Few Farmers Opposed To New Project
Gallia County letter reports unity on soil conservation district move and notes eight farmers opposed. Dr John F Gunningham confirms approval and urges action. Also features history of Captain Mary Greene and Ohio River passenger service, plus news of Sgt Clell B. Riffle returning from war as Pvt Heber Riff injured in France.
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Gallipolis
Gaia County
Everett G. Roger
John F. Gunningham
College of Agriculture
Ohio State University
Ohio Soi Conservation Committee
Gallia
State Committee
Gal- Dr
Cunningham
Ipottans
Trav
Roger
Ohio
Mississippi
Gorvon- Greene
Frederick Way
Pittsburgh
Mary
B. Greene
Gordon C. Greene
Ohio River
Mary Greene
Condon C. Greene
Gallia Rural Schools Resumed After Blizzard Closure
Gallia Rural School System and county rural schools closed last week due to blizzard conditions and reopened Monday morning. County Superintendent B. Lewis says Christmas holiday begins with Friday closing and runs until January 2 in most rural districts. Gallipolis City Schools also observe the same period.
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Wuabulrusis
Aun County
B. Lewis
Gallipolis
James Louis Robert Receives Purple Heart Posthumously
Betty Blazer of Rio Grande accepts the Purple Heart awarded posthumously to her husband James Louis Robert who died in action in France on August 29 last year.
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Gallipolis
James Louis Robert
Betty Blazer
Rio Grande
France
Russell To Continue as Head of AAA
Gallipolis township delegates to the AAA convention Saturday re elected John R. Russell as county chairman. The unanimous vote also returned all committee members and Anna Gates White as secretary treasurer. Delegates from Addison, Clay, Green, Harrison, Ohio, Morgan, Perry, Huntington and others supported Russell who will begin his third term January 1, 1949.
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Gallipolis
John R. Russell
Gallin County
Cheshire
J. M. Conkle
P. Roush
Addison
C. Houck Clay
Bill Johnson
Green
B. L. Starcher
Greenfield
Mason Houck
Harrison
Misa Mary Kennedy
Ohio
Melvin Gilbert
Perry
Charles A. Logue
Morgan
F. Jacobs
Huntington
Thomas J. Guyan
Russell
Gallipolis Social Notes Christmas party and visits
Gallipolis social items describe Mrs. Anna Gates White opening a new home on upper Second Avenue and the Advisory Council Christmas party with Santa Claus, gifts, and a program led by George Northup and Everett G. Royer. Also notes visiting relatives, students and servicemen home for Christmas, and local family happenings amid wartime travel and leave announcements.
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Anna Gates White
Second Avenue
Santa Slaus
John ‘R. Russell
George Northup
Everett G.royer
Ohio General Assembly
Russell
Avonelle
Roma
Santa
Stanley Wood
Hay- Gen Wood
Finley Richards
George
Everett G. Royer
John Russell
Avanelle
James Richards
C. E. White
Point Pleasant Social Notes Christmas Party and Club Gatherings
Women of Marietta Manufacturing held a Christmas party at the Moose Club with turkey dinner, games, and dancing by the Kline Orchestra. Alice Marie Frye hosted a bridge club at 311 Seventh Street, with Florence Krodel visiting from Stevens College. Seaman Toral Morrison Jr plans Christmas with family, while several locals attend events and visits in Huntington and Columbus.
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Point Pleasant
Marietta Manufacturing Co
Moose
Kline Orchestra
Middleport
Alice Marie Frye
Cashy
Seventh Strand
Florence Krodel
B. Walter Krodel
Stevens College
Columbia
Robert Foster
Gallipolis
Raymond Spear
Richard Peek
Joan sJew
William Gygax
Har- Lewis
Frye
Fewell
Miss Lewis
Grand and Petit Jurors Drawn for January Term at Mason
Mason county officials announced the January 1945 circuit court term will convene January 2. Grand jurors named include Alex McCaus land Arbuckle District and John D Canterbury. petit jurors list to be reviewed for accuracy. In unrelated Q and A, Jack Shipman of the state conservation department said bounty payments for furs will resume February 1 and run through May 15 unless a $20,000 annual appropriation is exhausted. Five dollars will be paid for wildcats killed through January 31. fox bounties are eight dollars.
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Point Pleasant
George A. Rairden
5. C. Winger
Alex McCausland
Arbuckle
John. D. Canterbury
B. C. Blain
Cley Lenin
Daniel Weigand
Cooper
Guy Burdette
Cologne
W. Fry
Harry L. Dyer
Graham
Martin Jordan
Charles Conrad
Hannan
M. L. Duff
W. D. Steele
G. B. Woodard
Lewis
George Rifle
Robinson
Everett. Sayre
Union
Christie Bletner
Homer Johnson
Wagoner
Jack Shipman
State Department of Conservation
Local arrests for intoxication and fines issued
Nat district man skodtman Forbus was arrested for intoxication by Night Officer Morrison and Patrolman Yeager and faces arraignment in police court. Trooper H D Coyner arrested three men for intoxication including La Hy Black of Huntington, a war industry worker, and William Van Sickle and A G Rasburn local men, fined $5 and costs at arraignment before a local magistrate.
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Skodtman Forbus
Nat
Eekenvl
Morrison
Yeager
H.D. Coyner
Hy Black
Huntington
William van Sickle
A. G. Rasburn
West Virginians report wounded in action in several war theaters
Among M1 West Virginians reported wounded in action in state papers at the weekend was Pfe. Jim Shell, Mrs. Catherine E. Shell wife of West Columbia. Marry Purdum Army Air Corps on leave from his base at Great Neck Long Island and son in law Li Curtis Rodgers Army Air Corps from Courtland AI. Lt. Purduim returned to his base Sunday, while Lt. Rogers who came to attend last rites for his uncle Lew C. Dashner will remain until Wednesday Miss Audrey Blessing employed at the General Chemical Defense Corp is on vacation this week. Miss Lenore i den student at Rowling Green Ky College is spending the holidays with her parents Mr. and Mrs. Hoyt Jivi-
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Gallipolis
Stella Mohr
Memphis
Tenn
Donald
Sand
St. Louis
Janet Booth Robinson
Edward Robinson
Columbus
States
England
Robinson
Germany
Clair Jones
Homer Matthews
FD. Keeler
Julia
Conklin
Island View Inn
Indy
Clyde Ingels, Jr
Chillicothe
Eugene Plymare
Wyoming
California
Stanley Plymale
Huntington
Seaman Plymale
Navy
Southern Pacific
Charles Clendenin
U.S. Navy
San Francisco
Clendenin
Grover. Smith
Clyde Saunders
Tampa
Fla
Smith
Drew Field
Evelyn Saunders
OLE
State Institution
Robert C. Wetherholt
Abereen
Ohio
Bertha Dailey
Athens
East
Liverpool
George Race
Wetherholt
Officers Candidate Training School
Aberdeen
East Liverpool
Point Pleasant
West
Purdum
Army Air Corps
Great Neck
Long Island
Li Curtis Rodgers
Courtland
Aia
Purduim
Rogers
Lew C. Dashner
Audrey Blessing
General Chemical Defense Corp
Lenore Iiden
Rowling ‘Green
PLEASANT-Pans To Reopen Schools In Mason County
Snowfall from last Monday night melted slowly with deep drifts on many secondary roads. Mason County schools slated to reopen Tuesday after being abandoned Monday. Very few farmers visited town Saturday, mainly those on cleared primary roads.
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Point
Courthouse Lighting to Be Improved in Pleasants
Lighting improvements underway at Pleasants courthouse as contractor Harry Cameron of Gallipoli handles installation. The work aims to be completed by year end, reflecting efforts to modernize public buildings.
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Harry Cameron
Gallipoli
Bens
Farm Bureau directors to be elected at county meeting
County Agent Anderson said the postponed meeting to choose Farm Bureau directors would be held Saturday at Trinity Methodist Church. Indications suggested attendance suffered Friday night due to a local event, delaying the countywide gathering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Point Pleasant
Anderson
Tarmern
Farm Bureau
Trinity Methodist Church
Carol Service At Grace Methodist In Gallipolis
A Christmas carol service was held at Grace Methodist Church with four choirs participating. The program featured songs and poetry by the Grace Choir the Cadet Nurses Choir the Intermediate junior choir and soloists including Harriet Davis Betty Suiter Katie Brumfield Barbara Cardwell and Jennie Mae Suiter. Rev W Scott Westerman presided as rector of the choir which has more than 100 members. Separately the article notes that factory employment fell by about 1 5 million while armed forces grew by 1 75 million in the year to December 1 according to Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins.
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Gallipolis
Grace Methodist Church
Grace Choir
Marriet Davis
Betty Suiter
Katie Brumfield
Barbara Cardwell
Jennie Mae Suiter
W. Scott Westerman
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Catherine Hayward
Gallia County
American Red Cross
Joe Luskart Bidwell
L. E. Childers
Sgt Clell_B. Riffle
Romania
Howard Riffle
United States
Pvt
Heber Riff
Resum
Capt. Greene
America
W. E. Woodward
AAA
Gary Teresa Cooper Wright
Casanova Brown
Susanna Foster
Turhan Bey
Boris Karloff
Anceh Gale Sondergaard Jane Vincent Thomas Gomez
Jane Farrar Ludwig Stossel
MIT
Marjorie Woodwork
Tom Brown
Zasu Pitts
Slim Summerville
Gallipolis Social Notes
Ellen Westerman
Chicago
Grace Methodist Parsonage
Westerman
Northwestern Unisity
Scotty
San Diego
Calif
Robert Keller
Alfred Mayes
Jimmy Hatkins
Jerry
Carroll ‘Thoms Null
Beatrice Wickline
Nancy Hamilton
Bobbie Gillespie
Jack Brown
Paul and
Eugene Reese
Phil Campbell
Bruce and Lee Atkinson
Richard Blazer
Caroline Knight
Carl Millard Smith
Ronnie Harrington
Harold Carson
Kay Darnell
Hannah Marie Craft
Larry Noel
Lawson
Janet Lee
Seaman Toral Morrison, Jr
Toral Morrison
Linc ‘Oln Ave
George Sprenger
Outh Lewis
Hunterton
Dewey A. Windsor
F. W. Ingraham
Cleveland
Marietta Manufacturing
C.K. Hoge
Mary Patterson
Donald Coe
Donald, Jr
Larchmont
W. B. Hoge
Nancy Sue
Ta J
Phyllis Ingraham
Pennsylvania College For Women
Sweekvend
Ingraname
Robert Liter
Greensboro
N.C
Be Liter
Main Stan
Kenny
Ingentam
Port of
Key Road Este
Starie Purdum
Main Sts
Laurel & Hardy
George O'Brien
Ahern H i
Ann Rutherford
Diana Lewis
Red
Grey Fox Boy
Washin
Frances Perkins
Illiamson
Williamson
1945
Union BU
Red Cross
Nens
Greyhound
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