Gallipolis City Increases Waterworks Bond to 505000
Gallipolis City Commission in special session raises principal on first mortgage waterworks revenue bonds from 490000 to 505000 to extend the water system. The ordinance details bond terms, interest rates, and uses including new wells lines a 12 inch line and a storage tank. It also outlines a second ordinance for additional bonds and a potential private franchise if payments fail.
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Gallipolis
Cotton
Gallia County MYFOK Elects Officers Plans 1959 Schedule
The Gallia County Methodist Youth Fellowship gathered 153 at Ohio Chapel and elected Joann Erwin to a second term as president with Carol Ann Cottrell named pianist. The group approved a yearlong meeting plan ending June 1959 with December omitted and installations and events scheduled across Winchester Eno Patriot Rio Grande Ohio Chapel Rodney Centenary Porter Vega and Vinton locations.
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Gallipolis
Gallia County
Ohio Chapel
Joann Erwin
Winchester
Carol Ann Cottrell
Porter
Bidwell Charge
Bidwell
Vinton
Eureka Charge
Rodney Charge
Rio Grande Charge
Ball
Eno
Betty Henderson
New Citizenship
Patriot
Sarah Yoho
New Witness
Riverbank
Bob Silvey
Vega
New Fellowship
Rodney
Patty Wickline
Faith
Rio Grande
Allied Action Emphasis
Margie Reynolds
Chambersburg
Centenary
Witness
Fellowship
Installation
County Court Fines Four in Meigs County and More
A Meigs County wreck on Route 33 near Route 680 junction at 6 45 a m left Spaulding and Vanaman with heavy and moderate damage respectively no injuries or charges filed. In County Court Cephas Bowman 44 Charleston was fined 50 dollars costs jailed five days license suspended six months for driving while intoxicated. Burnett 20 Kanauga fined 10 dollars for failing to stop within the assured clear distance Walker 58 Charleston fined 10 dollars for intoxication Oliver 35 Kananga fined 5 dollars for no operator s license. Bonds forfeited include Taylor 28 Rocky Mount NC 20 for no highway use tax permit Lewis 31 Cheshire 25 for intoxication Earl 48 College Park Md 15 for speed Burgess 19 Huntington 10 and 15 for no operator s license and speed.
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Gallipolis
Ohio State Highway Patrol
Meigs County
Nathan E. Vanaman
Rutland
Mildred C. Spaulding
Pomeroy
Spaulding
Vanaman
Cephas H. Bowman
Charleston
Truman Burnett
Kanauga
Dana Walker
John P. Oliver
Kananga
William Taylor
Rocky Mount
N. C
John W. Lewis
Cheshire
Kenneth Earl
College Park
Charles Burgess
Huntington
Judge Allows Change of Plea in Grand Larceny Case
Gallia County Common Pleas Judge Robert Betz accepted Eugene William Kramer’s plea change from grand larceny to petit larceny. Kramer, accused in the theft of a judge’s antique pistol from an antique shop, was sentenced to six months’ jail suspended in full, with a $300 fine and costs.
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Gallipolis
Common Pleas
Robert M. Betz
Eugene William Kramer
Gallia County
Kramer
Betz
Judge Fines Four Traffic Violators
Municipal Judge William H. Jones fined Benjamin F. Board 64 from Mason five dollars and no costs for driving the wrong way on a one way street. Robert T. North 34 from Gallipolis Langley Johnson 37 of Crown City and Arthur Persinger 47 of Gallipolis were fined ten dollars and costs for intoxication.
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Gallipolis
William H. Jones
Benjamin F. Board
Mason
Robert T. North
Langley Johnson
Crown City
Arthur Persinger
Police Seek Vehicle That Hit Three Parked Cars
Gallipolis city police hunt a hit and run vehicle after it damaged three parked cars on First Ave near Court St by the city park front. Wilbur Ward of Cheshim, Merriman Johnson of Gallipolis, and R. D. White with a Kentucky license report damage to trunks doors and fenders as the unknown vehicle drove Ward’s car into the others and fled.
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Gallipolis
First Ave
Court St
Wilbur Ward
Cheshim
Merriman Johnson
R. D. White
Kentucky
Ward
Births and admissions at Holzer Hospital notes
A list records newborns and their parents in Pomeroy Mason Kananga Leon Crown City Gallipolis Pomeroy Kananga and Wellston. Admissions include Joe Hively Bidwell Mrs E C Davis Buffalo Rev Warren H Wilson Gallipolis and others. Discharges list several named patients. Blood usage totals show pints used Saturday Sunday and Monday.
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Charles Lee
Pomeroy
Bernard Boggs
Mason
Clyde Burnett
Kananga
Paul Runyon
Leon
Emil Shafer
Crown City
Frederick Burdette
Gallipolis
Frank Musser
Noel Moody
Joe Hively
Bidwell
E. C. Davis
Buffalo
Warren H. Wilson
Surgical
Clyde C. Andre
Waterloo
Hurley M. Nelson
Langsville
Mark Musick
Jackson
J. L. Sutton
Kitts Hill
Bert House
Racine
James Whitlock
Middleport
Sherry Willis
Paul Robinette
Wellston
Laura Clark
John D. Spiggle
Point Pleasant
Charlies A. Wayland
Hartford
Larry Leiving
New Haven
J. L. Kemp
Vinton
Clarence Layne
E. R. Witt
Eva Brumfield
Nora Johnson
Garland Nibert
Don Boster
Bernard Rogers
Francis Queen
A. Keith McClung
Walter Goodlin
Audis
Casto
James Walters
Lonnie R. Norvell
Jay Warner
Bob Henry
Ronald Butts
GI Soldier Participates in German American Friendship Week
Sergeant Charlie Bolling Jr., 23, son of Mrs. Mary Bolling of Bidwell, with the 26th Artillery, took part in a German American friendship week parade in Aschaffenburg, Germany. He arrived overseas in April 1956 and serves as chief sound record reader in Battery A after a 1953 enlistment following his 1952 Shawnee High School graduation.
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Gallipolis
Army St C
Charlie Bolling, Jr
Mary Bolling
Bidwell
26Th Artillery
Aschaffenburg
Germany
Bolling
Shawnee High School
Lima
Dial’s Inc
Huntington
Army
Wild Swan May Break a Man's Leg with Wing Naturalists Say
Naturalists warn that a wild swan can inflict serious injury by flailing with its wings. The caution centers on the bird's size, strength, and aggressive defense of territory around water and nesting sites.
Carson Named Defendant In 2 Money Suits
Gallia County suits against Robert D. Carson allege failure to pay Ohio workers compensation premiums and taxes. The State seeks 1863.56 with 6 percent interest since April 8, 1958. Veto Manufacturing Co. suit seeks 158.40 and 6 percent interest since September 23, 1957.
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Carson
Gallipolis
Gallia County
Voto Manufacturing Co
Memorial Day services set at Calvary Baptist Church
Gallipolis Rio Grande Memorial Association schedules Memorial Day events at 10 a.m. Friday in Calvary Baptist Church. Dr. E. Robert Chable dean of students at Rio Grande College will speak. Rio Grande High School singers perform. Joseph Clark Jr. delivers Gettysburg address. Rev. Holcolmbe offers invocation and Rev. Tracy gives benediction. Troop 230 leads pledge. rifle squad veterans from WWI and WWII fires salute.
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Gallipolis
Rio Grande Memorial Association
Calvary Baptist Church
Firemen Extinguish Small Fire at Kananga Residence
Five volunteer firemen and one pumper answered a 4 05 p m alarm at C N Dewitt s Kananga home where bottled gas ignited as the stove was moved. About 20 damage occurred to part of a rug and a bottle gas range. Copper tubing broke igniting the gas.
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Gallipolis
C. N. Dewitt
Kananga
Operetta Draws 450 At Local School
About 450 parents and friends attended Rogger-Cheshire Elementary Monday night to watch 210 pupils perform Merlyn Ross's operetta Hither and Thither with Danny Dither.
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Gallipolis
Rgger-Cheshire
Merlyn Ross
Danny Dither
Sheriff seeks improved facilities at county jail
Gallia County Sheriff Oscar Baird urged the County Commission on Monday to expand the jail with more cells and better segregated housing amid cramped, unsanitary conditions. The commission listened but took no action, promising future discussion.
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Gallipolis
Oscar Baird
Gallia
Baird
John A. Epling
Lee Wilson
Cincinnati
Wilson
Unidentified patient walks away from Holzer hospital
Gallipolis police and Ohio State Highway Patrol search for a young woman who left Holzer Hospital about eight hours after admission from Arbuckle West Virginia. She was found unconscious on Route 35 near Isabelle Wilson farm and may be Ursula Carroll. The 20 year old, 105 pound, five foot speaker wore a mint green blouse and black toreador pants. No agency reported her missing by Tuesday morning.
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Gallipolis
Ohio State Highway Patrol
Holzer Hospital
Isabelle Wilson
Arbuckle
W. Va
Mason County
Earl Mohr
Point Pleasant
Ursula Carroll
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Water Department
Raymond Barr
Barr
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
Washington
Whit Smith
St. Louis
Nancy Simpson
Oakland
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Hoover
Pearl Hill
Charlotte
Bob McCoy
Fort Worth
Tex
MYFOK
Federal Land Bank
The
United National Farm Loan
A. C. Gibson
Sec
v.Treas
Ohio Valley Bank
Ohio
Glamour Shoppe
Main ST
Sreviva
Epling
Warren F. Sheets
W. W. Williaams Co
Columbus
Marjorie Rinehart
Clerk of Courts
Miss Rinehart
Holzer
Tors
Quality Bakers of Americs Cooperative
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