Gallia County Red Cross Chapter Names Officers
Gallia County Red Cross in Gallipolis elected Rev William Wood Duff as chairman of the Gallia County chapter for 935 dollars. Rev George Sagan was succeeded. Mrs C C Richard kept her role as executive secretary with 75 dollars monthly. Officers include Rev W T Packer vice chairman Mrs John Lutz home service secretary and Miss Margaret Shuler treasurer. Membership stood at 51 with fees totaling 785.43 dollars.
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Gallipolis
William Wood Duff
Gallia County
Red Cross
George Sagan
C. C. Richard
W. T. Packer
Rio Grande
John Lutz
Home Service
Margaret Shuler
Liberty Packet Schedules Holiday Run From Gallipolis
The Liberty steam packet, two days late, passed up the Kanawha River from Pittsburgh Friday and returns Saturday to lay over until Sunday morning. It will load a capacity cargo of poultry and produce for Pittsburgh, arriving Wednesday. Captain Fred Hornbrook spent a few days at home with Mrs. Hornbrook and their son-in-law Tom L. Bush and daughter.
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Liberty
Gallipolis
Kanawha
Pittsburgh
Senates
Cincinnati
Fred Hornbrook
The
Hornbrook
Tom L. Bush
Stolen Sedan Recovered After Friday Morning Find
A sedan taken from James Neal a high school student Thursday night near Gallipolis was recovered Friday morning in Portsmouth. A roadster found near the holdup scene belongs to Hudson Jeffers of Ironton, and a West Virginia licensed coupe owned by William Rees of Charleston WV was reported seen in front of Gus Frye’s on Third Avenue Friday night.
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Eal
Portsmouth
Gallipolis
James Neal
Neal
Hudson Jeffers
Ironton
William Rees
Charleston
W. Va
West Virginia
Gus Frye
Dco
Third Avenue
Death and Diphtheria Case in Gallia County
Gallipolis reports one death and a second diphtheria case in Gallia County. The death occurred Thursday night near Harrisburg. A diphtheria case was quarantined earlier in the week in the lower county. No other contagious diseases are prevalent, says health commissioner Dr. Frances W. Shane.
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Shane
Gallipolis
Gallia County
Frances W. Shane
Harrisburg
Dotor Shane
Gallia County Home Ec Club Holds December Meeting
Gallia County home economics teachers met at Island View Inn in Gallipolis for their monthly session. President Mise Mrie Vollmar of Rio Grande led discussions on practical gifts by school children and demonstrations, with plans for the next meeting set for January 33.
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Gallia County
Island View
Gallipolis
Island View Inn
Rio Grande
How Farmers Use State Service on NBC Farm Hour
The land grant College radio program on December 21 features Mrs Mary Harrington of Rhode Island and M B Mosher of Illinois outlining farm use of state college and USDA services. Other days cover food law enforcement updates and farm administration topics with noted speakers from the Bureau of Chemistry and Soils, Home Economics, Plant Industry, and Farm Board.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Rhode Island
Illinois
Land Grant College
Nbcwjz
Walter G. Campbell
H. G Knight
Bureau of Chemistry and Soils
Food and Drug Law Enforcement
Food and Drug Administration
Ruth van Deman
Bureau of Home Economics
W. R B. Beattie
Bureau of Plant Industry
H. M. Dixon
Office of Extension Work
Mary Harrington
M. B. Mosher
University of Timois
Sand Dredging Fleet to Undergo Repairs at Gallipolis
In Gallipolis on December 17 Captain Moses Eppling directs the sand dredging fleet to enter ice harbor for winter. The fleet includes several barges two dredges two gasoline towboats and several scows quartered below the three government ice piers at State Street. Eppling will repair the towboat Ruth partially destroyed by fire.
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Gallipolis
Moses Epping
State Street
Eppling
Ruth
Barberton Firm Wins Boiler and Stoker Contract
Gallia County reports awarding a Gallipolis hospital boiler and stoker bid to the Barberton firm Babcock & Wilcox Company at fourteen thousand nine hundred ninety five dollars. Judgments in three Gallia County Common Pleas cases include W. A. Lee vs Homer Baker for 116 dollars, Commercial & Savings Bank vs M. D. Burnett for 614 dollars, and G. Frownfelter vs Homer Baker for 100 dollars, all with eight percent interest.
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Ipolis
Ohio
London
Gallipolis
Columbus
Jones
Tate Welfare
Babcock & Wilson Company
Barberton
Gallia County
Anne Adams Pattern Catalog Promotes Dresses and Embroidery
The Anne Adams Pattern Catalog offers 32 pages of models with embroidery and accessory ideas. Pattern 2351 comes in sizes 36 to 48 with specific fabric requirements. Catalog and pattern together cost 25 cents, catalog alone 15 cents. Send 15 cents for pattern and specify size and address to The Athens Messenger Pattern Department, 43 Worth Street New York.
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Anne Adams
Athens Messenger Pattern Department
Worth Street
New York City
Carrying Mail in 80 s Was Real Job
Veteran recalls mail carrying in the 1870s with G W Dupler of New Lexington recounting a 73 mile round trip by horseback and open buggy. He describes winter mud, deep freezes, and storm conditions as much of the challenge, along with the social duties tying him to families and doctors. Railroads ended the one man route, a job he valued as history.
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G. W. Dupler
New Lexington
Roy L. Dupler
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Messenger
Parcel Post
Mal
Benjamin Sanders
Millertown
W. 3. Potter
Hartleyville
George Carson Waa
Trimble
George Russell
Millfield
Dudley D. Puller
Chauncey
George Smith
J. F. McMann
Hemlock
Five Vets Poisoned Alcohol Lands Quieter In Moapital
Five World War veterans at the Ohio Soldiers and Sailors Home Hospital in Sandusky today recover from suspected alcohol poisoning. A Negro suspect was jailed in Erie County on prohibition charges as one quintet member became temporarily insane and possibly may be committed to an asylum.
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Sandusky
Ohio Soldiers and Safflets
Hos
Pital
Eri
Wiliam Weber
Soldiers Home Guard
Moody Arrest Highlights Bootlegger Complaint in Houston
Walter Moody was arrested in Houston on a misdemeanor charge after PF Stone alleged he paid for eight quarts of whisky and received only three bottles of soda water. The case stems from Stone's complaint describing the alleged trade.
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Houston
Tex
Walter Moody
Pfa Stone
Moody
Meachem Family Twins Featured in Milford Birth
In Milford Connecticut Mrs Clyde Meachem gave birth to twins, continuing a family twin line. The newborn’s mother is a twin, as are the baby’s grandparents and great grandmother, and the husband’s mother is also noted as a twin.
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Milford
Conn
Dee
Meachem
Clyde Meachem
Paroled man crooks in Cincinnati burglary case
A parolee from Illinois State Penitentiary identified as Cheater Frey of Milwaukee confessed to stealing $100 worth of jewelry and other articles from a Cincinnati home. The incident occurred December 17 with Frey reportedly released just nine days prior.
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Cincinnati
Diinois
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