Point Pleasant C of C Banquet Draws 300+ Notables
More than 300 leaders from industry and business gathered at the Point Pleasant Legion Hall for the fourth annual Chamber of Commerce banquet. Douglas K. Fuller of the Cincinnati Chamber spoke on What Price Progress, highlighting local growth, industrial ties, and plans from bridge projects to new factories and street lighting.
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Point Pleasant
Industrial Rayon Corp
Cleveland
Jones
Rayon Company
WVOW
Roy Eschenaur
Cofc
Mason County
C of C
Shadle Bridge
Mason-Pomeroy Bridge
Point Pleasant Produce Company
Ohio River Bus Garage
Yunker Manufacturing Company
Lee Electric Co
National Guard
Mason Furniture Co
Kanawha Maple Furniture Co
Jasons, Inc
C. of C
B.&o
Kanawha
Merchant’s Committee
Eschenaur
Homer Cotterman
Pleasant Social Notes Records Local Wedding in Wheeling
Miss Marjorie Echols Bauerle daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Co G Bauerle married Mr. Lee S Good son of Mr. and Mrs Samuel L Good in a double ring ceremony at St Luke s Episcopal Church Wheeling Rev Car rol Thorne officiated The bride wore a dark blue travelling suit with blue hat and matching accessories Her great grandmother s pin and a diamond lapel pin from the groom were her something old and new A reception followed at the Good home after which the couple left for Florida and Havana Cuba They will reside at 165 Edgewood Street Wheeling Mrs Good is a local graduate and has worked for International Business Machines Co in Youngstown The bridegroom is connected with L S Good & Company Wheeling and is a U S Air Force veteran of four years
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Point Pleasant
St. Luke’s Episcopal Church
Wheeling
Marjorie Echols Bauerle
Co. G. Bauerle
Lee S. Good
Samuel L. Good
Carrol Thorne
John L. Rice
Edward Bowie
Great Lakes
Ill
Albert Schenk
Florida
Havana
Cuba
Edgewood Street
Four O Clock Club meets at Miss Berry home
At Miss Betty Berry’s Main Street house the Four O Clock Club gathered Thursday evening. Miss Mary MacCulloch led a discussion of a Marquis James biography on Andrew Jackson while refreshments were provided by Mrs. B. M. Berry and Mrs. Ora Biddle. Mrs. William Meade led the business session with seven attendees listed.
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Four O’clock Club
Betty Berry
Main Street
Mary MacCulloch
Andrew Jackson
Marquis James
B. M. Berry
Ora Biddle
William Meade
McCulloch
Louis Bateson
Hamilton Johnson
Meade
P H. Steenbergen
W. H. Vaught
Miss Berry
Paris Bell Dies. Spencer Lawyer Was WV Figure
S. Paris Bell, a Spencer attorney and longtime WV Bar Association leader, died Saturday at his home after months of illness. Born July 23, 1870 in Calhoun County, he helped form the firm Matthews Pendleton Parsons and Bell and practiced in Spencer for about 30 years. He served as IOOF home manager, Rotary Club president, Mason and Shriner, and directed Roane County Bank. survived by four sons and four daughters.
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Point Pleasant
S. Paris Bell
Spencer
Calhoun County
William Edgar
Rachel Ferrell Bell
John Hamilton
Matthews, Pendleton, Parsons and Bell
Grantsville
Spencer, Ripley
Bell
IOOF
Elkins
Spencer Rotary Club
West Virginia Bar Association
Roane County Bank
Ona Belle Stump
Holly P. Bell
William Bell
Parkersburg
Virgil Bell
S. Paris Bell, Jr
Asbury Methodist Church
Charleston
Myrtle Conley
Wildwood
N. J
William Edwards
Eunice Heilman
Ripley
Mary E. Bell
Robert Bell
DeLand
Florida
Bend Area Woman Named To Board
Mrs Gertrude Harper Smith was elected to fill the unexpired term on the county board of education succeeding F E Bletner who did not qualify for business reasons. The Bend resident and former county teacher was the sole nominee and took the oath of office Saturday evening.
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Point Pleasant
Gertrude Harper Smith
F. E. Bletner
County Board of Education
Bletner
Smith
Donald A. Smith
Hartford
Board of Education
Wahama High School
Oldest English town on the Ohio Point Pleasant
Point Pleasant claims status as the oldest English town on the Ohio, tracing French claims in 1749, early surveys, and settlement history. The piece details fortifications, the shift from Fort Fincastle to Fort Henry, the 1788 Marietta settlement, and the Ohio Company surveying of 1787 amid frontier warfare.
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Dunmore
Fort Fincastle
Wheeling Creek
Angus McDonald
William Crawford
Patrick Henry
Virginia
Fort Henry
Wheeling
General Assembly
John McIntyre
Andrew Woods
Henry Smith
Robert Woods
Archibald Woods
James Nelson
Absalom Martin
William Waddle
Ohio County
John Gooding
Continental Congress
Northwest Territory
New York
Massachusetts
Connecticut
Ohio Company
New England
Rufus Putnam
Simrall’s Ferry
West Newton
Alleghenies
Youghtoughen River
Monongahela
Ohio
Muskingum
Fort Harmer
Doughty
Marietta
Maria Antoinette
France
Point Pleasant
Christopher Gist
Ohio Valley
Ohio Land Company
Pvt Muriel McKinney Body To Be Received
POINT PLEASANT The body of Pvt. Muriel McKinney scheduled to arrive today at Chapman funeral home for arrangements toward re burial. He is the son of Mr and Mrs G W McKinney of Ripley Ra.
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Point Pleasant
Pvt
Muriel McKinney
Chapman Funeral Home
G. W. McKinney
Ripley Ra
Point Pleasant Claims Oldest English Town Status on Ohio River
The article traces Point Pleasant’s origins from the 1770s siege by Indians and the 1774 Fort Randolph battle to establish Fort Randolph’s walls, official town status in 1704, and its claim as the oldest English town on the Ohio south of Pittsburgh, noting its age relative to Wheeling Charleston Cincinnati Gallipolis Harrodsburg and others.
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Wenger
Strader
Kanawha
Charleston
Yeager
Kenton
Point Peasant
Indiana
Lewis
Aite
Point Pleasant
Fort Randolph
General Assembly
Wheeling
Mariette
Capital
Cincinnati
Gallipolis
Chillicothe
Harrodsburg
Kentucky
Ohio
Pittsburgh
Last Surviving Revolutionary War Veteran Dies in 1869
Daniel Frederick Baker, last survivor of the Revolutionary War, died in Freedom, New Hampshire in 1869 at age 109, four years after the Civil War ended.
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Daniel Frederick Baker
Freedom
Scout Cub Troops Meeting Planned in Marietta Area
Scout Troop 250 led by R P Newton will meet Tuesday at 6 30 pm at Iterian Church in Marietta. Cub Pack 252 led by Howard Price will meet Wednesday at 6 90 pm at Marietta Manufacturing Co.
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Point Pleasant
Rotary
R. P. Newton
Iterian
Marietta
Howard Price
Marietta Manufacturing Co
School Chief and Daughter Return from Hospital
Superintendent of Schools Robert H. Ferguson and his daughter Ann were discharged from Holzer Hospital Saturday afternoon and returned to their home at 182 Park Drive in Point Pleasant.
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Point Pleasant
Robert H. Fergason
Ann
Holzer Hospital
Park Dr
Possibilities of life higher on Galilean moons than other planets
Astronomers say life potential is greater on Jupiter’s Galilean moons and Saturn’s largest moon than on any other planet in the universe.
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Jupiter
Saturn
Descriptions of Germ Shapes in Medical Notes
The text notes that Praeumonia germs appear as pale sausage like strings while influenza germs are blue and scarlet fever germs resemble ropes with a scarlet tint.
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Praeumonia
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