Gallipolis to Host Ohio State Guard Company
In Gallipolis, Capt. C. D. Slagle and Col. Earl Brennan urged establishing a guard company in the city. A suitable armory space on Second and Sycamore Streets is eyed, with Dr. C. E. Holzer open to sale or rental. If formed, the unit would number about 50 men, armed with shotguns and two with submachine guns.
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Gallipolis
C. D. Slagle
Ohio State Guard
Earl Brennan
Columbus
Second
Sycamore Sts
Hoy Furniture Co
Brennan
C. E. Holzer
Slagle
Athens
State Guard
Christmas mailings to men in service abroad rise
Gallipolis reports daily mailings to service members overseas, averaging five or six parcels with seals and stickers. Postal authorities urge completion before November 1 to meet the holiday shipping window.
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Gallipolis
College President Pabst Guest Speaker at Ohio Convention
GALLIPOLIS A guest speaker at the Ohio Baptist Convention in Norwood was President Pabst of Rio Grande College. He spoke on how schools and colleges can further community up building and growth through education.
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Gallipolis
Ohio Baptist Convention
Norwood
Pabst
Rio Grande College
Pembroke Club Hostess and Local Social Notes
Gallipolis notes show Pembroke Club gathering with Mrs Jess Deep ping as host. Mrs Aldeth Robinson reviews Miss Bron ska by Gene Henry. Mrs Paul Myers welcomed. Town social events include a World Wide Guild meeting at Miss Mildred Mills home and 15 present with devotions and study book reviews.
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Gallipolis
Jess Deepping
Pembroke Club
Aldeth Robinson
Tanis Chapter
World Wide Guild of the Baptist Church
Mildred Mills
Helen White
Lucille
Virginia Hughes
Inaugurate Supplementary Ration Boards
Gallia county announces a new rationing procedure starting October 22 and running to month end. Registration occurs in city and county schools via volunteer registrars. Three additional boards will supervise separate commodities including rubber footwear sugar kerosene typewriters and other items with the original board continuing automobile tire bicycle fuel oil rationing.
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Gallipolis
OCD
Third
State Sts
Ezra Spear Dies At Home In Gallia
Ezra Spear age 58 died at his Portsmouth Ave. home after a brief illness. Funeral Friday at 2 p.m. at the residence with Rev. Cecil V. Marley. burial rites by the Masonic order at Mound Hill Cemetery. Survived by wife, son Eugene S. Spear, daughter Mrs. Joe Miller, sisters Flora and Ola Spear, and brothers Ernest, Emory, Frank, and Everett Spear.
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Gallipolis
Ezra Spear
Portsmouth Ave
Cecil V. Marley
Mound Hill Cemetery
Spear
Eugene S. Spear
Joe Miller
Flora
Ola Spear
Patriot
Ernest
Emory
Frank
Everett Spear
Absent Vote Requests From Service Members
In Gallipolis fewer than a dozen service members in distant training camps requested ballots from election board headquarters. Ballots for sick and disabled began today with many expected. In person acceptance ends Thursday Oct 29 at 6 pm. mail ballots postmarked by Thursday or earlier and received by Friday noon Oct 30 will be counted. Election board meets Oct 30 to distribute ballots and supplies to presiding judges.
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Gallipolis
Election Board
Stanley Saunders
Holzer To Attend National Meeting
Gallipolis Dr. C. E. Holzer will travel to Louisville to attend a national Friends of the Land meeting where he serves as president. Vice President Henry A. Wallace is slated as the principal speaker at the event.
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Gallipolis
C. E. Holzer
Louisville
The
Friends of the Land
Henry A. Wallace
Gallipolis Soldier Homer Young Improves After Accident
Homer Young formerly of Gallipolis, a staff sergeant, is reported improved at Camp Perry after severe injuries from an automobile crash. He suffered a skull fracture, broken hip and other injuries.
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Gallipolis
Homer Young
Camp Perry
Young
Gallipolis Draft Board Prepared for 18 19 Year Olds
The Selective Service Board reports 330 18 and 19 year olds registered in Gallipolis. They are listed by birth date and will receive questionnaires as they reach 20. Most are students not yet in industrial training. once age limits drop, summons for physicals will issue as needed.
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Gallipolis
Selective Service Board
Pobst Denies Rio Grande Will Close for Duration
Gallipolis Rev R L Pobst president of Rio Grande College denies a Columbus service report that students will be sent home for the duration of the war and that the college will close. He cites strong finances a self help program and plans to educate enlisted reserves while not closing. Laboratory equipment from the former Alfred Holbrook College is being installed in Rio’s Science Hall for use.
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Gallipolis
R. Lloyd Pobst
Rio Grande College
Columbus
Pabst
Northern Baptist Convention
Rio Grande
Rio Grande Col
Alfred Holbrook College
Rio
Science Hall
Frank Daniels Dies After Long Illness
Gallipolis obituary notes Addison Township native Frank Daniels 79 dies at home after several years of illness. Funeral services held this afternoon at Addison Baptist Church with Rev. J. L. Stephenson officiating. Surviving children include Mrs. Margaret Berry Ravenna Mrs. Ross White Glenn Daniels Akron and Marcus Daniels at home.
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Gallipolis
Addison Township
Frank Daniels
J. L. Stephenson
Addison Baptist Church
Margaret Berry
Ravenna
Ross White
Glenn Daniels
Akron
Marcus Daniels
Navy Recruiting Office To Open In City Post Office
Following the move of the FSA from a front room in the federal post office building a U S Navy recruiting office will be opened there on a full time basis in Gallipolis.
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Navy
Gallipolis
Federal Post Office
FSA
U. S. Navy
Plan Colorful Campaign for Raising Funds in Gallipolis
H. B. Ecker as county USO campaign chairman plans to contact social and fraternal units to join a fundraising drive aimed at opening a USO center in the Riverview Hotel building. Volunteers praise the plan as defense-area support with a public fish fry featuring 200 pounds of fish from a local grocer. Magistrate J. H. Shato is ordered to bed for a month after a pulmonary attack.
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Gallipolis
USO
H. B.4
Ecker
Riverview
J. H.shato
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Linden
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Red Skelton
Rooney
Athena
Freddie Bartholomew
Tina Thayer
M-G-M
Shines Athena
Tina
Mickey
Freddie
Gallipolis Social Notes
Arthur White
Vinton
Lee Long
Harold Clark
Georgia Norman
Johnnie Norman
Stella Walker
Ewington
Young Married Folks Club
Woodrow Parsons
Ralph Wiseman
Harry Peters
Kenneth Nelson
Kent Campbell
Eugene Campbell
William Spires
W. R. Parsons
Karen Wiseman
Don Allen
Margaret Ellen Spires
Marie Parsons
Maxine Nelson
Beverly
Emily Peters
Errol Ray Parsons
Eloise Ralph
Chicago
A. L. Elliott
Ogden
Iowa
Ohio
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Horace L. Ralph
Ross Goodwin
Lee Halley
Paul Myers
Lieut. Myers
Fort Benning
Ira Fulton
Marietta
Fred K. Mills
Mills Station
Fulton
John Williams
Edith Nida
Flora Williams
Isadore Miller
David
Urbana
L. E. Smith
F. M. Milliser
Laurelville
Perry J. Bailes
John Haffelt
Forrest Wickline
Ironton
Gallia
Modern Drugs
South Court St
Gallaher’s
Lifebody
Dorar
Wrisley Iter Softener
Rene
Gadita
Betty Lewis
Handipt
Gerber’s
Lifebouy Alth Soap
LUX .Et
Lye
Scholl
Ergen
Jergen
Woodbury
Woodbury's
Woodbury’s
Glover
Eine
Akes
Gillette Blue Blades
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el Paka Teed
Holzer
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