Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1938-09-01
whose illness has been noted, does

whose illness has been noted, does
not improve.
Some time ago a friend made the
statement "Some folks know more
than they look like they know, some
do not know as much Today the
said friend informed us that the
man who tried to pin the minus on
us, was where he was pitching the
o. Thanks to the former-Sympath
to the latter.
Lloyd Huntington showed us re-
Gently some of the old hotel reg
listers Of the "What Cheer Hotel"
known to us boys as the Franklin
In the limited time we had to peruse
them we saw many names OF men
who carried on in our boyhood.
Back in the 70's and SOS when
show came to town they ate at the
hotel Lloyd will write about the
shows for the Billboard. To those
of you who do not get the Billboard
regularly, we want to tell you that
Orton's show was in McConnelsville
April Is, 1882. That was one show
that has stuck in our memory over
and above all others on account OF
the fact that they wintered their
horses at our grandfather Cor
don's. as we thought, but when we
talked with our uncle, R. V. Cham
bers. who is a mite older. we learn
ed they kept some of them at the
Jas Kidd farm. The Gordon, now
the Amelia Leland barn, where the
horses we knew about We're kept,
was known to the Gordons as the
far barn" is 50x60 feet, which
was full of hay when they came.
They fed it all, and bought more
j from neighboring farmers. Come to
think many of our readers can't
reach back that far, which leads Us
TO wonder, should we ask for an in
crease in salary, or throw our pen
Gil over the bank We can't hardly
reconcile ourself,- get our bear
ings or something Last week We
wrote an item regarding young
man whose fathers farm adjoins
ours. We read the same item in one
] other correspondents and in local.
After try after try we succeeded
this evening in getting to talk with
our friend, Mrs. Eliza Wells. We
found her about in her usual health.
Her niece, Mrs Ella Wilkins, is
with her SO far she is undecided
as to her plans for the winter.
j Some of the younger folks may be
worrying because school is soon TO
! commence-and we wish we were
starting in with Lettie Ball teacher.
5. We recall the fact that Gilbert
] Carnes and your scribe attended
school one month with Lettie as
teacher At the end we took an ex-
animation. When it came to gram
mar Gilbert put in quite bit OF
time answering questions. We wrote
on our sheet "Yours without a
struggle" We got about the same
grade as did Gilbert
We are sorry to tell you our good
friend Mrs. Emma Parmiter IS ii
very poor health.
w G. Henderson, whom we know
as "D4Iiie.' who has been suffering
wish rheumatism. was able to go to
town Saturday. The more We see of
Billie the more We think of his
father. the late John Henderson. In
our boyhood we had a feeling for
and about John Henderson. like We
imagine we would have for disciples,
were they going about our neigh
kGrhCod AS We grew older and
watched him with more mature rea-
soning, our regard for him increas-
ed All we can see Of difference be-
tween the father and son, is the
white beard of father.
Saturday we visited for time
with our former neighhor and
schoolmate. Mollie Whitney Duvall,
now of Normal. Ill While her looks
and actions don't show it. we note
by the record she learned the A. B.