Two Tons Of Clothing Collected In Gallia County Drive
Gallia Countians donated two tons of clothing in the United National Clothing Collection drive led by Chairman Joseph W. Clark. Reports show Chesire 300 pounds, Cadmus 150 pounds, Mercerville 54 pounds, Centenary 100 pounds, with 1,500 pounds at Bidwell, 600 at Rio Grande schools, 157 at Gallia Academy High School, and 100 at Kanauga.
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Gallipolis
Gallia
United National Clothing Collection
Joseph W. Clark
E. M. Musgave
Cheshire
Glen Rice
Cadmus
James L. Hineman
Mercerville
Hobart
Niday
Centenary
Bidwell
Rio Grande
Gallia Academy High School
Kanauga
Stores to close Thursday afternoons in Gal lpolis
Gallipolis retail merchants committee votes to inaugurate yearround Thursday half holiday. Starting Thursday May 8, stores will close at noon, including a large number of grocery stores, announced Chairman Paul Jarvis.
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Gallipolis
Two Suits Filed in Gallia County Court
Gallia County Court of Common Pleas sees two new filings. Laura Lambert sues Carodus Lambert for divorce and alimony citing extreme cruelty. they married April 26 1918 and have one adult child. Sidney Ellis of Cheshire sues the Industrial Commission of Ohio for compensation for a 1936 on the job injury, previously denied as not caused by such injuries.
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Gallipolis
Gallia County
Propeller Club Members Tour War Plant Visit
About 60 Port of Huntington Propeller Club members joined 25 locals for a shipyard tour and inspection of vessels under construction and the West Virginia Ordnance Works at Marietta manufacturing. Dinner followed at the Moose Club at seven with a post dinner dance. no business was conducted and speeches were new. Cities represented included Huntington Charleston Ashland Ironton and Proctorville.
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Foint Pleasant
Port of Huntington
Marietta Manufacturing Co
West Virginia Ordnance Works
Moose Club
Huntington
Charleston
Ashland
Ironton
Proctorville
Carnival at Hannan Bagh School to be held Saturday
Students at Hannan Bagh School anticipate a homespun carnival sponsored by the farm women's club. The event on Saturday evening April 28 at 8 o'clock features a radio troupe as the main attraction with display booths fishing ponds fortune telling pretty girls cake walk and tap dancing as diversions.
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Point Pleasant
Hannan Bagh School
Farm Women's Club
Zaleski News Notes Highlights War Era Families
Zaleski notes detail Arthur James family illness in Columbus and furloughs for Seaman George Good and Seaman Raymond Hayes. Joins report Joan Potter’s Miami visit, Pvt. Edgar Egleberry’s Oklahoma leave, and engagements with Opal Gire to Marvin McKibben. Local relatives gather in Columbus and Ports mouth amid wartime travel.
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Zaleski
Cleire James
Jessie James
Columbus
James
Ormand Demorest
Washington, D. C
George Good
Kansas
Waliam Gooton
Raymond
Rick) Hayes
Treasure Island
California
Seaman Hayes
Pacific War Zone
Joan Potter
Miami
Cpl
Jack Potter
Camp Lee
J. A. Bedinghan
James Barnhouse
Portsmouth
Edgar Egleberry
Oklahoma
Ira Egleberry
Daniel Allis
Uss
Essex
Alls
Arline
Dorothy McKibben
Dave Laser
Avis Helen Hayes
Dayton
Frank M. Hayes
Hayes
Max Thomas
Ella Mae Hayes
Evelyn Thomas
Pennell
Clinton Stevenson
Huntington
W. Va
Effie Ward
Carey Gite
Chillicothe
Opal Gire
Marvin McKibben
Elza McKibben
Len Bighouse
Wapok Ta
Mr. Bighouse
Mary Bighows
Gallipolis Social Notes Highlights and Local Visit Tidbits
Gallipolis social notes report Mrs James O Brien hosting a bridge party at the Lafayette Hotel with Mrs W K O Brien as guest scorer. Elsie McCall wins top prize. column covers military family notes inspectors and chapter visits, plus local ten day travel, health updates and residents visiting in Cincinnati and New Philadelphia.
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Gallifolis
James O'Brien
Lafayette Hotel
W. K. O'Brien
Elsie McCall
Crab Creek Man Taken To Hospital In Point Pleasant
George Woodard of Crab Creek was taken Sunday to Veterans Hospital in Huntington by Mervin Chapman. His condition is serious, attributed partly to gas exposure in World War I. Woodard has worked for Sylvania Electric and Mohr Brothers stogie makers on Crab Creek.
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Point Pleasant
George Woodard
Crab Creek
Veterans Hospital
Huntington
Mervin Chapman
Woodard
Sylvania Electric Products Co
Mohr Brothers
Gallia Boy Decorated with Bronze Star
Pvt Carl D. Trotter of Gallia County received the Bronze Star for his service with the air forces in India and Burma. Eldest son of Mrs Edith Trotter of Mercerville, he graduated Mercerville High School in 1941 and was studying engineering at Ohio State University before enlisting. He has served two years, currently 13 months in India and Burma.
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Gallipolis
Carl D
Jack) Trotter
Edith Trotter
Mercer‘ville
India
Burma
Mercerville High School
Ohio State University
Officers Elected At Point Pleasant Reading Club
The Point Pleasant reading club met at Miss Jean Haynes home on Eleventh St. Mrs Garrett Green was elected president, Miss Inez Barnett vice president, Miss Bessie Johnson secretary, Miss Jean Haynes treasurer, and Mrs George R. B. Skene corresponding secretary. A reading titled The Voice of the Turtle by Mrs Elizabeth Pecker was the highlight. Refreshments were served to attendees including Mrs Eunice Beller and several others. Also noted were Mrs W. K. Stephens and infant Robert Kenneth discharged from Holzer Hospital, and L. G. Aten of Richmond visiting his brother County Clerk John G Aten and other relatives on Letart.
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Point Pleasant
Reading Club
Jean, Haynes
Eleventh St
Garrett Green
Inez Barnett
Bessie Johnson
Jean Haynes
George RB. Skene
Elizabeth Pecker
Eunice Beller
Mac Hheades
Joe Buffington
Skene
Delbert Staais
Pecker
Charles W. van Maire
Mandellen Skene
Barnette
Johnson
W. K. Stephens
Robert Kenneth
Holzer Hospital
Viand St
Earl H. Arnett
L. G. Aten
Richmond
John G Aten
Hogg St
Don Aten
Ida Aten
Letart
Alfred Williams Freed From Germans in Prison Camp
GALLIPOLIS Alfred Lo Williams reported missing last November is shown in a German prison camp in a letter received by his mother Mrs Ruth Williams of 907 Third Avenue. Dated January 9 the letter says he is well and asks for cigars.
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Gallipolis
Alfred Lo Williams
Ruth Williams
Third Avenue
Jimmie Simms Dies In New York
Gallipolis friends learned of the death in New York of Jimmie Simms six year old son of Mr and Mrs James Simms struck by a bus on Friday April 13. The Meier family hosted them in Locust Street home while Mr Simms served in the military. Three locals Swisher Shirley Hart and Jake Greer were arrested for intoxication. Sheriff Hesson Deputy Morrison and Trooper Coyner traveled to Akron Friday to probe a criminal case.
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Gallipolis
New York
Jimmie Simms
James Simms
Simms
Jimine
W. F Meier
Meier
Navy Yard
Point Pleasant
Ethel Young
Locust St
Mr. Meier
George Swisher
Shirley Hart
Jake Greer
Noble
Hesson
Akron Point Pleasant
Morrison
Coyner
Akron
Workers Sought for City Flood Cleanup in Point Pleasant
Point Pleasant faces a flood clean up in a large mud covered area south of Sixth Street. City officials report difficulty recruiting workers despite available funds. Mayor Krodel and Police Chief Jividen canvassed residents with no takers for short term labor. Sediment from floodwaters will wash into streets with rains, delaying full cleanliness for months.
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Point Pleasant
Sixth St
Krodel
Jividen
Gardons
Huntington Plans Industrial Dinner With Three States Governors
Huntington Chamber of Commerce eyes a larger event after a successful industrial meeting. The tri county industrial association with Mason Meigs and Gallia counties hosted two governors at its annual dinner Meadows of West Virginia and Lausche of Ohio. Huntington invites the governors of West Virginia Kentucky and Ohio to a dinner late in May with tentative acceptances from all.
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Point Pleasant
Huntington Chamber of Commerce
Tri
Candas Restaurant Sold to Mrs Hall in Point Pleasant
Candas sold her restaurant at 324 Main St and retired. The business will continue under longtime employee Mrs Arlin Hall, who has served 22 years. Joe Candas came from Greece 32 years ago, opened the restaurant after fighting in two Balkan wars, and returned after World War I until his death.
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Point * Pleasant
John Eads Funeral Held in Lancaster Ohio
Mrs Emma C Lawson was notified of the death of her mother John Williams Eads at his home in Lancaster Ohio. Funeral services will be held in Lancaster today. He was the son of Samuel and Ellen Eads, moved to Lancaster years ago, age 77. Surviving are his wife and eleven children, with two sons and three grandsons in military service.
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Point Pleasant
Emma C. Lawson
Main St
John Williams Eads
Lancaster
Eads
Samuel and
Ellen Eads
Near
Hickory Chapel
Young Pastor Is Asked To Come To Point Pleasant
Point Pleasant Presbyterian Church tendered a call to Bush a Union Theological Seminary student from Richmond West Virginia. The call will be presented to the Kanawha Presbytery meeting in South Charleston. William Steenbergen attends as church delegate. Bush, a Louisville native, Davidson College graduate, will graduate from the seminary next month. He spoke at the church recently on invitation.
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Point Pleasant
Monroe Bush
Union Theolosijnd Seminary
Richmond
W. Va
Mother of Six Given 60 Days in Jail in Gallia County
Juvenile Judge John W Howell sentenced a mother of six to sixty days in jail for abandoning her children but suspended the sentence except for the first sixty days. The mother must turn over an allotment check of 180 dollars a month from her husband in the Army to Probation Officer Cecil Halles. The funds will pay debts and support the Gallia County Children’s Home, where the six children aged one to ten years were placed for the duration of the case.
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Gallipolis
Cour Dudge
John W Howell Saturda
Cecil Halles
Dilrt
Gallia County
Howell
Sr Y
Cass
Gal
Sgt Ted Baker Attends Roosevelt Burial at Hyde Park
Gallipolis reports Sgt Theodor Baker son of Mr and Mrs Sam Baker Addison attended President Roosevelt's burial service at Hyde Park. His military unit led transportation for the ceremony in a letter to his parents.
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Gallipolis
Theodor
Ted) Baker
Sam Baker
Addison
Pressdent Roosevelt
Hyde Park
Miltary
Murrel McKinney Killed in Action in Germany
Mr and Mrs George W McKinney Route 2 are notified their son Pvt Murrel McKinney 23 was killed in action in Germany April 5 He served three years overseas since July 1944 Married Day Willoughby of Columbia Tenn during training at Camp Forest He is survived by his wife his parents three brothers Pfc William McKinney Jr Russell and Oral at home and two sisters Evelyn and Maxine McKinney at home
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Gallipolis
John Lutz
Charleston
Lutz
South Pacific
Solomon’s Branch
Robert Bischoff
Bischoff
Fort Belvoir
States
Engineers' Corps
G. Derry Wetherholt
Chillicothe
Sunda
George J. Wetherholt
Jack Williamson
Columbus
C. M. X Yeanger Yeanger
Williamson
E. E Elliott
Addison
Floyd Baer
New Philadelphia
Mr. Baer
United States
Avenue
San
Third Francisco
Artie Mae Beard
Point Pleasant
George W. McKinney
Route 2
Pvt
Murrel McKinney
Germany
Camp Forest
Day Willoughby
Columbia, Tenn
Pfc
William McKinney, Jr
England
Ingh School FFA Members Attend Ripley Regional Meet
Ripley hosted a regional Future Farmers of America gathering Friday with Ingh school students Gus Douglas Jr Dale Nibert and Donald Lines competing in public speaking and parliamentary procedure. Donald Lines earned second place in speaking, guided by agriculture instructor Clifford Dunn.
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Point Pleasant
Gus Douglas
Dale Nibert
Donald Lines
Ingh
Future Farmers of America
Ripley
Clifford Dunn
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Zaleski News
Potsdam
Eee Eee Iie Etide
Berlin
Havel
Frederick the Great
Brandenburg
Potsda
Europe
Potetam
Brandenburg Gate
Gallipolis Social Notes
Saturday Evening Post
Ernest Wull
Robt. Howard
Army Medical Corps
Sam
Young Howard
Chester Howard
Toledo
Carl Lynn Cameron
Myr
Mrsarry Cameron
Children’s Hospital, Cincinnat
Anna Stevers
Grand Matron
Eastern Star
McArthur
Edith Hotsinpiller
Winifred Knight
Josephine Pierce
Mae Wood
Ethel Burdette
Hugh Lutz
Elma Dexter
Tena Glassburn
Elizabeth Love
Vinton
Paul France
Alburquerque
New Mexico
Miss Beard
D. A. Beard
Tom Rue Ij
Valley Forge
Margaret D. Carter
Cincinnati
Joseph Carr
Kenneth Wood
Kenneth Jr
Donald Haskins
Wilmington
N.C
Nellie Bell
Lower
Second Avenue
Tom Bell
Italy
Capri
Bell
Elmer Niday
Paul Williams
Scrotoville
Alfred Williams
Peesoun
ProwiCole Company
Long Inland City, N.Y
Feumshinnl Rattleri—Pepel-Cola Battling Co. of
Ithusa
Hall
John Eads
Ohio
Mercy
Presbyterians
City
Sgt
Ted Baker
Brooklyn
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PTL
Sons OF Heaven
Agnes WS A
Ann Rutherford
WFA
OPA
God IS MY
Dennis Morgan
Dane Clark
Roy Russo
Jack Carson
Warners
Michael Curtiz
Robert Hutton
Sean Sullivan
Alan Hale
Euise Randalistson
Unforget
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Kelly
Roosevelt
Truman
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