Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1926-04-22

Icdme OUT ana we look nike
land visited some sugar camps
where they were at work, but re-
turned to the town In a binding
snow storm. The town OF Twins
burg is laid out around square
with soldiers monument and d
band stand in the center There is
some interesting history connected,
which, for some reason did not
! find place in Howe's historical
collection. We visited the Gem
Ietery and from large marble slab
Lying hat on the ground, we copied
1.-THE following inscription which not
only gives the origin of the name OF
the town, but some rather interest
ing information. 1t read thus: "In
memory of Moses and Aaron Will
tcox who died Sept. 25, 1927 aged
55 years. The former of them was
born z minutes before the latter,
and survived him 10 hours, IS min
utes. They married sisters and al
ways continued together in busi-
ness and for the last 25 years were
members of the Congregational
church. In 1912 they visited this
town, selected and purchased 1000
acres of it and at their request 1t was
named Twinsburg. Their remains
lie deposited in one grave beneath
this stone. (The name Twinsburg
above includes the township.)
On Monday Murray took us in his
car over to Hiram, Portage county,
and here we visited sman whom
most everyone in eastern Morgan
and southern Noble knows. or has
some knowledge of.-Dr. Frank
Hurd. He too was product of
| Brookfield township. He was
nephew and a student under the
most widely known practicing ply
slclan in this part of the country
at that time, DR.. Clark. We found
the doctor and his wife hale and
hearty. full of -'pep," and appar-
entity good for many years to
come. The wife Mrs. Flora Hurd,
the eldest of the Henry Wilson fam
lily, grew to womanhood near Wood
grove and was, to the best of cur
knowledge, the first person to learn
to play an organ and give lessons in
this locality. Her brother Herschel
wilson lives on the old home place
and Mrs. H. w. Dickinson near here
is the only sister. DR.. Hurd moved
from Dexter City, where he resided
Tor years to this college town near
~ quarter of a century ago in or
der that his children Harry, Ed
ward and Lois might receive an ed
ucatlon. He and Harry are part
ners and have built up an extensive
practice and have the best equipped
office we have ever seen Here,
Tor the first time in our lives, we
were permitted to take look at
some of our own frame work by the
means of the X-ray machine. An
other interesting experiment was,
when the doctor gave us door key
and book fully 2k inches in
and told US to look at the
key from behind the book, when to
our establishment it showed through
with startling clearness. The doc
tor, his children and grandchil-
dren all live in and near Hiram.
They own several good properties
there. Lois and her husband, Carl
Nichols, live out about two miles
on farm which includes a large
"sugar bush" We spent almost an
entire day here and took dinner in
the camp. and while here visited
vl1 cor nc
is built around large eight acre
square with the main college build
ing in the center. 1t is a typical
college town The house where
Jas. A. Garfield lived when he was
president of the. college is pointed /
out to the visitor. The town is
l300feet above sea level and while
we, were here the weather seemed
rather cool. yet, most of the stu
dents went around bare-headed.
This may have been just a fad, yet |
there..may have been a reason for
it; in school town like this there |
may be very rapid development of |
heads. ~ ~ ~ - IT,
Now as touching the maple syrup
business. 1t is like most every
thing else, good, bad, and indiffer- T
ent. Some up-to-date outfits like !
others any old way to get !
by with it. Some of the bushes" /
had few hundred buckets hung to
the trees, some few thousand.
Some of the very large trees had as
many as four buckets hanging to !
them and were bearing the scars of |
many years tapping until the trunks
look like they had the smallpox,
The buckets were usually large, av-
era aging about IA quarts. Some of |
the buckets were wooden, painted /
but the most of them were galvan- !
iZed iron and tin and provided with |
some kind OF lid. but a few were
not. The sap is gathered in tanks /
made for the purpose, holding about !
100 to $50 gallons, mounted on a
sled or wagon and hauled to the I
boiling house and emptied by grav-
ity into large storage tanks. Some !.
form of patent evaporator is used
which is as much of an improve !
ment over the cid style pans as they !
we're over the iron kettles. which !
our forefathers used. Some of these !.
large eva 2porator8 are 6x24 it. and I
with, good fuel can take care of so |
to 100 barrels Of sap a day Some .
use steam in ,coiled pipe arrange |
mcnt for boiling, .whcih seems to be |
the last word in evaporation.
The greatest mistake we noticed !