Mason County troops raise bonds for Seventh War Loan
Roush announces Mason County service members bought 24155.00 in Series E bonds toward a 537090 county quota. West Virginia Governor Meadows notes statewide bond sales exceed 1.509 million for the Seventh War Loan. Other local updates include returning servicemen, family visits, and community notices.
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Point Pleasant
Mason County
Walden F Roush
Rous
Clarence W. Meadows
West Virginia
Armed Service
Meadows
West Virginia War Finance Committee
Roush
Mason Countiens
Treasury
Federal Reserve Banks
Mason County Lags in War Bond Drive
Mason County has purchased 42 percent of its war loan quota, totaling 332 429 dollars of all bond classes toward a 787 000 dollar goal. E bonds amount to 813 dollars or 48 percent of the 537 060 dollar quota, leaving nearly 280 000 dollars unsold. Campaign Chairman Darren F. Roush warns the closing date is July 7 and calls for hard work to meet the goal.
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Point Pleasant
Darren F. Roush
Mason Sheriff Wears New Gold Plated Badge
Point Pleasant report notes Sheriff Ernest Hesson received a gold plated badge as a gift from a friend. The badge is described as near and attractive, likely to draw envy from local officers.
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Mason
Point Pleasant
Ernest Hesson
Back Pay Due for Marietta Workers at Marietta Manufacturing Co
The Messenger lists employees owed supplemental and regular payroll back pay from Marietta Manufacturing Co. Treasurer C. G. Bauerle asks publication of names still holding checks, with many already claimed. Names include James Halley Clarence Bolyard Dallas Gibson and many others across three long lists.
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Point Pleasant
The
Messenger
Marietta Manufacturing Co
C. G. Bauerle
James Halley
Clarence Bolyard
Dallas Gibson
Beninie Gerlach
James H- Poff
David J Brown
Paul E. Bennett
Joseph Turpin
Charles Reynolds
Harry McConnehen
Charles Martin
el Nwood R. McCabe
Harold Cunningham
Russell Lusk
Glenn Smith
Chester Burton
James B. Miller
George Downing
Thomas Davis
Emanuel Clark
Cecil Buck~land
Tom Erskine
Kenneth Kelly
Lester Roberts
R. Richard Carter
Marion Atkinson
Ray Smith
Wik Virgil Smith
Ras Jiam P. Smith
Frank Willey
Otis E. Lowe
Joseph Myers
Paul Thornton
Chalmer Fannin
Ralph Hesson
Charles Frazier
Horace Arthur Asbury
John Cline
Homer Cook
Posey Dehatt
Benjamin Coleman
Charles Humphreys
Ernest Walker
Roy Wells
John Lester
Leman H. Cannon
Charles Glover
Samuel W. Lege
Trane K. Hawkins
Twynham Craft
Randell
Harald V. Jackson
Bernard Boggs
Hargid Fearson
Joseph Thornton
Robert Bailey
Roy Burner
Fred Garren
Maxwell Young
Richard Meadows
Ronald Kapple
Posey Dehart
Hayden Ogden
Graham Wellman
Ronald Bissell
Clark Hager
Jess Hammond
Ronnie T. Keeling
Clayton Angel
Nettie Allen Dies After Long Illness at 78
Mrs Nettie Edith Jones Allen wife of James G Allen of Be Saint died Tuesday evening in Holzer Hospital after a year long illness. Funeral services will be held at her home Friday at 2 pm with Rev G Billups presiding. Burial in Lone Oak Cemetery. She was born March 10 1898 in Putnam County and lived in Point Pleasant since marriage. Survived by husband and three sisters Anna Wallace Florida Ella Bar Logan and Betty Sie-Curloch Buffalo. She was a longtime member of the Main Street Baptist Church.
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Point Pleasant
Nettie Edith Jones Allen
James G. Allen
Be St
Holzer Hospital
Lone Oak Cemetery
Allen
Putnam County
Print Pleasant
Anna Wallace
Florida
Ella Bar
Logan
Betty Sie- Curloch
Buffalo
Airs
Main Street Baptist Church
Father’s Day Dinner Noted in Leon Household
A Father’s Day dinner was hosted by the W. B. Jividen family of Leon with spring flowers used for decoration. The gathering at 2:30 featured gifts for the honoree from relatives including Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Jividen, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Sommer of Beech Hill, Miss Ida Jane Sommer, and Mr. and Mrs. Jack Shadle.
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Point Pleasant
W. B. Jividen
Leon
Jividen
W. B. Jiiden
Walter Sommer
Beech Hill
Ida Jane Sommer
Jack Shadle
Wet Weather Delays Farm Work Across Mason County
Farmers report persistent wet conditions delaying harvesting and fieldwork. Crops like wheat and potatoes suffer from rot and pest damage while weeds spread, and some fields may not be harvestable if rains continue. Few parcels may dry enough to cut by week’s end, hindering overall yields.
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Mason County
Anme
Joan Sears
Spurral
Rev Monroe Bush Named New Pastor at Point Pleasant
The Rev Monroe Bush will become pastor of Point Pleasant Presbyterian Church and is expected to arrive this week to lead his first service Sunday July 2. He graduated from Union Theological Seminary Richmond in May and has been visiting relatives in Louisville Kentucky. He will be ordained by Kanawha Presbytery Clothier on July 17. Also listed is a marriage license application for Lew William Snyder of Millwood and Alice May Wolfe of Point Pleasant.
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Point Pleasant
Monroe Bush
Paint Pleasant
Lew William Snyder
Millwood
Alice May Wolfe
Three Gallia Soldiers Freed From German Prisons
Three Gallia county soldiers long believed missing have been freed from German prison camps. Tommy Fife Baxter Walker and Johnny Mayes telegraphed families from Camp Pickett and Camp Atterbury confirming morale-boosting homecoming likely on the same ship from La Havre. Fife son of Forrest and Mrs. Fife, now in Columbus. Walker son of Mrs. Lily Walker, Columbus Dispatch agent. Mayes told wife Mollie Mayes he would be home Tuesday night or Wednesday.
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Beck
United States
Ion
Tommy Fife
Baxter Walker
Camp Pickett
la Havre
France
Cpl. Fife
Forrest Fife
Columbus
Lily Walker
The
Columbus Dispatch
Johnny Mayes
Smother
Mollie Mayes
Camp Atterbury
Ind
Four-H Clubs Plan Varied Activities in Mason County
Miss Jane Farwell state recreation specialist will spend the last three days of June in Mason County. She will conduct a recreation leader school June 28 at the Recreation Center near South Side and assist with a community party June 29 at Wahama High School, sponsored by the Trailblazers 4-H Club. A second party will be held June 30 at Sunnyside School. The clubs report new innovations at the Recreation Center including a stone pulpit built by Trailblazers and an office and health center.
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Point Pleasant
Jane Farwell
Mason County
Farwell
Recreation Center
South Side
Clarice Knapp
Farnell
Wahama High School
Mason City
Trailblazers
É-H Club
Sunnyside
Clendenin
Knapp
Vesper Knoll
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Club Teaders
Clarence Blessing
Mar Hager
A. Lieving
Cluir
Bobby Parsons
Attarah Push
Evelyn Mae
Dorothy
Peggy’ Blessing
Betty Roush
Peggy Hager
John Lewis
Sally Lou Roush
Loretta
Peggy
Raymond Lievink
The
Hill
Billie Club
Jimmy
Billy
Ruth Lewis
Dorothy Blessing
Hattie
Nancy Webb
Anna Lee
Eleanor Roush
Charles Blessing
C.C. Blessing
Knapy
Harold Lewis
Presbyterians Postpone Meeting to June 27
Mrs. W A Morgan president said the Presbyterian Woman's Auxiliary meeting scheduled for Mrs. Hamilton A Johnson's home was postponed due to rain and will be held Wednesday June 27 on Johnson’s lawn. A General Defense Corporation officials conference occurred nearby with New York representatives attending. County agricultural adjustment committee greet Hamilton A Johnson secretary says.
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Point Pleasant
W. A. Morgan
Hamilton A. Johnson
Wyow Poust
Genral Defense Corporation
Grant
New York City
Point PI
County Committee of the Agricultural Adjustment
Cific
Hamilton AG Johmson
Soldier Ray Casto Killed in Action April 19
Mrs. Ray Casto of Gallipolis received a War Department telegram confirming Pvt. Ray Casto 34 was killed in action on April 19 after earlier being reported missing. He was the husband of Mary Russell Casto of Porter and the father of a young daughter.
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Gallipolis
Ray Casto
Vinton Avenus
War Department
Pvt
Russell
Porter
Daugh
Ter
Seventeen Men Called For Army Induction
Gallia County Selective Service Board lists seventeen men slated for induction on June 14. Named inductees include William Clyde Heffrean Dennis Basil King Donald Kent Lewis James Cleatus Ingels Wayne Eugere Thames George Richard Davis Herschel Frederick Bartels William Charles Beird Lester Lee Taylor Ziba Willard Thompson Ray Emerson Drummond George Ervin Lester Robert Harland Bonecutter Walter Pullins Frank Burns Jr Orlyn McKinley Miller James E Bosworth Curtis Clay Harrington transferred from Local Board 18 Lucas County.
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Gallipolis
Gilbert Beard
Gallia, County
Frank Burns, Jr
Orlyn _McKinley Miller
James E. Bosworth
Curtis Clay Harrington
Lucas County
Wilkesville Grangers Plan Special Trip
Wilkes Grange met June 12 with Win ton Township Grange presiding. Elva Morton lectured on the traveling program. Members plan to visit Allensville Grange July 5 and Wilkes Grange will present the program. On June 19 officers and members practiced and conferred second degree obligations on four candidates.
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Wilelsville
Wilkes, Grange
Winton Township
Lawrence Morton
Elva Morton
Allensville Grange
Wilkes Grange
Alensville
Plan Anna Cottrell Rites on Thursday
Funeral services for Mrs. Anna Clark Cottrell longtime Gallia County resident will be held at 2 PM Thursday at Elizabeth Chapel, with Rev. E C Venz officiating. Burial follows in Mound Hill Cemetery. She died at her son's home in Elizabeth New Jersey where she had been taken weeks ago.
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Gallipolis
Anna Clark Cottrell
Gallia County
Elizabeth
N. J
Elizabeth Chapel
E. C. Venz
Mound Hill Cemetery
Gallia County Jail Reports No Inmates on Tuesday
Gallia County Sheriff E. E. Hatfield said there were no inmates in the Gallia County jail for the first time in months. Alery Clark and Howard Rose were released Monday after posting bonds of 200 dollars each.
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Gallipolis
E. E. Hatfield
Gallia I County
Alery Clark
Howard Rose
Three Are Fined by Mason Magistrate
Mason County magistrate fines three defendants in separate drunken driving and speeding cases. Howard Staats of Hipley Road pleaded guilty to intoxication and was fined 10 dollars plus costs and held for arraignment after a brief arrest. Rufus Roberson of Rand pleaded guilty to speeding and paid 10 dollars and costs. Howard Biffle of Ripley Road, previously jailed for failure to post bond, posted cash bond and was released.
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Point Pleasant
Howard Staats
Hipley Road
Rufus Roberson
Rand
Arbuckle
Howard Biffle
Ripley Road
Mason County
Evelyn Lobsiger Files for Divorce Suit
Evelyn Lobsiger, daughter of Warry and Childers of Kanawha, sues Robert E. Lobsiger for divorce after marrying in March 1944 and separating recently. The husband, a Brooklyn native and Coast Guard member, faces cruelty charges. Also in Paris, Marcel Deat, minister under the Vichy regime, was condemned to death in absentia by a court.
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Point Pleasant
Evelyn Lobsiger
Fparis—Ui
Marcel Deat
Court of Justice
Peterson's Ointment Offers Quick Piles Relief
Painful piles eased within minutes with Peterson's Ointment, a cooling astringent formula claimed to have aided thousands for 40 years. Available from druggists in 35c, 80c sizes with applicator. money refunded if not delighted.
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