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Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1925-09-17
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i With the experience Of the past years
lof what can be done by determln4-
tion and cooperation, we are nvt
going to lose the strong grip we hava
made in this splendid work With
such a variety Of resources, / think
Meigs valley community shall be
fable to manage most of her own
difficulties fairly well. / think L
may state, that after all it is a pref
ty stable old world. and fine state
in which to live. Meigs valley has
reliable folks, and ] have always
thought people constitute the great
est asset of community. There is
always something of neighborliness
in the neighborhood. We have the
same reliable folks in our Meigs
Valley grange.
We have our own lawyers, to
whom we can go with our troubles.
We have our merchant that supplies
our every need. We buy at home,
therefore we do not go hungry. We
have our own minister who will
comfort us In sickness and in death.
When our bodies have been COM
signed to dear old mother earth,
with sad hearts and LOVING hands, we
lay a wealth of roses and lilies
plucked from our own gardens, sup
Piled by our own Meigs valley folks.
The grange has been a pioneer in
the things that have counted in the
development of individuals and COM
munities, the record is everywhere
If you can get up every time you are
knocked down, with more fight in
you than when you went down, there
is no fear about your future. If you
don't fight harder than ever, every
time you strike snag, you are not
made of success material The
grange meetings of the future should
primarily seek to inspire worth
while thoughts and inspirations, for
out of such thoughts will come the
rural progress of tomorrow. We
need many more rural thinkers. The
same grange ideals lived up TO in the
coming years will cause the grange
to grow and flourish and accomplish
wonderful work for rural life.
Meigs Valley grange is too big to
be self-important, it is full of am
bition and may well be expected to
come through with flying colors. 1t
is the one who struggles against
odds, and succeeds, of whom we can
truly say, he has proven his mettle,
he is a self made man.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1925-09-17
BaIdings To Hold Reunion

Sunday afternoon, Aug. 80, the
Balding family met at the home OF
Harry Carter to plan for their first
reunion, and decided to hold it in
the grove at Wolf Greek church the
third Sunday in August, 1926. 1t
was decided to meet annhally in the
future, the place to be determined
at each meeting. The following Of
ficers were elected: President, Mrs.
w. M. Payne, Worthington, o.;
sec'y-treas., Miss Blanche Torbert,
Morganville, o. About 40 were
present and most enjoyable time
was spent. Those present were Mrs.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1925-09-17
Bald Knob
Bald Knob school opened Monde

Bald Knob school opened Monday,
Sept Z, with Harold Hill teacher.
Miss Faye McFerren left Saturday
of last week for Florence, near Mar
tins Ferry, where she is employed
to teach the primary grades. Miss
McFerren recently finished her two
years normal, and has received her
state certificate.
w. F. Burdine is painting H2-ser
Leland's residence, on Meigs creek
Joe Jones and wife, Roy Wilds,
wife and little daughter, and Wa
Stewart of GAINESVILLE, spent Sunday
with Chas Bell and family.
Mrs. Benton Cordray spent Sum
day with Mrs. Chas. Drake.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Henery of
Parkersburg attended the Allen re-
union, which was held at the Cross
Roads church ground Sunday.
Mrs. Rosa Carroll of McConnels-
Vile and Mrs. John Shuster of East
Windsor spent Sunday with John
Murphy and family.
Mrs. Philip Bucey of Beverly, who
has been spending the past week
with her daughter Mrs. Ed Stewart,
returned home Sunday.
Carlos Glines who has employ
ment at GAINESVILLE, spent Sunday
with home folks.
John Murphy has rented the Ell
mer Kirkpatrick place, and will
move in the near future.
H. o. McFerren, wife and son
Galen were callers at Edgar Cham
! bers' Friday evening. Juanita
Chambers, who has been very sick,
is some better at this writing.
Harley Walker, wife and little
child who have been spending the
past two weeks with his father G. A.
| Walker and other relatives, left
Monday for their home in Iowa.
Ed Friermuth of GAINESVILLE is
spending a few days with John
Sherlock and taAEng in a few days
of the hunting season.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1925-09-17

Rhoda A. Taylor, now 70 ye0ss Of
age and the only snrvaseAs nAsunkSsa
of the family of kswfs sG6d SARAH
Balding; also Mr.. and Efs. II ".
Carter, Mr.. and Mrs. H. ". Forrert
and daughter Blanche, jackson
James and wife, GeDrge BaIdfnxs
Mr.. and Mrs. w. B. Taylos, HRS. w.
M. Payne and two children, W. d.
Balding, wife and son AYthnr, Hr.
and Mrs. e. r. Love, Nanda Mae
Love, A.. A. Carter, J. d. lace-
swanger, Fred e. Williams, Ruth
Niceswanger, Thos. L. Niceswang'er,
Frank James, Nellie, Maxine, and
Malcolm Carter, Charlotte and Le-
ota M. Williams, Beatrice Harper,
Dean, Evan l.. and Blanche Glass.
Next year we hope all the Balding
connections can meet at our first
reunion at Wolf Creek.-xX.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1925-09-17
IJniOnville

r. e. Foster and 1. R. Barnes
were in McConnelsvilie Saturday at
tending the conference of the Farm
ers' institute officers OF Morgan
county. There will be a meeting OF
all persons in this community who
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Al
Nv What keeps marriage and what makes y SUE
~ cessful to the end is Friendship.
sAs rule Love comes tits part Of Nature IT arises IN
from fundamental instincts We do not nave 70 manu-
facture it nor to force it. 1t sweeps -
With Friendship it is different for Friendship REQUIRES
intelligence More than that requires character ana az
our resources Of sefmastery, culture and courage.
Many things have been mentioned essena 10 hdpy
tact children good cooking the contnua
tion romance of humo selfcontro good temper
candor discretion identity of interests and the IKE
But the most satisfactory is that any marriage ~
proportion Love passes over INTO friendship
recent writer expresses this cheerful view:
This age of happy marriages make the statement
with perfect confidence spite of divorce court
spite Of unhappy novels in spite of depressing sex plays
There time when and women nad less fea-
son to afraid of marriage And the explanation IS SIMPLY
this-our modern capacity for friendship.
There greater friendships between men and men
than ever before There greater friendships
between and And there are better and inner
friendships between and than there were twenty
or fifty years ago.
INC love Of travel increased habits of reading our clubs
and our games all helped make deeper friendships
Men when they come to marry know sonenlng
about the art Of being friends.
MARRIAGE an institution which product Of social
evolution We arrived at monogay by any ar-
neither by laws OF the State not even Dy
authority Church. We have arrived there simply pc
cause the experience as well as the
ideal of life makes it the only satisfactory way Inc only
ay to- get along with primary instincts and not have
them play smash with finer interests IS IN the loyal
union Of one man and woman.
IT Friendship that salyages Love after the Wreckage OF
passion.
IS Friendship that companlonshlp into more
solid fabric when the fires Of passion have died down
The greatest thing the world is Love But the greatest
kind Of Love is that which is able to create and continue
great Friendship.
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This picture by E. T. borrowed from the Bystnnder
60 point moral adorn express sympathy for the
poor American citizen dealing in cotton goods
In England they use this picture show the indignation
of the silk worms against Winston Churchill But here
shows admirably and perfectly the cotton goods
all up by silk because American insist
on wearing silk for EVERYTHING
Women wear silk skirts silk dresses underwear silk
stockings silk EVERYTHING
There are no good odfashoned gowns petcoats
of hanging the line TO dry You may
here and there the backyard Of lady recently arrived
from Europe But the American native born or arrived as
much as five years ago, is SOLID SILK
It sad outlook for the whose business is selling
cotton goods.
And then women DID cotton they used to do,
they wear so little of ANYTHING that business in cotton
goods would be bad anyhow
Where every selfespectng lady used to wrap herself
in several thknese of good substantial cotton inside and
out she forth Completely dressed In some little
things made Of silk and weighing few GONE
the days when the American carried ten pounds OF
cotton goods around with her
And Henry Ford worse than the silk worm raising flax
manufacturing linen and undertaking to show that he can
produce his linen product better than cotton
and actually CHEAPER. -
But the man grows and the that deals in
cotton goods need despair Fashions change and when
they do change they change with BANG
You never tell today what lovely women will be
wearing tomorrow.
The only safe prediction is that she will be wearing
thing DIFFERENT.
And will found for cotton cloth replace the
old Some way be found to supply Europe, Asia
and Africa adequate scae that done would
take all the cotton and cotton goods of the world and
too. --..s.
Meanwhile your sympathy goes to this little cotton
man victim of the pitiless silk worms
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SAYINGS OF
MRS. SOLOMON
by Helen RowIand-
And StilI We Love Them.

And Still We Love Them. i.
A NY woman who can weave
"A beautiful illusions around
shivering man in a wet bathing
suit, is mot only a romancer-
but a necromancer.
y &[H
Almost every woman arrives at
the point where she can ~ long
err see to thread her needle; but
nc woman's eyesight ever gets so
poor that she can't see through
the alibis of the man she loves.
\ ~
Somehow, at this time OF year,
q man mistakes his desire 20 roam
in cool parks for sentiment and
thinks it is love that is keeping
him awake nights when It'll only
the humidity.
1t takes a rainy Sunday to
bring out all the old books, old
songs, old arguments ard old
erudges in any family
Love, like silver, shines bright
ly in the sun of approval but
quickly furnishes In the damp
atmosphere of woman's critf-
cism or the cool fog of Il mans
indifference.
=
No man ever does half as
much as he plans to do while his
wife is away for the summer
but no woman will believe that
he didn't do twice as much as
he admits he did. |.~.
A clever woman never flatters
herself that she is mans first
and only love-" but it is some
times a shock to- her vanity to
discover what an assortment of
little dumbells, and nonentities
she struggled so hard to win out
against.
An unobtrusive wife is like
hassock; a man scarcely realizes
that she is around, until he
stumbles over her or is looking
for something to LAY things on"
-
The same old lOVe-sonG that
made a mans eyes softly glow
before marriage will make them
gently close after marriage.
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By Garrett. P. Serviss,
Noted Astronomer and Writer On
Scientific Topics of Popular
VVNfnpoef

Interest.
TINE most beautiful of the
II earth's sister planets. Venus,
will adorn the evening sky,
increasing continually in bril-
lance during the whole of the
present summer and of the COM
Ing autumn, and during the first,
part OF next winter Passing
around the farther side of the
sun on April "a, Venus has since
advanced through three signs OF
the zodiac, and near the end of
July Is so far east of the sun that
she remains above the horizon an
hour after sunset.
In looking at her now you look
past the sun. for her distance
from the earth is at present
greater than the suns by about
forty-seven million miles.
The earth put in her place
would look about as big and
and bright as she does for there
Is little difference in size between
them.
1t is only reflected sunlight
that she sends to us, and it may
be that she appears more pierre
in her place, because she seems
to have an atmosphere more
filled with clouds than ours. The
upper surface OF clouds in the
sunshine is as brilliant as snow.
Brightness Increases.
Her circular path curves round
between the sun and the earth.
80 that she has been continually
getting nearer to us since pass
ing behind the sun in April. Her
brightness consequently increases
like that Of an approaching
headlight. But because her light
is only borrowed and reflected,
it varies not merely, with distance
but also with the amount of her
sun-exposed surface that Is seen
from the earth. When she Is, as
now, farther away than the sun
she looks in the telescope like
moon near the full phase, be-
cause almost all of that part OF
her surface illuminated by the
sun Is turned earthWard.
But later, when she has
moved into a position at right
angles to tho direction OF the
sun, the telescope will show her
in the form OF a halfmoon, be-
cause then only half of that part
of her globe that lies in the sun
light will be visible from the
earth. Consequently. while she
will have gained in brightness by
getting nearer, she will have lost
through the relative diminution
of the illuminated surface. Upon
the whole, however. there is
balance of gain in brightness un-
til, by swinging in between the
earth and the sun, she assumes
the shape of a crescent moon.
Then the loss begins to exceed
the gain There are certain
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-07-13
By ELSIE ROBINSON

find a Tot more joy in each other.
Stop trying to make your nus
hand over, If his money is good
enough to spend, he's go Q q
enough to live with. lady. he
may be rough around the edges
and weak around the knees, but
that's his business not yours,
Stop picking on him. II you
want to look at perfect man,
nav fifty cents for sixsreels OF
movie hero. But give the lad
who's paying for your meals
little peace at home. -,
Stop trying to make your cnll'
dren over. They don't, belong TO
you. If you set them a. gcod
example, and give them friendly
cooperation. and see they're ed
and educated decently, you can
be fairly sure that God will at
tend to the rest. What II they
don't turn out as you had
planned? You had no business
planning! They're humans. Then
let them hume.
Stop trying to make your boss
Overt Maybe he's an unfair boss;
maybe it's q rotten institution
but you're no recording angel. !
know it would be ever so much
jollier to be bossiNg yourself. but
probably you'd be a flop at the
job, and in the meantime you've
got to eat. So do the thing
that's given you to do, grab off
your pay check and
KEEP YOUR SHIRT ON
Stop worrying and shopping,
fussing, and pryjng, and getting
riled UP. Keep q covering over
your emotions. DON'T waste your
self over every passing agIta-
ton or trivial upset-don't blow
off steam because things don't
come your way - KEEP YOUR
SHIRT ON! \
Does this mean that you should
lead a life of inaction? 1t does
not. There are times when 1t is
necessary for any honorable
human to strip off his reserve
and pitch into the fight. But.
generally speaking. you'll. have
plenty of action If you will just
ATTEND TO YOUR OWN BJSI.
NESS. If. you, yourself, will be
one hundred per cent efficient as
citizen, worker, husband and wife,
mother, father. sister, brother or
child. you'll be doing the greatest
possible service for your family,
community, nation and world.
KEEP YOUR SHIRT ON!
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Nicer People now, but it had a.
logical application to the life of
those earlier. days. There were
plenty of occasions when a gentle.
man of 1875 was compelled to.
doff his shirt. He fought the
village Ore. or settled political
arguments in negligee, as it were:
whenever life approached a con-.
flict he was forced to remove
that hard-boiled shirt of his
species and go to it as 1t was,
or else sit in ignoninious OBJ
security on the side lines. And
so it came to be that when he
wished to prevent hasty action he
said: KEEP YOUR SHIRT ON
That's a rough old slogan, but
a wholesome one, and as fitting
now as the day it was coined.
, Never, in fact, has it been more
necessary that we, as a nation,
should be told to
KEEP OUR SHIRTS ON"
The war did something to every
one of u.s. We suddenly emerged
from the peaceful dawdling Of our
adolescent years and. became con-
scious of ourselves as individuals
and as a great and powerful ma
ton. We began to look around
and take sides and make ges-
lures and yell at once. We broke
out into a rash, of criticism and
civic service. And we're still
going strong. From the bellhop
to the Millionaire weTe all het up.
We all want to start something
or correct something or demolish
something. And we don't care
how mad we getty or how much
we annoy the other fellow in
doing it. The old ideal Of self
control has been swept away
It's "self-expression" now, ami
the wider and noisier the ex-
preston the better. It's just
about time for some heavenly
l1foadcaster to light on the top
most cloud and yell
81 KEEP YOUR SHIRT ON"'
Stop trying to make the world
over! You'll simply raise. your
blood pressure. and you won't do
a whole lot of good. The world
will be made over when. it gets
around to it., which won't be in
your day or mine.
Stop trying to make the church
over! The church is what it Is
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GARRETT P. SERVISS ON THE
LONG VISIT OF VENUS

points. respectively thirty six
days before and after Venus ar
riyes at the place where she Is
nearest to the earth and In line
between the earth and the sun,
at which she. attains her greatest
brilliance. This will not happen
until after New Years, but she
will be almost as splendid in No
vember and December, when her
light will be bright enough to
cast distinct shadow, and to be
visible in the daytime IL the eye
Is directed to the exact point in
the sky where she shines. 1t
will be- easy then to see her at
any time Of day with a telescope.
In fact, she is. so dazzling that
telescope observers, wishln;; to
study her surface features (which
are not easily Distinguished fire.
quently prefer daylight views.
Defies Scrutiny.
Venus will be farthest east
from the sun on November %.
and will remain above the hori-
ION nearly three hours after sun
set, but her declination will be
far south, between the constella-
lions Sagittarius and CapricornGs
Not nearly as much is yet
known about Venus as recent ad-
vances of astronomy. in other di-
rections would lead laymen to ex-
pect. In fact, the brilliant planet
defies close telescope scrutiny.
She seems to hide herself be-
hind veil formed by her own
dazzling rays. 1t is not certain
that we see her real surface at
all, but unquestionabIy she
possesses an abundant atmos-
pnere and good supply of
water. as indicated by the seem
ing cloudiness of her air Her
relative nearness to the sun
would imply a higher tempera-
ture than that of the earth. No
definite facts are known touch.
ing her Availability. But she
presents a wonderful field for
exploration with the telescope.
the spectroscope and other mod
ern means Of investigation, and
it looks as though amateurs will
have to do this work, If it to be
done But in no science have
amateurs a more brilliant record
than in astronomy.
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DR.. FRANK CRANES.
J. DAILY EDITORIAL
y M1rr;r,r,, md E,iorprIe11in
BY DOCTOR FRANK CRANE
Marriage and Friends hip.

rwYHAT makes marriage in the first place IS Love.
NJ What keeps marriage and what makes y sue
~ cessfuI to the end is Friendship. .
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VIZ II EN- your
w grandpa was.
in action he; used
his laHguaagraw.
The gentlemen Of
the late Nine.
teenth Q ent ur
ief most OF the
culture to the
ladies. They
grew whiskeTs on
t h e ir. conversa-
lions as well "a $
on their chins
and. their slight.
est com m e n { 5
packed a K. ..
wallop: AS, for
instance, t h a t
classic enjoinder :
KEEP YOUR
SHIRT ONr'
This bon mot
lis not in the best
o andin &
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Ford's Flying Mail
1t Would Be Welcome

Henry Ford is really going into air mail distribution
big SCALE that is IMPORTANT NEWS to this country pro-
gress and safety
Mr. Ford alleged be ready with $10000000 to map
mail service gradually to the entire country
Ford believes that his flying machines carry the mails pro-
something about costs. - -. U.s.
Mr. Ford plan is not merely to connect Chicago Detroit
and the Lake Cities with the Atlantic but to he should
do the Continent to the cities of the Pacific Coast
Such development of flying machines in connection with
air mail would solve the Nations defence problem
There is doubt President Coolidge will do all he
TO cooperate in such enterprise. =
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Worth $4,000 !?
Yes, and $4,000, 600

editor $4,000 year," He refers
to the United States Shipping Board and the fleet of ships
owned by the Government
The that if the Government could ships
ready for its carry its soldiers and
supplies in of war, fifty MILLIONS year WOULD BE
DIRT CHEAP for such preparedness
Those that complain of by the Shipping should
not forget the ancient history of only years
In great hurry with loud yes of patriotism with unlimited
grating the dollar patriots Of this country spent
thousand million dollars getting ready shpsof which many
hardly worth junking
Fifty millions year only five per cent ONE thou
sand millions by spending five per cent of ONE thousand
millions avoid quanderng SUDDENLY THREE thou
sand millions and getting nothing for the money then fifty
millions WOULD BE VERY CHEAP.
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Who Said 1t

Dominion is breeze that
changes, and power is a light
ming that deceives."
Dominion and power give falls,
assurance, we are reminded In
the "Maoamat" of Hariri.
He that would live in peace and
at ease,
Must not speak all he knows nor
Judge all he sees"
To avoid trouble a man should
exercise restraint in speech and in
Judgment, Franklin says in Poor
Richards Almanac.
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To Cure Chatting

IF for any reason the baby's
skin should become .chafed., all
soap should be omitted from the
bath for a time and bran baths
o.. salt baths given instead. The
bran bath is prepared by placing
one pint of bran in a cheese.cloth
bag and squeezing this about in
the bath water until the water
looks milky. The baby should
then be put in this bath for
minute or two. The salt bath
is prepared by dissolving half
cupful of salt in two gallons Of
warm water.