Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1937-03-18
|Gilliland home in Bristol township,

ueT sale OF personal property ant
vacation of the premises.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Hill of Co
lumbus arrived Friday evening ant
visited until Sunday with Postmas
ter and Mrs. S. L. Hill and Mr.. ant
Mrs. w. M. Smith. Mr.. Hill is con
nected with the sanitary engineer
ing department of that city.
j. X. Davis, CCC camp foreman
at Hamilton returned to that poir,
Sunday, after brief visit with his
mother, Mrs. Maggie Davis.
The Columbus Citizen Of March
IL, on a page mostly pictorial un.
der the subject heading: sPeace
Action Seeking 5000 New Mem.
bers," in one of the photographs
presents Miss Jenette Harper, 1872
West Fourth avenue, taking dicta.
tion on the subject of sPeace" from
her employer, c. C. Shively, man
ager of the State Industrial bank
on Gay street. Miss Harper is a
daughter of the late Frank Harper
and Mrs. Hela Dodds Harper, who
were both natives of this locality.
Miss Harper is also cousin of Mr..
and Mrs. Dwight Stephenson.
Doyle Sealock VINO works on a
| farm for Herschel Garrett, near
Summerfield, was at the home of
parents, Mr.. and Mrs J. D. Rode
back over Saturday night.
William Dearnbarger is at pres
ent companion in the home Of
James Morrison, looking after the
latter's care in illness
snow of the season fell here Satur-
day night and Sunday and a state
highway plow cleared road 78 Of
its obstructive presence.
Impersonating in action but with
a violently different objective the
old comic strip character Everett
True, who went about suppressing
pests with strong arm jolts. this
imitator Of True came to town Fri
day night and went to bashing
people on the lip and chin, indis-
criminately. While he did not sue
ceed in flooring his innocent victim.
1t was said he had scored one prev
ious Knockout for the day and an
other victim was gently petting a
tinted proboscis. "Mr. True'' was
to say fortunate that he did not
contact some of the more muscular.
outstanding, rough hewn type of
victim OF which this section has a
tWo-fold greater number than in our
knowledge it has ever heretofore
possessed at one time. What a gem
Grafton Of giant men! And is there
danger in growing them so tall?
And should there be let-up on this
physical training movement? Or is
IT portentous of day-a gloomy
day?
owing to a somewhat general in
disposition among the people. oc-
casioned by colds and other physi-
cal ailments. Rev. L. E. Weaver
closed his meeting at the Reiners-
vile M. p. church, following the
Sunday night services
Scott Brill, of this burg, was one
OF that army Of "ox-shoe" consult
ants called in for expert conference
at Marietta by the Northwest Terri
tory Celebration commission. The
problem OF the use of oxen in the
covered wagon caravan that is to
rumble along from Ipswich, Massa-
chusetts to Marietta over the old
trail in a re-enactment Of the pio.
neer journey to the northwest terri
tory, was found not to be diff
Guilty or miles, but of feet-ox feet.
The old Indian fighting pioneer who
"bull-whacked" his way across the
Alleghenys in conestoga wagon
was not bothered with lame oxen on
a hard-surface road, though he did
have to shoe and re-shoe them with
tWo-plece metal shoes in order for
the unseasoned hoofs of some of
them to stand the long continued
plod along the compact dirt-trails of
that primitive day. AS in the writ
er's time, when ox-teams were much
used for hauling on the public roads
as we'll as on the farms, ox-shoeing
was still a small feature of the coun-
try blacksmith and horseshoeing
trade. though now, perhaps. there
are few living blacksmiths and ex-
who ever did much at
it. Scott Brill, SO, himself an old
blacksmith, as we'll as an old Philip
pine Island warrior, is a son of one
Of those early iron-tradesmen, Ezra
Brill, whose quick flash of hammer
upon red-hOt metal was a signal,
more than once, for our sudden
from the zone of shOwering
sparks which illuminated the inter-
ior of the old shop which occupied
the present court between the old
Fitch building and the lot and land
of the late w. P. Smith. Scott while
an apprentice in the trade of his
father, assisted him in the then
of CT,
than one occasion kept an impatient
OK under discipline with a rope
while his father equipped the Glow
en-footed beast of burden with
'spankin' new pair of shoes. While
the necessity of stocks
by which the uninitiated OK was held
secure for shoeing, his own obser-
vations around his fathers forge,
were of an experienced docile class
Of oxen, who might little more than
impale you on one of their horns.
The kick of an OK has no circum-
scribed limits and is terrible. And |
this is to remind the commission /
that among the thousands of yokes |
Of oxen still extant in the United
States, the dehorned or muly type
VIII HoiuAy Hicdoulc up " Iuo luedI
Of those with the pioneering" rel
ish. The commission has been more
than perplexed by the dozen differ
ant ways suggested by the exper-
fenced and semi-experienced in the
science of shoeing an OK to protect
him from the painful wearing away |
If the hoof as he lumbers forth next |
December 3rd on his long journey. !
By some, the commission was very !
advised that a nail driven |
nto the quick will lame the OK, i