Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1923-02-22

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son of Marion township.
Mrs. L. H. Warner returned to
her home in Springfield Tuesday. af-
ter a visit here with her sister Mrs
Charles Needham, and mother Mrs
Phoebe Gillespie.
Mr.. Jno. D. Erwin of the River
side Telephone Co., went to COlum-
bus, Tuesday, where he attended the
convention of the Ohio State Inde-
Ipendent Telephone association.
The Ladies' Aid society of the Nc
Connelsville M. e. church will hold
a market at the Miller Furniture
store on Saturday, Feb. "a, opening
at $50 a. m.
The students of the Malta normal
gave a reception at the school room
in the Malta building last Thursday
.afternoon at $3.50. The grade
teachers of the two towns were the
lguests, and the affair was delight
fully informal and very pleasant.
valentine decorations were used in
the serving of the dainty light re-
freshments.
The students of the Malta normal
will present "The Glass Slipper" an
Ioperetta, on May 10. The attrac-
tive story of Cinderella makes the
Foundation for the story, which is
Icleverly told in bright and tuneful
musical numbers. The lines to be
spoken are good, and withal it is a
delightful musical comedy Watch
for further announcements of cast
place and SO on.
The body of John Burrows whose
death occurred at Point Pleasant,
wv. Va, was brought to Beverly last
week for burial. Mr.. Burrows was
almost 81 years of age. He leaves
a wife and five children, two of the
daughters, Mrs. Fordyce Weaver
and Mrs Ed Hoover, residing at
Swift. The deceased was a veteran
of the Civil war, serving in the 18th
Regiment.
Reuben Wiley and wife and
daughter Mrs. Lewis Smell and
grandson, Lein, who have been
spending a month here visiting their
old home and friends and relatives,
after Is years absence, left Sunday
for Columbus, where they will visit
his sister Mrs. Ed Morey and niece,
Miss Ella Steward, enroute to their
home in Mason City, Iowa.-Noble
County Leader.
Owing to the sickness of Mrs. j.
in. Barlow, the Home Missionary So
ciety meeting of the Malta NJ. Z.
1 Oh, no to
home Of Mrs. F. Gillian and will
be held Friday afternoon, Feb. 20,
at 2:15. Assistant hostesses: Mrs.
John Taylor, Mrs. A. j. Trash, Mrs
C. B. Smith and Miss Ethel Gillian.
Devotional leader. Mrs. Gillian. Re
viewer, Mrs. Harrington. Story
teller, Mrs. McKeown. Please come
prepared for the payment of dues.
The Beverly Dispatch of last
week said that Mrs. Elizabeth Lans-
lev had received a message from her
son J. w. Lansley. stating that he
and his daughter Miss Ruth sailed
from Cherbourg, France, for the
United States, on the ship Van Bu-
ren. Sunday The Dispatch also
stated that Mrs. Lansley was ser,
iously i'll, and that her son G. w
Lansley had arrived from Marietta
10 be with her, and that a grand
daughter Miss Louise Lansley who
is teacher in Washington, d. c.
had also come.
The Cumberland Echo of las
week said: Sherman Lett of Eagle
lport route was a caller here Satur
hi xrrif fn ff,1sr1 or
~ Nettie Clifford, are natives of the
Coal Hill neighborhood and are
we'll known in this community. They
now have a nice 80-acre farm neal
Eagleport and within mile and
half of the o. & L. K. railroad. /
is underlaid with coal and only {
few miles distant from the immense
power plant that is being erected a
Philo. which will make their Goa
very valuable at some future time
A news item from Crooksville re
Gently was as follows: CrooksVlilf
has the honor Of having four thirt
cousins OF Abraham Lincoln, the
great emancipator, and martyr pres
ident, living here. They are S. A
Deaver, Charles Deaver, Mrs. Hffit
Brown All of Crooksville proper anC
Mrs Alice Miller of South Crooks
vile The relationship comes abou
in the following manner. Lev
Deaver, grandfather of the abov'
: named persons, was son OF Abra
ham Deaver, whose mother was
sister Of Abraham Lipcoln's father.
The death of Mrs. Okey Shields
aged g years, occurred FEB. s a
her home near Forest Grove, Sharon
G township, following a short lines
from peritonitis. She was vel
3 known and highly esteemed lady
and is survived by her husband
four sons and one daughter; ais
2 her parents Mr.. and Mrs. Fulto
Wiley, five sisters and one brother
The funeral was held from tn
I Sharon Presbyterian church, FEB
5 10, the services being conducted b
S Rev. Boyd J. Yorke of Caldwell, an
/ interment was made in the Sharo
Y cemetery.
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