Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1935-02-28

namental trees. Last year we gath
cred our last peaches off the Mil
ler's Late tree on December ninth.
| will send you some of each kind
of lemons in a few days to show you
what 1 am doing these days; they
are kinds which you can not buy
in the market, and are the only
fruit which | have ripening now.
was retired, as you may or may
not know, when l reached sixty
four, in June, 1924, and we came
out here, partly on account of the
climate, but mainly because our son
was living out here. We rented for
awhile, spent about year abroad,
and then built this house and set
tied here in Pasadena. The son and
ner.
When | was division engineer at
Cincinnati, | was constantly plan
ming to make a trip over the Mus
kingum, buJ the demands upon my
time were SO many and the calls to
other parts of my territory were SO
insstent that my intentions never
materialized You know that some
people try to put themselves to sleep
by counting sheep jumping over 2
fence. If l were wakeful during the
night l used to start on the river,
sometimes from GAINESVILLE, some
times from Marietta, occasionally
from an intermediate point like
Luke Chute or Beverly or McCon-
nelsville, and travel up Or down
stream noting every bend and turn
. on the way. 1t beat counting
, imaginary sheep going over an
imaginary fence all to pieces, and
do not believe / ever travelled over
: two pools before falling asleep
again. That was why l would start
my imaginary journey sometimes
from an interior point for | liked
: the whole river SO much that | lik-
ed to see it all Haven't done that
for a long while now, but | kept it
up for many years after leaving the
beautiful little river. | saw Dana
Scott several times when / was sta
toned at New Orleans in 1908 to
1912, and wien | was in Seattle on
trip in 1921 | met a very hand
some and attractive woman who had
been the little Ballou girl whom I
used to see lunning around the rail
road station of that name as | went
up and down on the train, but be
sides those two | have seen no one
in recent years from the Mus
kingum, and had almost no news Of
my friends along the valley.
Please give my best regards to
Mrs. Travis. and I hope that you
will be spared for each other for
many years to come
Thanking you again for your let
ter, you faithful old friend, and
with very fond. wish to you botn
during the New Year, believe me
Yours as always in spite of time
and distance.-Lansing H. Beach.
Upon receiving Mr.. Tayis' reply to
the foregoing letter, under date of
Feb IA, Mr. Beach wrote Mr.. Tray
is as follows
My Dear IfaVlS.-Am denghted
to have the photograph of you
which came with your letter of the
fifth. You are certainly carrying
your years well and not many men
of half your age can show as fine a
head Of hair. You say it is not up
to date, being some eighteen months
behind time but what is year and
a half compared with eighty odd?
Nothing at all. Am hoping that /
may do as we'll.
You spoke of occasionally seeing
Edmund Moeser and wife in Colum-
bus which gave me a very pleasant
surprise for some one told me a few
years ago that he had died a short
while before. Knowing your hab-
its of accuracy [ will gladly accept
your statement as more correct than
that OF my earlier informant. 1t is
difficult to understand how such an
error could have been made. The
last time l saw Moeser was in 1918.
When you see him again tell him
| how glad / am to learn that the
other man who undertook to give