Celanese official to speak at Point Pleasant Chamber dinner
Point Pleasant Chamber of Commerce will host a Moose Home dinner meeting on February 7 with a Celanese Corporation official as speaker. Virgil W. Siders, on leave from the chamber, announced the program highlighting Celanese's Gallipolis Ferry plant and a January plan for the fourth quarterly meeting at the Moose. Elections by mail seek seven new directors to serve this year while 1956 officers will be chosen by the board. incumbent president C. J. Hyer follows W. W. Smith in leadership.
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Point Pleasant
Celanese Corporation
C. of C
Moose
C. J. Hyer
W. W. Smith
Mason County Hospital Fund Reaches $113 642
Mason County Hospital fund nears the $113 642 total after a recent $4000 contribution by general solicitors. Eight women and others worked three weeks to boost the drive for a 52 bed hospital with $300 000 more needed to match federal funds. Campaign executive Virgil W. Siders announced a January 9 meeting for pledges of $25 or more and said a board trustees election will be held at the Moose Home with details to follow.
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Point Pleasant
Mason County Hospital
General Solicitors
Seveal
Jack E. Fruth
J. S Lroyd
Stanley Epling
Dallas
Moose
Siders
Rotary Plans Christmas Party Gift Exchange Dec 21
Rotarians will celebrate their annual Christmas party on December 21 at the Moose Home with a gift exchange. The meeting featured a Christmas movie shown by Walden Roush and Homer Walters of Gallipolis attended as the sole guest.
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Point Pleasant
Moose Home
Walden Roush
Homer Walters
Gallipolis
Boat Club to Meet in Point Pleasant
Members of the Point Pleasant Boat Club will meet December 13 at 8 p m in Vicker's Restaurant. Commodore Hank Sibley will lead the routine business discussion and updates for the club.
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Point Pleasant
Pioneer Farm Women's Club Holds Christmas Party in South Side Home
The Pt. Pleasant Society and Pioneer Farm Women's Club held their annual Christmas party and December meeting at Mrs. A. E. Sommer's home. Guests included Mrs. John Watterson and newly elected county president Mrs. John Gill. Mrs. Virgil Burris will assume club presidency in January.
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Pioneer Farm Women’s Club
A. E. Sommer
South Side
G. C. Sommer
Pat Schenk
Marolyn Casto
Miss Schenk
Casto
Annabel Sommer
John Watterson
John Gill
Oak Thomas
Thomas
Fowler
Virgil Burris
Stevie
Jan Fowler
Stevens
Christmas By and Junior Women's Club Meeting Notice
The Point Pleasant Junior Women's Club will hold its monthly meeting on Tuesday at 8 p m at the Moose Home. Arrangements are led by Mrs John Ware and Mrs Jack Rice with committee members Mrs Jack Buxton Mrs J Stewart Lloyd and Miss Marjorie Waldie. Members should bring a gift for the grab bag and a wrapped gift for the Christmas baskets.
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Point Pleasant
Moose Home
John Ware
Jack Rice
Jack Buxton
J. Stewart Lloyd
Marjorie Waldie
Christmas Club Hear Reading At Ripley Road Home
Mrs. George C. Fowler hosted the Anne Bailey Farm Women's Club at the Ripley Road home of Mrs. Marshall Fowler. Mrs. Gay Caste gave a Christmas reading, "Christmas Story," as the group recited the Lords Prayer. Plans were made to help serve the Farm Bureau dinner at the Moose.
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George C. Fowler
Anne Bailey
Marshall Fowler
Ripley Road
Gay Caste
Farm Bureau
The
Moose
Circle One Presbyterian Women Meet For Pot Luck
Circle One of Presbyterian Women gathered Tuesday evening in the church dining room for a pot luck dinner. Mrs W C Dickson chaired the business meeting. Ms Douglas Rouse led a Joy Gift lesson with discussion guided by Mrs William C Filson. Nine members attended.
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Presbyterian
W. C. Dickson
Douglas Rouse
William C. Filson
Dr John G Trevor to speak on Holy Land trip
Dr John G Trevor Morris Harvey College professor and author of The Cradle of our Faith will address Point Pleasant Women's Club at its December meeting Friday evening at the Moose Home. He will present several Christmas carols on harp, with Mrs Grant Stanley and Mrs Gail Faires in charge.
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John G. Trevor
The
Holy Land
Point Pleasant
Choir to be formed for Mason County Farm Women Clubs
Pat Schenk Mason County Home Demonstration Agent announced plans to start a Mason County Farm Women Clubs choir next Tuesday. The group will be supervised by Carl Jackson Randolph extension recreation specialist who is affiliated with the Oglebay Institute of Wheeling. A meeting place is not yet set and a director is being sought to lead the choir.
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Point Pleasant
Mason County
Carl Jackson Randolph
Pat Schenk
Randolph
Oglebay Institute of Wheeling
Farm Officials Address Meet in Mason County
The Mason County Farm Bureau will host its annual meeting Saturday at Moose Home. E. O. Gregory acting secretary of the West Virginia Farm Bureau and James Aldridge of Lesage will speak. Balloting for new directors and officers will be completed at the session. A noon dinner follows for members families and guests. Gregory is father of Mason County's assistant agricultural agent William F. Gregory and hails from Morgantown.
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Point Pleasant
Mason County Farm Bureau
Moose Home
E. O. Gregory
West Virginia Farm Bureau
James Aldridge
Lesage
Cabell County
Dlao
Bureau
Gregory
Mason County
William F. Gregory
Morgantown
Schools Get Deer Meat
A deer doe weighing about 175 pounds was killed on Route 17 by a Chemical Tank Lines truck driven by Milford T. Betz of St. Albans. Constrtation Officer Miles Durst will deliver the meat to Mason County schools including New Haven, Mason, Leon, Sunnyside, Roosevelt, and Lakin State Hospital.
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Point Pleasant
Mason County
Miles Durst
Milford T. Betz
St. Albans
Betz
Rancel Jiiden
Darst
New Haven
Mason, Leon
Sunnyside
Roosevelt
Lakin State Hospital
Fowler birth announced at Schaekel Clinic in Mason
Mr and Mrs Donald Fowler of West Columbia announce the birth of their third child and second son Donald Lee born November 22 at Schaekel Clinic in Mason. Mrs Fowler is the former Mildred Bass of Point Pleasant. Grandparents are Mr and Mrs Harry Bass Point Pleasant and Mr and Mrs Arnold Fowler Lettart.
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Point Pleasant
Donald Fowler
West Columbia
Donald Lee
Schaekel Clinic
Mason
Three Clinics Plan Free Polio Vaccination in Mason County
County Health Nurse Dorothy Watkins announced three free Salk polio vaccine clinics for Mason Countians. The first clinic is December 15 at Sunnyside School from 1 to 3 p.m. with two more dates to be set based on vaccine supply. Eligible are newborns to age nine and expectant mothers, funded by congressional appropriations. 20 percent of West Virginia’s vaccine goes to free clinics, the rest to private physicians.
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Point Pleasant
Dorothy Watkins
Sunnyside School
Miss Watkins
Mason County
Congress
West Virginia
First International Postal Congress Held in Bern 1874
The 1874 congress in Bern Switzerland gathered representatives from the United States Egypt and about 20 European nations to discuss international mail matters and cooperation.
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Bern
Switzerland
United States
Egypt
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Trevor
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Reg
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Romeo
Nylo-Gabardines
Ardine
Postal Congress
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A. M. Goodwin
Bernard F. Parsons
Maude
Ray Eugene Neal
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