Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1936-08-06

Roy C.e~Fox and family OF the
Licking View section of GAINESVILLE
were casual visitors in the village
Sunday. Mr. Fox is in the ice busi-
ness. He and family formerly re-
sided here in. the Harry GrandstaH
property and while here he served
as regular carrier on the Reiners-
Vile r. F. d. route, leaving here i'll
May, 1920. d
Mrs. Lola Tedrow Of the Atchison
section of Kansas, a daughter of the
late James w. Lyle, of Center town
present visiting acquaintances in her
old home community near Cross
Roads church in Center township.
She reports the personal and season.
al loss of a wheat crop on her Kan
sas farm, of over 100 acres, by rea-
son of disastrous storm of hail
and wind.
Among familiar school faces:
Harry Cannon and wife of Crooks
Vile are guests of her parents, Mr..
and Mrs G. C. Mahoney. Mr.. Gan
non has a renewed contract as
principal in the schools at Crooks
Vile; Herman Foster, who with fam
lily now resides at Mt. Perry, Perry
county, has been employed to teach
the Olive school in that county
Curtis Clark will be at Hackney
Hugh Mahouey will again teach at
Centerville. Dwight Stephenson
will teach at Early ridge in Center
township. Herman Welch will be
located at Sharon. The corps Of To-
cal high school teachers includes
principal, w. P. Haskins, Max
Bunce, Mary Kupir and Gerald An
derson The local grade school
teachers are Russell Demster and
Margaret De Long. Ethan Hall will
be at BristoIs new edifice. The lo-
cal board met Monday night.
Charles Hutchins and grand
daughter Miss Joy Hutchins are
visiting Mr.. and Mrs. Hills Collins
at GAINESVILLE this week.
A short time ago, about 40 OF
Herman Hills chickens left their
"happy home.' We understand that
chickens never swarm like bees and
their going away has not yet been
accounted for. And another thing,
/ they left in the night.
While great volumes of "hot air.
may be turned loose, the writer has
never Joined in the opinion that this
/ is going to be hot" political cam
paign, nationally. 1t takes much ar
gument among the voters to make
real heat"
A ramble last Friday along the
| frontier of Noble county took US be-
hind the lines of that county's road
advancement, to meet that OF Nor
gan. Here tractor and grader had
been in fierce conflict with the stony
pass that bends around the bluff that
stands between the Haines or Adud-
die bridge, ard the short wooden
bridge at the Shuster or Wiley place
A broken grader tongue told us why
that piece of machinery was silent
inactive, while quite a ways along 6
boulder-strewn grade at the farther
end of the Aduddle bridge, the trac
tor and rotary scraper were heap
ing the dirt at it's eastern approach
Speaking of road grading here was
a project in which all imaginable OBJ
stacles were seemingly combined bu
which was being made to yield
though against somewhat stubborn
resistance, to the mechanical pow
ers of the modern road building art
Outcropping from this partially fin
ished pass is continuous forma
tion of limestone. Throughout the
entire distance, bridge to bridge
the grader had torn away, some
what Intellectually at times, at / thu
face of the limestone which if strip
ped, drilled and dynamited from
abutting bank would surface all the
roadway by which the bank is skirt
ed.