Peacetime shift as Marietta yard ends tug building
LT 828 completes shakedown on the Ohio river signaling end of a 53 vessel wartime tug program. Marietta Manufacturing Co resumes peacetime construction and repair. LT 828 writes the final chapter with a 149 foot, 852 ton single screw steam tug.
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Point Pleasant
Ohio River
Jis
Finis
Marietta Manufacturing Co
Milne Bay
New Guinea
Nippon
Army Transportation Corps
LT-828
Mediterranean
South Pacific
Babcock and Wilcox
Almon A. Johnson
India Mission Circle Meets at Main Street Church
Mrs Hugh J Barr led the devotional program of the Woman s Mission Circle with Mrs P E Barr in charge of business. The India program was organized by Mrs Roy W Eschenaur with contributions from Leona Treadway W E Selby and W E Dunn. Miss Mary Thurmond s India mission work report and eight years in field were noted by Mrs Everett McCartney. Members registering included thirty names such as Mrs Burr Mrs Richard Thomas Mrs C G Billups Mrs George B Skene and others.
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Point Pleasant
Hugh J. Barr
Woman's Mission Circle
Main St. Baptist Church
P. E. Barr
India
Roy Weschenaur
Leona, Treadway
W. E. Selby
W. E. Dunn
Everett McCartney
Mary Thurmond
Teays Valley
John Adkins
C. D., McGarry
G. C. Smith
Holly Simmons
A. E. Masters
Treadway
Dunn
Gordon Jackson
Mrs Eads Dies While Visiting in California
Mrs. Gertrude Mourning Eads of Point Pleasant died Tuesday night in Pasadena California after months of illness. She is survived by her husband Early Eads son J Oral Eads a Seattle daughter Eva Keane and brothers Ray Dale and Herman Mourning a sister Mrs Anderson and two grandsons. Funeral arrangements hinge on arrival of her husband and son. She was born in Point Pleasant and attended Heights United Brethren Church.
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Point Pleasant
Gertrude Mourning Eads
Jericho Road
Blanche Anderson
Pasadena
Cal
California
Early Eads
J. Oral Eads
Eads
Piling Drives on Five Bridges Piers Near Kanawha
Piling for the trestle approaches to the new Baltimore and Ohio bridge across the Kanawha has started for five of the 30 piers. Cofferdam work begins, with the first dam far from completion. John F. Casey Co. reports material deliveries improving after delays. Steel cofferdams, lowered sections, and clamshell dirt removal are used as work reaches 50 to 90 feet below the surface. Two 12 inch pumps and smaller equipment keep water down, pumping 3 750 gallons per minute.
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Point Pleasant
Baltimore and Ohio
Kanawha
John F. Casey Co
Messenger
Dwellings in Point Pleasant Undergo War Time Paint Jobs
Home owners in Point Pleasant are painting scores of houses to brighten the city after wartime delays. Paint, once scarce, is now plentiful with whites more available than colors as fewer colors can be found.
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Point Pleasant
Pt Pleasant Personal Notices Show Local Visitors and Travel Plans
Mrs. Carl Bruestle and others visit Huntington. C Vaught returns to Washington after Ohio visit with parents. Ingrahams plan May 28 ten day trip to St Louis and Columbia with daughter Patricia. Elizabeth Sterrett admitted to Holzer Hospital for incipient pneumonia. Calhoun returns to Cleveland after visit with mother. Coe family to visit sister Mary Patterson and stay summer here. Marshall College singers group guest Miss Veda Smith joins local visitors in Huntington and Columbus trips.
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Point Pleasant
Carl Bruestle
C. H. Frye
Howard Wartenburg
William Gygax
Victor Parks
Huntington
Cleo Vaught
Washington
George H. Overholt
Ohio River Road
Carolyn Vaught
F. W. Ingrahams
St. Louis
Columbia
Patricia Ingraham
Stevens College For Women
Elizabeth Sterrett
Ka' ‘Nawha St
Holzer Hospital
George Calhoun
Cleveland
O. W. Lusher
Donald Coe
Donald, Jr
Larry
Larchmont
N. Y
Mary Patterson
Re‘ba Beale
Laula Lewis
Virginia Lewis
William Cruickshanks
Alice Marie Frye
Columbus
Local couple plans move to Florida for permanent home
Mr and Mrs Harry Gibbs prepare to relocate to St Petersburg Florida where they expect to settle. Gibbs recently sold his garage equipment to William Kennedy who runs a repair shop at 406 Sixth St Gibbs served as deputy sheriff under Gus Douglas from 1933 to 1936.
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Point Pleasant
Harry Gibbs
St. Petersburg
Fla
Gibbs
William Kennedy
Sixth St
Gus Douglas
Fishing Ban Announced in Mason County
POINT PLEASANT Mason County streams above slack water will close to fishing until June 29 as Game War den Ed Hoffman of New Haven reports. He notes brush burning permits are not required until after Oct 15 and warns fires may lead to fines imprisonment and damages if they escape onto another’s land.
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Point Pleasant
Ed Hoffman
New Haven
Mason County
Parties Must Designate Treasurers by June 7
POINT PLEASANT Political parties must designate treasurers of their committees by June 7. The first application for a service man's ballot was received Wednesday by Circuit Clerk Vernon Jones. It is not expected that many service men will vote in the primary.
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Point Pleasant
Vernon Jones
Dragging is abandoned at river barge accident
Dragging the Ohio River below the Kanawha mouth for the body of Billy Stanley 18 who fell from a barge Monday night has been abandoned. Donald Bulmer of Parkersburg seeks a room suitable for a dancing academy via Rupert L. Kayser.
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Point Pleasant
Ohio River
Kanawha
Billy Stanley
Donald Bulmer
Parkersburg
Rupert L. Kayser Ifor
Kellogg's All-Bran touted as gentle relief for constipation
An unsolicited testimonial claims four years of constipation ended by Kellogg's All-Bran. The letter urges daily use with plenty of water, offers a ten day trial and double money back if not satisfied, and promotes All-Bran as a wholesome cereal, not a purgative.
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Gerard N. Marrotte
Box 69
Hartford
Conn
Kellogg Company
Battle Creek
Michigan
Paper Firm Opens New Office in West Virginia
Pulp and Paper Co. opens an office in the Southern States Cooperative Building in Point Pleasant West Virginia. W D Gingerich of Keyser is in charge and plans to reside here. Territory covers St Marys to Greenup with machinery leased to producers. Plants operate at Clifton Forge Virginia and in Maryland. Vesuvius is noted as a classic explosive volcano for its violence.
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Point Pleasant
West Virginia
Clifton Forge
Maryland
Revival in Hopedale School near Leon by Mrs. Orville Persons
Mrs. Orville Persons of the Pentacostal Holiness Church conducts a revival at Hopedale School near Leon, with sessions continuing at least through the end of the week. Mason County miners resume coal trucking to Ohio and may continue digging if government takes over the mines.
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Point Pleasant
Orville Persons
Hopedale School
Leon
Mason County
Ohio
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