Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1937-11-11
Reinersville

ReinerSVille
The Oldest voter to step into a
| Manchester township booth. Nov. 9
was j. Dallas Rex, 80.
/ Wayne, son of Earl Rex of Wood.
grove, is now at home and may re-
enter high school.
The car of Miss Alice Gorrell,
school teacher, and the truck Of
Harold Montgomery, coal-mine on
orator, collided Monday morning on
highway 78, at the bend in the road
near what is best known as the
Massey farm Miss GorrelI sus-
tained injuries, though not serious,
| and her car was almost a complete
wreck. Her escape was miraculous
Rev. and Mrs. Ivan Alberry (for-
merly Miss Esther Perdue of Dea-
shall county, Kansas, were guests of
Mr.. and Mrs. j. c.. Hutchins, near
this place, Wednesday, the 3rd.
Miss Olive Tannehill, a Columbus
attorney, and secretary in the gov
| ernor's office, was here Sunday, and
was accompanied back by her aunt,
| Mrs. Emma Tannehill, who will vis-
| Howard Ketcham and Miss Helen
Tannehill, for an indefinite period.
What has become Of the old la
dies, like our own old "Aunt Sarah !"
| whose wrinkled fingers wove us a
watch-chain from hairs of a horses S
tail?
Information from the Rev. L. E.
here to Middleburg, is to the effect
! that they are happy in their new To-
| cation. However, Mr.. Weaver has
reasons to speak critically of the
hospitality shown by Logan county
, CANNES. as he has been dog bitten
twice since moving there
Quoting. somebody: If everybody
minded their own business there
would still be too many unemploy-
ed.
Kind and sympathetic neighbors
and friends to the number of IS
gathered on the farm occupied by
the late Everett Combs, Wednes-
day, Nov. 8, and there for his wild.
| ow. Mrs. Bessie Combs, husked and
cribbed approximately 600 bushels
of corn, the task being completed at
about p. m. Mrs. Combs and fam
| lily feel very grateful to all who
manifested such sympathy and in :
terest.
Some farm folks have a more or
less natural antipathy about living
in small village because they have
the t1me-worn false idea that every
body in the village sees you every
day and know as much about your
affairs as you do yourself. This
was always false accusation. but
1t is much more disproved in this
day of fast-going. AS an example.
lady from across the street called
at the home Of an alone-living wild.
ow residing not more than 100 feet
away on Tuesday morning and found
NJ ni itrh hn,
widow lady had been in Columbus
since Sunday. Such is life in a large
"city' of tree~canopied streets and
'tin canopied" alleys; where the
quail calls to her brood and the man
quails to his brood, and it is a good
place to retire-when you have
nunctured one of your old ones
country village gives more to life
than 1T takes away from the aver
age farmers existence
Some OF our citizens who missed
the coronation in London thought
they were going to see a crowning
here the other day
Rev. Glen People filed his regu-
lar engagement as pastor of the M.
+. church here, Sunday evening.
Friends and neighbors of Thomas
Murphy, plan to husk and crib his
crop of corn tomorrow (Friday( f
the weather permits Mr.. Murphy
is a ''shut-in'' with paralysis.
Who remembers when the biggest
and most charming strutter on the
streets OF Otho was a peafowl, own
ed by the Cannon family? If YOU
do, your years are more than 40.
Did the pea fowl succumb to over
pride because of his gorgeous tail
feathers, or did humanity stop ad-
mlring him? Anyhow, We haven't
seen any of his kind, out this way,
since that one decorated the en-
trance to Otho.
We have lived to see the bicycle
the return of the ladies in bustles.
who screamed into fit when one of
those high-wheelers whizzed past
with the mustache of the cyclist
brushing their faces and jostling
their cal. rings. o, gosh, what reck.
less speed-what Indifference to the
safety of pedestrians! What-O
with such things in the hands Of
fool-hardy young men. Thus while
CUR mind is bothered with wheels
(some not meshing) we will stumble
back through the years to the "Gay
Ninety's" and again vision a "high.
wheeler" owned and propelled about
by Emerson Hiatt, then a good siz-
gu idu, llfluS Will MISS Nancy Ell
dy. 1t was a gigantic masterpiece
of high-wheeled efficiency. So eff.
cient, it was, at catapulating it's
rider into the stratosphere that Of
ten cyclist might accomplish two
complete revolutions before settling
back to earth. At crossing of
Main street in front of the DR.. Cul-
yer office, a formidable barrier had
been built up by constant disposal
of ashes which somehow benefited
the pedestrian at risk to the necks
OF vehicle travellers. People then
did not, as now, have such a su-
perior regard for the fellow aNheel
over the fellow afoot Fast riding
or fast driving was, if anything, an
tagonized and discouraged by the
best citizens. So when the speed.
craZed Emerson came along, with,
his sock dollaged high-wheeled mas
terpiece of the creative genius of
the 18th century, he was pioneering
in transportation way in advance of
the times. But, in fact, after one
day he came along and hit that bar
rier OF ashes, competent judges
agreed that Emerson was at least
10 feet further in advance of the
wheel than he was the times While
this would show that the climb OF
man in a vehicular way has ever
been upward, until the return of the
bicycle, it would also show that
there was not much climbing done
from the high-wheelers--it was an