Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1938-02-03

the funeral Of Mrs. Rohrbough's 8
mother, Mrs. Nancy NJ Gillespie,
who died at her home there at the
age of 62.
Mrs. Florence Schuster, 81, who
resides with her son, Noel r. Schus-
ter, near the village, was taken SER
iously i'll last Thursday evening of
bowel obstruction, and her condi-
ton, regarded as serious then has
much improved at this writing.
Miss Jessie Hill, daughter OF
Howard Hill of Olive Green, is en-
ployed as domestic in the Mr.. and
Mrs. Kenneth Nessleroad home at
Woodgrove.
ClOyd Harper, who was taken to
the Bethesda hospital at GAINESVILLE,
Jan. Is, with what was pronounced
as rare form of meningitis, and
there operated upon, had recovered
so satisfactorily as to be able to be
returned to his home here Sunday,
and is reported to be regaining
health rapidly. He rode home in
the car Of his brother in law, Har-
ley Gilliland.
Only two of Manchester town
ships officials-John Harper and
Orville Elliott, trustees, attended
the convention of the Association
of Trustees and Clerks at Colum-
bus, last week, their return being
made last Saturday. Center town
ships officials, including trustees,
Albert Marshall, near this place.
and T. e. Dearth and Quin Wiley OF
deeper Center, and also clerk, Car
los Glines, of Hackney, attended.
According to the Caldwell Jour
nal, effective last Tuesday, Stephen
W. Parrish, who carried rural route
one out of Sharon, no longer leaves
the Sharon office, but now leaves
Caldwell and his route number was
changed to seven. The Sharon post
office in the Marquis store is retain
ed.
Unintentionally, we have hereto
fore failed to make note OF the
change in ownership of the store at
Woodgrove, which took place al
that point early in last month, Paul
Miller retiring and James Nelson,
assuming control of the business.
We understand that Mr.. Miller, now
residing in that village will locate
on farm. Mr.. Nelson is resident
of the village, and has had previous
experience in the mercantile busla
ness and besides is unanimously
admired as a citizen.
Death Of Sam Russell
"Sambo" Russell, "a year old
bachelor and a resident on the
road between Reinersville and Rich
Valley, Sharon township, Noble
county. died Monday morning, Jan
81. Mr.. Russell was we'll known to
practically all the older population
of this section, being at one time a
regular patron of the stores al
Reinersville, but in later years ne
ventured little beyond his limited
neighborhood.
Township Trustee Garner Dutch
er. was engaged Monday in the dis
tribution Of grocery relief to de
pendants Of his jurisdiction.
% Year Old Treasurer
Readers of the newspaper, Co
lumbus Citizen, were, in the Jan.
31st issue greeted on page GA with
the beaming countenance of Earl
Lowell, "the new % year old village
treasurer OI IllCs
Monday, the last day of January
showed a drop of &c degrees in
temperature from the high OF the
previous day and the mercury con
tinued slipping Snow to the depth
of about an inch, coming after mid
night, overspread the landscape
long before the break Of day. Jan
uary. after it's incivility from the
25th to 2Sth, inclusive, when tenn
peratures as low as five above zero
on the 26th; nine above on the 27th
and six above on the 2Sth. were re-
corded here, then relented on the
29th and 30th, and bounded up in
to the "fiftys." In the month, here,
we had little furry of snow on the
8th, snow on the 10th, little furry
in the early hours of the 18th, a
little furry at $50 a. m. the 18th,
little on the early morning OF the
28th and on the 31st, making IL
snow days. While sections of the
state were snow bound at times
ably all that fell in this locality
during the month approXimated five
inches and amounted to less than a
half inch of rainfall. In addition,
during the month we had ] AT inch.
es of rainfall; which would make
approximately two inches of precip'
itation for the month. We would
award the palm-leaf fan to January
26th as winters Demon Day. on
account of its low temperature and
high wind February set in with a
temperature of eight above zero
Tuesday at Z a. m.
Frank Knox of Bristol was over
to this center, Saturday, and he is
bothered to know just, how and
when it is a crime to enter upon a
premises in daylight and
in the absence of the entire house
hold, shoot, stick and butcher two
of his fat cattle and leave them all
quartered up and hanging up right
in view of the neighbor and his
family when they motored home.
While Frank was frank with his
Frank about being an ac-
both before and after the
fact, even to witnessing the dispos
al of the entrails and did not hest
tate to disclose who his accomplices
were, he did decline to accept any
for his part in the affair,
even to refusing to accept any beef
or any part thereof from his neigh
bor, who it seems was more than
glad that Mr.. Knox ct al had the
all done, even though
these butchers whom he had prev
iously engaged did come and do
ha Worly in hic (fha npip n hOr'sl