Fears of Flood in Ohio Valley Are Allayed in Mason County
Weather reports from Point Pleasant indicate snowpack has melted, river at 27 feet stays below flood level, and forecasts show 6 to 10 inches needed to trigger serious flooding. Local bureau notes December and January totals were below average, suggesting no immediate flood threat despite prior fears.
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Athens Messenger
Ohio Valley
Mason County
Point Pleasant
Ohio
West Virginia
Pittsburgh
Weather Bureau
Rainfell
Fa i
All Homes Rented in Country Club Group
Country Club addition in Point Pleasant reports all homes rented. Miss Nelson secretary of Country Club Homes Inc said houses filled rapidly in recent weeks with tenants preferring gas ranges to electric. All homes have coal furnaces.
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Point Pleasanr
Country Club Addition
Nelson
Country Club Homes, Inc
Record Group Called for Induction
The selective service board has called 260 men for preinduction examination, breaking a 14 month record. Miss Jean Rice, secretary, mailed notices and the men must report to the State Theater on Main Street at 7:30 Friday morning Feb 33. Local organization representatives will serve coffee and doughnuts before the Baltimore and Ohio special train to Huntington for the induction center examination.
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Point Pleasant
Selective Service Board
Jean Rice
State Theater
Main St
Baltimore and Ohio
Huntington
Pte Eugene Canaday Wounded on Luzon Island
Pfc Eugene Canaday was wounded in action on Luzon Island January 16 according to a War Department notice sent to his parents Mr and Mrs Cassius Canaday. The telegram did not specify the nature or extent of his injuries. His last letter to the family was dated December 27.
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Gallipolis
Eugene Canaday
Luzon Island
Cassius Canaday
Birthday Celebration and Arrest Probe Stir Point Pleasant
A Point Pleasant report notes progress on jail and sheriff's residence construction with prisoners doing the work. A birthday gathering for Vern Filson marked his 61st celebration. Mayor and police criticism follow the arrest of Sgt. Tagan amid furlough soldiers, plus church auxiliary meetings set for February 21 and 28 with Mrs. Edwin Curry as guest speaker.
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Point Pleasant
Vern C. Filson
Mt. Vernon Ave
Filson
Jin
Clarence Russell
Walter Krodel
Com. Smith
Johnny Kerwood
Alban Adkins
Will Stephens
Harry J. Hagan
Adkins
Raymond
Chambers
Frank Filson
Mactin
Mir
Mes
Binia Ordnance Works
Tagan
The
Inca
Set
Raymond Lee Leach
7Th Army Air Force
Presbyterian Auxiliary
Edwin §. Curry
Montgomery
Hartford News Notes from Hartford and Point Pleasant
Local items report Miss Barbara Powell of Nitro visiting relatives, Miss Helen Jenkins of Charleston visiting here, and others like James Rea returning from Holzer Hospital. Local transfers include the Machirs selling a home on Jackson Ave and the Filson purchase of the Kaiser residence. A West Virginia serviceman, Pvt. Benjamin J. Dowell, is listed as wounded on the European front. Mayor Krodel forms a five member committee to investigate a city matter with Rev. G. Billups and others, aiming for a full report. A son was welcomed Wednesday for Raymond Casio and Miss Jane Ann Stone spent the weekend with family.
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Hartford
Barbara’ Powell
Nitro
Billa Kearns
Belle Meade
Helen Jenkins
Charleston
James M. Crump
Camden Clark Hospital
Parkersburg
Point Pleasant
Wiliam
Machir
Jackson Ave
William Filson
Jocal
Machirs
Kaiser
Third and
River Steg
West
Morgan Jenkins
Huntington
Sention
Garnet
van Buren Crump
St. Joseph Hospital
Park
Kersburg
Reynold Brocks
Brooks
American Legion
Legion
France
Rhe
Kredel
T. AL McMillin
McMillin
Fou
McMtllin
CG. Billuns
School Children Begin Waste Paper Drive
Gallipolis pupils from Washington and Lincoln schools start a waste paper drive, with fifth to eighth graders collecting scrap at business district corners for municipal trucks to haul to the Gallia Wrecking Company yard for shipment.
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Gallipolis
Washington and Lincoln
Gallia
Cadet Nurses Enroll in Holzer's New Class
Gallipolis cadet nurses enroll in Holzer Hospital School of Nursing class on Feb 13. Names include Helen Allensworth Betty TowLe Rothgey from Cheshire Mary Helen Ashworth Allens Jean Bates Gak Mill Eileen Brown Gloufer Elinor Deepping Gallipolis Kathleen Fratey Springfield Evelyn Grueser Maryellien Jewell Pomeroy Jane Kress Colmbus Patty Lou Sutton Point Pleasant Claire Mendenhall Reho y Leora Bardin Coolville.
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Gallipolis
Holzer Hospital School of Nursing
Helen ~Allensworth
Betty Tow L Rothgey
Cheshire
Mary Helen Ashworth
Allens
Jean Bates
Gak Mill
Eileen Brown
Gloug’ Fer
Elinor’ Deepping
Kathleen Fratey
Springfield
Evelyn Grueser
Maryelien Jewell
Pomeroy
Jane Kress
Coilme
Patty Lou Sutton
Lenten Services Held Weekly at St Peter’s Gallipolis
In Gallipolis the mid week Lenten services were conducted every Wednesday until Easter at St Peter's Episcopal Church by Rev. Charles G Baird. After the service a parish meeting re-elected all vestry members and Lottie Abbott read the financial report showing all pledges for 1941 met.
Presbyterians Sponsor World Day of Prayer
The World Day of Prayer was observed Friday afternoon from three to four o'clock at the Presbyterian Church. The meeting was open to the public, sponsored by Presbyterian women and men.
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Presbyterians
Galltpolis
Presbyterian Church
B & Women's
Eastern Star district meeting and school of instruction set in Hamden
In Hamden the 24th district Order of the Eastern Star will hold a district meeting at the Masonic Temple on Saturday February 17 with opening at 6 am and a dinner served by the ladies of W.S.C.S. at the Methood dist Church basement. A school of instruction starts at 1 pm.
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Hamden
Order of ‘Eastern Star
Masonic Temple
Theadies
W.S.C.S
School of Astruction
E. R. Maynes Hays
War Department
Fred A. Haynes
Belgium
Roger G. Haynes
France
William T. Haynes
U.s-M.c
South Pacific
Raymond L. Haynes
Radio -Tanesse
Pvt
Haynes
Dorothy Cook
Coalton
Emma Graves
Billa Dixon
Londonderry
Mary. Haley
Columbus
T. C.lewis
Suzanne Haley
Katheryn Bagley
Jean
Hall
Raleigh Cline
Cline
Hattie, Graves
Mansfield
James Mitchell
Chillicothe
I. FE. Buell
Lydia Rinehart
Desta Ogier
Rio Grande
Homer Tripp
Sam Webb
Tripp
Webb
Katherin McCatherine
Springfield
Henry Gerty
New Divorce Actions Filed in Gallia
Two new divorce cases filed in Gallia County Common Pleas Court. Inez Sowards sues Ira Sowards for gross neglect and wilful absence over three years. married May 29 1924, two minor children custody with defendant. Raymond J Taylor by father seeks divorce from Marcia Taylor on neglect and cruelty. married March 31 1944. defendant with mother in Wichita Kansas.
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Gallipolis
Ipleas Court
Inez Sowards
Ira Sowards
Chiteldren
Raymond J. Taylor
Raymond C. Taylor
Marcia Taylor
A1. Harding
Wichita
Kans
Flood Workers Named by Gallia County Legion Post
Gallia County Legion Post 27 at Gallipolis Lafayette Fest held a weekly meeting naming flood response committees. Commander Col. H B Ecker noted spring mood remote but readiness urged. Committees include Medical Dr N Howard Foster and Garland Gillingham. Communications Garrett Sheets and W M Bert Elliott. Housing Judge Lewis C Warden E E Higgins. Food Maurice Grover Charles Huber Ira Leaper. Transportation Harry Magegied Clarence Masters. Sanitation Stewart A Clendinen Chester Leaper. Police Detail Chester Leaper. Treasurer Stanley S Lewis. Disaster Chairman Harold Brown. Red Cross liaison to coordinate efforts to meet Feb 28. Dinner by Legion Auxiliary. meeting at Legion Hall on second floor of City Building.
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Gallipolis
Lafayette
American Legion
H. B. Ecker
N. Howard Foster
Garland Gillingham
Garrett Sheets
W. M
Bert” Elliott
Lewis C. Warden
E.e.higgins
Mauricve Grover
Charles Huber
Ira Leaper
Harry’ ‘Magegied
Clarence Masters
Stewart A. Clendinen
Chester Leaper
Stanley 5. Lewis
Harold Brown
American Red Cross
Red Cross
Legion Auxiliary
Legion Hall
Bulidjing
Churches in Gallipolis Services list and times
A catalog of Sunday worship times across Gallipolis churches. Grace Methodist Rev W Scott Westerman leads 10:00 a.m. service, Junior and Senior youth meet for discussions. First Baptist J Edward Hakes preaches 9:15 a.m. Bible School with 10:30 a.m. worship and 6:30 p.m. youth activities. Evangelistic service at 7:30 p.m. with a sermon on The Preacher Who Became a Military Expert. First Presbyterian Theodore Valenti 9:30 a.m. Sunday School and 10:30 a.m. worship. St. Peter's Episcopal Charles G Baird 4:30 p.m. service with confirmation afterward. Church of God H M Smith 9:15 a.m. Sunday School and 10:30 a.m. worship. Nazarene Vernon C Shafer 9:30 a.m. Sunday School and 7:30 p.m. Young People. Church of Christ Ted Waller Bible study 10 a.m. worship 10:45 a.m. and 8 p.m.. John Gee Chapel Mary Louw Henderson pastor with 12 noon church school and 7:00 p.m. evening service.
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Gallipolis
Grace Methodist
W. Scott
Westerman
First Baptist
J. Edward Hakes
She Stenson
Hakes
First Presbyterian
Theodore Valenti
St. Peter's Episcopal
Charles G. Baird
Il A. mm
Church OF God
Third Avenue
H. M. Smith
Allen Baker
Young People’s Meeting
Church OF the Nazarene
Vernon C. Shafer
Church OF Christ
Garfield Avenue
Ted Waller
John Gee Chapel
A Mle
Mary Louw Henderson
John Casey
Doris Casey
Cooperative Forum
Helen Jones
Bettie Henderson
Oelock
Waterloo Seaman Believed Lost in Typhoon
Robert Jackson Taylor, 23, Seaman 1-c, USN, from Waterloo, is believed dead after a typhoon at sea on December 18, 1944. A message to his parents, Mr and Mrs George Taylor, confirmed the loss.
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Gallipolis
Robert Jackson Taylor
Us.n
Gsorze Taylor
Waterloo
Lifeboat on Display at Beckett Fuel Station
A real rubber lifeboat designed to carry four, manufactured by the Gsedyear Rubber Company, is on display at the Beckett Puroil Station on Second Ave opposite the Libby Hotel. It measures about five feet by ten and weighs 45 pounds.
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Gallipolis
Gsed- Year Rubber Company
Beckett Puroil Station
Second Ave
Libby Hotel
Former Gallia Resident Lou Wolfe North Dies in California
Mrs Lou Wolfe North, longtime Gallia resident, died Wednesday in El Monte California near Los Angeles. She and her sister Miss Nelle Waifel had moved to California two years ago after living in Huntington and Gallia where her late husband W F Gnick North ran a restaurant. Believed to be the first woman in the county to obtain a hunter's license she hunted mall game yearly with her husband. Her cousin Mrs Bertie Cubbage Tarner of Bidwell is the only near relative in the area.
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Gallipolis
Lou Wolfe North
el Monte
Calif
Los Angeles
Nelle Waifel
John
California
Huntington
Bertie Cubbage Tarner
Bidwell
Gallipolis Personal Notices Update Local Guests
Miss Betty Faulkner formerly of University Hospital Columbus is visiting relatives after enlisting in the Army Nurse Corps. Wayne Miller and family of Boomer West Virginia, with Lorena Miller, stay with J Emmett Morrison family and relatives. Robert Morgen and Louisville classmate William Jackson visit in Gallipolis then return to Louisville. Alva and Clifford Harrison return from Norfolk after naval training. Agnes Ellis Columbus public health nursing consultant was in Gallipolis Thursday.
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Betty“Faulkner
University Hospital, Columbus
Miss Faulkner
Holzer Hospital
Army Nurse Corps
Wayne Miller
Boomer
Lorena Miller
J. Emnett Morrison
John Morrison
Neilie. Penn
McArthur
Robert Morgen
Dental Colege
Louisville
William Jackson
Coimbus
John Morgan
Athens
Kenneth Morgan
Alva Harrison
Clifford Harrison
Norfolk
Agnes
Ellis
Columbus
Publc
State Department of Health
Gallipolis
Boy Sustains Burns While Helping Grandfather
Kenneth D. Grover, residing with his grandparents in Cheshire, was burned on the right hand and arm by overheated grease while assisting his grandfather prepare a meal. He was treated at Holzer Hospital where his grandmother was a patient.
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Gallipolis
Kenneth D. Grover
Byron C. Grover
Cheshire
Holzer Hospital
Cunningham 15 Fractures Right Forearm At Home
Point Pleasant report says Cun ningham 15, son of Mr and Mrs Donnie Cunningham, 2629 Lincoln Ave, was treated at Point Clinic for a fracture of the right forearm after falling while jumping in his yard. Doctors said the break involved both bones in the forearm.
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Point Pleasant
Emerald Oil promises quick relief for eczema and skin distress
Athens Pharmacy advertises Emerald Oil as effective for eczema and troublesome skin conditions. It claims 28 years of selling experience, money back satisfaction guarantee, and urges customers to ask their druggist for the small original bottle.
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Athens Pharmacy Ady
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