Mason Grand Jury Returns Ten Indictments After Session
Mason County grand jury meets in Monday term of circuit court forms ten indictments including arson for Marie Burgess and felonies such as robbery and attempted homicide. Foreman James Gaskins presides. proceedings end with five misdemeanors and several real estate sales reported by commissioners. Court adjournment expected in a day or two.
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Mason Grand Jury
Point Pleasant
Petit Jury
Miller
Grand Jury
J. A. Bailey
Toral L. Morrison
J. L. Barnett
R. W. Bailey
Jack Call
William Wogan
B. 9. Blain
Co. W. Jackson
Guy Burdette
Marie Burgess
Goosetown
Bardin
Mason County
Harry Bonecutter
Junior Miller
Sidney Huddleston, Jr
Charles Rodgers, Jr
George Denny
M. E
Sarah Chapman
Owens Badgley
Glen Rufus Orender
Clyde Stickler
Willard Mohler
John H. Weaver
Lucille Weaver
George G. Somerville
F. B. Lieving
Earl H. Arnett
Capehart
James R
Emma Gaskins
H. H. Bardin
Francis R. Clark
Rosa Long
H. H. Hudson
John I. Boston
Daisy Reide
Mr. Boston
F. G. Musgrave
Dencil Higginbotham
Alice C. Higginbotham
Mason Board Delays Teacher Appointments Until May 13
Mason Board of Education met to employ teachers but postponed action until May 13. The teachers' association met, electing officers for the year. Emma Wise named acting principal at Central Grade School replacing Ward Gamble who resigned to join the state department of education. Delegates to the state education association were chosen.
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Point Pleasant
Teachers’ Association
R. H. Ferguson
Cary Howard Rayburn
Manford Blessing
Madelyn Brown
State Education Association
Delbert Staats
Leta B. Fogiesong
Board of Education
Emma Wise
Central Grade School
Ward Gamble
State Department of Education
Students Present Operetta At Local Junior High
In Point Pleasant the operetta The Cobbler of Fairyland was staged Monday afternoon for Junior High and Heights Grade 1 pupils in the school auditorium. The same cast performed for a larger audience later in the day.
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Point Pleasant
Heights
Jargé
Nas
Coast Guardsman Cesar Romero Autographs Fan Cap
A Pacific spot encounter shows Cesar Romero in a Coast Guard role when a newsboy fails to recognize him. The moment turns notable as Romero asks for a name and signs the cap, captured in a U S Coast Guard photograph from the NEA.
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Pacific
Cesar Romero
U. S
Pleasant social notes from Pt. Pleasant updates on births and visits
Daugh ter Mary Lou Garland born Friday weighing 9 14 pounds to Captain and Mrs. Howard Garland at 226 River St. Various residents and visitors are noted including Major Brian A. Buell in Charleston and Mrs. Ora P. Biddle in New York City. Families move, travel to Baltimore and Camp Hood, and hospital plans appear across the community.
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Point Pleasant
Mary Lou
Howard Garland
River St
Pat Haner
Park Drive
W. F. Harless
Madison
Haner
Brian A. Buell
Portsmouth
Ohio River Road
Charleston
Ora P. Biddle
New York City
National Congress
D.A.R
Biddle
R. L. Hoggs
Larchmont
N. Y
Helen Oseland
Akron
Doris Rexroad Berry
Jerome Collins
Nitro
Will Collins
Hogg St
Don Smith
Patty Lou
Donald
Hartford
Howard Price
Jefferson Blvd
Pleasant St
Country Chuir
Leon &. Thompson
William Filson
Danville
C. C. Lewis
Baltimore
Ted Blake
Hazel
Virginia
Faye Blake
Everett Blake
Worthy Burris
Gus Frye
Gallipolis
Holzer Hospital
Rice Funeral Held Today at Residence
Mrs Lin nie Vene Rice died Sunday evening at Mt Vernon Farm south of Kanawha. Funeral services were held at the home this afternoon led by Rev Harry Miller of Ripley. Burial followed at Suncrest Cemetery Point Pleasant. She was daughter of Junious and Virginia Biffie of Old Town Creek and is survived by husband John W Rice a son Robert H Rice two daughters Ethel Lanier and Virginia Carder four sisters Edith Ethel Biffle Pisie Geary Zoe Somerville.
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Robert H. Rice
Camp Cohe la
Ethel Lanier
Virginia Carder
Beech Hill
Edith
Ethel Biffle
Point Pleasant
Pisie Geary
Amma
Zoe Somerville
Parkershugs Gage, Gear
Wahama High seniors present class night program
Wahama High School seniors host class night May 10 1944 at Wahama Auditorium at 8 15 p m The program features a welcome introduction and tributes followed by the play Attic Memories with a long cast including Kathleen Clarke Ralph Sayre Ada Johnson and others. Seniors listed include Ada Coon Mary Dickens Norman Frye Harold Hoffman Vernal Johnson and more.
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Kathleen Clarke
Donald Gibbs
Louise Roush
Bobby Lee
Sara Dickens
Elaine Gabelein
George Carson
Ralph Sayre
Ellen Rickard
Doris Capehart
Jean Thomas
Martha Richardson
Mabel Gibbs
Ada Johnson
Wilma Beard
Lynford Johnson
Florence Grimm
Maxine Brown
Margaret Trew
Radford Ingels
Allen Anderson
Ada Coon
Mary Dickens
Cecil Frye
Norman Frye
Effie Hoschar
Harold Hoffman
Vernal Johnson
Mae Roush
Marion Smith
Johnnie Wolfe
Mary Young
Paying Work Discussed by City Council
Paying Work Discussed by City Council. City council met with nine of ten members present to review routine business and the financial report by Treasurer F. G. Musgrave. Paving: Lincoln Ave between 23rd and 24th Streets will get a gravel surface by street department staff, funded from available funds. further paving plans are under consideration.
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Point Pleasant
Claude Cheesebrew
C. H. Quillin
W. G. Durst
Dr. E. McElfresh
James B. Couch
Frank Riffle
L. A. McMillin
Dencil Durst
Rody M. Harden
F. G. Musgrave
Krodel
Ball
Lincoln Ave
23Rd
24Th Sts
Council
Mason Clubs Stage 4-H Round-Up at Henderson
About 175 people attended the Henderson 4-H spring round-up in Mason County with twelve clubs represented. Bryanna Burton judged clothing projects, while Elsie Fowler chaired and Eileen and Donald Lines judged good grooming. Winners include Betty Ann McCulloch, Tom Nibert, John Sayre, and others across multiple athletic and judging events. Lunches were sold by the Henderson PTA.
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Point Pleasant
Henderson
Mason County
Bryanna Burton
Elsie Fowler
County Leaders Association
Eileen
Donald Lines
Bright Star Club
Betty Ann McCulloch
Betty Lee
Dotty Jane Lewis
Mary Ann Withers
Virginia Yester
Kathleen Honaker
Tom Nibert
Bobby McCarty
Bobby Lewis
George Wamsley
Bobby Joe Chapman
William Sayre
Bob Jones
Ted Siders
Harold Rulen
Delores Nibert
Ilene Ash
Junior Hogsett
Bob McCarty
Glen Campbell
Patsy Yester
Charlotte Keister
John Sayre
Olin Campbell
Irene Gardner
Betty Jo Finley
Aged Woman Victim in Clifton Critical Condition
Mrs. Hat tie Oliver, aged 89, is critically ill at her Clifton home. The article notes the Queen Isabella quarter of 1893 as the only U S coin bearing a foreign ruler’s likeness.
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Point Pleasant
Hattie Oliver
Clifton
United States
Body of Captain Gentile Found in Ohio River
The body of Captain Joe Gentile was recovered from the Ohio River below Lock 47 last Saturday. He disappeared from the towboat Ernestine on November 25. Identification came from a Coast Guard card and other papers. Gentile resided in Ironton Ohio and was well known in Point Pleasant.
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Point Fueasant
Joe Gentile
Ohio River
Ernestine
Coast Guard
Ironton
Point Pleasant
Gallipolis Social Notes Highlight Weddings Birthdays
In Gallipolis over the weekend Hazel Ecker Hines visited family after a Chicago to Columbus flight. Sgt Russell D. Greene wed Miss Georgia Edith Langdon at First Baptist Church, with plans to resume duty May 8 in Carson City. Announced: Miss Aljean Tyler and James Beckett Smythe wed in Charleston West Virginia, Smythe in Navy service since October. Eleanor Kay Richards celebrated her tenth birthday with a theater matinee and friends. Other local updates include Rev McCarley improving, plus travels and visits among the Richards, Leaper, Wetherholt, and McNew families.
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First Baptist Church
Russell D. Greene
Georgia Edith Langdon
J. Edward Hakes
Holzer Hospital School of Nursing
Ernest Langdon
Edith Langdon
T. E. Greene
Jackson
Jackson County
Rio Grande College
Greene
Carson City
Colo
Creene
Wil
Holzer Hospital
Aljean Tyler
James Beckett Smythe
Washington, D. C
J. Ross Stone
H. J. Nelson
Charleston
W. Va
Smythe
U. S. Navy
Nelson
Stone
W. H. Tyler
L. L. Tyler
Mrs. Tyler
Gallipolis
Eleanor Kay Richards
Robert Richards
Evans Heights
Colony Theater
Margaret and
Marilyn Allison
Lynn Brown
Mary Sue Laugher
Helen Butterfield
Lois’ Ann Gooch
Patsy Wiese
Mona Lee Bailey
Mary Anne Hoyt
Elaine Shapiro
Four Fined in Gallia County Court for Assault Cases
Gallia County officers arrested four individuals after a Sunday altercation at the Jenkins home in Porter. John Jenkins, a furloughed soldier, and his wife pleaded guilty to assault and faced varying dispositions. The wife remains jailed pending Probate Court action tied to a prior theft case involving the Black sisters. Additional arrests included Clyde Radcliffe Harold Wills and Ona Pollock on assault charges related to Charles Alexander, with fines paid for release.
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Gallipolis
Jennie May Rose
John Jenkins
Porter
Hatfield
Jenkins
Henry Kemper
Shate
Gallia County
John W. Howell
Clyde Radcliffe
Harold Wills
Ona Pollock
Coughenour Hollow
Cheshire
Sheriff's
Charles Alexander
Sheriff's Deputefore
Shato
Ten Divorce Suits Are Filed in April
GALLIPOLIS Ten suits for divorce were filed in the Common Pleas Court during April. The tenth and last was filed just before the courthouse closed on Saturday afternoon by Attorney Perry Bailes representing Oscar A Coulter who asks for divorce from Zylphia L Coulter of 947 Second Ave. They were married in Putnam County West Virginia on August 26 1925 and have five children. Defendant is charged with gross neglect of duty.
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Gallipolis
Common Pleas Court
Court House
Perry Bailes
Oscar A. Coulter
Zylphia L. Coulter
Second Ave
Putnam County
W. Va
New Hours Set for War Price Board Office
Gallia County War Price and Ration Board Chair A K Merriman announced a new schedule for the board office at Third Avenue and State Street. Beginning immediately the office opens 8 a m and closes 4 45 p m daily except Monday hours 10 a m to 7 p m to aid war workers and others unable to attend standard hours.
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Gallipolis
A._ K. Merriman
Gallia
Property in Mason Area in Demand Sparks Regional Interest
Rupert L. Kayser reports ongoing inquiries from a prominent Cleveland firm seeking property in Point Pleasant and New Haven. The firm shows interest in Middleport and Pomeroy real estate. Kayser notes recent Pomeroy listings and a nearby Middleport farm, citing transportation, coal mines, and brine wells as promising area advantages.
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Point Pleasant
Rupert L. Kayser
Cleveland
New Haven
Middleport
Pomeroy
Kayser
Illness brings family to town for graduations and visits
Mrs. E E Reese remains for a few days due to her mother in law's illness. Her sister Magdalene Bostic visits, then returns with Mrs Forrest Fife. Omer ODell travels to Columbus for daughter June's graduation at White Cross Hospital School of Nursing. Grace Wilson, a federal employee, attends the graduation then visits Ethel Young in Gallipolis before returning to Washington.
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E. E. Reese
Magdalene Bostic
Forrest Fife
Reese
Omer O'Dell
Columbus
June
White Cross Hospital School of Nursing
Grace Wilson
United States
Washington, D. C
June O'Dell
White Cross Hospital
Gallipolis
Ethel Young
Washington
Blood Donors Go to Jackson Wednesday
Gallia County volunteers urged to meet Red Cross mobile unit in Jackson on Wednesday May 3 at 11 45 AM. Miss Catherine Hayward executive secretary of the Gallia County Chapter announced Monday.
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Gallipolis
Red Cross
Jackson
Grace Methodist Church
Catherine Hayward
Gallia County
Birth of First Grandchild Announced by Huntington Family
Gallipolis notices Mr and Mrs Stanley B Huntington announce the birth of their first grandchild, an eight and a half pound son born to Mr and Mrs Alden Acker in Sierra Madre California. The Ackers are connected with Lockheed Motor Corp. in Los Angeles as a consultant. Their daughter Virginia Huntington Zelle has returned to Gallipolis after 18 months away with her husband and plans to move to North Carolina where he is stationed.
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Gallipolis
Stanley B. Huntington
Alden Acker
Winifred Huntington
Ackers
Sierra Madre
California
Los Angeles
Acker
Lockheed Motor Corp
Huntington
Earl Zelle
Virginia Huntington
United States
North Carolina
Zelle
Thiveners Honored At Dinner Party
Gallipolis. Former City Patrolman Cecil Thivener on leave from Great Lakes Naval Training Station and his wife were honored at a dinner hosted by her parents to celebrate her birthday and his first home visit since enlistment. Attending were Gilbert and Irena Thivener, Harold Thivener, Harry Thivener, Clarence Myers and family, Carolyn Faye, Jerry Allen and Ray of Crown City, and Ernestine Houck.
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Gallipolis
Cecil Thivener
Great Lakes Naval Training Station
J. A. Houck
Boggs to Train as Casualty Physical Education Instructor
Gallia County reports former Gallia Academy coach Marshall D. Boggs now stationed at Fort Thomas Kentucky on furlough. He will join Camp Grant Illinois for a training course to become a physical education instructor for casualties returning from the battle fronts.
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Gallipolis
Gallia Academy
Marshall D. Boggs
Fort Thomas
U. S. Army
Camp Grant
Ill
Chicago
Battte
Gallia Woman Nominated as Lady Courageous in WLW Contest
Mrs. Cleveland W. Davis of Gallia Avenue is named Lady Courageous by WLW among 86 regional nominees honoring wartime courage. Her three sons serve or trained in the military, including Pvt Donald G. Davis in the Army aviation program and Ensign Gerald A. Davis in the Navy.
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Gallipolis
Cleveland W. Davis
Third Ave
WLW
Davis
United States Navy
Jean
Gallia Academy High School
Special Service To Be Held at Church
Rev. J Edward Hakes of the First Baptist Church announces a special prayer service at 7 30 p m following the confirmation of the European invasion. The public and especially service families are invited to attend at the church in Gallipolis.
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Gallipolis
J. Edward Hakes
First Baptist Church
Europe
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