Gallipolis Plans Medical Arts Building Spring 1938
Gray Simms of Columbus completed plans for a Medical Arts Building to rise at Third and Locust Streets in Gallipolis. The $40,000 project will be occupied by doctors Bean Shane Thomas and dentist Allison. The Baptist church site will be razed for the new building and the congregation plans an addition to fund the missionary activities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
Medical Arts
Third
Locust Streets
Gray Simms
Columbus
Leo C. Bean
F. W. Shane
H. B. Thomas
Raymon Allison
Baptist
The
Baptists
Water System At Rio Grande Is Finished
Rio Grande village and college now have a complete municipal waterworks plant. The large reservoir is filled and pressure is strong. Fire hydrants and service pipes are installed. The system cost about $300000 with the village and college contributing one sixth and the WPA the remainder.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
Rio Grande
Turkeys Scarce In Gallia County Before Thanksgiving
Local produce commission houses pay 18 cents per pound for turkeys on foot amid a scarce Gallia County flock. Prices started around 22 cents, then fell to 18. Most of the crop moves through Gallia commission houses to larger urban markets. Also reports of large wild geese flocks migrating over the county.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
Local Produce Commission
Gallia County
Pittsburgh
Cincinnati
Chester Scouts Visit Camp Kinshata Overnight
Chester Boy Scouts hiked to Camp Kinshata and spent the night with several scouts named including Paul Merideth Lawrence Warner Howard Newland Kenneth Murphy John Lodwich Virgil Woods Paul Kimes Junior O Conner Charles Eiselstein Paul Baer Loyd Wolfe Emmet Babcock Marion Johnson and Scout Leader Chester Knight. Attendance at the M E Sunday School last Sunday was fifty three and a special song was sung by Betty Dean and Betty Kimes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chester
Camp Kinshata
Paul Merideth
Lawrence Warner
Howard Newland
Kenneth Murphy
John Lodwich
Virgil Woods
Paul Kimes
Junior O‘conner
Charles Eiselstein
Paul Baer
Loyd Wolfe
Emmet Babcock
Marion Johnson
Chester Knight
M. E
Betty Dean
Betty Kimes
J. S. Bailey
Kathryn Bailey
Charlotte Smith
Ohio University
B. K. Smith
Lucille Smith
A. C. Heaton
Mutual
Carol Christy
Letart
James van Meter
Leslie Kimes
Ward Kimes
Sam Long
Guy Singer
R. B. Hayes
Delaware
Ward Hayes
M. E. Ladies Aid Society
Chester School
Miss Crow
Gallipolis Social Notes Highlight 40th Anniversary and Club Events
The section recounts F. M. Tawney and wife celebrating 40 years with relatives from Clendenin Charleston and Gallipolis. It covers the Gallipolis Business and Professional Women's Club dinner at the Presbyterian Church with guest speaker Rev W Scott Westerman and new members. It mentions church meetings, house parties, visits, and local society activities including nursing district meeting in Athens and various hosting families around Gallipolis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
F. M. Tawney
Chillicothe Road
E. D. Tawney
James Tawney
Lucy Jackson
Clendenin
W. Va
S. H. Cartt
Emma Lou McCormick
Charleston
A. W. Milhoan
Nitro
F. A. Summers
Asheville
N. C
R. E. Jenkins
Billy
Lula Keaton
Richard Gilpin
Edwin McCormick
Max, Earl
William Tawney
W. Scott Westerman
Grace Methodist Church
Presbyterian Church
Mildred Wise
Dorothy Titus
Norma Fasig
Margaret Bradbury
W. G. Sibley
Chicago
Inlaw
H. Ellis Sibley
Presbyterian Missionary Society
W. S. Westerman
Grace M. E. Church
Bolivia
South America
R. P. Thompson
Rural
America
Clarence Masters
Syler
Ertel
Only Two Gallia Couples Get Wedding Licenses
Gallia County records show two couples secured licenses to wed: Robert E. Peck 24 and Dorothy Miller 21 of Rio Grande, and Harry K. Mills 25 and Eva Evans 21 of Gallipolis. Additional applicants include John Pauley 27 of Middleport with Gusta Garrison 25 of Glasgow West Virginia and others in Poca Pomeroy Point Pleasant Hamden.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
Gallia County
J. S. Clark
Robert E. Peck
Dorothy Miller
Rio Grande
Harry K. Mills
Eva Evans
John Pauley
Middleport
Gusta Garrison
Glasgow
W. Va
Mason Odell King
Garnet Louise Spears
Poca
Frank Wheeler
Evelyn Tippie
Pomeroy
Claude Brown
Daisy Crump
Point Pleasant
Herman Ray Sorrell
Esther Klocker
Hamden
Rio Grande WAA Holds Informal Dinner Meet
Gallia region reports the Rio Grande College Women’s Athletic Association holds an informal dinner in the college cafeteria with Miss Huckstep faculty sponsor and speakers Imogene Yinger Myrtle Wickline Betty Marsh Eleanor Stroth Eleanor Lusher Geraldine Morgan Lucille Nash Thelma Whitley Hilda Price. Also note Will Davis civil engineer is seriously ill at his Xenia home. sister Rachel Davis of Delaware accompanies him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
Women's Athletic Association of Rio Grande College
Miss Huckstep
W.A.A
Imogene Yinger
Portsmouth
Myrtle Wickline
Worthington
Betty Marsh
Eleanor Stroth
South Webster
Eleanor Lusher
Mercerville
Geraldine Morgan
Lucille Nash
Scottown
Thelma Whitley
Sciotoville
Hilda Price
Will Davis
Xenia
Rachel Davis
Delaware
Jane
Maye Davis
End-O-Corn Promises Quick Safe Corn Relief
An Athens Pharmacy ad promotes End-O-Corn as a quick safe corn and callus treatment. It claims End-O-Corn stops pain removes corns and calluses where other remedies fail and urges readers to try it today. The ad mentions a price around 850 and emphasizes lasting happiness tomorrow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Athens
Gallipolis Man Seeks News From Nice Rotary Visit
On a Rotary International visit in Nice France Bob Baughman Wilmington district governor spoke of a pleasant contact with Ohio sailors aboard the U S S Raleigh. Charles Sowards son of former sheriff Homer Sowards of Gallia County saluted and asked about the folks in Gallipolis during the Tuesday night event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
Nice
France
Rotary International
Bob Baughman
Wilmington
U. S. S. Raleigh
Ohio
Charles Sowards
Homer Sowards
Gallia County
Rio Grande Christian Group Plans Program
The Christian Association of Rio Grande College will present a music and entertainment program at Vinton Baptist Church on Sunday evening November 21. Music directed by Miss Florence Chubbuck includes a mixed quartet: Woodrow Dean, Helen Huber, Ross May, Mildred Blair. Talks on college life by George Job, Leona Dodds, and Helen Huber.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
Christian Association of Rio Grande College
Vinton Baptist Church
Florence Chubbuck
Woodrow Dean
Helen Huber
Ross May
Mildred Blair
George Job
Leona Dodds
Gallia County to send dozen truck mine operators to Nelsonville meeting
Gallia County will be represented by a dozen or more truck mine operators at a district meeting in Nelsonville Thursday night. A safety campaign for lower insurance rates will be inaugurated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
Gallia County
Nelsonville
Mrs Jeanette Frye dies in Pt Pleasant home
Mrs Jeanette Frye, step mother of Gus Frye of Gallipolis, died at her home in Pt Pleasant Tuesday night. Funeral services were Thursday afternoon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
Jeanette Frye
Gus Frye
Pt. Pleasant
Gallia County Infant Death Rate Highlights Care Gaps
Dr. H B Thomas notes Gallia’s high infant mortality ranks just below Lawrence County in Ohio. He cites lack of facilities for mothers and newborns, poverty restricting care, and limited hospital access as key factors. He urges private or charitable action to establish maternity care, and cites tuberculosis home needs and state aid reductions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
Lawrence
Gallia
H. B. Thomas
Thomas
Ohio
Scouts distribute Christmas Seal posters across Gallipolis
Gallipolis Boy Scouts wearing white armbands with the red cross of the Anti Tuberculosis Association handed out more than 200 Christmas Seal Posters to local businesses. The health seal sale begins the day after Thanksgiving with Miss Catherine Cahill, city school nurse, directing poster distribution and publicity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
Anti-Tuberculosis Association
Catherine Cahill
Girls Called Home Over Toledo Injury
Miss Belle Mills and Miss Helen Mills summoned to Ann Arbor Michigan due to severe injuries of their niece Miss Claire Humphrey a Toledo area schoolteacher struck by a projecting hay wagon pole while riding in a automobile She is hospitalized in Ann Arbor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
Belle Mills
Helen Mills
Ann Arbor
Mich
Claire Humphrey
Toledo
Humphrey
Creomulsion Promises Quick Relief for Coughs and Colds
A radio advertisement promotes Creomulsion as a powerful remedy for chest cold bronchial irritation. It claims fast relief by soothing inflamed mucous membranes and loosening phlegm, with a money back guarantee if unsatisfied after the first bottle.
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Gallipolis Medical
Baptist Center
London
Newcastle
Gallipolis Social
St. Peter's Episcopal Church
Catherine Morrison
Wagner
Anderson
Chillicothe
Ella G. Lupton
Garnette Lupton
Blanche Mayhew
Bertie Serrell
W. W. Jackson
W. E. McDougall
Rose Curry
F. C. Kramer
Herman Wild
Huntington
Alice Bradbury
Anne
C. J. Norton
Harry Lupton
Paul Williams
Elizabeth Niday
Grape St
C. O. Stuart
William Hudnall, Jr
Jean Anne
Belle
J. W. Clendenin
N. G. Somerville
Ira Huntington
Otto Carter
Richard
Albert Deckard
Elizabeth Ray
Dorothy Rinehart
Ruth Pfann
Ursula Kraus
Ruth Daniels
Ohio State Nurses’ Association
Merrill Perkins
Opal Jeffers
Charles Baker
Lower River Road
A.fontana
Ida
Western College For Women
Oxford
John C. Fontana
R. E. Bischoff
Edith Christ
Sarah Robinson
Pembroke Club
First National Bank
Eugene Spear
Mary Kail
E. W. Mauck
A. N. Bowman
Ross Stover
Tiffin
John Miller
Winona
Ill
Clarence Waugh
Edward Waugh
C. O. Betz
Gertrude Collins
Ind
R. J. Collins
Harrison Township
W. V. Lewis
Royal B. Lewis
Fred Lunsford
William Quay
Roy Kyle
Lewis
Civil Service Commission
Order of the Eastern Star
Co. C. Gettles
Jack Knight
Virgil Craft
Irene Baldwin
Anna Bradbury
F. W. Belden
G. B. Gillingham
Lando Feblin
Quindora Brumfield
Church of God
Olive Wilson
Betty Mills
Bluefield
Frank Mills
Swan Creek
L. L. Maddy
Katherine West
Marietta
Rio Grande Waa
Brazil
Getulio Vargas, Jr
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore
Rio Grande Christian Group
Boy Scouts
United Dep't Store
Coolville
Finest Land-o-Nod Studios
Men's Suede
Hanes, Men's Union
Children's
Montezuma Union
Misses
Women's
Children's Fancy
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