Mason GOP to Open Candy Building HQ in Mason
Mason leaders announce three front rooms on the second floor of the Candy Building leased for Republican campaign HQs. The set up awaits a county executive meeting at 1 PM to select election officials. Dewey supporters from New Haven join the Oct. 6 Cavalcade to Charleston for the rally.
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Point Pleasant
John E Brown
Candy
A. G. Arnett
Silver Bridge
Main St
County Executive Committee
Brown
Republican
Henry Johnson
New Haven
Charleston
Johnson
Mason County
Heslop to Wed Helen Zieher in Hollywood Fla
Local businessman Robert J. Heslop and best man W. W. Riley Jr. will travel to Hollywood Florida for a October 7 wedding to Mrs. Helen Elizabeth Zieher. Also notes say Mrs. Bertha Filson heads home to Hollywood to attend her sister’s wedding.
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Point Pleasant
Robert J. Heslop
W. W. Riley, Jr
Hollywood
Fla
Helen Elizabeth Zieher
Bertha Filson
Martinsburg
James E. McCombs
Letter from Pvt. Clifford Vickers in Camp Campbell Hospital
Clarence Henderson reports a letter from Pvt. Clifford Vickers stationed at Camp Campbell Ky who is now a patient in the camp hospital for a foot trouble. Mrs. Vickers has lived in Oak Grove Ky for weeks with employment and will stay indefinitely.
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Point Pleasant
Clarence Henderson
Pvt
Clifford Vickers
Camp Campbell
Pvt. Vickers
Vickers
Oak Grove
Mason Teacher Retires After 43 Years in South Side
Virgil E. Hereford, of South Side, is among 25 teachers on the state board’s retired list this week. He has taught for 43 years. A separate note discusses ancient England hunting laws where big dogs near royal preserves had their knees cut to prevent chasing game, with small dogs exempt via a gauge.
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Point Pleasant
Virgil E. Hereford
South Side
England
Puritans Used Fire to Clear Land in Early America
The article notes that Puritans used hand set fires to clear land, burning large tracts of forest. It emphasizes that starting a forest fire was considered a serious offense today, but historically it was a common method for land clearing.
Prince William Henry of England Becomes First European Royal to Visit America
The future King William IV crossed the Atlantic in 1781 as the first European royal to visit America, marking a historic voyage for British royalty and U.S.-British relations.
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Prince William Henry
King William IV
England
Atlantic
America
Woman's Auxiliary meets after summer. tea honors rummage crew
POINT PLEASANT. The Woman's Auxiliary of the Presbyterian Church held its first meeting after vacation in the social rooms with Mrs. W. H. Morgan presiding. Tea was served to honor the rummage sale committee members whose effort netted 440 dollars. Several members announced they will move to Columbus soon. Dozens of attendees listed.
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Point Pleasant
Presbyterian Church
W. H. Morgan
Paul Hollen
Eugene Sterrett
Our Church
Ross Filson
Frank Roush
M. A. Williams
Louise Link
Morgan
Williams
Miss Link
Columbus
Sterrett
Hollen
Link
Filson
Roush
P. T. Burdette
Louis Bateson
John Kay
South Side
Bruce Pollock
Homer Fisher
A. G. Arnett
Raymond Allen
Louise Fowler
J. Sanford Rhoades
Robert Rice
William Steenbergen
Frank Scholz
John H. Hutchinson
Ernest Biffle
Joe Buffington
C. C. Lewis
R. G. Morrison
Bess Rice
Norma Sullivan
Margaret Lynn Lewis
Jean Haynes
Sheriff Collects Taxes in Union
Sheriff Living conducted tax sittings in Union District near Point Pleasant. He noted few farmers paid locally, preferring to wait until they visit the Point Pleasant office. State law requires rural sittings for fall and spring collections, regardless of turnout. Most payers at these sittings are elderly residents.
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Point Pleasant
Union
Veteran Merchant Visits County Seat
H. H. Smith of Leon visits Point Pleasant on business. His store, oldest in the county, began in 1868, rebuilt after the 1913 flood, and survived a 1914 freight car incident that scattered goods along the river bank. The railway later replaced the building and covered merchandise damage.
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Point Pleasant
H. H. Smith
Leon
East Coast man returned for trial on non support charge
Glenn Rufus Orender was brought from Newport News Virginia by Sheriff Lieving on a capias from the circuit court. He faces a January term hold in the county jail after failing to report for a September trial following a May arraignment. Police aided in custody and extradition was not demanded.
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Point Pleasant
Glenn Rufus Orender
Newport News
F. B. Lieving
Circuit Court
Orender
Miller
Police Department of
Lieving
Daughter of Soldier Dies in Mason
Violet Kathryn Miller six weeks old daughter of Private Leroy Miller and Mrs Miller died Tuesday night after several days illness Funeral conducted by Rev F H Capehart from Charleston Road home Burial in Spring Hill Cemetery near Charleston Father stationed at camp on the West Coast and mother survive
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Point Pleasant
F. H. Capehart
Charleston Road
Violet Kathryn Miller
Leroy Miller
Spring Hill Cemetery
Charleston
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Dewey
New Campaign
City
George H. Overholt
Ohio River Road
Walter Hickman
Trinity Church Woman's Society of Christian Service
Inez Barnette
C. L. Head
W. A. Gregg
Head
Richard Startzman
Hickman
Raymond L. Spear
Howard Garland
Donald Getty
W. F. Machir
A. B. Somerville
Swanton, Md
Somerville
Machir
Shipfitter
William Fadeley
Hattie Jane Shawver
Karla Jean Shawver
Earl H. Arnett
Huntington
Cincinnati
Charles H. Frye
Carl Bruestle
Harold E. Somerville
Walden F. Roush
Mason
East Coast
Ewing
Pomeroy
Annis
Beaverettes
Mouton Lamb
Mallory
Burton & Taylor
Chesterfields
Coats
Jarman's
Mackinaws
van Heusen
Glover
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