Record Apple Crop Predicted in Gallia County 1941
Gallia County expected a multi year high apple harvest with an estimate of 125 percent of average. Rome Beauty Grimes Jonathan Staymen Red and Golden Delicious lead the crop. Labor is available locally with WPA NYA activities possibly ending by mid September. An apple packing plant at ird and Sycamore Streets will operate under Stanley Plymale with ready equipment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
E. G. Royer
Gallia County
Rome
Grimes
Jonathan
Ironton Employment
WPA
NYA
Ird
Sycamore Sts
Stanley Plymale
River shipping boom drives steel hull orders and river craft plans
Dravo Corporation reports orders for 155 all welded steel hulls totaling 77 000 gross tons as river equipment demand surges. Contracts include Navy side dump scows, Pennsylvania Railroad car floats, Erie Railroad barges, and tank barges for Petroleum trade.
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Dravo Corporation
Navy Department
Pennsylvania Railroad
Erie Railroad
Navy
Pennsylvania
Erie
Mound City
Barrett Line
Panama Canal Department
American Bridge Co
Ambridge
Ohio
Mississippi
San Francisco
San Joaquin
Sacramento
Stockton
Calif
Panama Canal
Gordon C. Greene
U. S. Bureau of Marine Inspection and Navigation
Gallipolis Social Notes and Local Marital News
Gallipolis society items cover a Sunday reunion for the Cooper family at the Lewis home in Harrison township and a Bidwell marriage of James C. Burke and Virginia Steele. The piece lists many local attendees, school and hospital ties, and upcoming visits, with notes on other visits and gatherings around town and region.
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Gallipolis
J. C. Cooper
Wv. Lewis
Harrison Township
L. C. Smith
Pearl Carter
Columbus
Royal Lewis
Curtis Arthur
Huntington
Emory Carter
Paul
Eva Mae
C. A. Boster
Sherman Arthur
Surprise Birthday Honors For Dorothy Forth At Family Home
Miss Dorothy Forth celebrated her 19th birthday with a Friday surprise at her parents home J C Forth. Nearly 100 relatives and friends gathered Sunday at Mr and Mrs Floyd Leonard’s home to honor Mrs Jeanette Reynolds and Mrs John McLeish on their 69th birthdays with a basket dinner and music by Luther and Junior Lemley Virginia Grace and Esther Lane. Guests came from distant parts of Ohio and West Virginia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Naomi Evans
Akron
Leroy Landon
Omaha
Nebr
George McLeish
Columbus
Janice Busch
Groveport
Etta McCall
W. N. Hayward
Catherine Hayward
Gardner Hayward
Youngstown
John Webster
Wilmington
N. C
J. S. Webster
Eureka
Fred Myers
Rio Grande
Woodrow Byers
Linworth
Charles Francis
Judith
William
Margaret Halloran
James Plummer
Cincinnati
Oliver Roush
Cheshire
Morris Haskins
Carol Sue
J. W. Morris
Denver Woodrum
Charles
Delbert Boster
Emory Bartels
Sandusky
Dorothy Forth
J. C. Forth
Floyd Leonard
Jeanette Reynolds
John McLeish
Luther
Junior Lemley
Virginia
Grace
Esther Lane
Ohio
West Virginia
Festival Directors To Report Plans Tonight
Gallipolis fall festival directors plan a business meeting tonight to discuss plans for next month’s festival. The night show committee will report and department chairs will recite accomplishments to date.
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Gallipolis
Local Divorces Granted Amid Allegations of Neglect
In Gallipolis, Edmund Sheline has been granted a divorce from Flora Johnson Sheline of Pensacola Florida citing neglect. Charles Covell is granted a divorce from Jennie Covell due to alleged cruelty and neglect.
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Gallipolis
Edmund Sheline
Flora Johnson Sheline
Pensacola
Fla
Charles Covell
Jennie Covell
Poultry Judging At Athens County Fair
Homer W. Walter hatchery operator judged poultry at the Athens County Fair showcasing his birds and expertise in the competitive display.
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Gallipolis
Homer W. Walter
Athens County Fair
Youth Groups Aid Red Cross Sewing Layettes for England
Gallipolis reports 4 H clubs Girl Scouts Home Economics classes and Sunday School groups are making layettes from Red Cross materials for England. About 500 yards of cutting cloth arrived for distribution. Over 100 layettes of 24 pieces each are ready for shipment. adult sewing group met at Washington School and will resume next week for final session before school opens.
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Gallipolis
Red Cross
England
Washington School
Report on 20 Million Boat Contract
Officials at Marietta Manufacturing Co. in Pt. Pleasant decline to comment on national defense orders but unofficially the total contracts reach about twenty million dollars. The government has ordered 20 boats, including four mine planters valued at four and a half million dollars. Four net tenders are launched and superstructures are being placed while none are commissioned yet. A naval officer and enlisted men are stationed at Pt. Pleasant to direct equipment installation and supervise trials before acceptance.
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Gallipolis
Marietta Manufacturing Co
Pt. Pleasant
Poplar Ridge Church Plans 16th Home-Coming Event
GALLIPOLIS Cheshire Township plans the sixteenth annual home-coming at Poplar Ridge Church for Sunday August 31. An extended program is arranged to run before and after a noon picnic dinner.
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Gallipolis
Poplar Ridge Church
Cheshire Township
License to Wed Issued for John Root and Mary Jean Chipps
John Root aged 22 and Mary Jean Chipps aged 21, both of Salem West Virginia, have been issued a marriage license.
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Gallipolis
Wed
John Root
Mary Jean Chipps
Salem, W
Registrar Price Ewing Named for Rio Grande College
Robert Price Ewing of Columbus will assume registrar duties at Rio Grande College on Sept. 8. He is the son of Rev. W. E. Ewing of Mount Sterling. President R. Lloyd Pabst announced several other appointments including W. A. Lewis as Dean Hazel Hill Librarian and English Frances R. Harlow Commercial Mae Smeltzer Biological Science Martha L. Lassiter Art and Music Rev Donald S. Hobbs Philosophy and Religion James Porter Publicity and English Francis Burdell Aviation and Science Ethel Lock Education and Dean of Women Mendell Beattie Physical Education.
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Gallipolis
Robert Price Ewing
Columbus
Rio Grande College
W. E. Ewing
Mount Sterling
Gailia County
R. Lloyd Pabst
W. A. Lewis
Hazel Hill
Frances R. Harlow
Mae Smeltzer
Martha L. Lassiter
Donald S. Hobbs
James Porter
Francis Burdell
Ethel Lock
Mendel] E. Béattie
Pilgrim Church Revival Meetings Set Aug 31 to Sept 14
Logan area revival at West Logan Pilgrim Holiness Church runs Aug 31 through Sept 14 with an all day Labor Day service. Music features the Dickerson Sisters as song evangelists. Rev. Earl Appleman will serve another year after ordination in Springfield. Public invited.
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Logan
West Logan Pilgrim Holiness Church
Dickerson
Earl Appleman
Springfield
Lanier Parents Welcome Twins In Lancaster Hospital
Mr and Mrs Sidney Lanier of this city welcomed twins born Tuesday in a Lancaster hospital. The babies include a son and a daughter.
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Logan
Sidney Lanier
City
Lancaster Hospital
Long War Predicted by Gallia Speaker on Health Plan
Dr. Jonathan Forman of the Ohio Journal of Medicine warned at Washington Auditorium that the U S faces a ten to twelve year war and urged a nationwide civilian health program. He urged higher production of vital foods and recommended whole wheat bread vegetables milk and eggs while noting the army ration could guide civilian diets.
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Gallipolis
Jonathan Forman
Ohio Journal of Medicine
Medical College of
Ohio State University
Washington Auditorium
United States
Forman
David Roberts Prepares Medical Training in Washington
Logan resident David Roberts, son of Mr and Mrs Dan Roberts, will leave Fort Story Virginia in October for Walter Reed Hospital to study malaria before an assignment in the West Indies. He volunteered months ago and was assigned to the medical corps, visiting Logan recently on furlough.
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Logan
David Roberts
Dan Roberts
Ft. Story
Walter Reed Hospital
West Indies
Roberts
Medical Corps
John Shaffer Files First Trustee Petition
John E. Shaffer of Murray City traveled to Logan Wednesday to file his petition as a candidate for Ward Township trustee. He was among the first to file from that township while other petitions circulate. incumbents Add Sanborn and Frank Cook plan to seek re election.
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Logan
John E. Shaffer
Murray City
Ward
Add Sanborn
Frank Cook
Oil Field Blast Kills G M Finfrock in Corpus Christi
G M Finfrock aged 48 husband of former Miss Catherine Mullineaux of Gallipolis was killed in an oil field explosion at Corpus Christi Texas. He was visiting his wife’s family and died while en route to Houston. He leaves a son Mark in the Navy and a mother in Lancaster Ohio.
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Gallipolis
G. M. Finfrock
Catherine Mullineaux
Corpus Christi
Tex
Laura Mullineaux
Finfrock
Virginia
Houston
Mark
United States Navy
Lancaster
Ohio
Court frees Carroll Sheets on non-support pledge
Carroll Sheets formerly of Guyan Township was released after agreeing to meet payments set by the court on a non-support charge, returning from Columbus to answer the charge.
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Gallipolis
Columbus
Carroll Sheets
Guyan Township
Webster lands pharmacist post in Zanesville
Maurice Webster a University of Cincinnati pharmacy graduate has secured a position with a Zanesville drug store. He is the son of Dr and Mrs J S Webster who reside near Eureka.
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Zanesville Gallipolis
Maurice Webster
University of Cincinnati
Zanesville
J. S. Webster
Eureka
Attendance Down at Gallipolis Pool This Season
Cool weather limits visitors at the Gallipolis swimming pool as it remains open through Labor Day with no special events planned for the rest of the season.
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Gallipolis
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Ohio River News Notes
August Kotter
Nuremberg
Germany
Gallipolis Social Notes
Steele-Burke
James C. Burke
Bidwell
Virginia Steele
J. L. Stephenson
Glendon Irwin
Burke
Alfred Burke
A. M. Steele
Eugene
William, Frank
Lloyd Burke
Martha Saunders
Charleston
Ronald Miller
Bidwell-Porter High School
Gallia Academy High School
Holzer Hospital
W. L. Troth
Pleasant Valley
Vinton
William McKnight
J. W. Phillips
D. W. Reese
Gladys
C. D. Slagle
Yvonne
John Morgan
Claude B. Parker
Augustus P. Kerr
First Ave
R. J. Mauck
Albert Miller
Earl Dailey
Tonite
Joan Bennett
Walter Pidgeon
Geo, Sanders
Judy
Judy Canova
Slim Summerville
Francis Lederer
al Schine Theatre
Rags Rich
Peay Mary
Carlisle
Iris Meredith
Sen
Pilgrim Church
Cyeae
Ee Cussins & Fearn
Cussins & Fearn
Reliance
Athens
Minneapolis - Honeywell Heat
Cosguans
Zenners
Gallia
Washington
John Shaffer
Texas
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