Club To Hold Fund Drive For War Mothers In June
War Mothers Emergency Aid Club in Point Pleasant met in Marietta Manufacturing Company room with Rev. Roy G. Ellis delivering “Rearing One Another's Burdens.” June membership drive aims to fund the year ahead. total contributions came to 360.50 plus a 293.50 check from the Mason County Salvage Committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Point Pleasant
Roy G. Ellis
War Mothers Emergency Aid Club
Marietta Manufacturing Company
Ellis
Sylvia Stewart
Lee Pratt
Robert WH. James
Huntington
James
A. B. McCulloch
Bill Higgins
Clara Gibbs
Big Bend
Mason County Salvage Committee
Frost-Free Night despite Dense Fog in Mason Area
Temperatures dipped to 39 degrees Tuesday night but Mason reported no frost thanks to dense fog. Farmer Ed Fry of Letart said frost there was heavy enough to write his name in it.
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Point Pleasant
Ed Fry
Letart
Leon to Hold Nonpartisan Local Election
Leon is set for a nonpartisan local election next Tuesday with two candidates per office and no party designations. Mayoral candidates are Dr. B F Sommer and Fisher Sayre, recorder nominees Willam Jiiden and Lydia Smith, and ten council candidates for five seats.
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Point Pleasant
Leon
B. F. Sommer
Fisher Sayre
Willam Jiiden
Lydia Smith
Governor Meadows To Be Speaker At Free Toll Bridge Ceremony
Point Pleasant will host a July 4 celebration when Shadle Bridge opens to free passage marking freedom from tolls and foreign tyranny. Gov Clarence W. Meadows will be the principal speaker with Mayor B Walter Krodel chairing the committee. Attendees include former toll commission members H E Shadie Julian G Hearne and H C Brooks.
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Point Pleasant
Haseen
Shadlebridge
Earnest T. Bailey
Charleston
B. Walter Krodel
Clarence W. Meadows
H. E. Shadie
Mason County
Julian G. Hearne
Wheeling
H. C. Brooks
Martinsburg
Shadle
Kanawha
Henderson
Huntington
Pemeror
D. Q
Middleport
Gallipolis
Red Cross Fund Exceeds Mason County Quota
Mason County crosses its Red Cross war fund quota of 10 300 with 10 614 13 raised to date including support for Boy Scout activities All magisterial districts surpassed the target Campaign runs through March but receipts through September credit the fund The Messenger notes the total arrived moments before the call The Pearl Harbor era saw Mason County meeting all Red Cross and War Bond quotas.
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Point Pleasant
John Glass
Red Cross War Fund
Mason County
Glass
Pearl Harbor
Mason Soldier Granted Furlough Extension to July
Cloyd Smith son of Mr and Mrs W A Smith of R3 Leon received a furlough extension to July 10 before reporting back to Battey General Hospital Rome Georgia He is likely the Mason County area’s only veteran to spend 15 months in Greenland. He served on the island west coast with 4000 soldiers and fractured his right leg and both arms on November 4 1944 while working with engineers on a building.
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Point Pleasant
Cloyd Smith
W. A. Smith
Leon
Battey General Hospital
Rome
Smith
Greenland
Angieneers
Georgia Hospital
Mason Courthouse Undergoing Extensive Repairs
Mason County's 88 year old courthouse is undergoing renovations including a new lighting contract not yet finished. Workmen were on the roof repairing gutters and preparing for painting while first floor offices are being painted and the circuit courtroom and hallways are to be brightened.
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Point Pleasant
Mason County
Pt Pleasant Social Notes Highlight June Activities
Mrs. Ben Franklin hosted the first June meeting of the Woman's Society of Christian Service at Trinity Methodist Church with Alta G. Woodard in charge. Talks covered oriental religions and Har brew Catholic and Protestant groups. The group planned monthly meetings through fall and an annual picnic July 12 at Vern Fadeley’s Rugged Rocks farm. Other items note Mason City visits by the Petty family, Five Hundred Club gathering hosted by Mrs Cary Howard Rayburn, a birthday for Frank Leslie Filson, Lambda Chi Omega Sorority dance plans for June 18, and various Point Pleasant social notices including local personals and visitors.
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Point Pleasant
Ben Franklin
Woman's Society of Christian Service
Trinity Methodist Church
Alta G. B. Woodard
Richard Stratzman
C. L. Head
Harbrew
C. W. Reynolds
John J. Chase
Bertha Reed
Charles White
Franklin
Woodard
Chester A. Roush
Charles Wamsley
Startzman
Grover Childres
Leverett Roush
Head
Edward Bohn
Thelma Loner
H. A. Cline
Lambda Chi Omega
Moose Club
Ohio River Road
Leon S. Thompson
John Clay Hutchinson
Richard H . Melrose
L. W. Getty
William Getty
Grover Chil
Frye Buys Gallipolis Cleaners to Form Frye Cleaners
Gus Frye has purchased Clark's Cleaners in Gallipolis and will operate the new plant as Frye Cleaners. Frye previously sold his half of the Frazier Frye dry cleaning firm and still co owns C D Kerr Drug with J Warden Lewis.
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Gallipolis
Clark
Gus Frye
Frye
Frazier-Frye
J. Warden Lewis
C.D. Kerr Drug Company
Glenwood Motorist Fined After Minor Collision
Glenwood man Henstey C. Smith was fined 35 dollars and costs after a magistrate arraigned him on a charge of driving with inadequate brakes. His car rear ended a fellow General Chemical Defense Corp employee’s vehicle near Siath and Viand Streets around 4 am with no injuries and minimal damage. State police and local officers observed the scene as they manned a midnight to dawn intersection vigil seeking interior criminals heading toward Ohio.
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Glenwood
Point Pleasant
T Henstey C. Smith
General Chemical Defense Corporation
Smith
Siath
Viand Sts
Otis E. Noble
Sgt
Thomas
Coyner
State Police
Burdette Funeral Held This Afternoon
Funeral services for George L Burdette were conducted at his Sand Will Road home with Rev A H Perkins and Rev H Carder presiding. Burial followed at Lone Oak Cemetery. Survived by wife two daughters two sons seven grandchildren and three step grandchildren pallbearers named.
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Point Pleasant
George L Burdette
Sand Will Road
A. H. Perkins
H. Carder
Huntington
Heights
John Howell
Galliophs
George Curtis Burdette
Laird Burdette
Dana Durst
K Burdette
Powell Reynolds
Wallace Burdette
Hunnunegon
A L Neale
Robert Burdette
Pomeroy
Mrs Elizabeth Carnes Ends Red Cross Service Abroad
Miss Elizabeth Carnes arrived home from Charleston where she had been sent after arriving in the states from England. She completed her term with the Red Cross and was discharged after spending almost a year overseas.
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Gallipolis
Elizabeth Carnes
Charleston
D. C
England
The
Red Cross
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