Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1937-09-23


period with his parents here. Mr..
Hill is an ardent huntsman and
nothing in the way of sport quite
comes up to his estimation OF day
in the woods with gun. But this
year he was Indifferent about wheth-
er his vacation period and the open
season for squirrels jived or not
The influence is plain--"no squlr-
rels." CD About all the bark one
woods now is from the trunks OF
trees or what hangs loosely. from
the shins upon return, according TO
observers. And this is all in spite
of the fact that every hunter or
veracity confesses he left squirrels
in the woods last year. About the
25th somebody will deputize him
self to see what has happened TO
''Bush-tail" Some think he has
been exterminated by predatory AM
mails; some think he has gone to
West Virginia to visit relatives, and
will be back at sunrise, but any
how, according to observers, the
place where he was, he now is not.
The county and the WPA have
been constructing, re-constructlng
and grading roads in Manchester,
Center and Meigsville township so
fast that we have not been able to
keep pace Will ueVeloPIioHeo.
Early ridge road and the w. M.
Smith road connecting with Noble
county, are in the completed class,
as we'll as the resurfaced Cloyd
Harper road. Partially completed
with half-width deposit of stone
clear through is the Paul Smith
road construction in Center town
ship, leading to Centerville and
partially completed is the resurfac-
ing of the Combs road in Center.
down Little Olive Green valley
Most of these roads, if not all, were
graded or received grader re-
touch from manipulations OF the
machinery by Matheney and Hill
This grading crew also retouched
road in northern Manchester, now
awaiting stone, besides performing
the duties of re-touching and con-
structing roads in Meigsville town
ship, the beginning and end thereof,
we knoweth not
BENJAMIN Brown, of Pasadena.
Calf, and daughter, Mrs. G. d.
Grawburg of Ontario, Calf, arriv-
ed here at the home of his sister.
Mrs. Emma Tannehill Wednesday,
Sept. Is. The arrival of the father
and daughter, with the presence al
ready of Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph
Brown, of Washington state, as
guests in the same home, unites un-
der the roof-tree of Mrs. Emma Tan
nehill. the two brothers and the sis
ter, all that now remain of fam
lily of nine children born to Mr.. and
Mrs. John Brown on the farm now
owned by J. Merida Hill, just over
the line in Noble county. This
Brown homestead of less than a
half century ago was the birthplace
of Mrs. G. e. Grawburg, which she
left at the age of two and one-s1xth
years, when her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs Benjamin Brown moved west.
Last week, after As years, she went
and viewed for the first time, the
cradle-spot of her childhood, and
with her father at her side, gazed
with an adult mind upon the actual
scene, and lived in the imagery OF
things her own mind had been too
youthful and innocent to record.
This farm, aside from being the ear
ly stomping ground of the Brown
family is unique in it's topography.
This has given to it the publicity
that came from its natural posses
sion of one of the highest knobs in
this section of the state. This ele-
walton which derived it's name from
it's ownership by this family, bears
the name Of Browns Knob, and ac-
cording to U. S. topographic survey
is 1,150 feet high. The reunion OF
these brothers and their sister at
this time, which brings together
BENJAMIN, aged 10, Joseph, aged
rs, and Mrs. Emma Tannehill, aged
"a, is an impressive occasion for
them in view ofsthe fact that the
brothers are again soon to start on
the long trek back to their homes
on the western edge of the conti-
nent. And, with the years hanging
over them as they do, and, with the
thousands of miles separating the
brothers and their only sister, the
word "farewell' will be spoken in a
softer note and with a graver feel.
ing of life's uncertainty.