More Mason County Casualties Reported by War Department
Four youths listed among war victims. Pvt Manuel D. Setliff wounded on the European front and evacuated to an English hospital. Pic James Campbell wounded in action. Pte Emmons McConahay missing in Germany since Jan. 18. Pfe George W. Davis listed as killed in action in the Mediterranean theater.
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Foint Pleasant
James Setliff
Fraziers Buttows
Pvt
Mauel D. Setliff
War Department
Pic
James V. Campbell
Anna Campbell
Fraziers Bottom
E. D. McConihay
Charleston Road
Pte
Eimmons McCombay
Germany
Pfe
George W. Davis
Luella K. Davis
Mt. Vernon Ave
Bond Sellers Win Ohio Trip for Outstanding War Loan
Five General Chemical Defense Corp employees earned a June trip to Curtiss Wright plant in Columbus as a reward for outstanding work in the Sixth War Loan. C. W. Minney, Stella Moody, Vannie H Williams, Oscar Maynard, and Paul Moody, led divisions, with N A Eaton accompanying. The West Virginia Ordnance Works supervisor will join the group for a luncheon and plant tour. The ordnance works quota was 128000 and bonds sold topped 152000. The party departs for Columbus later today.
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Point Pleasant
General Chemical Defense Corporation
Curtiss-Wright Corporation
Columbus
Curtiss- Wright
N. A. Eaton
West Virginia Ordnance Works
C. W. Minney
Stella B. Moody
Vannie H. Williams
Acid Laboratory
Oscar Maynard
Plant Protection Department
Paul B. Moody
TNT Department
Moodys
Minney
Sutire
Ordnance Works
Columburg
4-H Club Activities of Mason District
Mason District 4-H clubs met with White Oak Acorns supporting school window shade purchases and radio repairs. Attendees included Bobby, Lou Emma, Cilla Jean, Phyllis Powers, Justine, Twila Lilly, Clearet Taylor, Gilbert, Doris Jean Duffer, Ray Shank, and others. Reports from Lucky Clover on winter bird feeding, an Letart Luckies adult council election led by W. L. McKinney and Mrs. Magele Thomas, Doris Hoffman sewing a button, and Laura Weigand baking cocoa cookies were noted.
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Point Pleasant
Bobby
Lou Emma
Cilla Jean
Phyllis Powers
Justine
Twila Lilly
Clearet Taylor
Gilbert
Doris Jean Duffer
Ray Shank
Lucky Clover Club
Letart Luckies Club
W. L. McKinney
Magele Thomas
Doris Hoffman
Laura Weigand
Urges Election of Superintendents
Bradford Sayre of Jackson County introduces a bill to return election of county superintendents of schools to voters. The county unit law, nine years old, was meant to depoliticize the office but is described as increasingly political. Governor Meadows opposes more state aid to elementary schools and calls for an interim study of state education.
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Point Pleasant
Bradford Sayre
Jackson County
House of Delegates
Meadows
High School Seniors Stage Two One Act Plays
Point Pleasant Senior High students present Wisdom for Wives and Which Is the Way to Boston in a PTA meeting on Wednesday evening. The pieces were first performed recently at a benefit for band uniforms.
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Point Pleasant
Boston
Ordnance School Pta
Straw Bed Case Sparks Local Memory in Point Pleasant
A Mason County husband says he cannot pay debts his wife incurred after she left their home in Point Pleasant. He notes she left “a good straw bed” at the farm, a relic recalled by old-timers as straw ticks once common in West Virginia homes.
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Point Pleasant
Mason County
West Virginia
Manufacturing Plant Trains Six Women at Point Pleasant
The Sylvania Electric Products Co began training six young women in Point Pleasant to preserve a two week schedule before operations start at the Arnett Building repurposed as a manufacturing plant. Forrest Cross will be resident manager and C W Hosterman supervisor of personnel. About 500 women will need training prior to actual production of electrical equipment. The company operates 29 plants across New Hampshire, Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Kentucky.
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Point Pleasant
Syllvania Electric Products Co
Arnett
As & Manufacturing
Forrest Cross
Huntington
C W. Hosterman
New Hampshire
Massachusetts
New York
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Kentucky
Aged Woman Katharine Taylor Dies in New Haven Home
Mrs. Katharine Taylor aged 85 died at her daughter Mrs. R. F. Bryant home in New Haven last Friday. Burial will be in Baltimore where she and Mrs Bryant once lived. Taylor had resided with her daughter for 11 years. Mrs Bryant and Miss Esther Lough travel to Baltimore for the funeral.
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New Haven
Point Pleasant
Katherine Taylor
R. F. Bryant
Baltimore
City
Taylor
Bryant
Esther Lough
Revival in Progress at Heights United Brethren Church
A revival meeting led by Rev. EF H Capehart continues at Heights United Brethren Church with evening services at 7 30. The community personals note visits from Joyce Lee Roush New Haven and Donald Coe of New York City among others plus family updates and local incidents including a car accident and hospital admittance. Seaman Sammy Roush was granted a 24 hour furlough extension and related travel challenges were described as a hair raiser. Local residents are mentioned with visits, illnesses, and a fall.
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Point Pleasant
Heights United Brethren Church
EF. H. Capehart
Joyce Lee Roush
New Haven
Millie Bumgarner
Donald Coe
New York City
Charles E. Hoge
Ed Ohlinger
Pomeroy
L. C. Somerville
Viand St
Jack Burdette
Baltimore
P. T. Burdette
J. F. Burdette
Ohio River Road
Seaman Roush
Huntington
Roush
Blanche M. Bartlett
Charleston
War Today Crisis for Axis in East and West
A wartime column argues the Axis faces a dire crisis with a looming conference of the Big Three likely to urge German surrender. It notes Japan struggles to defend Manila, with Luzon’s loss seen as pivotal, and credits Allied leadership and naval dominance for pressuring Japan while predicting hard fighting on Luzon and a gradual grinding down of Japanese forces.
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Roosevelt
Churchill
Stalin
Germany
Hitler
Japan
Manila
Philippine
Luzon
Mikado
Luton
Formosa
Gibraltar
Orient
Yamashita
MacArthur
Pacific
Philippines
Board of Education Meets This Evening
POINT PLEASANT The county board of education is set to meet at 8 pm in the Main St office for the regular February session. The agenda reportedly includes delaying two weeks of teachers salaries caused by December school closures due to the blizzard, with teachers fearing they should not suffer for an act of God.
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Point Pleasant
County Board of Education
Main St
Army Man Returned To the Military
Thomas Roush, an Army man, AWOL from a Virginia Army hospital, was escorted to Charleston by Trooper Cayner and deputies Morrison. He was delivered to military authorities after an arrest there last week.
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Point Pleasant
Thomas Roush
Virginia
Charledon
Cayner
Sherif Morrison
Gallipolis Personal News Highlights and Departures
John Haner left for Hernando Mississippi with four dogs to compete in amateur field trials. Several locals returned home after visits, including Mrs Nellie Scarberry to Columbus and Miss Mabel Noel from Columbus. Ed Neff ill at home in the Bunce family, and several service members and relatives moved between Gallipolis, Detroit, Columbus, and Great Lakes locations during short leaves.
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John Haner
Hernando, Miss
Peerless
Bob
H. W. Cherrineton
Bristle Rex
Jake Moore
Beau Essex
Pat
Billy
C. B. Vinson
Huntington
Nellie Scarberry
Columbus
Carrie Williams
Eulah
Ed Neff
Max Bunce
Mabel Noel
W. E. Noel
Charles Axline
Mary E. Jividen
Clark Jividen
Emma Jane
Racine
H. W. Wetherbolt
Bertha Rawson
Edward Wade
Detroit
A& John Bostie
U.S. Navy
Great Lakes
William T. Comer
Anna Comer
Bessie Comer
Frank Perkins
Vinton
C. Garland
George Wills
Brooklyn
Orville Wills
Bladen
Charles AxJine
Margaret Noel
Zanesville
Lois Jean Brownell
Patterson Field
Dayton
Eleanor Logan
Bidwell Soldier Wounded in Action in Luxembourg
Mrs. Nellie White of Bidwell has been notified by the War Department that her son Pfe Glenn K. White was seriously wounded January 19 in action in Luxembourg. He serves with General Patton's Third Army.
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Gallipolis
Nellie White
Bidwell
War Department
Pfe
Glenn K. White
Luxembourg
General Patton
Third Army
Injured Woman Suffered Leg Fracture After Fall
Mrs Rose Huddleston is a patient at the clinic after a street fall that produced a fracture to her left leg. Her condition is reported as stable with care ongoing.
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Fall Point Pleasant
Rose Huddleston
Exploding Furnace Destroys Gallipolis Home
In Gallipolis Monday noon a furnace blast at Mrs. H. E. Houck’s 823 Second Ave. damaged the two story ten room house more than the blaze. The furnace was demolished, parts punched through the lower wall, and the dining room floor area ripped up. Windows near by shattered and an electric refrigerator was moved. The cause remains undetermined though overloading the steam system is suspected.
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Gallipolis
H. E. Houck
Second Ave
G. A. Tabit
Hospital Notes from Gallipolis Holzer Hospital
New patients include J M Burleson Kananga station operator, Mrs Harold Leslie Middleport with a daughter born early Monday, Mrs James Oney Jackson with a son born Sunday at 6 45, Mrs Omar Bowman Jackson R J with a son born Saturday at 4 30, Mrs John Carpenter Pt Pleasant admitted 10 15 Sunday night. Medical patient Dorothea Miller, student nurse, admitted Sunday afternoon. Mrs Byron C Grover Cheshire recovering from pneumonia and pleurisy, listed fair prior. Floyd Drummond reported in good condition for the first time since last Friday’s crash on Route 7 near Hobson. Discharged from hospital.
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Gallipolis
Holzer Hospital
J. M. Burleson
Kananga
Harold Leslie
Middleport
James Oney
Jackson
Omar Bowman
R. J
John Carpenter
Pleasant
Dorothea Miller
Byron C. Grover
Cheshire
Floyd Drummond
le’ Hobson
Three Admit Robbing Of Parked Auto
Gallipolis residents George Clench 25 Charles Deerfield 20 and Lester Taylor 17 confessed to theft of parts from a Howard Connelly car parked near Phillips Filling Station at Second and Olive. Deputies recovered most items Monday night and the trio await hearings with Lester Taylor under Juvenile Court, others before a municipal judge due to illness.
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Gallipolis
George Clench
Charles Deerfield
Lester Taylor
Wood
Dickey
Howard Connelly
Hatfield
Phillips
Second and
Olive
The Grecian theater uses built-up shoes for actors
In the Grecian theater, import ant actors were given added height by wearing built-up shoes.
Banfields Host Four Chicken Dinner for Anniversaries
Orbiston notes show Mr Clarence Banfield and Mrs Banfield entertaining with a four chicken dinner Sunday to mark two anniversaries, Jan 25 his 47th birthday and Jan 27 his 24th wedding anniversary, with guests including Alice Nida P A Nida and several Banfield relatives. Charles H Sorrell ill with chicken pox and others visit relatives or stay with local families in Mansfield Millfield and Columbus areas.
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Orbiston
Clarence Banfield
Mr. Banfield
Alice Nida
P. A. Nida
Virginia Banfield
Mary Alice Banfield
Mary Banfield
Charles H. Sorrell
Clara Glaney
Columbus
Floyd Wade
Mans Ofield
Mus
Ralph Campbell
McCall
Walter Wade
Ralph Wade
Mansfield
Dale McManaway
Dayton
William Backus
New Straitsville
Marion McManaway
Millfield
Walter McManaway
Grace Ayers
Jenny Lea
Jo Ann
Vance Glancy
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