Memorial Day services draw 1500 in Gallipolis
About 1500 residents attended a full morning of Memorial Day ceremonies in Gallipolis organized by the American Legion LaFayette Post 27 VFW Gallia County Post 4464 DAV Chapter 5 and the United Spanish War Veterans Camp 119. Attendees heard the Rev C J Lemley and Rev Albert S Chappelear honor war dead with a wreath laying flag pledge and songs by the Gallia Academy High School Band and Girl Scouts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
American Legion
LaFayette
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Gallia County
Chapter
United Spanish War Veterans
Camp
Robert S. Betz
Pine Street
Albert S. Chappelear
St. Peter’s Episcopal Church
Betz
Mary Stillwell
Lido Magnani
Doughboy
VFW
Lemley
Marie Bush
Gallia Academy High School
A. Kimball Sutter
Girl Scouts
Brownies
George Lear
America
Otis Drummond
M. T. Carter
Homer Sowards
Gallipolis Church Listings Chronicle
Church notices from Gallipolis list service times for Catholic Nazarene Assembly of God and more. Includes pastors Veron Shafer Luther Tracy Robert Howard Hershel McDonough and others with mass worship and class schedules across multiple congregations. The Ohio Methodist conference dates Lakeside June 4-9 are noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis
Adoph Golubieski
GSI
Church of the Nazarene
Vernon C. Shafer
Calvary Baptist
Rio Grande
Luther Tracy
Assembly of God
Robert Howard
First Church of God
Hershel McDonough
Pearl Elliott
Garfield Ave
Church of Christ
Bill Heinselman
Simpson Chapel
George Holcombe
Triedstone Baptist
D. L. Latham
BYPU
Porter Methodist
Rodney
Bidwell
Vinton
Ewington
First Baptist
W. H. Green
Thomas D. Bunyan
Christ
Grace Methodist
Warren H. Wilson
Cedar
Ohio Annual Conference of the Methodist Church
Lakeside
St. Peters Episcopal
Albert S. Chappelear, III
Second Ave
Gallipolis
Births and admissions listed at Holzer Hospital
A May 30 birth is recorded for a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Okey Martin of Gallipolis. Several residents from Gallipolis and surrounding towns are admitted for medical or surgical care including Ellen Lewis Oak Hill and Mrs. John Fritz Gallipolis. Discharges include multiple patients such as Mrs. Stella Weaver and Mrs. Lloyd Riley and daughter and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ellen Lewis
Oak Hill
Smith McCausland
Pliny
Linda Travis
Clarence Davis
Thurman
Micheal Blessing
Point Pleasant
Burt Beard
Hartford
Crown City
John Fritz
Gallipolis
Izetta Harrison
Wilkesville
Micheal Mulford
Cheshire
Lorene McCormick
Otis McGraw
Paul Huston
Pomeroy
Marvin Osler
A. E. Thomas
Youth Wins Pig At Horse Show
Gallia County Riding Club held a pig race at Memorial Field with about 25 entries. Douglas Harrington paid 25 cents to enter and won 8 dollars after catching the pig. the pig ran toward a creek but was stopped by Doug before reaching water.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
Douglas Harrington
Fred Harrington
Neighborhood Road
Gallia County Riding Club
Memorial Field
Young Harrington
Odie O'Donnell
Doug
Harringtons
First organ student featured at Rodney recital
Miss Margaret Winters of Rodney, daughter of Mr and Mrs Earl Winters, became the first organ student presented by Mrs Daphne Broyles at a public recital. The event last Friday at First Baptist Church included 48 piano students and Miss Winters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
Margaret Winters
Rodney
Earl Winters
Daphne Broyles
First Baptist Church
Rivers and Dams Report From Kanawha to Ohio
A detailed update lists dam conditions on the Kanawha and Ohio rivers with all dams on the sill or up the Ohio except one. It also records boat-by-boat status for Lock 14 through Lock 34 and the Gallipolis fleet with numerous entries showing boats, captains, and weights or cargo counts at various times.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montgomery
Kanawha Falls
Pomeroy-Mason
Point Pleasant
Hinton
Kanawha River
Sill
Ohio River
Ohio
Key West Named Southernmost U.S. City
Key West Florida lies at 24 degrees 33 minutes north latitude and is identified as the southernmost city in the United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Key West
Fla
United States
R McClintock Dies at 69 in Gallia County
Richard McClintock 69 of Evergreen dies Thursday in Holzer Hospital after years of coal mining work in West Virginia. Born October 20 1888 in Roscoe Pennsylvania he married Lillie Harris in 1913 and is survived by daughter Dorothy Franklin of Loch Gelly West Virginia. Services Sunday at 2 p.m. at the Evergreen residence with burial in Poplar Ridge Cemetery. Friends may call Friday at Vernon McCoy funeral home and Saturday at the residence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
Richard MccClintock
Evergreen
Holzer Hospital
Ben
Poplar Ridge
Gallia County
West Virginia
Mr. McClintock
John
Liza Marsland McClintock
Roscoe, Pa
Lillie Harris
Dorothy Franklin
Loch Gelly
W. Va
C. J. Lemley
Vernon McCoy
Gallipolis Memorial Day Parades Draw Huge Crowds
Hundreds lined the streets of Gallipolis on Memorial Day for two parades. The morning procession moved from the city park to Pine Street Cemetery, featuring the Band Cadet Band American Legion VFW color bearers Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts with the Gallia County fire department marching. A horse show parade followed led by A Kimball Sutter and included North Gallia High School and Koger Creek bands with majorettes and scarlet gray uniforms. About 200 horsemen participated in the rear segment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
City Park
Pine Street Cemetery
Gallia Academy High School
Honor Guard
American Legion
VFW
Boy Scouts
Cub Scouts
Fire Department
Gallia County Riding Club
A. Kimball Sutter
North Gallia High School
Kgger Creek
One Crash Reported In Gallipolis
A single Memorial Day accident was reported in Gallipolis by city police. At 6 15 p m Thursday at Cedar and Third a car driven by Jack Stewart 25 Mason collided with a northeast bound car driven by Lowell Cardwell 17 of Vinton Route 2. No injuries. Stewart cited to appear in Judge William H Jones Municipal Court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
State Highway Patrol
Cedar
Third
Jack Stewart
Mason
Third Avenue
Lowell Cardwell
Vinton
Stewart
William H. Jones
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Veterans’ Groups
U. S
Harry Boggs
John Ivor Richards
Legion
Woodrow Saunders
Nyle D. Borden
Ann Williams
GAR
Firing Squad
Mound Hill
Auxiliary
Disabled American Veterans
Boy Scout
Ernest Riffle
Wanda Rupe
O. D. Markins
Harlan Saunders
Micheal van Reese
Sandra Radcliffe
Lester Roush
Stella Weaver
Lloyd Riley
Harold Petty
Thomas Turner
Carl Day
Sohio State
City of Huntington
Cornell
Ben McCool
A. V. Criss
Sioux City
Charles R. Stevenson
Jerry Bosworth
A. L. Long
Louisiana
Island Creek
Northern
Salvati
City of Maysville
Herbert E. Jones
Salvayi
F. L
Salvay
Ora D II
Charles Norville
Robert G. West
Diggers
Bowers
Queen City
Titan
O. F. Shearer
Marge
R. McClintock
Court St. Gallipolis
RK. E. Knotts, Auctioneer
Nat'l Auctioneers
Alsn
Beasley
and Mathews
B& M
B&m
Beasley & Mathews
Ford
Athens
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