Legion's City Building Lease Argued at Commission Meeting
At the Gallipolis city commission meeting trustees of the American Legion pressed for a potential buyout of the 7 68 year lease on the second floor of the city building. The council split 2 to 1 on a municipal building reconstruction bid while shelving air conditioning plumbing and wiring add ons. A pigeon nuisance complaint from Second Ave merchants was referred to health officials for action.
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Legion’s
Commission
Gallipolis
American Legion
City Commission
Seven
Legion Corporation
The
Warren F Sheets
Austin O Cotton
Perry J. Bailes
Jussell Sarrett
Howard I. Neal
Legionnaire
Legion
Thomas F Agee
Sarrett
Raymond Barr
Barr
Second Ave
Paul Jarvis
Austin Cot
Ex Slave Agnes Stratton Dies in Gallia County Fire
The 79 year old Agnes Stratton was found dead in her burning home two miles northeast of Vinton. Coroner Dr. J Gordon Gibert ruled the death accidental. Neighbors reported the blaze started before midnight Monday. Graveside services will be held Thursday at Morgan Bethel Cemetery on Vinton Route 1.
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Gallipolis
Agnes Stratton
Vinton
J. Gordon Gibert
Gallia County
Donald R. Warehime
Holzer Hospital
Bert Hamilton
Huntington Township
Samuel and
Charity Gardner Stratton
Miss Stratton
George
Vernon McCoy
Morgan-Bethel Cemetery
Danner Rites To Be Held Thursday
Funeral services for John E. Danner will be at 3 p.m. Thursday at Millers funeral home in Gallipolis. Danner, 85, retired contractor born September 25, 1872, in Raccoon Two, died Tuesday in Ath ens. Burial at Mound Hill Cemetery. Surviving are two sons James and John Harold, two daughters Elise Kimball and Helen Cunningham, five grandchildren, and five great grandchildren. He belonged to Grace Methodist Church and Naomi Lodge 55, Knights of Pythias.
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Gallipolis
Millers
John E. Danner
Athens
William H. Green
Mound Hill
Danner
Raccoon Two
Bartholomew
Margaret Burnett Danner
First National Bank
Standard Oil
Court
Gallia
James Danner
Millfield
John Harold Danner
Dayton
Clair
Elise) Kimball
Charles
Helen) Cunningham
Winterhaven
Fla
The
Grace Methodist Church
Naomi Lodge 55
Knights of Pythias
Gallia Academy Band Boosters plan new uniforms
Gallia Academy Senior and Cadet Band uniform purchases discussed at Band Boosters Club meeting with 25 members present. Mrs. Jack C. Davis and Mrs. Emmett Morrison reported on uniforms and Mrs. James Venz was named chair of a nominating committee for the next election. Plans for the February 13 winter pop concert at Washington School Auditorium were reviewed.
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Gallipolis
Gallia Academy
Band Boosters Club
Jack C. Davis
Emmett Morrison
James Venz
Harold Dailey
Sheldon Parks
Washington School
Max Avner
Kanauga Woman Visits Relatives in Germany
Mrs. Kenneth Davidson of Kanauga sails from Port Columbus to New York and Pan Am to Frankfurt, visiting her German-born parents and relatives for the first time in a decade. She is a naturalized American citizen and reunites with her brother and extended family after ten years abroad.
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Gallipolis
Kenneth Davidson
Kanauga
Germany
Lena Vichmann
Kassell
George Vichmann
Davidson
Port Columbus
TWA
New York
Pan American Airways
Frankfort
Columbus and Southern Ohio Electric Co
Middleport
Johnnie
Patsy
Sandra
Airforce
Albuquerque
N. M
United States
Ohio Bell proposes two cent daily hike in Gallipolis area
The Ohio Bell Telephone Co filed a rate increase plan with the Public Utilities Commission proposing about a two cent per day rise for residence service in Gallipolis. The proposal adds two rate zones outside the base city area and alters line charges, extends rural eight party service, raises business and residence extension rates, reduces long distance within the state, and adds a flat five dollar visit charge for moving and changing lines.
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Gallipolis
Ohio Bell Telephone Co
Public Utilities Commission
River Traffic and Dam Conditions Report
River gauges across Gallipolis Montgomery Kanawha Falls Hinton Point Pleasant show varied depths and rollers with dams on the Ohio River largely down through Dam 35. Ship movements include City of Huntington Gulf Inlander and several other steamers at multiple locks with mixed rising and falling readings throughout the day.
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Gallipolis
Montgomery
Kanawha Falls
Hinton
Pomeroy-Mason
Point Pleasant
Kanawha River
London
Marmet
Winfield
Ohio River
City of
Lock
Alton Zephyr
O-Kan
C. P. Wright
James Bowie
Tradewinds
R. H. Bosworth
Stevenson
Herbert E. Jones
Fred W. Olcott
Cornell
Ben McCool
Kanawha
Semet
Bonnie
ILF
Frieberger
Paul Blazer
Indiana
Helen
Lehigh
Gona
Jefferson
Lucy Jane Lucas
Invader
Walter William
Minnie Holley Dies After Four Year Illness
Mrs. Minnie Holley died Tuesday at 5 50 am at her son Robert Holley’s home 2201 North Main Street Point Pleasant after a four year illness. Born July 2 1880 in Hanging Rock Ohio she lived in Point Pleasant 41 years. Survived by sons Robert and William two sisters Mrs C P Wingfield and Mrs Effie Murray two brothers Creed and Zeb Heston five grandchildren and eight great grandchildren Funeral services Thursday at 10 am Crow funeral home with Rev Alvin C Young officiating burial Pine Hill Cemetery Louisa Kentucky Friends may visit at the funeral home anytime.
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Point Pleasant
Minnie Holley
Robert Holley
N. Main St
Methodist Church
Hanging Rock
Ohio
Thomas Heston
Charles David Holley
Robert
William Ho
Point Pleasant Senior High honors roll lists many names
Principal Benja min Franklin announces the third six week honor rolls at Point Pleasant High. Senior Class A includes Sayre Proffitt Calloway Legg, Henderson, Johnson, Schwarz, White and Wilson. B honors list Bingham Dowell Smith Stalnaker Weighand Atkinson Bowcott Bowman Cole Cooper Copley Jones Kirk Rainey Flora Young Goff Huffman Lewis McGraw Matheny Moore Pullins Powell Reynolds Rhodes Rogers Smith Sommer Spencer Wedge. Junior A includes Sturgeon Burdette Cottrill Crawford Green Little and Nibert. Junior B lists Baker Blessing Boggs Crank Dowell Escoe Fowler Hopson Ingerick Moore Nichols Selby Bkidmore Wamsley Akers Buck Buckett Caudill Dudding Flora Fowler Franklin Herdman Hervey Jefferies Johnson Keefer Kelly Knapp Knapp Knott Lambert Lanier Lynch McDaniel Patterson Minnie Reynolds Stephenson Waugh. Sophomore A includes Dabney Johnson Shinn Spencer Wedge. Sophomore B lists Buck Holland Jackson Knapp Lattanzi Lawson Mann Mayes Newell Noble Poff McCoy Nichols Peck Reynolds Shinn Wallace Warner Adkins Beller Booth Burris Clench Crump Eschenau Eschenaur Fowler Franklin Herdman Mundy Mutzenberger Schwartz Waugh.
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Point Pleasant
Benjamin Franklin
Point Pleasant Senior High School
Carolyn Sue Sayre
Cora Ann Proffitt
Myra Kaye Calloway Legg
Judy Peoples
Jean Hoschar Henderson
Barbara Johnson
Darelen Schwarz
Rebecca White
Judith Wilson
James Bingham
William Dowell
Edwin Smith
Bobby Stalnaker
Lawrence Weighand
Sandra Atkinson
Lorraine Bowcott
Karen Bowman
Mary Esther Cole
Joan Cooper
Judith Rae Copley
Elizabeth Jones
Alison Kirk
Linda Rainey
Virginia Flora
Phyllis Francis Young
Jean Goff
Sally Ann Huffman
Kay Lewis
Virginia McGraw
Mary Matheny
Janet Moore
Barbara Pullins
Jo Ann Powell
Patricia Reynolds
Marcella Rhodes
Carol Rogers
Linda Lou Smith
Anna _ Belle Sommer
Janice Spencer
Lynne Wedge
Walter Sturgeon
Judy Burdette
Patricia Cottrill
Patti Crawford
Retta Sue Green
Kemp Littlepage
Phyllis Ann Nibert
John William Baker
Bobby Blessing
James Boggs
Jackie Crank
Dexter Dowell
Jerry Escoe
Lawrence Fowler
James Donal Hopson
Joe Ingerick
Jerry Moore
Ronnie Nichols
Jack Selby
Eddy Bkidmore
Rusty Wamsley
Georgene Akers
Mary Lee Buck
Betty Jo Burris
Carolyn Cambpell
Eloise Clark
Nancy
Judy Johnson
Charlotte Keefer
Patricia Kelly
Karen Knapp
Sharon Knapp
Patricia Knott
Johnora Lambert
Judith Lanier
Suzanne Lynch
Betty McDaniel
Anna Louise Patterson
Minnie Reynolds
Darlene Stone
Joe Balch
Benny Barker
Edward Lewis Harmon
Paul ‘Higginbotham
Richard Johnson
Jerry Lawson
John Mitchell
Franklin Quillin
Sharon Nibert
Janie Oshell
Susan Townsend
James Anderson
Gary Bland
Paul Brown
Billy Crawford
Richard Esque
John Gardner
Wyatt Wayne Gibeaut
Douglas Hamilton
Charles Holstein
Tommy Kenny
David Lanham
Larry Larue
Jock Lewis
Harry Love
Robert Lowe
Donald Russell McCoy
Jimmie Nichols
Stephen Peck
John Reynolds
Johnny A. Shinn
William Wallace
Nelson Warner
Sue Adkins
Luella Mutzenberger
Sharon Schwartz
Natalie Sue Waugh
Gallia Academy Junior High honors list 4.0 scorers named
Gallia Academy Junior High School announces 68 students on the third six weeks honor roll under Principal Joe Ross. Thirteen seventh graders and nine eighth graders hold a perfect 4.0 average, with named students listed for each grade and the rest of the honorees named by grade.
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Gallipolis
Th Gallia Academy
Joe Ross
Ross
Mary Avalon Betz
Sally Daily
Ruth Ely
Jackie Evans
Anne Ford
Joanne Ford
John Gibert
Mary Halliday
Richard Huber
Ellen Martin
Lynn Mooney
Sally Swanson
Jack Williams
Henrietta Cherrington
Betty Clendenin
Jerrie Cremeens
Shirley Bisnaugie
Rodney Lusk
Gretchen Mossman
Jan Richards
Rebecca Sechrist
Julia Trotter
Holzer Hospital Notes Admissions and Dismissals List
A hospital notes list from Holzer records new births and admissions. Names include Mr and Mrs McNamara Langsville with a daughter and several infants in Gallipolis and Point Pleasant, plus multiple medical and surgical admissions and a long dismissal roster for patients and accompanying relatives.
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Brian McNamara
Langsville
William Hallanbaugh
Vinton
Williamb. Birchfield
Point Pleasant
Calvin E. Robertson
Gallipolis
Medical
Otto J. Murphy
Surgical
J. C. Sharpe
Medi
Robert W. Dunlop
Floyd H. Drummond
Addison
Gaylord Woomer
Paul R. Harless
Chesapeake
Julia Ross
Catlettsburg
Last rites for Mona Sims held in Joliet
Mona Sims 36 a former Mason County resident and riverboat cook died Sunday in Joliet after a short illness. Funeral Thursday call after 3 p m with Rev J P Keefer officiating at Mohr funeral home. Burial Wyoma Church Cemetery. Survivors include her mother Jerusha Messick Orlando Fla and three brothers Gordon Messick Huntington Myron Messick Joliet Ronald Messick Gallipolis Ferry and three sisters Faye Walker Huntington Opal Randolph Orlando Fla Vera Ord Orlando Fla.
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Point Pleasant
Mona Sims
Joliet
Mason County
Mohr
J. P. Keefer
Sims
Jerusha Fisher Messick
Orlando
Fla
James E. Messick
Gordon Messick
Huntington
Myron Messick
Ronald Messick
Gallipolis Ferry
Faye Walker
Opal Randolph
Vera Ord
Wyoma Church
Irwin Rites In Gallia County Widow Iris Freye Irwin
Funeral services for Iris Freye Irwin 62 of Gallipolis Route 2 are set for Thursday at 1 p.m. at Calvary Baptist Church with Rev. Luther Tracy officiating. Burial will follow in Rio Grande Church Cemetery. She died Monday in Holzer Hospital after a second stroke on Jan. 23. Born December 30, 1895 in Letart West Virginia, she was lifelong member of Salem United Brothers Church in Mason County and lived in Gallia County since 1925.
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Gallipolis
Calvary Baptist Church
Luther Tracy
Iris Freye Irwin
Rio Grande
Irwin
Holzer Hospital
Letart
W. Va
Salem
Gallia Native Earl Reed Dies at 76 in Meigs County
Earl C. Reed 76, of Dexter Route 1 Gallia County native, died Tuesday at his home in Salem Township Meigs County. He farmed in Gallia and Meigs Counties and was born April 13, 1881, to Joseph and Dick Boice Reed. Survived by sisters Fannie Cooley Logan and Nellie Sigler Athens. second wife Icie Belle Jarvis wed Nov 10 1957. first wife Leah Rathbrun died 1934. Surviving children include Alta Faulkner, Jean Doble Columbus. Flossie Might Ewington Route 1. Carl Reed Paden City. Emma Mae Dunn Dayton. Funeral arrangements by Vernon McCoy at Vinton announced Wednesday.
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Gallipolis
Earl C. Reed
Dexter Route 1
Gallia County
Salem Township
Meigs County
Gallia
Meigs Counties
Joseph and
Dick Boice Reed
Fannie Cooley
Logan
Nellie Sigler
Athens
Icie Belle Jarvis
Leah Rathbrun
Dexter
Alta Faulkner
Jean Doble
Columbus
Flossie Might
Ewington
Carl Reed
Paden City
Emma Mae Dunn
Dayton
Wellston Eagles
Wilkesville Knights of Pythias
Vernon McCoy
Vinton
Wednesday Services Planned for Mrs Reed
Mrs Will Reed, about 70, died at home in Addison Tuesday evening. Survived by her husband. Miller funeral home handles arrangements, to be announced Wednesday.
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Gallipolis
Will Reed
Addison
Miller Funeral Home
Millions Suffer From Cold On Any Given Day Says Medical Records
About 20 million Americans are recorded as experiencing a cold on any single day according to medical records and health surveys. The figure reflects daily incidence across regions and ages, underscoring the common burden of respiratory infections.
One Wreck Reported in Gallipolis Patrol Summary
One person injured in a two vehicle crash near the dairy barn on GSI grounds. Sharon Thompson 14 treated for scalp and knee lacerations and released. Ernest F. White 28 cited for driving left of center. Robert L. Strait 18 facing Municipal Court on Feb 10. Robert S. Dean 24 fined in Pomeroy for hazardous zone violation.
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Gallipolis
Ohio State Highway Patrol
Sharon Thompson
Holzer Hospital
Ernest F. White
Robert L. Strait
GSI
Strait
William H. Jones
Robert S. Dean
Athens
E. E. Peoples
Pomeroy
Wayside Garden Club Meets at Cheshire Home
The Wayside Garden Club of Cheshire met at Mrs. Rucker Neal’s home with 14 members present. President Mrs. Briggs Kirby led the meeting as Mrs. Marion Darnell co hosted and a round robin letter was sent to a Florida garden club publicity chair.
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Wayside Garden Club
Cheshire
Gallipolis
Wayside Garden Club of
Rucker Neal
Marion Darnell
Florida
Merchants Plan Sales and Special Washington Birthday Event
Gallipolis merchants postponed electing a new Retail Merchants Committee chairman Arthur Darnbrough Jr. to next Tuesday. The meeting focused on city wide Washington's Birthday sales set for February 21 and 22 with special low priced items and other bargains planned.
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Gallipolis
Arthur Darnbrough, Jr
Darnbrough
Washington
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Harry Maggied
J. J. Pannbaker
W. Bryan Cooper
Pierce D. McCreedy
Standard Oil of
Western Pennsylvania Chemical Co., Inc
Columbia Southern Chemical Corp
I. Thornburg
Calvert Chemical Co
Elbert (Dora) McGhee
Pine St
McGhee
Home, Sweet Home
Blake
Blaze
Ohio Bell
Tommy Bailes
Ralph Burner
Carol Clark
Marvena Crawford
Janet Dexter
Billy Bachus
Carlene Elliott
Dean Evans
Sandra Fuestal
Sandra Folden
Andy Faher
Buddy Givens
Doug Harrington
Tandy Penkins
Sharon Ann King
Tommy Lloyd
Cheryl Niday
David Ott
Diana Parsons
George Pope
Jimmy Porter
Mike Reapp
Len Rees
Jo Ann Royce
Roger Saunders
Martha Stiles
Freddie Westfall
Tommy White
Linda Wood
Carol Sue Young
Gordon Amsbury
Douglas Burton
Darlene Corbin
Harriett Craft
Patty Davis
Joyce Evans
Richard Haycraft
Karen Hoffman
Roger Jarvis
Peggy Large
Claudia McBride
Judith McCormick
Louis Mueller
Patty Rollins
Mike Venz
Mary Walker
Richard M. Bane
Floyd Shepard
Cal
Gary M. Cairns
Racine
Ivan H. Newell
Southside
Charles Henthrone
Ironton
John W. Watson
Henderson
Neil Ring
Robert Fulton
Stewart Holmes
Otho Fuller
Thomas Abbott
Phillip Gahn
Joe Miller
Carl Klaffke
Walter Donahue
Dewey Ross
William Mayes
Ralph Pinkerton
Louise Forrest
Etta Nelson
Bert Ross
David Bunn
W. T. Fry
Charles Loomis
Paul Seally
Sebastian Tedesco
Mary Ellen Wetherholt
Larry Hoffman
William C. Neal
Reed
Facemire Cab Co. of
Briggs Kirby
Paul White
Stanley Shaver
Gallia County District Library
Alice Swisher
Hottie Roush
Harris History
Harris
Southeastern
Meigs, Hocking
Mason Counties
Nelsonville
Pt. Pleasant
Union St
the Athens Messenger
West Union St
Athens, Ohio
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