Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1938-12-01
Reinersville

George Hall rounded up 800 tur-
keys for the Thanksgiving day AK
Leslie M. McGrath and family. now
of McConnelsville were out here
among the snow-clad hills, Sunday.
Miss Juanita Chambers is en-
ployed in the Mr.. and Mrs. Harry v.
Edwards home at Malta.-- When
it comes to arranging the
proper details, rabbit killed by
Russell Allen, showed wonderful
premonition of impending fate when
it took refuge in the oven OF
cook stove.-- Darwin Stoneking who
lived on the Frank Haines farm
(old Patterson homestead). on the
edge of Noble county, moved the
first of this week to Cumberland,
and will be employed on the Mill
hone farm.--John Harper, local car
penter, has just completed enclosing
a 28x32 semi~bungalow residence
which he is erecting for Glen Cor
dray of Morgan township. Mr..
Harper has installed there such
equipment as is needed to prepare
the finishing wood work. THE Her.
schel Wiley planning mill is pre-
pairing some finishing lumber for the
almost completed Herbert Black
burn residence on route rs, near
Brookfield church.-A new garage
and two rehabilitated barns for his
brother, Webster Alexander here,
are past season accomplishments OF
Howard Alexander. Howard Alex
ander and wife now of Young Hlck-
cry, expected to return to Pennsyl-
vania for their Thanksgiving turkey
but cancelled the mountain climbs
on account of weather Ralph Thor
la and family moved recently to the
Howard Blackburn (Peck) farm on
east route 78, near Woodgrove
which was vacated by Guy Black
burn. Mr.. Thorla expects to be
employed on the Merry Cisler prof
ect, near Otho, when it starts. Mr.
and Mrs. Harold Hill returned tc
| their Columbus home, Sunday, after
few days visit with relatives here
| during which period he peered along
gun-barrel for the cotton-talls
f1irtations across the snowy wastes
Dale Welch, employed with thu
Chrysler Motor company at Detroit
| was a Saturday visitor with hi'
| brother, Willis Welch and family
! In conversation about neglected
and almost forgotten graveyards o
| the pioneers, some of which are 10
Gated in weird and inaccessible
spots, we were reminded Of the on,
| near the Charles Haines farm JUS
| over the line in Noble county, ane
| when we asked Mr.. Haines wha
| families are represented there, HI
said, "the Clingersmiths and thu
Paynes. The Jason T. Payne famil.
lived near Stevens bridge and Cen
terville in 1852, and those of tina
name buried here were very prob
ably relatives Forest (Waldo,
Groves and family have moved t
the Grover Townsend blackburn,
farm in north Center township
The Manchester township trustees
| were in session Monday night
| recent Muskingum county common
pleas court note stated that Walter
| r. Davis is attorney for Verna Han
| ey in an action for divorce agains
John c.. Haney. The attorney an,
ether parties are we'll known in thi
| locality, the Haney family being for
mer residents and operators of th
| Corner gas station from September
/ 1884 to December, .--Josepl
!; Alva Smith, son of Mrs. Rache
Smith and younger brother of VIM
| NJ. Smith, was a visitor with then
last week. The SO year old visito
is now wiry, aggressive Texan will
a responsible position as superin
tendent for prominent oil com
| pany, and his business jurisdiction
state wide. The writer, his pupi
1 years ago, had a high estimate o
| Mr.. Smiths talents in penmanship
art and elocution. Once-April 10
| 1897, we had an inferior part i,
cne Of his school exhibitions here
| and we recall his characterization O.
a hobo, and of his singing, "She'.
| the Pride of the East Side."--
Where WPA project workers have
widened the highway near the Drum
mOnd bridge, the writer recalls hav
| ing seen stack of railroad ties
Naturally, the present generation
| would be skeptical about anyone
here cutting their timber into rail
road ties and expecting to profit by
sale and delivery of them to the q
q O.. (Muskingum valley road
completed in 1888, or to the B.
q. railroad at Cumberland (1884)
Accounting for that long-ago decay
ed stack of ties, was a railroad ex
element right along that little val