Labor Day Navy Yard Celebration Noted
Point Pleasant Police report an altercation outside the 22nd St Bowling Center after closing Tuesday leaving Franklin Quillin and Eber Biffle with head lacerations. Both were treated at Point Clinic. Elvin Byus of Jericho Road was arrested and released to Trooper Coyner after questioning.
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Point Pleasant
22Nd St
Franklin Quillin
Eber Biffle
Point Clinic
Elvin Byus
Jericho Road
Coyner
Employment In War Work Increasing at Point Pleasant
A Labor Day demonstration for workers at The Marietta and the Navy Yard has been called off possibly on Washington instructions. About 1,300 workmen are employed at the Navy Yard, with 900 more at the ship construction yard operated by Marietta Manufacturing Co under Navy contract. Employment is expected to reach about 8,000 after January 1, with progress aimed for by Christmas. Housing and commuter train plans are unsettled or abandoned due to lack of interest and signatures.
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Point Pleasant
Marietta
Navy Yard
Washington
New Yard
Marietta Manufacturing Co
Navy Department
Navy
E. B. Badger and Sons Co
Ordnance Works
The
Messenger
Women Expected To Learn Acetylene Welding
In Point Pleasant the war creates chances for women ages 21 to 35 to train in acetylene welding with good wages in local war industries. Superintendent Walden F. Roush notes the first class of up to 15 will start next Monday after 3 PM, running 3 to 7 30 PM weekdays and noon to 7 30 PM Saturdays for about 50 hours weekly and 240 hours over eight weeks. Applications to Roush or the U S Employment Office.
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Point Pleasant
Walden F. Roush
Roush
U. S
Archie Layne Dies in Mason and Mason City
Archie Franklin Layne aged 57 died at Holzer Hospital after three years of poor health. He moved between Am brosia Harrisonville and Mason, now living on Jewett Street. Survived by his father Lewis F Layne wife Sarah and ten children, including Bertha Stardiner Hazel Filver Gladys Glassburn Nancy Priddy Wanda Layne and Otto Ethil Alva Walter Brooks Coleman Perry. Funeral arrangements pending at Arnett Funeral Home.
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Point Pleasant
Archie Franklin Layne
Holzer Hospital
Arnett Funeral Home
Mr. Layne
Ambrosia
Lewis F
Rachel (Thompson) Layne
Harrisonville
Jewett St
Sarah (Beel) Layne
Bertha Stardiner
City
Hazel Filver
Macon
Gladys Glassburn
Bidwell
Nancy Priddy
Rutland
Wanda Layne
Alva Layne
Buffalo
W. Va
Ethil Layne
Robertsburg
Otto Layne
Ft. Thomas
Walter Brooks
Coleman Layne
Perry Layne
More Teachers Are Needed in Mason Area
Mason area schools face staffing shortages after last minute resignations. The county system is six elementary teachers short for one room schools and three at Senior High, per Superintendent Roush.
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Mason Area
Point Pleasant
Roush
DAR Chapter to Open Year With Defense Theme Meeting
Col Charles Lewis Chapter DAR meets at The Mansion House on Friday at 3 pm with Miss Garnette Tillis as Regent presiding. Clarence Corkran of Charleston, a FBI field agent, will speak. Delegates to the state convention in Charleston October 9–10 will be chosen, and a cemetery name for the ordnance works site will be selected.
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Foint Pleasant
Col. Charles Lewis
Daughters of the American Revolution
Mansion House
Garnette Tillis
Clarence Corkran
Charleston
Federal Bureau of Investigations
DAR
Tesse Bennett
United States
William H. Vaught
Ora P. Biddle
M. FE. Tracy Sr
Marion Forlesong
Tillis
Enrollment in City Schools Increases at Points Pleasant
Enrollment at Senior High School reached 360 students after the third day of the term, up from 358 at term end. North Point Pleasant Grade School reports 270 pupils, about 20 more than last term. Principal Co. H. Withers notes continued growth.
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Point Pleasant
Co. H. Withers
North Point Pleasant
Funeral services held for Edward E. Heiner
Funeral services for Edward E. Heiner retired businessman were held at his Main Street home this afternoon at 3:30. The Rev. Chalmers McCutchen conducted the service. Burial followed in Lone Oak cemetery with pallbearers listed. Heiner had lived in Point Pleasant since 1889 and held senior posts with Kanawha and Michigan Railway Co Superior Coal Co and real estate ventures in Milwaukee and Weston. He was 1871 born and survived by Velma Kisar Heiner brothers and sisters in Ohio and Minnesota.
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Point Pleasant
Edward E. Heiner
Main St
Minn
Superior Coal Co
Columbus
Heiner
Milwaukee
W.y
Westocn
Texas
Carrie Gilmore
Velma Kisar
Annie Rebecca
A. F. Kisar
Harry H. Heiner
Ohio
Lawrence J. Heiner
Rutland
Palmer McConnell
Cambridge
Pearl A. Coen
Jessie M. Heiner
Mason School Workers Are Honored at Jacksons Mill Conference
Wahama High School students from Mason and Point Pleasant schools attended the Twelfth Annual Conference of the Future Homemakers at Jacksons Mill. Julia Pearl Thomas was elected president of the state federation and Marilyn Jewart received the state degree for future homemakers, marking Mason County’s continued recognition in the program.
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Point Pleasant
Wahama High School
Mason
Frances Dillard
Garnette Tillis
Jackson's Mill
Pauline Stout
Marilyn Jewart
Ruth Edna Roush
Ellen Mae Rickard
Jean Faudree
Julia Pearl Thomas
State Federation of Homemakers’ Clubs
Pauline Statler
Pennsboro High School
Jean
Jewart
Betty Yeager
Leola Warren
Faye Plymale
Awarded Contract To Construct Highway
POINT PLEASANT The Price Construction Co. Huntington, which built a section of the access highway to the ordnance works, receives a contract to build the highway from Jackson Ave to the navy yard. The length is 0.0364 miles and the contract price is $49,201.84.
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Point Pleasant
Price Construction Co. Huntington
Ordnance Works
Jackson Ave
Navy Yard
Land Values Rise in Court Condemnation Hearings
In Point Pleasant the federal land value commission raised appraisal on three tracts involved in military ordnance works and condemnation. Randolph Spencer 16 acres from 400 to 1000. Minnie Spencer 52 1 2 acres from 7000 to 7500. Nora Somerville 20 acres from 2000 to 3500. Commission plans secret sessions after viewing land and hearing evidence. Also notes Bourbonburg jail release and drunkenness fines, plus World War I airplane absence over front lines.
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Point Pleasant
Federal Court Commission
Ordnance Works
Randolph Spencer
Minnie Spencer
Nora Somerville
Elliott Northcott
J. W. Musgrave
J. H
Ella Worley
Sallie Lou Musgrave Steenbergen
The United States Navy's First Iron Battle Ship
Forty two years elapsed from 1842 to 1884 to build the U S S Michigan the first iron battle ship for the Navy. Engineering delays stretched the project across four decades from start to completion.
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United States Navy
U. S. S. Michigan
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Athens Messenger
Athens
Ohto
Point Pleasant Navy Yards
Labrador
North America
Europe
Fair’ Stores
Chambray
Preston
Archie Layne
Joan H. Hutchinson
Shepard
Mr. Hutchinson
Pullem Photograph Gallery
Fisher Electrical Shop
Christ Church Guild
George H. Overholt
Frank T. Cady
Nettie Stribling
S. Channings Wilhelm
Tol! Stribling
Walter A. Windsor
C. O. Weissenburger
W. B. McClain
8. C. Moustin
Gail Faires
Grace Gibbons
Julet Smith
William Meade
J. Milton Lewis
Pioneer Farm Woman's Club
Ripley Road
Hugh Barr
Floyd Rothisberger
Rothlisberger
Bart
Raymond Gibson
Edward Heiner
Marie Burgess
Russell Long
Sam Taylor
Dean
Doan
Leadway
Rinso 2
Frank Furters
DWAY
Libby
del Haven
Bartlett Pears
TORY
National Biscuit CO
Felber
Aina
Tore
Sunkist
Californ Sunkist
National Brands Stores
Oko
Loe
Thede
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