Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1937-12-23
RelnerSvilIe

Imparting a recognition of the re-
spectful spirit which should prevail
at this Christmas season, program
will be given at the M. p. church,
| Friday evening.
From here and from Hackney,
ket Saturday, where they will be
made into 1900 drum sticks" put
! into action 600 carving knives and
soil as many stiff bosomed shirt
4 fronts Perhaps two thirds or moro
/ of this number of the fowls were
/ collected here by George Hall, a To-
cal merchant dealer.
| Only 40 days more until Ground
! hog day.
Mrs. Sarah Brown of Olive Green
returned to her home Sunday after
noon, after a two weeks visit with
Mrs. Emma Tannehill
Mrs. Rachel J. Smith tripped on
the edge of a linoleum floor~rug at
her home here about two weeks ago
chair, broke her eye glasses and
caused a painful injury.
The local school basketeers scored
another hairbreadth win last Fri
day night, snap shot of their vic
tory over Deavertown, taken on the
home floor and presented herewith
may be seen by holding this to the
the figures 1920. Close-tussles
make the game.
Rev. Glen Peoples of Pleasant
City, preached at the M. P. churcn
Sunday night and an announcement
was made of series of meetings
which will begin here next Sunday
night
Upon the honor roll of the high
school for the second six weeks or
the term are inscribed the following
names: Viva Hall. Louine Wiley,
Raymond Garris, Bernice Combs,
Newman Kincaid, Doris Haines,
Estyl Scott, Bernard Combs, Walter
Workman, Janot Hutchins, Mary
Waite, Dorothy Thompson, Eunice
Welch, Dorothy Haskins and Dor
tha Reed.
Paraphrasing the stock-words of
late humorist writer ''about all we
know is what we see in the sky"
The past two thirds of December
has brought us rain, snow, little
sleet and zero Lows, above zero,
like 5-5 and ran for three morn
about 2 u inches deep fell on the
5th; a tiny amount on the 9Th and
7th, little more than that on the
Sth, a tiny amount on the 18th
and by the evening of the 18th,
about all evidences of the late snow,
anywhere, had vanished. The en-
tire precipitation of snow up to the
Goth, here amounted to about .35 OF
an inch. Rain came on the 18th.
10th, 18th and 18th with total
rainfall here of 2.07 inches. These
rains did not generally swell Dyes
Fork of Meigs creek and Little Oh
i've Green creeks to bank full. but
along Dyes Fork it foated ashore
at Woodgrove cakes of ice eight
inches thick and below Otho created
gorges of it that spread an obstruc.
between Ohio and Vernon Crisman's,
that interfered with traffic.
Monday, Mrs. Sarah Conger OF
Woodgrove was confined to her bed
with severe cold and was threat
ened with pneumonia.
The recent death of Mrs. jose
phine Needs, rs, of Caldwell, revived
memories here of her husband, the
late Allan Needs, who died in 1908.
around asn T1IeS the year war 1900 associated
with Frank Haines and his father
In the ownership of grain ~thresh-
ing outfit and in that way and in
those years became generally known
throughout this section.
To his numerous boyhOod ac-
quaintances and older neighbOrs Of
his youth as well as to relatives,
the death Of Guy Garrett, at his
home in a suburb Of San Francisco,
came as very sad bit OF news to
this community. We do not have
at hand any definite facts Of his life
history other than as our memory
serves, and presuming that the edi-
tor may have something more ac-
curate, we forego further mention
ing at this time.