New Year Quiet Observed in Gallipolis and Gallia County
Gallipolis welcomed 1953 with subdued celebrations. The Elks Lodge drew 175 dancers to Bob Holloway Band performances. 100 guests gathered at a private home for students and servicemen. 75 attended an Eagles dance open to the public. Junior high youths held a party at the Shrine Club. Vinton hosted two gatherings with 10 and 36 guests respectively. Churches hosted watch nights and a Grace Methodist youth group held a New Year Day gathering with about 50 attendees watching the Rose Bowl.
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Gallipolis
Gallia County
Elks’ Lodge
Bob Holloway
Logan
Bill Brown
Eagles
Shrine Club
Pat Moore
Phyllis Pope
Vinton
Everett Evans
Daniel Evans
St. Peter’s Episcopal Church
Rio Grande
The
Grace Methodist Church
Fred Miller
Second Avenue
Three New Year’s Eve Wrecks Reported in Gallia County
The State Highway Patrol investigated three accidents on New Year’s Eve near Adamsville Crown City and Gallipolis. There were two-vehicle collisions on Denny Road and Route 7 and a single vehicle rollover on Yale School Road. No serious injuries reported.
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Gallipolis
State Highway Patrol
Denney Road
Adamsville
Robert W. Bateman
Bidwell
Kathleen F. Call
Jim L. Hamilton
Crown City
Gallia County records 1956 coroner calls reach new high
Gallia County coroner Dr. Donald R. Warehime reports 1956 set a county record with 59 deaths investigated, up from 52 in 1954 and 34 in 1955. Half were natural causes, many linked to accidents on area highways, including 18 fatalities with 10 occurring on the road en route to Holzer Hospital. Other causes include fire, electrocution, drowning, personal crisis, a mine accident, and a tractor accident.
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Gallipolis
Gillia County
Donald R. Warehime
Gallia
Holzer Hospital
Jacob Hill Dies at 75 in Gallipolis Age 75 Carpenter Jacob L Hill dies in Glenwood West Virginia
Jacob Lewis Hill 75 of 102 Fourth Ave Gallipolis died at 9 30 p m Monday at Glenwood West Virginia where he had been for a week under Mrs Gusta Hoffman care He was born in West Virginia to John and Angeline Wheeler Hill He married Myrtle Legg who died in 1919 He raised four children Wyett Clara Shifflett Laura Dooley and Carl Thirteen grandchildren survive plus sister Gertrude Britt Funeral 2 p m Thursday at Miller funeral home with Rev W H Green officiating burial Pine Street cemetery.
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Gallipolis
Jacob Lewis Hill
Fourth Ave
Glenwood
W. Va
Gusta Hoffman
West Virginia
John
Angeline Wheeler Hill
Myrtle Legg
Southside
Hamilton
Laura Dooley
Hamlton
Carl
Milford
Gertrude Britt
Shewsbury
Miller Funeral Home
W. H.green
Pine Street Cemetery
Jovial Harris Convicted Of Drunk Driving In Gallipolis
Gallipolis in municipal court Judge W H Jones fined Julian Ray Harris 50 dollars and costs plus five days in county jail and six months license suspension after an arrest by city police early Sunday. Vernon Sheets paid five dollars and costs for intoxication. Darwin Banks case continued.
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Gallipolis
Julian Ray Harris
Rio Grande
W. H. Jones
Vernon Sheets
Darwin Lee Banks
Eastern Ave
Naomi Lodge Accepts Six More Knights of Pythias Members
Six candidates were accepted into the district page rank class by Naomi Lodge Knights of Pythias in Gallipolis on Monday. The 28 men, all from Naomi Lodge so far, will begin rank work Wednesday as district six holds a meeting. An $8 donation was made to the child welfare fund at the same gathering.
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Gallipolis
Naomi Lodge
Knights of Pythias
Athletes' Dad Seriously Ill in Ohio Community
Othneil Jones of Gallipolis and father of Gallia Academy athletes was in critical condition at Holzer Hospital after entering with double pneumonia and suffering a heart attack. The 56-year-old, long limited by heart disease, has sons Tom Dan and Newt among the local school athletes.
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Gallipolis
Othneil Jones
State St
Gallia Academy
Holzer Hospital
Jones
Tom
Blue Devil
Connecticut
Dan
Newt
Auto Hits Parked Car In Gallipolis Collision
Charles W Jones, 22, collided with a parked car on Third Avenue at 8 30 am injuring neither driver. Jones was charged with reckless operation. Police arrested two for driving while intoxicated William H Strodder 42 of 751 Fourth Ave and Eugene F Plymale 40 of 446 First Ave Also arrested on Tuesday were Thomas D Stallings 35 St Albans for reckless operation and Stanley Norman Bryan 18 Middlesport for speeding.
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Gallipolis
Charles W Jones
Third Avenue
Jones
Ray Johnson
Third Ave
William H. Strodder
Fourth Ave
Eugene F. Plymale
First Ave
Thomas D. Stallings
St. Albans
Stanley Norman Bryan
Middleport
First Baby of 1957 Born Tuesday Night
Gallia County records the first 1957 birth at Holzer Hospital in Gallipolis. A girl weighing seven pounds eleven ounces and measuring twenty inches was born to Harold and Glenna Green of 602 Third Ave. Cynthia Jane, 14 months old, is her sister. Grandparents are Grover Sheets of Crown City and Myrtle Green, with the late Ira Green.
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Gallipolis
Gallia County
Holzer Hospital
Harold Green
Third Ave
Cynthia Jane
Glenna Sheets
Grover Sheets
Crown City
Myrtle Green
Bladen
Ira Green
Ohio River Traffic and Dam Status Updates
River gauges show varying levels from Gallipolis to Point Pleasant with boats reporting up and down locks across Kanawha and Ohio rivers. Dams on the Kanawha are largely at or near sill while many Ohio locks list vessels in tow or awaiting lock passage at morning and afternoon times.
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Kanawha River
Ohio River
City of Huntington
Western
OVEC
Jefferson
Jane T
Sohio State
Invader
Island Creek
Stevenson
J. S. Lewis
Sam Houston
Price
Winfield
Ogram
Helen
Gallipolis
Coleman
Nida Dean
Solvay
City of Maysville
Blue Crutch Day Polio Drive Set for Saturday
Gallia County to host Blue Crutch Day as part of the March of Dimes drive. Knights of Pythias will collect in shopping areas Saturday and hand out miniature blue crutches. Dr. Arthur Fleming, Gallia County chair, urges return of envelopes and a strong county response.
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Blue Crutch
Gallipolis
Gallia County
The
Knights of Pythias
K of P
Arthur Fleming
St Davids Lighthouse Ber muda Built From Local Stone
St David's Lighthouse in Bermuda, completed in 1879, stands as a stone structure quarried from nearby ground. The masonry reflects local material use and enduring coastal guard duties for maritime navigation.
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St. David's
Bermuda
City Commission Meeting Postponed to Wednesday
Gallipolis City Manager Austin O. Cotton announced that the regular city commissioners meeting set for Tuesday was postponed to Wednesday at 4 30 p.m. due to scheduling.
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Gallipolis
Austin O. Cotton
Floyd Rife Dies at 61 in Kenton Hospital
Floyd Rife 61 a former Kyger resident died at 9 15 p m Monday at a Kenton hospital after a heart attack. He was a car inspector for the New York Central railroad born January 6 1895 in Cheshire Township. Survived by two brothers a sister and Ina Lemley his wife with two sons and a daughter deceased 1951 funeral plans set at Price funeral home Kenton and Old Kyger Ferrwill Baptist Church with burial in Gravel Hill Cemetery.
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Gallipolis
Floyd Rife
Kyger
Kenton
New York Central Railroad
Cheshire Township
Rife
Nortin H
Susie Durst Rife
Rey
Guysville
Walter
Cheshire
Flossie Pate
New Lexington
Hazel Stout
Ina Lemley
Burdell Rife
Upper Sandusky
Floyd, Jr
Akron
Frances Louise
Price Funeral Home
Old Kgger Ferrwill Baptist Church
C. J. Lemley
Gravel Hill Cemetery
City Wiring Fixed to End Overloads in City Building
Austin Cotton said the city spent about 150 dollars to re wire the city building to prevent overloads. He noted the fire siren previously caused a fuse to blow and that a separate fuse box for the police radio and other rewiring details improve safety.
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Gallipolis
Austin Cotton
Cotton
Two Traffic Cases Heard in Court
In Gallipolis Municipal Court two traffic cases were decided. Norris Edmund Jeffers, 19, paid $10 and costs for unsafe operation after arrest by the State Highway Patrol. John Parsons, 44, of Columbus, forfeited a $25 bond for driving left of center.
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Gallipolis
Columbus
State Highway Patrol
Norris Edmund Jeffers
John Parsons
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Proctorville
Yale
Shrine Camp
Betty M. Raike
Jacob Hill
Kk of
P Lodge
Sharon
Montgomery
Point Pleasant
Pomeroy- Mason
Kanawha Falls
Hinton
Keeley
Lock
Ouachita
Mar
Court & W. Carpenter Sts
Athens
Climpson
Bassinette
Famous Maker
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