Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1934-06-07
The Morgan County Thursday

.stramping the toes,'' of her family,
by something we had said. So there
YOU are again We do wish for once
and all time, that folks would get
it into their heads that the CHAR
! acters that enter into our stories
! and illustrations are persons who
occupied the stage of action, played
! the game of life," long years ago,
and are unknown to the most of the
people now. We don't have to use
your "Tom, Dick and Harry of to-
dav. We saw drunkenness and all
kinds of deviltry following in the
F., wake of the Civil war, before we
were old enough to now what it
! meant We have numerous exam
pies of cussedness, enough to make
a book, and the actors are all dead
and mouldering in their graves, but
when we resurrect them in our
mind for example, somebody pops
I'D and thinks we mean them The
fact is, they just happen to get III
the way, and "the shoe fits If
YOU don't want to get run over, stay
out of the way.
Farmers have always been skin
ned that is our safe bet, and some
times they skin as we'll as to get
skinned Even as far back as the
days of the patriarchs, Jacob ana
his father-in-law Laban, had it tit
for tat, one trying to get the better
OF the other But what we started
to say was that now while the
sheep-shearing season will soon
end. and the buyers will be out for
wool we recall the days when the
sheep were washed before shearing
: time. And we might just add, in
this connection. that if ever man
felt justifiable in taking a snort, Z
: of something stronger than three
and two tenths, it was while wash
ing sheep. But the wool buyers who
came around look at your fleeces OF
wool. "washed or unwashed?' Woe
: unto you. Mr.. Farmer, if your wool
? was unwashed how they would dock
YOU. 1t was a great come-off and 1t
7 was worked many years.
Taking the Last Advantage
We were tinkering around in the
church cemetery recently Just pc
fore Memorial day, and we decided
that what we needed was an old
fashioned fire and birthstone hell
| that is. if anybody thinks tlat such
3 place does not exist what we
"bIowed up'' over was that we We're
$ trying to read an inscription on a
g tombstone and it was SO illegible
e that we couldn't make it out. tt a
7 we happened to think Of another
4 person who died about the same
! time. SO we went TO that grave tc
0 Get a clue and we observed that
e part Of the inscription on that mon
K ument was not as clear as it should
I be. Mark you. these tombstones
y have not been up 40 years. The
! fact is, this ground, at that time
| was q briar patch. What is d tomb
G stone for anyway but to show who is
e buried there, when born, and Wher
they departed this life? What ac
# count is it if it doesn't record any
t thing? Mind you, this stone is O
9 granite perhaps as durable as any
i bat what a job of lettering. O
course we know who is burie(
II there. but how about the next gen
, Grafton, or even a stranger looking
e through the cemetery today? Il wa
i the last kind act Of remembrance
q Il g1,-IJ 10 Hie ne
It parted wife, and we know that
y took hard earned money 10 put this
g. memorial there. and then to thin}
l, ne must be stung by some unscrup
3 ulous artisan. when a job Of en-
II craving should last for ages, or I'm
d til the stone itself begins to dis
J. iatpgrate and crumble to dust Yes
- that hot, sizzling, gaseous smelling
region that some Of the old TIM
n preachers used to lead us UP to il
s. vivid pictures and even hav
ii us peer over the brink, is surel,
N needed.
'e Tie Noble County Pomona grang
met here Saturday, June ?. Judg
p ing by the attendance, we presum
'e that this was a fair Representative
'e meeting. Aside from an interestin
d. literary program, conducted by j
le Lynn Reed, lecturer, the time wa
{ all taken up in the discussion 0
various subjects vital to every rura
community in the county Yes, an,
1 thinks to Madison lines who wa
1 present. He told us Eve who wer
1 possessed of less than mustard
L. seed faith) that it would rain be
! fore Monday, and it did.
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