Five Accidents Reported Over Weekend by Patrol
State Highway Patrol logged five weekend accidents near Gallipolis with two injuries and several arrests. Notable incidents include Eliza Harvey in a Sunday Route 35 crash causing a broken shoulder and two fractures, plus another midweek collision on Route 33 near the Jackson County line. Additional incidents involved traffic violations and penalties for Henson and Clark, with multiple drivers treated at Holzer Hospital or fined.
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Gallipolis
State Highway Patrol
Eliza Harvey
Columbus
Elizabeth Brown
Louis Harvey
Holzer Hospital
Harvey
Thurman
Donald I. Evans
Oak Hill Rt
Robert Thomas
Vinton
Jackson County
Gallipolis Community Theater Names Officers
John Griffin, 84 Vine St, elected first president of the newly formed Gallipolis Community Theater nonprofit. George Frederick Bovie is vice president, Mrs. Arnold Dickerson secretary, Marian na Boggs Campbell treasurer. Trustees include Mrs. William Ashe Judge Robert M. Betz and H. W. Wetherholt. Board will meet Thursday to plan. A second open meeting is scheduled Sunday at 2 pm in the Washington School auditorium.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
John “Jack” Griffin
Vine St
Shaw-Stevens Vows Taken
Joseph Lester Stevens 21 of Mercerville and Blanche Eloise Shaw 17 of Crown City married Sunday evening at Victory Baptist Church. Stevens is a Navy seaman stationed at Norfolk. Shaw is secretary to the county agricultural agent. They will honeymoon locally and return as Stevens must report back to base September 12.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallipolis
Joseph Lester Stevens
Mercerville
Blanche Eloise Shaw
Crown City
Earl Cremeans
Victory Baptist Church
Bradie Shaw
William P. Smith
F. L. Stevers
United States Navy
Norfolk
Stevers
Wallet theft charges follow city raid and arrests
Hannah Persing er, 38, was arrested on grand larceny charges and bound over to the grand jury with $500 bond after a wallet containing 233.13 dollars including 85 in checks was taken from Alfred Arnold of the Park Central Hotel. Four others were arrested at 404% Second Ave on suspected cohabitation. Wanda Halley Charles Biffle George E Hill and a younger woman were released on 100 cash bonds. Elwood Smith paid five dollars and costs in municipal court for lacking a operator's license.
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Gallipolis
Hannah Persinger
Alfred Arnold
Park Central
Second Ave
Chester Leaper
Wanda Halley
Charles Biffle
George E. Hill
Elwood Smith
Brotherhood Meeting Rescheduled for September 12
GLOUSTER The Men's Brotherhood meeting, postponed from this week, will be held Wednesday September 12 at the Church of Christ in Trimble. The county-wide gathering is open to all men with refreshments served and a talk by Hon Eden Kile, noted Methodist layman.
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Glouster
Men’s Brotherhood
Church of Christ
Trimble
Eden Kile
Methodist Church
Coast Guard inspects 13 barges and two steamers at Pleasants
A Coast Guard Merchant Marine inspection in August covered 13 barges and two steamers, E. D. Kenna and Charles Dorrance, with 10 002 gross tons examined. Name changes applied to Lulu becoming Armco and Kansas City Socony becoming A. V. Criss. Licenses issued and renewed to several mariners and engineers across Ohio, Florida, and West Virginia.
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Point Pleasant
U.S. Coast Guard Merchant Marine Inspection Office
William H. Fuller
E. D. Kenna
Charles Dorrance
Lulu
Armco
Kansas City Socony
A. V. Criss
Construction At Kanauga Starting Soon
Gallipolis District Board of Education met Monday night to authorize Kanauga School addition plans to be submitted to the State Department of Education. If approved, construction could begin in two weeks. Bus drivers will be paid 80 dollars per month starting pay, with drivers training instructor Charles Swanson approved for extra duties. A picnic on Fortification Hill preceded the meeting.
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Gallipolis
Kanauga
Higgins
Charles Swanson
Fortification Hill
River Traffic at Gallipolis Locks and Kanawha River Readings
Locks at Gallipolis showed several boats including LSSL Patriot and Clarksville with varied hours. Kanawha River readings listed for Solway Price Keeley Merrill and others, alongside multiple boats in other district gauges. Water levels: Upper gauge 18.4 feet, lower 9.4 feet with two feet at the rollers. Kanawha Falls at 1.51 and falling.
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Gallipolis
LSSL
Patriot
Clarksville
Tennessee
Kanawha River
Solway
Price
Keeley
Winfield
Merrill
Pennsylvania
Keystone
Titan
A. V. Chris, Jr
Rankin
Mt. Vernon
Chris
Births and discharges listed in Holzer Hospital notes
Hospital notes show births to multiple Oak Hill Gallipolis Pt Pleasant and Crown City families with daughters and sons. Discharges include Billy King and baby Robert Allensworth Oscar Clark Paul Evans J J Willis Robert R Stobart Jr Linda Bane Patricia Simerall and others.
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Matt Evans
Oak Hill
Dan Murphy
Charles Williams
Gallipolis
Densel Durst
Pt. Pleasant
J. W. Landrum
John Silvey
Walter Woodard
Crown City
Mitted Everett Ecker
Lamar Gray
Wellston
Arnold Detty
Jackson
Billy King
Robert Allensworth
Oscar Clark
Paul Evans
J. J. Willis
Robert R. Stobart
Linda Bane
Patricia Simerall
Harry Childers
Floyd Hemsworth
James King
Sam Meek
John Stevens
John Southern
Mae Bailey
Emil Kerns
Brother Wilson
Pearl Conner
Tim Evans
Kenneth Roush
Elmer Hale
Harold Johnson
Jefferson Blair
Garnet Heath
Joe Saunders
Glouster Lodge F and A M Meeting Wednesday Evening
Glouster Lodge F and A M will convene Wednesday at 7 30 p m with members urged to attend the session to conduct routine lodge matters and dissolve committee duties as scheduled by the secretary
Record Crowd Attends Homecoming Celebration
GLOUSTER The 14th annual Jacksonville homecoming closed Labor Day weekend with a record crowd. Streets and lots were taxed to capacity for parking as a parade starting about 11 am featured floats, draft horses, saddle horses, and aging vehicles. Seven bands performed including Nelsonville Eagles and area high schools Chauncy Dover The Plains Albany Rome Canaan Murray City and Glouster. Activities began Saturday with outdoor dancing and continued Sunday church services and reminiscences from Rev. Charles Caffrey. Monday offered contests band concerts outside shows, two performances by Marshall Summers and his horse Rusty, and late night dancing to Buckeye Ramblers.
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Glouster
Jacksonville
Nelsonville Eagles
Chauncey-Dover
the Plains
Albany
Rome-Canaan
Murray City
Jacksonville Methodist Church
Charles Caffrey
Marshall Summers
Buckeye Ramblers
Eleven arrested over holiday in Point Pleasant
Eleven people were arrested over the holiday weekend by city and state police in Point Pleasant. Three men from Chesapeake pleaded guilty to assaults after a Sunday night brawl at the Hitching Post on Route 2. Other suspects faced charges of intoxication, destruction of property, and a driving while intoxicated case, with various fines and bonds posted.
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Point Pleasant
Orville Rimmey
Hank Robbins
Ross Herbert Anderson
Thomas Alexander Walkum
Columbus
Ohio
Scout Group To Meet After Camp Trip
Scout Group To Meet GLOUSTER Troop committee of Boy Scouts will meet in the scout room today at 7 30 p m Scouts are asked to be at the scout room at 7 p m to help store scout equipment and to straighten up the scout room Five members of troop 72 spent a week at Camp Kootaga on the Hughes river about 60 miles from Parkersburg They returned Aug 25 The boys are Larry Conway Tommy Clemmons Wayne Lowery Eddie Murphy and Terry Holbert Bob Conway was the leader of the group Ralph Hines spent Tuesday with the boys at the camp Sonny Cotter and Gilbert Bingman transported the equipment to and from camp and Robert Horn took a carload of boys to the camp
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Glouster
Boy Scouts
Camp Kootaga
Hughes River
Parkersburg
Larry Conway
Tommy Clemmons
Wayne Lowery
Eddie Murphy
Terry Holbert
Bob Conway
Ralph Hines
Sonny Cotter
Gilbert Bingman
Robert Horn
Lovell Death Is Reported Near Mountsville
Lovell 84 died at son in law and daughter Mark Fuller and wife Alice in Ringgold after a brief illness. He was born in Morgan County son of Christopher and Nancy Lovell. Survived by four daughters, nine grandchildren and nine great grandchildren. Funeral at John S Blower funeral home Wednesday at 1 pm with Rev Daniel Teater officiating. Burial in Mountsville Cemetery.
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Glouster
Ote Lovell
Inlaw
Mark Fuller
Ringgold
Morgan County
Christopher
Nancy Swartz Lovell
Mountsville
Alice
Fay VanHorn
Bernice Posey
Uniontown
Ohio
Coral Fuller
Donna Lovell
Cleveland
John S. Blower
Daniel K. Teater
Mountsville Cemetery
Glouster Personal News Highlights Local Departures and Visits
Glouster residents report family visits and hospital events. Alonzo Orme and his wife stay with Burr Oak relatives as Ruth LeFever McDonald undergoes major surgery in Columbus, with James Johnson accompanying her to the hospital. Pvt. Richard Jones arrives for a furlough from Camp Picket. Basil Roberts, 91, plans extended travel after visiting C. S. Roberts in Jacksonville.
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Alonzo Orme
Columbus
Hellyer
Burr Oak
Ruth LeFever McDonald
Grant Hospital
James Johnson
Johnson
Glouster
McDonald
Ernestine Turvey
Eddie
Harold Shirley
Barbara
Edwin
Dayton
Gladstone Brunton
Shirley
Ernie
E. C. Shirkey
Jacksonville
Richard Jones
Camp Picket
Ernest Jones
Germany
Ed Kurtzman
Paul Lipple
Robert Montgomery
Tony Janskowski
Ronnie
Toledo
Foster H
Rutland
Jessie Williams
Fern Riley
Athens
William Parker
Basil Roberts
Zanesville
C. S. Roberts
Thomas Weaver
Roberts
VFW Auxiliary to Meet Glouster
The Trimble Township Post Auxiliary of VFW in Jacksonville will meet today at 7 30 p.m. at the post home to plan attendance at a pigpie in Mc Connelsville.
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VFW
Glouster
Trimble Township
Tacksonville
McConnelsville
Hooper Ridge Resident Eva Kasler Dies at 70
Hooper Ridge Mrs. Eva Nay Kasler, 70, died at home Monday afternoon after years of illness. Born in Athens County she lived most of her life on Hooper Ridge. Survived by husband Harmon two sons Eldon William Trimble Route two daughters Mrs Russell Hines Trimble and Miss Carol Easler Cleveland nine grandchildren and one son predeceased. Funeral Thursday1 p.m. at Hooper Ridge church with Rev Gilbert Courtney burial Hooper Ridge cemetery. Friends may call at the home.
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Glouster
Eva Nay Kasler
Hooper Ridge
Athens County
Joshua
Elizabeth Howard Wooley
Harmon
Eldon
William
Trimble
Russell Hines
Carol Easler
Cleveland
Alterations Completed at Smoker Billiard Lunch Room
Opening for business Saturday after alterations at the Smoker Billiard lunch room in Point Pleasant. The modernized counter runs 42 feet, seats 24 and five new booths allow more patrons. New lighting, grill work, refrigerator, coffee makers, fryers, pie shelf and beverage cooler added. Remaining section to be redecorated later.
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Point Pleasant
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