Summer Travelers Return From Trips to East and West Coast
Mr and Mrs William H Logan Utah Place returned from a month long vacation visiting Tucson Aviz Los Angeles and La Jolla during labor day travel by train. Travel included a West Coast visit with time in California noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arizona
California
William H. Logan
Utah Place
West Coast
Labor Day
Logans
Tucson
Aviz
Los Angeles
Calif
la Jolla
San Diego
Labor Day Social Circles Highlight Athens Area News
Social and personal notices from Athens and surrounding areas recount Labor Day weekend visits. Alma Jean Gloeckner from Columbus guests Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Shields and returns home Tuesday. Numerous relatives travel between Columbus Athens Ohio University and Lake Erie areas for vacations and family gatherings. Annual Picnic announced by Central Ave Methodist Church Woman's Society of Christian Service for Sept 4 at 6 p.m. All members urged to bring families and food.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawrence Shields
Congress Apts
Alma Jean Gloeckner
Columbus
Gloeckner
Holy Family School
Don Harvey
Springfield
Sam C. Scott
New Marshfield
Scott
Harvey
Sherman E Gilmore
Athens
Corinne Parker
Bureau of Appointments
Ohio University
Cleveland
Barbara Gooding
Richland Ave
G. C. Snell
Elaine Gooding
Melvin Gooding
Denver Gooding
Barbara
Elaine
Suzanne
Skyline Drive
Natural Bridge
June Minton
Washington, D. H
H. L. Minton
Jewell Moore
Labor Day
Lake Hope
William Moore
Billy, Jr
Joe
Larry
Sandra Sue
Portsmouth
Alfred Moore
Jimmy
Paul
Willard Guseman
Betty Moore
Robbie
Donald Moore
Robert Moore
Owo
A. L. Jandes
Boyd St
Richard Campbell
Margaret Jandes
George Skoog
Madelon Jandes
Chicago
Betty Lou Jandes
Youngstown
Dayton
Woman's Society of Christian Service
Central Ave. Methodist Church
Paris Fashion Round-Up Signals New Fall Silhouette Trends
Paris showcases new fall styles with the hip waisted silhouette and nipped waists. Girdles with whale-bone stiffeners return, tailored suits tighten around busts, and pencil skirts or hobble cuts lead the look. Coats and dresses favor back fullness and dramatic pleats.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jacques Fath
Lanvin
Couturiers
Jean Desses
Lucien Lelong
Christian Dior
Lelong
Fashion changes push longer skirts and new footwear this season
The Younger notes teens will adopt longer skirt lengths over months with floors near sixteen inches and higher heels. Plaid returns to style as shirts are tucked in and shirttails trend. A metal alloy reveals a color shift every 25 degrees between 500 and 900 degrees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eleanore Phillips
Junior Bazaar
Court Street
M.W
Five Acre Free Land Offer Near Alaska Highway
Readers are told about a 20th century land grant allowing claims to five acres along the Alaska Highway with free allocation after Oct. 2. The Interior Department warns land is mostly nonfarmable with minerals and timber as main resources, and veterans receive priority in this frontier program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U.S. Interior Department
Alaska Highway
Truman
U.S
Fairbanks
Interior Department
Battle of the Iron Monsters at Buckeye Park 1896
D E Marquis recalls the Battle of the Iron Monsters a publicity stunt where two 40 ton steam locomotives collided at Buckeye Park near Lancaster on May 30 1896. The event drew railroad workers and attracted filming crews while a column by P B Owen noted the collision occurred on a siding of the Columbus Hocking Valley and Toledo Railway 25 miles south of Columbus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. E. Marquis
N. Shafer St
Buckeye Park
Lancaster
P. B. Owen
Hocking
Columbus, Hocking Valley and
Toledo Railway
Columbus
Marquis
C and D
Parfitt Family Notes Ailing Patriarch Recovers at Daughter’s Home
Thomas W. Parfitt and his wife celebrated their 63rd wedding anniversary on August 3 at their Albany Route Three home. He is ill and under care at the home of his daughter Mrs. Carmen L. Church 101 Morris Ave, with Mrs. Church, Edith Parfitt, and Mrs. Parfitt assisting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas W. Parfitt Sr
Carmen L. Church
Morris Ave
Birth of Nancy Lynn Gaston announced
Mr and Mrs Glen Gaston announce the birth of a daughter Nancy Lynn on Tuesday September 2 at Sheltering Arms Hospital. Grandparents are Mrs Sadie McDaniel and Mr Lee Gaston. Bone tie ornaments remind of a past rural custom where men wore polished steak bone neckties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Glen Gaston
Clarice McDaniel
S. May Ave
Nancy Lynn
Sheltering Arms Hospital
Sadie McDaniel
Wolf St
Lee Gaston
Guysville
Irene Olson To Be Graduate Nurse Sept 5
Miss Irene Olson a Mansfield resident and Plains native will graduate from Grant Hospital School of Nursing Columbus on September 5. She is Mansfield Senior High and The Plains High School alumna, daughter of Ma and Mr Lawrence W Olson of Mansfield. Grandparents listed include Ma and Mrs August M Olson and Mrs Peter Rankin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Irene Olson
Resie’dent
the Plains
Mansfield
Grant Hospital School of Nursing
Columbus
Mansfield Senior High School
the Plains High School
Lawrence W. Olson
Bowman St
August M. Olson
Mansefield
Peter Rankin
Akron
Chauncey
Olson
Club notices outline meetings and events for local groups
The calendar lists a U S Daughters of 1812 meeting at Mrs. J R Harvey's home at 7 p.m. A Ride A Wee Club gathering with Mrs A L Jandes at 2 p.m. for a business meeting and officer elections. Uddies Auxiliary of Eagles hosts its annual picnic at 6 p.m. at Athens Fairgrounds. Mechanicsburg School sponsors an ice cream social at the school from 7 to 10 p.m. Friday Sept 5 to raise funds for a school lunch room project.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S
A. L. Jandes
Boyd Ave
Eagles
Athens Fairgrounds
Mechanicsburg
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Fred Marks
Grosvenor St
Delia Clark
Jill Gaston
Shannon Ave
Sidney
Findlay
Toledo
Lake Erie
Wilbur F. Martin
Nancy
Bobby
Lake Pemichangan
Ontario
Canada
Nancy Rutherford
Dwight H. Rutherford
State St
East Northfield
Mass
Northfield School
Mrs. Rutherford
Massachusetts
Northfield
Ernest W. Coe
Park Place
Robert W. Coe
Marion
A. H. Briggs
Bette Jean
Kent
John N. Hogsett
Cayrl Baird
Michigan
Ann Held
Walter Baird
David Strawn
Hogsett
Ranch
Mr. Strawn
Don Strawn
N. Lancaster St
Paul and
Emerson Stone
F. C. Stone
E. State St
Everett White
Nelsonville
Earl Woods
Hawk's Nest
W. Va
Leon Gold
Ashland, By
Goldie Strawn
Rocky River High School
C. V. Strawn
N. Court St
Miss Strawn
Ruth Strahl
Miss Strahl
C. A. Overmyer
Parkersburg
George Rasp
Ena Nelson
Belford Nelson
Niagara Falls
N. Y
C. J. Herrly
West
University
Bert Grafton
Jasonville
Ind
Oll St. John
Mr. Grafton
William Leaders
William
Houston, Tex
Mrs
Avon Place
Logans College Shop
Gerry Schemel
Mitzi Weiss
Shirley Williams
Dolly McCullough
Paris
By Jacqueline Louvres
Madame
Gay Pierre
Rauch's Bakery
By Hazel Finsterwald
Dorothy McDonald
Hubert McDonald
Herbert
McDonald
Mr. Thomas W. Parfitt
Gaston
Milldeck
Milldeck's Shoe Store
J.P. Cumley
H. A. McCaskill
Jewelry
W. B. Drake
Athens ,Ohio
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