Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1932-12-29

out of place, at any rate they were
made fun OF They did not go
dressed up, as did most of the town
folk. Times have changed. Very
few farmers ever go 20 town with
tenn They feel they can hire 4
man with q truck to haul their
produce and stock to market cheap
er than they can haul with their
teams With the great amount of
automobile travel, it is most impos-
sihle 10 drive stock on the improved
highways But beck to what we
started to say. Farmers are not
now known by the chaff in their
whiskcrs, neither do they have to
90 10 town to learn the news, or the
facts in the case. Many farmers to-
day are college graduates, former
school teachers, and when you go to
the towns you can't tell the farmer
by his clothes, and so far as we can
see by the daily papers, no farmer
has bought the statue of liberty
since the war On the other hand
we find men and boys from the
country are filing places in the
towns and cities, that in our boy
hood farmers would have hesitated
to have applied for.
The Men We Forget
Today much is being said about
.sThe forgotten man" Mayhap you
know what they mean and have
digcsted the thought What We
want you to think about for lit
tie while is the great army of men
and women who have lived here
through the years who have not
s.riz' up high and made a big fuss,
hut who lived along quietly, sacri-
ficing that their children may go up
70 the top. Men who couldn't
manage" for themselves). who
have been the brains of some one
else's success. Men who worked by
who were always ready in times
when some neighbor needed help
that cash can't buy. Did we say for
gotten? While they never got into
the front page news, they are not
forgotten. Many of these men and
women have written on the hearts
of men and women, boys and girls
with the pencil of love. Yea writ
ten deep, so deep that they will no
doubt be remembered much longer
than some of the front liners. All
honor to the man who made his
tory with the mattock and ak, all
honor to the woman who wrote his
OF tcJ,n will lnnJl1
with bread pies and cakes. Many
of these perhaps will not be named
in our story but again we want to
say. all honor. The facts in the
case as we see it are something like
which we feel we can best explain
by a statement of the late Judge
Corner who said "Big men are not
so big when you get close to them. .
IN spite of the fact that we were
born with defective vision. we have
rambled through printed matter
from the Bible down through Bark
er's almanac, to campaign litter"
to such an extent that we feel JUS
titled in quoting without giving
volume and page, as at is not good
for man to live alone" Whether
this writer meant to include women
and meant as is often interpreted
that they should get married, or
whether they should have company,
we haven't had time to study out.
and wouldn't give our diagnosis if
we had What we started to tell
you. most of the folk in Bristol
have married, which we believe we
are safe in saying has been the
cause of so many ptople being born
in the township. But we have been
writing about them and you have
Ten months, and at this time we
want to tell you about some folk
who did not marry. Some of them
were the sweetest, incest most
kindly men and women we have
ever known, and some we guess no
grammatical term is found for in
any of grammars we did not study
so we are compelled to use term
used by educated and iliterate ''The
devil couldn't live with them" not
because they did not marry, because
we find the same ailment gnawing
q the yitals Of some of much mar
rtcd Away back in our childhood
here were two maiden ladies lived
an. and we believed owned the
farm, now owned by ] w Par
niter and occupied by his son
clarence and wife on Emery ridge.
Betsy and Martha Paxton. Later
they moved to Muttonhurg, where
Martha died after which Betsy went
to live with her nephew Frank Pax
ton of near Waterford. and where
her death occurred We remember
their old house stood where Mr..
parmiter later had blacksmith
shop. While they lived there Betsy
one night "dismantled" for bed
and removed her false teeth. When
she arose on the morrow and began
putting herself together, her teeth
had disappeared. When Mr.. Par
miter with some helpers took up
the floor of the old house several
years later, they found the teeth
buried in the dirt under the floor,
where a rat had carried them, good
as new While we have another
list of school teachers which we will
give later, we have few in our
notes here we want to mention at
this time, lest we forget them:
VIM. Parmiter, who was the son of
Ephraim and Eliza Parmiter and a
half brother Of our drummer Jim"
William came back from Kansas
and taught at No 9 He was born on
what has long been known as the