Graduates Receive Scholarships at Mason County Ceremony
The 2000 Mason County senior class ceremony honored 139 graduates with 24 awards. Valedictorian Suzanne Rothgeb and salutatorian Sonya Mayes Call led top honors, while Cecil Higginbotham and Carol Lynn Heiskell earned first and second honors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. H. Withers
Mason
Suzanne Rothgeb
Sonya Mayes Call
Cecil R. Higginbotham
Carol Lynn Heiskell
Robert Ray
First Presbyterian Church
Marcelline Buell
Dickie Stratzman
Ann Johnson
Cora Ann Proffitt
Alvin C. Young
Trinity Methodist Church
Franklin
Suzanne Rathgeb
Joseph Friedman
Cecil Higginbotham
Minnie White
Dixie Mel
Emblem Club 199 Installation Event Planned in Gallipolis
The Emblem Club 199 installation led by Supreme President Clara Miller and Supreme Marshal Bess Fridenhagen occurred at the Elks Hall with guests from Nelsonville Athens Jackson and Akron. A cocktail party and dinner followed at the Farmers Hotel while officers were installed and new leadership announced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
Nancy Houck
Emblem Club
Supreme
Nelsonville
Athens
Jackson
Helen Carlson
Akron
Sigrid Ducro
Ashtabula
Clara Miller
Bess Fridenhagen
Burbank
Calif
Elks Hall
Farmers Hotel
June Bastiani
Mary Jean Walker
Francor- Mayme Boster
Tillie Janes
Grdinand
al Imemibeen
Spontini
Euclid
Thas
Martha Ann Hash
Gaynell Mapel
Mary Steinrod
Supreme Press
Ruth Richards
Gallipollis
Esther Janet Hanson
Freda Felki
Jackie Shomaker
Elks
Lova Lanier
Fin‘cording
Liz Mills
Louise Studer
Jane ‘Hanson
Kathryn 5
Edna ‘Vance
Clara Belle Bradley
Adelaide ‘Hall
Ferne Gardner
Joan Folden
Joan Thompson
Jane Young
Community clubs and officials gather for meetings and events
The article lists high ranking club officers and committee chairs including state and district executives, noting receptions and dances in their honor. It covers upcoming meetings at Rio Grande College and local lunches, plus a proclamation on wheat production controls ordered by Agriculture Secretary Benson for 1957 and a probate notice in Albena County.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Whaar
Washington
Secretary of Agriculture
Benson
Albena
Roger J. Jones
Lee
Said
Sao
Point Pleasant Social Notes May Meeting Roundups
The 4H Club in Gallipolis Ferry hosted by Janice Jordan and family featured a May meeting with Mary Frances Blain leading and plans for Activity Day and Roundup Day discussed. June 16 included devotional led by Janice Jordan with Mary Frances Blain and Jimmy Mitch eatery demonstrations and singing. The Women’s Auxiliary of Christ Church Episcopal meets Thursday at 8 p.m. Mrs John V Mann presiding with new officers elected and hostesses named. The Women of the Moose held a Tuesday session at the Moose Home with Junior Regent Ruth Lewis presiding and a $1 award for outstanding band student. program participants included Jean Sauer and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Wilson
Sonya Mayes
Mason County
Souneil
Mary F. Blain
Phyllis Miller
Sue Rhodes
Trinity Methodist Church
Jimmy Fads Ruth
Sara Russel
Tambda Chi Omega Sorority
Sandra Tackett
Charles Lewis
DAR Home Economics
Oanne Henry
DAR History
John Kay Sterrett
DAR Good Citizenship
Dixie McNeil
American Legion
Harry, Rhodes
American Legion Auxiliary
Juanita Hudson
John Sumner
Peta Aspna Cnapter
Velta Kappa Gamma
Big Boy Res
Maude Montgomery
Rio Grande College
Alderson
W. Va
Federal Reformatory For Women
Ruth Baker
Ironton
Ada Norris
Dorothy Rowe
Gallipolis
Helen Paul
Janice, Jane
Joe Jordan
Gallipolis Ferry
Mary Frances Blain
Janice Jordan
Jimmy Mitch Eatery
Christ Church Episcopal
John V. Mann
D. Littlepage
James Shadle
Mann
the Moose
Ruthlewis
Jean Sauer
Wilma Fisher
Edith Fox
Frances’ Darst
Em ‘Merson Wilson
Betty Heck
Elizabeth Clark
Lila Seckinger
Halley
Fredaruth
Wilma Melrose
Mop-to-11 4 Crud Club Meeting Notes and Local Visits
The Mop-to-11 4 Crud met Tuesday at Beech School with a program featuring a poem by Benny Barker and scripture by Coralettea Barker. First year initiation included Jean Baird John Bowcott Darlene Dean Jackie Hudson Zadie Se well Dudley Wears Wayne Williamson and Zora Alice William on. Guests included Mr and Mrs John A Bowcott and several other local residents. Anna Belle Sommer presided at the business session Judy Lanier filed the secretary’s report. Also noted were hospital returns and university weekend attendance from Point Pleasant Morgantown Gallipolis Ferry and other nearby towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Self
Benny Barker
Coralettea Barker
Jean Baird
John Bowcott
Darlene Dean
Jackie Hudson
John A. Bowcott
William Barker
Charles Sommer
Walter Carpenter
Burdette
Holzer Hospital
Barbara Caskey
Circleville
Frank Perry
Dayton
John Heiskell
Park Drive
Carol Heiskell
Court fines three for drinking in Point Pleasant
In Point Pleasant James Hayman John Bates and N A Kohler were fined ten dollars and costs for intoxication in Justice of the Peace A M Goodwins court. The trio remained in Mason County jail for nonpayment of fines. Deputy Sheriff W G Spence arrested them. Roy Thomas was fined twenty dollars and costs for illegal burning, arrested by Mason County conservation officer Miles Durst. Merlin Price, arrested by West Virginia State Police, was fined ten dollars and costs for hazardous driving.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Point Pleasant
James Hayman
John Bates
N. A. Kohler
Court of Justice of the Peace
A. M. Goodwin
W. G. Spence
Roy Thomas
Miles Durst
Mason
West Virginia
Merlin Price
Graham Sentenced To Die This Summer
Graham 24 was sentenced Tuesday to die the week of August 2 for the bombing of an airliner near Longmont Colorado last November 1 which killed 44 people. He testified in a 90 minute hearing and said he does not want an appeal and requests the sentence be carried out.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Venver— Wm
Joan Guibert Graham
Graham
Longmont
Colo
Downington News Notes Visitors and Family Headlines
The column lists numerous weekend and recent visitors to residents of Downington and nearby towns. Names include Mr. and Mrs. Herb Barnhart, C. A. Bolen, Edith Stanley, Whaley, L. C. Siepel, Leroy Howell, Neva, Kate, Vanaman, Jimmy Rutland, Lucy, James Nelson, Glen Jewell, Weltha Clark, Vesta Robinson, Port Washington, Athens, and others in Meigs General Hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nate Howell
Leroy Howell
MT 2d
D. C. Whaley
Vanaman
Jimmy
Rutland
Lucy
David Richard
Chillcthe
Tuscarwas
Willie
Wayne
Tuscara- Duckler
Plains
Weltha M. Clark
Athens
Harold Haning
Vesta Robinson
Port Washington
James L. Nelson
Jack Wallace
Glen Jewell
James Clark
D. C. Church of
Meigs
Dale
Pital
Bradbury
Ronald Barnhart
Verdict Favors Defendant in Ohio Auto Case
The May term jury found for the defendant Demel Clary Lendenderry and Sally Ann Smith in a McArthur Ohio automobile collision suit arising from a Nov 3 1982 crash on West Main Street. Judge F C Motter presided with Wade Lohe for the plaintiff and J L Beckley and W 4 Jones for the defendant. Judge C W Smith served as the presiding judge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Deme Clary Lendenderry
Rests Limitance Exchange
Sally Ann Smith
Williamsport
W. Main
McArthur
F.C. Motter
Euting
Wade Lohe
Attornneys J. L. Beckley
W. 4. Jones
Chillicothe
C. W. Smith
Mason Dairymen Invited to Meeting
Point Pleasant Mason County dairymen are invited to attend the Holshine Twilight meeting at 7 p m on Tuesday May 22 at the C C Lewis farm in North Point Pleasant The program features Thomas Bentley Holstein Fresian Association and Robert Steele WVU extension dairyman Charles Lewis Jr will discuss farm management practices Included travel notes reference to New York City and Tokyo era trivia
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Point Pleasant
Oll
Mason County
C. C. Lewis
North Point Pleasant
Thomas Bentley
Holstein Fresian Association
Robert Steele
West Virginia University
Bentley
Steele
Charles Lewis, Jr
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National Missions Sewing
Wilda Landrum
Holzer
Warren Wilson College
North Carolina
Francis Lewis
George Hamilton
Donald R. Warehime
Women of Moose
Beech
Immy Hatlo
Downington News
Mason Dairymen
New York City
Riangs
Tokyo
Bact
Philadelphia
Pakistan
Tart Enjo
Mecca
Agit
Orton Oa
Moise
Empire Leadier
Maine
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