Cubs Triumph in Giant Upset at Nelsonville
In the Junior Twilight League, the Cubs edged the Giants 1 to 0 in eight innings. Lewis scored on an error after a double, with Davis Wolfe Keating and others contributing. Pitchers allowed only two hits apiece as Nelsonville reported the big upset and first shutout of the season.
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Nelsonville
Giants
Lewis
Newton
Circle
Cubs
Davis
Wolfe
Keating
Keating. c - Winefordner
Welsonville
Miller
O Church of Christ
Oj Department of the Bible School
B. Miller
Manenville
Appani P
Helen Anderson
Billy Barrows
Russell Barrows
Jimmy Cope
Leila Davis
Carol
Sue Foughty
Ao Jimmy Ray
Jack Tharp
Mra. L. EL
Olgvans
Washington
Bible School
George Barrows
Ralph Cook
OPA
Nelsonville Boosters Club
Union
Presbyterian Church
Theles
Millerwine
Wilson
Estel Crabtree
Glen. ‘Thames
Richard Donahey
Nd Aee Eean
Bill Biimes
Harry Blimes
Oey
Nme Cone
James Wil
Blimes
Cmdr
G. E. O'Connell, Jr
USN
Cmdr. O'Connell
Sunday Church Services and Heroic Medal Award
Gallipolis readers learn of First Baptist services with Bible School at 10:30 and communion next week, Grace Methodist details of morning worship and a memorial act, First Presbyterian noting August vacation with Sunday School at 9:30 and no church services this month. Pharmacist's Mate Brown is cited for heroism on Iwo Jima February 20, 1945, awarded the Bronze Star by the Fourth Marine Division for aiding wounded Marines under heavy fire.
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Gallipolis
Baker E. Brown
Raccoon Island
Morris Brown
Anise Baker Brown
Fourth Marine Division
United States
Iwo Jima
Brown
Grace Methodist
W. Scott
Westerman
Marine
Theo
United States Naval Service
Husband of Former York Girl Advanced to OSU Chair
Nelsonville reports Willard Yeager a George Washington University public speaking professor has been named chairman of the speech department at Ohio State University Columbus. He is married to Clara Pritchard Yeager formerly of Nelsonville and daughter of the late Mr and Mrs J Pritchard. The family will move to Columbus. Yeager is an Ohio State alumnus.
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Nelsonville
Willard Leayes Yeager
George Washington University
Washington, D. C
Ohio State University
Columbus
Professor Yeager
Clara Pritchard Yeager
J. Pritchard
Profesor Yeager
Ohio State
Nelsonville Social Notes reunite at Adkins home
In Nelsonville, Mr. and Mrs. Matt Adkins hosted a week long family reunion for relatives visiting from Willoughby Sandusky Peoria and West Coast. F C Max Adkins returns from 23 months at sea as his brother in law William Huffman and others join the gathering. Ruth Bechler and Ruth Raine return from nine weeks at Duke University where they joined the Cogs honorary activities group.
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Nelsonville
Matt Adkins
F.C
Max
Wiliam H. Huffman
R.T
Great Lakes
Huffman
Bernardine
Sandusky
Charles
Willoughby
Wilma
Peoria
Max Adkins
South
Ruth Bechler
Ruth Raine
Durham
N. C
Duke University
Cogs
Washington
Further Loss of Farm Help Should Be Halted
Joseph W. Fichter, master of the Ohio State Grange, urged at a district grange meeting that further drainage of necessary farm labor from the farm must stop now to protect harvests. He said crop acreage this year is seven percent under 1944 due to labor shortages.
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Columbus
Joseph W. Fichter
Ohio State Grange
Fichter
Mansfield Motorist Fined by Mayor After DUI Plea
In Mansfield Ohio Alva LeRoy Mount of Mansfield pleaded guilty on arraignment before Mayor Miles Howe for operating a motor vehicle while under the influence and was fined 50 dollars plus costs. Robert Clifford Mount of Carbon Hill pleaded guilty to intoxication and paid 10 dollars plus costs. Arrests followed a collision on Hocking Street as Patrolman Charles Thompson investigated, with Mount rear ending Clarence Juniper’s parked car pushing it into a motorcycle owned by Lowell Miller.
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Nelsonville
Alva LeRoy’ Mount
Mansfield
Ohio
Miles Howe
Robert Clifford Mount
Carbon Hill
Hocking St
Charles Thompson
Alva Mount
Clarence Juniper
Lowell Miller
Juniper
Episcopal Services Held at Doanville
The Wayside Fellowship of Episcopal and Presbyterian Churches moves to Doanville. Tonight at 7 30 Capt Earl Estabrook leads the Church Army service with Ralph Parks as soloist and a Deanville girls choir. Sunday features Richard Boyd of McCormick Seminary as speaker and Margaret Johnson singing. no Saturday service.
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Doanville
Episcopal and
Presbyterian Churches
Earl Estabrook
Church Army of the
Episcopalian Church
Ralph Parks
Deanville
Richard Boyd
McCormick Seminary
Chicago
Margaret Johnson
Local Births and Military Updates From Nelsonville Area
Announcements show the birth of a daughter to Mr and Mrs Roy Backus on August 1 at Shelter ing Arms Hospital Athens. Seaman and Mrs Richard Bullock announce twins a girl and a boy born August 2 at Sheltering Arms Hospital. Sgt Howard Butt transfers from Salt Lake City to Sheppard Field Texas arriving August 10. Mrs Oliver Bishop hospitalized for an operation in Columbus. Rodney Jonas joins the U S Navy stationed at Sampson NY. Twenty five persons examined for operator's license by state police at Point Pleasant. three failed.
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Nelsonville
Roy Backus
Mary K. Allen
Shelter Ing Arms Hospital
Athens
C. W. Backus
Frank Allen
Seaman
Richard Bullock
Gertrude Hannah
Sheltering ArmOs Hospital
Lessie Hannah
Howard
Shorty) Butt
George Butt
Salt Lake City
Sheppard Field
Texas
Oliver Bishop
St. Anthonys Hospital
Columbus
Point Pleasant
Paul F. Thomas
Mason County Finances Show 1945 Cash Decline
Mason County's 1945 financial statement lists $22 162.63 in Sheriff Ernest Hesson’s hands with outstanding orders $3 576.38. After payments the balance would be $18 526.27, down from $32 857.19 a year earlier. A $10 000 courthouse annex fund is set aside, previously in the general fund. Taxes totaled $68 062.17 with substantial public utility tax and sheriff collections. Officials’ salaries and fees totaled several thousand dollars, and court expenditures for courthouse improvements are noted.
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Point Pleasant
Mason County
Ernest Hesson
W. E. Hesson
J. E. Watterson
Army nurse reports for duty at Fort Knox amid river lock repairs
Mrs. Mabel Douds a Holzer Hoentag School of Nursing graduate travels to Fort Knox Kentucky to report for Army Nurse Corps duty. Repairs at the Ohio River lock near Gallipolis are complete and the lock is back in normal use while dredging at the upper approach continues until about August 10 as per Huntington engineers.
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Gallipolis
Mabel Douds
Holzer Hoentag School of Nursing
Ort Knox
Tour of China Boosts Hope for End of War
Lt. Gen. Albert C. Wedemeyer returning from a 5,000 mile tour of six Chinese provinces says he feels more optimistic about a speedy end to the war with Japan. Lt. Gen. William H. Simpson, former U S Ninth Army commander in Europe, accompanies Wedemeyer on the tour.
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Chungking
Albert C. Wedemeyer
Japan
Wiliam H. Simpson
U. S. Ninth Army
Europe
China Theater
Master Plan For Europe Is Drafted
The Big Three outline reparations and redrawn borders. Russia will receive goods in exchange for a share of seized German assets, with reparations to be finalized by Moscow commissions. Poland gains most German territories, shifting borders and populations as plan proceeds. War criminals face swift justice with initial defendants list by Sept. 1. Southeastern Europe controls to be revised from wartime arrangments.
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Russia
Moscow
Poland
Truman
Attlee
Stalin
Warsaw
Germany
Pomerania
Silesia
Brandenburg
East Prussia
Koenigsberg
Reich
Netherlands
Europe
Romania
Bulgaria
Hungary
Jame
Rotary May Meet in Gallipolis Next Year
Clyde Mitchell secretary of the Gallipolis Rotary Club says the district assembly of Rotary International may meet in Gallipolis in July 1846. Mitchell and Vice President Tom Agee attended the district meeting in Columbus at the Deshley Hotel.
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Gallipolis
Clyde Mitchell
Average Wages of Miners in West Virginia June Report
The state mine payroll shows June wages for West Virginia coal miners at $257.71 average to 107,968 workers earning a combined $27,251,191.89. May figures were $263.31 for 98,793 workers, and June 1944 saw 110,331 workers at $250.90 average. Overall manufacturing sectors employed 346,134 with total wages of $70,190,110.97.
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Plinnt Pleasant
West Virginia
Manning
September Draft Calls To Double In State
From Charleston authorities word spread that inductions into the military forces will double in September compared with August pre induction calls will also rise correspondingly. The accelerated drafts reflect a broader mobilization effort affecting Point Pleasant and surrounding areas.
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Point Pleasant
Charleston
Office Move Planned for Point Pleasant Electric Co
Point Pleasant Appalachian Electric Power Co will relocate its office from the State Theater Building to the Rhodes Building on Sixth Street around Aug. 10. Electrical wiring materials have arrived and are being installed, and the room will be painted upon completion. Mrs. Edward Swint travels to Wheeling to attend Miss Eliza Jepson’s wedding to Mr. Benjamin Swint Jr. and will vacation in Braxton and Randolph Counties before returning home.
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Point Pleasant
Appalachian Electric Power Co
State Theater
Rhodes Building
Sixth St
Six Gallia Youths Attend F F A Camp at Carroll County
Six members of Gallia Academy High School vocational agriculture and their advisor Joseph W. Clark attended the State Future Farmers of America camp at Camp Carroll near Leesburg in Carroll County. The group includes Jack Russell James Craft Merrill Rose Harold Drummond Eddie Roush and Edgar Halley. Camp programs cover conservation practices with state conservation personnel aiding the FFA camp.
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Gallipolis
Future Farmers of America
F. FA
Leesburg
Carroll County
Gallia Academy High School
Joseph W. Clark
Camp Carroll
Jack Russell
James Craft
Merrill Rose
Harold Drummond
Eddie ‘Roush
Edgar Halley
State Conservation Department
F.F.A
Bill Windsor
A. R. Harper
Hayden Olds
Bob Hines
Sam Letmon
Walter Lauffer
Charles Reese Bil Rath
George Robey
Gallia Soldiers Return Home Together After 28 Months Abroad
Gallia lads Sgt Harold Les Davis and Pvt William Charles Hanniger arrived home after 28 months of service in North Africa Sicily Italy Corsica France and Germany. They traveled together from Camp Atterbury and share a 30 day leave. Davis is the son of Mr and Mrs G Ernest Davis and Hanniger is the son of Mr and Mrs Charles Hanniger.
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Gallipolis
Harold Les Davis
William Charles Hanniger
North Africa
Sicily
Italy
Corsica
France
Germany
Atterbury
Ind
Sergeant Davis
G. Ernest
Davis
Hanniger
Charles Hanniger
Fished Communion Service Rules At Paint Creek Baptist
Fow ler L Covington Jr pastor announces first Sunday monthly Holy Communion at 11 am with a September pause in regular services. Membership drive aims for 300 new members this month. Sunday schedule includes prayer 6 am, Sunday School 9 15 am, morning worship 10 30 am with sermon For Jesus Sake, baptismal rite, and Lord s Supper. B Y F U meets 6 30 pm Topic I Am Somebody. Evening worship 7 30 pm. Infants baptism and old time camp meeting planned Aug through Sept 7. Garfield Avenue Church of Christ hosts Bible classes 10 am worship 10 45 am and 8 pm. Nazarene Church Vernon Shafer pastor schedules 9 30 am Sunday School with Morris Elliott in charge.
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Baird
Creek Baptist
Fowler
L. Covington, Jr
Mary Price
Henry Doss
Coyington
Garfield Avenue
Church OF Christ
Church, OF the Nazarene
Vernon Shafer
Morris Elliott
State Education Grants Free Textbooks to Mason County
The state department of education allocates 1539 for free textbooks in Mason County, with funds directed to local schools to support students.
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Point Pleasant
State Department of Education
Mason County
Bank roll reported missing in Gallipolis
Earl Gothard told City Police Department around noon Thursday that a billfold containing 3803 in cash and valuable papers had not been recovered by late Thursday evening. Andrew Martin, seriously ill at White Cross Hospital Columbus, is reported to be improving by Thursday.
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Earl Gothard
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