Dam on New River To Reduce Floods in Ohio Valley
Gallipolis officials celebrate federal approval to build the 1500000 dam on New River near Hinton West Virginia The project aims to reduce flood crests in the Ohio Valley by impounding water and releasing it in low rainfall seasons It could influence a nearby hydroelectric plant at Eureka Dam and REA engineers may again consider Eureka as a power source for the region.
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Gallipolis
Ohio Valley Improvement Assocition and Flood Control Congress
Charles EF. Holzer
New River
Hinton
W. Va
Ohio Valley
Holzer
West Virginia
Kanawha River
Pleasant
U. S. Army
Huntington
Kanawha
Ohio
Eureka Dam
Blue Stone
REA
Eureka
Old Covered Bridge Condemned as Unsafe in Gallia County
A Civil War era covered bridge between Kyger and Eno near Blue Sulphur Spring on State Highway 554 is condemned as unsafe. Officials say sills rot through. 60 feet long, it carries school buses coal trucks and rural mail carriers. Detours are being used as buses refuse to cross.
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Gallipolis
Kyger
Eno
To Appear in Ironton In Robbery Case
Gallipolis Howard G. Thivener will appear in Ironton Friday for a preliminary hearing of Mack Willis 18 John Fetters 19 and his brother Earl 17 who have reportedly confessed to robbing him of about 75 dollars at shotgun point. The holdup allegedly occurred on a lonely road in Lawrence County Monday as Thivener drove a rolling store truck.
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Gallipolis
Howard G. Thivener
Ironton
Mack Willis
John Fetters
Earl
Lawrence County
Thivener
Fall Festival Winners To Get Checks Soon
Gallia County writes more than 500 checks from the county agent's office to premium winners of the recent fall festival. Checks will be distributed as soon as completed. Also noted, state highway patrolmen to be stationed here from Nov 18 are arranging living quarters, and Mr. and Mrs. Paul France of Holzer Hospital resign from staff roles.
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Gallipolis
Paul France
Holzer Hospital
Gallipolis Concert Band to Perform Winter Program
The Gallipolis school concert band will present its annual winter concert Thursday night December 4 in Washington Auditorium.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
Washington Auditorium
Couple from Chesapeake Licensed to Marry
Gallia County records show Russell Q. Step hens aged 22 and Ella M. Zimmerman aged 21 both of Chesapeake receive marriage licenses to wed.
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Gallipolis
Russell Q. Stephens
Ella M. Zimmerman
Chesapeake
Tanis Guild Meets at Home of Miss Meadows
Gallipolis social notes: monthly Tanis Guild of First Baptist Church met Tuesday at Miss Marie Meadows home with Miss Katherine Wolfe as hostess. President Bonnie Fife led business, Miss Mary Bess Kent gave devotions, Mrs Esther Gooch led study review of The Seed and the Soil. Twelve members attended with four guests Virginia Hughes Lucille Hughes Mary Clendenin and Virginia Halley.
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Gallipolis
Tanis Guild
First Baptist Church
Marie Meadows
Katherine Wolfe
Bonnie Fife
Mary Bess Kent
F@sther Gooch
Virginia
Lucille Hughes
Mary Clendenin
Virginia Halley
Clubgoers and readers in Pembroke area events
Mrs. Katherine Kircher hosted Pembroke Club members while Mrs. Paul Myers reviewed The House I Knew by Elizabeth Neilson. An English Club meeting featured a review of This Above All by Eric Knight at Miss Ethel Youngs home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Katherine Kircher
Pembroke Club
Paul Myers
Elizabeth Neilson
Ethel Young
Margaret. D. Carter
Eric Knight
England
Mrs. Zelda Allison Gates Dies in Indianapolis
Mrs Zelda Allison Gates former Gallia County resident dies at her Indianapolis home. Interment Friday at Tuscola. She leaves a brother D P Allison living in Walnut Township.
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Gallipolis
John M. Gates
Gallia County
Indianapolis
Ind
Tuscola
Gates
Zelda Allison
D. P. Allison
Walnut Township
Citizens Get Valuable Advice In Fire Prevention Drive
The fire prevention program in Gallipolis, led by the Ohio Fire Prevention Association, drew 125 attendees at Hotel Lafaye tte. A 25 member inspector corps visited 194 buildings finding 179 definite defects and 586 criticisms while 61 homes outside gas areas used kerosene for fires and 51 housewives used gasoline to clean garments indoors. Harry K. Rodgers of Chicago, with Western Acturial Bureau, warned of 15 000 annual fire deaths and urged fire hazard lessons to children in three local schools.
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Gallipolis
Hotel Lafayette
Ohio Fire Prevention Association
Harry K. Rodgers
Chicago
Western Acturial Bureau
Chicago Fire Department
Rodgers
William P. Cherrington
Charles T. Robinson
Rural Youth Group Divided Into Program Committees
Gallia county Rural Youth Group organizes into monthly program committees with members listed from November to August. Officers will sponsor September meetings. Activities vary by season with hikes hayrides picnics folk dancing games candy pulls and other events. Membership is open to all rural youth.
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Gallipolis
Clara Belle Motter
John Trotter
Effie
Bertha White
Audra
Dexter
Wanda
Ralph
Betty Lynn
Claude Miller
William Boggs
Kenneth Dugan
Esther Stewart
Ruth Venz
Letha Wilson
April
Wendell Roush
Beatrice Clark
Edwin Thaxton
Wendell James
Robert Thaxton
Florence Reynolds
May
Gail Russell
Stanford Brinker
Elaine Fulton
Esta George
Harley George
Sylvia Fulton
Virginia Fulton
Faye
Calvin Rife
Kenneth Johnson
Grace Lane
Grace Bunce
Robert Grover
Betty Fulton
Marjorie Halley
Myron Halley
Marguerite Moore
Daisy Glassburn
Earl Dabney
Chester Denney
Kathryn Green
Georgeanna Leonard
Shirley Cline
Alma Gooch
Emily Phillips
Mary Jenkins
Stanley Shaver
Beatrice Briggs
Walter Harding
WPA Officials Discuss Chickamauga Project
WPA officials from Zanesville met in Gallipolis to discuss the Chickamauga Road and bridge project which has not operated this week. The conference yielded no result and 120 WPA workers reportedly walked out in protest of the carpenters being the sole workers. The Zanesville office issued a stop order on the project.
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Gallipolis
WPA
Zanesville
Chickamauga Road
Hold Services Tuesday For Former Resident
Interment of Mrs. D. M. Blake 83, native of the Porter neighborhood, who died in Columbus Tuesday, was held at Mt. Zion Cemetery this afternoon. Friends and relatives from the city and county attended the service near Gallipolis.
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Gallipolis
D. M. Blake
Porter
Columbus
Mt. Zion
Mrs Cram Dies in Chicago Widow of Atlas Author
Mrs. George Cram formerly Leona Wilson of Eureka has died at her Chicago home. She was the widow of a well known atlas and school book author and publisher.
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Gallipolis
George Cram
Leona Wilson
Eureka
Chicago
Operetta to Repeat at Washington Auditorium
A large audience enjoyed the grade school operetta Adventures of Pinocchio at Washington Auditorium. A repeat performance is scheduled for tonight at 8 o'clock.
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Gallipolis
Washington Auditorium
Neighbors Husk Corn For Porter Resident
Will Philips of Porter recovers from surgery in Huntington hospital as neighbors gather at his farm to husk corn. Participants include W. M. Lawless Ernest Garnes Gilbert Holter Ed Reeves Jesse Daniels L. A. Lawless Henry Matheny Creed Matheny Dave Duncan C. C. Swango George Pownall Denver Stevens Ed Garrett Charles Reynolds Vernon Coleman Mort Stevens and Harry Phillips.
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Gallipolis
Will Phillips
Porter
Huntington
W. M. Lawless
Ernest Garnes
Gilbert Holter
Ed Reeves
Jesse Daniels
L. A. Lawless
Henry and Creed Matheny
Dave Duncan
C. C. Swango
George Pownall
Denver Stevens
Ed Garrett
Charles Reynolds
Vernon Coleman
Mort Stevens
Harry Phillips
Beetle Spraying Under Way in Gallipolis City
U S Department of Agriculture workers continue spraying against Japanese beetles in Gallipolis. Ten local men are employed in the project. Funeral services were held in Columbus for Edward E Summers 84 a Porter native who had lived in Columbus 40 years.
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Gallipolis
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Columbus
Edward E. Summers
Porter
Post Office shifts at Gallipolis name Black and Newton
A. Wayne Black parcel post carrier at Gallipolis and James Newton of Monroe Wisconsin will swap duties effective November 16. The move has official Post Office department approval. Blackburn is a former Chester Hill resident.
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Gallipolis
A. Wayne Blackburn
James Newton
Monroe
Wis
Post Office Department
Blackburn
Chester Hill
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Athens Messenger
Athens
Virginia Bruce
Christopher Briggs Ruben
Gallipolis Social Notes
Mrs. Carter
Chaperon
Zenia Shaw
Martha Lou Lassiter
Mendel FE
Beattie
Rio Grande College
Ewing Campbell
Crown City
Lee
Ray Crabtree
Rees Lloyd
Pyro
Business and
Professional Women’s Club
Ardzic
Portsmouth
Howard M. Harding
Elmwood Farm
Kgger
Friends
John Wigner
Tope
Emerson Evans
Arius Cook
H. R. Hurn
Hannah Dowd Vanderford
Harry S Hamilton
McArthur
C. W. Wendelken
C. D. Dailey
Albany
Edith Niday
Flora Williams
Cleveland
John Lupton
Miss Williams
Lupton
John Gates
Gallaher’s
S. Court St
Chickamauga Project
Vice Select
Winchester Western
Victor
Iver Johnson
Stevens
Post Office
ROMAN
A&p
Choice Center
B. Doe
B.do
A&p Brand
Marvel Bread
Libby
Sunnyfield
Iona Brand
Duff's
Swan
Quick Lux
Lux
Rinso
Ige
Texas—Marsh
Stayman Winesaps
Rome
Ohio Apples
California
Fancy Pascal
Texas
Ohio Farm Bureau Pack
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