Salt Plant Shuts in Mason County Over Worker Shortage
A Mason area salt works halt is blamed on a severe worker shortage as war industries pull labor away. Donald A Smith president of Liverpool Salt and Coal Co Hartford says coal prices rose sharply yet lack of miners to mine coal and operate salt plants drives closure. Historic notes recall Ohio River Salt Corp Mason City and Bend operations and earlier salt works in West Columbia Clifton Mason City Hartford and New Haven with Clifton hosting multiple related factories.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hartford “Works
Smomons Point
Donald AL ‘Smith
Liverpool Salt ‘and Coal Co
Hartford
Atnedl
Ohio River’ Salt Corporation
Mason City
Ohio
Pomeroy Familly
Meigs County
West Virginia
Columbia
Clifton
New Haven
Mason County
Ohio River
Salt ‘Corporation
Liverpool “Salt and Coal Co
Norman
Salt Corporation
Social notes from Pt Pleasant and local club events
Pt Pleasant social notes report a Lambda School bus issue and a Moose Club meeting led by Mrs John W Steenbergen. The Junior Woman's Club holds a special library meeting with officer nominations to be discussed. Personal notices from Pt Pleasant list residents visiting, military families, and local appointments, plus sheriff notices for May circuit court petit jury service in Mason County and remarks on farm work due to wet spring.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Point Pleasant
Lambda School
Omega
Fess
Moose Club
John W. Steenbergen
Willsistant
Jocal
Lbrary
Plang
Viola
Florence Inaist
Kayser
Ednad Koblentz Svations
Huntington
Viand St
Ernest Hesson
Mason County
Lewis Hiller
William H. Ratdin
Jones To Head Dairymen's Group at Charleston Meeting
Bartow Jones of Point Pleasant was elected president of the Kanawha Valley Dairymen's Cooperative Sales Association at a Charleston meeting Tuesday. He is the fourth one to head the group, which serves dairymen from Kanawha Putnam Jackson and Mason counties. Other directors elected include Harry Krebs N P Swackhamer Clarence Blessing Conrad McCoy Oliver Winter and Staats, all from various counties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Point Pleasant
Bartow Jones
Kanawha Valley Dairymen's ‘Cooperative Sales Association
Charleston
Jones
Kanawha
Putnam
Jackson
Mason
Harry Krebs
N. P. Swackhammer
Clarence C
Property Sold as Rothlisberger Move Plans Near Beckley
Mr and Mrs Floyd Rothlisberger sold their residence at 2215 Jackson Ave to Sam Beller as they prepare to move to Beckley around June 1 where he will head a regional soil conservation district. Rothlisberger and children will follow after school ends. Beller, a General Chemical Defense Corp employee and Mason County native, takes ownership of the property.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
General, Chemical Defense Corporation
Mason Countian
Also Mentioned on This Page
L. W. Getty
Donald Getty
Glenn W. Grubb
Leon 5. Thompson
James J. Hall
Melvin Schmidt
Richard H. Melrose
Glenn Sayre
Childers
Cusby Meadows, Jr
Hansel Poling
Jackson Wilt
Clayton Pullins
Otis Fisher
Frank Long, Jr
Rolard White
Filson
Brown
Virginia, Lewis
Bond
Salem ‘College
William van Horn
Main St
A.G. “Middleton
Joe Middleton
Albert. L. Sauer
Jericho Road
Jefferson Care
Fred. ‘Cramer
Mable James
Ashland
Fred Schauber
Ironton
George Sprenger
Cramer
Schauber
Spreinger
Vaught
Elberfelds
Pomeroy
Elberfeld
Dan Burns
Karl H. Arnett
S.S.S. Tonic
Peruna
Than
Lydia E. Pinkham
Dr. Pierce
Discovery
Stark’'S Pharmacy
Manhattan
Garters
Johnson
B.C
Pomeroy, Ohio
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