Second War Loan Drive Opens in Gallia County
Gallia County Victory Fund Committee kicked off the Second War Loan Drive with about 20 team captains and 150 solicitors at Grace Methodist Church. Judge Henry W. Cherrington urged Americans to buy bonds, while Douglas Fuller noted E series bonds dominate sales and praised payroll deductions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
Gallia County
W. A. Davis
Ohio State Grange
Douglas Fuller
Cincinnati
Fuller
Vinton
Eureka
Ohio Fuel Gas Company
Frances Moch
Victory Fund
Columbus and Southern Ohio Electric Company
Eugene Spear
C. E. Holzer
R. L. Rannalls
The
Electric Company
Methodist Church
J. FE. Andrews
John Gee A.M.E. Church
Wide Awake 4-H Club Plans Reorganization Meeting
The Wide Awake 4-H Club in Gallipolis will hold a reorganiza tion meeting Friday April 9 at 7 30 p m at the Ohio Valley Grange hall Mrs Earl Brown leads the group A radio transcription by Gov John Bricker issued Thursday at 12 15 p m over WCMI Huntington West Virginia proclaims State 4-H Club Mobilization Week April 3 10 Members and advisors are urged to support production projects including food production clothing construction and food preservation during wartime.
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Gallipolis
Ohio Valley Grange Hall
Earl Brown
John Bricker
WCMI
Huntington
W. Va
Gallia County Red Cross War Fund reaches 8139 30
Gallia County Red Cross War Fund drive totals 8139 30 with Mex Bunce as auditor reporting the figure Tuesday. They are about 1500 short of the 10400 goal while committee members and officers praise the response. William Jones chairs the drive and extends thanks to all contributors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
Gallia County
Red Cross
Mex Bunce
Wiliam Jones
Oil
Alexander Church Services Set for Thursday Evening
The regular mid week services of the Alexander Church will be held Thursday evening at 7 30 o clock at the home of Willard McLeod announced today by Reverend James M Lane.
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Gallipolis
Alexander Church
Willard McLeod
James M Lane
Easter Theme Marks Gallia Social Event Notes
Gallipolis social notes report the Easter themed East ern Star inspection at the Masonic hall with a dinner at the Lafayette Hotel led by Zenia Shaw and Edith Dunkle. The piece lists attendees from multiple chapters and notes DAR and AAUW activities plus local military and family visits.
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Gallipolis
Order of Eastern Star
Masonic Hall
Lafayette Hotel
Zenia Shaw
Edith Dunkle
Thursday Half-Holiday Is Approved
Gallipolis Chamber of Commerce members voted at a Lafay ette Hotel meeting to close all stores Thursday afternoons from noon to end of summer. The schedule runs June 3 to August 19, with shops staying open Friday nights until 9 o clock throughout the summer.
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Gallipolis
City Officials Meet Monday in Gallipolis
City commissioners met at the police station to appoint Chester Snape as chief of police with a $1000 bond. Mrs. Margaret Bradbury was named a five year member of the Board of Health. Officials discussed a possible reservoir leak threatening Holcomb Hill and Mound Hill Cemetery, and planned repairs. Lafayette Post and PTA outlined a co sponsored summer playground project. Memorial Day dedication of the honor roll board was announced for 120 PM in Public Square. A trust fund for the Nettle Lupton estate was considered. Action was deferred.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
Chester Snape
W. W. Sigler
Earl Moore
Margaret Bradbury
Board of Health
Ejla G. Lupton
Bradbury
Elliott
Public
A. BE. Houstle
Columbus
Nettle Lupton
Gallipolis Set To Open Pool This Memorial Day With Staff
Gallipolis officials announce the public pool will open on Memorial Day under Coach Woody Wills with assistants Boggs and Charles Swanson. The city and Kanauga schools will fund playground equipment while Kanauga residents provide labor.
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Gallipolis
Woodrow E
Woody” Wills
City Board of Education
Edwin E. Higgins
Washington
Boggs
Charles Swanson
Kanauga
Kananga
Benchal
Offiers of Student Body Are Elected at Gallia Academy
Election at Gallia Academy High School chose Kenneth Irion as student body president and Mary Agnes Wells as vice president. The Dramatics Club will run Friday’s assembly program, Miss Norman Johnson sponsor. Friday night a high school dance is planned by the Girl Reserves and Aeronautics Club with Miss Rhudh Miller and Gerald Anderson as sponsors. Registration for next year’s classes continues this week in home rooms announced by Principal Harold Brown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
Gallia Academy High School
Kenneth Irion
Mary Agnes
Jo” Wells
Norman Johnson
Girl Reserves and Aeronautics Club
Rhudh Miller
Gerald Anderson
Harold Brown
Holzer Hospital Notes Adds Five Patients at Holzer
New admissions at Holzer Hospital include Mrs Art Hamilton Coalton for observation Guy Larkin Middleport R D 1 admitted for observation Ivan Bevans Dayton machinist for observation Leon Saunders 16 son of C E Saunders Gallipolis admitted for surgery Ruby Rice daughter of Cecil Rice Gallipolis for surgery Discharges include Mrs Wylye Minton Pt Pleasant Mrs Leonard Leach Wellston Mrs John Tope Oak Hill and Mrs Allan Dill Pomeroy
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Gallipolis
Holzer Hospital
Art Hamilton
Coalton
Guy Larkin
Middleport R. D
Ivan Bevans
Dayton
Leon Saunders
C. E. Saunders
Ruby Rice
Cecil Rice
Wylye Minton
Pleasant
Leonard Leach
Wellston
John ‘Tope
Oak Hill
Allan Dill
Pomeroy
Family Attends Funeral Amid Flu Spread in Parkersburg
In Parkersburg ten days ago the flu struck while attending the funeral of E W Rector brother in law to Mrs Fleming. Pem Meming returned home Monday after illness. Mrs Fleming likewise came home after a two week absence.
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Point Pleasant
Parkersburg
Market Site Assigned To Produce Firm
Gallia Fair grounds acreage deeded to Gallipolis Auction Produce Company by Gallipolis Saving and Loan. William Jones municipal judge will act as attorney for the new firm. Incorporators are John Blain Homer Walter and Stanley Evans. Company to run wholesale vegetable market at the Fairgrounds with auctions starting once enough produce is gathered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
Gallia Fairgrounds
Auction Produce Company
Mrs Emma Thivener Celebrates 99th Birthday in Gallia
In Gallia County Gallipolis Mrs Emma Thivener marks her 99th birthday on Wednesday. She lives with her son Harry on Third Ave and remains active with good sight and hearing. She is widow of Coll Thivener a Civil War veteran and relative to the county’s first sheriff in the same family.
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Gallipolis
Emma Thivener
Gallia County
Harry
Third Ave
Thivener
Point Rock Social Notes
Several local residents attended the funeral of M. S. Holliday of Akron at Old Dexter church. Visits and travels linked Akron Columbus Athens Springfield Wellston and Charleston with family and friends visiting relatives and spending weekends across Ohio.
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Point Rock
M. S. Holliday
Akron
Old Dexter
Holliday
Columbus
Athens
Frank Westfall
Springfield
Howard Westfall
Ray Halliday
Wellston
Laura
Howard Bolton
Dayton
J. M. Bolton
Mrs. R. A. Blessing
Henderson Social Briefs
Mr and Mrs Lele Johnson hosted a Sunday dinner honoring Howard Ramey who departs for Fort Thomas Kentucky for Army induction. Nearby visits included Mr and Mrs George Nutter Jr and family at Gallipolis Ferry and outings to Point Pleasant Charleston and Gallipolis. Mrs Rex Casey was moved to Point Clinic in serious condition. husband retuned from Pittsburgh to be with her.
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Roberts
Arawana Colley
Mae Ramey
Point Pleasant
Horton Austin
Charleston
Pvt
Snodgrass
Rex Casey
Point Clinic
Pittsburgh
Betty
George Nutter
Gallipolis
Glen Sayre
Howard Daugherty
Amagene Casey
Awena Casey
Marsha Dee Daugherty
Reunited Couple Freed From County Jail
Herbert Yates formerly at the ordnance works was released from the county jail at his wife’s request after reconciliation. Mrs Yates had him arrested a week earlier for non support. They left to return to their former home in Huntington.
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Point Pleasant
Herbert Yates
Ordnance Works
Pickens files suit to partition Letart acre tract
A suit in chancery filed in circuit court by Albert S. Pickens against Mina Pickens and others seeks partition of about one acre at Letart. William H. Bardin, the attorney, notes several heirs are involved in the property.
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Point Pleasant
Albert S. Pickens
Mina Pickens
William H. Bardin
Letart
Crawford Home in Point Pleasant Damaged by Fire
Fire destroyed the kitchen and dining room of the five room cottage owned by Mrs Leloa Proffit at Lincoln Ave Point Pleasant. Fire started near a gas range and was confined to the rear portion of the home. neighbors alerted the flames and firemen with new government gas masks entered the smoke filled rooms.
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Point Pleasant
Marvin Crawford
Lincoln Ave
Crawford
Pt Pleasant Chi Omega Elects New President
The Chi Omega Sorority at Pt Pleasant elected Miss Edith Quillin as president, succeeding Mrs Frank C Leng Jr who resigned to teach. Other members and hosts were noted and social visits to Huntington and Norfolk mentioned along with local updates on residents.
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Point Pleasant
Lambda- Chi-Omega
Moose Club
Wadear Thabet
Edith Quillin
Frank C. Leng, Jr
Miss Quillin
Quillin
John Clay Hutchinson
L. B. Hannaman
George ©. Harper
William F. Machir
Richard H Melrose
James Hall
Casby Meadows, Jr
New Quarters Sought for Office in Point Pleasant
B. T. Dudding and E. B. Adkins of Charleston gas, visiting Point Pleasant, are aiding the local firm in seeking new office quarters after a fire rendered the former office unusable. The current space in the State Theater Building is deemed too small for permanent use.
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Point Pleasant
B. T. Dudding
E. B. Adkins
Gas Company
Charleston
State Theater
Two Women Held for Arraignment in Intoxication Case
Doris Payne of the ordnance works and Eloise Jones a local resident are held for arraignment in city police court on intoxication charges. They were arrested by Policemen Morrison and Noble.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Point Pleasant
Doris Payne
Ordnance Works
Eloise Jones
Morrison and Noble
84 year old Whaley shown significant improvement at Holzer
Carlyle Whaley age 84 remained a patient at Holzer Hospital after a critical condition earlier last week. He was described as much improved yesterday signaling hopeful recovery.
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Point Pleasant
Carlyle Whaley
Holzer Hospital
Thrift Point Pleasants Shows Farm Food Stockpile
The Mason county nutrition committee highlights Mrs. W D Steel near Roosevelt School five miles east of the city on Ripley Road. Her cellar holds about 1000 cans of foods as a model to meet possible shortages. The Steels farm 135 acres and raise dairy beef horses pigs and chickens. Her cellar lists numerous fruits vegetables relishes meats and staples all home produced except peaches bought from outside.
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Point Pleasant
Mason County Nutrition Committee
W. D. Steel
Roosevelt School
Ripley Road
Young Casey Discharged From Army
Ernest Casey, 19, of Apple Grove, has received an honorable discharge from the Army after being passed at Huntington and Fort Thomas but released at Fort Riley due to an old arm injury. His family includes Thomas Jr. in California training in communications. Casey's mother plans to produce food for their ten children while father works at the TNT plant.
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Point Pleasant
Ernest Casey
T. W. Casey
Apple Grove
Huntington
Fort Thomas
Fort Riley
Caseys
Thomas, Jr
California
Casey
TNT
WSCS of Methodist Church Plans Sale
The Woman's Society of Christian Service at Trinity Church plans a rummage sale after the first preaching mission session. Miss Vera Fadeley, president, presides and is chosen as delegate to a religious conference in Fairmont on April 26. A resolution to send prayer books to armed services families linked with the church is adopted.
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Point Pleasant
Woman's Society of Christian Service
Trinity Church
Vera Fadeley
Fairmont
Fadley
J. B. Couch
Ben Franklin
C. A. Roush
H. H. Pullem
Estelle Epple Shifler
Flora Myers
R. P. Bell
Henry Fry
G. B. Woodard
R. D. Oseland
D.L. Wilson
Mary Jo Blackburn
C. C
New Haven Officials To Appear in Court
In Point Pleasant a circuit court case, Fabric Fire Hose Co. v New Haven, orders town officials to appear on May 3 to show cause why a writ of mandamus should not issue. The plaintiff seeks $787.67 plus $20.75 court costs from a 1939 fire supply judgment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Point Pleasant
Vernon Jones
Fabric Fire ‘Hose Co
New Haven
Wahama Graduation Date Announced
Wahama High School plans a tentative commencement on May 12 with 44 graduates. Class Night is set for May 11 and the class sermon will be at 9 PM on Sunday, May 39. No speaker has been chosen yet.
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Point Pleasant
John William Steenbergen
Wahama High School
Mason
Visitation Crusade Planned by Local Methodists
Sixteen members of Trinity Methodist Church held a covered dish dinner and outlined the Home Visitation Crusade. Teams will visit homes citywide through the week, with initial efforts described as encouraging. Reverend A E Tullahey and Reverend McCatchey spoke on religious outreach and a Holy Spirit mission continues with meetings at Trinity, Presbyterian, and Heights United Brethren churches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Point Pleasant
Trinity Method Church
Methodist
Turl Stone
Rey. Land
W. M. Stearns
Hanford
A. E. Tullahey
Pittsburgh
Chambers McCatchey
Presbyterian Church
Trinity Church
the Heights United Brethren Church
Point Clinic Has Major Surgeries and Birth at Henderson Center
Mrs Rex Casey of Henderson and Mrs Melvin Cobb of South Side underwent major operations at the Point Clinic yesterday. The clinic reports the birth of a son weighing 9 pounds to Mr and Mrs Roy Rayburn of Kanauga.
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Point Pleasant
Rex Casey
Henderson
Melvin Cobb
South Side
Point Clinic
Roy Rayburn
Kanauga
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Gallipolis Social Notes
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L. R. Hall
Daughters of the American Revolution
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F. W. Butcher
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L. W. Getty
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