Gallia County tenants seek Farm Security loans
Gallia County farmer families apply for tenant purchase loans under the Farm Security Administration program. A county committee will collect applications and recommend to the FSA. Loans run 40 years at 3 percent and cover farm purchase plus building repairs and soil and pasture improvements. Families must select a suitable family type farm and present a sound management plan. About 125 rural Gallia families have already benefited.
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Gallipolis
Gallia County
Laurence L. Holliday
Federal Farm Security Administration
Farm Security Administration
Holliday
Jennie Nelson
Changes in Gallia age office names and appointments
Cecil Halley as administrator and Howard Ward with Mrs Leota Kernan and Mrs Robert Betz as investigators were informed of their appointments to the aid for the aged office. Betz becomes provisional, Kernan advances from clerk, others are new appointees passing civil service exams in Athens with Republican county committee backing.
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Gallipolis
Cecil Halley
Howard Ward
Leota Kernan
Robert Betz
Office of Aid For
Betz
Kernan
Athens
Republican County Executive Committee
County Agricultural Society To Meet Friday
Gallia county agricultural society members have been called to meet in the county agent's office Friday night by president John McNealey. The agenda includes plans for the annual fall festival. Betty Henke resigns Lazarus post to teach in Northwestern University's graduate school of retailing in Chicago.
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Gallipolis
County Agricultural Society
John McNealey
Chicago
Betty Henke
Lazarus
Columbus
Graduate School of Retailing
Northwestern University
Commissioners May Cut WPA Sewing Work
Gallia County commissioners consider discontinuing the WPA sewing center at Gar field School due to proposed sale. Annual county maintenance runs about $6,000 covering rent heat and light and materials. Seams workers reduced to 25 with staff additions. Clothing is distributed quarterly to indigents and surplus commodities.
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Gallipolis
Garfield
WPA
Board of
Gallia County Commissioners
Gallipolis Considers Welcoming Plan for New Residents
Gallipolis chamber officials discuss a newcomer welcome plan similar to other cities. A chamber rep would visit new residents with calling cards and offer flowers merchandise trade discounts and other tokens to help them feel at home.
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Gallipolis
Chamber of Commerce
Navy Net Tender Leaves for New Orleans
The Gum Tree first of four navy net tenders built at Marietta Manufacturing Co Pt Pleasant departed Gallipolis for New Orleans under naval officers and crew after several trial trips. Three other similar craft are nearing completion.
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Gallipolis
Marietta Manufacturing Co
Pt. Pleasant
New Orleans
Fined for Driving Car While Intoxicated
Gallipolis reports James Walters of near Adamsville pled guilty to operating a car while intoxicated. He was fined $50 and costs and had his driving rights suspended for six months. James Montgomery, riding with Walters, received a $10 fine and costs for intoxication.
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Gallipolis
James Walters
Adamsville
James Montgomery
Walters
Halley Held on Peace Bond Over Rural Eviction
Peter Halley age 47 is jailed on a peace bond after his wife and mother of ten alleges he evicted the family from a rural home leaving them to sleep outdoors on the property.
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Gallipolis
Peter Halley
Halley
Merritt faces grand jury on drunken and disorderly count
Dallas Merritt of Raccoon Township is charged with drunken and disorderly conduct and resisting an officer. He is held for the grand jury under a $400 bond. Quickle family reunion set for August 31 at Waterworks Park Newark with many Gallia County relatives attending.
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Gallipolis
Dallas Merritt
Raccoon Township
Waterworks Park
Newark
Gallia County
Social notes highlight local picnics and visits
Gallipolis receptions and outings feature the Business and Professional Women's Club picnic at the Henke home. Friends and relatives tour Lake Hope and Crown City areas, with numerous birthday and visiting arrangements across Morgan Township, Columbus, Cincinnati, and beyond.
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Gallipolis
Business and Professional Women’s Club
Robert Henke
First Ave
Cedar St
Thelma White
Bertha Myers
Susie Henke
Laura Rees
Christine Fife
Minnie Arthur
Workmen Paint Steel Structure at Eureka Dam
Painting of the steel superstructure has begun at the Eureka Dam by a large force under private contract. Parts are being coated with aluminum paint and each roller frame is enclosed by a bulkhead before lifting for painting.
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Gallipolis
Eureka Dam
Donation of used aluminum in Gallia County
First presentation of donated aluminum items came from Mr and Mrs W N Summers of Gallipolis who gave cups and pans. A county wide collection is scheduled Thursday and Friday. Ohio Chapel Sunday School and friends plan a roadside park picnic Sunday one mile west of the city.
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Gallipolis
W. N. Summers
Ohio Chapel Sunday School
Centerville Methodist Lawn Fete Planned With Refreshments
Social Gallipolis women sponsor a Centerville lawn fete at the church Thursday night. Refreshments will be served.
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Gallipolis
Centerville
Silver Bridge Floor Laying To Start August First
Floor laying on the Silver Bridge at Kanawha will begin August 1 with an all steel T lock floor costing 60 000. The project, awarded to a Flushing Michigan firm weeks ago, will keep traffic moving during construction. Plans by Dr C E Holzer aim to meet national defense highway specs and mirror the Chickamauga flood escape bridge. Two shovels and 200 workers push a 200 000 WPA backed effort as concrete pours follow piling and steel deliveries arrive.
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Gallipolis
Kananga
Flushing
Mich
C. E. Holzer
Bridge Corporation
Expert Will Talk on Foods In Gallia Co
Gallipolis plans a county wide nutrition convention in mid August. Dr Jonathan Forman of Ohio State Medical College will address welfare workers teachers physicians and others in public health. He will cover proper preparation of common foods conservation of vitamins and healthy cooking methods. Large audiences are anticipated and the public will be invited.
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Gallipolis
Jonathan Forman
Ohio State Medical College
Ohio Journal of Health
States
Naomi Evans
Forman
Vansickle Plunges Into Ohio River to Flee Police
Henry Vansickle of near Thivener is jailed on drunkenness disturbing the peace and wife-quarreling charges. Officers chased him to the levee where he jumped into the Ohio River in a futile escape, then was hauled ashore and placed in city prison to dry out and sober up.
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Gallipolis
Henry Vansickle
Thivener
Vansickle
Ohio
City
Aged Gallia County Woman Dies at 78
Mrs. G. W. Cooper, 78, of Thurman in Gallia County, died Monday after a period of invalidism. Funeral services were held at the Thurman Methodist Church conducted by Rev. C. L. Copley. She is survived by her husband, two daughters Mrs. Dewey Sims of Oak Hill and Mrs. Paul Keyes of Columbus, and two sons Lester of Alice and Stanley of Thurman.
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New Philadelphia
Hollis Elliott
Emarine
Keefers
Columbus
Calvin Stover
Eloise Taylor
Dayton Fife
South Charleston
Richard Simmons
Charleston
Sam Simmons
W. E. Gillespie
Huntington
Eunice Erwin
Cincinnati
Luther Erwin
John Chapman
Cincinati
John Betz
Everett
Wash
Alfred Burke
Bill
Glendon Ervin
Joe Hall
Franklin Furnace
V. C. Birch
Gerald Branson
Birch
Toledo
John Bragg
G. G. Kincon
Mabel Meade
Gallipolis
G. W. Cooper
Thurman
C. L. Copley
Dewey Sims
Oak Hill
Paul Keyes
Lester
Alice
Stanley
News Briefs of Kananga
Kananga residents share visits with relatives and guests from Bladen Ironton Charleston and Gallipolis. A well attended funeral was held for Alva Summers at the Leonard home with Rev. Stephenson officiating.
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Charleston
C. G. Houck
Homer Howards
J. C. Johnson
Church Lawn
Eva Swaim
Wildena Holmes
Gallipolis
Helen Burnette
Holzer Hospital
St. Albans
Hurricane
W. Va
Berkeley Wright
Dubey
Toledo
Fannie Schoonover
Manda Connelly
Bladen
Hilda Spiers
Alva Summers
White Cross Hospital
Columbus
Claude Leonard
J. L. Stephenson
Bidwell
Brick Injures Cambria Superintendent in Fall at Plant
A brick fell 20 feet from a conveyor striking Henry Scott 56 superintendent of Cambria Clay Co at Blackfort. He suffered severe head injuries and bit off the end of his tongue. Scott is hospitalized.
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Gallipolis
Henry Scott
Cambria Clay Co
Blackfort
Scott
County approves 3000 for storm damaged bridges repair
GALLIPOLIS county commissioners allocate 3000 for repair to storm damaged bridges and culverts. Additional appropriations are expected to be necessary.
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Gallipolis
Death of Elizabeth Chapman Poling in Huntington
Mrs. Elizabeth Chapman Poling aged 81 widow of Rev. H L Poling died in Huntington. A native of Crown City she was widely known in the local religious community.
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Gallipolis
Elizabeth Chapman Poling
H. L. Poling
Huntington
Crown City
Bostic Family Plans 15th Reunion at Bethesda Church
The Bostic family will gather for their 15th annual reunion on August 27 at Bethesda Church. A program is scheduled to start at 10 30 a.m.
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Gallipolis
Bostic
Bethesda Church
Harshes Welcome Daughter Logan Born Monday
Mr and Mrs Roscoe Harsh of this city announce the birth of a daughter at the family home on Monday.
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Logan
Roscoe Harsh
Conditions in Germany Described to Rural Women
Gallia County attendees at the Rural Women's Camp heard Mrs. Heinrich Lussheim recount German life under censorship and espionage. She and husband fled to Switzerland then the United States, describing rationing, lack of privacy, and brutal penalties for dissent.
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Germany
Gallipolis
Gallia County
Ross-Hocking
Heinrich Lussheim
Columbus
Switzerland
United States
Lussheim
NYA to Employ 150 on Two Gallipolis Parks
NYA operations at Fortification Hill Park and Vinton Park will begin August 7. Fifty young men will be employed at Fortification Hill and possibly 100 at Vinton Park. Vinton Park covers an acre and a half beside Raccoon Creek with leveled sandy soil, drainage, tree removal and new facilities planned.
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Gallipolis
NYA
Fortification Hill Park
Vinton Park
Raccoon Creek
Raymond Hill Held on Two Break In Charges in Huntington
Huntington police hold Gallipolis man Raymond Hill in jail under a five thousand dollar bond on two counts of breaking and entering. Officers believe he is connected to local robberies and have questioned him about the cases.
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Gallipolis
Raymond Hill
Huntington
Hand Injury Reported at Anchor Hocking Plant
Lawrence Hansley of this city sustained a hand injury while working last week at the Anchor Hocking plant in Lancaster. He has been employed by the company for 12 years.
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Logan
Lancaster
Lawrence Hansley
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