshfield
Myrna Joy Judy
George Smart
Uriah Judy
Charlies Gienn
Athens
Judy
Children From Home Have Theater Party Wednesday
Big bars of candy donated by the F. J. Beasley Company were after the theater treats for seventy children from the Athens County Children's Home who attended a Wednesday afternoon performance at The Messenger and the Ohio Theater. The group walked to the venue and was chaperoned by matron Mrs. George Holdren, two teachers Mrs. Fannie King and Mrs. Mary Mansfield, and two governesses Mrs. Stella Jones and Miss Elizabeth Gage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. J. Beasley Company
Athens County
the Messenger
Ohio Theater
George Holdren
Fannie King
Mary Mansfield
Stella Jones
Elizabeth Gage
Halloween Party at Virgil Baughman's Home
Virgil Baughman hosted a masked Halloween party at 177 North Lancaster Street Tuesday night. Guests enjoyed games and contests in spooky decor with tap dances by Lole and Barbara Baughman and prizes to Mrs. H. L. Atkinson among others. A late refreshment service concluded the event. Postpone Munn Ridge social a pie and candy social at Munn Ridge School moved to Friday November 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virgil Baughman
North
Lancaster Street
Lole
Barbara Baughman
H. L. Atkinson
Boliva
Frank Sweeney
Beulah Higgins
Louise Tucker
Otto Weber
Willett Sweeney
Munn Ridge
Munn Ridge School
Troop 56 Scouts Host Masquerade Halloween Party
Twenty eight members of Troop 56 Athens Boy Scouts gathered at the First M E Church Scout Rooms for a masquerade Halloween party Monday night. Activities included apple contests and nose pushing, with knot tying, signalling and compass demonstrations by the Elks and four patrols. Refreshments featured pumpkin pie doughnuts cider and apples. Assistant Scoutmaster Walton Davies organized the event with Scoutmaster Roy L. Dupler and Assistant Ralph Dalton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Troop 56
Athens Boy Scouts
M. E
Elks
Hawks
Walton Davies
Roy L. Dupler
Ralph Dalton
Mayor and Mrs McCune Attend Chamber Party
Mayor and Mrs Len B McCune attended a Halloween covered dish dinner in the Chamber of Commerce Rooms hosted by the B and M Cooper ative Traffic Association and its auxiliary. A mock wedding, a vocal solo Irish Love Song by Mrs Lena Swaim, and a reading by Mrs J W Hudson highlighted the program with speakers RL Gallager of Cincinnati and C F Baucens of Chillicothe. Leona Wells and William Schmitter of Nelsonville visited Athens on business.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B. & ©. Cooperative Traffic Association
Chamber of Commerce
Len B. McCune
Lena Swaim
J. W. Hudson
RL. Gallager
Cincinnati
C. F. Baucens
Chillicothe
Billy Clapp Hosts Halloween Party And Masked Bridge Night
Halloween events highlight the week with two gatherings. Billy Clapp hosted a party for 11 friends at 19 South Congress Street ending in a supper. Prizes went to Betty Snyder Sally Fisher Jane Morgan and John Miler.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Billy Clapp
Mila F. Clapp
South
Congress Street
Betty Snyder
Sally Fisher
Jane Morgan
John Miler
Joe Jagers
James Patrick
al Gubitz
John
George Milar
Lynn Sanford
Joanne Morgan
Fred Fisher
Episcopal Students Host Reception for Raleigh Singers
The Episcopal Students Club hosted a reception at Rev. L. W. Clarke’s home on East State Street after a concert by the Negro quintet of the American Church Institute for Negroes in Raleigh. About 40 attendees heard the group directed by Dr. Robert Patton perform Old Man River Old Black Joe and Deep River.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Episcopal Students Club
L. W. Clarke
East State Street
American Church Institute For Negroes
Raleigh
North Carolina
Episcopal Church of
Hooper and Ely Announcement of Marriage in Logan
Mr and Mrs William Brooks Hooper Street announce the marriage of their daughter Dorothy to Mr Orland Ely Mineral son of Mr and Mrs Hadiey Ely. The ceremony was read by Reverend Hughes in Logan on Monday October 2. A miscellaneous shower will be held at the bride's home Hooper Street Thursday evening November 7. Mrs Agnes Jordan Wolfe Street has returned from Columbus after visiting her son in law and daughter O R Ross and his wife and son G Jordan in Springfield.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Brooks
Hooper Street
Dorothy
Orland Ely
Mineral
Hadiey Ely
Logan
Hughes
Oon
Agnes Jordan
Wolfe Street
Columbus
O. R. Ross
G. Jordan
Jerry Thompson
Springfield
Spanish War Veterans Booster Group To Meet
Southeastern Ohio Boosters Association of the United Spanish War Veterans will meet in the Washing ton School Auditorium at Gallipolis on Sunday November 3. W K Patterson Ohio Department Commander Judge Edward S Matthias Past Commander in chief and Hon Thomas A Jenkins will address the gathering. Camp No 78 U S W V and Ladies Auxiliary No of Athens County are members of the association.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southeastern Ohio Boosters Association of the United Spanish War Veterans
Washington School
Gallipolis
W. K. Patterson
Ohio
Edward S&s Matthias
Thomas A. Jenkins
U. 8
W. V
Ladies Auxiliary No
Athens County
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By Eleanor Hazlett
Dorothy Bean
Carlos Street
Omar
Marquis
Madelan
Inchauncey Tit Company
Wil
Hon
Himself Man
Thomas Huffman
West
Washington Street
Grant Hospital
Huffman
M. BE
Goldie Morris
Bob Shuster
Virginia Hayes
Fred Cameron
Bernard Hughes
Henrietta Ewing
Annabelle Haller
Charles Russell
Hiram Russell
Frank Pake
Bainbridge
Jackville P. T. A
Jackville
Parent- Teacher Association
Charles David Ashworth
Mary Mills
Wilma Baker
Joe Russ
Elizabeth Barker
Aes
Junior Russ
Elwood Black
Evert Bingham
A G. Mason
Harold Radford
Carl Robertson
Harvey Secoy
H. R. Jacoby
C. O. Baker
George McBrian
Floyd Shafer
C. M. Ashworth
Edward Hanning
Parsons
Mrs. Russell
O. U. League
Dean Irma FE. Voigt
League
Mary Lou Hudson
Nelsonville
Women's League Senate
Y.W.C.A
Y.wc.a
Herman G. James
Thomas R. Biddle
Edwin Watts Chubb
C. M. Copeland
O. D. Morrison
Mary Noss
Mary T. Noss
Greta Lash
Jane K. Atwood
Margaret Benedict
Mary D. Blageney
Elizabeth Furber
Sarah Hatcher
Constance McLeod
Velma Phillips
Misa Ida M. Patterson
Carrie FE. Spencer
Edna M. Way
Irene Witham
Mary Helen Fretta
Edith Wray
Louise Field
Willan Riggs
Margaret Lax
Elsie Druggen
Alice Bjornstad
Louisa Steele
Marthe Hitchcock
Virginia Hoover
Betty McClure
Mies Kap Murephy
Lorene Rhodebauer
Mary Ellen Bibbee
Margaret Helen James
Rose Lovadero
Eleanor Martin
ANCE
Bson
Doe
Athens, Ohio
O. F. Rowland
Charles Kinnison
Foreign Missionary Society
Martzolff
Rebecca Morris McKee
A. S. Daughters of 1812
J. R. Harvey
West State Street
Elson Hedges
G. EB. White
Nature Study Group
AAUW
Faculty Women's Club
J. J. Crumley
L. G. Bean
Nelson McDaniel
Columbus Golden Woman's Relief Corps
Red Men's Hall
D. R. Clippinger
Philip Peterson
H. G. Stalder
Amy Wehr
Mary Slutz
Mary Stalder
El-iott
Edna Way
College of Education
Harvey
Baker
B. J. Drury
Pittsburgh
Portsmouth
Huntington
W. Va
George Lowry
Grace Shingler Lowry
Jessie Campbell
Jo Ann
Dewey Arnold
Barberton
Lucy Shingler
Billy
Russell Lowry
Kenneth
Sugar Creek
Phyllis Bean
Children From Home
Virgil Baughmans
Boy Scouts
Mrs. McCune
Leona Wells
William Schmitter
Bridge Club
Ella Riley
Richland Avenue
Billy Allen Riley
Ella Lee
Grace Bean
Lucille Tucker
Isabelle Mader
Ieabelle Mader
Millie Shaffer
Edna Shaffer
Mary Summers
Elate Allmark
Clyde Littler
Stewart Street
Candlewick
Bates
Faribault
Episcopal
Dorothy Brooks
Visksay
Gallaher’s
South Court St
Bradley
Noberta
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