Gallipolis School Opens After Summer Improvements
Gallipolis schools will open for the year on Monday September 13 1937. Improvements include a field house expanded library music department and improved Lincoln and colored schools plus a junior band feeder to the senior band. Total state funds 61139 50 local taxes 42220 expenditures elementary 52318 73 high school 32775 69. Mrs Florence Johnson won an uncontested divorce from Charles Johnson on grounds of extreme cruelty and jealousy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
E. E. Higgins
Mr. Higgins
United States
John H. Evans
Clara Worman
Carl C. Byers
A. Jord Bayless
Anne Bradbury
Harold Brown
Lurene Brown
Elaine Burton
Clark Gillingham
Mildred Gilman
May Kelly
Katherine Kircher
Marie Langdon
Bruce McGoodwin
Ruth Marrin
Marie Meal
Katherine Miller
Elizabeth Niday
Dorothy Roadarmour
Lola Rupe
Isabelle Scott
Frederick Stone
Garnet Stringfellow
Dwight Wetherholt
Anna Wiseman
Washington No. 1
Lincoln School
Washington No. 2
Lincoln (Colored School
Kananga
State Department of Education
Higgins
Ccare
Scouts Visit Gallipolis on Kanawha River Row
Six Scouts from Huntington, voyage on a Kanawha River yawl from Montgomery West Virginia to Huntington. They reached Gallipolis as a port of call and suffered burns and blisters but pressed on with their Sea Patrol voyage.
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Gallipolis
Huntington
Boy Scout Sea Patrol
Montgomery
W. Va
Kanawha River
Young Athlete Dies At Mill Creek Home
Gallipolis mourns 24 year old George Burke Hayes son of Mr and Mrs Hayes who died Friday evening at home from malignant intestinal trouble. A noted ball player he left behind six surviving brothers and sisters. Funeral held Sunday at First Baptist Church with Rev George Sagen officiating and burial in Rife Cemetery Addison Township.
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Gallipolis
George Burke Hayes
B. Hayes
Mill Creek
First Baptist Church
George Sagen
Rife
Addison Township
Youth Held on Charge of Robbing Neighbor
Gallipolis 17 year old Clifford William McGowan of the Cadmus neighborhood is jailed on charges of robbing neighbor John Williamson of about 40 dollars. He bought a bicycle and other items before arrest by Deputies Wood and Russell and had 28 70 remaining when taken in. Probate Judge Clark will hear the case.
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Gallipolis
Clifford Wlliam McGowan
Cadmus
John Williamson
Harold Wood
Dale Russell
McGowan
Clark
Barcus Rites Held At Home on Sunday
Funeral services for Harold Barcus 33 were at the family home on Raccoon Island. Interment followed at Bethel Cemetery. Barcus died in Holzer Hospital from a fractured skull after being struck by a tree limb while felling it. Survived by wife, parents Mr and Mrs Robert Barcus, four children aged 3 to 11, and seven siblings.
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Gallipolis
Harold Barcus
Raccoon Island
Bethel Cemetery
Barcus
Holzer Hospital
Robert Barcus
Driver Arrested After Crash in Gallipolis
Art Johnson, 25, of Gallipolis, wrecked his car into a concrete wall before Miss Mabel Thomas’s home at First and Vine Streets. He abandoned the machine and was jailed on a drunken driving charge.
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Gallipolis
Art Johnson
Mabel Thomas
First
Vine Sts
Johnson
Centerville Coach Resigns for Rio Grande Post
John Wickline of Centerville resigns as Centerville Schools coach to take a similar role at Rio Grande. He succeeds Victor Fowler, who becomes coach of Thornville schools.
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Gallipolis
John Wickline
Centerville
Rio Grande
Victor Fowler
Thornville
Petition Deadlines Set for Gallia County Offices
Gallia County Board of Election members met Saturday and fixed September 8 as the date for checking petitions filed for county offices. The filing closing date is Friday, September 3. Clerk Mrs. Helen Russell notes much activity by candidates filing.
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Gallipolis
Gallia County
Helen Russell
First Grid Casualty In Gallipolis Football Practice
Early football practice put Tom Burdette son of Mr and Mrs Stuart Burdette in Holzer Hospital with a fractured arm. Automobile Club officials announce receipt of new membership emblems available at Club headquarters in the Lafayette Hotel. Relatives here have been notified of the death of Minnie Spaulding at her Huntington home. She was sister of Mrs J W Stone of Waverly and former Mrs A H Wagner of Gallipolis. Harold and Garnet Broyles purchased the J S Halley farm near Gallipolis and will take possession soon. They own adjoining farm rented to Fred Haffelt. Reverend Charles J Bowen native of Gallipolis and Baptist minister at Jamestown Ohio supplied the Cheshire Baptist pulpit and will return Thursday for the Pomeroy Baptist Association all day session. Herman Pete Uhrig optician of Birmingham Ala spent the weekend in Gallipolis visiting old friends and noting changes.
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Gallipolis
Tom Burdette
Stuart Burdette
Holzer Hospital
Gallia County Automobile Club
Lafayette Hotel
Minnie Spaulding
Huntington
J. W. Stone
Waverly
A. H. Wagener
Harold and
Garnet Broyles
J. S. Halley
Wallace Family
Fred Haffelt
Charles J. Bowen
Jamestown
Ohio
Cheshire
Pomeroy
Two Die In Wreck Near Marion
James Barnhart aged 24 and William Lemke 32 both of Marion were killed when Barnhart's car sideswiped a truck on Prospect Highway in a fatal accident.
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Marian
U.P
James Barnhart
William Lemke
Marion
Barnhart
Prospect Highway
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