Five Gallia School Districts Set to Vote on Levy Issue
Five Gallia School districts Addison Centerville Cadmus Bidwell Springfield and Crown City will ballot a three mill educational levy. Gallipolis voters face City Commission and Municipal Court contests with multiple candidates. Rio Grande village races include a drafted but declined candidate. county contests for election board and various local offices also loom.
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Gallia
Gallipolis
Gallia County
Addison
Centerville
Cadmus
Bidwell-Springfield
Crown City
Lewis C. Bean
Clyde C. Myers
I. &. Myers
Frank L. Shaw
Andrew J. Stormont
W. H. Levisay
Perry Bailes
John Halliday
Charles H. Swanson
Rio Grande
Rev. C. O. Clark
C. A
Art) Evans
Charles S. Tanner
E. C. Waugh
Briggs Kirby
Fennimore Johnson
Alfred Dillon
Board of Education
Harry M. Miller
A. S. Lloyd
Reuben Wood
Boards of Education
Man Burns in Home Fire Near Flatwoods
Roy Smalley, 40, of Flatwoods Meigs County, suffered deep burns over more than half his body when a kerosene-fueled kitchen fire exploded at his home Saturday. His wife Mrs Smalley and four children escaped in night attire as the house burned completely. He is in Holzer Hospital in critical condition after first aid from Dr. Roger Daniels.
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Gallipolis
Roy Smalley
Flatwoods
Meigs County
Holzer Hospital
Smalley
Roger Daniels
Mrs. Irion's Funeral Held in Gallipolis
Irene Wigner Irion age 78 died Friday in Holzer Hospital from a skull fracture suffered in an automobile accident a week earlier. Funeral held Sunday at 3 p.m. in the Presbyterian Church with Rev. L. W. Gishler officiating. Survived by her husband Robert Irion, daughter Mrs. Sam Medley, brothers John H. Wigner James D. Wigner Charles D. Wigner, sisters Mrs. William Chamberlain Miss Mary Wigner. Pallbearers included Judge A. J. Stormont John Unree Homer Crouse S. E. Gilbert V. C. Birch Oscar Halley.
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Gallipolis
Holzer Hospital
Irene Wigner Irion
Presbyterian Church
L. W. Gishler
Irion
Daniel
Nancy Wigner
Green Township
George Waddell
Robert Irion
Sam Medley
John H. Wigner
Huntington
James
Charles D. Wigner
William Chamberlain
Mary Wigner
Cincinnati
A. J. Stormont
John Unree
Homer Crouse
S. E. Gilbert
V. C. Birch
Oscar Halley
Burglary at Plymale-Wagner Co. Office Reported
Police search unknown suspects after they broke a window with stones to enter the Plymale-Wagner Co. on Pine Street. Manager George Lear says nothing of value was found missing. Thomas H. and Sallie McCormick sue in Common Pleas to cancel an oil lease on their 400 acre Green Township farm arguing the lease required a test well within six months.
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Gallipolis
Plymale-Wagner Co
Pine St
George Lear
Thomas H. and
Sallie McCormick
Court of Common Pleas
E. W. Salladay
Green Township
Land sale yields money in sheriff action and changes in pomona meeting date
Forty acres in Morgan Township sold to Charlies Ralston for 150 dollars at a sheriff sale in the case Ralston versus Rosannah Overly. The parcel has no structures. The Gallia County Pomona Grange degree team will confer Meigs County Pomona work at Pomeroy Junior High School, now set for October 19 due to repairs. Twelve Gallia County couples filed divorce suits this September, the latest Lee Ingraham versus Gladys Ingraham citing neglect.
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Gallipolis
Morgan Township
Charlies Ralston
Rosannah Overly
Ralston
Gallia County
Pomona Grange
Meigs County
Pomona
Pomeroy
Lee Ingraham
Gladys Ingraham
Hunter Paid Fine to Enter Open Season
James Kegley 23 of West Virginia paid his fine in time to join the open season entry Saturday after being jailed for shooting a squirrel out of season in Gallipolis.
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Gallipolis
James Kegley
West Virginia
Gallia Apple Harvest Peaks With 50 000 Bushels Marketed
In Gallia County about 50 000 bushels of Jonathans Grimes Golden Delicious Stayman Winesaps and Rome Beauties are being packed at the Gallipolis Tobacco auction market. Twenty five workers under Stanley Plymale and Frank Beach sort wash and grade fruit for shipment to Charleston Cincinnati Columbus Cleveland and other points. Daily packing reaches 1500 bushels with output rising toward the harvest peak as apples move to cold storage and wholesale markets.
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Gallipolis
Gallia County
Rome
Gallia Fruit Growers’ Cooperative Association
Stanley Plymare
Frank Beach
Columbus
Sycamore
Third
Fourth Streets
Ohio
West Virginia
Charleston
Cincinnati
Cleveland
Springfield
Plymale
U. S
PTA Meeting for County to Be Held
Washington School Auditorium hosts a county wide PTA meeting on Wednesday September 29 with sessions at 1 30 PM and 8 00 PM. Attendees from Rio Grande Cheshire Mercerville Vinton and Gallipolis will discuss PTA work program planning district activities officer duties and officer installation. Performances include group singing solos and addresses by Lon ward Karl H ba and Mrs Simons.
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Gallipolis
Washington
Rio Grande
Cheshire
Mercerville
Vinton
E. E. Higgins
PTA
H. Bion Bradbury
Ethel Peters Simons
S. H. Fadley
Simons
Lois Fasig
Washington Pta
Elizabeth Shough
Lon’ Ward
Karl Th. Ba
Plan Fund Dinner Promotes College Campaign
Galliapolis Rio Grande College promoters will carry the campaign into Jackson County Monday evening with a dinner meeting. Residents with a warm interest in the college will attend. The new self help plan for students stressing agriculture and home economics will be explained. Local solicitation committees will be named to canvass the county.
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Gallipolis
Rio Grande College
Jackson County
Carter Stung by Bees While Hauling Hives
Gallipolis report says attorney Leo Carter was badly stung about the head and eyes while hauling bees to his father Robert Carter’s farm on Raccoon Creek. He had long experience handling bees.
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Carter
Gallipolis
Robert Carter
Raccoon Creek
Leo Carter
Little Kyger Grange October activities planned
Mrs. O. C. Johnson announces October Grange events in Gallipolis. A Oct 5 degree staff practice precedes Oct 7 inspection with Worthy County Deputy, plus music by Vivian Kirby and talks by H. E. Shaver. A play by local members, Europe trip slideshow, and a lunch follow. Committees named and plans for a Fall Festival exhibit set for Oct 11, ending with a Halloween party and camp fire.
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Gallipolis
Little Kyger Grange
O. C. Johnson
Worthy County
Vivian Kirby
H. E. Shaver
Garrett Kerns
Marlin Kerns
Ora Sayre
Europe
Ruth Thomas
Hold Bradbury Rites
Funeral services for Mrs. Anna Ellison Bradbury widow of Horace R. Bradbury were held at St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Gallipolis Sunday afternoon. Rev. Robert Leake officiated with Gallipolis Masonic Lodge pallbearers Loren L. Stone H. W. McHenry C. B. Stevers C. M. Yeanger E. E. Hatfield and W. W. Sigler. Interment followed in Mound Hill Cemetery.
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Gallipolis
St. Peter's Episcopal Church
Anna Ellison Bradbury
Horace R. Bradbury
Robert Leake
W. W. Sigler
Mound Hill Cemetery
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