Red Cross War Fund Progress in Mason County
Mason County Red Cross reports receipts over 4300 dollars toward a 12500 dollar county quota. Flood delays delayed campaign two weeks yet Graham and another rural district exceeded quotas while Point Pleasant business districts show strong support. Campaign chairman John Glass says canvass continues until the full quota is reached despite late start and district-wide disruption.
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Athens Messenger
Page State
Mason County
Red Cross
Point Pleasant
Milton. L. Miller
Man County
War Fund
1Th St
Point Pleasant Building and Loan reelects officers and directors
Point Pleasant has re elected its board of directors and officers led by John E. Brown as president, Ross Filson as vice president, F G Musgrave as attorney, W W Riley Jr as secretary, T Stribling as treasurer, with Miss Irene Bowyer as assistant secretary. State Superintendent W W Trent appoints H K Baer as secretary of the state board of education.
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Point Pleasant
Point Pleasant Building’ and ‘Loan Association
John E. Brown
Ross Filson
F. G. Musgrave
W. W. Riley
W. Trent
H. K. Baer
State Board of Education
Baer
Board of Education
Instruments For Band To Be Ordered
POINT PLEASANT The Band Boosters Club agreed to purchase two new horns, a sousaphone bass, and a baritone horn for 385 dollars. Director P E Burt displayed the instruments, and the club noted the band now owns 12 horns while other instruments remain loaned. Principal Robert Ferguson cited frozen uniforms and a growing junior high and grade school contingent as reasons to delay uniforms until late summer. The club plans a spring concert program at its next meeting.
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Point Pleasant
Band Boosters Club
Burt
Robert H. Ferguson
Junior High
Three Mason County Men Are Casualties
Three Mason County men were named casualties on the European front in yesterday's state papers. Pfc. Donald V. Peck of Clifton and S Sgt. Freddie R. Smith of Clifton were killed in action. Pvt. Elza R. Bailes of Glenwood R F D 1 was wounded in action.
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Point Pleasant
Mason County
Donald V. Peck
Alma J. Feck
Freddie R. Smith
Martha V. Smith
Clifton
Elza R. Bailes
Annie Bailes
Glenwood
R.F.D
Grimm Funeral Will Be Held Friday
Funeral services for Mrs. Desta Dyera Grimm age 68 will be at 2 PM Friday at Graham Station Baptist Church. She died Tuesday at her home in Point Pleasant. Survived by husband Andrew Curtis Grimm three brothers Earl and George Grimm of Graham Station Oliver Grimm of Racing Ohio and sister Mrs Eytha McDaniel of Mason City.
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Point Pleasant
Graham Station
Desta Dyera Grimm
Towboat Repaired And In Service At Hatfield Campbells Creek
POINT PLEASANT The General Ashburn towboat of the Hatfield Campbell s Creek Coal Co. which sank at Reed last December has been repaired and is now down the river with a load of 9 000 tons of coal. It was raised weeks ago. Since the Ashburn sinking the company lost two other towboats the W C Mitchell and the Julius Fleischman both in the Ohio below Huntington.
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Point Pleasant
General Ashburn
Hatfield-Campbells Creek Coal Co
Reed
Ashburn
W. C. Mitchell
Julius Fleischman
Ohio
Huntington
Beckley Man Will Head Lakin School
Brady Briggs of Beckley has assumed duties as superintendent of the state industrial school for colored boys at Lakin. Appointed by Gov Mead ows and confirmed by the state senate, he previously served as financial secretary at Lakin and is a Virginia Union University graduate.
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Point Pleasant
Brady Briggs
Beckley
State Industrial School For Colored Boys
Lakin
Meadows
State Senate
Briggs
Virginia Union University
Richmond
Red Cross officer speaks at Mason meeting
Miss Ruth Beener of Washington DC, supervisor of civilian relief to occupied countries for the Red Cross, addressed a meeting at the local Red Cross headquarters last night.
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Mason Point Pleasant
Ruth Beener
Washington, D. C
Red Cross
War Workers Will Travel by Bus to Gallipolis
POINT PLEASANT The Sylvania Electrical Products Co has arranged special bus schedules for workers traveling to the Gallipolis and New Haven areas. Buses will bring workers to the plant from New Haven at 6 30 a.m. and return at 5 55 p.m. The plant is not yet operating around the clock but more workers are being recruited daily and management is satisfied with progress.
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Point Pleasant
Sylvania Electrical Products Co
Gallipolis
New Haven
Mason County Men Leave for Military Induction and Exams
A group gathered at the American Legion Building in Point Pleasant to bid farewell to 107 Mason County men bound for Huntington. Forty seven enter induction into military service and sixty undergo pre induction physicals. Women from the Junior Woman's Club served coffee and doughnuts and cigarettes. Remarks were given by Rev G Billups and F W Ingraham. Others included L W Getty W E Monroe and G B Woodard. Four O Clock Club will not meet this week and will be hosted next Thursday by Mrs Louis Bateson on Ohio River Road.
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Point Pleasant
American Legion
Mason County
Huntington
Matence Daugherty
Glenn Sayre
Ruth Bell
Martha Lynn, Rothgeb
Charles Henry Stone, Jr
Four O’clock Club
Louis Bateson
Ohio
River Road
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