Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1932-08-18
The "Sycan1ore'
A Story of Bristol Township Folk
By C. B. RAY

w. A. Shipley had been in busi-
ness before buying the upper store.
he started in a part of his residence
now the property or Gus Carnes. S.
~ Sheridan started a store in his
4 sidence. now the c. L. Swallow
property, then bought the upper
store, then moved to the Smith
store building now owned by Hazel
Best. Mr.. Sheridan sold out 10
Fred Radcliff who runs the only
store ia the village We would not
forget It. Cunningham whose story
We have told il previous section.
Then for a short time the Paxton
sisters and the late Will Sprague
had a store in the Paxton house.
Back in our boyhood before the day
of mail order houses. merchants did
3 big business here During the
building Of the Foy & Nixon Sec
sion of Barnesyilie, Mr. Radcliff did
. bis business. While the business
has been affected by the Cleveland
times under Hoover" =" they sell lot
OF goods We recall time when
two stores We're running here. that
eges went from about 25 cents to
rs cents dozen in one evening
The merchants got to bidding
against each other, until they got
1kem UP to then unheard Of price
since that eggs have few times
Ha-eu near that price here. and no
fight on. At the present time firsts
bring II cents. Speaking of the
village. the man who first conceived
the idea Of starting town here
lad his ideas away above what the
coming generations built to. The
village was LAID out with Main
street one block south Of the
BarnesyiIle road, and the street is
closed and is being cropped by the
owners of adjacent lots At one
time the village was haven for
Civil war veterans. Many of them
4tyed III or near the village. Sol
diers Of all wars up to the World
war sleep here. 20 in all. as We
have told in the story Of the Gem
etery
Speaking Of changing conditions
brings 10 mind a little history we
feel should be written here, Of the
Neigs school house. The old one
the one you and | who have started
on the last lap Of the century, at
tended. We might say here that
perhaps if we can finish out the
other 50 we will see the end of the
Hoover depression. But back to the
school house AT that time they
used the double seats. Sometimes
Ihree little tots occupied one seat.
Why the directors decided to build
a new house we don't know. AT
that time the board OF education
was made up Of the chairmen of the
districts. II in number. Anyway
they let the contract for the new
building to j. +. McGrath and j. II.
Grandstaff III 1898 The old house
was sold to the Seventh Day Ad-
-gentist church folks who a short
time before had organized a church
here; they did not continue long,
but they had the building down il
tie field across from the school
lot, and held service for a time.
They failed to gain sufficient fol-
lowing to make a 20 Of it, and the
building was sold to j. 7. Carnes
who owned the land where it stood.
Mr.. Carnes had it remodeled into a
dwelling where he and Mrs. Carnes
resided until her death. Then Rev.
j. L. Nuzum resided in it, School
house, church. parsonage; since
that time it has been the home OF
several different families. At the
present time Wilmot Carnes, grand
son Of John r., and family occupy
it. Somewhere in the story we
will tell you of the teachers and pu-
pills who studied (and caught fies)
IL this old building. We recall that
one winter there were hundreds of
ground moles down along a ravine
in Perley Lindimore's field. For
some days we boys hunted the ro-
dents at the noon hour. We took
them alive, putting them in pockets,
gloves, and SO on, any way to carry
them concealed to the school house.
After everyone had got quiet, some
one would turn loose a mole or two.
Then the girls cut UP something