Gallia County to Discuss Fall Festival on Huntington Radio
Gallia County Agent E G Rover will talk on a Huntington station at 12 30 p m Thursday about next week s Fall Festival events in Gallia Lawrence and Mason counties. Highlights include horse pulling at Riverside Amphitheater with Sayre in charge, Hereford cattle exhibits, garden and canning displays, corn sweepstakes, Grange entries, and tobacco prospects amid dry conditions and recent rains.
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Gallipolis
E. G
The
Commercial and Savings Bank
Eri Denney
Vinton
Rio Grande
Paul McNealey
Gallia Native Returns After 25 Years Visit
J L Clark of Walnut Township, now living on a 1300 acre farm in Paint Creek Valley, visited Gallia County to reconnect with relatives. He arrived with a Revolutionary War sword once carried by his forebear Captain Thomas Clark. Probate Judge James S Clark will display the relic in the Our House Museum. the Clark lineage includes War of 1812 and Civil War service.
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Gallipolis
J. L. Clark
Walnut Township
Dave Gillen
Sandfork
Clark
Washington D. C
Paint Creek Valley
James S. Clark
Thomas Clark
Ebenezer Zane
Judge Clark
Our House
Name Committee for Founders Day Events
Sesquicentennial Committee names a multi couple slate to plan the Founder's Day dinner and ball set for October 17. Dinner in the city and ball at the state hospital are tentatively planned as the final event of the celebration.
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Gallipolis
Gilbert Bush
Charlies T. Robinson
John Halliday
G. G. Kincon
N. H Foster
Lewis Weber Gishler
H. C. Johnston
Gus Frye
Howard Neal
Henry Cherrington
J. W. Mootz
Leo C. Bean
State Hospital
Co Captains Chosen By Rio Grande Squad
Rio Grande College football selects Andy Dasho and Ralph Tate as co captains both sophomores from Akron. Co managers are James Miller of Gallipolis and William Petruzzi of New Lexington. Opening game is Saturday at Westerville against Otterbein College.
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Gallipolis
Red Men
Rio Grande College
Andy Dasho
Ralph Tate
Akron
James Miller
William Petruzzi
New Lexington
Westerville
Otterbein College
Cheerleaders Named for Gallipolis High School Events
Gallipolis high school selects cheerleaders Bette Faulkner Jean Wood ward Grace Irion Dan Foster Junior Johnson to represent at athletic events this season.
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Gallipolis
Bette Faulkner
Jean Woodward
Grace Irion
Dan Foster
Junior Johnson
Clark buys tie dry cleaning shop in Gallipolis
Forrest Clark of Marietta has purchased the tie dry cleaning establishment run by his brother Claude Clark in Gallipolis and plans to move his family to the city.
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Gallipolis
Forrest Clark
Marietta
Tie
Claude Clark
Suggested treatment for blue wheat smut in Gallia County
Blue smut in wheat is worse this year in Gallia County. County Agent FE G Roger is contacting wheat growers with seed treatment recommendations before October 4 the fly free date for sowing. Fly infestation is unusually low in the county, well below state averages.
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Gallipolis
FE. G. Roger
Gallia
Sheriff to auction Gallipolis property of defunct firm
Gallipolis notices a sheriff sale of the Second and Spruce Street site once used by the Gallipolis Store and Foundry Co. A judgment for Commercial and Savings Bank funds the sale set for 10 a m Saturday Oct 19. The 130 by 219 foot plot is appraised at 5500 dollars, formerly home to Treasure Store Co later taken over by the defunct company through purchase.
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Gallipolis
Spruce Street
Gallipolis Store and Foundry Co
Commercial and Savings Bank
Treasure Store Co
Rose Garden Attracts Favorable Attention
In Gallipolis a river bank rose garden behind the first post office, opposite Our House, is now owned by Miss Ethel Young. Planted by Girl Scout troop members, it served as a French rose garden for a sesquicentennial exhibition. Few people know of its existence as the view from the street is limited.
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Gallipolis
First Post Office
Our House
Ethel Young
Mrs. Neal Property Will Be Auctioned
Gallipolis items and some personal effects owned by Mrs Lola C Neal assigned for creditors will be sold at public auction Monday at 10 a m by William P Cherrington assignee Local friends who visited Marysville Reformatory found she is in quarantine and cannot be seen as she serves six weeks for embezzlement
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Gallipolis
Lola C. Neal
William P. Cherrington
Marysville Reformatory
Epidemic Slows in Gallia County Health Report
Dr. F. W. Shane reports no new infantile paralysis cases in Gallia County. Four previously reported cases have improved and none have developed paralysis.
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Gallipolis
Gallia County
F. W. Shane
Canterbury attends funeral in Hurricane West Virginia
Mrs. Laura Canterbury is in Hurricane West Virginia to attend funeral services for her sister Mrs. David Koontz. The sister's husband is also reported seriously ill.
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Gallipolis
Laura Canterbury
Hurricane
W. Va
David Koontz
Divorce Granted for Two Women in Gallia County
Mrs Ceva Sheets was granted a divorce from August Sheets on her claim of neglect. Mrs Virgie Erwin Ball was granted a divorce from Tag Ball on the same grounds.
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Gallipolis
Ceva Sheets
August Sheets
Virgie Erwin Ball
Tag
Gallipolis Social Notes Highlights Visitors and Local News
Gallipolis social column notes Mrs Harry Miller helped at a tea for visiting Republican women at the governor's mansion in Columbus. Several locals visit relatives in Bethlehem Dayton Columbus and elsewhere and return from travel. Ada Evans announces daughter Mary Frances wedding to Homer Lanier set for Sept 21.
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Gallipolis
Harry Miller
Columbus
John Bricker
Governor’s Mansion
Frank Harvey
Michael
Bethlehem
C. E. Holzer
Virginia
Robert Bischoff
Aldo Fontana
Dayton University
Ida
Western College
Oxford
James Danner
Robert
Henry Grube
Croton
Chauncey
Fred Rose
Ira Shato
Hubert Fair
Detroit
A. W. Pullins
Kanauga
Albert Spencer
East
Betty Kratz
Delaware
Ohio Wesleyan University
Fortification Hill Park
Raymond Mossman
New Orleans
Paul Switzer
Cincinnati
Ethel Moore
Miami
Florida
Ada Evans
Mary Frances
Homer Lanier
Red Cross Roll Call Drive To Be Planned
Red Cross field representative visits Gallipolis in late September to plan the November roll call. Mrs C W Booth executive secretary will call a directorate meeting to discuss the drive. Eugene S Spear will direct the membership campaign and lists committees to participate.
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Red Cross
Gallipolis
C. W. Booth
Eugene S. Spear
Program of Negro Spirituals at Riverside Amphitheater
In Gallipolis the Riverside Amphitheater will host a Negro Spiritual program presented by Lincoln Recreation Center representatives under Rev. Samuel Guilbeau. Admission is free. Attendees are advised to wear coats and wraps due to the chilly river breeze.
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Gallipolis
Riverside Amphitheater
Lincoln Recreation Center
Samuel Guilbeau
Paroled Mervin Martin of Gallia County
The Board of Parole announced Mervin Martin from Gallia County will be released from Mansfield Reformatory Navy. He was convicted of forgery for taking funds from his grandmother's bank account.
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Gallipolis
Board of Parole
Mervin Martin
Gallia County
Mansfield Reformatory
Martin
Mrs Hughes Dies at Home Near Patriot
Mrs Luella Hughes age 55 wife of DeKalb Hughes died Tuesday at the family home near Patriot. Funeral services will be in Bethesda Church Thursday at 2 p m with interment in Mound Hill Cemetery. She is survived by her husband, their son Marlin of Patriot, and three grandchildren. A West Virginia native, she lived in that state until age 35.
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Gallipolis
Luella Hughes
DeKalb
Licenses Reach 1500 Sold in Gallipolis
Auto drivers licenses sales have topped 1,500 at the office of Registrar H. B. Ecker. Friday and Saturday see the highest purchase volume and a heavy weekend rush is anticipated.
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Gallipolis
H. B. Ecker
Coal mine operators to hear price scales in Jackson meeting
Several coal mine operators and owners will attend a district meeting in Jackson tonight where a Washington official discusses coal scale prices effective October 1.
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Gallipolis
Jackson
Washington
Economist W R Wertz Speaks to Gallipolis Rotary Club
Dr W R Wertz rural economist of Ohio State University spoke before the Gallipolis Rotary Club at a meeting called by County Agent E G Royer. He discussed changing U S economic conditions amid and after the European War. A birthday cake was given to Dr B Lewis Brown, who spoke briefly. A fish fry fundraiser for the club’s student loan fund was announced with a committee and an amateur night planned for Wednesday evening October 2 at city park.
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Gallipolis
W. R. Wertz
Ohio State University
Rotary Club
E. G. Royer
America
B. Lewis Brown
Eugene Spear
Stanley Evans
E. E. Higgins
N. A. Martin
Hamden Social And Personal Notes Collect Events
Mrs. Mary Bloom of Lansing W Va visits Seth and Mrs. Morris in Hamden with Icem Carr and their daughter. Gallipolis visitors Helen Johnson and daughter stop by John and Mrs. Newman. Wanda Rinehart admitted to Holzer Hospital for bone grafting with family at bedside. Several students enter colleges and join family visits span multiple towns in local area.
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Floyd Leffler
Jackson
John Rinehart
Carl Cox
Athens
Janet Scott
Jean Cox
Rio Grande College
Esther Mae Bryson
Ohio University
Antje Baker
Jane
Christ Hospital
Cincinnati
Charles McCoppin
Washington D. H
Peebles and
McDermott
John Burns
Burns
Ore
Max Matteson
Ketchum
Idaho
George Morris
Las Vegas
Nev
Burnette Day
Dale Brown
Port Washington
Dale
Minnie Brown
Wilmer Wright
Columbus
Wright
Charles Roberts
Charles Salts
Rachelmacher Park
Logan
L. C. Bobo
Ocoe
Fla
Ronald Bobo
Vinton
W. C. Bobo
Howard Morehead
Henry Smith
Locust Grove
To Release Raccoons
Merrill McCormick announces 23 raccoons received from the Milan state farm and distributed. They are six months old and average 11 pounds with none considered a runt.
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Gallipolis
Merrill McCormick
State Farm
Milan
Social Notes of Millfield Embrace West Visit and Local Life
Mrs. Ida McDaniel returns from a week with relatives in the West accompanied by brother William Border and Evan Dorn with son Robert. They visited Harrison Arkansas and Kansas City with sisters Mrs. Blackwood and Mrs. Jones. Local events include a chicken dinner hosted by Mr. and Mrs. Frank Daugherty and a Pocahontas Lodge convention practice at Murray City.
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Millfield
Ida McDaniel
West
William Border
Summit Station
Evan Dorn
Robert
Columbus
Allen Blackwood
Harrison
Arkansas
Arthur Jones
Kansas City
Blackwood
Jones
McDaniel
Mr. Border
Frank Daugherty
Miles Linscott
Mabel
Ringgold
Paul Daugherty
Richard
Dorothy Daugherty
Alice Theisen
Mazon Council No. 93
Pocahontas Lodge
Murray City
M. A. Howard
Isabell Leoffler
Clyde Andrews
Pomeroy
D. M. Sawyer
Celia Boudinot
Morgan County Fair
McConnelsville
W. C. Mingus
McPherson
Mr. Mingus
White Cross Hospital
Leroy Brown
Concord
Newark
Maud Triplett
Racine Personal and Brief Social Notes
William Stewart resigned from Dayton work and will live with his father in Racine while taking a job at Martin Ebersbach Service Station in Pomeroy. James Jividen, an engineer for the government in Jamestown Kentucky, visits his mother and wife in Portland. Mrs Myrtle Curtis hosts sisters and a niece visiting Rutland. Dayton Kennedy of Waterford visits Sullivan Sayre family. Mount Vesuvius had been silent for five centuries before its 1631 eruption, which killed 18 000 people.
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Racine
William Stewart
Dayton
Stewart
Dan Stewart
Third Street
Martin Ebersbach
Pomeroy
James Jividen
Jamestown
Emma Jividen
Portland
Myrtle Curtis
Frank Geiger
Columbus
Trudie Mills
Syracuse
Fred Edwards
Huntington
W. Va
Oscar Patterson
Rutland
Earl Bridgett
Bridgett
Maurice Lott
Bert Bridgett
Dayton Kennedy
Waterford
Mount Vesuvius
County Board Reopens WPA Road Work In Walnut Township
The County Board of Commissioners rescinded a halt on WPA road work, deciding to run a deficit if needed to finish projects on Flag Springs and Carter roads in Walnut Township. About 150 men may gain employment, some called to work today, with advance funds reducing WPA participation next year to prepare for winter weather.
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Gallipolis
County Board of Commissioners
Flag Springs
Carter
Walnut Township
Miller Bros extends coal mining in Walnut Township
The Miller Bros contracting firm based in this city reportedly expands coal mining in Walnut Township. Three mines are said to be in operation with coal hauled to Huntington markets.
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Gallipolis
Miller Bros
Walnut Township
Huntington
Death of Huntington Doctor L S Henley Reported
Dr. L S Henley dies at his Huntington home. He is father to L S Henley Jr former manager at Rio Grande College.
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Huntington
Gallipolis
L. S. Henley
L. S. Henley, Jr
Rio Grande College
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