Ben Evans Named to Lead Gallia Red Cross Drive
Ben R. Evans was elected chairman of the Gallia County American Red Cross drive by the executive committee and will assume leadership next March replacing Al Giles, now district rent executive in Columbus. Evans has headed rural drives for years and exceeded quotas, with a county Junior Red Cross role and nine years as principal of Washington School. He is active in church work and Masonic bodies and serves as staff sergeant in the Ohio State Guard Company L.
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Gallipolis
Ben R. Evans
Red Cross
Gallia County
American Red Cross
Mondey
al Giles
Columbus
Giles
Frans
Rura
Gallin County
Ohio State Guard
Gallipolis Soldier Wounded in Action
Gallipolis sees Pic. Remo Rocchi aged 22, eldest son of Mr and Mrs S Rocchi, wounded in action on France and Germany fronts. War Department message reached parents Monday. Injury severity not disclosed. another source says seriously injured. Their second son serves in the Coast Guard, last heard from between Norfolk Virginia and Puerto Rico.
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Gallipolis
Pic
Remo Rocchi
S. Rocchi
France
Germany
War Department
Roccs
Coast Guard
Norfolk
Puerto Rico
West Point Colonel Burke Wins Bronze Star in France
Lieut. Col. Alvin L. Burke, a West Point graduate, earns the Bronze Star for meritorious service in France during Aug. 6 to Nov. 16. He and his wife and two children live at 447 Fourth Ave in Gallipolis. he is son of Mr and Mrs Alfred Burke of near Bidwell.
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Gallipolis
Alvin L. Burke
France
Colonel Burke
United States Military Academy
West Point
Fourth Ave
Alfred Bure
Bidwell
Native of Leon Is Missing in Action
Ray Casto a 34 year old native of Leon West Virginia and local service station attendant was reported missing in action in Germany on November 22 according to word received here Monday. His wife Mary Russell Casto and their year old daughter Mary Faye live at 11 Winton Ave. His mother Mrs Laura Keefer Caste widow of Perry Caste resides on Eastern Ave. The last letter from the missing soldier to his family was dated November 16.
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Gallipolis
Ray Casto
Leon
W. Va
Germany
Casto
Mary Russell
Porter
Mary Faye
Winton Ave
Laura Keefer Caste
Perry Caste
Eastern Ave
Inspection Of Guards Is Held Monday
Gallipolis Ohio State Guard Company L held its annual regimen inspection Monday night at the Ohio State Armory conducted by Col Earl Brannon. Forty one Guardsmen participated with the drill honorees led by First Lieut E E Higgins and Second Lieut Morris E Haskins. Sergeant J Emmett Morrison’s squad won individual drill honors. members named include George Short Don Robinson Jimmie Jones Jacob Frazier. Sgt Dennis Wallace’s platoon placed second. The full Company L roster lists Captain Craig D Slagle First Lieut B E Higgins Second Lieut Morris E Haskins and numerous corporals sergeants privates.
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Gallipolis
Ohio State Guard Company L
Earl Brannon
Ohio State Armory
E. E. Higgins
Morris E Haskins
J. Emmett Morrison
Brannon
George Short
Don Robinson
Jimmie Jones
Jacob Frazier
Herman ©. Williams
P. W. Hirst
Coleonel Brannon
Columbus
Dennis Wallace
Craig D- Slagle
EB. E
Augustus M.steele
James C. Stewhart
Clyde A. Bradbury
Richard E. Carter
Dean T. Davis
John S. Dexter
Wiliam I. Kemper
Buell D. Hayes
Robert L. Long
Lewis C. Miller
Don K. Robinson
Lonnie Safford
Ralph Saunders
James L. Shaver
William G. Wall
Walter P. Plantz
Dan
Black
Loren W. Blazer
Robert L. Condee
Kenneth L. Cader
Vern P. Crawford
Richard N. Cary
John R. Champer
Kenneth E. Davidson
Robert L. Delile
Chester A. Dickerson
jJacob I. Frazier
Carlton D. Gallimore
John H. Hill
Ralph J. Jones
Lowell V. Johnson
Heber BD. McClaskey
Gilbert L
Buck Hunter Plans From Fox Hole In Scioto County
Gallia Countian Buck in Scioto Area reports one local hunter, Munroe Gatewood, nabbed a buck amid opening season. Claude Miller says fourteen does were seen by Clerk of Courts Howard S. Trardway with no buck shot. A paralyzed resident hauled four miles to a fox hole by lantern light to await game.
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Gallipolis
Munroe Gatewood
Gallia
Scioto County
Claude Miller
Howard S. Trardway
Miller
Scinlo County
Michigan
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Ransevelt
Sgt Clage Wounded For Fifth Time In Germany
GATAIPOLIS staffer reports Sgt. Clage was wounded in Germany on November 16 in his own letter to mother Jessie Clage. It marks his fifth injury in action across Africa,Switzerland,Italy and the invasion of France. He said a bullet pierced his left knee and was extracted and that return to duty may take some time.
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Gataipolis
Shelby FL Clage
Germany
War Department
Jessie Clage
Clage
Hatile
Hils
Sieniis
Lin
Sat
Afra
Franen
Agmin
Veteran of Pacific Howe on furlough at Bremerton visit
Gunnery Sergeant Feison Frye of the U S Marines, brother of Mrs. Robert Rannells of 441 Third Avenue, is on furlough from the U S Naval Hospital at Bremerton Washington and visiting his sister’s family before returning for further treatment. He has seen combat in European and Southwest Pacific theaters, was wounded four times, and suffered thirteen malaria seizures. He has been awarded the Silver Star, Purple Heart, and Admiral Nimitz Personal Citations.
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Pacific
Howe
Gallipolis
Feison Frye
Uv Ss Marines
Robert Rannells
Third Avenue
United States Naval Hospital
Bremerton
Wash
European
Southwest Pacific
Feve
Nimitz
Stores Will Sell Bonds on Avenger Day in Gallia
E S Spear announces Gallia County retailers organize staff to push war bond sales. On Avenger Day December 7 1941 stores aim to sell bonds with employees of many firms eligible for a U S treasury citation for $300 and up in Series E bonds. Sales will be credited to the purchaser’s district.
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Gallipolis
E. S. Spear
Gallia County
Pearl Harbor
War Finance Committee
United States Treasury Department
Spear
Retail Merchants’ Committee
Gallipolis Chamber of Commerce
Gallipolis Department Store
Economy Taxi Company
Dan Thomas and Son Shoe Company
Evans Food Market
G. & J. Auto Parts
McKnight-Davies Hardware
Gallipolis Motor Company
Ratliff Hardware Co
Morris & and 10c
Brown Furniture Co
Kerr Drug Co
Jack Knight's Dept
Sigher-Lanier Co
Haskins-Tanner Co
Fort Pitt
Specialty Shoppe
Empire Furniture ,Co
Brumfield-Thomas Co
Hughes Drug Co
Davis-Shuler Co
Altman Department Store
G. C. Murphy Co
City
Wilkesville Lodge Installs New Officers
Wilkesville Ohio report shows the Order of the Eastern Star installing officers led by Worthy Matron Louise Woltz and Worthy Patron Halis Grate. The village notes furloughs, hospital updates, a scarlet fever closure, and local illnesses including Ardith Ann Davis ill with appendicitis.
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Halis Grate
Jewell Strong
Lawrence Morton
Ruth Swisher
Anna Blore
Anita Grate
Shortey Feters
Marie Penn Marshal
Blanche Fenn
Grace Colwell
Adah
Elva Morton
Ruth
Dorothy Colwell
Ester
Lulu Milter
Marha
Evelyn Montgomery
Electa
Ardith Ann Davis Si
Columbus
Local hunters bag a 200-pound buck in Randolpa County
Landon Smith and a party from Elking hunt in Randolpa County on Monday the season opener and claim a 200 pound buck as the focal catch.
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Point Pleasant
Landon Smith
Focal
Mr. Smith
Randolpa County
Elking
Christmas Social and Honors Highlight Gallipolis Notes
Gallipolis social page reports a Christmas party at Winton Ford Church with about 50 members, gifts for the Methodist Orphanage, and readings and carols. It also notes Mrs. Leo Bean hosting AAUW Christmas music by local students, a dinner honoring Sgt. Earl Mills, and visiting relatives of Nancy Van Dyke with multiple family names and places in Ohio.
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Gallipolis
Jumbus
Jof
Grace Guild
Clair Wellington
Winton Ford
Harland Martin
Aly Worthington
Jack Mills
Mary Syler
Bean
Leo C. Bean
American Association of University Women
First Avenue
Harris Doepping
Carlene Niday
Betty Suiter
James Slackworth
John Epling
Patsy ‘Haskins
Christ
Vivian Allison
Nancy van Dyke
Virgil Hixson
Sand
Frank van Dike
Athens
Cecil van Dyke
Betty
Myrtle May
Amesville
Mla. Allen
Clifton Climbers Plan Better 4-H Work This Year
Point Pleasant social notes report 4-H clubs including the Clifton Climbers studying past weak points and planning improved programs. Pine Ridge Co-Workers will present a public program at Fadeley School on December 22, the Junior Leaders known as The Bacons are showcasing progress at Senior High School, and a quarterly 4-H leaders meeting with a Christmas party follows a business session in the agricultural extension office. The American Legion and Legion Auxiliary will hold their Christmas party at the hall on Vland Street at 7:30 this evening.
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Point Pleasant
Clarice Knapp
Clifton Climbers
Pine Ridge
Fadeley School
The
Bacons
Leaders' Association
Elsie Fowler
Plan Affairs To Raise Band Funds
POINT PLEASANT The Band Boosters at their Monday meeting planned a New Year dance and a tag day on Saturday Dec 23 to raise money for school band uniforms. Floyd Rothlisberger and Lawrence Capshart were named to handle tag day. the dance committee includes Mrs Harold Sayre William Woolfitt and Chester A Bush. A bingo party is tentatively proposed for a later date. Principal Withers said proceeds from the next two high school plays would go to the band uniform account. A meeting is set for Monday Dec 18 to review further plans.
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Point Pleasant
Floyd Rothlisberger
Lawrence Capshart
Emory Monroe
Harold Sayre
William Woolfitt
Chester A. Bush
Tentatrely
Withers
Messages to Japanese POWs Extended to December 15
Gallia County Americal Red Cross executive secretary Catherine Hayward announced that messages to Japanese prisoners may be sent until December 15. Messages go through the Army postal service instead of cable, with any number of messages allowed per prisoner but limit of one message per sender. The record notes a Celery ladder and bamboo pole context.
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Gallipolis
Catherine Hayward
Gallia County
Amercan Fed Cross
Army Postal Service
Hayward
Mason County Plant Tops Nation in Safety Contest
Major J. D. Fraser, commanding officer of the West Virginia Ordnance Works at Point Pleasant, announced the plant now leads the government owned explosives plants division in the second Army Ordnance Explosives Safety Contest. He cited reduced accident rates since 1944 and praised about half a million ordnance workers, nearly half of them women, for achieving the wartime safety record.
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Point Pleasant
J.D. Fraser
West Virginia Ordnance Works
Army Ordnance Explosives Safety
General Campbell
Army Chief of Ordnance
Fraser
United States
Point Pleasant Junior High Play Here Comes Charlie Dec 12
The Point Pleasant Junior Class will present Here Comes Charlie a three act farce at 7 50 p m Tuesday December 12 in the Junior High School Auditorium Tickets are on sale and the cast is said to fit their parts with skillful cleverness, blending snobbishness hill billy humor and refinement for an entertaining evening.
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Point Pleasant
Point Pleasant High School
Charlie
Urges Congregation To Hear Sermon
Peter H Steenbergen chairman of the pul pit committee of the Presbyterian Church announced today that a visiting minister will conduct the services at 11 o'clock Sunday morning Dec 17. He urged the entire membership and congregation to be present for the first preaching service since July 1 when the former pastor left for Wytheville Va.
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Point Pleasant
Peter H. Steenbergen
The
Presbyterian Church
Steenbergen
Chalmers McCutchen
First Presbyterian Church
Wytheville
Returns From South Point Pleasant
Paul D. Wedge, business agent of the boilermakers local, returned from Nashville where he spent 30 days on a special assignment at the Nashville Bridge Co shipyard. He said race problems caused difficulties but progress was made in organizing Negro rovals and reducing tensions between workers and the company. A separate report notes Mr. Whittaker was struck by an automobile on Main Street near the Lowe Hotel, suffering a head cut. driver Ben Roush was not held.
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Point Pleasant
Paul D. Wedge
Nashville, Tann
Nashville Bridge Co
Wedge
Whittaker
Main St
Lowe Hotel
Point Clinic
Curt Yeager
Ben Roush
Roush
Home Front News Sgt Heber Riffle Wounded in France
Sgt Heber H Riffle, son of Mr and Mrs H S Riffle of Lincoln Ave, wounded in action in France on Nov 18. An infantry mortar gunner with Gen Patton’s Third Army, he suffered two leg wounds and was in a Paris hospital on Nov 23. His brother T Sgt Clell Biffle bailed out over Ploesti in 1943 and is now in London. Other Mason Countians casualties include Thomas Patterson and Randall Wamsley.
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Point Pleasant
H. S. Riffle
Lincoln Ave
War Department
Heber H. Riffie
France
Charles West
Akron
Riffie
Paris
Patton
Third Army
Riffle
Clell Biffle
Ploesti
Roumainia
Belgrade
London
West
Hilda Marinette Riffle
Thomas Patterson
Samuel Patterson
Henderson
South Pacific
Robert Wamsley
Gallipolis Ferry
Route
Randall Wamsley
Patterson
Wamsley
Nobles Named Night Officer in Point Pleasant
City Council voted unanimously to employ Otis Nobles as Night Officer to replace Toral L. Morrison who becomes deputy sheriff on Jan 1. Nobles previously served on the local police force in 1942 and has worked at the shipyard plant protection unit. He was elected constable of Lewis District for a four year term and will hold both posts. The meeting covered street lighting, fire protection extension, and the monthly treasurer report by F G Musgrave.
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Point Pleasant
New Haven Soldier Killed in Action
Sergeant Avre ham H. Perry and Pvt Lester A. Chapman are named among West Virginians reported killed or wounded in action in Europe. Perry is listed with mother Mrs Nannie Montgomery of New Haven, Chapman with mother Mrs Garnett Chapman of Letart.
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Point Pleasant
Avreham H. Perry
Nannie Montgomery
New Haven
West
Gets Year in Jail in Lieu of Bond
POINT PLEASANT James Nowlin of Apple Grove was arraigned on a peace warrant before a local magistrate. After witnesses testified the magistrate ordered him jailed for one year for failing to post a $500 bond. Nowlin said he would serve the term in jail.
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Point Pleasant
James Nowlin
Apple Grove
Nowlin
Bond Rally To Be Held on Thursday
A big bond rally is planned for Thursday evening at 3 o'clock in the courthouse here. Chairman Roush calls all county campaign committee members and the public to attend. Speakers include two wounded Italian campaign veterans Staff Sgt William Mengerink and Lieut A F Butterstein who hold medals including the Purple Heart. Roush asks Mason Countians to buy another $100 war bond on Pearl Harbor Day.
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Point Pleasant
Roush
William Mengerink
Veterans Hospital
Cambridge
A. F. Butterstein
General Chemical Defense Corporation
Mason Countians
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Wilkesville Lodge
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Gallipolis Social Notes
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Earl Mills
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Harry K. Mills Sr
Willam H. Walker
Mary Margaret Richards
R.N
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American Legion
the Legion Auxiliary
Vland St
M. J. Lilly
Upland
H. M. Moore
Ashton
Bradshaw
Inez Lotuise
Roma Wartenburg
Carl Morrison
Huntington
James Morrison
Robinson District
C. O. Weissenburger
C. N. Curfee
Erie
C. N. Weissemburger
L. C. Schauble
William H. Bardin
Ronald White
Hugh Curry
Huntlington
Tad's Bar
Carbondale
Bimberly Road
Mason County
WVYOW
Nobles
Leadway Coffee
C. D. Shafer Co. Athims
Bellans
Vmx
Gem Pharmacy
H. of P. Bldg
Coca-Cola Company
Parkersburg
Coca-Cola Bottling Company
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