West State Street extension moves toward approval in Gallia
Gallia County engineers report the $200000 West State Street extension gains flood control approval from the U S Engineers office in Huntington. The plan awaiting WPA Washington okay and state highway signoff includes surveying the Chillicothe road to Rodney and a Chickamauga Creek bridge, promising a 60 foot wide straight route and reviving a Revolutionary War era road once used by troops.
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Gallipolis
West State Street
States County
FE. N. Leonard
United States Engineers
Huntington
Leonard
State Highway Department
WPACH
Washington
Chillicothe Road
Rodney
Chillicothe
Chickamauga Creek
Gallia County
Virginia
Detroit
Pt. Pleasant
Eight Gallia Farmers Apply for FSA Aid
Eight Gallia County farm families have applied for and received Farm Security Administration assistance for 1941 operations. County FSA supervisor Lawrence L. Holliday reported all families joined the rural rehabilitation program offering five year loans at five percent and help in farm and home management planning.
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Gallipolis
Gallia County
Farm Security Administration
Lawrence L. Holliday
FSA
Bidwell Couple Hurt In Auto Truck Crash
Mr and Mrs H N Stice of Bidwell ages 69 and 67 were hospitalized at Holzer after an auto truck collision near Bidwell at about 8 PM. The wife suffered a deep neck cut and a shoulder injury while the husband sustained chest and head injuries.
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Gallipolis
H. N. Stice
Bidwell
Holzer Hospital
Stice
Mrs Arthur Rose Dies at 33 From Tuberculosis
Mrs Arthur Rose, 33, died Tuesday night at the family home near Bethesda from tuberculosis. Funeral services were held today at Bethesda Church with burial in Neal Cemetery. She is survived by her husband and their three children.
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Gallipolis
Arthur Rose
Bethesda
Bethesda Church
Will Give Benefit at Gallipolis Fairgrounds Monday Night
A vaudeville performance at the Gallipolis fairgrounds Monday night is sponsored by the Fraternal Order of Eagles to fund the Gallipolis Recreation Center. Dancing will be provided and refreshments sold.
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Gallipolis
Fairgrounds
Order of Eagles
Vinton Resident Thurman D Woods Dies at 73
Gallipolis report states Thurman D Woods aged 73 and lifelong near Vinton died at his home on Wednesday. He is survived by his wife Eva Leonard formerly of Addison. Funeral services are planned for Friday afternoon in Vinton.
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Gallipolis
Thurman D
Woods
Vinton
Eva Leonard
Addison
Bakers to Compete for County Pie Honors
Champion apple pie bakers from seventeen subordinate granges will compete for county wide honors at the Gallia County Pomona Grange meeting on November 4 at the Ohio Valley Grange Hall.
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Gallipolis
Gallia County
Pomona
Ohio Valley
Local Social Notes Highlight Parties and Births in Gallia County
Gallipolis society pages report Mrs. J Howard Neal hosting the Tuesday Contract Club with guests from Cincinnati San Francisco and local members. A Legion Auxiliary pins ceremony honored past presidents and Mrs Will Davidson. A surprise birthday party for Mrs James Hansher included family and friends. A Wilkesville dinner marked a birthday for Nun Betz with relatives in attendance. Oliver Wendell Holmes of New York City visited his father Ford Holmes at Poplar Ridge. Birth announced for Sandra Lee daughter of Maurice Brown with weekend visitors listed from Marion Columbus Nitro and Fairplay.
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Gallipolis
J. Howard Neal
Paul Switzer
Cincinnnati
A. P. Helstey
San Francisco
Joe Moch
Robert Ruddell
C. C. Ingels
Moch
Will Davidson
W. P. Beall
George Lear
American Legion Auxiliary
Legion Hall
James Hansher
Addison
Hetzel Russell
Ralph Lewis
Cecil Daugherty
Charles Davis
Joy
Asa Saunders
Margaret Carman
Neva Martin
Edna
John Roush
Olive Saunders
Dorothy Lawson
Hansher
Kathryn
Nun Betz
Wilkesville
E. N. Denney
Edward Betz
Edward Phillips
H. C. Harmon
Lloyd Hughes
Jessie Hoover
Bert Jones
N. K. Phillips
Wendell Denney
Harris
Oliver Wendell Holmes
New York City
Ford Holmes
Poplar Ridge
Lewis Hughes
Estell Mink
W. K. Riggs
Marion City Hospital
Charles Arthur
Stella Arthur
Pittsburgh
Fred Miller
Aonia
Colo
Gallia County
Arthur Miller
Maurice Brown
Eno
Sandra Lee
Brown
Lindell Brown
Paul Everett
Marion
Bertie Slack
Columbus
Alvin Kennedy
Nitro
Martha Mollohan
Fairplay
Phillips brothers seek medical help in Zanesville trip
J Wesley Phillips of Gallipolis and William W Phillips of Waterloo traveled to Zanesville to visit Dr Fred Phillips who will provide medical treatment. Dr H R Steele spent the weekend in Cleveland with company traveling via Columbus. The travel party included Mrs Steele Maurice Bane and son Gary, Mrs W W Bane and Mrs Charles Bane, returning from a motor trip through Virginia West Virginia Kentucky and Tennessee.
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J. Wesley Phillips
Gallipolis
William W. Phillips
Waterloo
Zanesville
Fred Phillips
H. R. Steele
Cleveland
Columbus
Steele
Maurice Bane
Gary
W. W. Bane
Charles Bane
Virginia
West Virginia
Kentucky
Tennessee
Gale Lane
R. K
H. K. Rowan
Herman Lewis
George
Secure Judgments In Miners Deaths
Judgments totaling over 5000 dollars were entered against Miss Virginia E Myers who runs a coal business near Gallipolis and Cheshire. Mrs Levi Freeman was awarded 2887.09 dollars and Mrs Alonzo Biffle 2699.84 dollars plus her daughter Anna Louise. The miners’ husbands died in a Cheshire mine disaster three years ago and insurance coverage is said to be lacking.
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Gallipolis
Virginia E. Myers
Cheshire
Levi Freeman
Alonzo Biffle
Anna Louise
Gallipolis Man Dies in Auto Near Home
John L. Han cock, 40, died Tuesday from a heart attack while seated in an automobile near his Gallia home. Surviving are his wife and seven children. Burial will be in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
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Gallipolis
John L. Hancock
Gallia
Winston-Salem
N. C
Mortgage Lengthy Recorded By Local Office
Recording of a 314 page mortgage from a New York bank to Columbus and Southern Ohio Electric Co. is underway in the county recorder's office with a listed fee of 138 dollars. W A Lee has sold his residence at 843 Second Ave to C L Swain, a restaurant operator, now occupied by W M Scott and family.
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Gallipolis
New York
Columbus and Southern Ohio Electric Co
County Recorder
W. A. Lee
Second Ave
C. L. Swain
W. M. Scott
Plan Grange Party in Gallipolis Meeting
Members of Georges Creek Grange in Gallipolis plan a masked party for the Nov 1 meeting with officer elections and a cider and doughnut social.
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Grange Party
Gallipolis
Georges Creek
GOP Women Plan Meeting in Gallipolis
The Women’s Republican Club in Gallipolis schedules a 2 p m event at the Municipal Building with guest speaker Mrs Agnes R B Dickinson of Columbus and several brief addresses. A prize committee led by Mrs Thelma White and Mrs J S Clark will award prizes to members from the largest township delegation.
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Gallipolis
Women's
Republican Club
Clarence Masters
Agnes RB. Dickinson
Columbus
Thelma White
J. S. Clark
Henry W. Cherrington
Harry M. Miller
George Wetherholt
Lena Dillon
Walter McCormick
Harry R. Hurn
James S. Clark
Georgia Leonard
Lucille Rees
Bess B Wetherholt
Margaret McCormick
Elizabeth Housh
Douglas Johnson
Mary Price
Craig Slagle
T. G. Dillon
Chaunce
Gallia Sealer on Annual Checking Trip
Otis Drummond deputy county auditor and sealer of weights and measures begins his annual tour of Gallia County checking all merchandise offered for sale by weight or measure. The inspection covers service stations selling gasoline and oils. Marriage licenses granted include Bernice Duncan 40 and Opal Coleman 17 of Pliny West Virginia and George E Norris 22 and Ina Rowena Searles 21 of Athens.
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Gallipolis
Otis Drummond
Gallia County
Bernice Duncan
Opal Coleman
Pliny, W. Va
George E. Norris
Ina Rowena Searles
Athens
Campaign event planned at Legion Hall elegance
Fred Hanson and a list of community members sponsor the premier campaign event at the Legion Hall. The affair will be held there and handsomely decorated to mark the club’s first major campaign function.
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Fred Hanson
Clarence Betz
William Ball
Martha A. Cousins
Frank Wetherholt
John Howell
Emmett Keeler
Carlene Johnson
Clarence Masters
Legion Hall
Club
Custody dispute filed by Sheets seeks minor children
Marshal Sheets files for custody of their minor children. A parallel action exists with Fidelis Buchanan against John Buchanan.
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Marshal Sheets
Fidelis Buchanan
John Buchanan
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