Community Christmas Tree and Toy Distribution Planned
Gallipolis plans a Community Christmas Tree and toy distribution for about 500 needy children on Christmas Eve. Local civic groups will help procure gifts, previously handled by Boy Scouts, with gifts backed by one or more joint organizations. John McNealey of Southern Ohio Electric promises a lighted decorated tree. Christmas baskets will be distributed by Baptist, Presbyterian, Methodist and Episcopal churches based on Red Cross lists.
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Gallipolis
Dec
Boy Scouts
George Sagan
John McNealey
Southern Ohio Electric Company
Presbyterian
Sagan
Red Cross
Recaptured Beauty Through Aut Bran Health Guide
Reader tips link good looks to health and urge constipation prevention. The cereal solution Kellogg's Aut-Bran supplies bulk to move bowels, vitamin B to tone the gut, and iron to help blood. It promotes a natural approach over habit forming pills.
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Albran
Christmas Eve affair to expand community gift distribution
Plans indicate all baskets will be uniform this year with churches distributing in place of the Welfare Club. The Christmas Eve event is tentative but expected to broaden in scope within a few days.
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Welfare Club
Wards of County Home Remembered by Miss Santa Claus
Gallia County Children's Home will again receive gifts this year from a local donor signing as Miss Santa Claus. For 12 years the contributor has given about 830 dollars to provide each of the home’s roughly 60 children with toys, candy, and oranges for Christmas Eve and a special Christmas Day dinner, with the children traveling to Gallipolis to select their gifts.
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Gallia County
Gallipolis
Wilson Blazer
Ioca
Misa Santa Claus
Mine Water Kills Fish in Raccoon Creek Pollution Cause
Gallipolis reports Charles Phillips, Fish and Game Protector, says pollution of Raccoon Creek is due mainly to mining near Wales Mills and Ewington, not from abandoned mine flow. Pumps began two weeks ago, causing many fish to suffocate. Similar fish kills noted in Symmes Creek for about two months.
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Gallipolis
Raccoon Creek
Wales Mills
Ewington
Charles Phillips
Symmes Creek
Hogs Find Mash At Gallia County Farm
Local officials raided a Gallia County farm near Harrisburg and found hogs eating mash dumped on the hog lot. The mash and part of a still were recovered. Lilley, the farmer, had just been released from Gallia jail after a liquor sentence. A marriage license was issued in Gallipolis to Clarence Spears and Fulah Harris.
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Gallipolis
George Lilley
Harrisburg
Lilley
Gallia County
Clarence Spears
Fulah Harris
Divorces Filed in Gallia County Court Also Damages Suit
Gallipolis, Dec. Two divorce actions and one damage suit for gun shot wounds were filed in Gallia County Common Pleas Court. Josephine Lewis, infant, by next friend Necla Lewis, seeks 2000 from Ernest Davis over a gunshot incident that injured an eye. The shooting occurred in a Davis cornfield along the Ohio River. Re a French seeks divorce from John French after a marriage Oct 6 1952 in Metga County for extreme cruelty and neglect. Mary King seeks alimony from Clarence King, married Nov 1924, alleging infidelity.
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Gallipolis
Dec
Gallia County
Pieaa
Josephine Lewis
Necla Lewis
Ernest Davis
Weands
Brother
Davis
Ohio River
Revella Freneh
Addison
John French
Metga County
Mary KB King
Agaifset
Clarence King
Record Made By High Pupils Attendance in November
Gallipolis Dee reports Gallipolis Academy High School students posted 97.4 percent attendance for the month ending December 2. Enrollment was 193 boys and 242 girls totaling 435. Absences totaled 4 days for boys and 131 days for girls, yielding overall attendance of 97. A total of 302 students were not late or absent, including 129 boys and 173 girls.
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Gallipolis
Dee
Gallin Academy High School
BE. E. Higgins
Vinton Man Morrison Elkins Admits Liquor Possession
Morrison Elkins of Vinton pleaded guilty before Mayor A J Stormont in Gallipolis after surrendering to authorities. He admitted possessing 15 gallons of liquor seized in a raid on his farm, with a gun also taken. he was owed 200 and opete when charged.
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Gallipolis
Morrison Elkins
Vinton
Opete
A. J. Stormont
Euill
Elkins
Mrs Motis Leaves Hospital After Shooting Incident
Mrs Thomas Motis of Mason City, shot and seriously wounded by her husband weeks ago, was removed from Holzer Hospital to her home. Also admitted Thursday were Hollie Wood for a minor operation, William Stoneberry for a minor operation, and Loretta Garnes for an operation in Bidwell.
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Thomas Motis
Gallipolis
Dec
Mason City
Holzer Hospital
Hollie Wood
Patriot
William Stoneberry
Middleport
Loretta Garnes
Bidwell
Debtors Agree That Gold Will Be Paid
London reports say Britain will pay $95.15 million in gold to the United States on December 15 and France may follow. British newspapers note the U S reply to postponement requests while Paris seeks parliamentary approval to meet the $20 million due December 15. France appears resigned to payment after British decision.
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London
i.Ai
Great Britain
United States
France
Britain
Paris
U.P
Ramsay MacDonald
Herriot
Exercise Their Right To Return To Prison
Columbus December 9 10 As when a parole from an Ohio penal institution is granted a man leaves with the understanding that if he cannot get a job he may return until times improve. About six months ago five men were granted conditional freedom from the Ohio Penitentiary and left to seek work. All have returned and are serving as trusties.
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Columbus
Ohio Board of Parole
Ohio
Community Club Plans Loyalty Campaign and Meeting Notes
Gallipolis residents discussed a loyalty campaign at the Hotel Lafayette with Gilbert Bush proposing a plan and urging merchant support. The club added 21 new members and planned a membership drive while B W Ward spoke on school financing and a speaker for costs of medical care was authorized. Also noted were local social updates and Brick laying on Pine Street near Second Street.
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Gallipolia
Bec
Hotel Lafayette
Gilbert Bush
Wroke County
B. W. Bawards
Echoo
Dr. C. By Holzer
Gallipolis
Iate
Pine Street
Tts
Stat
Second Street
Crown adaptation helps snails and mussels crack shells
Crown species drop snails or mussels on rocks to crack shells and access meat, a behavior observed in their feeding method as they shore up nutrition.
Stranger Burglary Strikes Bons Clothing Store
In Gallipolis on December 9 a stranger purchased a small item at Bons Clothing, paid with a $10 bill, and escaped with the bill and the change after Da Thomas left the money at the window to answer a phone call. The incident occurred shortly before 4:90 o clock.
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Stranger Tokes
Anna Gallipolis
Harry Franks
Bons
da Thomas
Thomas
Thames
Nat
One Excursion Boat Left on Ohio After Island Maid Fire
The Island Maid was destroyed by fire Wednesday afternoon near Medison Indiana Marine Ways, leaving only one excursion steamer on the Ohio River. The Fred Hall towboat also affected. four other large steamers including Greater Pittsburgh America Hostona Indiana and City of Memphis were wrecked or sunk. The Maid was the fifth steamer burned on the Ohio in three years.
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Gallipolis
Ohio River
Island Maid
Medison
Ind
Fred Hall
Maid
Ob River
Greater Pittsburgh
Homer Smith
America
Indiana
City
Memphis
Verne Swaine
Julia Bel Swain
Inland Maid and ferry capacity noted in local poll records
fragments indicate a sterneneel beamer named Inland Maid with a carrying capacity of 28M, built by the Corey Mand Eacursen Company. The text mentions Pomeroy and Middleport polls and a maritime vessel context, but details are incomplete.
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Corey iMand
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