Police arrest truckers on weekend road violations in Point Pleasant
State Police in Point Pleasant arrested multiple drivers on weekend road violation charges. Fines and costs varied from 5 to 25 dollars plus costs, with offenses including overlength or overwidth trucks, missing identification, no PSC plates, and reckless driving warrant charges.
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Point Pleasant
Ernest W. McPeek
Huntington
French Leon Hill
Fries
Elmer Don Hendry
Yoder
Ind
Public Service Commission
Gerald Oval Vale
Winston-Salem
N. C
Public Service
Merit H. Flowers
Kenton
Ohio
David B. Jeffers
Clifton
Mason
Harry Jordan
Charleston
Crab Creek Hunting Permits Issued on Reservation Lands
Permits to hunt in the Crab Creek community will be issued on the grounds of the area. Hunting will follow Mason County laws and will be allowed on the reservation. Previously, permits were to be issued at the Soil Conservation Office.
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Point Pleasant
Crab Creek
Mason County
Soil Conservation Office
Charleston Man Fined On Gun Carrying Count
Roy W. Munday of Charleston was fined $20 and costs in a local magistrate court after being charged with carrying an uncased gun on Sept. 20. Conservation Officer Richard Booth cited him into court.
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Point Pleasant
Roy W. Munday
Charleston
Munday
Richard Booth
Goals Listed By Employes Of Hospitals
In Columbus Ohio representatives of 11 state mental and correctional institutions met to push for better working hours and conditions. They seek a 40 hour week a stronger voice in the Ohio Civil Service Employes Assn and attendance at superintendent meetings. Institutions represented include Mansfield Reformatory Summit Receiving Hospital and state hospitals in Athens Gallipolis Lima Columbus Mount Vernon Apple Creek and Cambridge.
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Columbus
Ohio
Bernice Fox
Ohio Civil Service
War Veteran Returns Home
Pfc James Edward Jones, son of Mrs Walter W Jones of 2210 North Main Street, returns home Sunday after a year in Korea attached to the 40th Infantry Division. He earned the Combat Infantry Medal, three battle stars, and other awards after participating in Heartbreak Ridge and three major battles. He previously spent three years in Europe and Berlin during the occupation. He arrived aboard the USNS General R L Howe in San Francisco and will enjoy a 35 day furlough before reassignment to Fort Knox Kentucky. He has two more years of service to complete.
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Point Pleasant
James Edward Jones
Walter W. Jones
North Main St
Korea
Heartbreak Ridge
40Th Infantry Division
Jones
Europe
Berlin
R. L. Howe
San Francisco
Fort Knox
Point Clinic Notes and Birth Report
Admitted Ara Wogan Southside medical. Mrs Samuel Rogers Burdette Addition Point Pleasant surgical. Released Theodore Thomas Rutland. Mrs Robert Oliver and infant son Hogsett. Mrs Edna Smith Milton. Mrs Paul Bush Henderson. Birth Mr and Mrs Orville Watson Henderson daughter September 27. Driving guidance advises shifting to low gear and applying the foot brake on steep descents.
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Ara Wogan
Southside
Medical
Samuel Rogers
Burdette Addition
Point Pleasant
Surgical
Theodore Thomas
Rutland
Robert Oliver
Hogsett
Edna Smith
Milton
Paul Bush
Henderson
Orville Watson
Lambda Chi Omega Dinner Honors Visiting Guests
The Lambda Chi Omega Sorority hosted a buffet dinner at the Moose Home on Sunday. Honorees were Mr. and Mrs. Jack Tracy of Huntington and Mrs. O. Frederick Staats of Ripley, with Dr. Staats hospitalized and unable to attend.
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Lambda Chi Omega
Moose Home
Rutland Births and Gatherings Highlight Local News
Mr and Mrs Robert Snowden announce the birth of a son on Sept 23 at Holzer Hospital. Grandparents and great grandparents named. Other notes include a daughter birth at Meigs General Hospital, WCTU meeting in Pom eroy, a Carson reunion with many Rutland attendees, and travels of Ada Mae Vance to Charleston to join her stationed husband.
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Rutland
Robert Snowden
Holzer Hospital
Drexall Lambert
Ethel Snowden
Francis Snowden
Andrew Lambert
Ada Mae Vance
Charleston
S. C
Vance
Navy
Lolo Harrison
Francis Johnson
Rose Carson
Betty Siders
Jean Carson
Olive Paige
Clara Phillips
Gail Garvin
Middleport
Floyd Harrison
Dorothy Linter
Eva Fleming
Helen Mae Nelson
Noretha Fleming
Ernest Molden
Ethel Nelson
WCTU
Pomeroy
Cecil Watts
Meigs General Hospital
Samuel L. Bryant
Henry Harrison
New York City
Lawrence Boyd
Cincinnati
Eva Bryant
Mansfield
George Koch
Lowell
Guy and
Blanche Clark
W. Va
Edwin Price
Richard Richardson
Chillicothe
Sherman Harrison
Hazel Price
Leola Bryant
Genevieve Burns
Ronald Ricknan
Herman Harrison
Columbus
Osler Brown
Glouster
Local Family Visits and Community Updates in Burgettstown Area
Cheshire notes visiting guests from Burgettstown and Wheelersburg. Ray Boyer and Guy Lee, veterans recently discharged after service in Korea, were guests of Mary Lee. Other visits include Hulls from Wheelersburg and Burnside with Larkins, plus moving news from Louden family and visits by Irion, Barbara Howard, Erna Shoemaker, and Hern family near Kitts Hill Ohio.
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Cheshire
Ray Boyer
Billie
Harvey Boyer
Burgettestown
Mary Lee
Guy Lee
Korea
Oris Hull
Wheelersburg
Ohio
Virgil Wamsley
Fannie Popp
Grace Burnside
Dorsel Larkins
Lou Louden
RAM TO CONVENE IN TOLEDO OCTOBER SESSION
The One Hundred Thirty-Seventh Annual Convocation of the Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Masons of Ohio will convene in Toledo on Oct 8 9. Grand High Priest Dr Edward E Gillespie Toledo will preside over the two day session.
Social notes from Point Pleasant and Leon residents
Pre Robert E Smith of Albany Ga visited his mother Mrs Gail Smith here on Saturday He is attached to the Marine Corps disbursing office of Albany His wife the former Joyce Kinniard returned with him to make their home in Georgia while he is stationed there Mr and Mrs Paul Rairden and son John Robert of Point Pleasant visited his parents Mr and Mrs John Rairden of Leon Mr and Mrs Dorsel Greenlee and daughters Audella Jean and Linda Jane of Dunbar visited the past her parents Mr and Mrs Guy Burdette of Leon Mrs Sherwood Costen and daughter Carolyn of Point Pleasant visited Sunday with her parents Dr and Mrs B F Sommer of Leon Mr and Mrs William Beaver of Leon were business visitors in Point Pleasant Monday Mrs Betty Wells has returned to her duties at the county clerk s office after having been on vacation George Rairden of Leon was in Point Pleasant Monday on business Mrs Carl Hayman of Charleston visited over the weekend with her brother and sister Herbert and Edna Burdette of Leon.
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Robert E. Smith
Albany
Gail Smith
Marine Corps
Joyce Kinniard
Georgia
Paul Rairden
John Robert
Point Pleasant
John Rairden
Leon
Dorsel Greenlee
Audella Jean
Linda Jane
Dunbar
Guy Burdette
Sherwood Costen
Carolyn
B. F. Sommer
William Beaver
Betty Wells
George Rairden
Carl R. Hayman
Charleston
Herbert
Edna Burdette
Riverview Daughters of America Meet with Potluck and Birthdays
Edith Wakely of Marietta attended with nine Chester members as Riverview Council held a recent meeting. A potluck fed 26 members and 10 visitors, with members’ birthdays observed. Visitors included James Weber and Fred Shumway households. Olive Farm Women’s Club met Edna Hall. Bridge work on Guyan has begun.
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Long Bottom
Edith Wakely
Marietta
Chester
Riverview Council
Daughters of America
James Weber
Middleport
Fred Shumway
Syracuse
Avery Nelson
Nellie Seckman
East Liverpool
Ohio
H. G. Webster
Olive Farm
Jones Resigns Post as 4-H Club Agent
John D. Jones resigns as Mason County 4-H Club agent effective October 1 and will take a similar post in Harrison County. He led Mason County’s program since 1951, overseeing 18 active clubs with about 1300 members, and will base headquarters in Clarksburg with family in Bridgeport. He praised the county’s upward trend and noted no successor has been named.
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Point Pleasant
John D. Jones
Harrison County
Jones
Mason County
Pennsboro
W. Va
West Virginia University
West Virginia
Clarksburg
Bridgeport
Board of Education
Mason County Land Transfers Brief Record
Nora Edwards transfers land to Raymond Lines and Kattie Sines in Point Pleasant. Edgar Starkey and Lena Starkey transfer four acres in Hannan District to John C. Hudson and Lettie Hudson. Harold L. Fry and Mary E. Fry transfer property in New Haven to William Clark and Waneta Clark. John McDaniel and Laura McDaniel transfer 8-10 of an acre in Waggener District to Kenneth D. Clark and Alice J. Clark. Kide Dowell and Thelma Dowell transfer 27 acres in Arbuckle District to Robert H. C. Kay.
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Nora Edwards
Raymond Lines
Kattie Sines
Point Pleasant
Edgar Starkey
Lena Starkey
John C. Hudson
Lettie Hudson
Hannan
Harold L. Fry
Mary E. Fry
William Clark
Waneta Clark
New Haven
John McDaniel
Laura McDaniel
Kenneth D. Clark
Alice J. Clark
Waggener
Kide Dowell
Thelma Dowell
Robert H. C. Kay
Arbuckle
Sinclair Lewis Burial in Sauk Center Victory Remains Home
The ashes of author Sinclair Lewis were buried in Sauk Center Minnesota his longtime hometown and setting for many of his stories officials confirmed the interment followed a private ceremony in the town he helped define through his fiction.
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Sinclair Lewis
Sauk Center
Minn
Marriage Licenses Issued in Point Pleasant
John H. Barnes aged 29 and Ramona Vinson 21 both of Lakin obtain a marriage license. Clifford Otho Hudson 19 of Henderson and Betty Florence Lewis 19 of Southside also receive licenses.
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Point Pleasant
John H. Barnes
Ramona Vinson
Lakin
Clifford Otho Hudson
Henderson
Betty Florence Lewis
Southside
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O. Frederick Staats
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J. M. Schlosser
Paul Cummings
Casby Meadows, Jr
J. W. Burdette
W. C. Gilmour
Eustace Wilson
John Clay Hutchinson
Woodrow Kapp
Wadear Thabet
J. A. Shinn
C. L. Head
Carroll Kennedy
Casby Meadows
Rodney Pullins
James B. Rayburn
James Hall
O. V. Knipp
Vitus Hartley, Jr
Hartley
George Harper
Stanley N. Johnson
Gene Crow
Jake Somerville, Jr
Wallace Burdette
Carson
M. B. Carson
Robert B. Carson
Leading Creek
H. E. Jackson
George Carson
R. B. Carson
Alice Carson
Homer Carson
Garnet Carson
Rose Ellen Carson
Adrian Carson
Dixie
David Carson
Kenneth Carson
Clara Carson
Bonnie Carson
Near
Allen Grueser
Edna Mae Swick
Robert Swick
Robert D. Carson
Donnie Carson
Rue Tuckerman
Amary
Alice Haggey
Roberta
Jean Haggy
Naomi Deih
Elza Edihl
Essie Carson
Near Milton
Tecca McGinnie
Genevieve Smith
Brenda Lee Smith
Justine Rutherford
Kenneth Rutherford
Gordon Rutherford
Ruth Carson
Jerry Carson
Vera Flo Rutherford
Luella Deihl
C. S. Rutherford
Doyle Rutherford
Rex Carson
William B. Smith
H. W. Carson, Jr
D. T. Carson
Elma Rutherford
Thomas Candle
Michael White
Near Huntington
Mrs. M. Carson
Cabell County
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Samuel C. Weaver
Wilma Weaver
Court of Common Pleas
Athens County
Rowland, Bridgewater & Gray
Linnie Swan
Cras
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Clarence Mitchell
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Otto Miller
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