Students Urge Levy For New Mason County School Facilities
Point Pleasant High School students urge voters to extend the school levy for three more years. They cite needs for a gym auditorium, assembly space, and improved facilities to boost education, community welfare, and school spirit. Students from all classes co ntribute statements.
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Point Pleasant
Point Pleasant High School
Mason County
Biffle
Virgil Burris
Hayden Lockhart
Civic Leaders Plan Huntington Meeting On Tri-State Industry
About 35 leaders from industry business and civic groups in the tri state area were invited to a Huntington Hotel Pritchard meeting hosted by the Huntington Chamber of Commerce. The aim is to form an inter community program to attract new industries to the tri state area as a whole rather than by city.
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Point Pleasant
Tri-State
Pritchard
Huntington
Huntington Chamber of Commerce
Roy Eschenaur
Chamber of Commerce
F. W. Ingraham
John V. Mann
Appalachian Electric Power Company
Pleasant Chapter 75 Eastern Star holds grand visitation
Pleasant Chapter 75 Order of the Eastern Star held a special meeting for the official visitation of Olive M. Zimmer as worthy grand matron. A banquet at Trinity Methodist Church preceded the event with 72 attendees. The program featured readings, musical offerings, greetings from Rainbow and Rainbow for Girls members, and introductions of dignitaries. Decorations highlighted spring flowers and the golden jubilee motif. The group later moved to the Masonic Temple for further tributes and the chapter presented $17.54 toward an elevator project at the OFS home.
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Point Pleasant
Order of the Eastern Star
Olive M. Zimmer
Esther Meadows
Electa
John L Simmer
Lloyd Pinnell
Trinity Methodist Church
Mae Rhoades
Janett Capehart
Gertrude Bateson
Mildred Bumgardner
Mariene Bumgardner
Point Pleasant Assembly 23
Rainbow
Sadie Rainey
Ida Love
Carole Oliver
Pauletta Brown
Rainbow For
Marlene Bumgardner
Louise Crow
Fstaeese
Martha Wood
Anna Stevers
Edith Hutsinpiller
Gallipolis
Ruth Swisher
Grace Caldwell
Wilkesville
Grace French
Middleport
Carrie Hatton
Arlynn Wilcox
Guyandotte
Sarah Betz
Clarence Sayre
Cottageville
Everett Colwell
Mildred Scott
William Scott
Cheshire
Pauline Gallagher
Steward Hawkins
Evangeline
Louise Stewart
Racine
Mary Rose
Carl Overstrom
Clara Edna
Parkersburg
Ruth M. Foster
Nelle V. Pettus
Anna Campbell
Goldie Ward
Mabel Tawney
Ethel Maud Young
Hilah Lutz
Gaspolis
Lilian Stieff
Helen Reynolds
Lyda Harris
Joe H. Barr
V E. Teney
Ethel Scholz
Eunice Jividen
Jennie Stone
Linnie Bruestie
Clara Lew
Bessie Musgrave
Amy Jividen
Elsie V. B. Rogers
Ona B. Dyer
Ruth Batey
Jennie Martin
Alice Barr
Naomi Selby
Berma
Columbus
Marguerite Gooding
Athens
Georgia Bright
Bernice Anthony
Rev McGinnis
Hazel Painter
Buffalo
Phyllig Coyner
Queen Esther
Clarksburg
Florence McGuffin
Pomeroy
Lucy Rice
Carrie Mohr
Arnolda Smith
Norman Foss
OFS
Katherine Couch
Phyilia Coyner
Marguerite Faudree
Lilian Wedge
Merie Minton
Edith Simkins
Garnet Casey
Order of Eastern Star
John L. Zimmer
Olive L. Zimmer
Frances Hatton
Church Schedules Across Mason County Gather for Easter
The Mason County religious notice lists services at Graham Station Henderson New Haven Hartford and more. It details Sunday schools starting at 9:30 to 11:10 a.m. worship times 10:30 a.m. or 11 a.m. and midweek prayer and youth meetings with pastors listed for each church group.
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Graham Station
Methodist
Henderson
Ana Rufus Casto
Minter
Vaught Memorial
Mt. Union
Beech Hill
Methodist Youth Fellowship
Pine Grove
New Haven
Boyd W. Scott
Bachtel
Hartford
Brighton
Kermit Hypes
Harmony - Concord
M. Malccolm
St. Mark's Upper Flats
Krebs
Mt. Olive
Point Pleasant
Isabelle Kiefer
Mt. Zion
Air Service Inaugurated at Tri-State Airport
Point Pleasant officials Graham and Steenbergen attended a Huntington ceremony marking the opening of Eastern Airline service to the tri-state airport. Vice president M. M. Frost spoke on growth of air line service and aviation in the Huntington area. The first flight went west to Louisville and St. Louis.
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Point Pleasant
F. W. Ingraham
State Police Inspect Automobile Equipment
State police at the Point Pleasant detachment conduct equipment inspections on cars and issue windshield stickers to those who pass. Drivers tests were conducted on Thursday by the state police.
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Point Pleasant
Cantata Redemption's Song by Heights EUB Church Choir
The Heights EUB Church choir will present an faster cantata Redemption's Song at 7 30 p m Sunday at the church. Mrs F H Capehart Jr directs the choir.
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Point Pleasant
the Heights Eub
F. H. Capehart, Jr
Leon Resident Is 90 Today
Charles F. Thomas, a retired Leon merchant, is celebrating his 90th birthday at his home in Leon. In frail health for a decade and increasingly serious in recent weeks, he started a general store in 194 and saw the building burn in 1938. He lives with his daughter Mrs. Seeva Stewart since his wife’s death in 1996. his other daughter, Mrs. Lucille Jividen, is Leon postmaster. He has lived in Leon over 50 years and Mason County all his life.
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Point Pleasant
Charles F. Thomas
Leon
Thomas
Seeva Stewart
Lucille Jividen
Mason County
Birthday Remembrance for John Hanson First U S President
Today April 3 marks the birthday of John Hanson a Maryland native elected president by Congress in 1781 under the Articles of Confederation. Descendants in Mason County West Virginia and elsewhere note his legacy with Wiltermolen and others tracing lineage to Hanson who predated Washington.
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John Hanson
Mason County
W. Va
Maryland
Congress
George Washington
Washington
Library of Congress
Hanson
Maryin
Hansons
America
England
West Virginia
Hartford
New Haven
Wiliam Henry Harrison
Benjamin Harrison
Grover Cleveland
Samuel Tilden
Fire destroys garage near Tot Main Street in Point Pleasant
A garage belonging to Jesse Abel behind Tot Main Street burned Thursday night in Point Pleasant. The blaze caused about 1000 dollars in structure damage and 150 dollars in contents. the adjacent Abel residence and Stella Clark home suffered about 150 dollars in damage. Cause undetermined according to Fire Chief Bill Lepert. Firemen on the run included J C Parsons D M Harshbarger Paul Wood Bill Woomer and others.
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Point Pleasant
Jesse Abel
Abel
Bill Lepert
Stella Clark
Clark
J. C. Parsons
D. M Harshbarger
Paul Wood
Bill Woomer
Lee Choquette
Arly Cross
Rance Jiiden
Bill Huddleston
Rodney Wamsley
Herbie Patterson
Wood School Pupil I Winner In Mason County Spelling Bee
Seventh grader Miss Baumgardner of Wood School and runner up Herdman will advance to the tri state regional spelling bee in Huntington. Otis Rice notes the contest drew more participants than any year. Other contestants represent Mason county schools such as Mission Medeline Higgins and Beech Hill Berneal Duncan and West Columbia Jean Kerwood North Point Pleasant Ruth Grimm and Mt. Pleasant.
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Wood School
Mason County
Joan Roush
The
Milas Ioclean Cout
Mises Herdman
Herdman
Miss Baurgardner
Huntington
Washington, D. C
Otis Rice
I Ac
Iften
Betty Waugh
Mr. Olive
Medeline Higgins
Mission
Judy Webb
Mason
Ernestine Dowell
Beech Hill
Berneal Duncan
Sunnyside
Jean Kerwood
West Colmbhia
Phyllis Zickawoose
New Haven
Tommy Sayre
Letart
Bela Jeffers
Rocky Fork
Phyllis Ver
North Point Pleasant
Arolette Baumgardner
Beale
Ruth Grimm
Broad Run
Catherine Hardman
Wood
Helen Largent
Central
Leona Blessing
Mason County unit holds annual dinner meeting
Pleasant The Mason County unit of the West Virginia Breeder's Cooperative held its annual dinner meeting April 10 at the grade school building in Pleasant. An advisory committee and a state director were to be named by Wood Mace, ABC technician, with short talks by Lew Campbell, state AR manager, Clarksburg, and Plt Northern extension dairy agent from Morgantown. A movie was to be shown. about 100 persons were expected. The dinner will be hosted by the Rhododendron Ferry Women's Club.
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West Virginia
Wood
Mace Abc
Vacon County
Lew Campbell
Clarksburg
Plt Northern
Extension Dairyan
Morgantown
Rhododendron Farry Women's Club
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