Codding Accepts Superintendency of Nelsonville Schools
Donald W. Codding of Holland Ohio plans to accept the two year superintendent contract for Nelsonville City Schools effective Sept 1. He and his wife will move to Nelsonville in late July. August will cover transitional duties and a public hearing on the budget is set for July 20.
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Athens Messenger
Athens
Nelsonville City
Nelsonville
Donald W. Codding
Holland
Ohio
E. J. Arnold
Arnold
Codding
National Education Association
Thre Board Makes Awards on Thursday
Nelsonville ration board granted tire and recaps to eight citizens at its regular meeting. Permits issued to William Arbaugh coal operator five passenger recaps George Dishong transportation two passenger recaps Floyd Shelton coal two passenger tires and two tubes Keller Weltner hauling two Bernard Powell ice transportation one truck tire two truck tubes George Arnold transportation one passenger recap two passenger tubes Nona Lane relief investigator two passenger retreads two passenger tubes Roe Rorick farmer two passenger retreads
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Nelsonville
William Arbaugh
George Dishong
Floyd Shelton
Keller & Weltner
Bernard Powell
George Arnold
Nona Lane
Roe Rorick
Ruth Maffin Pleads Guilty in Nelsonville Court
Mrs Ruth Maffin of Nelsonville pleaded guilty at arraignment before Mayor Herman Ogg for intoxication. She was fined 25 dollars plus costs and sentenced to 10 days in jail.
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Nelsonville
Ruth Maffin
Nelsonville Rt
Herman Ogg
City Mail To Be Delivered Saturday
Nelsonville Post Office will observe the usual Saturday schedule on July 4 with city deliveries and the office open. No rural mail delivery will be made that morning. Postmaster J B Preston announced the change.
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Nelsonville
J. B. Preston
Defense Week Proclaimed in Nelsonville
Nelsonville adopts Civilian Defense Week July 4 to 12 under Governor Bricker and Mayor Herman Ogg. Citizens urged to display flags and participate with the local defense council, marking America’s fight for freedom and planning patriotic observances for future war holidays.
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Nelsonville
John W. Bricker
Ohio State Council of Defense
Herman Ogg
Civilian Defense Council
Defense Council
Children Will Give Program at Nelsonville First Methodist
The Sunday School of the First Methodist Church Nelsonville will convene at 9:30 Sunday morning for a special Children's Day program rendered by pupils. Rev. William M. George will preach at 10:30 on Religion Does Work. Union services at 7:30 p.m. at the Presbyterian Church with Rev. George preaching on A Chart of Spiritual Power.
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Nelsonville
First Methodist Church
William M. George
Union
Presbyterian Church
George
Methodist Church
Neiman Rites Held Today for A B Neiman
Funeral services were held today at 1 o clock for Mr A B Neiman who died Thursday after a long illness at his home in Nelsonville Ohio The service was at Snider Funeral Home Columbus burial followed He is survived by two sons Bernard and one other son a brother Morris of Massillon and two sisters Mrs Jeannette Pastor Cincinnati and Mrs Lena Harris Hamilton
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Nelsonville
A. B. Neiman
Snider Funeral Home
Columbus
Barney
Morris
Massillon
Jeanette Pastor
Cincinnati
Lena Harris
Hamilton
E. E. Inboden
Max Hoskins
Lancaster
Oscar Inboden
Calvary Lutheran Church
Missionary Society To Offer Program At First Baptist
NELSONVILLE The Missionary Society of First Baptist Church will hold a monthly meeting on Sunday July 5 at 10 30. The program features prayer by Mrs Bessie Johnson scripture reading by Mrs Priscilla Christian song led by Mrs James Colbert discussion led by president Mrs Earnest Chapman on Missions a trio by Dorothy Mae Ruth Ann and Mary Etta Brunston recitation by Kenneth Chapman and a Junior Class song The public is invited Mrs Earnest Chapman serves as president and Mrs Delia Lewis is pianist.
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Nelsonville
The
Missionary Society of First Baptist Church
Bessie Johnson
Priscilla Christian
James Colbert
Earnest Chapman
Dorothy Mae
Ruth Ann
Mary Etta Brunston
Kenneth Chapman
Delia Lewis
Plan Stover Rites for Roscoe Stover Saturday
Roscoe Stover funeral rites are set for Saturday at 2 PM at the residence on Nelsonville Route 3. Burial will follow in Davis Cemetery nearby.
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Nelsonville
Roscoe Stover
Davis Cemetery
Nelsonville Logan and Carbon Hill Play Saturday Ball Game
Nelsonville Logan and Carbon Hill teams clash in the City Twilight League at the City Playground Nelsonville Saturday July 4 at 2 30 in the afternoon announced today.
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Nelsonville
Logan
Carbon Hill
City Playground
Nelsonville Social Notes and Local Tidings
Nelsonville couples Ander son and Rosenkrantz secured a New York City license to marry June 30 and were wed in City Chapel by Deputy City Clerk Philip A. Hines. Funeral attendance noted for Oscar Inboden in Lancaster. Local notes report S E Dean’s return from Youngstown and Columbus, plus visits and trips by several residents including Miss Georgia Parker and Miss Clara Keys.
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Nelsonville
Marie Anderson
Second Ave
New York City
Fred Anderson
Saul Rosenkrantz
Goden Rosenkrantz
New York
Philip A. Hines
Rosenkrantz
Russia
Christian Church Schedule for Nelsonville on July 5
The Church of Christ in Nelsonville lists services for Sunday with Bible School at 9:30 a.m. led by Rev. L. E. Evans on the sermon Freedom True or False. The 6 p.m. Intermediate Christian Endeavor and 7:30 p.m. Union Evening Service at the Presbyterian Church with Rev. William George. Week events include a 7:30 p.m. official board meeting Monday in the pastor’s study, choir rehearsal Tuesday, and mid week meeting Wednesday.
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Nelsonville
Church of Christ
Bible
L. E. Evans
The
Presbyterian Church
William George
Commission Meets Nelsonville In City Baseball Session
An important meeting of the City Baseball Commission will convene this evening by 7 o'clock in the mayor's office at City Hall.
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Commission
Nelsonville
City Baseball Commission
City Hall
Williams M George to preach at Concord Union Church
Rev. William M. George of Nelsonville will preach Sunday at 2 30 in the Concord Union Church located three miles east of Jacksonville.
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Concord Services
Concord
William M. George
Nelsonville
Concord Union Church
Jacksonville
WPA Suspends Work To Check Inventory
WPA activities in Gallipolis are suspended for the weekend supposedly for inventory. Reports say several WPA workers seek private employment amid expected personnel cuts. No city or county projects are planned with WPA aid, and the organization's future remains uncertain to permit new building.
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WPA
Gallipolis
Gallipolis Social Notes and Party Honors
Gallipolis society brief notes from Westerman Church outing at Evergreen with a patriotic program and a fortune teller. A Tuesday party hosted by Mr. and Mrs. Marion Scarberry honored son James before military service. Various travel, family, and club updates follow, including returns to Los Angeles and naval mentions.
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Gallipolis
Ladies’ Aid Society
Westerman Church
Evergreen
Marion Scarberry
James
Mrs McIntyre Hosts Guest Mr O McIntyre
Mrs O O McIntyre spent Wednesday with her brother in law and other relatives, continuing family visit.
Portland Social Notes Highlights Local Visits and Moves
Portland residents shared weekend visits with relatives from Kananga Gal lipolis Honolulu Rochester N Y and Athens while others hosted relatives from Clarington Long Bottom and Columbus. Several families reported moves teaching jobs and extended visits including Letart Falls Akron East Liverpool Ravenswood and Coolville with Eileen Marilyn and Thelma Ours Schmit and other locals noted.
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Portland
W. E. McDade
Kananga
George Bush
Jane
Gallipolis
Ford
Billy Recently
Honolulu
James Morresey
Rochester
N. Y
Jane Morgan
Athens
van E. McDade
W. G. McKelvey
Clarington
Linnie Swan
Long Bottom
Harry Swan
Belva Cox
Columbus
J. M. Cox
Earl T. Scott
Letart Falls
Eber Ours
van F. McDade
Hinton
Gerald Ours
Thelma Ours
Joe Schmit
Anna Price
Ralph Radcliff
Middleport
Edna Paynter
Kate Mills
R.N
Akron
Essie Alexander
Charles Slaughter
East Liverpool
James Slaughter
Charles Ward
Bill Hall
Ravenswood
Clarence Price
Mary Jo Swan
Even
Richard Henderson
Eileen
Coolville
Mattie Henderson
Marilyn
Thas
Hare
No Bicycle Sales Are Being Made In Gallipolis
In Gallipolis a local business reportedly holds bicycles but has frozen stock since May 1. Purchases require rationing board permission, which has not issued releases. Dealers cannot secure more bicycles for sale and urge owners to guard against theft or accidents.
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Gallipolis
Court Officials Anticipate Rush of Marriages
Gallipolis probate officials expect a weekend marriage license surge. Recent licenses include Joe E. McCombs, 24, Pittsburgh, and Virginia Roush, 24, Gallipolis. Victor Bradshaw, 29, and Alice Bradshaw, 41, Point Pleasant. Kenneth White, 24, Mercerville, and Laura Davis, 21, Bladen. W. W. Taylor, 53, and Gladys Campbell, 37, Charleston.
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Gallipolis
Joe E. McCombs
Pittsburgh
Virginia Roush
Victor P. Bradshaw
Alice C. Bradshaw
Point Pleasant
Kenneth L. White
Mercerville
Laura E. Davis
Bladen
W. W. Taylor
Gladys Campbell
Charleston
Weather instrument found on D. B. Swisher farm near Cheshire
A meteorological measuring device supported by balloons was found on the D. B. Swisher farm near Cheshire and returned to the weather bureau station at Chesapeake. It was then sent back into the air.
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Gallipolis
D. B. Swisher
Cheshire
Weather Bureau
Chesapeake
Methodists Plan Picnic on Rio Grande Campus
Gallia county Methodist congregations plan a picnic and program on the Rio Grande College campus Saturday July 12. Various communities will present program numbers.
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Methodists
Rio Grande
Gallipolis
Rio Grande College
Carman Confined To Home In Addison After Fall
S R Carman is bedfast at his Addison home for several weeks due to back injuries from a fall.
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Gallipolis
S. R. Carman
Addison
Hold Sales Today at Gallipolis Stockyards
Livestock suction sales were held today at the Gallipolis stockyards instead of Saturday and reports indicate brisk trading throughout the day.
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Gallipolis
Contractors Rushing Paving on Point Pisusait Streets
POINT PLEASANT Stellhorn and Beightler contractors near completion of the third concrete slab on Viand Street. Work continues at the Main and Sixth Street intersection and the approach to Silver Bridge with minimal traffic disruption. Price Construction likely to finish pouring concrete between Fourteenth Street and Jackson Avenue today. Once opened, congestion on the new highway between ordnance work and the city should ease early next week.
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Point Pleasant
Stellhorn
Beightler
Viand St
Main
Sixth Sts
Silver Bridge
Price Construction Company
Fourteenth St
Jackson Ave
Marriage Unites Virginia Roush and Private Joe McCombs
Magistrate Robert Queen officiated a Gallipolis ceremony joining Virginia Roush of Pt. Pleasant to Private Joe McCombs of Pittsburgh. The bride wore a brown and white silk dress with red roses, the groom in Army uniform. Attendants included Carl Brustle, Kathleen Dyer, Martha Miller, Emily Hope, and McCombs’s comrades Joe Unger and Sgt John Heldenbrand. The bride, daughter of P. E. and Mrs. Roush, lives in White Church, is a Senior High School graduate and West Virginia Ordnance Works employee. The groom, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. McCombs, is a Pittsburgh high school graduate and serving with a VU.S. Army detachment on the Mine Planter Hunt at the local shipyard.
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Point Pleasant
Robert Queen
Virginia Roush
Joe McCombs
Pittsburgh
Gallipolis
Carl Bruestle
City
Kathleen Dyer
Martha Miller
New Haven
Emily Hope
Gallipolis Ferry
Four Brooklyn and Maryland women visit Miss Wright
Mrs Bertha Bitman and Mrs Lyda Carlan from Brooklyn New York and Mrs Rosa Powell and her son John from Maryland spent Wednesday night with Miss Bess Wright on Twenty Second Street.
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Bertha Bitman
Lyda Carlan
Brooklyn
N. Y
Rosa Powell
John
Maryland
Bess Wright
Twenty-Second St
Two Men Arrested for Drunkenness in Point Pleasant
Officers Morrison and Redman arrested two men for drunkenness Wednesday night in Point Pleasant. Both are employed in war industries here. They gave their names as D. C. Talbot and James Kelly.
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Point Pleasant
Morrison
Redman
D. C. Talbot
James Kelly
Point Pleasant Teacher Appointed Assistant Railway Agent
Point Pleasant reports that B. Smith, a former public school teacher, has been named assistant railway express agent at Union Station and has begun his new duties.
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Point Pleasant
Smith
Union Station
Charles Price Taken to St Marys Hospital in Critical Condition
Charles Price was removed to St. Marys Hospital Huntington in an ambulance on Wednesday. His condition is reported as critical.
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Point Pleasant
Charles Price
St. Marys Hospital
Huntington
Cutler Social And Personal Notes Highlight Local Delights
Joliette Rebekah Lodge plans a July 8 regular meeting with special entertainment. Local social life includes visits by Chester Rowland and family from MicConnelsville, gatherings at the Welch home for Cecil Rollins army training, and various trips to Columbus and Zanesville. A birth, Phillip Keith Blauser, grandson of Mrs. T. T. Dunbar, is noted alongside residents visiting kin and relatives in Athens, Roswell, and Columbus.
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Cecil Rollins
Richard
Gale Brooker
Everett Bennett
Kenneth
Charles Rollins
Little Hocking
Yemond Welch
Carl Anderson
Marietta
Edward Rasmussen
Fort Hayes
Vera Basim
Zanesville
I. R. Blauser
Phillip Keith
T. T. Dunbar
Lyle Basim
Earl Dye
Columbus
Jeanette
Wanda Goddard
Charlie Law
Wallas Merrill
Chesterhill
Virginia Grubb
Athens
J. T. Grubb
George Carothers
Roswell
New Mexico
J. A. Carothers
Catherine Ann Oakes
Charlene Spencer
Mra
J. V. iLeyda
Mason County War Price and Rationing Board Created
Mason County Ration Board No 26 is renamed Mason County War Price and Rationing Board No 302. Secretary James Johnson says the 3 and 2 designate district and local office. Merchants are turning in March highest price lists, kept on file and available for customers.
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Point Pleasant
Mason County
James Johnson
Charleston
Johnson
Patrolmen Take Two On Intoxication Charge
State trooper Coyner arrested two workers from Tennessee in local war industries on Wednesday night. P. R. Barnes faced Magistrate Sam Taylor and was fined 50 dollars plus costs with his car impounded for six months. P. J. Jones received a 5 dollar fine and costs for drunkenness.
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Point Pleasant
Coyner
Tennessee
P. R. Barnes
Sam Taylor
P. J. Jones
Taylor
Suspect Brain Injury After Highway Collision
Suspect 16 year old Thomas of Salt Creek Clendenin district badly injured after being struck by a car on Route 2 near Salt Creek Bridge. He has not spoken or opened his eyes since the accident last Saturday night though hospital staff note he appears to understand spoken words. Driver Sandy Pyles of Gallipolis Ferry said headlights blinded him and he did not see the victim.
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Point Pleasant
Tilden Thomas
Salt Creek
Clendenin
Holzer Hospital
Young Thomas
Salt Creek Bridge
Route 2
Sandy Pyles
Gallipolis Ferry
Pyles
Point Pleasant Worker Discharged After Eye Injury
Clifton Stormer of Point Pleasant was discharged from Point Clinic after eye injuries from exploding tar while working on a highway job. His condition is satisfactory.
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Point Pleasant
Clifton Stormer
City
Point Clinic
Final Count Shows 707 Men Register
Final count of men registering for military service as of June 30 reached 707, reported by Donald Roush clerk of the draft board at Point Pleasant.
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Point Pleasant
Donald Roush
State Theater Filled for Opening
POINT PLEASANT The new State Theater showed Sundown to two capacity audiences at the opening Wednesday evening. Manager Filson was pleased with the start of his third theater venture and patrons commended the theater and the picture. Staff includes Mrs William Filson in the box office Walter Bulmer former Hartford projection machine operator Vernon Miller doorman.
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Point Pleasant
New State Theater
Filson
William Filson
Walter Bulmer
Hartford
Vernon Miler
Teacher Buys Cottage in Roseberry Addition
The Hutchinson Realty Co. reports the sale of a new five room cottage on Route 62 in Roseberry Addition, north of the city limits, to Mrs. Irene Brooks a public school teacher. Mr. Brooks is a Marietta employee.
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Point Pleasant
Hutchinson Realty Co
Roseberry Addition
W. c. Nolte
Parkersburg
Irene Brooks
Brooks
Marietta
Par sons Relief Cashier Substitutes at Parkersburg Liquor Store
A. F. Parsons of Point Pleasant stands in as relief cashier at the Parkersburg state liquor store for two weeks while manager Earl Gibbs takes vacation.
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Point Pleasant
A. F. Parsons
Parkersburg
Earl Gibbs
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