Auditor Seeks Bids for Chickamauga Creek Bridge Piling
Gallia County commissioners asked Auditor E D Keeler to advertise for bids on 205 piles 35 feet long and 205 piles 40 feet long for the Chickamauga Creek bridge on the new high flood road. Piling totals 15375 linear feet with an estimated cost of 3075 dollars. Work stakes set this week and WPA funding is complete but construction date pending.
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Gallipolis
E. N. Leonard
Gallia
E. D. Keeler
Chickamauga Creek
WPA
Home Program Is Extended
A federal comfort making project announced in Gallipolis links mattress and comfort production under the agriculture extension service. County Agent E G Royer says each eligible person may make a mattress with four pounds of cotton and ten yards of percale issued free. Number of mattress applications closes April 1 perhaps 700 in the county. Additional cotton and seven thousand yards of percale will be needed for the comforts, likely in one pattern.
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Gallipolis
Agriculture Extension Service
E. G. Royer
Roger
Gallia Rotarians Award Honorary Membership to Trainee
Gallia Rotarians at Gallipolis presented an honorary membership to Fred Stone who departs for training camp Tuesday. The first such honor was given to Dr. N A Martin on entering military service. E Higgins announced film scenes of Ohio by a Standard Oil representative. Next week the club hosts county 4 H Club presidents and will present the Rotary Club cup to the top 4 H Club.
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Gallipolis
Fred Stone
E. E. Higgins
N. A. Martin
Ohio
Standard Oil Co
Carl Byers Heads to Chicago Teachery Convention
Carl C. Byers high school principal and Mansfield principal Jesse Beers will travel to Chicago for a weeklong North Central Teachers Association session with twelve Midwestern states. Invited by Dr. Carl Franz Indiana University Byers will serve on a committee reviewing member schools annual reports and will call a Chicago meeting of the Ohio Implementation Committee of which he is president and preside at a dinner for Ohio school men attending the convention.
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Gallipolis
Carl C. Byers
Jesse Beers
Mansfield
Chicago
North Central Teachers’ Association
Mid-Western
Carl Franz
Indiana University
Byers
Ohio Implementation Committee
Ohio
More Paving on River Route Being Planned
The state highway department plans a three mile concrete stretch on Highway No 7 from Klondike near Bladen to Swan Creek to join the existing pavement On the river front from Double Creek to Crown City village line remains unpaved and may be included in this year’s program.
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Gallipolis
State Highway Department
Klondike
Bladen
Swan Creek
Double Creek
Corporation
Crown City Village
Hi Y Club Set to Present Assembly Program at School
Gallipolis high school prepares an assembly Friday featuring a Hi Y Club program. Dwight Wetherholt sponsors. Alfred Ingerick writes the skit. Earl Tope leads chalk talk. musical items include instrumental pieces and a club song performed by Eleanor Doepping.
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Gallipolis
Dwight Wetherholt
Alfred Ingerick
Earl Tope
Eleanor Doepping
Gallipolis Board Plans Friday Session on Teacher Replacement
Gallipolis district board of education schedules a Friday meeting urged by Superintendent E E Higgins to consider replacing Fred Stone, biology and general science teacher, who is set to begin army training March 25.
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Gallipolis
Golf Schedule Announced for GHS Matches and District
Gallipolis officials list the high school golf dates with locations. Coach Garfield Griffith confirms events at Logan Park Parkersburg Athens Jackson and Parkersburg again from April to May culminating in the May 13 district tournament in Athens and May 16 and May 23 site notes. A school committee will study history text book changes for grades four to eight.
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Gallipolis
Garfield Griffith
Logan
Parkersburg
Athens
Jackson
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