Skeleton discovery on Gallia County grounds stirs missing youth case
In Gallia County a boyish skeleton fragment was found on Cottage B hill by two youths. Coroner Dr. Warehime and officials inspect bones suggesting a 17 to 20 year old male. Buckles and buttons offer little clues. link to missing patient Benjamin Slife, 15, reported missing July 10, 1962, is considered.
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Gallipolis
Cottage B
Ofle
Donald Warehime
G. G. Kincon
OME
Elmer Hatfield
Warehime
Benjamin Slife
Ohle
Gallipolis Personal News Highlights Local Visits and Travel
Mrs. C. O. McIntyre leaves for Grand Canyon Arizona planning to stay at El Tovar Hotel to view sights. Frank Smith of Youngstown visits daughter in Gallipolis with Il. Atkinson from Huntington back home. Dr and Mrs Donald Warehime host Mrs C E Hoskins Nelsonville. Helen Huntington Summerville visit Stanley Huntington and family. L C Dayton family on two week Michigan vacation. Robert Martin family relocate from Fairfield Illinois to Salem Ohio for oil company transfer.
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C. O. McIntyre
Gatewood
Grand Canyon
Arizona
el Tovar
Frank Smith
Youngstown
B. Atkinson
National Life & Accident Company
Huntington
Donald Warehime
C. E. Hoskins
Nelsonville
M. G. Summerville
Helen Huntington
Stanley Huntington
Gallipolis
L. C. Dayton
Michigan
Robert Martin
Buddy
Susan
Fairfield
Salem, Til
Mr. Martin
Barge Oil Company
Neva Wilt
el Paso
Texas
Viva Hines
William D. Ball
Briggs Field
Mae Ball
Harrisonville
Hattie McKenzie
Pearl Ash
Holzer Hospital
Harry Gross
Helen Winn
Cuyahoga Falls
Fred Winn
John Wilson
Cleveland
Tom Smith
Thelma Michael
Columbus
Floyd Dunfee
Robert
Edward Schoonover
Camp Knox
Kentucky
Freda Schoonover
Nyman Hogue
Nashville
Tenn
Farr Hogue
Dwight Kennedy
Vera Marie Roush
Elsie Jean Roush
Charles Kennedy
Donald
Lewis Kennedy
Junior
Army
Edith Kennedy
John White
Bert Beard
Charleston
Rathburn Department Store
M. E. Rathburn
Forrest McCann
Nitro
Clarence Price
Walter France
Rutland Needle
4-H Club Work Up In Gallia County
Gallia County 4-H reports include Bladen Victory Club holding its third meeting July 14 at Virginia Ross’s home with refreshments and games. The next meeting is set for July 28 at 2 30 p m at Dorothy Davis’s home. Rip Pins and Needles group leader Mrs Eldon Wiseman taught ruckrack sewing after business discussion July 16. The group’s next gathering will be with Mrs Wiseman July 21.
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Gallipolis
Gallia County
Bladen Victory
Virginia Ross
EWT
Dorothy Davis
Rosena Wiseman
Eldon Wiseman
Wiseman
Births and discharges at Halzer Hospital and 4 H staff meeting
New arrivals at Halzer Hospital include Mrs. Robert Hoover with a baby girl at 6 15 a m and Mrs Russell Lake Racine with a baby boy at 4 07 a m on Saturday plus listed patients Mary Lou Waugh seven in Bladen and several others under medical care. Discharges include Albert Romine Jane Ann Stover and others. A Gallipolis 4 H staff meeting with steak fry on Mound Hill at 7 p m Thursday will include county and home demonstration agents from Gallia Meigs Lawrence Jackson and Vinton counties.
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Galltpolis
Halzer Hospital
Robert Hoover
Russell Lake
Racine
Mary Lou Waugh
Bladen
William Knowles
Jackson
Charles A.troth
Vinton Medical
Alban Adkins
Pleasant
Albert Neale
Medical
Albert Romine
Dexter
Jane Ann Stover
Hartford
Ara Swisher
Baby
Cheshire
Clark Wills
Henry Vansickle
Gallipolis
Norman -Hysell
Pomeroy
Gilbert Clark
Wellston
Paul Pope
Patriot
4-H Club
Mound Hill
Gallia
Meigs
Lawrence
Vinton
First Story of New Haynes Building In Point Pleasant Nears Completion
POINT PLEASANT. First story of brick tile building of Harold Haynes on Fourth and Main has been laid up and steel girders placed for a second floor. Both floors will be concrete and the building designed to resist flood damage. With the Lowe Hotel Post Office and Odd Fellows on the other corners, this intersection becomes the city’s most attractive.
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Point Pleasant
Harold Haynes
Fourth
Main Sts
Lowe Hotel
Post Office
Odd Fellows
Fourth and Main
All River Boats Working at Capacity
River traffic has resumed at full force with no idle boats and higher demand than facilities can handle. Twenty-one new towboats for the Philadelphia Office U S Engineers will be commissioned soon to haul petroleum products from Mississippi River points to Pittsburgh for eastern transshipment.
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Point Pleasant
Robert Kleslop
Philadelphia
U. S. Engineers
Messenger
Mississippi River
Pittsburgh
Pt Pleasant Personal Notices Highlight Local Week End Visits
Pt Pleasant residents share weekend visits across cities and towns. Mr and Mrs Kari H Arnett visited Charleston camp with Euell Arnett. Sgt Emmett Fowler stopped here en route to Camp Haan California. Lawrence Mattox Seaman Second Class is home on furlough from Washington to his parents.
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Point Pleasant
Kari H. Arnett
Jacqueline Windsor
Nancy Dunn
Charleston
George H. Overhglt
Overholt
Sergeant Emmett Fowler
Emmett Fowler
Madison Ave
Aberdeen
Camp Haan
Calif
Lawrence Mattox
Washington
Carl Mattox
Logg Reports River Shipping Figures for 1941
Walter Parker notes Mississippi and tributaries show growing freight despite common belief of decline. 1941 tonnages: Mississippi 22,818,000. Ohio 36,556,854. Monongahela 31,357,375. Ohio up 500 percent since 1918. Monongahela up 200 percent. Monongahela navigable length 128 miles vs Ohio 1,000. Panama Canal prewar traffic 30,647,768 tons in 1929. Soo Locks total 120,199,479 in 1942.
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Point Pleasant
Marietta
Walter Parker
New Orleans
Mississippi
Ohio
Monongahela
Parker
Panama Canal
Soo Locks
Panama
Suez
Keil
Point Clinic reports birth at Point Pleasant
The Point Clinic in Point Pleasant West Virginia announces the birth of a daughter named Elizabeth Louise to Mr and Mrs Leo Gleason. The infant weighed 5 pounds 12 ounces. Discharges at the weekend included C H Deusser Leon Mrs Robert Stewart Kananga and Mrs Paul Bennett and her infant daughter.
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Point Pleasant
W. Va
Point Clinic
Elizabeth Louise
Leo Gleason
C. H. Deusser
Leon
Robert Stewart
Kananga
Paul Bennett
Marriage license issued for Carl Jordan and Delphia White
A marriage license has been issued to Carl Jordan, 23, of Charleston, and Delphia White, 21, local.
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Point Pleasant
Carl Jordan
Charleston
andDelphia White
State Gazette Will Publish Tax List
Sheriff F B Lieving of Pleasant selects the State Gazette to publish the delinquent tax list at the old price, with the Citizen-Register also publishing as the Democratic paper. The county court had planned to give Ogden papers the listing, but a price increase triggered a cost-saving move with Woodyard Publications offering to reduce expenses.
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Uoint Pleasant
F. B. Lieving
State Gazette
Citizen-Register
Ogden
Henry C. Woodyard
Woodyard Publications, Inc
Lieving
Rotary Club Delegates Committees Named by President Sturm
POINT PLEASANT Committees named by President Harry Sturm of the Rotary Club include Aims and objects with J C Pauley Joe Buffington John Glass Elmer Grueser Emory Hawkes and others. Other panels cover club service voca tional service community service international service membership and boys work with names including Harvey Goodell Dick Melrose Walden Roush and Leon Thompson.
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Point Pleasant
Harry Sturm
Rotary Club
Mr. Sturm
J. C. Pauley
Joe Buffington
John Glass
Elmer Grueser
Emory Hawkes
Charles Bechtle
Harvey Goodell
Roy W. Eschenaur
A. E. Tullohh
Dick Melrose
Bill Carpenter
H. A. Johnson
Walden Roush
Leon Thompson
Dr. Eschenaur
Johnson
Tulloh
Youths Held on Automobile Theft Charge in Point Pleasant
State police and Deputy Sheriff Ernest Hesson rounded up three local youths Saturday evening on auto theft charges. They are suspected of taking another car Friday from the Mason County Motor Co. on Viand Street and likely face arraignment today.
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Point Pleasant
Ernest Hesson
Mason County Motor Co
Viand St
Luckydoo sells house and two lots in Point Pleasant
Alva Luckydoo sold a five room house and two lots at 1156 Franklin Ave to Mr and Mrs Henry K Hoschar of Ripley Road. Possession will be in 15 days. Hoschar works at the shipyard. Luckydoo buys a farm near Letart. Rupert L Kayser represented Luckydoo.
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Point Pleasant
Alva Luckydoo
Franklin Ave
Henry K. Hoschar
Ripley Road
Hoschar
Luckydoo
Letart
Rupert L. Kayser
Knapp Rites Held for Thomas H Knapp
Funeral services for 80 year old Thomas H Knapp were held Saturday from his daughter Mrs Maggie Plants home on Route 2 out of Leon Rev Wilbur Baxter officiated. He was a retired farmer.
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Point Pleasant
Thomas H. Knapp
Maggie Plants
Leon
Wilbur Baxter
Knapp
Rutland Church Group Hosts Picnic and Social
Rutland and Langsville area notes report the Methodist Church group from Rutland hosting a Sunday picnic at the Barnes farm with about 70 members, large food spreads, games, and social time. Farm Advisory Council met at Patters home Friday. papers read and refreshments served. Numerous local visits and furloughs are noted, with veterans and families visiting Columbus, Marietta, and Columbus area colleagues. The Rutland 4-H Needle-Thimble Club met at the Methodist Church with several members and visiting girls attending.
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Rutland
Paul Barnes
Langsville
Methodist Church of
Farm Advisory Council No. 1
O. O. Patters
Attorney Johnson Auctions 166 Acre Han nan District Land
Home for Week End Point Pleasant West Virginia reports Attorney J G F Johnson was in town over the week end acting as special commissioner and auctioned 166 acres in Hann an District. C G P Musgrave bid $1 000 as the sole bidder. A bystander familiar with the property said it appears good land and noted it formerly belonged to Wesley Cobb.
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Point Pleasant
W. Va
J. G. F. Johnson
Washington
Hannan
Circuit Court
C. G. P. Musgrave
Wesley Cobb
Flat Rock Man Held for Intoxication and Resisting Officer
Flat Rock resident Carl Robinson was arrested over the weekend and charged with intoxication and resisting an officer. Officer C. E. Yeager made the arrest. Roy Yost of Arbuckle and Brownie Stewart of First St were also arrested for intoxication by Jiiden, Redman, and Officer Caldwell.
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Point Pleasant
Carl Robinson
Flat Rock
C. E. Yeager
Jiiden
Redman
Roy Yost
Arbuckle
Caldwell
Brownie Stewart
First St
Former Gallipolis Resident Succumbs
Ernest Leroy Gerlach former Gallipolis resident died Friday morning at 2 45 in a Huntington hospital after a stroke a week earlier His widow Jessie Stuart is a daughter of the late John T Stuart He is survived by two daughters Mrs Mitchell Slifkin of Harrisburg Pa and Mrs William G Evans Jr whose husband serves in the armed forces in Madison Wis Rev S B Hart officiated at the Klinger Carpenter Church Huntington and burial followed at Woodmere Cemetery
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Gallipolis
Klinger-Carpenter
Huntington
Ernest Leroy Gerlach
West Virginia
Jessie Stuart
John T. Stuart
Gerlach
Mitchell Slifkin
Harrisburg
William G. Evans, Jr
Madison, Wis
Fined in Court for intoxication in Gallipolis
Fred Brick faced a $10 fine in Municipal Court for intoxication. Ira Clyde Pearl Taylor and Albert Johnson were fined $5 each for intoxication. All were arrested Friday night by local police. French Knox was apprehended at 2 30 p m Saturday and charged with intoxication.
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Gallipolis
Fred Brick
Ira
Clyde
Pearl Taylor
Albert Johnson
French Knox
Gallipolis Camp Personnel Named for Tar Hollow Camp
Mendel Beat, coach at Rio Grande College, named recreational director for the women’s two day Tar Hollow camp to be held next Saturday and Sunday. Janet Booth of Gallia County named life guard after earning a Red Cross senior life saving certificate and serving as relief guard at Gallipolis Swimming Pool.
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Gallipolis
Mendel _ Beattie
Rio Grande College
Tar Hollow
Janet Booth
Gallia County
Miss Booth
Red Cross
Gallia Golfers Defeat West Virginia Team in Match
Gallipolis Golf Club defeated West Virginia Ordnance Workers by more than two to one on the O. H. E. links Sunday afternoon. Gallipolis led with 31% points to 14% for the WV group in the early score tally.
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Gallipolis
Rees Sells 144 Acre Farm in Garners Ford
Perry Township resident John D. Rees sold his 143.75 acre Garners Ford farm to Dewey and Julia Haskins of Huntington. Deed stamps show about 7000 dollars for the property. The deal was arranged by Dillon Wiseman and Wickline.
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Gallipolis
John D. Rees
Perry Township
Garners Ford
Dewey and
Julia Haskins
Huntington
Dillon, Wiseman & Wickline
Mineral Social Notes page highlights local visits and incidents
Newport News and wife Carlos Buckley host Min Buckley and relatives including Mrs. Anna Mae Shingler and Pilly visiting Mr. and Phil Sheridan in Barberton and Portsmouth. Local residents attend hospital, church events, birthdays, and a July 14 anniversary.
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Newport News
Carlos Buckley
Dayton
Buckley
Anna Mae Shingler
Pilly
Phil Sheridan
Barberton
Opal
Pidcock
Portsmouth
Lafer
Charles Addis
Nannie Addis
William Jenkins Ang Ter
Eilene
Robert Riley
Columbus
Charles Woods
Sandra
Opbury Ridge
Dewey McDanie
Grandpa Musgrave
Sheltering Arms Hospital
Lucy Buckley Ler
Lucy Stephengy
Akron
Tives
Fillmore Taylor
U. S. Army
Camp Carson
Orado
Marjory Goodwin
William
Mineral
Carlos md
Bond Forfeiture In Gallipolis Driving Without License
George Jay Jackson forfeited a $10 bond in Municipal Court after being stopped by the State Highway Patrol Friday evening for driving without a license. A marriage license was issued Saturday to Harley Greenlief, 24, of Chesapeake, manager of the recreation building, and Dorothy Warfe, 21, of Crown City, later of Vernon Warfe. Earl Moor
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Gallipolis
George Jay Jackson
State Highway Patrol
Harley Greenlief
Chesapeake
Dorothy Warfe
Crown City
Vernon Warfe
Earl Moor
No Beer Expected in Point Pleasant This Week
A local distributor said yesterday that beer likely will return to the city this week despite a liquor store closure. Rationing will begin in August. Rio de Janeiro now reports over a million cents in population figures.
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Point Pleasant
W. Vai
Rio de Janeiro
Brazil
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