Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1938-09-29
Meigs

AS the weather gets cooler, the
campaign grows hotter, and yet we
predict about half the candidates
will get frost bitten. A dirty cam
paigner won't, as rule, make a
clean official. Only 46 more days
until we X again.
The many friends of Mrs. Belva
Kidd Knox, who taught the Meigs
learned of her death with sorrow.
VIM. Embree was quite ill last
week with a heavy cold and asthma.
Mr. and Mrs. A. j. Lindimore cell
ebrated their 49th wedding anniver-
sary Sept. 20. Next year we hope
to write Of the big time held on the
occasion of their 50th anniversary.
The more we read of the "Ruck-
u.s. in the Muskingum county elec-
tion board, the more pleased are
we that the Morgan county board
were agreed and the list of clerks
and judges was completed in the
time specified by law.
Mrs. Fanny Lyle has had repairs
made on her barn.
We are sorry to hear our friend
Lafe Lindimore is crippled Hope
he may be spared many years to re-
late Bristol township history.
We are glad so many folks IN
Morgan county know us. We know
| where to find you when you are at
| home-but when We meet you in
town with your town clothes-and
/ face, we have to guess.
/ We have been passing the home
of H. H. Oglevee, Malta, four times
per day-fve times each week, and
never got a glimpse of him. Last
night he explained-in the a. m. he
is in bed; in the p. m. he is listen
| ing to the ball game. He is feeling
as well as a retired farmer should.
We find that there are 262,213
acres of land taxable in Morgan
county, 24,376 of which is in Bris-
tol township. Land exempted in
| cludes church and cemetery lots,
roads on which easements have been
taken, and school grounds.
Looking Back
In looking over some records We
found these names, men who made
up the membership of the Bryan
| club at Chesterhill, 1908, cf which
we were secretary: J. X. Kinsey, L.
C. Carpenter, George Hopkins, R. b
Lambert, Silas Swab, G.. w. Huff
man, Aaron Huffman, Aaron Flem-
ing, John Carr.W. A. Huffman, b.
A. Carr, Amos Scott, George Geddes,
Levi Niceswanger, George McEl-
fresh and H. T. Bullock We be
lieve we are correct when we say
| the 80 years that have flown away
! have taken them all off the scene CT
| action.
Our weather man who bases his
prediction on the harvest moon
| mo frost soon"
More and more as the years pile
up behind, do we think of the
! changes wrought during the years.
AS we note the stacks of bread in
our grocery stores, and see the
trucks rushing from house deliver
ing TO homes, we recall when
mother bought few loaves OF
Shafer's bread for change. AZ
that time it was thought one should
not eat much bakers bread, on ac-
count of the fact they put alum in IL
to make it white Who started the
alum story, we know not. Whether
they did or not, neither do we
know. One thing we dc know, 1t
didn't hurt Ed, and he ate it quite
while.
Mrs. Byanthia Baker returned
home Saturday, after a few days
spent with Mr.. and Mrs. T. E. Sines,
East Bloom.
Now that we have passed the
point where candidates may wax
warm, getting farmers out OF the
md. II would be we'll to clarity our
| election laws. The Morgan county
! board would like to comply with the
| law-but when we comply with one,
we crack another Our representa-
! tive will receive the thanks of the
| Morgan county board of elections
and we believe in all other counties
as we'll, if he will take the matter
up with the next session.
Mrs. Anna Nichols, son Don anc
wife, Caldwell, spent Sunday with
the Radcliff and Nichols families in
the village.
Frank McCarty, and Anna, his
wife, are duly accredited citizens OF
our village. Having served theli
probationary term in the county seat
the same was not required of them
here
Mrs. Alice Torbert is with hel
| daughter, Mrs Dale Roberts, ano
new son, of East Bloom.
Auto Collision
Cars with Don Nichols, CaldWell
and Delmar Dunlap, of Bristol, a
| the wheels, met on the curve OF
Bristol HILL route IS, Sunday. Wltf
the former were his wife and moth
er; with the latter his father ant
mother. Luckily no one was inJur
ed. The elder Mrs. Nichols who has
been in poor health for some time
suffered from shock. The cars, boti
Fords, were quite badly damaged
but Fords, so far as we know, suffer
no pain This was the second col
lision at this point in recent weeks
and no one injured.