Flood Wall Details Are Discussed At Pt. Pleasant Council Meeting
Point Pleasant officials discussed flood wall financing and construction. Mayor Krodel and city officers outlined bond proceeds, right of way with the U S Engineer Corps, sewer rearrangement, and street use for construction. Projecting start July 1, Crooked Creek diversion and a south bank dike were described.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pt. Pleasant
Point Pleasant
B. W. Krodel
John E. Brown
F. G. Musgrave
Robert H. Ferguson
C. H. Quillin
Claude Cheesebrew
Dencil Durst
Floyd Taylor
Thomas Reynolds, Jr
E. McElfresh
F. G., Musgrave
William H. Bardin
Krodel
U. S. Engineer Corps
Crooked Creek
16Th St
Three Sentenced On Charges Of Corn Theft
Five men received 1 to 10 year prison terms after guilty pleas in a brief circuit court session. Elza Bailes James Harvey and Dennis Spurlock faced corn theft indictments from H E Shadle Beech Hill. Bailes had two indictments and both sentences run concurrently. Varian pleaded guilty to morals charges and got 1 to 10 years. Mayes pleaded innocent and seeks September term continuance. Wears, charged with $46 theft from a Henderson relative, also sentenced to 1 to 10 years. Other actions included divorces custody orders and a real estate sale appointment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elza Bailes
James Harvey
Dennis Spurlock
H. E
Shadle
Beech Hill
Bailes
Harvey
Spurlock
Harry Varian
Orville Mayes
Varian
Leonard Wears
Henderson
Harry R. Staats
Walter Lewis
Jessie Ruth Hunter
Randall Hunter
Freda Mae Cook
Richard Cook
Charles G. Thornton
Nadine Wilkerson Thornton
Anna Warner
T. C. Warner
W. L. Poling
Graduation Exercises Set For May 20 In Point Pleasant
Commencement for the 1948 Senior High class will be held in the Junior High gym at 8 p.m. on Thursday May 20 with Emma Clark directing processional and recessional. Rev Holly Shamblin delivers invocation and class welcomes are given by Sally Lou Darst. Valedictorian is Elma Sines and speaker is Dr C E Roth. The graduates perform a Czech song and Margaret Scantlin sings The Lost Chord. Principal C H Withers presents graduates as Superintendent Ferguson awards diplomas. Class sermon is by Rev Daniel M Dorsey Sunday May 16 with processional music, hymns, and glee club singing. services begin at 11 a.m. in the same gym.
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Point Pleasant
Emma Clark
Holly O. Shamblin
Sally Lou Darst
Elma Sines
C. E. Roth
Margaret Scantlin
Sullivan
C. H. Withers
Robert H. Ferguson
Daniel M. Dorsey
Frederick W. Faber
F. H. Capehart
High School
Glee Club
Gerlach Nominated For School's Best Teacher Award
Gerlach Joseph Gerlach a 39 year old former Mason County geography teacher at Elkton school is nominated by 232 pupils for the best teacher award. He has 16 years teaching experience and became Elkton principal last September. The award is tied to the Quiz Kids radio program and Gerlach is a father of two.
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Point Pleasant
Mason County
W. Va
Joseph Gerlach
Elkton
Gerlach
Quiz Kids
Elkton School
Geneva College
Beaver Falls
Marshall College
Huntington
Malinda
Capacity Audiences Witness Senior Class Play
Capacity audiences witnessed the Senior Class play Anna Laurie in the Junior High auditorium on Tuesday and Wednesday. The Scots setting featured Meg played by Alice Ann Roush and Gloria Braden praised as the heroine's sympathetic friend with Miss Krodel.
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Point Pleasant
Anna Laurie
Scotland
Alice Ann Roush
Meg
Carol Jane Krodel
Gloria Braden
Point Pleasant Twins Born at Point Clinic
Twin sons born Wednesday at the Point Clinic to Mr and Mrs Charles Jordan of Ashton. The first weighs five pounds and fourteen ounces the second six pounds and two ounces.
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Point Pleasant
Point Clinic
Charles Jordan
Ashton
Charleston Woman Heads Auxiliary at Kanawha Presbytery Meet
Mrs. Ross Carpenter of Charleston was elected president of the Woman's Auxiliary of Kanawha Presbytery at the fifty sixth annual meeting in Charleston. Ruffner Memorial Church will host next year and Mrs. Hamilton A. Johnson was chosen to represent the auxiliary synod in Williamson next Fall. Local talks were given by Mrs. C. C. Hamilton and Mrs. L. C. Clark, with district representatives and annual reports presented.
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Point Pleasant
Ross Carpenter
Charleston
Woman's Auxiliary of
Kanawha Presbytery
Ruffner Memorial Church
Hamilton A. Johnson
Auxliary Synod
Williamson
J. M. Laird
C. C. Hamilton
L. C. Clark
R. FE. Ritchie
Joel Perry
H. J. Markham
Vernon Friel
H. O. Boette
George E. Ellis
L. B. Marsteller
T. C. Martin
Laird
O. B. Melton
Dayton Boys Choir To Give Concert In Dayton
The Dayton Boys Choir of 80 members directed by S Norman Park will perform at 3 p m on May 23 in the Junior High School Auditorium sponsored by the Dayton Rotary Club The local Rotary arranged the appearance and a long list of volunteers manage duties from general chairmanship to decorations and pages
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Point Pleasant
Dayton
Dayton Rotary Club
Rotary Club
S. Norman Park
IOOF Initiates Four Candidates in Point Pleasant Lodge
Four candidates from Leon Charles Buxton Charles Smith Ray Thornton and Walton Beattie were initiated into Oddfellowship by the IOOF lodge in Point Pleasant Tuesday night District Deputy Grand Master D L Wilson assisted in presenting the work
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Point Pleasant
Charles Buxton
Charles Smith
Ray Thornton
Walton Beattie
Leon
D. L. Wilson
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