Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1937-08-26
Morgan County Thursday August

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his mother, Mrs. Sadie Stephenson
to whom death ensued; and Sunday
afternoon, the son and wife attended
the final obsequies at Malta cemc-
|tery.
Atty Bell Touring Europe
Mr. and Mrs. Emmett Bell emma
Walker) of near this village have re-
ceived word that their brother, Atty
Albert III. Bell of Tulsa. Okla, is
now on tour of Europe and per-
haps at this very time is admiring
the quaint and historic splendors of
the British Isles. Atty Bell, a
schoolmate and friend loops up in
digious examples of our time and
place of a marked success coming to
one whose earliest environment and
| opportunities were in such natural
contradiction to the alert profession
al and financial life which he enter
ed upon with SO much success in the
| Oklahoma city of Tulsa. Reared In
a humble, but honest and congenial
home amid the most backward of
community surroundings and him.
| self shy almost to the point OF
timidity and with only such limited
funds at his disposal as he could
save from teaching school, he
launched his brains and fortune into
the whirlpool of Oklahoma profess
sional and financial life and against
the keenest of legal rivalry. Those
| of his boyhood and those who long
ago learned of his meteoric rise to
financial success will be interested
in his European itinerary. He left
New York July 81; arrived at
Naples, Aug. Z Aug 8, sightseeing
around Naples; the 9th and 10th, in
Rome; in Florence on the 11th; in
Venice on the 18th and 18th; on the
14th in Milan; the 18th at Italian
Lakes, and at the Alpine Passes, the
10th; at Interlaken, the 18th; the
18th at Lueerne; then spent four
days in Paris; then his trip took him
to the British Isles, where he ex-
pected to spend 13 days. He will go
from London to the north end of
Scotland, back down to Glasgow and
the Robert Burns country; then to
Dublin; then to Belfast, where he
expects to take passage on the Eng
lish ship Duchess of Belfast land
ing at Montreal and returning 10
Tulsa about September 49, His sis
ter, Mrs. Walter Long, also of Okla
homa said she had previously given
Atty Bell information from rs
year old Irish letter in her posses
sion and she hoped that he would be
able while on his trip to locate some
of descendants of Jane Smith, their
Grandfather Conn's sister, whom
they left in Ireland when the Conns
came to America. Descendants of
the Manchester-Center township
Conn family will be interested to
tunity while abroad to make the
search of family records.
From A Scottish Lassie Not Brown
With The Sun
The contents of personal letters
do not ordinarily qualify with suffi-
cient interest to cause copying for
publication, but the style in express
sion of little Scotch maiden writ
ing to Miss Violet, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Herman Foster Urma Ma
honey and the little side-lights her
missive gives of Scotland seems to
us to compensate with its novelty.
Following, with few deletions, is the
letter which came over seas, post
marked Aberdeen, and signed "Bet-
ty:" wooden Croft, Kemnay,
Mon, 9th Aug. Dear Violet: l was
very, very pleased to receive your
nice letter. We have not got long
holidays now-only to the 25th of
August. When does your school open
again? My school is for girls and
boys both. Our motto in English is,
Learn to Live" what is yours? My
home is situated not far from the
river Don which flows into the North
Sea at Aberdeen, where I am stay
ing just now. The L. N. f. r. (Lon-
don & North Eastern Railway runs
nearby. The main street in the vii
lage, is made of tar macadam. The
main road has got a foundation of
"chuckies" as we Scotch people call
them. They are just big stones brok
en- down into little ones. The ordi-
nary roads are just stone mettled.
We have not got the All clubs ove-
here, but we have Boy Scouts and
Girl Guides. am not Joined the
Girl Guards, though I would very
much like to be. There are also
clubs called the Brownies for little
girls and Cubs and Sea Cadets for
little boys Then there is Boys
Brigade for boys of all ages and
the Girls Guildery for girls of all
ages as well and lastly the Scottish
Girls Friendly Society, in connec-
ton with the church, for girls of al.
ages. Do you have pictures over
there? We have. I went and saw
"Elepharet Boy" an excellent pic
ture, but just rather sad for me.
am not brown with the sun although
I have been running about with short
sleeves and ankle socks. Well, Vio-
let think l shall draw to a close.
Hope this letter finds you WE'LL
Your Scotch Pal, Betty"
Antiquarians Search A Silent City
A Chronicle OF Other Facts OF
An Earlier Reinersville
Harold Chamblin, Dow Haines and
the writer, for a few minutes SUN
day, became antiquarians, seeking
to corroborate the alleged discovery
of a tombstone in the Reinersville
cemetery which seemed to bear the
ancient date of 1911. BY secret
process, Mr. Chamblin satisfactorily
disclosed that the date was 1914. 1t
was the verdict of Messrs. Haines
and Chamblin that the Oldest legible
inscription on any tombstone to be
found in this cemetery reads main
ly as follows: "Rachel, daughter of
T and mr. Nichols died Oct 20,