Veteran of Pacific Talks on War Loan in Point Pleasant
Lieutenant Okey H. Scott of Montgomery spoke to Marietta Manufacturing Co. employees in Point Pleasant about the forthcoming war loan. He will address General Chemical Defense Corporation workers and later speak at West Virginia firms in cooperation with the War Finance Committee. Scott served with the 37th Division on Bougainville, where the unit earned the Distinguished Unit Badge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Point Pleasant
Okey H. Scott
Montgomery
Marietta Manufacturing Co
General Chemical Defense Corporation
West Virginia
Mallaable” Iron Co
Quality. Manufacturing Co
Sylvania Electrical Products Co
West Virginia ‘War Finance Committee
Scott
Bougainville Island
Mason County roads mostly in good shape cites Route 2 and 62 slips
Mason County roads are in good condition except for a slip on Route 2 near Gallipolis Ferry and another on Route 62 at Stiding Hill between Hartford and New Haven. State road officials say no major projects this year beyond completing Route 17 Henderson to Winfield, with prison laborers tied to subsequent work on Point Pleasant Ripley Road and Route 2 and 87.
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Sam A. Simmons
Point Pleasant
Priory Roads
Mason County
Gallipolis Ferry
Hartford
New Haven
State Road Commission
Li.k. Ohlinger
Henderson
Winfield
Pillam County
Oblinger
Point Pleasant-Ripley
Neuighboring
Glouster Mayor Calls For Tribute To Roosevelt
Glouster Mayor Thomas Williams issues a proclamation urging residents to pause at 12:00 noon on Wednesday April 25 for ten minutes in tribute to Franklin D. Roosevelt and to pray for the United Nations San Francisco Conference. The call aligns with Governor Lausche's statewide proclamation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Glouster
Thomas Williams
Frank J. Lausche
Ohio
Franklin D. Roosevelt
San Francisco
Williams
Lausche
United Nations
Point Pleasant Social Notes From City Pages
A look at social happenings in Point Pleasant includes a Saturday birthday surprise for Mrs. Charles H Frye at 311 7th St with guests such as Mrs. Carl Bruestle Mrs. Robert Doseland Mrs. Hed. Wartenburg and others bringing refreshments cake and gifts. Also noted are visits and recovering individuals in town including Mrs James Allen undergoing surgery and several locals visiting Charleston Huntington and Indianapolis over the weekend.
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Point Pleasant
Charles H.'Frye
Carl Bruestle
Robert Doseland
Hed. Wartenburg
Paul Smith
Leona Treadway
Victor Park
Flora :Myers
Loula* Lewis
Mise _ Mollie Lynn -Wartenburg
Sterling Dunlavy
Blain Funeral Rites Planned for Hugh D Blain of Gallipolis Ferry
Funeral services for Hugh D Blain will be Wednesday at 2 PM with location undetermined between his home and Mt Zion Church. Burial in Blain family burying-ground. Survived by wife Laura, three sons Lee, Marold, Ira, three daughters Maude Caudill Hilda Dodd Rachel, nine grandchildren and one great grandchild, three brothers John A S P Blain, and sister Mary Brown. Blain was a longtime farmer from Mason County.
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Blain
Point Pleasant
Hugh D. Blain
Gallipolis ‘Ferry
Mt. Zion Church
Mason County
Town
Dodd
Miss Blain
John A. CA
S. P. Blain
Gallipolis Ferry
Mary Brown
Galiipolis
Principal Joe Gerlach Resigns at Mason City Grade School
Ada Allen of New Haven will act as principal until term end. Superintendent Staats declined to comment on the resignation of Joe Gerlach, Grade Principal at Mason City Grade School, with Ada Allen stepping in temporarily.
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Point Pleasant
Joe Gerlach
Principa
Mason City
Ada Allen
New Haven
Gerlach
Staats
Hold Rites for Baby Drowned on Farm
Ottawa area services are held today at Continental for Larry Dean Bidlack 15 months old son of Mr and Mrs Ford Pidlack. The infant drowned Friday in a catch basin on his parents farm.
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Ottawa
Continental
Larry Dean Bidlack
Ford Pidlack
Social Notes highlights at First Presbyterian Church gathering
Gallipolis social notes recall a Women’s Bible Class gathering at the First Presbyterian Church on Fourth Avenue with Mrs W H Rayburn assisting. Dr Ella G Lupton led the program reviewing a fifty year career as a physician, followed by a dessert course. The American Legion Auxiliary planned an initiation, joint Legion Hall meeting, and a potluck supper. Miss Mayme Barrows, former Old French Home operator, plans to relocate to California with a Hollywood job awaiting. Local residents and visitors noted include Charles Lakin returning for leave, Nan Deardortt and the Cadots, Miss Xylpha Smith, and others visiting family and friends around Gallia County.
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Gallipolis
Mra
Oss Baird
First Presbyterian Church
Fourth Avenue
W.H. Rayburn
American Légion
Lafayette
Post
Legion Hall
Mayme Barrows
Columbus
California
Elsie Shaw
Miss Barrows
Hollywood
Charles “Lakin
Merchant ‘Marine
C. ¥. Lakin
Fairfield
Nan Deardortt
Donald Cadot
Judy
L.cadot
Odie Mille Swigert
Cigert
George Bush
Jane
Racine
Xylpha Smith Srs
Coshockton
Mary Carn
Aetaie Clark” Hager
Oak Ridge
Tenn
Gilbert Hager
Holzer Hospital
Hager
Upper River Road
J.C.’ Taylor
Ironton
Dewey Jordan
U. S. Naivy
Washington,d. C
Bryant’ Cre- Meeens
Earl Smeitzer
Gallia’ County
Albany Juniors Host to Seniors at Annual Banquet
Albany High School juniors hosted the senior class at the annual Junior Senior Banquet on Friday night. Carl Robinson welcomed the guests, Jane Ryan delivered the seniors’ response, and Donna McPherson sang two solos. County Superintendent Glen Hanes and Principal Herman gave talks, with Irene Brooks honored for homeroom work and Anna Rose recognized as junior sponsor with corsages.
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Albany
Albany High School
Carl Robinson
Jane Ryan
Donna McPherson
Glen Hanes
Herman
Irene Brooks
Anna Rose
Bronze Star awarded to Glouster serviceman Frank Hemsley
Frank Hemsley of Glouster, with the First Signal Corps in Germany, received the Bronze Star for heroism near Schevenhutte on Nov 30, 1944. He crossed hazardous terrain to repair broken lines after heavy artillery fire, reflecting the finest military traditions. Hemsley served since 1941 with campaigns in Africa, Sicily, Italy, and the invasions of France, Belgium, and Germany.
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Frank Hemsley
Signal Corps
Germany
Schevenhutte
Pvt
Hemsley
Hemstley
Robert
Africa
Sicily
Italy
France
Belgium
Ernest F. Rush
N. R. Maxwell
Grousler
Columbus
Army Air Corps
Pacific
Weddell Dunlévy
United States “Navy
Gerald Dunlevy
Frederick Price
Navy Yard
Philadelphia
Algie Price
States
Naval Hospital At
Great Lakes
Plan Radio Show at Point Pleasant by Junior High School
A radio show is set for May 10 in the school auditorium with principal performers CAP Any and Milt, popular West Virginia voices heard on statewide stations for years.
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Point Pleasant
Milt
West Virginia
Oil and Gas Strike North of Point Pleasant
E N. Smith Associates Shave struck oil and gas in the salt sand at their well on Harper heirs farm in Ritchie County and will continue drilling to the Maxon sand where a heavier flow of gas is expected.
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Point Pleasant
E.N. Smith
Shave
Harper Heirs Farm
Ritchie County
County Court Meets In Point Pleasant Amid Routine Business
County Court here in Point Pleasant held its weekly session with President John Barnett and commissioners Wedge and Watterson in attendance for the first time in weeks. Only routine matters were handled. Also noted, W C Bird ill at 1813 Jefferson Blvd and Herman Rogers a 14 year old student at Junior High School remains critically ill after an appendectomy and subsequent pneumonia.
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Point Pleasant
John Barnett
Wedge and
Watterson
Herman Rogers
Holzer Hospital
Furi Rogers
Kay- Hong
Glouster Social Notes Highlights Local Church Women
Glouster Trimble Methodist Ladies Aid met at Fern Johnson’s home April 18 with Ella Morrison leading devotionals. Readings, a vocal duet, and a refreshment social followed. notes cover lodge work, travel for relatives, possible overseas deployment, and upcoming events including a P.S.C.E. wiener roast on April 25 and a church gathering in Columbus.
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Helen Willeke
Sadie Morrison
Elma Leadingwaus
Teissa Wolfe
Geraldine Miller
Betty Addington
Elsie Underwood
Ella Morrison
Esta Haskins
Grace Sayre
Marie Antle
Glouster Friends Donate Blood for Mundew Care
Glouster residents including Mr and Mrs Thomas Vaughn Dick Vaughn Mrs James Clemens Mrs Delmer Dunlap and Charles Hinton Jr traveled to Columbus Monday to donate blood for E E Mundew a patient at White Cross Hospital Rev A G Winkle also donated Friday The hospital reports Mundew somewhat improved after several transfusions and more planned His wife has remained at his side Their daughter Elizabeth Anna Mundew WAVE member stationed in Washington DC and son S Sgt Jack Mundew stationed at Fort Devens MA received emergency leave and are in Columbus to be with him.
Pvt James Boyles Awarded Air Medal
Pvt James M Boyles of Gallipolis has received the Air Medal at his Indo China Air Transport Command base for 150 flight hours over dangerous Indo China air routes including the Hump. He is the son of Wilson N Boyles of Lancaster and the late Mrs Boyles, a Gallia Academy High School graduate. His brother Lt Wilson N Boyles Jr is serving in Germany after West Point.
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Gallipolis
James M. Boyles
Indo-China Air Transport Command
Indo-China
Boyles
Wilson N. Boyles
Lancaster
Gallia Academy High School
Chesapeake and Ohio
Wilson N. Boyles, Jr
West Point
Jnow
Germany
Pupils Dismissed Early for Circus at Point Pleasant
In Point Pleasant schools pupils will be dismissed at 2 30 tomorrow afternoon to attend the season's first circus. At Point Clinic Mrs Kenneth Woosley and infant son Richard Michael were discharged and returned home. Patient C B Rutherford was discharged. Mrs Lawrence McDermitt was admitted Monday for surgery.
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Point Pleasant
Point Clinic
Kenneth Woosley
Richard Michael
C. B. Rutheford
Lawrence McDermitt
Gallia County Infant Dies in Texas Auto Accident
Roy Burger of Big Springs Texas telegraphed Gallia County relatives that his infant son Donald Roser died from injuries after a car backed out of a carat e Saturday. Private and Mrs Burger and their three year old daughter Carol Ann were en route to Huntington to meet funeral arrangements for the child.
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Gallipolis
Pyot
Roy Burger
Big Springs
Tex
Mari Sheets
Third Ave
Donald Roser
P. H. Burger
Mills Station
Mary Fern Rife
Carl Rife
Whitsoak
Cheshire
Henry Bowman Held For Theft of Auto
Gallia County police report a car stolen from Pomeroy was recovered partly in Morgan County. Henry Bowman, 26, Morgan County, is held in Guernsey County Jail for questioning in the theft. Also detained are Marvin V. Price and Betty Jane Smith who were in the car. Bowman was captured in Cambridge after fleeing a stopped vehicle. Gallia police note ongoing War Bond drive plans and quotas amid faster sales.
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Gallipolis
R. L. West
Pomeroy
Henry Bowman
Morgan County
Cambridge
Guernsey County
Marvin V. Price
Betty Jane Smith
Rutland
Bowman
Gallia Coun
E. S. Spear
Gallia County
Fire Destroys Cottage in Kanauga Saturday
Gallipolis The five room cottage owned by Otis C Lewis near the school building in Kanauga was destroyed Saturday night. Firemen could only prevent spread to adjacent structures as residents Louis and Mrs Fizer were away in Huntington. The asbestos shingled house likely started fire inside. the Firers, former Huntington residents, worked at West Virginia Ordnance Plant.
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Gallipolis
Otis C Lewis
Buiding
Kanauga
Hames
Louis Fizer
Huntington
West Virginia Ordnance Plant
PTA Leads Canvass In Clothing Drive
Gallipolis citizens are urged to join a house-to-house clothing drive led by the Washington School Parent Teachers Association under Mrs. F. W. Shane. Joseph W. Clark coordinates Gallia County’s United National Clothing Collection with collection stations and a phone line to arrange pickup by City Chairman M. Harold Brown for donors unable to transport garments.
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Gallipolis
Washington
F. W. Shane
Joseph W. Clark
Gallia County
United National Clothing Collection
M. Harold Brown
Son Is Released From German Prison Camp
Mrs. William Scholl travels from Point Pleasant to Cincinnati when she learns her son, Pfc. William Billy Scholl, has been freed from a German prisoner of war camp by American troops on the western front. He was reported missing in action March 15 and served with General Hodges Army.
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Point Pleasant
Cincinnati
William Scholl
Pfc
Wiliam
Billy” Scholl
Scholl
B. H. Bragg
North Main St
Hodges
Band boosters to convene for May 14 concert plan
Eméry Monroe, president, calls Band Boosters meeting this evening at Junior High School to finalize plans for the band glee club concert on May 14.
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Point Pleasant
Eméry Monroe
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