Rural Red Cross Drive Surpasses Expectations in Gallia County
Gallia County aims for 3000 members with a goal of 15000 for Red Cross in the county. Rural areas show gains as city membership remains steady. A dedicated campaign team credits county volunteers, especially colored residents who raised 92.40, with notable progress. Special gifts exceed 500, aiding local relief, and committees await belated city reports.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
Gallia County
Carl C. Byers
Byers
Martha Cousins
Frank Washington
Leslie Howard
Fannie Mitchell
Red Cross
Embezzler Sent to Lima State Hospital
Elmer Johnson once charged with selling Walter Field hogs and converting 264 dollars to his own use has been transferred from Longview Hospital Cincinnati to Lima State Hospital for a 30 day mental test. The move follows a parole after a guilty plea and stems from Gallia County prosecutors.
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Gallipolis
Elmer Johnson
Longview Hospital
Cincinnati
Lima State Hospital For
John W. Howell
Johnson
Walter Field
Gallia County
Longview
Lima
Rio Grande College Hosts Community Christmas Party
Rio Grande College sponsors a Christmas party in Community Hall Thursday night open to Gallia and surrounding counties residents. The program features student entertainment, a Santa Claus distribution, a candle light service at 7:30 directed by President R. Lloyd Pobst with Rev. Hobbs and Rev. Copley assisting, and musical features led by Miss Martha Lou Lassiter.
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Gallipolis
Rio Grande College
Gallia
R. Lloyd Pobst
Donald S. Hobbs
C. D. Copley
Martha Lou Lassiter
Rio Grande
Children To Give Operetta At Rutland
Rutland grade school will present the operetta The Toy That Was Lost on Thursday night December 11 directed by Mrs C O Chapman. WSCS members and guests met at the Chapman home for business and social duties and planned a dinner and bazaar for December 4 with committees named for kitchen tables serving and more.
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Rutland
C. O. Chapman
WSCS
Kitchen
Anderson
Leafy Barton
Hattie McKenzie
Folan
Giles
Jordan
Marcia Denison
Susan Theobald
Lennie Taylor
Belva Myers
Lucille B. Smith
Elsie Roush
Ethel Chapman
Mrs. Myers
Bessie Sider
Margaret Taylor
Dorothy Barnes
Mrs. Chapman
School Band Winter Concert Delights Gallipolis Audience
Washington Auditorium was filled last night as the school’s concert band performed a splendid program. Numbers were well executed and warmly applauded by a large audience.
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Gallipolis
Washington Auditorium
Gallipolis Social Notes Highlights Local Gatherings
The monthly meeting of St. Peter's Episcopal Church Woman's Auxiliary featured supper guests from the Altar Guild as John Halliday shared local scene motion pictures and Ruth Miller with Catherine Morrison spoke of their Mexico City trip. News covers engagements, travels, family moves, and community events including a rural youth Indian party, letters to servicemen, and several local absences and visits. Funeral services for John Brucker are reported from Ohio Chapel with interment at Mound Hill.
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Gallipolis
Woman's Auxiliary
St. Peter’s Episcopal Church
Altar Guild
John Halliday
Ruth Miller
Catherine Morrison
Mexico City
Mexico
Floyd Johnson Held on Paternity Charge in Gallipolis
Floyd Johnson is held to the grand jury under a $300 bond by Justice J H Shato after a paternity charge was filed by Juanito M Higgin botham.
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Gallipolis
Floyd Johnson
J. H. Shato
Juanito M. Higginbotham
Aged Man Injured in Gallipolis Collision
Albert Leaper a 74 year old rural resident near Gallipolis suffered severe injuries after his car collided with a Huntington lime truck on Garfield Avenue near Portsmouth Avenue. The truck skidded on slippery brick pavement and overturned trapping Leaper whose car was dragged about 100 feet. Joe Shuck the truck driver was unharmed. Leaper is brother of J Frank Leaper of Gallipolis. Traffic halted while the truck was righted and load transferred.
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Gallipolis
Albert Leaper
Huntington
Garfield Ave
Portsmouth Ave
Leaper
Joe Shuck
J. Frank Leaper
Hemlock PTA Program Highlights At School Meeting
November Central PTA session featured excerpts from the President's Message a piano solo by Mary Tharp a vocal duet by Betty Jean Baker and Robert Summers with Mrs Harry Baker as accompanist plus a film and a discussion Does Money Make the Man led by Supt L T Cottrell. Refreshments followed. Numerous local and visiting residents attended events and churchgoers gathered for Eldon Tharp funeral and J J Murray golden anniversary observance.
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Monford Roberts
Donald
Russell Brown
Corning
P. B. Osenbaugh
George Vanhorn
Verna
Harry Bartow
Toledo
William Murday
Juanita
New Straitsville
Jack Williams
Harry Betts
Nelsonville
Ray Latta
Edna Louise Chariton
Mabel Dunlap
Edna Dunlap
Gaitten
Alissa Berry
Somerset
Frank Sanders
Walton
Kenton
Burdette Sanders
Coshocton
Donald Sanders
Oroville
Paskell
New Lexington
Joe Tom
Zanesville
John Walsh
Wilbur Williams
Ray Williams
Nina Davis
J. J. Murray
Congo
Branson Tharp
Whiting
Ind
William Tharp
Legion Will Not Hold Toy Campaign This Year
GALLIPOLIS state American Legion members say no arrangements will be made this year to repair toys for distribution to indigent children. The legion has in the past led toy collection and repair efforts and will continue supplying milk to indigent school children through the rest of the school year.
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Gallipolis
American Legion
The
Legion
Hunters Fined for Unlicensed Hunt in Walnut Township
Two coal miners Floyd Cremens and Andrew Brown from Walnut Township were fined $15 with costs each by Magistrate J H Shato for unlicensed hunting. The case was heard yesterday in Gallipolis.
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Gallipolis
Walnut Township
Floyd Cremeens
Andrew Brown
J. H. Shato
Dunn Rites Held for 90 Year Old F M Dunn
Funeral services were held today at F M Dunn’s home in St. Albans West Virginia with many Gallia County relatives in attendance. Interment followed at Pt Pleasant.
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Gallipolis
Gallia County
F. M. Dunn
St. Albans
W. Va
Pt. Pleasant
Courthouse Lawn Gets Trees in Embellishment Plan
About a dozen young evergreen trees are being placed around the Gallia county courthouse lawn as part of an embellishment program approved by the county commissioners.
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Gallipolis
Gallipolis Eagles Host Degree Class Delegation
Members of the Gallipolis Lodge of Eagles host Sunday afternoon ceremonies for a 25-person class from Portsmouth Manchester New Boston Ironton and Ashland with initiatory rites led by Ironton lodge members. Jonah T. Phelps of Ironton FOOE president is expected to speak after the initiation.
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Gallipolis
Gallipolis Lodge of Eagles
Portsmouth
Manchester
New Boston
Ironton
Ashland
Ironton Lodge
Jonah T. Phelps
Order of Eagles
Garden Club Meets at Long Bottom in Winter
Long Bottom Riverside Garden Club met Tuesday evening with ten members answering roll call by naming winter bouquet ideas. Talks covered house plants health and winter storage of gladioli bulbs. An invitation from Rose Garden Club of Tuppers Plains to a Christmas party on Dec. 11 was read and accepted. Next meeting set for Dec. 9 with Mrs. Thurman Babcock.
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Long Bottom
Riverside Garden Club
R. L. Larkins
E. L. Clark
Rose Garden Club
Tuppers Plains
Thurman Babcock
Harry Manning
Clyde Alcorn
R. A. Anderson
Sebring
E. W. Swan
Joe Alfred Bissel
Hartford
Lloyd McPeek
Belleville
J. A. Torrence
Linnie Swan
G. R. Swan
Parkersburg
Richard Roe
Cincinnati
Mary Matlack
Virgil Roush
Ray Matlack
Richwood
Cc. L. Brooks
Columbus
Donald Matlack
Indiana
Matlack
Grover Christy
W. S. Chevalier
Stella Chevalier
Personal and Social Notes of Guysville
In Guysville personal notes list visits and events. Miss Blanche Fuller hosted a 20 guest party for the Rome Student Council, with refreshments. Various residents traveled, hosted relatives, or attended gatherings including anniversaries and Shrine meetings.
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Guysville
Expect Increase in Christmas Mailings
Gallipolis post office notes heavier daily mail flow and an anticipated rise in mailings early next week. The office will be open all day Saturday December 20 with deliveries in the morning and afternoon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
Hold Wilson Rites In Wellston for Mrs Anna Wilson
Funeral rites were held in Wellston this afternoon for Anna Grace Wilson 55 a Gallia county native. She was the daughter of the late Robert Morris of Greenfield township and is survived by a son John Wilson and a daughter Mrs James Compson.
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Gallipolis
Wellston
Anna Grace Wilson
Gallia County
Robert Morris
Greenfield Township
John Wilson
James Compson
Frankenberg Rites Are Held At Vinton
Funeral services were held in Vinton for Mrs. Joseph Frankenberg 73 a Columbus resident found dead earlier this week by her brother Frank Hutchinson. She was born Beatrice Hutchinson of Vinton. a brother John Hutchinson lives there and another brother William resides in California. Rev. J L Stephenson conducted the rites and interment followed at Vinton Memorial Park. The months are numbered in stead of being named in Japan.
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Gallipolis
Vinton
Joseph Frankenberg
Columbus
Frank Hutchinson
Frankenberg
Beatrice Hutchinson
John Hutchinson
William
California
J. L. Stephenson
Vinton Memorial Park
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Florida
Stanley Evans
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Blanche Fuller
Rome
Jesse Dixon
Samantha Fuller
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Lem Brooks
F. B. Bean
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Cairo
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Billie Nicholas
Hollidays Cove
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Freda M. Bean
Mayme Ashcraft
McGinnis
Correne Robinson
Charles Moore
Helen Near Stewart
Frank Mauller
E. I. Bean
Elmer Fuller
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Chillicothe
Clarence Fuller
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Athens Ice and Storage Co
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Pallie Chapman
F. W. Chapman
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