Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1937-08-19

cemetery. Rev. L. j. Weaver, the
present M. P. minister on this charge
and who moved here with his family
into the parsonage about Sept. 20,
1895, resigned the ministry here
and ere this is in print will prob
ably be located on a little farm near
Middleburg, Logan county, west of
Columbus. A son, Harold. is locat-
ed at Middleburg. At Mechanics.
burg reside daughter, Hazel (Mrs.
Richard Welch) and a son, Earl.
Another daughter, Miss Edith. is
employed at domestic work in Day
ton. Four children, the Misses
Mary, Ruth, Gladys and a son
Charles, go with their parents to
Middleburg. The removal of this
very much esteemed family occas-
ions the regrets of all who were in
timately associated with them. The
difficulty of rearing SO large fam
lily on limited income was perhaps
the major inducement for his decis-
ion to withdraw from the work. He
supplemented his earnings as min
lister with earnings from physical
labor but anyone unpreiudiced and
familiar with actual rural conditions
knows of the necessarily prevailing
limitation of income from casual
employment in country District
Under a law effective last Friday,
motorists are. expected to SLOW
down to go" by the clock when
passing our school house if pupils
are at play or entering or leaving
the grounds. Hubert Rex, who has
been home from Weidman, Mich,
where during employment he sus
tanned leg fracture, expected to re :
turn yesterday "wednesday to tho
Mt Pleasant hospital, where he ful
ly expects that the cast will be re-
moved from the injured limb. In
the event that the injury is mending
satisfactorily he anticipates immed-
lately returning and remaining with
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Earl Rex of
Millgrove, until such time as his re-
covery from the injury warrants a
return to his work at Weidman.
Hubert thinks it would take all of
both Reinersville and Woodgrove to
make a Chicago, but if he will stop
to think there is just one '.cog" il
Chicago and we think he might find
even more than that of "loose ones"
in the twin villages.--T Misses
Geneva Elliott and Josephine Gar
vim left last Friday for Washington
Iowa, where they will visit Mr.. and
Mrs. Harry Dye. Mr.. and Mrs. Dye
anticipate an immediate visit d
Ohio, and the two ladies will return
with them Mr.. and Mrs. Jesse
Grandstaff of Coshocton visited his
mother, Mrs. Viola Grandstaff, and
his brother, Harry, and family, Sun
day. Whooping cough or something
three whoops this side of it, has
its appearance here among the lit
tie tots Some of your kin-folks are
likely to drop in on you any time a.
this season and you may have to
open a can of berries or something.
Now, there's Cousin Emma of Wheel
ing, she has written that she Will
come 'troupin' in with all her folks
next Tuesday night and wants to
hang her hat on peg at the school
house and some "radio fans" say
she's the berries herself. Folks.
meet eAunt Emma'-"Aunt EN-
ma" hang up your bonnet and shake
hands with the folks of Reinersville
and suburban centers like String
town and Briggleburg. Yes, over
there and then over here, you viii
meet in these seats the good folks
from onion run, Bald Knob, Eight
Square, Cross Roads, Seelysville,
Green, Horse run. Sugar Tree,
ridge, Owl Hollow, Crooked Tree,
Windy Hill, Wildcat Rocks, Early
ridge, Slabtown, and maybe, some
from Muttonburg. Almost in the
shadow of the church, which she at
tended in her youth, Miss Margaret
Hastings, 6S, was laid to rest, Sum
day in the family burial plot with
in Cross Roads cemetery. southwest
of this place on route 76. Attaching
some measure of sublime interest To
the final rites over deceased, who
passed away at GAINESVILLE hos
pital, August 13, was the near scene
of the farm upon which she was
born and an early home where she
had romped and played as a little
girl and enjoyed youthfulness there
in the intervening years, up to
more than 40 years ago when her
father, Walter Hastings, suddenly
expired and the family shortly mov-
ed away.
Death of Lawrence Shields
Late in the evening of last Fri
day, August 13, the body Of Law
renee Shields, aged IS, was found
PROSTATE in death near the cistern
at the Charles Lambert barn,
short distance from the Lambert
residence The deceased, constitu-
tionally feeble of body, was known
by his physician to have been in
serious state from heart ailment, in
days Immediately preceding his
death. The deceased had been a
regular member of the Lambert
household for about one year. The
discovery of the deceased's death
was made by Franklin Lambert,
aged 19, after returning from the
field where he had been milking the
COWS as the evening shadows were
lengthening into darkness. Data
concerning his life has not been
available here, but our individual
knowledge of the deceased dates to
his residence in Sharon township,
Noble county, where no doubt lie
was born, his mother being Eliza
beth Shields. The Shields home
stead was located on the Sharon
Reinersville road between Forest
Grove and Sharon. Since the oc-
currence of his marriage to Flora
Mousely, from whom he was separ-
ated by death, April 6, 1888, he had
been a regular resident of Morgan
county, living alternatingly at Rein.
Woodgrove, Meigs and
Hackney. He had large acquaint-