Point Pleasant to Host Bridge Opening Celebration
June 26 1945 marks a public event in Point Pleasant with Mayor Krodel Huntington mayor Fiedler and officials opening a new bridge for free passage. The program includes a band concert a square dance fireworks and late night dancing with potential locations for fireworks at Fourth Street wharf. Organizers anticipate a prosperous era for Point Pleasant and Mason County amid favorable weather.
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Ibridge
Krodel
Point Pleasant
Whiriyst
Main Sts
Bighairman
Amos
GiRoad
Bailey
Maybree Fiedler
Earl Gibbs l
Polifourth St
Lowe Mo
Cline
Fourth St. Lwhart
Ohio
Main St
Kanawha
Walden Roush
Committee On Srrangements
City Land
Mason County
West
Virjeimia
Pt Pleasant Social Notes and Local News
Pt Pleasant social notes report Mrs Sherwood Costen and daughter Caro lyn of Ohio River Road attending Dr and Mrs B F Sommer’s 70th birthday dinner at their home in Leon. Also listed are local visits and furloughs of private Edward VanDyke from Camp Hood and other family updates. Kiwanis tour planned of Pt Pleasant shipyard after Thursday dinner meeting. Hope and Hugh Wamp arrested for intoxication and released to civilian authority.
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Point Pleasant
Sherwood Costen
Carolyn
Ohio River Road
B. F. Sommer
Leon
Sommer
Costen
W. R. Woodall
Charles Stone
Tampa, Fla
Mason County
Point Pleasant Personals
Edward VanDyke
Camp Hood
Texas
Barbara Sue
Ttheir
Park Drive
VanDyke
Tthe Shipyard
Fort Meare
iPvt
Daughtanr
Thurman Railey
Columbus
Bailey
Tracy Bailey
Norfolk
B. A. Board
Hartford
Grafton
Tygarts River
Kiwanis Club
Point Pleasant Hope
Hugh Wamp
Noble
Point Pleasant Ripley Road to be resurfaced on special account
Point Pleasant Ripley Road work will begin soon in Mason County with the maintenance crew resurfacing on a special account basis and no contractors involved. Slag and gravel plans aim to extend road life, with a 4 inch slag layer atop existing grade. Work delays noted due to repairs on Route 2 and slides near Sliding Hill, while finishing macadam proceeds toward the Putnam County line.
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Point. Pleasant
Stanley Adkins
Estate Road Commission Garage
Jackson’ Ave
Point Pleasant-Ripley
Mason County
Commission
Shade i Bridge
Letart
Salt Creek
Sliding Hill
Hartford
New Haven
Henderson
Gallipolis Ferry
Putnam County
Winfield Dam
Charleston
Marietta Manufacturing Company Receives Safety Star Award
The Marietta Manufacturing Company in Point Pleasant received the distinguished service to safety star award for reducing accident frequency from 27.7 in 1942 to 1.11 in the past 12 months. D. C. Duncan of Bluefield presented the award with Howard A. Price presiding. Dewey A. Windsor accepted for the company along with Harold Hayman. A luncheon followed at the Lafayette Hotel with 46 attendees.
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Point Pleasant
Marijetta Manufacturing Company
Howard A. Price
Marietta Manufacturing Company
General Chemical Defense Corporation
D. C. Duncan
Bluefield
National Safety Council
National Council of Safety Engineers
Duncan
Windsor
Duncaty
Casuaih Moras Tarst
Lawrence Parsons
Pusitadn
Homer Martin Spends Week End With Family
Homer Martin spent several days with his family over the weekend. He supervised a construction job in Gilmer County that has been completed and he is ready to begin excavating foundations and floors for new buildings at the Navy materiel and redistribution center. He said the work might not begin for several weeks.
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Point PI
Easant
Homer Martin
Gilmer County
Navy Materiel and Redistribution Center
Martin
Real Estate Transactions Reported in Gallipolis
Wiseman and Wickline announced multiple local deals over the past week. Purchases include a five room Edgemont Drive house by Joseph W. Clark and wife Betty Hamvick, land along Route 35 to Jack Hackworth and wife, a 137 acre Mills property to T F Burleson, and a Kerr's Station 50 acre farm with store and stock to J E Nichols and partners.
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Gallipolis
Wiseman and Wickline
Edgemont Drive
C. F. Brown
Brown Furniture Company
Joseph W. Clark
Clark
Gallia
Academy High School
Betty Hamvic
T. F. Burleson
J. E. Nichols
Dunbar
W. Va
J. P. Fisher
Farm Group Meets At Longdale Home
POINT PLEASANT The Aiy mita 4-H Club met Monday evening at Emogene and Emory Roush's Longdale home to plan a Recreation Center camp for July 1 8. Honored guests were former members now in military service Marshall Fowler Navy Mary Beth Fowler WACs Milton Lewis Jr Navy.
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Point Pleasant
Emogene
Emory Roush
Longdale
Marshall Fowler
Navy
Mary Beth Fowler
WACS
Milton Lewis, Jr
Denver Knapp
Knapp
Hager
Virginia Parsons
Tulia Pearl Thomas
Betty Lewis
Anna Lee Roush
Irene Fowler
Vivian Knapp
Tene Lines
Betty Roush
Marion Smith
Eleanor Roush
Lucile Roush
William Riffle
Albert
Emogene Roush
William Miller Sentenced to State Industrial School
Deputy Sheriff Morrison took William Miller to the state boys industrial school in Grafton. The boy was admitted by Judge Miller for his involvement in stealing property from the Point Pleasant Livestock Co. office.
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Point Pleasant
Morrison
William Milne
Grafton
Miller
Sinten
Point Pleasant Live- Stock Co
County Court Tax Hearing Reviews Assessments
County court sat as a board to review tax assessments for a day period beginning Monday. President Barnett said few taxpayers appeared to protest property assessments yesterday.
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Point Pleasant
Wation
Barnett
Lakin Runaways Captured in Ohio
Two Lakin Industrial School runaways, Robert Lee Morgan and Nathaniel Phillips, both colored youths, were recaptured in Ohio by Sheriff Elmer Hatfield on the road to Columbus. Trooper Coyner transported them to Mason County jail after detainment at Gallipolis. Besil Rollins funeral services set after drowning in a farm pond. Wilbur Baxter to lead at Pines Grove Church.
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Point Pleasant
Robert Lee Morgan
Nathaniel Phillins
Lakin Boys
Ohio
Elmer Hatfield
Gain County
Hatfield Savas
Columbus
Gallipolis
Coyner
Mason County
Rollins
Wilbur Baxter
Besil Rollins
Upper Flats
Pines 'Grove Church
Gallipolis Social Notes Veterans Return and Family News
Lt Col Lester H Lear of the Eighth Air Force visits Gallipolis on leave to recuperate after 28 months of war duties and hopes for a Pacific assignment. Thirty day furloughs bring home Scotty Westerman and Westerman family members from military duty. Mrs Wilson and relatives visit from Boston while preparations involve property at 638 Fourth Ave. and local church property occupancy.
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Gallipolis
Lester H. Lear
Gustave Lear
Eighth Air Force
Lear
Utica
N.Y
Pac
General Doolittle
Pleasantville
New Hampshire
Lovett War Bond Team Tops City Quota
Gallipolis reports the Fourth Ward Seventh War Loan team led by L. L. Lovett surpasses the top bond goal with total sales of 45 964 56 dollars. E bonds account for 39 664 56 dollars and other sales reach 16 300 dollars.
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Gallipolis
Ward
L. L. Lovett
Freight Loads Are Heavy on River Traffic
Point Pleasant business leader Robert J. Heslop of Point Pleasant Machine Works says river freight remains heavy, even increasing after Germany's fall. Union Barge Line plans two 2,000‑AP towboats at Pittsburgh, signaling confidence in river transport. Coal towing from Kanawha Valley to Minneapolis could boost demand along the Kanawha Ohio Mississippi waterway.
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Point Pleasant
Robert J. Heslop
Point Pleasant Machine Works
Germany
Europe
Heslop
Union Barge Line
Pittsburgh
Kanawha Valley
Minneapolis
Paroled Man Is Captured After Gallipolis Burglaries
Gallia County police captured Johnnie Richards 27 of Bidwell after a daytime pursuit from Oscar Bastiani’s Place on Court Street. He allegedly stole James Pethtel’s car on Third Avenue, then fled through alleys firing shots at officers. A bullet pierced Mrs Halliday’s kitchen wall during the chase and the case awaits a municipal hearing.
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Gallipolis
Archie Richards
Oscar Bastiani
Court Street
City Police
Grant Long
Long
Richards
Ards
Johnnie Richards
Bidwell
Lancaster
Mansfield Reformatory
Third Ave
Gallia County
Hatfield
William H. Jones
Mansfield
Chester A. Leaper
James Pethtel
Spruce Street
Springfield
J. B. Halliday
Oscar's Place
Third Avenue
Sidney Ellis Dies in Gallia Tuesday
Sidney Ellis 36 died Tuesday at Holzer Hospital Gallipolis after being brought there hours earlier. He worked at a Marietta plant for some time before joining AI weeks ago. Survived by wife and three children Roy Dale Betty, parents Mr and Mrs Pleasant Ellis Cheshire, three brothers Meynard Middleport Louis Pleasant Jr Chesapeake, five sisters Roma Litten Kathleen Lower Columbus Eunice Christy Pomeroy Ruth Durst Ryger Anna Mae Ellis Cheshire. Funeral services set for 2 p.m. Thursday at a Cheshire church with burial at Gravel Hill Cemetery.
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Gallipolis
Sidney
Ellis
Holzer Hospital
Marietta F Plant
Roy
Dale
Betty
Pleasant
Chestire
Meynard
Middleport
Louis
Chesapeake
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Co, Dsonvilis
Ripley
Marietta Co
Palm Room
Lafayette Hotel
Walter A. Windsor
Bunker Hill
Okinawa
Wm. Miller
Industrial
Lakin
Gallipolis Social Notes
Scotty” Westerman
W. Scott Westerman
Gallfipolis
New York
Fort Dix
N.J
Elizabeth
Frank J. Feely
Frank Joseph III
Westfield
Ellen Westerman
Chicago
Bill” Wilson
Besse Thompson
Jackie
Boston
Mass
von Thompson
W. Hobart Wilson
Peggy Taylor
Conia
Tad's
Carbridgle
Killberly Road
BEACO
THE
F. J
Beasley CO
James H. Wilson
Nelsonville
Citizens Bank
Bidg
Logan
Quebec
Quincy
Coke
Rotiler
Coca-Cola Company
Parkersburg
Coca-Cola Botring Company
Sato
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