Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1922-08-31

r, McCONNELSVILLE, OHIO
Mr.. Howard Forsyth of the west
side left Tuesday for Columbus
where he will assist in the state fair
booth of the o. s. U. agriculture
paper.
Mr.. Riley Balding accompanied
his father-in-law to his home al
Bowling Green, KY, Monday, on a
business trip. His wife went to CO.
lumbus where she visited Mr.. and
Mrs. Bert Fox.
Mrs. Vincent Reed went to Zanes-
Vile Monday, to visit her sister Mrs.
I. H. Harlan. She also attended the
meeting OF the GAINESVILLE Baptist
Tuesday and Wednes-
day, at the Fair Oaks church. She
plans to visit her daughter Mrs. Ed.
Finney and family of Roseville, be-
fore returning home.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. E. Roberts and
two children left Saturday for La
Fayette, La, where Mr.. Roberts
has a position as head of the public
speaking department of the Louisi-
ana state university. Prof. II. D.
Bishop and wife will occupy part OF
the Roberts home, and Mr.. and Mrs.
Earle Eveland the balance.
The following notice appeared in
the GAINESVILLE Signal of last Thurs
day: "Don Carlos James, of Louis
Vile, KY, will preach at the Church
of Christ, 240 Woodlawn avenue, at
1880 O'Clock Friday evening" will
be recalled that Mr.. James, and his
wife, were recently on trip abroad,
and some of his good letters written
from Japan, appeared in the Demo
crat.
Mr.. A. w. Shinn left the first of
the week on two weeks trip in the
interest of the Maccabee lodge. He
went to Somerset, and Saturday
night will attend a "big doings" at
where State Deputy w.
l.. Devo1 has large class adoption.
The degree team from Marietta, also
a baseball team from the same
place, will be present.
Prof. Frank w. Murphy of Pitts
burgh, who has been taking special
work this summer at Columbia Uni
versity, has finished his work for
the season, and Thursday joined his
family here at the home of Mrs.
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. l..
T. Gray. Mr. Murphy teaches again
the coming year in the Allegheny
senior high school. He is instructor
of physics and chemistry.
The ladies of the Home Mission
ary society of the Methodist Episco-
pal church held q farewell party in
the church parlors last Thursday
evening, honoring one OF theil
members, Mrs w. D. Mercer, who i!
about to leave for her new home il
Columbus. Mrs Mercer's daugh'
ters Misses Lucille and Mildred
were also among those present
There were 20 ladies in attendance
There was a short musical program
and a social hour spent, light re
freshments being served.
Mrs. Edwinna Salzer and Mis-:
Elsie Salzer and Mrs. Mary Huff
man of this place, Mrs. Lulu Bull
lock of Deerfield and Mrs. Grace
Gessell of Malta all went 10 tht
home of Mrs. Salzer's daughter Mrs
Effie Brown of Chaneyville neigh
borhood, Wednesday of last week
and canned 90 quarts of peaches
for Mrs. Brown who is i'll and no
able to look after the canning nee
essary to provide for the wants o
large family, and farm hands, etc.
and to take care of the peaches o
which the Browns have an abun
dance on their place.
Mrs. Vincent Reed and daughter
Miss Stella Reed returned Che lattel
part of last week from the Ralph
Scott home near Morganville. The!
looked after the farm work there
and took care of Mr.. and Mrs
Scott's little son Robert while tht
parents were away on an auto trip
Others of the vicinity who went II
the same party were Mr.. and Mrs
Arthur Sawyer and son Ralph, ant
Mr.. and Mrs. David Scott, Mis-:
Edythe Reed of this place, and Mrs
Laura Campbell of GAINESVILLE. The
trip took them to Niagara Falls, ant
they visited many places of interes
in Canada, and returned by way o
Pittsburgh. The trip was a very de-
one.
= The Profit and Pleasure club me-
Aug. 16 at the home of Woodie ant
Bernice Rowland. Twelve member:
and four visitors were present. Fol
lowing a very interesting program
refreshments of ice cream and cake
were served. The next meeting will
be Sept at the home of Bertha
Still. Program: Roll call, my ia
vorite recipe solo, Madge Lowe;
reading, Hattie Parks; defamation
Bertha Still; duet, Stella Schustel
and Emma Bell; essay, Gertrude
Gilliland; Why / live on farm
Frances Hastings; Why | desire tc
join the club, Lille Leonard; reci-
tation, Dana Still; Select reading