Vance Rees Named Commander of Lafayette American Legion Post
Vance Rees will lead Lafayette Post 27 in Gallipolis after a tight election victory over Harold Broyles Jr. Both men work at Bob Gillen Motor Co with Rees a mechanic and Broyles a shop foreman. Installation set for July 14 by Elmer Roberta and Frank Cheese brew.
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Gallipolis
Vance Rees
Lafayette
American Legion
Harold Broyles, Jr
Rees
Broyles
Bob Gillen Motor Co
Harry Boggs
John Dray
Chester Bennett
Howard Lee
John Ivor Richards
Tom Adams
W. Joe Brown
District Legion
Athens
Brown
Washington, D. C
L. G. Marchi
Marchi
Silas Hamilton
Bryan Cooper
Merce D. McCreedy
State Highway Patrol
Robert S. Wood
Wood
Xenia
Bob Evans Farms
Warner Halley
Eighth District Legion
Elmer Roberta
Lancaster
Frank Cheese‘brew
Pomeroy
Centenary Church Social Notes Spark Local Visits
WSCS of the Centenary Methodist Church met at Mrs. Lyle Basim’s home for a potluck dinner. Guests included Garnet Barrett and son Joe, Bill Tehay, Virginia Place, and the Proctor brothers. The column lists visits, picnics, and funeral attendance across Marietta and nearby towns, with several Basim family mentions and a Sandia AFB transfer.
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Cutler
WSCS
Centenary Methodist Church
Lyle Basim
Gene Basim
Dale Rowland
Fairborn
Ray Goddard
Howard Burt
Chesterhill
James FE. Basim
Sandia
Afb
New Mexico
Earl Place
Clifford God
Marietta
Garnet Barrett
Joe
Barrow Park
James Landers
Dale Wintersaw
Lyle Basin
Social Notes from Turkey Run and Surrounding Areas
Community string of visits and hostings noted in Turkey Run area. Residents from Columbus, Addison, Oak Hill, Pomeroy, Gallipolis, Middleport, Chester, Cheshire, Crookaville, and other towns share meals, dinners, and guest stays with families including Grover, Matthews, Darst, Clark, and Sigman households. Several trips involve extended kinship and weekend gatherings at local lakes and homes.
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Emma Matthews
Harold Davis
Richard
Michael
Pomeroy
Rufus Grover
Grace Grover
Heights Mission
Point Pleasant
Merlin Matthews
Peggy
Matthews
Clyde Taylor
Taylor
Middleport
Emmett Thompson
Emmett Roy
Holzer Hospital
Floyd Groves
Crookaville
Groves
James Clark
Clark
Vicky
Christy
Joyce Ann
John Grover
Celesta Yeanger
Chester
B. C. Grover
Gladys Frederick
Blanche Frederick
Eno
Jail Term and Fine Handed to Driver
Otto Franklin Reiker of Point Pleasant pleaded guilty to driving while intoxicated. Municipal Judge William H. Jones fined him 50 dollars, ordered five days in jail, and suspended his operator's license for six months. His initial plea was not guilty. Judge Jones also fined Alvan Johnson of Gallipolis 5 dollars for a vehicle in unsafe mechanical condition.
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Gallipolis
Otto Franklin Reiker
Point Pleasant
William H. Jones
Coats
Jones
Alvan Johnson
Costa
Rift Valley Run of Geological Fault From Victoria to Dead Sea
The great Rift Valley is an un explained gash in the earth's surface extending from Lake Victoria in Uganda through Ethiopia to the Dead Sea and traces farther north.
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Great Rift Valley
Lake Victoria
Uganda
Ethiopia
Dead Sea
Dam plan eyed to cut Ohio River dams nearly in half
U S Army Engineers hosted Central Ohio Valley Industrial Council members on a four hour Ohio River cruise from Huntington. Plans under study would reduce 46 dams to 18 to cut operating costs with the Gallipolis Chambersburg dam remaining in operation. Attendees included Truman Morris and family from Gallipolis, Robert Rannelig and family, George Halfinger and family, A R Knight and son from Pomeroy, Everett Balls and family from Middleport, and Virgil Siders and family from Point Pleasant.
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Gallipolis
U. S. Army Engineers
Central
Chambersburg
Truman A. Morris
Robert N. Rannelig
George Halfinger
Pomeroy
A. R. Knight and Son
Middleport
Everett
Point Pleasant
Virgil Siders
Births and discharges listed at Holzer Hospital notes
Holzer Hospital records show numerous births including names from Linton Vinton Point Pleasant and Crown City with medical and surgical designations. Discharges list multiple patients and spouses across several townships including Gallipolis Oak Hill Glouster and Wellston with numerous names and relations.
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Ralph D. Ashley
Letart Falls
Raymond Scarbough
Crown City
Chillicothe
Phillip Thomas
Rodney
Stephen Lyman
Gallipolis
Paul S. Henry
Bladen
W. R. Drury
Glouster
Carl Snyder
Oak Hill
Russell Bradley
Hamden
John F. Blaettner
Pomeroy
William W. Cotton
Greenup
Osher Fraley
Jackson
Charles G. Meese
Reese Jenkins
Wellston
Glenn D. Rucker
William M. Staton
Vinton
Yields Rise On American Farms Post World War III Study
A Twenty Century Fund study reports crop yields per acre have grown more since World War III than in the prior six decades, signaling rapid agricultural productivity gains.
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The
Twenty Century Fund
Mercerville High Alumni Meet Opens With Luncheon
John Lusher of REA Buckeye Rural Electric Co-Operative will speak at Mercerville High School Alumni Association noon meeting in the school grove. President William Houck welcomes teachers and graduates. Class of 1926 guests of honor. 26 new alumni bring total graduates in 18 years to 451. Farris Wickline Call leads the program with Lusher’s oration, basket luncheon, quartets, singing, comedy, and softball.
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Gallipolis
John Lusher
REA Buckeye Rural Electric Co-Operative
Will
Mercerville High School Alumni Association
William Houck
Reba Cramer
Houck
Lawrence Saunders
Mercerville High School
Mercerville
MHS
Farris Wickline
Lusher
Candidate To Speak At Rotary Meeting
Robert W. Reider of Port Clinton seeks state office in Ohio as a Democratic candidate. Gallipolis Rotary Club officers including President Marshal D Boggs will be installed.
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Gallipolis
Robert W., Reider
Port Clinton
State
Ohio
Marshal D- Boggs
River Traffic Report from Gallipolis and Kanawha Rivers
Gauges show varied water levels along the Ohio and Kanawha rivers with multiple arriving and departing vessels. Notable movements include barge loads of gasoline and fuel at Chambersburg and London Marmet. vessels like Atlas in tow and several up or down movements recorded through 1:40 pm.
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Neville
Tenry River
A. Hoagland
James D. Francis
W. V. Keeley
Cherokee
Chambersburg
Paul Blazer
Herbert Jones
Kanawha River
London
Semet
Marmet
George III
Winfield
Criss
Arthur Merrill
George T. Price
Henry
Laurel Run Guests Share Families Across Columbus Area
Mr and Mrs Harold Sater and children of Lancaster visited Fathers Day with Mr and Mrs Arthur Todd. Mrs Lawrence Wolfe hosted a Sunday with Mr and Mrs Fred Maloney. Addie Watkins of Nelsonville stayed with sister Mrs W R Wolfe. The Harden family and Stevie joined Delmar Barto e in Columbus for a Sunday. Multiple relatives gathered across Buckeye Lake and Columbus in each visit.
Insurance men gather for lake outing near Cambridge
Buford Houck Walter Vance and Superintendent William Houck of the Gallipolis National Life and Accident Insurance Company are at Seneca Lake near Cambridge today and will stay through Sunday. They with Wendell Houck of Point Pleasant and Joe Thompson of Middleport won the all expense outing by a five week production in the district headquartered at Portsmouth. H. W. Nagel and 15 supervisors will join them at the lake.
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Buford Houck
Walter Vance
William Houck
Gallipolis
National Life and Accident Insurance Company
Seneca Lake
Cambridge
Wendell Houck
Point Pleasant
Joe Thompson
Middleport
Portsmouth
H. W. Nagel
Rio Grande Garden Club Meeting Set for July 1
The Rio Grande Garden Club will meet next Thursday July 1 at 8 pm at the home of Mrs. Chauncey Rife.
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Rio Grande Garden Club
Chauncey Rife
Kimball Roberts Family to Visit Wilmington Friends
Mr and Mrs A Kimball Roberts and daughter Sue of Wilmington Delaware will arrive Thursday to visit Mrs Frank C Christ and son Gaynard, staying with relatives during the trip.
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A. Kimball Roberts
Sue
Wilmington
Del
Frank C. Christ
Gaynard
Fifty-One Dealers Honored by Standard Oil of Ohio
Fifty-one dealers were honored at a dinner in the Farmers' Hotel in Gallipolis for long service with Standard Oil Co. of Ohio. D. D. Wilder hosted as master of ceremonies, listing years of service for many dealers from districts including Portsmouth, Jackson, Chesapeake, Oak Hill, Wellston, Gallipolis, Racine, and Proctorville.
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Gallipolis
Farmers’ Hotel
Standard Oil Co
Ohio
D. D. Wilder
Portsmouth
J D. Robinson
Roscoe Fox
Rodney
Noah Stout
Carpenter
Ida Neal
Bladen
Gillen Motor
Chesapeake
T. E. Green
Jackson
Homer Nash
Lowell Witles
Wellston
Cc M Bane
J. F. Rowe
Coalton
Milton Cheatwood
Oak Hill
Irvin
Paul Martin
Cheshire
Morris Brown l
Vinton
Austin
Paul Alban l
W. H. Waldeck
H. M. Allen
Letart Falls
Dana Gatewood
Middleport
Melvin Adkins
G. O. Cheatwood
Lee Dauber
Kerr
Rutland Department Store
Richards and Sons
Centerville
David V. Edwards
Jones and Lewis
Blackfork
Cecil C. Bolin
Third Child Born to Bartosh Family in Waterloo
Shelia Kay Bartosh was born at 5 30 am on Wednesday at Warehime Clinic to Mr and Mrs Steve Bartosh Jr of Waterloo Star Route. The baby is the couple’s third child.
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Gallipolis
Shelia Kay Bartosh
Steve Bartosh, Jr
Waterloo
Warehime Clinic
Bartoshes
Licking Athlete's Foot Cure Ad Promises Quick Result
An advertisement touts T-4-L keratolytic action as a fungicide that sheds tainted outer skin to expose and kill fungi. It claims skin becomes baby-soft in one hour and urges purchase at Quick's Cot Rate Drug Store with a bold money-back offer.
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Quick
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Lafayette Legion Post
Columbus
McCreedy
ALS
Turkey
Turkey Run
Howard Hughes
Alva Grover
Grover
Anna Hughes
Addison
Ethel Oty
Wilbur Childers
Marjorie Rawlins
Walter
Zilla Denney
Kry Mra
Park Yeanger
Roush
Mamie Matthews
Mra
David Matthews
Debbie
Terry
Fred Taylor, Jr
Bobby
Storysun
Elbert Masters
Mill Creek Road
Donald Bean
Robert Robinson
Lelia Ann
Goldie Shuttleworth
Lelia Anne
Donald
Charles Martin
Ruth
Eugene Swartz
Hobson
Harold Martin
EF. A. Story
Junior Darat and Sons
Darst
B.L. Darst
L. L. Clark
Oscar Spires
Donnie Spires
Levi Clark
Ray Clark
Carlton
F Graves
Crookesville
Nate McCumber
Lee Clark
Kathy
Billie
Henry Hood
Dayton Speer
Nina Lou
Ronnie
Spencer
Ward Spencer
Elmer Sigman
Johnny
Junior Darst
Bailey's Lake
Syracuse
John Prosser
Alen
Ethel Sigman
Elyria
Roy Lemley
Victor Swain
Racine
Join Prosser
Rimer Sigman
RK. M. Sigman
Ethel
Mera
Claude Ridenour
Ideal Trailer Court
Avenel
N. J
Virginia Wears
Poplar Ridge
Joe Cragg
Mr. Qat
Ariyn Kiser
Altene
COVIC
Edwin T.thomas
Lton
William Staton
Henry Patrick
Charles White
William H. King
James Clatworthy
Donnie A. McFarland
Guy Branscomb
Floyd Boyer
Raymond Hoffman
Samuel Hunt
Roland Durst
Jennifier Lawson
Ernest Ruffle
Vance H. Johnson
Melvin Jayjohn
Dana Turner
Carrie Howell
Frank Wood
Angie Davis
Donald Coffey
Wa Wamaley
Frank Wise
Iva Barcus
Melvin Meadows
Gallipolis Social Notes
Rotary
Ohio River
Montgomery
Kanawha Falls
Central Up
Jeff
Lucy Jane Lucas
Laurel
Sears
Sears Factory
David Bradley
Sears Products Best
Saaliig Faction
H.P. T
Logan Store
Save
Harrow
Logan, Ohio
S.M
Cabana
Interiock
Sees & Mal
Standard Oil of
Langsville
John Phillips
R. R. Durst
Portland
Creed McDole
Roscoe Sites
Dale Williams
Harrisonville
Adams Dry Goods
Beaver
Hackett’s
E. T. Winters
Bidwell
A. L. Swann
Pyre
Walter White
Athalia
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