Victory Sing To Be Held In Gallipolis Thursday
Gallipolis announces the Second War Loan Victory Sing on Thursday evening April 15 at 8 o clock in the Public Square before the Gallia County Service Honor Roll. The Gallia Academy High School Military Band directed by Richard Downs will perform with speeches by Judge A J Stormont and Harold Wetherholt and Dr Charlie Holzer. The Wartime Music Committee outlines aims to mobilize community musical forces for patriotic programs and school and factory participation. A training class for song leaders and accompanists will begin early May with further announcements to follow.
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Gallipolis
Elizabeth Shough
Gallia County Service
Gallia Academy High School Military Band
Richard Downs
God Our Help
A J. Stormont
Harold Wetherholt
Charlies Holzer
Home Front
America
Victory Sing Committee
Defense Council
Jenkins Rites To Be at Zion Methodist Church
Funeral services for Charles J. Jenkins will be held Thursday at 2 p.m. at Mt. Zion Methodist Church in Walnut Township. The 7 percent old man died Tuesday at the home of Mr and Mrs Levi White on Chillicothe Road. Rev. McCarney will officiate with burial in the church cemetery. He was not married and leaves nephews and nieces. He belonged to the Waterloo Orange and Masons. The letter grow will participate in the Burt service and pallbearers.
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Gallipolis
Mt. Zion
Final Exams Followed by May Activities at Washington School
Washington School in Gallipolis schedules final exams for May 21 to 24 covering the year’s work. The Iowa tests will be given to grades 3 5 and 7 as an achievement assessment. Eighth graders will present a Faster pageant on April 23 morning, with afternoon dismissal for church services. School focuses on conservation and language studies with a fire drill time of two minutes and 18 seconds.
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Gallipolis
Washington School
Edwin E. Higgins
Iowa
Ben Evans
Dorothy Roadarmour
Marie Meal
Mildred Gilman
Marshal Boggs
May A. Davis
Four men arraigned in Gallia Common Pleas Court
Four men appeared before Gallipolis Common Pleas Court Monday afternoon at five. Ralph Dennison pleaded guilty to statutory rape and received two years probation. H W Cherrington said Dennison planned to join the Seabees. Hi B Sears pleaded guilty to exhibiting gambling devices, was fined 25 dollars and bound to 500 dollars that he would refrain from gambling for one year. Fussell Sheets was fined 25 dollars with 10 dollars suspended for resisting an officer. Vernon Harbour pleaded not guilty to contributing to the delinquency of a minor, was placed under 200 dollars bond and released.
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Gallipolis
Common Pleas
Ralph Dennison
H. W. Cherrington
Dennison
Seebees
Navy
Hi. B. Sears
Fussell Sheets
Pey Johnson
Vernon Harbour
Plan Entertainment For Ladies Night At Rotary
Gallipolis resident Rondelle Mc Culty a ventriloquist with her dummy Jerry Malone will perform for Rotary Club members and Rotary Anns at Washington School Auditorium on April 27 for the annual Ladies Night. A dinner precedes the show with souvenirs for the guests of honor the club’s war widows Mrs Martin Mrs Stone and Mrs Wheeler whose husbands serve as club representatives in the armed forces.
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Gallipolis
Rondelle McCulty
West Virginia
Jerry Malone
Rotary Club
Rotary Anna
Washington School Auditorium
Rotary Anns
Martin
Stone
Wheeler
Coast Guard Yeoman Highlights History To Rotarians
Coast Guard Yeoman Walter Neary from Point Pleasant spoke to the Rotary Club Tuesday evening. He traced the service from 1790 and explained its peacetime Treasury Department oversight and wartime Navy control. He noted Coast Guard casualties in World War II and cited a personal family casualty in Indiana. Dr. Robert D. Thomas led, with Frank Wetherholt slated to entertain next week.
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Gallipolis
Coast Guard
Walter Neary
Point Pleasant
Rotary Club
Paul McHugh
Ohio Bell Telephone Co
Ironton
Treasury Department
Navy Department
Neary
Indiana
Robert D. Thomas
Frank Wetherholt
Grace Guild social meeting at Grace Methodist Church
Gallipolis Grace Guild met Monday night at Grace Methodist Church with a 6 15 dinner led by Miss Clara Belle Motter. The program included devotions led by Mrs L C Dayton and a reading by Mrs Harold Brown.
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Gallipolis
Grace Guild
Grace Methodist Church
Clara Belle Motter
L. c. Dayton
Harold Brown
Leonard Funeral Held for Mrs Anna Belle Leonard
Funeral services were conducted at the home for Mrs Anna Belle Rees Leonard age 76 widow of Claude Leonard who died Sunday at Georges Creek Gallipolis. Daughter of Samuel and Adaline Rees she married Claude Leonard November 13 1965 in Point Pleasant West Virginia. Rev J L Stephenson presided with burial in Maddy Cemetery.
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Gallipolis
Anna Belle (Rees) Leonard
Claude Leonard
Georges Creek
Green Is Fined by Gallia Official
William Green, prisoner in the Gallia County Jail, pleaded guilty to intoxication and was fined $40 and costs. On the resisting an officer charge he refused to plead, the court treated it as not guilty, with bond set at $300 and remanded to jail.
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Gallipolis
William Green
Gallia County
Robert M. Betz
Green
Howard I. Neal Commissioned Second Lieutenant
Howard I. Neal of Patriot Illinois has been commissioned a second lieutenant after graduating with the 29th Armored Force Officer Candidate School class at Fort Knox Kentucky.
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Gallipolis
Howard I. Neal
Patriot
D. 1
Armored Force Officer Candidate School
Ft. Knox
Hospital Births and Discharges Highlight Holzer Notes
New patients at Holzer Hospital include Thomas F. Young infant son of Dr. and Mrs. H B Young. Mrs. W P Myers dietitian. Mrs. Lidia Nicodemus hip fracture. Mrs. John Slagle observation. Miss Charlotte Hambrick observation. Carl Daniel observation. Scottie Rose Rose observation. Virgil Hereford and Mrs. Walter Burton births and discharges listed. Superintendent Higgins to attend Ohio Education Association meeting in Columbus Friday night to discuss school legislation.
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Gallipolis
Holzer Hospital
Thomas F. Young
H. B. Young
W P. Myers
Rio Grande Medical
Lidia Nicodemus
Jackson
John Slagle
Oak Hill
Charlotte Hambrick
Carl Daniel
Logan
Scottie Rose
James FE Rose
Olcott
W. Va
Virgil FE Hereford
South Side R. D
Walter Burton
Pt. Pleasant
W. M. Edwards
Patriot
Edwin Oliver
Kananga
W. F. Boggs
Charles Camden
Point Pleasant
Ed Bradshaw
Pedro
Charles Grover
Evan Bevan
Dayton
Daniel
Edwin EF. Higgins
Ohio Education Association
O.F.A
Columbus
Missing Boy Found by Charleston Officials
Gallipolis Chief of Police Chester Leaper says 11 year old Richard Stearts who was missing since Sunday afternoon has been taken into custody by Charleston officials. The father, employed at the Institute, is expected to return the boy home. Leaper traced the boy through Gallipolis and toward Kananga after he told friends he planned to go into West Virginia.
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Gallipolis
Chester Leaper
Richard Stearts
Charleston
Institute
Leaper
Kananga
West Virginia
Properties Sold in Gallia County Deals
Reports show several land and home transactions in Gallia County. Col Morris Haskins buys the Miss Anna Morgan brick house on Third Ave with occupancy reserved for a year, price around 3500 dollars. Other parcels transfer to John Brucker, George Gladman, Hugh Childs, Fred Karr, Tanner Wood, and Leo Ballman among multiple townships.
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Gallipolis
Gallia County
Col. Morris Haskins
Anna Morgan
Third Ave
Haskins
William McKnight
Miss Morgan
John Brucker
Elsie Plymare
Clay Township
George Gladman
John Gladman
Harrison
Rebuen S. Beck
Hugh Childs
Fred Karr
Anna FE
Raccoon
Dan J
Pearl Alban
Greenfield Township
Tanner Wood
Gallia Merchant
Orville Elmer Greenlee
Leo Anthony Ballman
Elwood L. Stewart
St. Alsten
Huntington Township
Call Officers After Minor Accidents
Police were called to two minor accidents in Gallipolis on Monday and Tuesday. Rue C. Tuckerman, driving a coupe on Vine Street, was struck by a truck driven by Clem Saxton from Bidwell as he pulled away, damaging the right rear fender. A second collision occurred Monday night in front of the Farmer's Hotel on Third Ave between Lonnie Jacques and Charles Meade Smeltzer, both cars damaged.
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Gallipolis
Rue C
Charges Cruelty in Suit for Divorce
Dorothy Whittington files for divorce from Theodore Whittington in Common Pleas Court charging gross neglect and extreme cruelty. She seeks temporary and permanent alimony and custody of seven minor children born from the 1927 Meigs County marriage.
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Gallipolis
Dorothy Whittington
Common Pleas
Theodore Whittington
Meigs County
Cattle Sale in Columbus Draws Gallia County Buyers
Gallia County attendees at the annual Ohio Hereford Sale in Columbus included Eric Dennie and others. Buyers from the group acquired several cattle, including Ralph Davis purchasing Nymph C. H and John Mootz purchasing multiple cows with calves. Eric Dennie bought a half interest in Domino Income 3rd, a bull with a storied show record and association with Ohio State University.
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Gallipolis
Gallia County
Ohio
Columbus
Eric Dennie
Denver Walker
Ralph Davis
Frank Christ
H. E. Shaver
Hal Schwartzwalder
Bob Evans
Tim Evans
John Mootz
Fred
Luther Beman
Everett G. Royer
Harland Martin
Gallia Academy High School
Claude Burnett
Wayne Russell
Clyde Burnett
Jack Russell
Tom Woodward
Crop Loans Boost Posted by Gallia County Farmers
John M. Crebs regional manager says applications for Emergency Crop and Feed Loans are five times higher this year. Loans up to 400 dollars at 4 percent help small farmers buy feed seed gasoline oil fertilizer and repairs. Gallia County applications taken April 22 from 9 am to 4 pm by G M Rhodes at the County Agent’s office.
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Gallipolis
John M. Crebs
Emergency Crop and Feed Loan Office
St. Louis
Gallia County
G. M. Rhodes
Hillsboro
Everett Royer
Mrs Adkins Dies at Home After Illness
Mrs Anna Florence Adkins wife of Andrew A Adkins died Monday at her home near Gallipolis after a long illness She would have turned 62 on May 8 A native of West Hamlin W Va she is survived by six children Mrs John Borders Akron Mrs Charles White Newark Pvt Curtis E Adkins U S Army Mrs Everett Coleman Gallipolis Virgil Adkins Ironton and Kathryn Adkins at home Also two sisters two brothers and two grandchildren Funeral services will be held at Sheridan W Va
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Gallipolis
Anna Florence Adkins
Andrew A. Adkins
West Hamlin
Lincoln County
W. Va
John Borders
Akron
Charles White
Newark
Curtis E. Adkins
U. S. Army
Everett Coleman
Virgil
Patrolmen Named After City Exam Marks
Robert D. Gibbs scored 95.5 percent and Cecil Thivener 85.5 percent in the patrolman examination and received permanent appointments from the Municipal Civil Service Commission at a City Commission adjourned meeting. An ordinance set the clerk’s salary at $120 a year. Two others also passed and will join the patrolmen eligible list.
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Gallipolis
Robert D. Gibbs
Cecil Thivener
Municipal Civil Service Commission
City Commission
Garfielday Officials Named in Civil Service Posts
From which vacancies may fe ed were Leslie Niday and For Atkinson both of Garfielday. A salary for the clerk of the Civil Service Commission Canaday was asked by City citor Switzer. Mr Canaday's leagues on the commission Earl Moore president and Joly O Rue.
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Leslie Niday
Atkinson
Garfielday
Civil Service Commission
Canaday
Citor Switzer
Earl Moore
Joly O. Rue
Police Court Notes in Gallipolis Report Grand Larceny Arrest
Officers from Barberton arrived Tuesday to take charge of a young girl apprehended in Gallia County on a grand larceny charge. A bicycle stolen from a man named Gilbert in Hunting in Thursday April 8 was recovered Sunday by Sheriff Elmer Hat and returned to the owner on Monday.
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Gallipolis
Barberton
Gallia Coun
H Im
Gilbert
Huntin
Elmer Hat
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