Gallia County Men Enter Army at Fort Hayes
John T Russell acting corporal leads 17 Gallia County inductees leaving Gallipolis at 8:15 AM by New York Central train to the Fort Hayes reception center in Columbus. The group includes Eldon Thomas Ward Wheeler Calvin Williams Calvin Layne Walter Evans Jr Odis McCormick Wade Rupe Dallas Pell Donald Rose Lloyd Haskins Hobart Jarvis Richard Taylor Curtis Gipson Earl Castro James Fowler Lloyd Fry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
John T. Russell
Gallia County
New York Central Railroad
Fort Hayes
Columbus
Eldon Thomas
Ward Wheeler
Calvin Williams
Calvin Layne
Walter Evans Jr
Odis McCormick
Wade Rupe
Dallas Pell
Donald Rose
Lloyd Haskins
Hobart Jarvis
Richard Taylor
Curtis Gipson
Earl Casto
James Fowler
Lloyd Fry
Flood Causes Absences in Gallia High
Gallia Academy High School reported about 58 pupils absent Monday due to high water. An all day assembly is scheduled Thursday with E. C. Ramsey as guest speaker on The International Mess discussing Europe’s current conditions. The assembly also featured athletic awards and a folk dance program by Mrs. Sheets’ class, plus a jitter bug duet by Dorothy Holmes and Lonnie Doss.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
Gallia Academy High School
Harold Brown
E. C. Ramsey
Europe
Robert Sheets
Dorothy Holmes
Lonnie Doss
Teachers Hold Tea at Gallia Academy High School
Gallia County Gallia Academy High School faculty held a 4 pm Thursday tea with Mrs Katherine Kircher and home economics pupils in charge. Harland Martin presented a book review on Behold Our Land by Russell Lord using colored slides of victory gardens. Tea table was presided by Miss Eulah Williams and Mrs Robert Jenkins. next tea on April 14 features Ruth Miller reviewing By Pan American Highway Through South America.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
Gallia Academy High School
Katherine Kircher
Russell Lord
Harland Martin
Victory Gardens
Eulah Williams
Robert Jenkins
Ruth Miller
South America
Farm Labor Meeting Convened in Gallipolis
A farm labor meeting gathered this morning at 10 in the office of County Agent Everett Royer. County agents from the area discussed the present farm labor situation as John A Slipher of Ohio State University will visit Gallia County on Wednesday and Thursday to inspect farms for soil conservation efforts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
Everett Royer
John A. Slipher
Ohio State University
Soil
Gallia County
Gallia County graduates noted from Ohio State University
Gallipolis Ohio a list of graduates from Ohio State University includes Archie D Priestley doctor of veterinary medicine Floyd M Beman doctor of medicine John F Clark bachelor of arts The article also notes Grace Methodist Church activities and local social notices with visiting relatives and Legion anniversary events and speakers Rossiter Williams Ott Sharp and E E Higgins involved in the potluck dinner event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
Gallia County
Ohio State University
Archie D. Priestley
Floyd M. Beman
Thurman
John F. Clark
Vinton
Lafayette Post American Legion
Legion
Rossiter Williams
Ott Sharp
E. E. Higgins
Ferry to Operate Gallipolis Vessel Under Merchants Aid
Charles Thornton, who bought the John W. Lane Ferry boat, will run the vessel for at least a year with help from Gallipolis merchants. A $1,500 loan, approved at a chamber of commerce meeting, will cover repairs and service improvements and be repaid monthly to Thornton, son in law of the late John W. Lane.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
Charles Thornton
John W. Lane
John Everett Evans, Jr
Chamber of Commerce
Homer Walter
Thornton
Red Cross Donations Announced in Gallia
Gallia County Red Cross War Drive reports Evans warehouse at full capacity and a running total of 3122 dollars. Miss Catherine Hayward executive secretary announced Monday. The campaign continues with community pledges and local support strengthening relief efforts.
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Red Cross
Gallia
Gallipolis
Evans Warehouse
Gallia County
Catherine Hayward
Van Dyke Divorce Granted for Gross Neglect
Ethel Van Dyke was granted a divorce from Fred J. Van Dyke on gross neglect grounds. The couple married July 16 1932 and the plaintiff reverted to her maiden name Ethel Morris.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
Ethel van Dyke
Fred J. van Dyke
Plaintiff
Ethel O. Morris
Waugh Funeral Held at Mercerville Baptist Church
Funeral services for Ford L. Waugh were conducted Monday at Mercerville Baptist Church. The 84 year old native of Harrison Township died Saturday at his home near Gallipolis. Burial followed in Waugh Cemetery with Rev. Jennings Cremeens officiating. He was the son of William T. and Sarah Dewitt Waugh and survived by his second wife Mary Johnson Pucket.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
Mercerville Baptist Church
Alford L. Waugh
Waugh
Jennings Cremeens
Mr. Waugh
Harrison Township
William T
Sarah Dewitt Waugh
Mary Johnson Puckett
New Patients at Holzer Hospital in Gallipolis
Holzer Hospital received several new patients including David Thomas 80 of Thurman pneumonia Mrs O E West Oak Hill R D 3 medical Mrs Thurman Boggs Gallipolis R D 2 Mrs John J Dower Point Pleasant medical Mrs Stanley Hysell Pomeroy R D 3 surgery Mrs Stanley Matthews Loren Fite 42 Jackson treated for injuries Joe Eachus 10 son of Ben Bachus lacerated wrist dismissed Sunday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
Holzer Hospital
David Thomas
Thurman
O .E. West
Oak Hill R. D
Thurman Boggs
Gallipolis R. D
John J. Dower
Point Pleasant
Stanley Hysell
Pomeroy R. D
Stanley Matthews
Loren Fite
Jackson
Joe Eachus
Ben Bachus
Merrill Davis
Maurice Grover
Gallilis
Ax Tawney
Baby
Earl Higby
Chillicothe
Mary Fogleson
W. Va
Tra Ashley
J. H. Crandall
Report Realty Sale on Route 35 Near Gallipolis
A real estate transfer occurred Saturday with 20 acres of bottom land on Route 35 sold by Oscar Rogers to Moore Brothers in Gallipolis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
Route 35
Oscar Rogers
Moore Brothers
State Examiner Audits Gallipolis Schools
Mrs Ola P Gunckel based in Columbus is auditing the Gallipolis city and county rural school accounts. The Board of Education faces biannual state mandated reviews by the Bureau of Inspection and Supervision of Public Offices. The visit follows a legal requirement for regular examination of books.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
Ola P. Gunckel
Columbus
Board of Education
Bureau of Inspection and Supervision of Public Offices Department
Thirteen Men Arrested in Gallipolis on Intoxication Charges
Gallipolis police report thirteen men arrested Saturday on intoxication charges. Henry Tarter remained jailed Monday on an assault and battery charge, per Chief Chester Leaper.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
Chester Leaper
Henry Tarter
Victory Garden Drive Starts in Gallia County Schools
Gallia County Victory Garden Council begins meetings with centralized schools including Gallipolis to promote planting victory gardens using colored slides to influence children.
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Victory Garden Drive
Gallipolis
Victory Garden Council
Navy enlistments and historic trade origin noted
Harold Lloyd Persinger and Jackson Pike enlisted in the Navy on March 18 in Gallipolis. The item also mentions the world s first chamber of commerce formed at Marseilles in France during the 15th century.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
NAVY
Gallipolis
Harold Lloyd Persinger
Jackson Pike
Chamber of Commerce
Marseilles
France
Patrolmen Active at End of Week
GALLIPOLIS The State Patrol reported arrests Saturday. Lloyd Angel of Gallipolis pleaded guilty to driving while intoxicated, fined 25 dollars and costs, license suspended six months. Opal Queen of Gallipolis fined five dollars for driving without a license. Raymond Hutchins of Gallia forfeited a ten dollar bond on operating a motor vehicle under the required age law. Harrison Road of Long Bottom pleaded guilty to reckless driving, fined fifteen dollars and costs. Three other arrests were made in Jackson County.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
State Patrol
Lloyd Angel
Opal Queen
Raymond Hutchins
Gallia
Harrison Road
Long Bottom
Jackson County
Navy Recruiter to Visit Gallipolis This Week
J Clair Hall of the Portsmouth Navy Recruiting Station will visit Gallipolis this week with unlimited WAVES and SPARS enlistment quotas. Interviews are at the post office. The Seabees have opened enlistments for men 18 to 50 with trade skills. Enlistments also open to 17-year-olds and men past 38. The recruiter will tour Jackson Monday Ironton Tuesday and Gallipolis Wednesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
Portsmouth
J. Clair Hall
Navy
Oehring
Cincinnati
Seabees
A. G. Porter
Jackson
Ironton
Realty Deals Reported In Adamsville Addition and Mason
Realty deals reported by Rupert L. Kayser Real Estate Agency cover transfers in Adamsville Addition to Mason. Etta Roush deeds a 4 acre Route 62 property with a six room brick house to her son Will V. Roush while he conveys a five room frame cottage in cash by difference. Roush also sells a six room house and two Front St. lots in Mason to Woodrow and Eileen Foreman with possession April 15. John and Louise Harless sell a 72 acre Upper Flats farm to Anna Seitters and heirs of Prospect. Seitters takes possession. Harless works at Nitro and his wife teaches a rural Mason County school.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Point Pleasant
Rupert L. Kayser Real Estate Agency
Adamsville
Mason
Etta Roush
Will V. Roush
Marietta
Woodrow
Eileen Foreman
West Columbia
John
Louise Harless
Upper Flats
Anna Seitters
Prospect
Arrest Man With One Spare Leg Interesting Case
POINT PLEASANT police officers Noble and Morrison arrested a man with a spare cork leg on a Sunday evening. He was held overnight and released by Mayor Krodel without penalty on a charge of intoxication. The man, claiming Clarksburg as his home, said he was en route to Huntington to repair his spare leg and had no other belongings. He was in a cheerful mood upon release.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Point Pleasant
Noble and Morrison
Krodel
Clarksburg
Huntington
Campaign Committee Meets Wednesday Night
Red Cross War Fund campaign committee will meet at City Hall Wednesday at 7 30 p m. chairman J C Pauley says the gathering will review results of the drive set to end March 31.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Point Pleasant
Red Cross War Fund Campaign Committee
J. C. Pauley
Point Pleasant Health Notes Move Through Clinic
Mrs Nancy Dowell of Beech Hill and Mrs Joseph Bray of Henderson were admitted to Point Clinic for observation. George Ord, a medical patient, was discharged to Gallipolis Ferry. Mrs Emmett Biffle and Mrs Sam Herrington of Route 2 had major surgeries. Miss Eloise Coffer, extension specialist in foods and nutrition, visited the county agricultural office to aid the nutrition program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Point Pleasant
Nancy Dowell
Beech Hill
Point Clinic
Joseph Bray
Henderson
George Ord
Gallipolis Ferry
Emmett Biffle
Sam Herrington
Route 2
Eloise Coffer
County Agricultural Office
Mt Union Social and Brief Personal Notes
Mt Union notes show a missionary meeting at Mt Union Church Saturday night. Miss Imogean Epple visited Margaret Hardy. Wade Nicholson and family visited John Nicholson. Ezra Darnell spent Sunday with his family in Columbus. Attendance at Sunday School March 21 was 21. flood caused damage throughout the community. M A Epple and son Calvin traveled to Athens Wednesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
MT. Union
Mt. Union Church
Imogean Epple
Margaret Hardy
Wade Nicholson
M. A. Nicholson
Evelyn
John Nicholson
Ezra Darnell
Columbus
Clarence Jordan
Calvin Epple
Mason Leaders in Public Affairs Meeting Monday Night
Mason County leaders in public affairs will gather at the county superintendent of schools office in Point Pleasant Monday night at 8 to hear C. P. Dorsey of the university extension department discuss the farm labor program. About 20 attendees from Rotary Kiwanis Schools farm bureau soil conservation service and other agencies will join in a group discussion. The labor shortage is seen as a key bottleneck to 1943 agricultural production and may attract state and federal support.
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Mason
Point Pleasant
Mason County
C. C. Anderson
Rotary and
Kiwanis Clubs
Superintendent of Schools
The
Farm Bureau
Soil Conservation Service
Farm Security Agency
Agricultural Adjustment Association
Anderson
Extension Department
Pt Pleasant Social Notes
Pt Pleasant reports social updates and church notices from Trinity Methodist Church. The Young Woman's Circle meets at 7 30 p m with Ellen Lou Brown leading devotionals and Margaret Maben and Eleanor Couch reviewing books for Bible and mission studies. Local residents attend to family events and a North Point Pleasant school project receives 60 000 dollars in federal funds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Point Pleasant
Society of Christian Service
Trinity Methodist Church
Ellen Lou Brown
Margaret Maben
Bishop Cushman
Eleanor Couch
Mary Jo Blackburn
Kathleen Jiiden
Gail Faires
Glouster
D. E. Carr
Walden F. Roush
Cleveland
North Point Pleasant
Schools Remain Open Despite High Water
Despite flooded roads on Monday morning all local schools kept their usual bus routes. The Glenwood Ashton bus to Hannan High could not run. No school closed and all roads were clear today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Point Pleasant
Glenwood-Ashton
Hannan High School
Mason County 4-H Plans Spring Round Ups Across County
Mason County 4-H Clubs mapped a series of spring round ups at the Recreation Center New Haven Calhoun School Henderson School Cologne District and Point Pleasant High School with activities in clothing baking meal planning and handicraft. Exhibits emphasize posture grooming outfits and personal effects while races and song presentations engage members and leaders.
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Point Pleasant
Mascon County Association of
Mason County Recreation Center
New Haven
Calhoun School
Arlee
Henderson School
Yanger School
Cologne
Blinn 4. Buell
Clarice Knapp
Martha Atkinson
Elsie Fowler
Lucky Star Club
Edith Fox
Clifton
Beatrice Grimm
Happy Go Lucky
Hattie Jordan
Victory Mountain Climbers
Lessie Sleeth
Hartford Victory
Julia Pearl Thomas
Lucky Clover
Leoma Wolf
Frances Dillard
Falcons
Emily Hope
Point Pleasant Peppers
Atkins
Wnanp
Organizers Checking on Workers in Point Pleasant
The Engineers Local No. 132 of the A F of L closed its Musgrave Building office March 19 and urged dues to Charleston. Monthly meetings start March 28 at Eagles Hall with Charleston reps and a steward on each job. An A F of L office opened. two organizers aim to recruit from General Chemical Defense Corp workers amid ongoing layoffs and few replacements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Point Pleasant
Engineers Local
A. F. of L
Musgrave
Charleston
Eagles Hall
General Chemical Defense Corporation
Chemical Company
Mason Liberal in Russian Seed Drive
Mason County ranked ninth among 55 counties in contributions to the Seeds For Russia Fund, with a total of $56.77 from Mason. The state raised $1,790.15. Barbour County led with $155.89 and Harrison County followed with $102.38, the only other county over $100.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Point Pleasant
Mason County
West Virginia Farm Bureau
Barbour County
Harrison County
Martin Family Leaves Gallipolis Hospital
Mr and Mrs Franklin Martin and infant were discharged from Holzer Hospital yesterday to the home of his parents on Jefferson Blvd They will stay a few days The mother gave birth to their child and the father underwent an appendectomy
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ed Filson
Holzer Hospital
L. B. Hannaman
Emroy Monroe, Jr
Romney
Otho Jones
Gallipolis
Doyle Wesley
Long
John Glass
Sand Hill Road
Point Pleasant
Franklin Martin
Elmer C. Martin
Jefferson Blvd
Relapse Sends Local Railway Worker To Hospital
Raymond Brown, a freight office employee in Point Pleasant, recuperating from pneumonia, suffered a relapse and was carried from his Main Street home to Holzer Hospital on Sunday for treatment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Point Pleasant
Raymond Brown
Main St
Holzer Hospital
Department of Health Plans New North Point Pleasant Offices
The Mason County Health Department will move into a two family unit of the federal housing project at North Point Pleasant within five days after alterations and equipment are installed. Major Brian A. Buell said the unit No A-24 on 24th Street will provide more space than the downtown building where records were destroyed by fire weeks ago. J. D. Spiggle, a sanitarian, returned to work after several days illness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Point Pleasant
Mason County Health Department
Federal Housing Project
North Point Pleasant
Brian A. Buell
Health Department
No. A-24
24Th St
J. D. Spiggle
Kayser To Quit War Savings Post
Kayser asks to be relieved as Mason County War Savings committee chairman due to ill health after succeeding Harry O. Layne who resigned earlier this month. Layne left the post for lack of time. Kayser had served as co chairman for several months and contributed valuable services.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Point Pleasant
Rupert L. Kayser
Mason County War Savings Committee
Harry O. Layne
Layne
War Savings Committee
Kayser
Two Men Held in Gasoline Theft Investigation
Millard Lee Rice and Vinton Smith of Leon are in the county jail for investigation into gasoline theft and related garbage tools theft. State patrolmen also arrested others. local officers charged Marvin Leport and Bucky Neville with disorderly conduct and released them to Mayor Krodel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Point Pleasant
Millard
Lee Rice
Vinton Smith
Leon
Noble and Yeager
Marvin Leport
Bucky Neville
Weeken
Krodel
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Circle 7
W. Scot Westerman
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John T. Vance
Downtawn Printing Co
Camp Lee
Charles Weaver
Koehler
Pomeroy
Gladys Mae Reese
Dorothy Wood
Cadmus
At Point Clinic
M. A. Epple
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York Township
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