Grace MYF Wins County Booth Festival Display
Grace Methodist Church MYF captured the county wide Booth Festival title in Gallipolis on Monday night, winning over last year’s champion Rio Grande. The group’s display centered on a balancing scales motif with Helping Hands as the theme, showing hands and hospital and home sponsorship on one side and selfishness on the other. Second place went to Rodney, with judges praising the exhibit. Hot chocolate and cookies were served to 112 attendees, and Grace MYF president Fred S. Miller led the meeting in the absence of county officers.
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Gallipolis
Grace Methodist Church
MYF
Rio Grande
Gal ¢ Lipolis Myf
Ohio
Methodist Church
Rodney
Helen Morton
Joe Miller
Henry Skidmore
Bidwell
Skidmore
James Clark
Bidwell-Porter
Bob Teller
By the Methodist Church
Wheelersburg
Chesapeakess
Principals Banquet Planned For Feb 14 In Gallia
The Gallia Elementary Principal's Association set the annual banquet for February 14 in the county superintendent's office with Marguerite Hineman Alice Nib cert and Walter Neal directing the evening's recreational program. Bidwell teachers will decorate the E well-Porter Cafeteria. Principal Jones announced the state wide Every Pupil Test is scheduled for November 29 and highlighted differences in school insurance costs between Gallipolis city schools and the county. parents may cover many accidents under the higher county plan. Eleven principals attended. the next meeting will be December 17 not December 24 due to Christmas Eve.
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B. Lewis Jones
World Insurance ¢ Co
Gallipolis
Jones
Hospital Admittances List Names Numerous Local Residents
A long list of patients admitted or noted at Holzer Hospital includes Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Woodward Point Pleasant and many others from Point Pleasant Kanauga Jackson Gallipolis Oak Hill Wellston Pomeroy Bidwell Barboursville. The medical and surgical cases cover a broad range of local residents and family members.
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Holzer Hospital
E. P. Woodward
Point Pleasant
Bruce Yeanger
Cheshire
John McDaniel
Mason
Kal Estell Six
Jackson
Elmer Daniels
Gallipolis
William P. Smith
Surgical
Wilbur Campbell
Barboursville
Okey Coffee
Oak Hill
James Charles
Pomeroy
Evelyn Leaper
Joseph Durst
Bidwell
George Keith
Kerr
Ansel Ervin
Wellston
Lions Propose $300 Visual Aid Fund in Gallipolis
Gallipolis Lions directors approved a resolution to dedicate 300 from the club treasury for a county visual aid program. The plan, requiring Knights of Pythias and Crippled Children's Society cooperation, will be voted on next Tuesday. If matched by 300 from the K of P Lodge, 600 will aid local children needing glasses or other vision care between Aug 31, 1956 and Aug 31, 1957, upon teacher recommendation and nurse screening.
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Gallipolis
Gallipolis Lions
Clab
Knights of Ythias
The
Crippled Children's Society
Lions
K of P
Cripple Children's Society
Society
Allia County
Highway Patrolman Teaches Scouts Bicycle Safety
State Highway Patrol Corporal WcCreedy spoke to Scout Troop 20 about pedestrian and bicycle safety. Sixteen scouts attended. Jimmy Morrison became senior patrol leader, Billy Bachus completed tender foot. The troop board pledged $45 to fund one member’s National Scout Jamboree trip at Valley Forge next July. The six day tour includes stops at White Sulphur Springs, Washington and New York. selection via February ballot.
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Valley Forge
White Sulphur Springs
Washington
New York
Girl Scouts Hold Meeting in Gallia County
Eighteen senior Girl Scouts and 15 leaders met for monthly training with an arts and crafts program. An exhibit showcased items brownies and scouts can make, with crafts for Christmas themes and year-round projects demonstrated. The group, led by Willard Leedy Parsons Mossman Fish Bailey Ott, will hold a January meeting overseen by C. Mac McGinness. International friendship was discussed as part of the program, and $725 of a $800 goal has been raised toward Gallia County efforts, with donations still welcome.
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Gallipolis
Brownies
Girl Scouts
Willard Leedy
Gerald Parsons
Martha Mossman
Penny Fish
Barbara Bailey
Patty Ott
C. Mac McGinness
Gallia County
Jack Slips in Under Axle Rescue at Davis
A Davis scene on Lower River Road features a boy scout accident when a jack slipped and pinned a hand between the truck axle and a jack. Neighbors and passing motorists freed him after another jack slipped as Davis tried to reset it. The troop, led by Mit R. White, reviewed the compass and then played a game. James E. Hackworth weighs an assistant scoutmaster role. Kenny Curry and Dave Evans attended.
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Wasl Inuniy
Davis
Lower River Road
Warehime
Jack Davis
Morrison and Bachus
The
Methodist Church
Mit R. White
O'Grady
James E. Hackworth
Kenny Curry
Dave Evans
Vinton-Woodside Garden Club meets in Gallipolis
The Vinton Friendship Garden Club meets Wednesday at 7 30 pm in Vinton to discuss Christmas auction program plans and bulb planting for November. Members present include Mrs Willard Call on greens protection and Mrs Max Barns on African violets winter care. The meeting features devotions by Mrs Bill Petrie and a recreational program by Mrs John Krasczyn with exhibition of Thanksgiving arrangements. Engagements include a November Amarillos bulb start and a donation to shut-ins. A Young People committee plans a city carol sing on December 21 at the park with multiple groups performing. Committeemen include Tom Dickerson Hope Bruniardi Fred Miller Sandy Avner Miss Smith Ruth Fulks and Margaret Winters with advisers Mrs Russell Smith Mrs Ruth Doepping and leader Mrs Marianne Campbell. The Bidwell Port er Home Council hosts a salad lesson at Gallia County Wednsday dinner. Veterans Foreign Wars here hosts a rabbit fry for 22 members.
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Carden Cud Mors
Madrigales
Saunders
Gretchen Smith
Tom Dickerson
Hope Bruniardi
Fred Miller
Sandy Avner
Miss Smith
Ruth Fulks
Margaret Winters
Gallia Academy High Advisers
Russell Smith
Ruth Doepping
Marianne Campbell
25th Anniversary of TWX Service in Ohio
Gallipolis report notes TWX teletypewriter service began in 1931 and has grown from 73 to 595 subscribers statewide by 1940, now exceeding 1700 machines. Ohio Bell operates over 1000 private line machines as TWX connects subscribers nationwide via telephone company operators and a national directory.
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Gallipolis
Ohio
Bell
Ohio Bell
R. C. Roderick. Com
United States
TWX
Telephone Company
Five Vallafolis men named by Grover mislisted
Associa tion President Alva T. Grover corrected the Messenger report naming five Pomeroy chamber of commerce members who met with the Kgger Creek Association Monday. Correct listing includes Ron Springer of Ohio Power Co. Ted Reed Jr. of Farmers and Merchants Bank H E Boney of Front Street Market W O Adkins of Adkins Chicken Hatchery and Richard E. Jones councilman of Downey-Gross Clothing Store.
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Richard E. Jones
Downey-Gross Clothing Store
Leaper, 95, Dies After Hip Fracture At Home
Allippussg mts Leaper, aged 95, residing 911 Second Ave, died in Inkeno Holzer Hospital after a fall at home caused a fractured hip. Found by granddaughter Norma Berridge lying at the door unable to move or speak. duration of immobility unknown.
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Allipussg
Mts
Leaper
Second Ave
Inkeno Holzer Hospital
Mon
Norma Berridge
River Trappe Stores Extend Hours For Holiday Shopping
Gallipolis reports stores will stay open to 9 p m starting December 14 with Thursday afternoon hours beginning December 6. Local Chamber of Commerce secretary Mrs Max Elliott says donations to the decoration fund have reached 1341 dollars toward a 1200 dollar goal. Also included are river and lock updates and vessel movements on the Kanawha and Ohio rivers.
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Gallipolis
Chamber of Commerce
Max Elliott
Riages
Montgom
Hinton
Kanawha Falls
Pomeroy-Mason
Yaint Pleasant
Kanawha River
Ohio River
Charles R. Stevenson
Chris Jr
Swickley
Ohio
Mr. Chris
Sohio
City of Huntington
Peace
Coleman
Charles Norville
H. E. Jones
Scully
State
Todd
James D. Francis
Duncan Bruce
Louisiana
F Shearer
Solvay
Southern
Gona
Bosworth
Kanawha
Martimet
Helen
Semet
Jerry Bosworth
Winfield
Southeastern Ohio Regional Council Elects At Cambrian Hotel
The Southeastern Ohio Regional Council will hold its annual election meeting Friday night at the Cambrian Hotel in Jackson. President L. D. Hochberg announced the event.
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Jackson
Southeastern Ohio Regional Council
Cambrian
L. D. Hochberg
Brumfield Rites Saturday
Funeral services for E. B. Brumfield 74 will be at 1 p m Saturday at Crown City Methodist Church. Burial in Crown City Cemetery. Born July 23 1882 in Gallia County he had a stroke at home in Crown City Saturday and never regained consciousness. He was a retired farmer and hospital attendant.
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Gallipolis
E. B. Brumfield
Holzer Hospital
Crown City Methodist Church
Crown City
Gallia County
Brumfield
Police Investigate Three Car Smash-Up in Gallipolis
Gallipolis police investigated a three car smash at Third and State early Monday at 1:35 am. Billy Jo Johnson 27 Patriot Star Route drove the rear car an auto owned by Smith Buick Co. The front car driven by Ralph Lewis 37 Gallipolis Route 2 sustained front end and grill damage with light damage to its front.
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Gallipolis
Billy Jo Johnson
Patriot Star Route
Smith Buick Co
Ralph Lewis
Aid For the
VEW Home Meeting Plans Christmas Activities and Dues Update
VEW home meeting notes show dues paid total 132 toward a 169 quota amid a cold spell. Building plans include a 9 by 14 storage room, discussed in executive session with VFW. Christmas events planned December 12 at Grace Methodist Church with gift exchange, a Christmas film, and a program featuring a Rio Grande College chorus.
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Jallipolis
Gattia Coun
VFW
Grace Methodist Church
Cere
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