Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1932-08-18

frightful. In fact we are satisfied
that no female made as much noise
in the early days at the sight Of
bears, panthers and so on, as did
these girls. In fact they acted SO
terrible that the teacher closed the
hunting season on moles.
While We have written much Of
Seth Andrews, We find the follow
ing which we wrote some years ago
and which was never handed in to
the proof reader. Uncle Seth was
perhaps the most highly educated
man who has ever belonged to the
Meigs Christian church. He was q
minister Of that church. Well we
remember many of the gems of ed
ucation as well as thoughts of the
Christian life scattered by this good
man Scattered "as seed by the
sower." 'Uncle Seth" lived on our
road to school. Many were the ev-
enings we were invited in to eat
the fine apples he had stored away
while he gave us apples Of wisdom
out of his vast store house Of
knowledge. Funny, don't you think
that when our minds were on the
big ripe apples he was telling us
things that come to the front now
after his body has gone back to
dust? Sometimes we are led to be-
lieFe that folks gone oil are exert
ing more influence on the world s
destiny than are the living As we
converse with neighbors and friends
we hear them quote the dead more
than the living. At any rate Seth
Andrews is living on.
Bridges
With the numerous creeks and
runs in the township, it has been a
job to build and keep the bridges in
repair In our boyhood, there was
but one type of bridge (wooden) :.
The old covered bridge is fast Civ
ing way to ones of steel and con-
crete. We believe only the follow
ing are left: Wilson and Tilden,
near Rowland. The latter was NOV
ed when they built the Barnesville
road across the creek at the foot OF
creek hill, and was known as the
Cotton bridge for many years; then
when replaced by one of concrete it
was moved to the Tilden crossing.
Then one known as the Robert Hen
derson bridge, above Cloud, the
Whitehouse, Lindimore, Bone, one
over Horse Run, near the Jesse Gil
liland farm; also private bridge at
the Ira Porter farm This bridge
was built for the late Jas. Scott
when he owned the farm. Many
time did farmers race their teams to
get to these bridges to keep their
grinding" dry, as we'll as them
selves. The men who built these
bridges had a trade of their own,
at any rate they were called "bridge
carpenters" !" The old bridge was at
one time the meeting place Of the
boys Of our neighborhood on rainy
days.
Times have changed; conditions
have changed; folks are getting
wiser. In fact some of the coming
generations may attain the height
of knowledge possessed by people Of
past ages-unless they take a slide
backward We are writing so far
ahead of our readers that condi-
tions may change before you come
up to this. If anyone here gets as
smart as some folks would have rs
think they are, we will tell about it
in the next installment Most any
fool can write, and someone has said
"The man who talks longest says
the least
There are still lot Of very prom
inent folks both living and dead
whom we want to write about be-
fore we close.
1t was always with great interest
we listened to the soldier boys tell
of their experience in the service of
their country and ours. These men
need no power of oratory to keep Us
listening. Today we would rather
spend an hour with our good friend
VIM H. White, and hear him tell in
his own way Of his experience, than
to listen to some great orator whose
father or grandfather during the
war was at home selling stuff to the
government at an eXorbitant price
or perhaps selling to the wives and