West Virginia Prison Escapee Captured Near Gallipolis
Olan Mollahan, 31, escaped from the Glenwood West Virginia prison camp and fled into Ohio. He was arrested near the state hospital farm by State Patrolman W C Goodhart and Deputy Sheriff Morton Dickey, after riding with several motorists. Mollahan, convicted for armed robbery, was found with razor blades and a homemade knife. Authorities caution motorists to avoid giving rides to strangers and note many prisoners in the camp have prior records. Mollahan previously claimed Joca West Virginia as his home and sought to reach Charleston.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
West Virginia
Glenwood
Ohio River
Crown City
Olan Mollahan
W. C. Goodhart
Morton Dickey
State Hospital Farm
Mollahan
Ohio
Eureka
Emerson Evans
Walter Jenkins
Cheshire
Jenkins
Hatfeld
Mollohan
Kanawha County
Charleston
W. Va
Moundsville
Hatfield
Molchan
Joca
County Faces Shortage of Instructors in Rural High Schools
Gallipolis reports a teacher shortage across seven rural high schools. H. Bion Bradbury, county superintendent, notes sufficient grade school staff remain. Bidwell and Vinton will share one vocational agriculture teacher, Thomas K. Bell, after James L. Clark resigns from Vinton. State approval granted for dual service, Bell to teach half a day at each school.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
H. Bion Bradbury
Bidwell
Vinton
Thomas K. Bell
James L. Clark
State Department
Bell
Water Need Reported At County Institution
Hope is voiced by trustees and acting superintendent at the Children’s Home that county commissioners will act at Monday’s meeting to relieve water scarcity. Gilmore says hauling water from the city and nocturnal filling of containers are current measures while opposing a broken main theory. he favors a deep well for exclusive use and abandoning the city main.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
Board of County Commissioners
R. ©. Gilmore
Board of Trustees
Gilmore
Leonard
Hammocks Exhausted as War Production Takes Priority
Gallipolis reports woven hammocks in short supply as manufacturers shift equipment to war production. For years hammocks have ceded ground to other lawn and porch items and demand has dwindled to nothing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
Grange Meeting Services August 4 at 8 30 PM
Gallipolis Pomona Grange members join Little Kgger Grange for a shared meeting on August 4 at 8 30 PM Dale C Williams a State Agriculture Conservation Committee member will speak lunch will be served
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
Pomona Grange
Little Kgger Grange
Dale C. Williams
State Agriculture Conservation Committee
Rabies test clears Kananga cow. other briefs from Point Pleasant
State labs in Columbus report a cow owned by John Raike of Kananga did not have rabies at death. Marie Burruss of Point Pleasant is fined five dollars and jailed thirty days for drunkenness after arraignment before Magistrate Sam Taylor. A daughter weighing 9 1/2 pounds was born to Mr. and Mrs. I K Zuspan of dap long on Wednesday in Point Pleasant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
Columbus
John Raike
Kananga
Point Pleasant
Marie Burress
Sam Taylor
I. K. Zuspan
Dap Long
Gallipolis Board Allows Married Teachers During War
The Gallipolis education board amended a resolution to employ married teachers for the war duration due to teacher shortages from military and industrial calls. resignations include Dwight Wetherholt and Marie Langdon. Ronald Williams granted navy leave. Kathryn Sheets appointed girls' PE director. new hires Ruth Masters Garnet McKean Virginia Baur. several positions remain open and the calendar sets the Friday Sept 11 start and holiday periods through June 4.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
Board of Education
FE. J. Higgins
Dwight Wetherholt
Marie Langdon
Ronald Williams
Kananga
Navy
Kathryn Sheets
Ruth Masters
Garnet McKean
Virginia Baur
Lincoln
Rent Director Appointment Delayed In Four-County Area
In Gallia, Jackson, Meigs and Mason counties rent control begins July 1 but a Cleveland OPA field rep has not announced a rent director despite saying a local resident would be chosen. He collected about a dozen names for three to report to Cleveland for interrogation. Increased demand due to defense jobs worsens housing shortages and rent hikes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
Cleveland Opa
Gallia
Jackson
Meigs
Mason
Cleveland
General Defense Chemcal Co
U. S. Navy
Point Pleasant
Hemlock Social Notes and Nearby Local Moves
Hemlock social notes record visits by Dr. and Mrs. Vernon Tharp and daughter Chali cothe, Mr. and Mrs. Forrest Dennis, Mrs. Leona Powell of Nelsonville, Miss Lily Mae Lanning, and others returning from Columbus Elyria Grafton Lodge Pole Nebraska Ravenna and Glouster. John Carpenter of the U S Engineer Office Huntington is improving at home. The Daniel Matheny farm well near Leon is drilling at 4200 feet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nolan Williams
Columbus
Jack Williams
Ernest Lanning
Sunday Creek Company
Corning
Goldie Conn
Lodge Pole
Nebraska
Point Pleasant
Daniel Matheny
Leon
Picnic honors Han ninger before military service
Charles Hanninger was the guest of honor at a Roadside Park picnic hosted by C. G. Murphy Store employees on Tuesday night. A farewell gift was presented as he prepares to enter military service, with many associates in attendance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
Charles Hanninger
C. G. Murphy
Afair
I. C. Dayton
Vivian Irion
Ella Belle Chevalier
Margaret West
Madeline Campbell
Bess Grace
Tressa Johnson
Marguerite Pitchford
Eva Mae Clyse
Betty Jordan
Inez Tucker
Edith Sheets North
Shirley Moreau
Edna Mae Cooper
Hazel Graham
Edna Worman
Emily Jones
Edna Ward
Trusel Daniels
Judy Vance
Dale Harbour
To Resume Services at St Peters Episcopal Church
Gallipolis reports services will be resumed at St Peter s Episcopal Church this Sunday after Rev. Charles G. Baird ends a month long vacation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
St. Peter's Episcopal Church
Charles G. Baird
Local golf club members compete in Jackson event
A dozen members of the Gallipolis golf club travel to Jackson for one of two annual Lidlidde de golf competitions, matching up against local players in a regional event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
Jackson
Sugar Purchase Cards To Close With Month
Issuance of canning sugar purchase permits under the current dispensation will close with the month, says Mrs. C. H. Switzer, chief clerk of the rationing board. She expects further issuances later. New office equipment has arrived and more is expected. Volunteers Mrs. Ralph Stevens and Elizabeth Carnes assist in setting up files at the rationing office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
C. H. Switzer
Ralph Stevens
Elizabeth Carnes
Rutland News Notes Rutland Neighborhood Social Updates
Rutland reports Red Cross First Aid class by Miss Vivian Taylor at K P Hall with attendees including Rev. J L Buckley and many others. Local socials list hostesses of W S C 8 S and numerous weekend guests visiting from St Albans Langsville Racine and Columbus.
Revival Services Announced At Baptist Church
Rev. Pat Withrow of Union Mission will conduct revival services at the Baptist Church from August 5 to 9 with two sermons daily. Nearby residents and families, including Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Ogdin and Jennie Werner, visited relatives and friends in Dexter and Pomeroy. Grangers gathered to make candy for service members, while others spent weekends with relatives in Lancaster and Pomeroy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lancaster
Charles McCall
William Swett
A. D. Morrison
W. R. Ogdin
Jennie Werner
G. C. Swearingen
Mamie Webb
Pomeroy
Mame Downie
Legion seeks phonograph records and jars for canning
Members of the American Legion Post and Woman's Auxiliary in Gallipolis report a strong response to appeals for old phonograph records to be repurposed for army camp use and for glass jars to stock school canning. They aim to finish both drives this week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
American Legion Post
Woman's Auxiliary
J R Swisher Dies at Home of Daughter
J R Swisher 86 longtime Addison resident died Wednesday at the home of his daughter Mrs Julia McGhee near Rutland Funeral services set for Friday at 2 p.m. at Addison Baptist Church with Rev. Jennings Cremeens Rev William Crabtree and Rev FE Venz officiating Interment Cheshire's Gravel Hill Cemetery He survived by daughters Mrs Edith Langdon Mrs George Maze Mrs Julia McGhee Mrs D E Roush and Mrs Paul Gordon and son Harry Swisher
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
J. R. Swisher
Addison
Julia McGhee
Rutland
Addison Baptist Church
Jennings Cremeens
William Crabtree
FE. C. Venz
Cheshire
Gravel Hill
Edith Langdon
George Maze
Harry Swisher
Lipolis
D. E. Roush
Middleport
Paul Gordon
Parkersburg
New Haven Garden Club Hosts Monthly Meeting
The New Haven Garden Club gathered last Thursday at Mrs. Lester Ohlinger's home with assistant hostess Velma Roush. Local military news includes Iva Capehart informing her son L Ray Capehart has been commissioned a second lieutenant at Fort Jackson and assigned to the A M C 56 General Hospital. Virginia Mae Johnson is born to Mr. and Mrs. Aston Johnson in Chester West Virginia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Haven
Garden Club
Lester Ohlinger
Velma Roush
Iva Capehart
L. Ray Capehart
Army
Fort Jackson
S. C
General Hospital
Capehart
Officers Quartermaster Training School
Camp Lee
Cap@hart
Cheyenne
Wyo
R. B. Sayre
Leone
Layton Sayre
Elkins
FE. E. Buffington
The
Eastern Star
Jefferson Boulevard
C. L. Whaley
Whaley
James B. Couch
Robert P. Bell
Mae Rhoades
John J. Dower
Nellie Johnson
Huntington
Fred Batey
Harry L. Dyer
C. A. Jiiden
Mason
FHA Grants Loan For Home Building
A Federal Housing Authority loan totaling more than $500,000 funds the erection of 100 dwellings for war workers in Point Pleasant. Country Club Homes, Inc. received the loan and work on the project began nearly two weeks ago in Charleston.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Point Pleasant
Associated Press
Charleston
Federal Housing Authority Administration
Country Club Homes
Report on Judge Clark Grave Condition
Gallipolis reports Probate Judge James S. Clark in grave condition and cared for at home by three nurses with callers denied. Point Pleasant notes Mr. and Mrs. H D Wartenburg to occupy their new Capehart Place home next week and Capt and Mrs Moten Stanley have bought a new home at Jefferson Blvd and 21st St.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
James S. Clark
Point Pleasant
H. D. Wartenburg
Capehart Place
Capt
Moten Stanley
Jefferson Blvd
21St St
Pt Pleas ant business leader to move to Ohio farm
C A Rose owner manager of Point Pleasant Hardware Co plans to move next week to a 30 acre farm near Proctorsville Ohio six miles north of the Huntington Chesapeake bridge in Lawrence County. He will keep the hardware business and retain manager Herman Bradshaw. Rose, a longtime civic figure, has led the Rotary Club Merchants Association and is active in Masons Shrines and the Methodist church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pt. Pleasant
Ohio
Point Pleasant
C. A. Rose
Proctorsville, C
Lawrence County
Clyde Morrow
Rose
Herman Bradshaw
Main St
Paul Thomas
Jason T. Weissenburger
Marietta Manufacturing Co
Wemeldorff and Thomas
Main and Sixth
State
Masonic
Miss Kate Lewis Dies at 80 in Galliopolis Ferry
Miss Kate Lewis age 80 died at her home at Galliopolis Ferry Tuesday of a heart attack. Funeral rites were private and conducted at the home by Harry Oldaker from the Lewis farm staff. Burial was in the family cemetery. She came to Mason County with siblings from Duluth Minnesota after the turn of the century. the Poplar Grove Farm of about 2500 acres belonged to the family. Fred Lewis died about eight years ago. Ruth and Emma survive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Point Pleasant
Kate Lewis
Gallioplis Ferry
Harry Oldaker
Lewis Farm
Fred
Lewis
Hartford Pastor Is Attacked by Snake
Rev Elden Waltz bitten by a copperhead at a Sunday School convention at Beech Hill church. First aid was given by trained attendees and he was taken to Point Pleasant for medical treatment. He is recovering satisfactorily.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hartford
Elden Waltz
Beech Hill Church
Point Pleasant
Point Pleasant Man Takes New Position in Webster Springs
Paul Ray, previously an assistant in the FE Franklin furniture and undertaking firm in Point Pleasant, has secured the manager role at Nichols and Nichols undertaking in Webster Springs and will leave today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Point Pleasant
Paul Ray
FE. FE. Franklin
Nichols and Nichols
Webster Springs
School for Foremen Training to Start at Point Pleasant
An announced program will open a foremen training school in Point Pleasant for local war industries. Registration at Senior High School on Monday evening August 3. Instruction will be under West Virginia University.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Point Pleasant
West Virginia University
Mason County Has Republican Majority
Complete tabulation of Mason County voters for the August 4 primary shows 5,864 Republicans, 4,543 Democrats, 65 Independents, one Prohibitionist, one Socialist, and seven with no politics. Total 10,481, down over 2,000 from last registration. Republican majority 1,321. Compiled by Mrs. Emma Burnside, deputy county clerk in charge of registration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Point Pleasant
Mason County
Emma Burnside
Engagement for Miss Mary Louise Lewis in Pt Pleasant
Mrs. Loula Lewis announces the engagement of her daughter Miss Mary Louise Lewis to Sergeant Edwin M. Brown son of Mr and Mrs Frank Brown of Main St The vows will be read by Rev Chalmers F McCutchen at the Presbyterian Church on Friday July 31 at seven thirty o clock The wedding is informal Invitations are not issued but friends are asked to attend Miss Lewis a Senior High School graduate and West Virginia Ordnance Works employee presides over the Junior Woman's Club Brown recently returned from a Guatemala furlough and will soon report to Fort Benning Ga for officers training He is a Senior High School graduate who attended Rio Grande College and excelled in athletics
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Point Pleasant
Loula Lewis
Viand St
Mary Louise Lewis
Edwin M. Brown
Frank
Main St
Chalmers F. McCutchen
Presbyterian Church
West Virginia Ordnance Works
Sergeant Brown
Guatemala
Central America
Fort Benning
Rio Grande College
Health officials announce TB clinic visit in Point Pleasant
Mason County health department says the state tuberculosis diagnostic trailer and staff will be at the Point Pleasant health office on August 5 and 6. Citizens should notify the department to schedule an appointment. local physicians and the tuberculosis association will operate the clinic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Point Pleasant
Masson County
Reverend Clarence Maddy Returns to Point Pleasant
Rev Clarence Maddy returns to Point Pleasant after illness in Clarksburg and heart attack in Maryland. He heads the Mountain State Mission of North Point Pleasant, an institution known for charitable and religious activities in the area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Point Pleasant
E. H. Arnett
Clarksburgh
Clarence Maddy
Maddy
Maryland
Clarksburg
Mountain State Mission
North Point Pleasant
Local residents host visiting Chesnutt kin in Uniontown
Eustace Wilson of the city water department returns from Charleston after visiting friends Mrs Aurelia Chesnutt of Tennessee and Miss Elizabeth Chesnutt of Pittsburgh. Mr and Mrs G B Woodard hosted a dinner for Mr and Mrs Charles W Van Matre and their guests Mrs Aurelia Chesnutt and Miss Elizabeth Chesnutt at Fourth Street residence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Uniontown
Charleston
Eustace Wilson
City Water Department
Aurelia Chesnutt
Tenessee
F Elizabeth Chesnutt
Pittsburgh
Kansas
Also Mentioned on This Page
Athens
Gallia County
Grange
Sir Charles Auchinleck
8Th Army
Hemlock
Homer Trimmer
Walter Dennis
Ralph McDaniel
Harvey McArtor
James and
Noble McArtor
Ravenna
John Carpenter
U. S Engineer Office
Holzer Hospital
Carpenter
Gallipolis Social Notes
Huber Lanier
Cleo
Charlotte
Donald Barnett
Mary Cain
Mason Kennedy
Mrs
Chic
Lewis Switzer
Thomas Chic
Mary Soles
Lando Eblin
Paul Preston
Newport News
J. P. Brumfield
Eblin
Baltimore
Genevieve Hulick
Veterans’ Hospital
Dayton
W. R. White
C. H. Baxter
Ellis Halley
Worthington
Kathryn Annette
John Jeffers
Pvt
Joe Jeffers
Fredericksburg
Fort Knox Ky
Ralph Jeffers Bladen
George Luckey
Lexington
Emmet Bostic Bladen
Charles ©. Taylor
Fort Sam Houston
Tex
Herman Fierdbaugh
Nina Marie
Verne Stout
Circleville
Emma Beman
Columbus House
Martha McCormick
David M. Beman
Thurman
Rutland News
O. O. Patterson
Brown
Zerbe
Floyd Thomas
Elsie Jean Roush
Marcus Roush
M. E. Rathburn
David Young
Dor Schaefer
Nora McNaughton
Catherine Morris
Lowell
C. A. Chapman
Jean
Marshal Phillips
Webb Hall
Don Standley
John Standley
Carpenter Social Briefs
Isaly
New Haven Garden Club
Marjorie Batey
Gerald A. Staib
Weirton
R. F. Morgan
Dorothy Capehart
Morgans
Mr. Staib
Aston Johnson
Virginia Mae
Johnsons
Chester
Johnson
FHA
Mason Hardware
Lae
Lyon
Three
Bob Steele
Tom Tyler
Rule Davis
Spy Smasher
Mrs. Buffington
Nelson A. Park
Jackson Ave
Edith Mercer
Coraopolis
Bess Gygax
Walter A. Windsor
Windsor
Cary Howard Rayburn
Halliday
Harry Roush
Milton L. Miller
Roy Deem
Portsmouth
Navy Yard
Bertha Condee
Frank T. Cady
Cady
Lebanon
Joe Cady
Mary McCulloch
Maxwell Byers
Kirkby Lenton
St. Albans Episcopal Church
Grace
Mable Gibbons
Mary Eugenia McCulloch
W. H. Morgan
Buell
Health Department
Colonial Finance CO
Berry Hotel
Bidg
Araena
Teb Perera Peal
Donlevy Hopkins
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!