Leon Delegation Seeks Water Fix and School Staffing
An eight member Leon School delegation urged the board to improve water supply for indoor toilets and hand washing, consider building a farm pond, hire a Leon principal, add two classrooms for grades seven to nine, and provide a fence and return Ambrosia School to the Pullins estate. The board approved hiring three teachers and a part time regional supervisor, with no action on band uniforms or pond projects yet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Point Pleasant
Board of Education
Leon School
PTA
Gus Douglas, Jr
Gus Douglas
Hannan High School
Leon
C. H. Withers
Stanley Abiles
Hazel Pullins
Ambrosia
Pullins
Russell Capehart
Wahama High School
Thomas Reed
Edith Mercer
Central
Bertha Filson
Roxanna Bias
Ordnance
Garnet Stanley
Point Pleasants Firemen Changes At City Council
Point Pleasant J C Parsons was hired as head paid fireman and Frank Bonecutter as the other paid fireman. Harry Flowers resigned as head fireman. The council approved two new lights in the city parking lot and two on Mt. Vernon Ave. The meeting covered parking and traffic changes and a $150 paving payment on Jefferson Ave. City officials presented financial totals and names of attending members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Point Pleasant
J. C. Parsons
Frank Bonecutter
Harry Flowers
John Husmon
Tom Fisher
Chamber of Commerce
Main Street
New City
Mt. Vernon Ave
Jefferson Ave
Barbee Rothgeb
B. W. Krodel
Ronald White
Charles Cottrill
Wayne Kincade
Howard Yeager
Frank Henson
Troy Russell
Jack Workman
Agents Seek Mason County Public Help For 1959 Program
Mason County extension agents plan a program projection survey to learn what residents want in agricultural extension work for 1959 and beyond. They will ask residents which parts to emphasize or drop to shape a sound county program.
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Point Pleasant
Mason County
Staats Divorce Suit Filed in Mason County
Atricia Dawn Staats files for divorce from Els worth Staats citing cruel treatment. She seeks custody of two children and support. The couple married September 15 1947 in Mason County.
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Point Pleasant
Atricia Dawn Staats
Elsworth Staats
Mason County
State Police Move Headquarters to Mason County Court House
West Virginia State Police superintendent rented space in Mason County Court House at Point Pleasant. Headquarters will move from current location to the court house on December first.
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Point Pleasant
Hazen Fair
West Virginia
Mason County Court House
Mason County
Court House
Richard Thomas sues Otis and Jessie Hesson for 25000 dollars
Richard Thomas files a $25000 damage suit against Otis and Jessie Hesson. No declaration was filed. The case will be docketed for the January term of circuit court.
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Point Pleasant
Richard Thomas
Otis
Jessie Hesson
House voting thresholds for state admission and control
The record notes that the U S House requires 219 votes for a majority since the admission of Raska as a state and 20 more votes to gain control.
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U. S. House of Representatives
Raska
Pie money burned in Solitro bakery incinerator
Pasquale Solitro dumped a wastebasket into an incinerator at Solitro's bakery and unknowingly burned $340 of Saturday receipts. He recovered the charred money in a pie tin and asked the Treasury Department for replacement currency.
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Cranston, RR
Solitro
Pasquale Solitro
Treasury Department
Area Church Hosts Dayton Man Nightly
Pastor Floyd T. Rockwell of Dayton will speak at 7 30 each evening at the Reorganized Church on Racine Portland Rd. Saturday 7 30 Patriarch Samuel Zonkers of Wellsburg W Va will show slides from a trip to Germany. Sunday features an all day meeting with a basket dinner at noon.
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Pomeroy
Clarence Proffitt
Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
Racine
Portland Rd
Floyd T. Rockwell
Dayton
Samuel Zonkers
Wellsburg
W. Va
Germany
Rutland Social Notes Include Hospital Visit and Banquet
Rutland residents mention visits to Mrs. Francis Snowden at Meigs General Hospital with Mrs. Snowden showing slight improvement. The Red Devil football Buckeye League champions plan their annual banquet at Rutland grade school gym on Navy 14 with Chet Tannehill as toastmaster. tickets available from squad members or Rutland High School.
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Rutland
John Fields
South Charleston
Ohio
Roy Snowden
Francis Snowden
Meigs General Hospital
Snowden
Mrs. Carroll
Salem St
Carroll
Sherman Tillis
Dye Ball
Bill
Toledo
Hattie McKenzie
Max Edmundson
Louise Nichols
Garnet Williamson
Pearl Malden
Columbus
Marl Foley
Carlos Oliver
Logan
W. Va
Oliver
Elmer McCaskey
Carol Halliday
Elmer MecCaskey
Mr. Halliday
Washington D. H
Ernest Stansbury
Ashville
Jesse Wood
Nicholson
Herman Grate
William Gress
Ray Biddle
Charleston
Basil Cremeans
Jesse Woods
Red Devil
Buckeye
Navy
Chet Tannehill
Rutland High School
Local Social Notes Highlight Visits and Family Celebrations
Mrs. Joan Thacker returns home after hospital discharge in Columbus. Nearby families shared visits across Vinton and Barboursville with relatives including the Tackett and Straughbaugh households. Birthdays celebrated for Mrs. Straughbaugh and Mrs. Butcher as Virginia Harris stays with Leida Pauley.
American Legion Meets at Rutland This Evening
Lewis Manley Post of the American Legion will hold a meeting this evening in Rutland, officials announced today.
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American Legion
Middleport
Lewis Manley Post
Rutland
Point Pleasant DAR Social Notes Report Halloween Party
Point Pleasant councilor Mrs Irene Bolling presided at Greater Point Pleasant Council No 63 DAR meeting. Condolence committee announced the deaths of two members husbands J V Kapp and William Wood. Hospitalized member Mrs Henry White in Columbus. Social committee reported Halloween party at Norma Pillburys home with prizes to Mrs Carrie Caudill June Lewis Cora Morgan and Mildred Hunt. House warming at James Lewis Meadowbrook Addition. Refreshments served by June Lewis and Jewell Boardman.
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Irene Bolling
Greater Point Pleasant
Daughters of American Revolution
Dora Kapp
J. V. Kapp
Olive Wood
William Wood
Henry White
Columbus
Norma Pillbury
Ohio River Rd
Carrie Caudill
June Lewis
Cora Morgan
Mildred Hunt
James Lewis
Meadowbrook Addition
June
Missionary Society to Meet at Main Street Baptist Church
The Missionary Society of Main Street Baptist Church will gather Tuesday evening in the church social room at 7 30.
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Missionary Society of Main Street Baptist Church
Past DAR Council 63 Meets at Velma Mueller Home
Councilors and past members of the Daughters of the American Revolution Council 63 gather at 2017 Marquette Ave Thursday at 7 30 p m. All past councilors and members are invited to attend the meeting.
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Daughters of American Revolution Council 63
Velma Mueller
Marquette Ave
Speaker Set At 4-H Affair
C. H. Withers county superintendent of schools will speak at the annual 4-H achievement banquet at Ordnance School at 5 30 p m Saturday Toastmaster is Juhling McClung president of the 4 H Pinweaters and Good Luck Clover 4 H Club About 250 club members will be honored for completing and exhibiting projects Awards include ribbons certificates pins and club ribbons The county 4 H Leaders Association sponsors the event.
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Point Pleasant
C. H. Withers
Ordnance School
Juhling McClung
County 4-H Leaders’ Association
Currency under Spanish rule in New Mexico up to 1822
During the final period of Spanish governance in New Mexico up to 1822, four currencies were legal. Merchants profited by buying with the cheaper pesos and selling for the more valuable pesos.
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New Mexico
Mason County 4-H enrolls 365 members this year
Mason County 4-H club agent Janet Lee Wallace reports 365 youths enrolled, 125 boys and 240 girls, up 37 from last year. April 1, 1959, is the joining deadline. Six new leaders begin duties: Mrs. Millard Halstead Busy Bees, Mrs. Alma Turner Happy-Go-Luckies, Thomas Wilson, Leon Lueckies, James Langdon Lucky Star, and Mrs. Elizabeth McCanihay Busy Krebs. Other leaders continuing include Mrs. Charles Stephenson American Leaders and Phyllis Miller Tip-Top-Toppers, among others.
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Point Pleasant
Janet Lee Wallace
Mason County
Millard Halstead
Busy Bees
Alma*Turner
Thomas Wilson
Leon
Howard Garland
Charles Sparow
Old Town Mountaineers
Phyllis Miller
Russell Jones
Harry Staats
Vernon Star Dusters
James Darby
Two Couples Seek Marriage Licenses in County Clerk Office
Brady Lee Hughes 19 of Ashton and Wanda Faye Deal 17 of Glenwood apply for a license in Wood County along with Melvin Alfred Smith 22 of Wood County and Delores Jean Hunt 19 of Milton Route 4. The filings list their parents and addresses as provided in the county clerk records.
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Point Pleasant
Brady Lee Hughes
Jess
Lora Hughes
Ashton
Wanda Faye Deal
Clovis Deal
Glenwood
Melvin Alfred Smith
Wood County
Albert Smith
Dora Alice Smith
Delores Jean Hunt
Justus and
Helen Kinsolvin Hunt
Milton
Route 4
Texas too small now Nogales sul resigns
Nogales Arizona September 9 R H Bibolet the self styled Texas consul in Nogales resigns empty end of tenure amid pressure over duties and scope of influence in border affairs.
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Texas
Nogales, Ariz
R. H. Bibolet
Nogales
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Manford Blessing
Wood and
Broad Run
C. P. Stout
Robert Adkins
Keith Arnold
Charles Jones
Earl Keefer
Milton Scott
Mason County Pta Council
Earl McCoy
Point
TARNS
Hi-Boys
Dolgh
Dougip
Area Church
California
Clair Engle
Edmund
Mat) Brown
San Francisco
U. S. Senate
Magic
Brown
GOP
New York
Nelson Rockefeller
Averell Harriman
DAR Council
4-H
Tees
Cadillac
Motordam
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