Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1925-04-02


about it. and she told me. She say
nobody lived here but Indians an,
wild animals. Not one house wa
here then; and the families tha
moved here, had to stop on thei
way and cut down big trees, and
cut them up-and build little 10.
cabins to live in and sleep in"
Well what did they ever com,
here for? Didn't they have an,
8 sense?" Asked Robert.
Eyes! many of them were vel
educated people from big cities, witt
modern advantages; but they ha6
heard of the beauties of the 'will
west and they wanted to come an(
clear the timber land away anj
build homes for their children.
Some were from Germany soma
from Ireland and lots of them from
different parts of America. And
Grandma knew of one family of 5
children and another family of II
children. Most of the children were
boys who had come from homes.
And the boys just hated this Neck
Of the Woods as they called it and
they soon began to slip away to find
a better place
Il asked her where they went;
and she said. she could not tell, but
she knew they went to the -four
coners of the world and some of
them were never heard from again
but few of them wrote letters back
to their people,"
"Now. Bob don't that prove that
this world is square?"
well it does look that way But
how did their letters get here; when
there was no postoffice here?"
Why the letters were brought
here-on horse back, from the big
ger towns, several miles away, but
it cost about 25 cents for every let
ter delivered" answered Jimmy. But
so many new people kept moving
here, that soon enough We're living
in log cabins to make up enough
money to build little log cabin
postoffice
''Well! can you tell me how the
people got here? You said it was
just big woods. with no roads,
from the foot of the hill, down
where Rose Farm now is-clear up
to the top of this big hill"-asked
Robert
well grandma knew about that,
too. She said the first road was the
GAINESVILLE and Athens road and it
was-she said, outlined by man,
who got 1880 acres of woodland, to
pay him for his work"
Did she ever tell you about the
first tavern that was built here?"
''Sure she did. She said it was
built where Kennedy's drug store
was kept later, And she said horses
were fed all they could eat for II
cents. and big meals were served for
10 cents, and each man got plenty
of whisky for three cents drink.
1t was thought necessary to have
whisky then to make men strons
ChodSII W WI buI oDHICIIlnCc ojlO
said, it made them get into fights"
"Do you think it any wonder the
boys hated to live in this Neck Of
the Woods, and wanted to go to the
-four corners Of the world?"
Nav. | don't.'
'1hey soon had to have a school
house and it was built Of round logs
and was 10 feet by Is feet square,
with chimney made of stones,
sticks, and mud The windows were
holes cut in the logs and had greas-
ed paper instead of glass for win
dows. The doors and seats were
made of what the men called
and seats were Just fas-
tened against the log walls at one
end and propped up at the other"
''The scholars all studied out loud.
How would you like that Bob?"
We'll, I think it would be lots of
fun, don't you?"
1.-THE most of the grown up men
schools, and they complained of this
condition of things and were an
swered like this by the Irish leader:
Name O. sense, 'Xactly so. But all
the boys need to know is to write
and cypher to the rule of three, and
the girls-if they can write their
names, and read the Testament, why
they are all right"
Wen, did you look on your atlas
at school to see if you could find
Deavertown there?"
"Sure l did and found it, all
right, and it looks just like a square
word puzzle, and it looks like it
might be the center of the world,
only instead of being square, it is
longer north and SOUTH
well now" said Robert, some
day let's you and me buckle down to
work, and make Deavertown into n
square world puzzle and then let the
people who live here now solve the
puzzle by filing in the black squares
with the names of DeayertoWn peo-
pie who went to the four corners of
the world, and find if they did not