Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1930-12-11
Quality Christmas Greeting Cards.
The Stanbery Pharrac acy.
With The Lone Scouts

The Lone Scouts decided to collect
and distribute Christmas baskets to
those in need. in Duncan Falls and
Philo, at meeting held Friday
evening, Nov 28, at the Philo
high school building The Lone
Scouts who held the meeting com
prised the Lone Wolf and Beaver
Brave tribes of Muskingum county,
headquarters at Philo and Duncan
Falls. Publicity, Investigating, and
collecting committees were appoint
ed by Scoutmaster C. A. Swingle of
the Beaver Brave tribe. All those
wishing to contribute foodstuffs to-
ward this project should get in touch
with w. f. Fulwider, Philo. who is
in charge of the collecting division.
Contributions are asked especially
of the people of Philo and Duncan
Falls.
After the meeting basketball
game was played between the Bea-
yer Braves of Philo and the Muskie
Scouts of New Concord. The Muskie
Lonies were held until the half,
when reinforcements arrived unex-
pectedly, and then they finished the
fourth quarter on the long end of
the score 15-25-XX.
Former Resident or County Writes
Editor Democrat When in your
good county some months ago,
inadvertently divulged the fact that
| was not a subscriber to a Morgan
county paper, to my boyhood friend
B. f. Wells He threatened to take
up subscription and send me one
of the papers. and | felt | had best
forestall action, for l knew Ben
used to be fellow (say 40 years
ago. who did all he threatened. Ac-
cordingly | left the charge for a
years reading at your office, and
have been enjoying the visits of the
Democrat very much. 1t was not
exactly poverty (though that was
sufficiently pronounced) that caused
me to cancel subscription num-
ber of years ago. but a feeling that
l knew SO few people in the county
any more and was SO far removed
from actual touch with happenings
as to make paper almost useless.
But l am willing to say that l
find the Democrat very interesting.
with Morgan county, and it is real
ly surprising how many family
names one sees that are still famil-
lar. And then the old post office
names lend charm to the reading
and take one back half century,
when we knew Stockport as Wind
sor, Neelyville as Newcastle, and
when Millgrove was much on the
map. Speaking of Millgrove, we are
wondering if Ben Wells recalls when
the wire suspension foot bridge
spanned the turbulent waters of
Meigs creek and when skating used
to be great out-of-door sport for
all the dwellers of the creek region,
in the winter season. That OF
course, was back in the days when
nothing more stirring was known
than town hall, croquet, fiddle
winks and sleigh riding. 1t was
long before the days of modern base
ball or football. before youngsters
went cuckoo over trying to pitch a
ball into basket hung on a wall,
before anybody but the aged and un-
comfortable wealthy could own set
of golf sticks. and TON Thumb"
had not yet introduced an imitation
game to educate the young and gull
lible. We doubt whether Ben re-
calls those ancient and slow days,
but Doc Naylor and Judge Lyme do.
We get a great kick out of read
ing the Democrat, from its refresh
ing style of expression. It's direct
ness, or the absence OF circumlocu-
ton. in other words, appeals strong
ly to us. 1t says what it means and
in a form that leaves no room for
equivocation. Whereas the Pitts
burgh Post Gazette or the Cleveland
Plain Dealer would speak of man
dying from complications" the
Democrat tells us he had "tubercu-
losis', and we know what was the
matter with him. While the city
papers would say of a man that he