Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1933-08-31

| deaf to the calls thy leaders gave.
In outskirts Of thy kingdom vast,
| Father, the humblest spot give me;
set me the lowest task thou hast;
let me repent and work for thee. "
! 1t will be remembered that the au--
thor of the prayer spent life of
/ usefulness and died after months
Of suffering with cancer.
We are glad that so many of our
readers can read. Sometimes we
feel we should have waited and ac-
cumulated data material and SO on
before we started to write, instead
of writing just as it came; then the
/ fact that We might have died of old
age or fallen out of plane, or
something, before we got the ma
terial gathered, and then we would
have been like the good writer's, and
we don't want to be that way.
In writing of John Whitney,
| father of ex-Auditor John Whitney,
we had what we thought was fair
write up of this man, but today we
find some additional data. John
Whitney was born in Malta, Nov. %,
1924; died at his home in Bristol
township, Jan. 28, 1903. Mr.. Whit
ney lived on the farm where his
death occurred 81 years ago. AS
we remember, Mr.. Whitney was a
poor boy, but through honesty and
integrity he acquired nice COM
potency. The Whitney home was
one place where no one was ever
i turned away empty handed. We re-
member of hearing Mrs. Lenora
! Whitney his last wife tell of a
tramp stopping and asking for
something to eat. Included in the
lunch was bread and butter, Mrs.
Whitney having spread the butter.
When she gave it to him she said
| he took his finger and wiped off
some of the butter; then she asked
Don't you like butter?" He replied
mot so mooch' We tell you this
only to show that they were not
scrimpy even with tramps. One hun
dred acres of the old home farm
belongs to the son John.
We noticed the name Johnson in
connection with the ArgO section.
We took walk to see our encyclo-
pedia of facts, G. P. Roberts. George
David; that he attended his fu-
neral some 81 years ago. Mr.. John
son was a Universalist. He and his
wife whose name G. P. could not
remember, sleep at Mt. Zion. They
had two sons, Dan and Herbert.
They called the latter Hub. He at
one time owned a hardware store
in McConnelsville. Dan was high
toned. Dams wife later married DIR.
Richmond. She will be remember
ed as DR.. Agnes Johnson Richmond.
Our friend George became an Odd
Fellow ga years ago. While he has
not attended meeting in many
years he still remembers the work
as they had it then. If you can
think of someone we have not writ
ten about, tell us.
The last page is written, ready
to copy into the manuscript, but
there is much room between here
and there. While it will soon be
19 months since we started the
Sycamore, there are still many
whose story has not been told, and
will not perhaps be unless you help.
Rev. c. M. Kirk was Methodist
Episcopal minister, and preached
at Mt. Zion when that church was
On the Rural Dale circuit. He is
NV superannuated, and resides in
Barnesville.
The old time whisky jugs that the
pioneers SO proudly took with them
to have reflled when they went to
town, have been sold by the grand
children to the antique dealers.
Harvesting is now done with beer
instead of hard liquor as in our
grandfathers' day. Some of our
better class of citizens don't drink
beer and some of our better class
of citizens drink beer. We are glad
we are writing story of Bristol
folk, not running weighing ma
chine. 1t may be ancient history
or perhaps history of ancient
things, but there is still some of
the hard liquor in some of the
homes of Bristol township. This
liquor was put away to be used in
case of snake bites, and so far as
we can remember no one has been
bitten in Bristol since the United
States went dry, and we presume it
is still there. About all the dan
gerous snakes found here, are the
Some wonderful tales
have been told of blue racers, hiss
ing adders, but very few of them
are found here.
Now that we are nearing the time
of another Morgan county fair, our
mind goes back to our boyhood |
when we went to bed early the night |
before the last day of the fair, even
though we couldn't sleep for fear |
our folks wouldn't awaken in time
so we could get the chores done
ind get an early start The express
wagon father had bought of Jim
Balm was all cleaned up and greas-
I'd. The old cows were rudely
awakened from their slumber, to be
pigs were to feed, and
yrain to be scattered for the fowls.
Breakfast over and the team hitch /
ID, away we went, and even at that
;arly hour folks from Reinersvilfe
md all points east were on the road,
md believe us there were some ex-
iting races; and that makes us