Gallia County Fair Rescheduled to Sept 17–19
Gallia County Fair moved from the second week of September to Tuesday through Thursday September 17 to 19 due to Meigs County Fair scheduling. Agricultural board plans free acts before the grandstand as CCC camp buildings block racing views. Livestock shows will feature cattle hogs sheep horses with premiums for top exhibits and Four H Clubs will sponsor summer exhibitions.
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Gallipolis
Meigs County
Gallia County
Agricultural Board
Neo
CCC
Board Ie
Four-H
Bond Votes To Be Held Today In Two Townships
Electors in Huntington and Clay Townships vote today on bond issues to fund new school houses. Huntington seeks 14 500 for a new building with 25 year payments totaling about 990 annually. Clay seeks 12 900 with 390 per year for 2 and a half decades. Polls close at 6 pm with results likely within two hours. 65 percent approval required.
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Gallipolis
Huntington
Clay Townships
Huntington Township
Vinton Village
Clay Township
Eureka Village
Clay
Helen Russell
County Election Board
Poultry Theft Is Confessed in Gallipolis
Olaf Murray confessed to stealing eight chickens from Lucinda Layne at George's Creek on Monday and named Denver Belville as an accomplice. Murray and Belville are jailed on $190 bond. He also admitted helping steal gasoline from a threshing machine tractor at John Q. Hacking farm Chickamauga. A prior auto theft case ended with a directed acquittal for Murray amid juror doubts about other co-defendants from Guyan Town Township.
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Gallipolis
Olaf Murray
Mre
Lucinda Layne
George's Creek
Denver Belville
E . Hatcheld
Murray
Belville
Ermin Swisher
John
Aged Gallia Resident Dies at Home of Sea
SALLIPOLIS Born in Monroe County Virginia the section then known as Old Virginia Eliza J Grover 93 died at her son Rufus Grover home Monday She had visited son Byron Grover Cheshire recently Blind for almost ten years Family first settled near Rio Grande Gallia County She married Abraham Danner then John Grover Funeral at Rufus Grover home Second Ave with burial Gravel Hill Cemetery
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Monroe County
Virginia
Old Virgina
Eliza J. Grover
Rufus Grover
Byron
Grover
Cheshire
Almoer
Flest
Rio Grande Gallia
Abraham Danner
William Danner
Galion
John Grover
Second Ave
Gravel Hill Cemetery
Three-Year-Old Wellington Girl Regains Sight After Eye Injury
In Huntington, West Virginia, doctors report little Mary Lou Wellington of Vinton has nearly healed from a knife injury to her right eye. Specialists say bandages have been gradually removed and she should regain sight with no lasting scars.
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Gallipolis
Mary Lou Wellington
Mia
M. C. Wellington
Vinton
Huntington
W. Va
Specisitete
Few Veterans of Or Alive in Gallia
GALLIPOLIS The death of James W. King leaves only 11 Civil War veterans in Gallia County, three others having died since last November. Local survivors of the war include Dr. A. B. Garrett and John H. A. Cherrington, Gallipolis, M. C. Botce Cheshire, Thomas White and Harvey Russell Vinton, Jacob Spires Alice, F. W. Brookman Kerr, James Gatewood Crown City, David Edwards Greenfield Township, T. J. Clark Thurman, and Hugh P. Halley Bladen.
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James W. King
Gallia County
John A. Stone
Fred Kinges
John Gillespie
A. B. Garrett
John HA. Cherrington
M. C. Botce
Cheshire
Thomas White
Harvey Russell
Vinton
Jacob Spires
Alice
F. W. Brookman
Kerr
James Gatewood
Crown City
David Edwards
Greenfield Township
T. J. Clark
Thurman
Hugh P. Halley
Bladen
Three Men Begin Terms In Theft Case
Three men from West Virginia and Ohio will start sentences for grand larceny after pleading guilty to holding up a liquor truck near Crown City on June 7 and taking 11 cases of bonded liquor. Carpenter, Bainum, and Smith faced judges here with varied sentences and procedures.
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Gallipolis
Claude Carpenter
Huntington
W. Va
W. E. Bainum
Chesapeake
Julian Smith
Lawrence County
Ohio Penitentiary
Smith
Manafield Reformatory
Crown City
Carpenter
Grand Jury
Reformatory
W. KR. White
E. E. Matfeld
Harry Miller
West Virginia Supreme Court
Roosevelt
Todd
Virginia
Family Evicted from East Gallipolis Farm
SALLAPOLIS The William Garlinger family formerly of Athens County were evicted by city police Monday after living on J EB Claytor's farm in East Gallipolis. They had stayed since May with no household furniture, arriving in an automobile.
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Sallapolis
William Garlinger
Athens County
J. EB. Claytor
East Gallipolis
Marriage License Issued to Fairbanks and Lacy in Baltimore
T Paul Fairbanks age 28 of Baltimore Maryland and Louise Lacy age 21 a Charleston West Virginia native obtained a marriage license. The groom is a member of the internal revenue department.
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Gallipolis
T. Paul Fairbanks
Baltimore
Internal Revenue Department
Louise Lacy
Charleston
W. Va
Local Court Tags Drunkenness Offenders in Gallipolis
Fines of 10 dollars and costs were assessed against Joe Dora Emay Stover Columbus John Martin of Northup and Julian Rathburn of Gallipolis by Judge A J Stormont on intoxication charges Stover's wife facing drunkenness and disorderly conduct will be arraigned today.
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Costa
Joe Dora
Emay Stover
Columbus
John Martin
Northup
Julian Rathburn
A. J. Stormont
Stover
Japanese military official dies after sword wounds
Tokyo reports Lieut. General Tet susan Negata, director general of Japanese military affairs, died from sword wounds inflicted during a clash with Lieutenant Colonel Aizawa in Na gestae rooms, according to the War Office.
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Tetsusan Negata
War Office
Aizawa
Nagestae
Babs Confesses Plans to Wed Douglas Marsh
Jo and Tubby muse over last night while Babs Montgomery bursts in with excited news she and Douglas Marsh are engaged to marry. The breakfast mood shifts as Babs shares the secret and Tubby reacts with surprised disbelief.
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Sally
Jo Darien
Darien
Babs Montgomery
Babs
Tabby
Babe
Douglas
Mr. Marsh
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