Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1937-04-22
Morgan County MConnsv Thursday April

what's in their blood. Households
where there are children, have been
all but broken up Of culinary uten-
sils Copper is squirting" too, but
| not in the least as it did back in
those ''still' days. There's differ
ence in the "spurt." But prices
have tumbled, they say, and which
all probably came about through
certain observations of dove how
ering briefly over Europe.
j. T. Murphy Stricken
]. Thomas Murphy, 64, suffered
paralytic stroke while drinking I
bottle of pop in the George Hal
general store here, Friday afternoon
about 4:3O. The affected region of
his body was the left side, head,
arm and leg. He was removed to
his home, where he is tenant on
the Mrs. Blanche Mclaughlin farm.
His condition Monday, was said to
show little improvement. Mr. Muir
phys general health had been poor
the past winter, and it's improve
ment was the most advanced on the
day he was stricken with the in
sidious affliction That day he had
assisted neighbors in the repair of
a party rural telephone line. Aside
from his occupation as farmer, Mr..
Murphy is one of the board of Man
chester township trustees and has
been an extremely faithful servant
of the people.
Visiting: Mr. and Mrs. VIM Cain
of ho uicif Cnn
day, Mr.. and Mrs James Scott and
children of Woodgrove; Mr.. and
Mrs. A. B. Dovenbarger and chill
dren of Reinersville, and Mr. and
Mrs. A. r. Stewart of Olive Green.
Mr. and Mrs George Collins and
daughter, Carol Sue, visited over
the latter part of last week at the
Harry Collins home, near Rich Val
ley.
Reading the description of a
dirigible cross-ocean trip we learned
that the passengers "listened to the
piano in the lounge and drank cham
pagne." 1t would not be hard for
some of the old people of our boy
hood days to understand that last
arm-bending maneuver but to par
ents then, a lounge was lounge in
the best room, and to. put a piano in
it," we'll that to them would be a
poser.
Delbert Hutchins, Herschel and
Victor Mclaughlin, Harold Lamb,
and Doyle Hutchins, left Sunday for
Cutler to cut timber. When the in
vention of Kirk Knight of Bartlett,
Texas, gets going this will fold up
the lumberjacks. 1t is steel cutting
jaws attached to tractor. Knight
got his idea from cutting matches
with scissors. The machine cuts two
trees a minute, doing the work OF
200 wood choppers. Instead Of
"woodman spare that tree" it IS
now machine spare that woodman.'
The play greeted with well-fill-
ed auditorium, Saturday night and
entitled "Bashful Bob" was pre-
sented by the following cast of jun
ior highs: Robert Downing, Walter |
Workman; Jim Bradley, Album Pry-
or; Harry Collins, (not our Harry |!
Wayne Rex; Jerry Roebuck, Frank
lin Lambert; Helen Norwood, Eunice
Joan Sanford, Helen Baker;
Anne Hawkins, Muriel Hill; Mrs.
Edith Weaver; Miss Odes- :,
sa, Beulah McGrath; Madam Du
Pont, Eva Ponchak; Judson, Ber-
nard Apperson; Louise, Myrtle
Mincks.
Mrs. VIM. Gorrell Dies
The wife of William Gorrell, and
beyond the ree-score-and-ten,"
passed away at her home, near Den
yer, Colorado, over two weeks ago.
She was a sister-in-law of Mrs. Mary
F. Haines of this place, and
laughter of the late Luther Adud-
lie, whose name is still associated
With the farm now occupied by Har-
I'D Haines, just over the line in No
Die county.
The parting knell of school days
It Early Ridge was rung Thursday,
oday. as Dwight Stephenson, teach
,r, adjourned it's pupils for the reg
llation summer period. Each year
he knell is being sounded with a
inality to more and more of the
,ne-room rural schools, whose Sc
'urity as an Independent institution
s faced with the exterminating in
luence of good roads. This year
will see Early Ridge road paved and
+ the school can then preserve it's
entity against the ravages Of cen
ralization it will have few prec-
sdents. Capitalization seems the
,nly way through now, but it has
'uined the poetic story of Mary and
Ter little sheep, making it too un-
'eal to the modern pupil. In few
vears, no second-grader will believe
hat lamb could ever have follow
ID Mary to school, unless he was /
lauled in a trailer.
Mrs. Emma Tannehill has CEN
ury-old hymn book of 697 hymns,
he lids of the book being two inch
IS by three and half, and it's thick
less one inch.
A recent postal from our friend
Ind a former teacher here, e. w.
House, bore the inscription, Carlton,
Oregon, and on the reverse side was
| sunset scene of Crater lake, with
he information that it was the high
,st body of water existing. Water is
lot high here yet, but if it follows
he trend, look out!
Festival Tonight
The Manchester schools present a
music festival tonight, in the hign
chool auditorium, at s o'clock. Ad-