Ending of Mason War Plant Construction at West Virginia Works
Work on the West Virginia Ordnance Works plant near Point Pleasant ended after a year long build and the employment of thousands. Badger and Co. verified completion with only bookkeeping and records to finalize. About 6 000 workers have left, and the site will see salvage and inventory efforts led by Badger officials with limited office staff remaining.
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Point Pleasant
E. Pt
Treverton
Army
Ordnance Works
McCurdy
Army FE
South
Street Work In Home Area Under Way
Progress is reported on laying streets in the government housing project areas in North Point Pleasant and in the ordnance works reservation. Sidewalks remain to be constructed. Twelve or eighteen of the shelters have been occupied, all in the ordnance works project. One unit housing two families has been occupied by the health department. Some families who moved into new private war worker homes have left town, and many roomers have vacated in the past month.
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Point Pleasant
North Point Pleasant
Ordnance Works
Health Department
Contract for New School Not Sold Yet
POINT PLEASANT The contract for the new school building in North Point Pleasant has not yet been let though bids were received weeks ago. The likelihood of completing the project before September is fading. The Cleveland regional office of the federal public housing authority has requested 19 extra copies of plans and specifications, for reasons unknown locally. The projected school on the ordinance works reservation has been abandoned.
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Point Pleasant
North Point Pleasant
Federal Pblic Housing Authority
Clevema
or@nance works
Jones Elected To Head Sales Group
Bartow Jones of this city was elected President of the Dairymen's Cooperative Sales Association at the annual meeting in Charleston Tuesday. Harry L. Krebs was named Treasurer, with Robert Wilson and Harry Childers as advisory councilmen. Mason's influence noted. counties Kanawha Cabell Jackson and Putnam are included.
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Point F Pleasant
E. Bartow Jones
Dairymen's Cooperative Sales Association
Charleston
Harry L. Krebs
Robert Wilson
Harry Childers
Mason
Kanawha
Cabell
Jackson
Putnam
Board Meets In Point Pleasant
Draft board chairman Pat M. Wilson and members Harry L. Dyer and B. W. Krodel held the weekly meeting in Point Pleasant. They completed their work by noon and Wilson and Dyer remained in town several hours to attend to business.
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Point Pleasant
Pat M. Wilson
Harry L. Dyer
B. W. Krodel
Messrs. Wilson
Dyer
Legion Home Restored to Mason Group
War Department surrendered its lease on the American Legion Building in courthouse square Viand Street. Adjutant BR. F. McGuffin said the Legion will restore the interior and occupy the building again as soon as possible. A USO on one floor is being considered.
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Point Pleasant
War Department
American Legion
Courthouse Square
Viand &St
BR. F. McGuffin
Legionnaires
USO
Norwalk Curfew Ordinance Sets Teen Offense Fines
Norwalk adopts a curfew requiring children under 16 to be off streets from 10 30 p m to 5 00 a m on weekdays and 11 30 p m on weekends. First offenses carry a 1 fine and second offenses 5, approved by city council.
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Athens Messe
Norwalk
Athens
Ohto
Garden Care Demo Shows Spraying Dusting Methods
Demonstrations of spraying and dusting garden vegetables are underway in Mason County. T. D. Gray, extension horticulturist, leads the sessions at the John Sommer store today and Friday at 1 pm at New Haven Grade School. County Agent C. C. Anderson urges farmers and families to attend, noting every garden this year can be a Victory Garden and should fight pests to aid wartime aims.
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Point Pleasant
Mason County
T. D. Gray
John Sommer
Southside
New Haven
C. C. Anderson
Anderson
Nichols Fadeley wedding held at bride’s home in Point Pleasant
Mrs. George Nichols announces the marriage of Miss Eleanor Nichols to William Forrest Fadeley at the bride’s home in Point Pleasant. The Rev A E Tulloch officiated with roses as an improvised altar. Attendees included immediate family and close friends. The couple honeymooned at Indian Lake and will reside on Charleston Road. Fadeley Dairy Farm owner and senior high graduate.
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Point Pleasant
George Nichols
North Fourth ‘St. Columbus
Eleanor Nichols
William Forrest Fadeley
J. M. Fadeley
Charleston Road
A. E. Tulloch
Trinity Church
Rowena Nichols
Clyde McClain
North High School
Columbus
Fadeley
A. E. Tullohh
McClain
George W. Windon
Ella Windon
Mason
Ellen Lou Brown
Buckhannon
E. B. Badger and Sons Co
Trinity Parsonage
Stanley Neal Johnson
Camp LeJeune
N. C
Stanley Johnson
Ohio
Robert BE. McCulloch
Cpl
Francis L. McCulloch
R. H. McCulloch
Route 2
Ian Chandler Wilhelm
Carl Jeffries
Pomeroy
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Corn Products
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New York
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The
Corn Products Refining Co
Pekin, IU
Ling
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Cussins
FEARN
Cious
ATLAS
White House
Cussins & Fearn
Victory Bikes
Cussins & Fearn Stores
Senene
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Ieeng
Ti-Imek
Hasily
It-Inc
N. Court ST
Hydraciia
Athens, Ohio
C. C. Lewis
Presbyterian Church
Old Town Farms
James A. Adle
Earl Gibbs
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