Marriage Licenses Issued In Gallia County January
Gallia County records show Prospective Judge John W. Howell issued thirty five marriage licenses during January. The Athens Messenger notes licenses granted last week include Calvin Stewart with Gertrude George and Richard Davisson with Hope Wiseman among others. In Gallipolis, Common Pleas Court records list seventeen divorce filings during January.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
Prostate
John W. Howell
Common Pleas Court
Calvin Stewart
Gertrude George
Richard Davisson
Hope Wiseman
Lawrence Miller
Juanita Carey
Neal Downey
Emma Donaldson
Samuel Brown
Bettie France
Walter Woods
Dorothy Brown
Alvin Russell
Burwena George
Bidwell
Victory Clothing Drive Closes After Strong Overseas Aid
Gallipolis reports a successful Victory Clothing Drive by the American Legion Auxiliary Unit to Lafayette Post No 27. Miss TIllie Denney announced the headquarters at City Hall were swamped with warm clothing for refugees in war torn Europe. Rio Grande sent in a private truckload of garments after coordinating with Denney toward the county collection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
American Legion Auxiliary
Lafayette Post No. 27
Europe
Rio Grande
Holzer Hospital on Approved List for 20th Straight Year
GALLIPOLIS The Holzer Hospital has earned full approval from the American College of Surgeons for the twentieth consecutive year. Dr. Malcolm T. MacEachern, associate director of the college, announced the list covering 25 bed capacity facilities that meet minimum standards. No other Southeastern Ohio hospital is listed. nearest are Portsmouth Mercy Hospital and General Hospital, both provisionally approved. Provisional status means they are working to meet all requirements but have not yet done so in every detail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
Holzer Hospital
American College of Surgeons
Malcolm T. MacEachern
Doctor MacEachern
United States
Canada
Ohio
Portsmouth Mercy Hospital
General Hospital
Gallia Veterans Office Sees January Case Spike
Gallipolis reports 224 cases handled in January the first month the veterans' service office operated full time. Kenneth Worman, the service officer, notes higher activity since opening late last year after November and December totals of seven and 84 respectively while the office was partially closed for a course at Ohio State University.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
Kenneth Worman
Veterans’ Service
Worman
Ohio State University
Mrs Virgil Martin Seeks Visit in Asheville and Miami
Mrs Virgil Martin left Thursday for Asheville North Carolina to visit her brother before continuing to Miami Florida to be a guest of relatives. She had worked in the local ration board office until staff cuts and relocation to the Knights of Pythias Building last month.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
Virgil Martin
Asheville
N. Co
Miami
Fla
Evans and Jones Announce Engagement in Rio Grande
James Robert Evans of Rio Grande U S Navy and Dorothy Jones of Rio Grande announce their engagement. Evans, son of Mr and Mrs Wendell Evans, is recovering from a pelvic injury at the U S Naval Hospital in Brooklyn. Jones, a Holzer Hospital School of Nursing graduate, recently returned from a visit in New York. No wedding date set.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Robert Evans
Mmac
U. S. Navy
Rio Grande
Dorothy Jones
Bob Evans
Wendell Evans
U.S. Naval Hospital
Flushing St
Brooklyn
N. C
Holzer Hospital School of Nursing
New York
Gallipolis State Patrol Post Reopens with Radio Cars
GALLIPOLIS The local State Highway Patrol post reopened Friday at 338 Second Avenue after a December 1 1943 closure. Two patrol cars with two way radios will operate from the Gallipolis office, with broadcasts sent to Athens Headquarters. Field Sergeant J M Kratzer overseeing Cambridge Marietta and Athens posts announced the reestablishment Saturday. Residents are directed to call Gallipolis Post 350 for complaints or accident reports as of reopening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
State Highway Patrol
Second Avenue
J. M. Kratzer
Cambridge
Marietta
Athens
Kratzer
Gallia County
Tuppers Plains bride Betty Prince weds Paul Childer
At a quiet Chester ceremony on Jan 19 Betty M Prince married Paul Childer of Reedsville in a double ring rite by Rev E L Miller. The couple will live in Tuppers Plains with Betty in business with her father Nelson Torrence and Paul employed in Parkersburg. Nearby visitors and relatives attended celebratory events and a 4 PM wedding supper for Roscoe Fife and Betty Werner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tuppers Plains
Chester
Betty M. Prince
Paul Childer
Reedsville
E. L. Miller
Chris Davis
William Childer
Nelson Torrence
Parkersburg
Vietta Springer
Mabel Gaul
Guysville
Chauncey Werner
Middleport
Roy
Ina Masser
Rooscoe Fife
Betty Werner
U. S. Marine Corps
John Lambert
Dorothy
Matlack) Lambert
Tillie Reed
Leo Cole
East Liverpool
Billy
Leonard
Charles Lambert
Helen Grown
Plum
Success Church of Christ
Lucy Kim
Joe
Charles
Hermon Kim
Veterans Hospital
Chillicothe
D. of A
Pleasant Valley Social Notes Highlight Local Visits
Mr and Mrs Frank Pugh spent Sunday with their daughter and son in law Mr and Mrs Maynard Coates of Chase. Mrs Sade Brooks and Miss Joyce Tyler visited Kate Wood. J W Bolin called at the Wood home. Palma Moler Athens visited Mr and Mrs Arthur Goodin. James Wood spent weekend in Columbus visiting friends. Dr T H Morgan Betty Gilham Jessie Crow Athens Mrs Margaret Morrissy of New York spent Thursday evening with Pearl Wood.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pleasant Valley
Frank Pugh
Maynard Coates
Chase
Sade Brooks
Joyce Tyler
Kate Wood
J. W. Bolin
Wood
Palma Moler
Athens
Arthur Goodin
James Wood
Columbus
T. H. Morgan
Betty Gilham
Jessie Crow
Margaret Morrissy
New York
Pearl Wood
New Haven WW II memorial fund target set in New Haven West Virginia
A memorial fund in New Haven West Virginia aims to raise 1300 dollars for World War II servicemen with many donations already received and a 1500 dollar goal expected by February 28. Mail donations to War Memorial Fund New Haven WV and acknowledgments will be published. This note lists a partial roster of World War I contributors from New Haven including Ray Fox H Johnson Rev Harry Miller Emory Roush and many more.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Haven
War Memorial Fund
W. Va
Ray Fox
H. Johnson
Harry Miller
D. C. Grimm
Do McFarland
Ferris Morgan
P. Zirkle
Emory Roush
Dons “Liller
John Miller
Ivan Rousay Roush
J. Richards
Letair “Weaver
Elmer Grimm
Anna “. Lough
Ronald Grimm
Henry Capehart
Ray Weaver
Ira Fields
George Elliott
Clyde Roush
Mont Blake
7. M. Ohlinger
C. M. Brown
L. E. Roush
C. B. Roush
Peck Zerkle
John Sayre
Agnes Capehart
Florence Ord
S. Richard
Howard Burris
Junior Gibbs
Everett Roush
John Roush
Helping Hand Club
Grant Q. Roush
Gladus Lewis
Johnny Roweh
Okey Layne
Noah Weaver
Florence Workman
Charlie Yonker
Dexter News Recap Highlights Local Visits and Changes
Dexter notes a flurry of Sunday visits among Nelson Turner and Lamp families, plus Tuesday calls by Mrs Lamp and family. The Sam Francis farm sale signals neighborhood change as couple Francis plan to move. A marriage license roundup lists Arthur Smith and Julia Boston and Melvin Duncan and Beulah Knapp. Sheriff Hatfield reports a quiet weekend with a single intoxication arrest in Gallipolis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lele Chapman Aart
Ralph
Ronald
Tom Turner
Thos. Anderson
C. A. Lamp
Kait Hill
Thos. Anderson and Son
Almos Rawling
Point Pleasant
Arthur Smith
Julia Jane Boston
New Havent
Melvin M. Duncan
Beulah Eileen Knapp
Mason City
Kerr family to establish home in Columbus
Mr. and Mrs. Curtis M. Kerr and daughter Miss Carrie left last week to live in Columbus at 223 Richardson Ave. Their daughter Miss Hazel Kerr already works in Columbus. The Kerrs’ son Raymond, on furlough after re enlisting in the U S Army, left for Camp Atterbury, Ind, prior to their departure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
Curtis M. Kerr
Carrie
Columbus
Richardson Ave
Hazel Kerr
Wilkesville Social Notes
Wilkesville social items report deaths, arrivals, and local visits. Verm Mul holland, long noted resident, dies with funeral and burial. Cary Strausbaugh returns from Europe and is discharged. A child, Geraldine Osler, injured by a bus, to Holzer Hospital. Overseas peacetime arrivals, family ties, and Legion growth noted. Roger Sheline killed in Illinois auto crash. Columbus family former locals. Harrisonville, Wellston, and Athens connections featured alongside furloughs and promotions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilkesville
Vern Mulholland
C. V. Mulholland
Pomeroy
Cary Straushaugh
Lawrence Strausbaugh
Fred Sayre
Cary
Europe
Geraldine Osler
Frank Osler
Strom Holzer Hospital
Veila Wiseman
Carl
Oliver Henry
Dafe Wiseman
Oliver
Davion
Ralph Strausbaugh
Dayton
Ida Phetteplace
Vern Strausbaugh
Cpl
Roger Sheline
Lebanon
Cpl Sheline
Carl Sheline
Columbus
Sheline
Bernice Crabtree
Chillicothe
John Shilling
Raymond Jones
Wellstan
Frank Woods
Blair Wricht
Athens
Mulholland
Louie Yowell
Wayne Ogdin
American Legion Post
Point Pleasant Homes Rapidly Occupied In Past Week
Nineteen homes in Point Pleasant were newly occupied by tenants or owners over the past week, listing names and addresses on Burdette Addition Park Drive Kanawha Street and Liberty Street. Mrs Clyde W Tallman was elected delegate to the National Congress of the DAR in Atlantic City with alternates Garnette Tillis Nelson Park and others. A book review by Rev Monroe Bush Jr of Screw Tape Letters was presented at The Mansion House meeting followed by dessert with a long list of attendees and decorations of red scarlet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Point Pleasant
Robert G. Frye
Burdette
Harold Anderson
Robert L. Mize
Hugh M. Byers
R. R. Shurtz
Burdete
D. W. Montgomery
Park Drive
Edward Sikora
H. W. Smith
Liberty St
Carl E. Dilcher
Harold D. Sparling
J. H. Smeltzer
Steve J. Sirkas
Richard C. Lindermuth
Donald Getty
Thomas L. Howard
Charles G. Spencer
Emroy Monroe, Jr
James C. Rea
Kanawha St
A. F. Schultz
Burdette Addition
Monroe Bush, Jr
First Presbyterian Church
Bush
C. A. Lewis
C. O. Parsons
Cary Howard ‘Rayburn
John J. Dower
J. H. Hutchinson
L. C. Somerville
Milton L. Miller
James E. McComb
E. E. Buffington
William Meade
A. Keith McClung
Mary McCulloch
Anna Enders
A. B. Ginden
St. Louis
Paul Robert[son
Washington, D. C
Thirteenth Child Born to Mason Couple at Point Pleasant
Anita Jane Keener was born Saturday at the Point Clinic to Mr and Mrs George D Keener SiL Viand Sr in Point Pleasant. She is the couple's thirteenth child with twelve living, including two sons and ten daughters. One son has recently been discharged from military service.
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Point Pleasant
Anita Jane
George D. Keener
Sil Viand Sr
Point Clinic
Mason Mullins Sentenced for Property Destruction
Roy Mullins of Charleston Road pleaded guilty to destruction of property not his own and was sentenced to 40 days in the county jail. Vic Turner, a used car dealer, said Mullins broke a window at a First Ward house during arraignment before a local magistrate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Point Pleasant
Roy Mullins
Charleston Road
Vic Turner
Mullins
First Ward
McDermitts Take New Home at Haynes Property Near Camp Conley
Mr and Mrs Clyde McDermitt have moved into the Haynes property in the ordnance works reservation near Camp Conley. The five room brick house sits at the rear of the former training ground and includes about four acres of land with various fruit trees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Point Pleasant
Clyde McDermitt
Haynes
Ordnance Works
Camp Conley
Crown City News Notes loses store and changes hands
Crown City notes Mr and Mrs L A Stevers sold their grocery and general store to Mr and Mrs Rolland Rose after 14 years in Crown City. Stevers will keep the Patriot mail route from Gallipolis. Mrs Stevers plans unclear. Also, filling station at present run by Leonard Halston sold to John M Williams. Norma Jean Halston ill eye infection. Simms resigns as transfer of school building. L V Caldwell fills the post. Planning Club in Point Pleasant: Mason County Post American Legion weighs operating a club in its Viand Street building.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Crown City
L. A. Stevers
Rolland Rose
Stevers
Huntington
John Sievers
Patriot
Gallipolis
Leonard Halston
John M. Williams
J. W. Coleman
Chesapeake
Willams
Norma Jean Halston
Leonard Ralston
Worris Simms
L. V. Caldwell
Jennie Click Roush Dies in Ocean Drive North Carolina
Mrs Jennie Click Roush widow of Erwin Roush died at 1 20 pm Sunday at her Ocean Drive North Carolina home. She left Mason County for Ocean Drive about a month ago after suffering a hip fracture that contributed to her death. The body will arrive Monday and be taken to Arnett Mortuary. A son Clyde Roush accompanied the remains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Point Pleasant
Jennie Click Roush
Ocean Drive
N. C
Erwin Roush
Mason County
Arnett Mortuary
Clyde Roush
Hugh Curry to Work At Charleston
Hugh Curry member of the Mason County board of education will work for the Charleston Clearing House Association to screen veterans in need of loans for Charleston banks. He will spend five days a week in Charleston with an office in the courthouse annex and plans to commute daily from Point Pleasant for a time while remaining resident there.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Point Pleasant
Hugh Curry
Masons County Board of Education
Charleston Clearing House Association
Inseeview
Charleston
iHe
Courthouse
Long Term Probationer Surrenders For Non Support
POINT PLEASANT Hershel Jeffers of Glenwood surrendered Saturday by his surety Jeff Porter and began a year sentence for non support. Porter had posted a cash bond after Jeffers conviction in a magistrate court months earlier. RELEASE RABBITS POINT PLEASANT Ed Huffman Mason County game warden distributed 132 cottontail rabbits last week across ten magisterial districts for breeding. Rabbits were raised at Syracuse Mo.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Point Pleasant
Hershel Jeffers
Glenwood
Jeff Porter
Porter
Jeffers
Ed Huffman
Mason County
Syracuse
Irvin Dees of Clendenin District Dies En Route
J E Irvin of Clendenin district died Friday while being transported to Huntington Hospital. He was 61 years old.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
KE. Irvin
Dees
Point Pleasant
J. E. Irvin
Clendenin District
Huntington Hospital
Smith Returns To Post at River Bridge
Smith, from Leon, resumes duties as collector on Silver Bridge after 39 months in the Army. He served with Patton's Third Army as a staff sergeant in combat engineers. His unit advanced through Germany into Czechoslovakia then France, shaping his view of Americans and his dislikes of French people and Communists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Point Pleasant
Charles Smith
Leon
Silver Bridge
England
Europe
Patton
Third Arms
Combat Engineers
Germany
Czechoslovakia
France
Smith
City Fire Plug Struck by Unknown Motorist
A car or truck hit a fire plug at 22nd Street and Jefferson Boulevard around 1:35 Sunday. Water was cut off, a new plug installed by Frank Biffle and crew. A plug at 7th and Main was damaged recently by a state road truck. Police seek the striking vehicle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Point Pleasant
22Nd St
Jefferson Blvd
Frank Biffle
City Water Works
7Th and Main
Hoyt Jiiden
Fire Damages Private Garage of Edward Clark
A private garage belonging to Edward Clark of New Haven was badly damaged by fire at 3 30 Friday afternoon. Clark, a welder, kept valuable tools inside. Loss estimated at $1000 or more.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Point Pleasant
Edward Clark
New Haven
Clarke
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National Brands Sales Corp
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Kingston
N.Y
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Rhinecliff
Hyde Park Township
Rhinebie le
Rhinebeck Township
East Park
Roosevelt Home
UNO l
Clinton Township
Nils
Netherwood
York
Tles
Milan Township
Clinton Hollow
Salt Point
Ialant Valley Township
Miles
Hyde Park
N. Y
United Nations
Staatsburg
Dexter
Elmer E. Hatfield
Wilkesville Social Notes
DAR
Mason
Occupy
Crown City News
Foint Pleasant
Mason County Post
American Legion
Viand St
South
Billy Rose
Carmen Jones
the Hartman
Robert F. Boda
Aartman Theatre
River Bridge
Ete
Si Garland
Walker
Keenan Wynn
Slade Thompson
Sinatra Murphy Menjou
Dchaven
Slezak
Step Lively
Robt. Montgomery
John Waynes
Universal Presents
Merle Oberon
Claude Rains
Charles Korvin
Garl Esmond
Sue England
Jess Barker
Ralph Morgan
Fritz Leiber
Harry Davenport
William Dieterle de Leet
Columbia Pictures
Gorge Kat
Stapedlay
Scrrenglay Oy
Louis Solomon
Harded
Buchman
Robert Benchley
Vera Vague
Conrad Janis Ada Nanette Parks
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Simmay Lloyd Erd
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