Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1937-02-18
Reinersville

Winter got down to business Sum
spring fever.
The Pennsville basketball team
put the eclipse on the local school
team Friday night by scoring q
points while the locals garnered six.
Richard Wheeler and family who
have been living on the Ethyl Smith
(now the Frank Cox farm) moved
last week to the Harry Lowe farm
in Manchester township.
Forest Hutchins, veteran, went to
Chillicothe last Wednesday, return
ing Thursday, after having been
submitted to physical examination
at the government hospital there.
1t seems that there used to be
thing among men that was called
@sgood Judgment but if there ever
really was such a thing among in
dividuals in the transactions of life
and is yet today. locally or other
wise, somebody ought to try point
ing out more than one Or two spe-
ciflc cases.
The local high school basketball
squad humbled the Forest Grove,
Noble county lads, Monday night, by
the score of SO to 10.
Delmar Hill. who will vacate the
Howard Blackburn farm, near
Woodgrove, this spring, is consider
ing the probability of occupying the
Dale Gilliland farm in Bristol town.
ship.
Roy Swank. state highway Ia
borer-in-charge, will vacate the
Hastings farm at Ohio in favor Of
Lewis Metz, and move to the Miller
Massey farm in Bristol township.
Some of our citizens move from the
east side of a county to the west.
but Mr.. Swank believes that the
better plan is to take the townships
as they come. Sharon to Manches-
ter. Manchester to Bristol.
Charles Elliott, Howard Rex and
Hiram Henderson were at Cleveland
from Sunday until Monday, the pur
pose of their motor trip being an
observation of the stock sales at
that we'll known market
The friends of our general fore
man of work, Omar Ray, regret to
learn Of his recent illness from a
heart attack at his home in Bristol
township, and anticipate and hope
that his recovery may be prompt.
Bad Wreck
A government whisky truck and a
new Plymouth car. driven by Hobart
Smith of McConnelsville, met in q
head-on crash at bend in highway
Is, north of this place, Tuesday
forenoon about 10 o'clock The
. driver of the liquor truck sustained
a broken hand and Mr.. Smith re-
ceived small injury to forehead.
The liquor truck was coming west
toward Reinersville. and Mr.. Smith
was enroute to Caldwell and Barnes
Vile AT this bend in highway IS
there is an intersection Of county
highway leading from the direction
of the V. B. Parks home. This
county road opening straight ahead
to a westward traveller might sug-
gest itself first as the course of rs.
1t is this conclusion that gives a
plausible reason as to why the
truck was steered leftward into the
path of the Hobart Smith car. The
truck was damaged in the right
front wheel and fender, while the
new Plymouth was in bad state of
demolishment, parts strewn about
in great confusion.
The Bobcat Purrs And Stirs On The
BOrderland
Reinersville, Ohio Bobcat fear
along the frontiers of Morgan and
Noble is gaining ground about two
steps at time ahead of the bob
cat. 1t is his streamlined. steam
whistle voice that sends cold chills
undulating down the spine and
numbs the trigger finger of the most
intrepid hunter. 1t is his huge
tracks in abandoned coal mines.
large culverts and in the loose soil
of creek fields that cause their dis
coverers to feel that ''blamed old
attack of heart palpitation" coming
back on them with great gulps. OF
course, it is some of these things
that make other folks say "He amt
no bobcat; he's wolverine or
sumpthin'." Again, it is this dis
agreement among footprint experts