Second Session Ended By Floodwall Commission in Point Pleasant
The five member floodwall commission at the Mason County Courthouse concluded its second session. It awarded Madeline Durfee 5500 for her Mason Place property in floodwall condemnation and 4250 for C. G. P. Musgrave’s River Street dwelling. A separate outside settlement allowed a temporary ramp to a railroad siding. The next session is set for December 7 at 10 a.m. in Mason County Court House.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Point Pleasant
Fiveman
Circuit Court
Lewis H. Miller
George A. Rairden
Madeline Durfee
Mason Place
Jividen
C. G. P. Musgrave
River St
Commission
Musgrave
W. L. Poling
Southern States
Point Pleasant Cooperative
Kanawha St
Poling
Miller
Mason County Court House
Howard Wartenburg
Everett Sutton
Christie Bletner
Virgil Love
Man Seeks Hearing By Circuit Court
William Kelley of Hartfort appealed for a circuit court hearing before Justice of the Peace S. A. Simmons in Point Pleasant on Saturday and was released on a $500 bond. Kelley had served about 10 days of a 60 day jail sentence for intoxication.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Point Pleasant
William Kelley
Hartfort
Justice of the Peace
S. A. Simmons
Kelley
Thanksgiving Play Highlights Local Junior High Assembly
A Thanksgiving play featuring the Pilgrims was presented by about 345 students during Wednesday’s assembly at the local junior high. The show was staged by Mrs. Violet Gerlach and Mrs. Marion Sayre’s English and history classes with Betsy Knapp reading a Thanksgiving poem.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Point Pleasant
Violet Gerlach
Marion Sayre
Betsy Knapp
Patient to Return From Beckley Sanitarium to Home
Arrangements are made for an ambulance to bring Paul Smith from Pinecrest Sanitarium Beckley to his Main Street home Saturday. Smith is reported critically ill and was the patient for whom state police recently relayed a rare blood type from Huntington to Beckley. Mrs W D Curry 174 Park Drive is visiting her son and daughter in law Mr and Mrs Hugh Curry Charleston.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Point Pleasant
Paul Smith
Pinecrest Sanitarium
Beckley
Main St
Smith
Huntington
W. D. Curry
Park Drive
Hugh Curry
Charleston
Soluseals Miracle Vitamins Ad From Quick's Drug Store
An advertisement touts The Miracle Vitamins with Iron Soluseals for nerves stomach trouble and skin with claims of improved blood. It urges daily use to prevent neuritis and lists 100 tablets for $2.50 sold at Quick's Cut Rate Drug Store with mail order service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Quick’s
Mason Lutheran Parish Advent Services and Schedule
The Pt. Pleasant Church News lists the Mason Lutheran Parish led by Pastor George C. Weirick with a sermon Time to Awake. First Sunday in Advent marks Lord's Supper in St. Mark's Upper Flats and services across St. Paul’s New Haven Zion Broad Run and Luther League with posted Sunday school and worship times.
Gas Explodes Burn Injures Man in Point Pleasant
Hoy Jones Jr of First Street was treated at Point Clinic for first and second degree burns after seeping gas from a small stove exploded while he was connecting it. Dr Gettles said Jones’s entire face was burned and blistered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Point Pleasant
Hoy Jones, Jr
First St
Point Clinic
Jones
Gettles
Circle 1 WSCS Meets Hosts Bazaar Plan
Mrs Bert Severance presidedCircle 1 WSCS met at her Main Street home with Althea Heidelbaugh leading readings and Lucy Baker presenting Mothers Party Dress Hazel Hughes sang Sunrise Anna Gilley won a hymn contest award Lunch served to a long list of members and guests Circle 1 outlined a December 17 bazaar Gifts to be exchanged at next meeting Community notices include visits among local families and friends and several residents traveling to Columbus Caldwell New Lexington and other towns Edward Durst of Point Pleasant was fined 20 dollars and costs for intoxication and jailed in default of payment
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shawnee
Bert Severance
Circle 1
WSCS
Main St
Jeanette Jones
Althea Heidelbaugh
Lucy Baker
Hazel Hughes
Anna Gilley
Dorothy Dishon
Hattie Severance
Florence Bath
Ella Fielder
Lizzie Davis
Hazel Ricketts
Mrs. Krieder
Ella Lyons
Margaret Hopkins
Bessie Severance
Mr. Hughes
Point Pleasant
Edward Durst
Justice of the Peace
S. A. Simmons
Birthday and visiting guests fill Taylor Ridge gatherings
A dinner at the Bulstrom home honored Lois Sharp and Arley Brooks. Many relatives and friends from Glouster Jacksonville Hollister and Harmony Road attended. Birth announced for Janice Lee, daughter of Neal Coe y and cohort noted. multiple visits and funerals mentioned.
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Taylor Ridge
William Bulstrom
Naoma Brook
Bulstrom
Lois Sharp
Glouster
Arley Brooks
Jacksonville
Bulstrom Brothers
Elton
William
Deloss
Joseph Sharp
Ariey Brooks
Macle
Violet
Rosella Brooks
Arley, Jr
Edward Brooks
Deloss Bulstom
Leo McNutt
Margaret
Judy
Lois Ann McNutt
Eddie
Eugene McNutt
Elton Bulstrom
Marie
Mary Bell Bulstrom
Dave Shiffiet
Glenn
Pat
Kenneth Bulstrom
Larry
Johnie Bulstrom
Phylis
Rose Mary Bulstrom
Charles Hooper
Moxahala
Myrtle Olbers
Fred Olbers
Neal Coey
Janice Lee
Jefferson McKee
Hollister
James Coey
Coey
Cheryl
George Herbst
Carl Herbst
Shebra Jean
Barbara
Patty
Carl Edward
Alice Palmer
Trimble
Mary Thexton
Walter Baker
Carolyn
Corning
John Shifflet
Walter
Earl McConkey
Emily
Margery
Athens
Mildred Struble
Mary Struble
Bob Struble
Logan
Fred Leake
Greens Run
Elza Byrns
Oak Hill
Dennis Bradford
Kistler
W. Va
Garfield Wheeler
William Dyer
Zanesville
Pat Bulstrom
Delois Bulstrom
Travis Chesser
Wilber
Charles Holland
Chesser
Ada Ator
Sheltering Arms Hospital
Etta Davis
Pike’s Run
Lela McNary
Auto Hits School Bus in Point Pleasant Crash
Donnie Marlow Park, Mason Bird were in a car that collided with a county school bus at Viand and Eighth Streets. Garry E. Roach drove the bus. Park’s car sustained right front fender and door damage. Several students were on the bus but no injuries reported.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Point Pleasant
Donnie Marlow Park
Mason Bird
Viand
Eighth Sts
Garry E. Roach
Park
Eighth
E. F. Geiger
Substitute Bride Used in Annulment Petition
In Point Pleasant the circuit court clerk notes an annulment petition alleging a substitute person took pre marital blood tests and posed as the bride. Margaret Naomi Patterson a minor represented by Virgil J Patterson seeks annulment of her marriage to James Robert Cochran.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Point Pleasant
Circuit Court
Vernon Jones
Margaret Naomi Patterson
Virgil J. Patterson
James Robert Cochran
Births in Henderson and at Point Clinic
A son Leonard William Jr. was born to Mr. and Mrs. Leonard W. Lee of Henderson on November 21 at Point Clinic. Mrs. Charles Redmond welcomed a infant daughter Sandra Lee at 315 Twenty-Second Street on November 22.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leonard William, Jr
Leonard W. Lee
Henderson
Point Clinic
Charles Redmond
Sandra Lee
Twenty-Second St
Peace Action Is Dismissed in Plea Court
A peace warrant filed by Madeline May Stone against Basil Otho Stone was dismissed on the complainant's motion in Justice of the Peace court. Stone allegedly interfered at swearing, left the court, tore Mrs Stone's coat, and had threatened bodily harm. Mrs Stone has filed for divorce in circuit court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Point Pleasant
Madeline May Stone
Henderson
Basil Otho Stone
Justice of the Peace
S. A
Mra. Stone
Peaceful Point Pleasant lodge plans Christmas party
Rebekah Lodge No. 210 met on Wednesday at the lodge hall. Mrs. Lorena Shifler led a business session and announced a Christmas party with a grab bag. gifts requested for the Dec. 6 event at Mrs. Fannie Pratt’s home. Three new members were admitted: Mrs. Margaret Dashner, Mrs. John Dowler, and Mrs. Columbus Blount. A drill practice is set for Dec. 13. Attendees included Mrs. Lorena Shifler, Mrs. Sarah Kimbrel, Enstell Shet, Mrs. Lettie Jennings, Mrs. Hacah Wilson, Mrs. Fannie Pratt, Mrs. Dana Wedge, Mrs. Violet Boyer, Mrs. Laura Vickers, and Mrs. Flora Myers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Point Pleasant
H Rebekah Lodge No
Seday
Fourth St
Lorena Shifler
Fannie Pratt
Margaret Dashner
John Dowler
Columbus Blount
Lorena Shiffer
Sarah Kimbrel
Enstell Shet
Lettie Jennings
Hacah Wilson
Dana Wedge
Violet Boyer
Laura Vickers
Flora Myers
Thanksgiving Day Gatherings Across Point Pleasant and Areas
Thanksgiving Day guests and holiday visitors are listed across Point Pleasant and surrounding towns. Families including Carpenter, Sprouse, Ringler, Myer, Woolverton, Bailey, Buffington, Warner, Paige, Blain and others traveled to share meals and visit relatives in Mason City Morgantown Charleston Washington and Erie. John A Blain and family plan a short trip to Rochester Minnesota for medical treatment with expected return in about a week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Carpenter
Betty
Walter Carpenter
John Carpenter
Connie Jo
Calvin Sprouse
Mason City
Mra
EL McCulloch
Winfield Road
G. A. Ringler
Erie
C. A. Myer
James Woolverton
Charleston
Betty Ann McCulloch
Morgantown
John A. Blain
Wif
Kerr
Beene
Rochester
Minn
Blain
Youth Fellowship Organized at Vaught Memorial Church
A Youth Fellowship was organized at Vaught Memorial Methodist Church last Sunday evening with James Thorne as president Eulah Thorne as vice president and Daniel Burts as secretary and treasurer Themed songs included Follow the Gleam and Into My Heart The group hosted county Youth Fellowship attendees with a program of prayer piano solo Whispering Hope a reading by Bob Sommer a duet We Gather Together and a heading by Ruth Ann Barnette The session closed with singing and basement games and refreshments
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vaught Memorial Methodist Church
James Thorne
Eulah Thorne
Daniel Burts
You Fellowship
Ord and Galli polis Ferry mark fiftieth anniversary
Mr and Mrs John Ord of Gallipolis Ferry celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary with an open house on Sunday December 4 from 2 to 4 PM for friends and relatives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Ord
Gallipolis Ferry
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Pt. Pleasant Church News
Byron McLain
Columbus
John D. Davis
Earl Lantz
Elyria
Robert Hughes
Carol
Margaret Hoodlet
Tom Tulip
Shirley
Caldwell
Dominic Mantell
Ginger
Herb Davis
New Lexington
Earl Norris
Dick Peyton
Oliver Peyton
Nelle Morgan
Burdette O’hare
Lesle Mae
George Meyers
Tom Gibbon
Tommy
Jack Harris
Glouster and Logan
Buddy Severance
Donald McKnight
Mary Lee
Donna Ann
Carol Drake
Edward Peterson
Jack Huston
Ned Blake
John Ferrell
Nancy Ellen
Mallory
G. W. Wheeler
Mansfield
Arthur A. McNutt
Harmony Road
Bill Tennehill
Charles Erwin
Theodore Shifflett
John McNutt
Butler
Desta Marshall
Westerville
Union Methodist Church
Harmony’ Road
Carl Welling
Stetson
Stylepark
Ben Franklin Co
Pt. Pleasant
America
Fisher
Pontiac
GM hytra-Matic
Algeo Motor Sales
N. Lancaster St
Athens, Ohio
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