Funeral Held Tuesday for Gallipolis Official’s Wife
Mrs. Lora Bing Carl wife of City Auditor Arthur W. Carl died Saturday at home 549 First Ave Gallipolis after a heart condition Funeral services set for Tuesday at 1 pm Entsminger Funeral Home Rev Baird to officiate Burial Gravel Hill Cemetery Cheshire Ohio Survivors include husband daughter Helena Milair Cortland NY grandson Alan Milair brothers J Ed Bing Dana Bing Harry Bing sister Mrs Harrison Gee Columbus.
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Gallipolis
Lora Bing Carl
Arthur W. Carl
First Ave
Carl
Helena Milair
Cortland
N. Y
Alan Milair
J. Ed Bing
Cheshire
Dana Bing
Bakersfield
Canf
Harry Bing
Columbus
Harrison Gee
Entsminger
Baird
Episcopal
Gravel Hill Cemetery
Missing in Action and Wounded in North Africa Reports
Mr and Mrs William G Koontz Morral were told their son Pvt John William Koontz 22 is missing in North Africa since Feb 2. Mrs Jessie Clagg learned Pvt Shelby F Clagg was seriously wounded in North Africa and is improving after Feb 28. officer confirms recovery and allows a five word telegram.
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Gallipolis
William G. Koontz
Morral
War Department
John William Koontz
North Africa
Jessie Clagg
Shelby F. Clagg
Nurses Convention Moved to Columbus in Wartime
The Ohio State Nurses Association relocates its state convention from Cincinnati to Columbus due to limited transport. May 13 to 15 at the Deshler-Wallick Hotel will host 1500 nurses with a streamlined program to meet wartime needs. Elizabeth P. August, secretary, announced the change.
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Gallipolis
Ohio State Nurses’ Association
Cincinnati
Columbus
Deshler-Wallick
Elizabeth P. August
R.N
Ohio Nurses Review
Ohio
Mrs Mary Saunders Rites Held In Gallipolis
Mrs. Mary Saunders aged 65 died at 10 30 Saturday at her daughter Mrs Ogie Haskins home on Lower River Road. She was born near Ledta daughter of Perry and Augusta Myers. Survived by two daughters Mrs Jessie Phillips and Eural Saunders of Springfield Ohio two sons Charles Saunders of Gallipolis and Fay Sargent of Huntington. Funeral services were held at 2 PM Monday at Skey Chapel near Lecta.
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Gallipolis
Mary Saunders
Ogie Haskins
Lower River Road
Ledta
Perry
Augusta Myers
John T. Saunders
C. M. Saunders
Haskins
Jessie Phillips
Eural Saunders
Springfield
Charles Saunders
Gallipolis, and We Fay Sargent
Huntington, W
Skey Chapel
Lecta
Half Inch Rainfall Reported in Gallipolis
Gallia County and Gallipolis saw more than a half inch of rain Saturday according to Charles Lanier chief engineer of the Gallipolis waterworks pump station. Friday night melted snow and Saturday rain together measured three quarters of an inch precipitation.
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Gallipolis
Gallia County
Charles Lanier
War Worker Dies in West Virginia Plant
Gallipolis reports Hillis Dillon 52, West Virginia Ordnance plant worker, died at home in Huntington Friday. Survived by wife, four sons, a daughter, two brothers, and two sisters.
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West Virginia
Gallipolis
Jessie Deep- Ping
Hillis Dillon
Huntington
Widow Donates Flag To Gallia Legion Post
Richard D. Woodrum deceased in Detroit auto accident on Feb 24 had a flag donated by his widow to the Gallia Legion post. The 5 by 9 foot flag will be flown over the Honor Roll of service men in the park. Legionnaire Bert Elliott reports.
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Gallipolis
Bert Elliott
Richard D. Woodrum
Detroit
Legion
Daughter Born to Mr and Mrs Malcolm in Washington
A six pound daughter was born to Mr and Mrs Richard Malcolm of Washington D C on February 28 Mrs Malcolm formerly Mildred Alexander daughter of Mr and Mrs Harry Alexander 756 Third Ave.
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Gallipolis
Richard Malcolm
Washington, D. C
Malcolm
Mildred Alexander
Harry Alexander
Third Ave
O. O. McMntyre
Gallipolis Social Notes Wedding and Local News
The Gallipolis Social Notes recounts a double ring ceremony for Corporal Freddie Baker and Shirley Cline at the couple’s home in Columbus with limited family present. It notes assignments at Camp Pickett Virginia and various local moves, gatherings, birthdays, and family events in Gallipolis and nearby towns.
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Gallipolis
Paul Cline
Columbus
School Bus Drivers Protest Slow Pay
Morgan Township school bus drivers planned a strike today over eight months of unpaid salaries. County Superintendent Bradbury said the board raised driver pay years ago within state transportation funds, and both teachers and drivers are paid pro rata from a single fund, leaving many salaries only partially paid.
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Gallipolis
Morgan Township
Bradbury
Several Admitted To Holzer Hospital
Two new patients were admitted to Holzer Hospital Friday night James Mahaffey Wilkesville medical and Mrs Daisy Davis Wellston whose condition was fair Other admissions are Jack Albert Davis 15 months Elma Sheets Bidwell R D 2 Mrs Charmis Davis Rio Grande Mrs Pearl Reynolds Point Pleasant Jack Johnson 6 son of Merriman Johnson Mercerville Route and Ed Filson Point Pleasant Mrs George Woodyard Crown City admitted Friday night
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Gallipolis
Holzer Hospital
James Mahaffey
Wilkesville
Daisy Davis
Wellston
Jack Albert Davis
Elma Sheets
Bidwell
R. D.2
Charmis Davis
Rio Grande
Pearl Reynolds
Point Pleasant
Jack Johnson
Merriman Johnson
Mercerville
Ed Filson
George Woodyard
Crown City
Lieut Odet Montesi To Speak at Rotary Club
Gallipolis Rotary Club will meet at 6 o clock Tuesday evening at Island View Inn. Clyde Mitchell leads the program after dinner. Lieut Odet Montesi will be speaker, with three Navy officials as guests of the club.
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Gallipolis
Rotary Club
Island View Inn
Clyde Mitchell
Lieut
Odet Montesi
Navy
Red Cross Supplies Mailed Urging Quick Canvass
Gallipolis report says Red Cross secretary Miss Catherine Hayward states all Red Cross supplies have been mailed and workers are urged to canvas their territories at the earliest date.
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Gallipolis
Catherine Hayward
Red Cross
Nelsonville Post Office to close Saturdays at noon
Beginning Saturday March 13 the Nelsonville Post Office will revert to the former schedule and close at noon on Saturdays with one city mail delivery in the morning. Postmaster J B Preston says similar steps are being taken by virtually all offices.
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Nelsonville
J. B. Preston
Plead Guilty On Unsafe Operation Charges
Two unsafe operation of motor vehicles charges filed by the State Highway Patrol were heard by Mayor Herman Ogg. Thomas Allen Taylor of Nelsonville was fined $10 and costs, Robert Patton of Columbus was fined $15 and costs. Frank Brown of this city, arraigned on an intoxication complaint, was fined $5 and costs after pleading guilty.
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Nelsonville
State Highway Patrol
Herman Ogg
Thomas Allen Taylor
Robert Patton
Columbus
Frank Brown
Comstock Lode hailed as once richest silver mine
The Comstock Lode in Nevada was long cited as the world’s richest silver mining center. Reports claim nearly a billion dollars in gold and silver extracted from the ore mine alone.
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Comsock Lode
Nevada
Four Arrests by State Patrolmen in Weekend
GALLIPOLIS The State Highway Patrol reported weekend arrests including Henry Tarter a Gallipolis taxi driver found guilty of driving while intoxicated fined 25 dollars and costs and ordered to five days in county jail He had been arrested weeks earlier for the same offense William Norman Jr Vinton pleaded guilty to drunken driving fined 25 dollars and costs with license suspended six months Russell Bucklew Kaylong West Virginia arrested on drunkenness posted bond to appear before the mayor of Pomeroy Grandville Blanton Gallia pleaded guilty to driving without a license and was fined five dollars and costs.
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Henry Tarter
Gallipolis
Tarter
William Norman, Jr
Vinton
William Jane
Russell Bucklew
Kaylong
W. Va
Pomeroy
Grandville Blanton
Gallia
Dance Fellows Basketball Game Friday
A Parish House dance followed the Point Pleasant Ravenswood basketball game at the gymnasium. Sponsored by the Young People's Fellowship Group with music by recordings. It drew one of the season’s largest crowds about the register of numerous local residents and guests.
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Point Pleasant
Ravenswood Point Pleasant
Young People’s Fellowship Group
Carolyn Noble
Faye Sutton
Nancy Ferguson
Annette Lewis
Jackie Lawson
Betty Lee Taylor
Anita Henderson
Dottie Thomas
Carol Krodel
Anne Wartenburg
Lila Jean Wallace
Patty Ingraham
Grace Almquest
Ruth Potts
Martha Lynn Rothgeb
Joan Parker
Anne Capehart
Ruth Bell
Katherine Gibson
Waldeen Goode
Jeanie
Mildred Brownell
Jean Lawrence
Lois Altman
Gallipolis
Paul Letecky
Bob Blake
William Johnson
Ramon Wallace
Sonny Smith
Carmel Thompson
Michael Snodgrass
Rush Krodel
George Williamson
Jack Bell
Walter Bulmer
Bill Smith
Jack Tracey
Ralph Weethee
J. C. Pauley, Jr
Robert Harper
Joe Middleton
James Lovell
Okey Roush
Local
Luther Brumfield
Loren Miller
Jim Leaper
James Faulkner
Homer Walter
George Foster
Dean Carter
Richard Gorby
Manning Wetherholt
Regrets That Ration Office Did Not Burn
Mason County War Price and Rationing Board chairman John E. Brown recalls the Mason County Health Department fire and a stranger’s crude remark about burning the ration board office across the street. The anecdote underscores wartime shortages and tensions in Point Pleasant West Virginia.
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Point Pleasant
W. Va
John E. Brown
Mason County War Price and Rationing Board
Mason County Health Department
Ration Board
Mrs. Myrtie Rogers Dies at 68 in Hamley Run
Nelsonville news notes the death of Myrtie Rogers 68 wife of James Rogers at a son Ernest’s Hamley Run home. Survived by four sons Ernest in Hamley Run Carl in Sherrodsville James overseas with the U S Army Oscar at White Sulphur Springs W Va plus two brothers. Funeral at Oak Grove Church Tuesday 3 PM with Rev Ossman and Greenlawn burial. Friends may call Stout Funeral Home Nelsonville until funeral hour.
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Nelsonville
Myrtie Rogers
James Rogers
Ernest Rogers
Hamley
Ossman
Greenlawn
Stout
Mason County group plans to continue school lunches
The Mason County Nutrition Committee sub committee on school lunches met in the board of education office to plan continued lunch service after the WPA program ends. Miss Dorothy Watkins presided, with Walden Roush detailing board cooperation for the rest of the year. Attending members included several county and assistant superintendents and staff.
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Mason County Group
Point Pleasant
Mason County Nutrition Committee
Board of Education
Dorthy Watkins
Walden Roush
Watkins
Martha Atkinson
Margarite Asher
Alice Roach
D A R Luncheon Highlights Citizenship Talk and Honors
About 75 members and guests attended Colonel Charles Lewis Chapter D A R luncheon at the Presbyterian Church social rooms in Point Pleasant. Mrs O S Montesi spoke on Glad To Be a Citizen, tracing her journey from Jugoslavia to the United States and to marriage with a Navy officer.
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Point Pleasant
Charles Lewis
Presbyterian Church
O. S. Montesi
Montesi
Navy Yard
Ruth Bell
Bell
Marion Foglesong
Marilyn Jewart
Minnibell Nibert
Colonel Lewis
Nannine Bordon Hogg
Charlotte McCulloch Steenbergen
Jennie Murdock Newton
Hartford
Mary McCulloch
Elizabeth Hardin Hogg
Lilly
Elizabeth Hardin) Hogg
H. C. Deardorff
Buford
Hunting
Arthur Higgins Funeral Held Today
Arthur Imes Higgins age 75 died at the Point Clinic after years of illness. Funeral services were held from the Heights Mission at 2 30 this afternoon with Miss Josie Smith in charge. Burial was in Lone Oak Cemetery. He was born near Mt Alto to Harvey and Maggie Higgins. Survived by wife Isa belle Hyatt and children William Thomas Argo Oran Marggie Crawford Lillian Bernard Maude Mildred ten more relatives and 19 grandchildren and two great grandchildren. He was a former machinery salesman and night watchman at Marietta Manufacturing Co shipyards.
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Point Pleasant
Arthur Imes Higgins
Point Clinic
Heights Mission
Josie Smith
Lone Oak Cemetery
Mr. Higgins
Mt. Alto
Harvey
Maggie Higgins
Letart
Higgins
Henderson
Marietta Manufacturing Co
Isabelle Hyatt
William and
Thomas Higgins
Argo Higgins
Louisville
Oran Higgins
Bidwell, C
Marggie Crawford
Lillian Bernard
Maude Rice
Mildred Rice
Aliquippa
Frank Higgins
Charleston
Former Vinton County School Man Dies
Ernest L. Byrnes 74 longtime educator and former Vinton County schools superintendent died Friday in St. Petersburg Florida after a fall and fractured hip. He served in World War I with the YMCA and held posts including president of Buckeye State Secretarial College. Surviving are two sons Lt. Col. Forrest E. Byrnes and Robert W.. brother Bert Byrnes. sister Mrs. Ethel Freeman. and three grandchildren.
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Columbus
Ernest L. Byrnes
Waldeck Ave
St. Petersburg
Fla
Minnie
Ohio Northern University
Vinton County
Buckeye State Secretarial College
Two Daughters Born in Point Pleasant
The Point Clinic reports the birth of a daughter weighing 7 pounds to Mr and Mrs Clair Cottrill of Point Pleasant on Friday and another daughter weighing 6 pounds to Mr and Mrs Albert Keffer of Leon on Saturday.
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Point Pleasant
Point Clinic
Clair Cottrill
Alsbert Keffer
Leon
Spencer Funeral Held Today
Funeral services for Louis Spencer will be held this afternoon at his Gallipolis Ferry home. Born May 20 1928 he attended Point Pleasant schools. He is survived by his parents two brothers and two sisters. Burial will be in Suncrest Cemetery.
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Point Pleasant
Gallipolis Ferry
Louis Spencer
Fred Spencer
Ralph
Paul Spencer
Mary
Carrie Spencer
F. H. Capehart
the Heights United
Social Notes From Pt Pleasant Honor Birth of Daughter
Robert H. Ferguson hosts a dinner at the new Count Addition home in Pt Pleasant to celebrate the birth of Miss Nancy Fe son. A theater party includes guests of Mr and Mrs Mey Chapman Henderson and other friends. Mrs Charles Judson of y ford visits relatives. Ed L Filson returns for further care after hospitalization. J Caufman of South Side on Silver Bridge falls ill on duty. condition improves a few hours later.
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Point Pleasant
Robert H. Ferguson
Pison
Count Addition
Nancy Feson
Rel Tives
Ed L. Filson
Holter Yspital
Caufman
J. . Caufman
South Side
Silver Bridge
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Athens
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Shelby
Gallia Legion
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Royal Norwegian Women’s Naval Auxiliary Corps
England
Gallipolis Social Notes
Corporal Baker
Camp Pickett
Miss Rose
John Rose
Jessie Leaper
Albert Pierce
Clifford Harrison
Baby
Dayton
J. H. Sheppard
Patterson Field
Sheppard
Jason
Charles McGinness
Betty Bean
McGinness
Ordnance Works
South Point
Alice V. Keeler
W. Harvey Miles
E. Wayne Sams
Thomas A. Dobbins
Charles Faust
Martins Ferry
Corp
Freddie Baker
Scotty Westerman
Ohio Wesleyan University
W. S. Westerman
Paul O'Brien
Orlando
Florida
O'Brien
John O'Brien
Scott Westermans
Frank Feely, Jr
Joan Westerman
Westfield
N. J
Curtis Harrington
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Harrington's
G. Ernest Davis
Lieut. Odet Montesi
Rotary
Hamley Run
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Japan
WPA
D.A.R
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Spencer
Sonja
Leatherneck
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Love
William Lebaron
Bruce Humberstowe
Administrator's Sale
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Henry W. Cherrington F. G. Musgrave
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