Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1936-04-30
Relnersville

shortly for visit with his sister,
Mrs. Emma Tannehill. Mr.. and
Mrs. Harold Hill of Columbus ar
rived Saturday evening for a brief
visit with parents, Postmaster and
Mrs S. l.. Hill, and Mr.. and Mrs.
W. NJ Smith. Mr.. and Mrs. Robert
Schuster mildred Swank) moved
Saturday from the w. H. Allen resi-
dence in Malta to the Shilling farm
near McKendree church, where Mr..
farm labor. The couple formerly
lived here.--Mr. and Mrs. Charles
M. Elliott attended the funeral Mon
day, of Mrs. James Reed (Sevilla
Stevens), burial taking place at
Ark Spring cemetery, Muskingum
county. The deceased was great
aunt of Mrs. Elliott, and was 88.--
Mr.. and Mrs. Dorsel Kincaid, ac-
companied by her sister, Miss Max
inc Wilson, who had spent a fort
night with them at their home in
Mansfield, arrived Sunday after
noon for brief visit with Mr.. and
Mrs. w. w. Wilson, having return
ed Monday.--A number from this
place attended both the obseguies
held at the home, and at the Shar-
on cemetery when a final tribute was
being paid last Sunday to all that
was mortal of the late Hiram Eli
son, near Manchester church, No
BILE county. Besides the wife, the
former Charity Iams, he left two
sons and daughter, Ray, Roy Iams
and Mrs. Bessie Figley. He had at
tained the age of 72 years, three
months and % days Mr.. and Mrs.
George Hall attended the funeral
of Hiram Ellison, Sunday, Mrs. Hall
being relative of the deceased's
wife.--Mrs. Fred Rex of the local
gas station is confined to her apart
ments with bronchial asthma, and
has not been able to leave her bed
for several days.--A paper stated
that Walter r. Davis, president of
the young Republican club, presided
at the GAINESVILLE rally, Saturday
night, when Robert A. Taft spoke.
Davis is the son of Mr.. and Mrs.
John R. Davis of Manchester town.
ship.--Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Rohr-
baugh received word Saturday that
their daughter-in-law, Mrs. Orin
Rohrbaugh had died at her home in
Akron on the previous day from
contracted following ex-
traction of teeth, and would be bur-
led there Sunday.--A roadside sign
can have a double meaning. One
in Village reads Turn Left"
1t hasn't happened lately, but the
"Turn" has been Left" by a num-
Der of cars in the past. To Mr.. and
Mrs. Ray Ellison of Sharon town
ship, Noble county, the scepter of
death fell upon relatives near and
dear to them with sad and close
repetition, when on Wednesday,
April %, they witnessed the laying
away Of their grandfather, J. M.
Hastings, and then on the succeed
ing day were shocked by the sudden
death of his father, Hiram Ellison,
at his home near Manchester church,
in Noble county.
Mrs. Margaret Combs Afflicted
Mrs. Margaret Combs, 7S year old
resident of the village, and widow
of the late H. G. Combs. suffered
from heart attack last Friday even
ing, and when a neighbor, Mrs. vi
ola Grandstaff, called informally at
her home, she found her seated in 2.
chair and scarcely conscious.
she showed some immediate
her condition is not
very satisfactory.
Mumps Plays Role OF "Jinx"
The mumps proved "jinx" to
the unbroken school attendance rec
ord of little Miss Muriel Brownrigg.
who had not missed day in seven
years, at the local academy.
Plowing-With A DEPRESSION To
The Plow And How It's "Beam'
Shines On Through Time
Riding through the hinterland
that stretches in narrow ridges from
the Meigs creek valleys on the Nor
gan-west to the Olive Green val
leys on the Noble-east, the amount
of acres that have been turned over
for planting and sowing to crops is
large, considering the
weather adversities of the season.
Gripping the handles Of that old
tool, whose origin and utility dates
back to the ancient Egyptians, the
diligent farmers have diffused over
hills and valleys, here and there,
Wavy, glistening patches of dark
alluvial. Among all the progress
that has been made in farm ma
chinery in this hill country, the
breaking plow that our fathers
knew by touch and we by sight. still
retains modernness and usefulness
that commands the grateful en-
dorsement of the times in which we
now live. The modern plow is said
to have had it's origin in Holland
and Flanders hundreds of years
ago and wishing to dig more deep
ly into the antiquity of the plow we
might find where the Israelites went
down to the Phillistines "to sharp
en- every man his share and his colt
ers and his AK and his mattock," but
this evidence is not needed to con-
vince the observer that it has a long
pedigree as major farm impIe-
ment and has been held in pretty
high respect by ancient sod-busters
throughout the ages and even yet
remains about as indispensable as
the horse that pulls it. Something
of the local influence of the plow
upon this section, aside from it's
natural prerogatives of turning over
dirt and smashing a rib, might be
added by stating that it's manufac-
ture made the greatest industrial
enterprise Of Morgan county-the
Brown-Manly Plow company of NAL
ia. To fisherfolk who wander in
and frequent the banks of Meigs-
creek near unionville, it may be
that the place does not now breathe
much industry. There is little there
now perhaps to remind one that the
sleepy little village once hummed
with the activity of the nroganifnrs