Classification of Elementary Schools Made
Mason County reports for 1952-53 show 15 first class and 13 second class elementary schools, 43 unclassified including 38 one room and five grade schools. County officials Shaffer and Staats oversee scoring and classifications with directives to improve each year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Point Pleasant
Mason County
State Department of Education
Kenneth W. Shaffer
Delbert C. Staats
Point Pleasant Senior High School
North Central Association of Secondary Schools and Colleges
PTA Panels Are Named in Point Pleasant
W. C. Gilmour, president of the Ordnance School PTA, has named committee chairmen and workers for 1953 54. Activities include Playground, Landscape, Building and Improvements, Hospitality, Membership, Publicity, American Education Week, Safety, Program, and Child Entertainment with multiple chairmen and co chairs listed for each.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Point Pleasant
W. C. Gilmour
Ordnance School Pta
Carl Murray, Jr
Earl Sturgeon
Cochairman
William Cruickshanks
Ancel Carder
Glen Holland
Dennis Roush
H. H. Harmon
Clifford Stalnaker
Clifford Dunn
Lois Koontz
John Mann
D. P. Muth
Eustace Wilson
Carl Murray
Lionel Smith
H. R. Snead
Elmer Grueser
Ralph Shearer
A. R. Ripley
American Education Week
Hazel Carder
Wilbur
John Heiskell
Jack Johnson
John V. Mann
Okey Bragg
Garrett Green
Farm Women Plan Achievement Day in Mason City
Mason County Farm Women host Achievement Day October 16 at the Catholic parish house in Mason City with speaker Miss Virginia Parsons Ohio County home demonstration agent. Club chairmen should submit reports for the county committee. Wahama football boosters will serve a chicken dinner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Point Pleasant
Mason County
Mason City
Virginia Parsons
Ohio County
Wahama Football Boosters
Americanism Topic Set For Point Pleasant Women's Club
Point Pleasant officials report the fall meeting of the Point Pleasant Woman's Club at the Presbyterian Church will feature Donald Wilson a Clarksburg attorney and past national commander of the American Legion as speaker on Americanism. A panel discussion follows with Mrs agg Pownce Simmons Mrs A Keith McClung the Rev John Sargent Sen Bartow Jones and Edward Swint. New members will be introduced by president Mrs Delbert Staats and a brief business meeting will be held. Mrs Louis Bateson is pianist for group singing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Point Pleasant
Rotary Club
Lions and Kiwanis Clubs
The
American Legion
the Legion Auxiliary
Daughters of the American Revolution
Children of the American Revolution
Veterans of Foreign Wars
DAV
Point Pleasant Woman’s Club
Presbyterian Church
Donald Willson
Clarksburg
Wilson
General Federation of Woman's Clubs
Agg Pownce Simmons
Earl Arnett
Stanley Waldie
Photographs Taken for 1954 Oh-Kan Yearbook
Group pictures for Point Pleasant High School’s 1954 Oh-Kan yearbook were taken Monday at the school and senior pictures were taken today Osborne Studio Inc of Middletown is the photographer. Mrs Helen Sterrett is chief advisor with Mrs Garrett Green in charge of finance and distribution.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Point Pleasant
Point Pleasant High School
Osborne Studio, Inc
Middletown
Helen Sterrett
Garrett Green
Douglas Rouse
Homecoming Set Oct 16 at Point Pleasant
Point Pleasant Big Blacks host Stonewall Jackson on October 16 for homecoming with Dad's Day observed October 23 at the Nitro game. Queen candidates include Sandra Proffitt Beverly Wedge and Ann Williams with escorts Mickey Whalen Roy Reynolds and David Walters. Junior attendant Phyllis Melton escorted by Dwight Kidwell. sophomore Phyllis Miller with Phil Wamsley. freshman Judy Wedge with Berry Jones. A downtown homecoming parade precedes the game.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Point Pleasant
Stonewall Jackson
West Virginia Education Association
Huntington
Sandra Proffitt
Beverly Wedge
Ann Williams
Mickey Whalen
Roy Reynolds
David Walters
Phyllis Melton
Dwight Kidwell
Phyllis Miller
Phil Wamsley
Judy Wedge
Berry Jones
Grand Jury Action Faces Point Man
Cecil Toles of Point Pleasant is to face January grand jury action on a charge of attempted homicide stemming from a weekend incident in which he allegedly struck Bright McCausland. He was released on $1000 bond to answer indictments and previously arrested for intoxication with a $19 fine plus costs. He also faces October 10 trials on warrants alleging theft of automobile keys valued at $2.25 and destruction of real estate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Point Pleasant
Cecil Toles
Bright McCausland
Toles
McCausland
Toral Morrison
T. F. Yost
Charles Musgrave
Hattie Williams
Richard Dale Thomas
Two Doctors Move Offices in Point Pleasant
Dr. J Stewart Lloyd will relocate from Kanawha Medical Clinic on Jefferson Blvd to 1911 Jefferson Blvd this weekend, and Dr. Calvin Maloney will move from the clinic to 1710 end. Both plan to be open Sunday as the old clinic becomes a bed and lab patient area with laboratory technician Paul Ingersoll. Staff includes Mrs. Lloyd and others. a slot service will aid Lloyd's patients at Mt Vernon and Jefferson near the new office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Point Pleasant
J. Stewart Lloyd
Kanawha Medical Clinic
Jefferson Blvd
Calvin Maloney
Paul Ingersoll
Lloyd
William Bardin, Jr
Jack Black
Robert Sutton
Police Work Commended at Point Pleasant High School
Point Pleasant State police city police and the sheriff and deputies were commended by principal Robert H. Ferguson for their excellent service at football game policing this year. He noted traffic control kept parking lots emptied in 15 minutes and invited state and county deputies to Friday’s Wahama Point Pleasant High School game.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Point Pleasant
Point Pleasant High School
Robert H. Ferguson
Ferguson
Wahama
Hornbecks To Move Home To Buckhannon
Mr and Mrs Charles Hornbeck and their son Stevie aged 4 of 801 Main Street will move to Buckhannon Wednesday. Hornbeck has served at Franklin Funeral Home for nearly five years and engaged in church and civic life. Harry W Short of Huntington will take over the Buckhannon post. the Shorts have a daughter Connie.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Point Pleasant
Charles Hornbeck
Stevie
Main St
Buckhannon
Hornbeck
Franklin Funeral Home
Harry W. Short
Huntington
Marriage Licenses and Birth Announcement Shared
Emerson E. Mayes aged 27 and Frankie Dalton aged 24 from Ashton. John H. Barnes aged 29 and Ramona Vinson aged 21 from Lakin. Robert Neal aged 21 and Hazel Lik ens aged 17 from Gallipolis Ferry. Parents of son Dennis Lynn Hazlett born Oct 2 at Kanawha Medical Clinic Apple Grove family home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emerson E. Mayes
Frankie Dalton
Ashton
John H. Barnes
Lakin
Ramona Vinson
Robert Neal
Hazel Likens
Gallipolis Ferry
Point Pleasant
Ogen Hazlett
Apple Grove
Kanawha Medical Clinic
Dennis Lynn
Pie Social Planned at Morning Star School
A pie social will be held at Morning Star School in Cain Ridge on October 17. Lottie Sayre Barnette is the teacher.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Point Pleasant
Morning Star School
Cain Ridge
Lottie Sayre Barnette
Wise Owl Club Expands Beyond Five Thousand Members
The Wise Owl Club, an organization of individuals who preserve sight with eye protective devices like goggles, reports rapid growth and membership exceeding 5000. The group promotes eye safety and shares protective practices.
Woman's Club Sponsors Bloodmobile Drive in Point Pleasant
The Woman's Club of Point Pleasant through the health and safety committee sponsors the Mason County Chapter American Red Cross bloodmobile on Wednesday October 28 from noon to 6 pm at Trinity Methodist Church Viand Street. Donors ages 18 to 60 who have not given in two months eligible. 18 to 21 require parental permission unless in armed forces or married. Donor cards due to Red Cross by October 24.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Point Pleasant
Woman’s Club of
Health and Safety Committee
Mason County
American Red Cross
Trinity Methodist Church
Viand Street
Virgil Siders
Red Cross
Nominations To Be Topic At Mason County DAV Meeting
The Mason County Chapter of the Disabled American Veterans will discuss officer nominations at a 7 30 p m meeting in Point Pleasant. Nominations are set for November 3 at another Point Pleasant gathering. Commander Bruno Casci announced the Forget Me Not sale surpassed last year’s due to help from Boy Scouts of Mason, the DAV Auxiliary, the DAV, and local residents with half the proceeds staying in Mason and Meigs counties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Point Pleasant
Mason County
Bruno Casci
Boy Scouts of
Mason
DAV
Meigs
Casci
Pt Pleasant Social Notes Honor 80th Birthday Of Mrs Stribling
Mrs M W Stribling of Ashton celebrated her 80th birthday with a Sunday dinner at the home of Mr and Mrs Ernest Murphy in Charleston. Attending were numerous relatives from Huntington, Ashton, Le on, and Charleston. Several local residents were noted as patients and visitors at Holzer Hospital and area towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. W. Stribling
Ashton
Ernest Murphy
Charleston
Stribling
A. O. Kincaid
Arthur Chambers
Kelley Withers
J. L. Frazier
Arthur Eugene
Sue
Huntington
J. B. Frazier
Lesage
Virgil Siders
Point Pleasant
Clyde Brown
Kanawha St
Holzer Hospital
Homer Fisher
Winfield Road
Fisher
Keith Thomas
Gauley Bridge
Ray Crookham
Leon
Mis
Sally Ann Burns
Columbus
Ohio
Harley Burns
Donald Cossin
L. T. Cossin
Daughter Born to Mrs Dowell in Brilliant Ohio
Mrs Alvin Dowell of Brilliant Ohio announces the birth of a daughter named Karen Louise born Friday in a local hospital. This is their first child. The mother is the former Peggy Blain. Grandparents are Mr and Mrs Kerr Blain of South Side and Mrs Lucy Dowell Hudson of Southside.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Point Pleasant
Alvin Dowell
Brilliant
Karen Louise
Peggy Blain
Kerr Blain
Southside
Lucy Dowell Hudson
Also Mentioned on This Page
PTA
Kayser
Thomas
Williams
Hornbecks
Woman’s Club
Mrs. Stribling
Fred Hersey
Dawes
Homer Smith
Charles Burdette
Vonda Lee Barnette
Jim Bairden
W. B. Jiiden
Charlies Casto
Warren Stewart
Linda Stewart
E. John Morgan
New Haven
H. E. Bright
Winfield
Robert Heslopheid
Episcopal Church
James Gray
Hogsett
Sheets
Elmer Plymale
Nellie McAllister
Plymale
Oliver Stover
Garfield Ave
Gallipolis
Edward Cottrill
Keith
Edith Clark
Jimmy Stover
Linda and
Rickey
Chesapeake
Cussins and Fearn
N. Court St
Athens
Nd Altman
Athens, Ohio
Yankees
Eddie Lopat
Yankee Southpaw
America
Vic Raschi
Springfield Rifle
Jerry Coleman
Silly Martin
Hank Bauer
Yankee
Whitey Ford
Mickey Mantle
BR. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co
Winston-Salem, N
CoiGa
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