Lowe Hotel Booms With Repairs and Plans for Growth
Pt. Pleasant businessman Homer D. Lowe Sr. predicts the town will surge as Route 2 and the flood wall finish and Industrial Rayon plant opens. His Lowe Hotel undergoes extensive upgrades including steel-reinforced floor, elevator shaft reinforcement, boiler replacement, new carpets and drapes, lobby paint, a 14 by 25 foot neon Lowe Hotel sign, and planned rooftop visibility from Silver Bridge. Shower fixtures to be added in all bathrooms.
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Point Pleasant
Homer D. Lowe
Industrial Rayon Corporation
Lowe Hotel
Lowe
Silver Bridge
Sixth
Main Sts
Shadie Bridge
Five New York Doctors Prove A Plan Breaks Laxative Habit
An old advertisement claims five New York doctors prove a plan can break the laxative habit. It prescribes a three week regimen with Carter's Pills and eight glasses of water nightly, asserting 83 percent success and no habit forming drugs, urging purchase at 33 cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Carter
Land Use Day Set for Sept. 15 at Cottageville
Sidney Kay of Ripley announced Land Use Day on September 15 at a 132 acre Jackson County farm in Cottageville. The show will mirror last year’s Rio Grande College farm event and is hosted by the Jackson County Agricultural Council with Western Soil Conservation District and regional bodies. A nationwide soil and water conservation display will unfold in a one day spectacle directed by conservation expert Walter C. Gumbel of Monongahela Power Co.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Point Pleasant
Sidney Kay
Ripley
Jackson County
Cottageville
Rio Grande College
Ohio
Kay
Jackson County Agricultural Council
Western Soil Conservation District
Little Kanawha Regional Council
West Virginia Soil Conservation Committee
Walter C. Gumbel
Monongahela Power Co
Mason County 4-H Activity Day draws 125 campers and winners
More than 125 Mason County 4-H members leaders and counselors gathered at Point Pleasant High School for Activity Day winners receiving scholarships. Top awards covered grooming health demonstrations clothing canning and judging with multiple clubs named for each prize. Magic from Milk king and queen Charles Robinson and Hattie Webb were honored for the club's community work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mason County
Point Pleasant
Pointeasant High School
Cleo Birenfield
Lucky Star Club
Kay Woolfitt
Lucy Lee
Randall Garland
George McCoy
Hill Billies
Herbert Sayre
Hartford Merrymakers
Jean Kinnaird
Sunnyside Warhawks
Ruth Zuspan
Jackie Lucas
Charles Robinson
Hattie Webb
Milk” King and Queen
Wong
Carolyn Foglesong
Ruth Oshel
Dixie McNeill
Nina Keener
Sally Lou Darst
Albert Stephens
Audry Hoschar
Jeanne McCoy
Jo Lou Keener
Ruth Ellen Blaine
Donald Smith
Leon Home Makers Club Meets in Leon Lodge Hall
Pt Pleasant social notes report the Farm Women’s Club meeting in the lodge hall Monday at 7 30 p m with Mrs Everett Bissell presiding. New members Mrs Sherman Graham and Mrs Jay Keefer join. Several local families and visitors are noted as attendees and guests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Point Pleasant
Leon Homemakers Farm Women's Club
Everett Bissell
Harvey Morgan
Milton Burdette
Sherman Graham
Jay Keefer
Dorothy Watkins
P. A. Sayre
P. A. Sayre, Jr
Bessie Sayre
Mary
Irene Sayre
Ray Crookham
Hobart Deweese
Bertha Crump
Roy Keefer
James Morgan
Dayton Shinn
Charles Holstein
Warren Stewart
Therman Carney
Charles Burdette
George A. Rairden
Harry Morgan
P. A. Sayre, Sr
Ruth Ann Hogsett
Homer Graham
Herman Shinn
Warren Keefer
Charles Buxton
Raymond, Vie
Restaurant Raided for Beer and Cash in Walker Building
In POINT PLEASANT the Rath skier restaurant and beer hall in the Walker Building basement on Second and Main was broken into Monday night. Thieves wrecked a juke box and stole coin box contents and some beer. Turner, owner W. W. Turner, notes a similar raid weeks ago.
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Point Pleasant
Walker
W. W. Turner
Turner
OES Officers Installed by Point Pleasant Chapter
Point Pleasant Chapter Order of the Eastern Star installed officers in the Masonic Temple lodge hall Monday evening. Retiring worthy matron Mrs R F Musgrave chaired the hostess group and a past matron jewel was presented to her at the close.
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Point Pleasant
Order of the Eastern Star
Lodge
Masonic Temple
R. F. Musgrave
Gary Bumgardner
F. G. Musgrave
Clifton Hatton
K. W. Robinson
Norman Foss
Charles H. Stone
L. K. Brown
Hoyt Jiident
Mae Rhoades
Louis Bateson
Frank Capehart, Jr
Linnie Bruestle
Flora Myers
Sentinel
Thurl Stone
Kenneth Templeton
Hansel Poling
Lora McCombs
Gene Crow
J. A. Ferrell
Emory Hawkes
Marshal
Joe Barr
Adah
Ruth
Frank Poling
Esther
John Roberts
Martha
L. W. Getty
Electra
Norman Simkins
Warder
New Busses Start Runs Thursday in Point Pleasant
Point Pleasant announces two new 16 passenger buses begin Friday service to Belle Meade Burdette Addition and the area north of 28th Street with a 15 minute headway. The 30 minute schedule is replaced. Buses carry up to 25 during peak traffic, with white and blue paint. The transit system started in 1942 by Holly Hudson and B. W. Krodel and is now owned by F. W. Quillin and Dana Wright.
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Point Pleasant
Bellemeade
Burdette
28Th St
Holly Hudson
B. W. Krodel
F. W. Quillin
Dana Wright
Twenty Second Street
Engineer Stalnaker Studies Real Estate Dept in Roanoke
Clifton D. Stalnaker of the Point Pleasant district Appalachian Electric Power Co. is at the Roanoke head office this week studying the companys real estate department.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Point Pleasant
Clifton D. Stalnaker
Appalachian Electric Power Co
Roanoke
Mrs W W Turner Undergoes Surgery in Huntington
Mrs. W. W. Turner of First Street underwent surgery at St. Marys Hospital in Huntington on Monday. Mr. Turner said she is expected to return home in about ten days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Point Pleasant
W. W. Turner
First St
St. Mary's Hospital
Huntington
Real Estate Transfer Thomas Alford to State Road Commission
Thomas and Lucy Alford transfer 0.95 acre in Hang Nan District to the State Road Commission. The notice records the grant of land and the parties involved in the conveyance. No monetary amount is listed in the readable text.
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Thomas and
Lucy Alford
State Road Commission
Hangnan
Eye Donts For Factory Workers Ad Delivers Lavoptik Claims
A vintage advertisement urges factory workers to protect eyes with Lavoptik. It warns against unnecessary eye use, reading in poor light, and exposure to dust, wind, or overwork. The ad promises quick relief for sore burning or itchy eyelids and touts thirty years of success with money back. Available at all drug stores.
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Lavoptik
Staes
Mrs Roush Hosts Bridge Club at Bardin Home
Mrs Samuel Roush hosted a bridge gathering Monday evening at her parents 1818 Jefferson Blvd residence. High score went to Miss Jacqueline Windsor with Miss Martha Moore as second. players included Miss Windsor Moore Ingraham Bell Purdum Mrs William Stanley Mrs William Cruickshanks and Mrs Roush.
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Samuel Roush
William H. Bardin
Jefferson Blvd
Jacqueline Windsor
Martha Moore
Miss Windsor
Miss Moore
Patricia Ingraham
Betty Lou Bell
Betty Purdum
William Stanley
William Cruickshanks
Roush
Local residents take summer trips and family visits
Miss Nancy Vaught travels to Montgomery Alabama for the summer to stay with Miss Nellie Glass the Montgomery Public Library chief librarian. Several Huntington residents plan visits to Gainsville Georgia Cincinnati and Evansville Indiana while others return from trips and family visits at Main Street Clarksburg and South Portsmouth with relatives and friends.
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Nancy Vaught
Montgomery
Ala
Nellie Glass
Montgomery Public Library
Huntington
J. L. Twitty
Gainsville
Twitty
Meter Department
Point Pleasant
Appalachian Electric Power Co
Elmer Songer
Dorothy
Main St
Herbert Songer
Purdum
Marie Purdum
Harry D. Roush
John E. Brown
Cincinnati
Brenda Eads
Burdette Addition
Frank Forshee
Gallipolis Ferry
Kenneth Woolsey
Carolyn
Micky
Danny
Evansville
Ind
J. C. Leeson
Jimmy
J., Jr
Clarksburg
Woolsey
Lesson
Frank McDaniel
Carolyn Woolsey
J. W. Lozier
Jefferson Blvd
Edith Larcher
Portsmouth
Attorney Musgrave Returns From Hospital Exam
Attorney F. G. Musgrave returned home Monday from Holzer Hospital after an examination and did not return to his office at once.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. G. Musgrave
Holzer Hospital
WV 1949 50 license plates smaller and color change noted
Small New West Virginia auto license plates for 1949 50 are described as black on yellow and smaller than plates in use for many years. The notice highlights the size and color change for upcoming registrations.
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Point Pleasant
West Virginia
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Pt. Pleasant
Williamson Heater Company
Williamson
E. R. Heiser
G. H. Martin & Son
Richland Ave
Athens
Eddie Sommers
Lucky Star
Sally Lou Durst
Audrey Hoschar
Canning
Carolyn’ Foglesong
Phyllis Jean Kincaid
Joan Plants
Janet Stanley
Ella Mae McKinley
Eloise Holland
Lettie Jane Deweese
Leon Luckies
Hill
Delawares
Mingos
Mingoes
Billies
Edward Lozier
Carol Susan
Elizabeth Nelle
Brownsville
Walter Fried
Norfolk
Leon
Arnold Cossin
Columbus
Dencil Cossin
Velma
Mae Cossin
Charleston
T. L. Cossin
Rene Hayman
Rene Roberts
Coca-Cola Company
Parkersburg
Coca-Cola Bottling CO
The
OES
Dave Garretson
Lawrence Mattox
Rs. Roush
Sohio Supreme
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