Nine Girls Attend State 4-H Camp at Jackson’s Mill
Nine Mason County 4-H girls attend the state camp at Jackson’s Mill W Va August 14 to 21. Names include Alma Priddy Slade Ar buckle Patty Sayre Ruth Ellen Blain Sally Lou Durst Molly Kate Young Jean Hill Kay Woolfitt Sandra Jones and Jo Lou Keener. Molly Kate Young will represent Mason County in the state good grooming contest and Jean Hill won the Mason County style review with a gray chambray dress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Point Pleasant
Mason County
Jackson's Mill
W. Va
Alma Priddy Slade
Arbuckle
Patty Sayre
Grimm's Landing
Ruth Ellen Blain
Southside
Sally Lou Durst
Charleston Road
Molly Kate Young
Ashton
Jean Hill
Kay Woolfitt
Park Drive
Sandra Jones
Jefferson Blvd
Jo Lou Keener
Jericho Road
Jackson’s Mill
Council
Educational Bureau
Massachusetts ballot debate ends in Jenkins episode
The Gallia County Viewpoint urges restraint after the Jenkins and Jenkins congress episode. It credits Tom Bradley Jenkins with withdrawing voluntarily and condemns ballot tampering, arguing for principled candidate merit and smarter voting rather than mass ballot schemes.
Festival planned by Vaught Church groups
An old fashioned ice cream and home baked goods sale will highlight a lawn festival by the Women's Society of Christian Service and the Youth Fellowship of the Vaught Memorial Methodist Church on Thursday from 5 to 9 p.m. The event will be on the Mc Williams lawn opposite the Coast Guard Base on Route 17 and moved to the church basement if it rains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Point Pleasant
Women's Society of Christian Service
Youth Fellowship
Vaught Memorial Methodist Church
McWilliams Lawn
U.S. Coast Guard
Vaught Methodist Church
Sixty fourth birthday observed in Pt Pleasant social notes
The sixty fourth birthday of Mrs Elmer Plymale Gallipolis Ferry was celebrated with a surprise dinner at her home Sunday. Attendees included numerous relatives from Gallipolis Ferry Point Pleasant St Albans Ohio River Road and other nearby communities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elmer Plymale
Gallipolis Ferry
Homer Long
G. D. Nibert
Lois and
Delores
John Blain
Blain Mohr
Marie
Emer Harrison
Melvin Chapman
Lee Piatt
Goldie
Melvin Piatt
Alice Bradshaw
John Carpenter
Connie Jo
Scotty Hyre
Point Pleasant
Charles Baker
William Cromlish
C. N. Chevalier
Simon Atkinson
Edith Clark
Amanda Thevenir
Blanche McCalla
Joy
Gallipolis
Ervin Plymale
Delores Jean
Richard Ervin
St. Albans
Betty Jo Burris
Ohio River Road
Plymale
Nellie Plymale
Surprise Birthday Dinner Honors Mrs Crawford at 81
A birthday dinner was held for Mrs. William Crawford to celebrate her eighty first. Attendees included Mr. and Mrs. Fred Smith and daughter Cora Betts of Columbus, the Brights and their sons from Columbus, the Crawfords of Apple Grove, the Gordons and son Jimmy of Henderson, the Niberts and sons Earl and Darrel of Hogsett, Darrel Messick and daughters Freda and Nancy of Gallipolis Ferry, Bernard Crawford of Hogsett, and Maradell Bailey and father Joe Arrington of Gallipolis Ferry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Crawford
Fred Smith
Cora Betts
Columbus
W. E. Bright
Don and
Billy
Margie
Apple Grove
Theodore Gordon
Jimmy
Henderson
Henry Nibert
Earl and
Darrel
Hogsett
Darrel Messick
Freda
Nancy
Gallipolis Ferry
Bernard Crawford
Maradell Bailey
Joe Arrington
Browning Returns From tobacco meeting in Ashville Tenn
Mr and Mrs D R Browning of Ohio River Road returned from Ashville Tennessee where Browning attended a tobacco meeting Browning is superintendent of the Ohio Valley Experimental Station Charles P Richardson chief of the hospital medical corps at the naval storehouse is at Bluefield for his father George F Richardson s funeral Mr and Mrs Jack Caldwell left for a two week vacation through the Smoky Mountains and Florida Miss Charlene Burgess has returned to her duties at the local telephone exchange Warren Love and wife of Columbus spent the weekend with his parents and with Mrs Love s mother in Gallia and Bellmeade
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. R. Browning
Ohio River Road
Ashville
Tenn
Browning
Ohio Valley Experimental Station
Charles P. Richardson
Hospital Medical Corps
Naval Storehouse
Bluefield
George F. Richardson
Jack Caldwell
Burdette Addition
Smoky Mountains
Florida
Charlene Burgess
Warren Love
Columbus
Mr. Love
Virgil Love
Bellmeade
Love
Blanche McCalla
Gallipolis
Mason County Land Transfers Summary
Land transfers in Mason County include Blanche LaRue and Hattie M. LaRue co owning 8000 square feet in Hartford Gra ham District while Taylor Johnson transfers 8000 square feet in Hartford to Blanche LaRue. The Higginbothams transfer an undivided estate interest in Arbuckle Creek to Roy Higginbotham. Several parcels change hands in Graham Waggener and Cooper Districts including Mae Harris to Leo R. Roush and Esther and R. C. King Jr. to King family. John Osher sells a parcel in Lewis District to Freda and Lewis Hill. Multiple names appear across bids and executorships in all transfers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blanche LaRue
Hattie M
Clifford LaRue
Hartford
Graham
Taylor Johnson
Elory H. Frey
Melinda and
Ein Higginbotham
Roy Higginbotham
W. A. Higginbotham
Arbuckle Creek
Virginia
Lawrence Burris
FE. R
Fireman Frank Woods Retires After 33 Years in Gallipolis
Gallipolis veteran Frank A. Woods 69 retires after 33 years with the city fire department. He began as a volunteer in 1900 and became full time on July 17, 1917, living at the station. His last run may precede retirement as Harvey Brown is expected to relieve him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
Frank A. Woods
Harvey Brown
Mr. Woods
City Water Works
Woods
Reese
Mason County
Ehman Nibert marriage announced in Gallia County
Dorothy J. Ehman and Garland Nibert Jr. were married on October 13, 1949 in Catlettsburg Kentucky. Ehman, a 1943 Racoon Township High School graduate and Holzer Hospital School of Nursing 1946 alumna, works at Gallipolis Clinic. Nibert, a 1946 Gallia Academy High School graduate who served in the Navy, is a deputy sheriff. The couple plan to start housekeeping soon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
George Ehman
Dorothy J. Ehman
Garland Nibert, Jr
Catlettsburg
Miss Ehman
Racoon Township
Holzer Hospital School of Nursing
Nibert
Gallia Academy
Navy
Third Avenue Resident Dies in Gallipolis
James Henry Washington 66 of 700 Third Ave. Gallipolis died at 7 30 p m Saturday after over a year of illness. Born December 8 1883 in Gallipolis he was a railway mail clerk on the Norfolk and Western line for 39 years. Survived by sisters Lillian Brown Martha Washington Ada Jackson and brothers George Cleveland Frank. last rites at home Wednesday 2 p m conducted by Rev J E Jamison. Burial in Pine Street Cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
James Henry Washington
Third Ave
Dee. 8
George and
Victoria Qualls Washington
Norfolk and Western
Norfolk
Columbus
Lillian Brown
Martha Washington
Ada Jackson
Chicago
George of
Cleveland
Frank
J. E. Jamison
Pine Street Cemetery
Auto Strikes Guard Rail on Route 141
Nathan Slayton, 19, of 732 First Ave, Gallipolis, drove off Route 141 at Ingles Hill and struck a guard rail at 2 15 p m after swerving to avoid an oncoming auto. Phillip Cordell and Charles Johnson and Chris Anderson, all of Gallipolis, were fined for intoxication with additional costs for resisting an officer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
Nathan Slayton
First Ave
Ingles Hill
Slayton
Phillip Cordell
Charles Johnson
Chris Anderson
Birth at Holzer Hospital and list of admissions
Mrs. Harold Deck of Wellston welcomed a daughter at Holzer Hospital. Admissions include Mrs. Roy K. Spires Wellston Mrs. Lula Eads Point Pleasant Patricia Ann Jordan Harrisonville Mrs. E. H. Dickinson Rio Grande Mrs. Daisy Dixon Hamden James Burdette Point Pleasant Mrs. Gay Beckett Jackson Mrs. Roy G. Ellis Point Pleasant Mrs. Louis Biffle Mason Mrs. James McMurrin Gallipolis Mrs. Thomas Lewis Thurman Mrs. Roy J. Pierson Leon Leamont Roberts Pomeroy Discharges include Mrs. Roy Knapp Virginia Wilson John Smith Mrs. Russell Lee and son Mrs. Jesse Jewell Mrs. Gilbert Craig and son Mrs. Edward Franklin Mrs. Edward Dickinson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roy K. Spires
Wellston
Lula Eads
Point Pleasant
Patricia Ann Jordan
Harrisonville
E. H. Dickinson
Rio Grande
Daisy Dixon
Hamden
James Burdette
Gay Beckett
Jackson
Roy G. Ellis
Louis Biffle
Mason
James McMurrin
Gallipolis
Thomas Lewis
Thurman
Roy J. Pierson
Leon
Leamont Roberts
Pomeroy
Roy Knapp
Virginia Wilson
John Smith
Russell Lee
Jesse Jewell
Gilbert Craig
Edward Franklin
Edward Dickinson
River traffic Gallipolis locks report amid river gauge changes
Locks at Gallipolis show numerous upriver and downriver boats with times across the day including the Pittsburgher Le high up the Kanawha and Marmet Marmet details along with several other vessels. The upper gauge reads 18 feet and lower 98 feet with two and a quarter feet at the rollers. Kanawha Falls rising to 1.22.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
Lehigh
Price
Pennsylvania
Jones
Sohio State
Martin
Kanawha River
Titan
Atlas
Alcott-Tadpole
Inca
Orleanian
Kanawha Falls
Divorce Requested by Kathryn Koester from Herman Koester
Kathryn Koester of 120 State St requests a divorce from Herman A. Koester of Fort Lewis Washington in common pleas court. The couple married October 21 1941 and have two children aged four and six. The filing cites gross neglect of duty and extreme cruelty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
Common Pleas Court
Kathryn Koester
State St
Herman A. Koester
Fort Lewis
Wash
Mrs. Fargo Dies at 95 in Cheshire Ohio
Mrs Viella Fargo 95 lifelong Cheshire resident died at daughter's home at 3 am Sunday Born January 20 1855 she married John E Fargo who died 25 years ago Survived by two daughters Netta Brandebury Chesapeake and Bessie Boice Columbus one grandson two great grandchildren three great great grandchildren and a half sister Edna Good Missouri Services set for 2 pm Tuesday at Cheshire Methodist Church with Rev Julius Chandler and Rev A H Perry Interment Gravel Hill Cemetery Call at home Mc.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
Viella Fargo
Cheshire
Nina Healy
Franklin P
Elizabeth Roush Smith
John E. Fargo
Healy
Netta Brandebury
Chesapeake
Bessie Boice
Columbus
Edna Good
Missouri
Cheshire Methodist Church
Julius Chandler
A. H. Perry
Gravel Hill Cemetery
Grand Jury and Petit Jury Drawn for September Term
Grand and petit juries for the September term were drawn by the Jury Commission in the Clerk of Courts office. Grand jurors include Eilmer Bush Will Thomas Bernice Jones Marie Lanier and others across townships with wards in Gallipolis. Petit jurors list names across Walnut Cheshire Guvan Huntington Addison Harrison Greenfield Ohio Clay and Perry townships and Gallipolis wards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
Marjorie Rineheart
Urday
Eilmer Bush
Will Thomas
Bernice Jones
Marie Lanier
Raccoon Township
Everett Waugh
Darlene Sheets
Ohio Township
James R. Baker
Addison Township
Johnathon W. Myers
Guyan Township
Jewell Niday
Emma Calhoun
Harrison Township
Thomas Daniels
Virgil Green
Sylvia Burnette
Walnut Township
Ruth Montgomery
Clay Township
Alfred McDaniel
Springfield Township
Dale Durkee
C. B. Rice
Eliza Tope
Enoch Rice
Cecil Notter
Artie McDaniel
J. J. Gleason
Stanley Shaver
Cheshire Township
Ben Murray
Stanley
Motorcyclist Injured Near Jackson in Gravel Crash
James W. Cogan 25 of Jackson lost control on Buffalo Hollow Road near Route 75. He was treated at Holzer Hospital for a lac eration above the right eye and a dislocated right shoulder after the 5 15 p.m. Sunday crash.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
Buffalo Hollow
Jackson
James W. Cogan
Cogan
Holzer Hospital
Oak Hill
State
Pearl Aldrich
Wheelersburg
Wendell Horton
Robert H. Thomas
Vinton
Wesley M. Jackson
Bidwell
Clifford E. Queen
Roy L. Nichols
Thurman
Horton
Vernon E. Tennant
Frank Pritchett
Also Mentioned on This Page
Gallia County
Jenkins and Jenkins
Congress
Thomas B
Tom Bradley
Ohio
Massachusetts
Jenkins
Korea
Thomas B. Jenkins
Thomas A. Jenkins
Tom Jenkins
Vaught Church
Paul Denney, Jr
Clara Ellen Camden
Bidiwe
West Virginia
William J. Woods
Walter Linkhorn
Frank” A. Woods
Ekhman-Nibert
Third Avenue
Harold Deck
Catton
Athens Bottling Co
Pepsi-Cola Co
New York
Allal
Quick's
Chrysler
NEW Yorker
Newport
State Street
Johnny Jones Motors
Athens, Ohio
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