Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1938-01-20

Garner Ritchey who is an employe
Of the Hazel-Atlas Glass factory of
GAINESVILLE, and his wife, the former
Miss Roxy Brown, spent last week
here with the latter's father, Mr..
G. r. Brown. Mrs. Ritchey under
| went a goitre operation last May at
| Grant hospital, Columbus, and re-
was able to be removed to her home
| in Zanesyille While she has shown
some improvement, she still remains
in frail health.
j. H. Wickersham and Allen
| Barnes attended Masonic lodge at
Reinersville, Saturday night.
The subscribers on the Unionvillee
meeting here in the high school
building, last Thursday afternoon
| and transacted the usual business.
All officers were re elected for an
| other year.
The county trucks are hauling
| crushed stone from the Petty quar-.
| ry, near Reinersville, and resurfac.
| Barnes and Mike Ponchak homes,
south of this place.
Contractor Walter Elliott is sur
| facing the Barnes Stegner road with
| crushed limestone from his quarry
south of Neelyville.
Messrs. James Mitchell, Harold
Fairall and Miss Joy Barnes Of
GAINESVILLE spent Sunday at the I. r
| Barnes home
| e. Stokes farm, had IL sick cows
| last week, suffering from form Of
| Indigestion.
Youth browns In Meigs Creek, As
| Thin Ice Breaks. Meets Identical
| Fate of Father, Who Drowned In
the River just Six Years Ago.
Glenn Cooper, II, residing near
| Beckett. and six miles north of Bev"
| erly, was drowned Saturday after
noon about 1870 O'Clock, in Meigs
creek, while engaged in operating
muskrat traps, near his home. His
| father, Alva Cooper, met death in
similar manner six years ago to the
| dav. within few hundred yards OF
the scene of Saturdays fatality.
| Cooper was alone at the time. A
neighbor boy, Lawrence Eubanks.
heard Cooper call frantlcally 1or
help, about 1:30 O'Clock. Eubanks
| from which the calls came, and
later on investigation, neighbors re-
vealed a hole in the ice of Meigs
creek about Is feet from the shore.
The fire department from both BeV-
erly and McConnelsville were sum-
| mOned and the BODY was soon ulS
covered in the creek by Chief Fred
Hart of the Beverly fire department.
and his assistant, Frank Allbery.
The ice on the creek was scarcely
more than one inch thick at the
scene of the drowning. Cooper is
survived by his mother, Mrs. Edna
Graham Cooper, of the home, near
Beckett, and one brother, Graham
Cooper, near Swift. The body was
home in Beverly. The youth was
nephew of Wilbur (Lefty) Cooper
former National League pitcher:
Mesdames Ed and VIM. Stegner OF
this place are second cousins OF the
| deceased. Funeral services were
held at the Mindling funeral home
| Monday at D. m., with Rev. Or.
lando Brown officiating, with burial
| in the Beverly cemetery.
Mrs. Belle Kidd of this place re
| ceives word daily from her daugh.
| ter, Mrs Corda Hooper, who is a
patient in Bethesda hospital, at
! GAINESVILLE. She is not showing the
rapid improvement her friends
! would wish.
| Mrs. Winifred Platt of Cleveland
! who spent over Sunday here with
her mother, Mrs. Belle Kidd, left
| Monday for her home. She expected
| to stop in GAINESVILLE to see her sis
| ter. Mrs Corda Hooper, who is a
| patient in Bethesda hospital.
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