Session Opens Tuesday 200 Expected at Gallipolis
Announcement for the American Legion Auxiliary Eighth Ohio District spring conference to be held Tuesday at Grace Methodist Church in Gallipolis. Mrs. R O Fowler and Mrs L W Robinson lead the program with multiple speakers, music, and reports, expecting over 200 attendees including French Colony Chapter DAR members.
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Gallipolis
American Legion Auxiliary
Ohio
Grace Methodist Church
R. O. Fowler
Pomeroy
L. W. Robinson
H. H. Wilbur
Delbert Dillon
Lafayette Post
Agnes Murphy
Murray City
Sons of Legion Drum and Bugle Corps
Horace Ecker
Cora Bennett
Middleport
Marion Morrison
Athens
Lee Moore
Zanesville
Harry Marsh
Columbus
Solo
Robert Price
Xenia
French Colony
Daughters of the American Revolution
Gallia Academy students win large district honors
Fifteen Gallia Academy High School students ranked in the top ten at a Athens district scholastic competition. Honor students include Virginia Willis and Bette Leaper, Hilda Halley, Elva Nibert, Gail Harrison, Virginia Steele, Rosa Merritt, Mary Margaret Corn, Mary Louise Mohr, Margie Dillon, Lat in, Jake Riggs, Alice Wheeler, Marian Alexander, Janet Booth, John Gwinn.
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Gallipolis
Gallia Academy High School
Athens
Virginia Willis
Bette Leaper
Hilda Halley
Elva Nibert
Gail Harrison
Virginia Steele
Rosa Merritt
Mary Margaret Corn
Mary Louise Mohr
Margie Dillon
Jake Riggs
Alice Wheeler
Marian Alexander
Janet Booth
John Gwinn
Fishermen Claim Bounty as River Recedes at Eureka Dam
At the Eureka Dam area on the Ohio River, workers and locals waded into shallow waters to haul free fish from hundreds of released catch. Hobart Dillon, a local restaurant operator, netted the largest prize a 35 pound sturgeon, the biggest of its kind seen in the Ohio Valley region.
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Gallipolis
Ohio River
Eureka
Hobart Dillon
Ohio Valley
Rio Grande College Plans Elaborate May Day Exercises
Rio Grande College will hold its annual May Day program on May 15 at 3 30 pm featuring the crowning of May Queen Ber Nice Keys and the 1936 Queen Roberta Wilson. The eleven episode event includes Finnish Russian Irish Indian Dutch Japanese English dances songs athletics awards and the Rio College song Red and White.
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Gallipolis
Rio Grande College
Bernice Keys
Roberta Wilson
Holland
May Queen
Huge Coal Tipple Planned at Cheshire by Harmon Co
Gallia County commissioners grant permission for Harmon Coal Co of Columbus to erect a large coal tipple at Cheshire. The company has a five year contract to furnish coal for Wheeling Steel Corp's Portsmouth plant. Erection will boost local mine business and draw many miners after relocating from Pomeroy due to flood interruptions.
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Gallipolis
Cheshire
Gallia County
Harmon Coal Co
Columbus
Portsmouth
Wheeling Steel Corporation
Cheshire Township
Pomeroy
Harmon Company
Dinner draws 200 to Mount Zion supper in Gallia
Mrs C V Ward reports the Mount Zion Ladies Aid chicken supper at her home drew about 200 attendees and raised over $60 for the church. The Aid will meet May 20 with Mrs George Keith. on the program is Mrs E W Edwards of Rio Grande delivering a reading titled The Sign of the Cross.
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Gallipolis
C. V. Ward
Mount Zion Ladies Aid Society
Aid
George Keith
E. W. Edwards
Rio Grande
Rio Grande College Announces Graduation Week Schedule
President W A Lewis outlines a multi day program at Olio Grande College from June 10 to June 14. activities include Sophomore Chapel softball student recital Class Day exercises sophomore breakfast tournaments baseball alumni banquet academic procession baccalaureate address farewell song vesper candlelighting campus breakfast commence ment exercises and a college play The Romantic Age with Dr F B McAllister and Dr C F Banning named.
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Gallipolis
W. A. Lewis
Olio Grande College
F. B. McAllister
Eureka Dam Operation Cost Set at 46000
United States Engineers' office at Huntington estimates the yearly operating cost of the Ohio River dam at Eureka to be 46000 dollars. The federal government will bear the entire cost. Demolition work on the old river lock and dam above the new structure resumes after the spring freshet.
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Gallipolis
United States Engineers
Huntington
Ohio River
Eureka
Rev L C Watts Dies in Ohio at 56
Rio Grande reports the death of Rev L C Watts age 56 a Methodist Episcopal minister in Southern Ohio after a six week illness. Funeral services are set for Tuesday afternoon at Jackson Center. Watts born in Pike County leaves his wife his mother Mrs T E Watts of Waverly and children Janis Charline Phyllis Loris Marilyn and Richard of Jackson Center plus four brothers and sisters.
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Rio Grande
L. C. Watts
Methodist Episcopal Church
Ohio
Marion County
Jackson Center
Watts
Pike County
T. E. Watts
Waverly
Janis
Charline
Phyllis
Loris
Marilyn
Richard
Grange Program Set at May 13 in Gallipolis
Louise Roush of Little Ryger Grange outlines the May 13 program including roll call readings recitations and farm menus. Presentations honor Gallipolis High School music director Robert Price and Boys and Girls Glee Clubs. Two week old White Leghorn cockerels crowing at a Rodney farm amuse onlookers. Miss Bess Wetherholt opens a book store in the Knights of Pythias Building in Gallipolis.
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Gallipolis
Louise Roush
Little Ryger Grange
Erman Swisher
Gladys Caldwell
Mable Rail
Luther Reese
Robert Price
Gallipolis High School
Jordan Wheeler
Doris Irion
Felix Hamrick
Rodney
Foreign Statesman 1 Former head of the gove rent of Czecho slovakia
A garbled clue list references a former Czech government head, various wordplay items, and scattered phrases including Mother’s Day, Napoleon’s exile, and a riddle about a 1935 retirement, likely part of a crossword puzzle page.
Marriage Meddlers and a Veritzen Star Scheme Unfolds
The narrator grapples with Dicky’s theory that Philip Veritzen plans to make Mary a Veritzen star to sever her from Noel. Mary resists, suspecting a ploy to drive apart the couple, while the narrator weighs excuses for Veritzen’s past schemes and urges caution until Noel weighs in. The scene ends with a promise to continue tomorrow.
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Mary
Dicky
Philip Veritzen
Noel
Jack Leslie
Avis Arlen
Georges
Trees
Larches
Olina
Call It a Day opens at Athena Theater in spring comedy
A Cosmopolitan Warner Bros film opens Tuesday at the Athena Theater featuring Ian Hunter and Frieda Inescort as a suburban British family whose smooth life is unsettled by springtime temptations. Olivia de Havilland Bonita Granville and David Willes play their children with romance and wit driving the plot.
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Warner Bros
Athena Theater
Ian Hunter
Frieda Inescort
London
New York
Olivia de Havilland
Bonita Granville
David Willes
Marcia Ralston
Roland Young
Alice Brady
Anita Louise
Dante Gabriel Rosetti
Dodie Smith
Early strawberries lead county harvest with Early Michael berries
Gallipolis reports Nace Fier baugh of near Northup tops county in early strawberry output. He picked enough berries Saturday for a short cake from the Early Michael variety. Postmaster Roscoe Fox of Rodney learns his brother F A Fox is elected assessor in Tuscola Illinois for the fourth straight time.
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Gallipolis
Nace Fierbaugh
Near Northup
Michael
Roscoe Fox
Rodney
F. A. Fox
Tuscola
Ill
Mr. Fox
Evans Divorce Gives Custody of Adopted Son
Mrs. Cecil Evans won a divorce from Les ter Evans Saturday before Judge W R White. The court granted custody of the couple's adopted son to the father.
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Gallipolis
Cecil Evans
Lester Evans
W. R. White
Partition Suit Sells Klicker Heirs 200 Acres at Sheriff Sale
In Green Township 200 acres owned by the late D. H. Klicker were bought at a sheriff's sale Saturday by Herbert Klicker for 4425 dollars. The land had been appraised at 5000 dollars.
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Gallipolis
Green Township
D. H. Klicker
Herbert Klicker
Thomas Hager Receives Reformatory Term
Gallipolis reports Thomas Hager 21 was sentenced by Judge W R White to one to 15 years in the Mansfield state reformatory for auto theft from his father. He was under suspended sentences for other misdemeanors, officers said. Also Vanover Band broadcasts high school program on WKBN Youngstown this Tuesday 4 15 to 4 45 led by Edward S Vanover.
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Gallipolis
Thomas Hager
W. R. White
State Reformatory
Mansfield
Hager
Gilbert Hager
Vanover
McDonald High School
WKBN
Youngstown
Edward S. Vanover
Joint meeting of Gallipolis Bethesda and Asbury Ladies Aid Societies
The Gallipolis Bethesda and Asbury Ladies' Aid Societies plan a joint May meeting at Mrs. A. J. Ropeter's home on May 26. Other interested members are invited to attend.
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Gallipolis
Bethesda
Asbury Ladies’ Aid Societies
A. J. Ropeter
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NBC
WLW
CBS
E. S
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Tommy and
Betty
Army Band
Paul Douglas
Saslowell Thomas
Coronation Talk
Rhythmaires
the Johnsons
Jack Fulton
Amos
Andy Pierson
Orch
Three Rancheros
Sam and
Abner Hollace Shaw Midge Williams
Bob Newhall
Boake Carter
Horace Heidt
Burns
Fibber McCree
Wayne King
Amos 'N
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Barron
Jerry Cooper
Felton Orch
Jean Bablon
Courtney
Freeman Orch
Newman Orch
Paul Sullivan
Ravell Orch
Crosby Orch
James Orch
Merrymakere
Jenny
Jack and Lorette
Dalton Brothers
Claudine MacDonald
Betty and
Bob Myrt
Marge Collegians
Pepper Young
Bills Wright
Me Perkins
Bill Wright
Vie and Sade
O'Neills
Glen Darwin
Lowell Thomas
Escorts
Jack Patton
Easy Aces
Lum and
Abner
Alexander Woollcots
Hendrik van Loon
Roeke Carter
Russ Morgan
Music Bedley Brown
Rose Morgan Hall
Bedley Brown
Edgar A
al Jolson
al Jolsen
Ben Bernie
al Pearce
Jack Oakie
Fred Astaire
Red Astaire
Jimmy Fidler
Friend Ensemble
Anoy Dorsey Oreh
Brown Orch
Madhatterfields
Dorsey Oreh
Martinez Brothers
Arpheim Oreh
Dax Mu Marient Oreh
Arnheim
Oreh
Mariani
Dailey Oreh
Harris Orch
Dailey Oren
Harria Orch
Tucker's Or Isham
Jon
Breeze
Tucker's Orch
Isham
Jo Shermans
Moon River
Rev. L. C. Watts
Czechoslovakia
Yee
Napoleon
Aiti
George Clark
Veritzen
Phil
Lillian
Leslie
Adele Garrison
Athena
Beaaye Wah
Paul Kelly —B
Soinmbig
Pisiare
Messenger
W. Union
the Messenger
Athens, Ohio
Hindenburg
Taylor
Harlow
Anita
Brady the Stove Pormen the
Regey Wees
Water Woolf King
Bonita Grenville
Beryl Merasi
Archie Mayo
Werner Bros. Plewe
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