Gallia WCTU Pushes Full View of Liquor Rooms in Gallipolis
Gallia County WCTU asks city to curb hidden liquor rooms, proposing an ordinance to remove screens and ensure an unobstructed view from the street. City Solicitor Switzer to investigate. Also updated barber shop ordinance, and set permit system for itinerant photographers with bond, fee, and witness requirements.
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Gallipolis
Gallia
Cora Halli
James L. Haskins
WCTU
R. M. Switzer
Ohio Supreme Court
Zanesville
A. J. Stormont
Commission
Art Carl
Adolph Henke
Gibson moved to county jail on intoxication charge
Simon Gibson was transferred from the city jail to the county jail on Tuesday for intoxication. The jail sentence had been deferred on a prior charge.
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Gallipolis
Simon Gibson
Dana Marries Ronnie Amid Family Tensions
Dana prepares to marry Ronnie Moore as Aunt Ellen hints at lingering feelings for Scott Stanley. Mrs. Cameron pushes for stability over romance while Dr Osborne contemplates sending a message about a wedding request amid a tense household.
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Mrs. Cameron
Scott Stanley
Aunt Ellen
Ellen
Dana
Ronnie Moore
Agatha
Nancy
Gallia To Have Road Repairs
Gallia county commissioners completed their January session by setting up a $500 emergency fund for road repairs through county surveyor Farnom Haskins. They also rehired Dr. Francis W. Shane for the county home, approved $240 for three months of National Re-employment Office expenses, and ordered five barrels of motor oil at 62 cents per gallon. Road work includes 100 yards of limestone on Nibert road Cheshire Township, 125 yards on Rodney-Harrisburg Road, $50 for Swan Creek Road near Samuel Litterel home, and mud hole repairs on Patriot-Gage Road.
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Allipolis
Board of County Commissioners
Farnom Haskins
Francis W. Shane
Nibert
Cheshire Township
Rodney-Harrisburg
Swan Creek
Samuel Litterel
Patriot-Gage
Gallipolis Church Club Chooses New Officers
Mrs N A Martin was elected president with Mrs Mary Lupton as first vice president and Miss Margaret Noel as second vice president. Mrs William Greer becomes secretary and Miss Jndys Halley treasurer with Miss Edna Mae Cooper as assistant secretary and treasurer. Cabinet government was adopted and a jitney supper is planned at the church during the month. Retiring president Mrs Ceola Irion called the meeting of 34 members to order at her home Monday night.
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Gallipolis
N. A. Martin
Mary Lupton
Margaret Noel
William Greer
Jlndys Halley
Edna Mae Cooper
Service Club
Presbyterian Church
Ceola Irion
Gallia County Opens Emergency WPA Libraries
Four emergency library centers under the WPA will open in Gallia County with Mrs. Margaret Bradbury overseeing all projects employing women. Centers will be at Vinton Bidwell Port er Crown City and Addison with named librarians. Six more may follow. books supplied by the State Library and donations.
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Gallipolis
WPA
Margaret Bradbury
Gallia County
Vinton
Fannie Coy
Bidwell-Porter
Vada Samples
Crown City
Zera Stanley
Addison
Jewel Neville
Bradbury
State Library
Lewis Released in Sales Tax Case After Nolle Prosequi
Lewis of Gallipolis was released from the Court of Common Pleas after a nolice prose qui was entered to his indictment for selling apples without collecting sales tax at the old furniture factory on Second Street. Wayford Rathburn also received a nolle prosequi to his robbery indictment from 1938.
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Gallipolis
R.A. Lewis
Second St
Court of Common Pleas
Nolice
Wayford Rathburn
Nolle
Halli granted divorce and custody in Gallipolis
Tabitha Avanell Halli received a divorce from Robert Hall Jr in Gallia County on charges of gross neglect. She was awarded custody of a minor child and child support set at eight dollars weekly.
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Gallipolis
Tabitha Avanell Halli
Robert Hall, Jr
Miller kept as Head of Gallipolis School Board
Harry M. Miller was re-elected president of the Gallipolis District Board of Education. A. S. Lloyd will become secretary, succeeding C. M. Yeanger. Clarence Brumfield was sworn in as vice president with C. E. Wagner and F. E. Kerr joining as new members. D. Wagner remains janitor at Washington and Lincoln Schools. new heating requirements call for a licensed engineer. The board will rent the gymnasium to Holzer Hospital nursing school for one dollar per hour, one night weekly.
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Gallipolis
Harry M. Miller
Holzer Hospital Nursing School
Swan Creek Woman Buried at Good Hope
Mrs. William Scarberry aged 78 of Swan Creek died at her home Sunday and is survived by six children from two marriages including Marion Searberry Noah and Charles Scarberry. Siblings James Wells Sarah Walters Melinda Burcham Nancy Crow and Hannah Vance. Funeral services by Rev. John Hall were held at Good Hope with burial there.
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Gallipolis
William Scarberry
Swan Creek
Manson Shafer
Crown City
George Pinkerman
Lesage
W. Va
Marion Searberry
Noah
Charles
Richard
James
George Wells
Lawrence County
Sarah Walters
Melinda Burcham
Athalia
Nancy Crow
Hannah Vance
Trenton
John Hall
Good Hope
Youth Files Suit After Route 7 Crash
Dennis Raymond Rose 17 represented by his father Lewis Rose sues Harry H. Clark for 3000 alleging injuries from a Dec 23 1935 collision on Route 7 just below Gallipolis. Rose says Clark drove on the wrong side causing a crash that fractured both arms.
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Gallipolis
Lewis Rose
Dennis Raymond Rose
Harry H. Clark
Clark
Rose
Foremen and Timekeepers Of WPA To Hear Talk
WPA project foremen and timekeepers will attend a safety meeting at 7 30 o'clock Friday night Jan 10 at the courthouse. Safety engineers from WPA headquarters at Columbus will address them. Dr O A Vornholt and nurses from Holzer Hospital may be present for demonstrations. Local WPA staff are working on sewer projects on Third Ave and related sidewalk curb and guard rail work on Eastern Ave. Equipment move from the Ohio Valley Bank Building to the City Building is planned for occupancy Thursday.
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Gallipolis
WPA
Columbus
O. A. Vornholt
Holzer Hospital
Third Ave
Eastern Ave
Ohio Valley Bank
City
Captain’s Wife Dead in Gallipolis from Pneumonia
Mrs. Belle Martin, 75, wife of Capt. John T. Martin of Grape Street, died Tuesday of pneumonia. Captain Martin is ill and their daughter Mary, wife of Rev. B. E. Dunn, has been bedfast in Shelbyville, Tennessee since a Christmas visit. The Martins raised nephew Harris Deepping, now living with them with his wife. Mrs. Martin belonged to the Presbyterian Church and the Eastern Star, which will officiate at the funeral.
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Gallipolis
Belle Martin
John T. Martin
Grape St
Captain Martin
Mary
B. E. Dunn
Shelbyville
Tenn
Martin
Harris Deepping
WPA project indexing old county records in Gallia area
Three girls have started a WPA effort in the county auditor office to index old records. No indexing of the commissioners journals has been done for 25 years. All expenses are paid by the WPA, with no county cost.
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Gallipolis
Commissioners
WPA
Tuppers Plains News Notes
Social items from Tuppers Plains highlight a gathering hosted by Mr. and Mrs. Charles Reed for Ross Cleland’s family with gifts and music. Local obituaries, church events, visits, and school notices are listed, including a funeral in Bremen and college return.
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Tuppers Plains
Charles Reed
Ross Cleland
Jessie Newell
Hubert
Claire
Wateman White
Keno
Vern Cleland
Hannah
Henry Snyder
M. E
Grant Holman
Christian Church
Charles Cowdrey
Hockingport
J. A. Biggs
Idonia Parker
Pomeroy
Murray City Young People Plan Program
The Young People's Society of the Pilgrim Holiness Church plans a Friday evening meeting on January 17 with the topic Why We Should Know the Bible. An exhibition of old Bibles and special singing are planned under the leadership of Mrs. Clarence McCall. An assortment of local visits and hospital stays are noted, including mastoid operations for Lynn Storer and Chicky Collins, and several family visits in Crooksville Columbus Monessen and Barberton.
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Murray City
Young People's Society of the
Pilgrim Holiness Church
Clarence McCall
Earl Storer
Lynn
Storer
Columbus
St. Francis Hospital
Velma Popoczy
Ann Popoczy
George Tedrow
Crooksville
Margaret Popoczy
Tedrow
Dora Spencer
Monessen
Aleigh
Clara Gears
Longstreth
Geneva Gears
Nelsonville
George Brooker
Berne Franklin
Jack
Barberton
Willis Six
Don Solon
Solon
John
Giouster
Harry
Esther
Ruth Donson
Ethel Wollett
Owen Davis
Brooker
Lovely day dress pattern with flexible V neck options
Pattern No 2645 offers a two tone V neck finish with a belt detail to add height and slenderness. Sized 36 to 50 with yardage for 35 inch fabric. Send 15 cents for pattern or 25 cents for book and pattern to The Athens Messenger Pattern Dept. 160 Fifth Avenue New York.
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Athens
Fifth Avenue
New York
Union Fair Meeting Sets Out 1897 Company Assets
A 1:30 Saturday meeting at Coolville school calls stockholders of Union Fair Co. to settle the business. The firm organized in 1897, last held a fair years ago, and the county holds $132 in surplus taxes. Eligible stockholders urged to attend. half original holders are dead.
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Coolville
Union Fair Co
Farmers Institute
Troy Grange
Troy Board of Education
Rome
Woman's Foreign Missionary Society
M. FE
F. W. Chapman
W. Beck St
R. J. Runion
Millfield Grange installs new officers at Trimble gathering
At Trimble Grange's first year meeting in Trimble Albany members installed officers led by Master A O Wolfe and Overseer Fred Fisher. Genealogical notes, luncheon for 60, and music followed. Wolfe in plaster after a fall. his wife Mrs Wolfe died last fall. A Millfield shanty fire stranded Charles Dust, losing goods and money. Several local families and events noted, including school openings and New Year visits.
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Trimble Grange
Trimble
Albany
A. O. Wolfe
Fred Fisher
Clara Cannon
Eugene Post
Myrtle Ford
D. H. Cannon
Hazel Fisher
Vincent Baily
Nira Baily
Roy Kasler
Ceres
Minnie Lantz
Pomona
Mae Howard
Flora
Kathryn Gillispie
Ida Elliott
Ray Knowlton
Mela Radcliff
Maud Knowlton
Edna Lantz
George Sayer
Rudy
George Ford
Allan Chadwell
Eva Gillispie
D. M. Sawyer
Mr. Dust
John Leoffler
Mr. Leoffler
Nancy Leoffler
William Leoffler
Chauncey
Hilltop
Millfield
Jessie Smart
Lois McClead
Evelyn Deal
Alfreda West
Myrta Ashworth
Ida Davis
Sand Ridge
Marjorie Mansfield
Oregon
Denver White
Roger Williams
Carbondale
Orris Boudinot
Bonita Kay
Charles Dusz
Ida Dusz
Herbert
Richard Dusz
Rebecca Tracy
Clarence
L. E. Tracy
Columbus
Walter Patterson
Fast Millfield
Wijley
Pat
Amelia Jones Skinner Dies in Columbus at 65
Mrs Amelia Jones Skinner 65 of Gallia County and native of Cora died in Columbus. Funeral services set for 11 a m Thursday at Calvary Church Rio Grande with burial there. Survived by husband Aaron Skinner two children Hobart and Emily of Columbus two sisters Mrs Henry Tanner and Mrs Tom Lewis of Rio Grande and two brothers Gomer Jones of Columbus and Ellis Jones of California. Aaron Skinner was a former Gallia County school teacher who moved to Columbus 12 years ago to become a bookkeeper.
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Gallipolis
Amelia Jones Skinner
Aaron Skinner
Cora
Gallia County
Columbus
Calvary Church
Rio Grande
Hobart
Emily Skinner
Henry Tanner
Tom Lewis
Gomer Jones
Ellis Jones
California
Hollister School notes reflect awards and games
Hollister reports the Hygiene and Sanitation Class finishing note books and a student drawn bench for the shop. The Senior Class donated a Stratford-on-Avon picture to the English Room. Girls defeated Chauncey 24 to 21. boys fell 21 to 12. Teams head to Buchtel Friday. New uniforms for girls due soon. Genelle Moore of Eighth Grade died after surgery. New Year guests listed. Seniors lead chapel. Revival at United Brethren. School board honors and refreshments for departing members. Visitors noted.
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Stratford-on-Avon
Hollister Girls
Chauncey Girls
Hollister Boys
Chauncey
Holister
Buchtel
Harold Mount
Robert Cooper
Elmer
Erma
Lorena
Bobby
Betty
Floyd Cooper
Anita
Glouster
William §Ivill
Wesley Byers
Ivan Mount Waterford
Alberta
United Brethren Church
Board of Education
Trimble Township
Phelps
Cartwright
Adams
Brown
Freda Shepard
Ethel McCutcheon
Tom Smith
Carl Wahl
Jean McCullough
Jean and
Fileen Price
Nettie Jane Gaskella
Effie Stephenson
Herma! Slay
Charlene Wehl
Billy Yount
Haydeny Monthly Meeting Held At Beavers Home
The Haydeny monthly meeting was held at Beavers with many attendees from Gertrude Margie and Paul Jane Nutter’s circle. Local residents including Mrs. Joe Snyder and Mrs. C. S. Matheny were noted, with ongoing illness and family visits mentioned among neighbors and relatives in Ohio University area communities.
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Haydenville
Beavers
Gertrude Margie
Paul Jane
Carl Nutter
Ohio University
Joe Snyder
Coleg
Martin
Martin Ma
Y Crothers
Charles
Ruth
Logan
Roiger
R. M
C. S. Matheny
Margie Matheny
Gram
Ralph
Skip Gooding
Helen Evans
and Evans
Nelsonville
Harry Mills
A.J
Joe Weed
Ed Rut Bobby
Chicago
Youngstown
John Rutgers
Vern P
William
Harold Jumbus
Guinther
Gertrude
James Currens
Penter
Elmer Coakley
An Weed
Mat
Milton Brian
Ath Palmer
Dick Rockhold
Lorain Smith
Joe
James Russell Waugh
Fred
George McBee
Marie Jumbus
Mary McFadden
Ohlinger
Thomas
Morris
John Saunders
Harvey Angie
Hill
Neilson Ald
Dorothy
Dik
G. William Weed
Unclear Garden Family Notes Include Barnes and Robison Relatives
Garden scene with C Barnes and son in law plus 4 and Nina Robison. Mentions Alfred Carpenter Work Viv Ian Staneart and residence near Elba Castle. Visitors and relatives listed from Athens with meals and Sunday School at Mt Zion. New Year activities noted.
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C. Barnes
Ed Russel Dexter
Clair Robison
Ing. Elba Castle
Alfred
Vivian Staneart
Sheskey
Athens
Nina Robison
Velma Bam
Hubert
Glennela Wa Barnes
Gues
Lost CCC cotton recovered near Dr. Priestley’s Township
A report states a CCC cotton item disappeared with a man named Hero and was later found in the vicinity of Dr. Priestley’s Township. Deputy Hero arranged its return to the rightful owner.
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Gallipolis
Essit
Hero
George Clone
Farm program payments spark fight over hog and corn aid
An article outlines a dispute over Farm Administration payments tied to a 1939 program. Officials or factions accuse the administration of mismanaging or delaying funds while critics warn of potential losses and political leverage in Washington.
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BBC Washington
Farm Administration
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