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Social notes from The Plains span families and visits
The Plains social notes detail numerous visits and guests across surrounding towns including Guysville Nelsonville Logan Athens and Columbus with extended family gatherings at the Willards Bumgardners Gibson Swyers and Ves s alos. It also notes a Junior Olympics wrist injury suffered by Jim Vessalo and a Swiss policy requiring able-bodied men to keep a government weapon at home.
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the Plains
Wayne Carsey
Frank Willard
Guysville
Fae, Lovsey
Berle Ogg
Nelsonville
Cabe Shelton
Logan
Bernard Inman
Oliver Stevenson
Walker
Little Hocking
Fred Bumgardner
Edward Matson
Parma
Ronald Cox
Stevie
Johnny
New Lexington
Henry Matson
Vianna Hanning
Wayne Matson
Audrey Bumgardner
Robert Dickens
Marlene
Athens
Teddy Bumner
Askens
Tina Gabriel
Pearl Phillips
Columbus
Rose Phillips
City
Jim Gibson
Emma Jean
Helen Young
Susy
Sharon
Reanis Gibson
Harold Gibson
Reana Mae
Ashville
Gibson
Cora Swyers
Herbert Wilson
William Wilson
Shirley Ann
Jim Vessalo
Mike Vessalo
June Koon
Linda
Diane
Michael
Betty Oliver
Billy
Luke Hardy
Joanne Dickens
Salem
Sharon Ann Kovalcik
George Demchak
Mary Ann
Georgie
R. Konvalcik