Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1933-02-02
Renrock

Mrs. Nellie (Rex) McIntire, whose
death was noted in the Democrat
last week, was born and grew to
womanhood here on the farm where
the first white man settled in the
opening up of this new country, the
original Ezekiel Dye farm. Not
withstanding the inclement weather,
the funeral was largely attended.
A smoke house on the Hamilton
place, now occupied by Harry and
Fred Shuster, caught fire somehow
and it was not discovered until too
late to save their hard earned sup
ply of meat. Also neighbor, Frank
Brotton had his in there, and all,
including the building was a total
loss.
1t looks like the bicycle is going
to become popular again. 1t should
have never lost out. Many a man
would have been, "under his own
vine and fig-tree," had he stuck to
his bicycle. Even at our youthful
(?) age we'd be riding one now If
it wasn't for the road hog motorists,
and the fact that we can not al
ways be sure of the side of the
wheel we are going to alight from.
Yes, indeed! Ny dear officials of
the Red Cross, if you will just keep
us in -four, and some old clothes
thrown in, We'll try to supply the
gasoline and tobacco.
Why not call a spade spade?
It is very plain to us that there
are lot of people who want beer,
and they're going to have it. Things
are shaping up for it. But, on the
other hand they say, 1--WE don't
want the saloon.'' Guess it's the
name that's causing the nausea. If
beer is to be made and sold, there
must be places where it. can be OBJ
tanned and no matter how beautiful
sounding the name that may be con-
iured up, even it be a gilded drink
ing hall, the name will soon be-
come stigmatized, and so why not
just let it go as it is, and call it a
saloon?
Just recently in we'll known
daily there was a full page cigarette
ad showing almost life size faces Of
boy and girl, each holding cigar
cite and the smoke gracefully curl
ing upward from their filthy lips.
Altogether it was a disgusting spec
tacle. 1t was headed in bold type
saying "You should know the truth
about the cigarettes you smoke -
We most heartily agree that you
should. Willingly, or unwittingly, a
greater truth was never uttered. Ii
every boy or girl did know the
truth, and needed the truth, such an
ad would never appear.
The other night while attending
church and seated not far from the
! piano with our back to the eongre-
cation, we heard strange voice
different, somewhere in the rear
singing, not calling hogs, but rea
singing. Later we discovered thai
Prof. Jerry" Compton, music di
rector at Marion, O., was in the aud
ience. He and his wife Freda, were
visiting relatives in the community
Maybe The Church Could Help Him
A poor deluded fellow came into
church one night who, if it hadn't
been for his head and stomach, and
bottle on his hip, might have
passed for the common run. of hui
manity. But evidently he had emp
tied the contents of the bottle into
his stomach and whatever alcoholic
content it contained went to his
head and this in turn loosened up
his tongue and caused the hatch at
the lower end of his face to fly open.
and that gave the whole thing away,
"a drunken, blatant, dissipated
wreck. We go to church sometimes,
.Ioaded," but we don't carry our
stock of stuff in bottles exposed to
view: we conceal it in what looks
like a suitcase.
Revival services closed here Sun
day night.