Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1932-09-08

files Of the Democrat, we couldn't
help remarking to Mr.. Durbin that
We noticed great improvement IN
the makeup and appearance of the
paper. This is due to the fact thai
with the linotype machine new type
is used each issue, and advertisers
are placing their ads in bettef
shape. and we want you to know
that Stanley B. Sheridan, foreman
and job printer. is real artist in
his line. A half century ago very
little advertising was carried in the
papers. in the early history of
newspapers circulating in the town.
ship, and it is amusing to read the
ads in this age and compare them
wth present day advertising. We re-
member a popular way of telling
folks out here what they wanted
them to know, was to paint the ads
on the hub boards Of the old cover
ed bridges. We remember real
estate company told in the old
Campbell bridge that they had 125,-
J00 acres Of land in Missouri they
wanted o sell. They have perhaps
sold il all ere this-if not, and con
ditions are similar to those here,
they couldn't sell it at foreclosure
sale Then we remember that j. c.
Halliday and son advertised books
and stationery. Then some had
their ads printed on long strips If
paper which they pasted in the
bridges and on buildings, trees and
fences. tin the day of the board
tenceD
one Of these was Cremor pills,
Dr. H. l.. True McCOnnelsyille. O.
While never q resident of Bristol,
the doctor had his share Of pa
tients out here. But as to the pills,
they were sold in little wooden
boxes They must have been real
stnff rs they were quite small.
Speaking of pills. brings to mind a
story Grandmother Gordon used to
tell Of the time when Ike White
house drove the huckster wagon.
In making her purchases, she asked
for pills Ike asked what kind, ;"
and she asked him what kind he
had, when he answered "both ply
steal and puckering.' OF course
there never was but one Ike White
house. DR.. True was a man whose
wonderful ability was not appre-
ciated during his life
Who has drank from the living
springs of cold water flowing out Of
the lime stone ledges of the hills of
Bristol, and forgotten it? We re-
member while in Illinois Of driving
several miles on Sundays, to drink
from a spring. but here in nearly
every field such a spring is running I
TO quench the thirst Of man and /
beast. 1t always was a mystery 20
US to understand these springs. In /
our school days we We're taught that /
water seeks the lower levels, but III
actuality we find the springs on
the hill tops are the last to go dry.
water flows out of the hills |
of Bristol township each year TO !
make a garden out of the Sahara |
desert, if it could be used there.
1t seems to US that we should |
tell you of the changes in road |
in the past half century.
When we first remember, the roads
were the space between the fences.
At one time the township was di-,
ided into Is districts, each dis
.rict electing a supervisor. Manv
lines these men owed their elec-
ion to the fact that they were easy
with teams, plows, mattocks, SHOW
is, and SO on, proceeded to clean
out the bitches and pile clods in the
Dad. BY fall many of these clods
lad either moldered down or been
oiled back in the bitches, then the
.ame proceedings were gone