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Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1939-12-14

Mrs. c. H. Bowen is i'll with bron-
chitiS.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1939-12-14

Boys air rifles at the Malta
Hardware Co. 7d2
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1939-12-14

All the new things in Pyrex Ware,
at Malta Hardware Co. 7d2
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1939-12-14

A son was born Dec. to Mr.. and
Mrs. John Farson, of Durant.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1939-12-14

Bicycles for the boys Christmas
at the Malta Hardware Co. 7d2
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1939-12-14

Get the wife or daughter pair
of Keen Kutter Shears, from the
Malta Hardware Co. Idz
Miss Alta Gil1iland of Columbus,
visited here the week end with her
mother, Mrs. Martha Betz.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1939-12-14

A Grand gas range for the wife
or mother Get one at the Malta
Hardware Co. 7dl
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1939-12-14

Mr.. and Mrs. Martin Primmer
and children Donald and Gloria
spent the week end with friends in
Columbus
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1939-12-14

Mrs. Russell Brokaw came Mon
day to the home of her mother, Mrs.
Ellen Shipley, where she will spend
few days while convalescing from
a major operation she underwent at
the Osteopathic hospital, in Mariet-
ia
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1939-12-14

Mrs. Mary J. Price of this place
has sold her 1915 acre farm in NAL
ia township, the former J. F. James
place, near the Brick school, TO
Harry Willis and sister Mrs. Elton
Palmer of Malta township. Earte
McElfresh and family have been re
siding on this farm. Mr.. Palmer
and family will occupy the place
later on as their home.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1939-12-14

Miss Dorothy Miller has been con
fined to her home near Malta with
tonsillitis. She is a student at the
Marietta Business college. Hell
brother Roy Miller of Newark, Wis,
tied the week end with her and
brother Don and parents, Mr.. ano
Mrs. w. B. Miller.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1939-12-14

Christmas tree lights and hold
ers. at the Malta Hardware Com
Dany "a.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1939-12-14

Last Friday evening about 10
O'Clock, King. Betz of this place suf-
der, and also had other minor in
juries when he lost control of his
car this side of the former Crew
farm on route 377. The machine
left the road and turned over twice
in the field. The lights from a pass
ing car caused him to mis-judge the
road on the sharp curve. Mr.. Betz
was returning home from Athens
where he had taken his wife and
son, who left there by rail for Cen
tralia, Ill, to visit Mrs. Betz' par
ents. The car was badly damaged
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1939-12-14

Get the family an Emerson radio
for Christmas. Several models al
the Maltaa Hardware Co. 7d2
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1939-12-14

Encourage the boys musical tai
ent with a harmonica, from the
Malta Hardware Co. az
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1939-12-14

Electric waffle makers and sand
wich toasters, at the Malta Hard
ware Co. 7d2
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1939-12-14

Relatives here have received word
of the marriage of Miss Grace Eliza
beth Ward, daughter of Mrs. Mary
Huntington Ward of Redwood
Falls, Mimi, and Donald Charles
Disney, son of the late Mr. and
Mrs. Charles A. Disney, of Hudson,
Wis. Mrs. Ward was hostess at a
supper at her home following the
wedding. They will reside at Min
neapolis, Mimi. where Mr.. Disney
teaches mechanical drawing in the
high school. The mother of the
bride formerly resided in Malta.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1939-12-14

Make mothers Christmas a Speed
Queen washer from the Malta
Hardware Co. 7d2
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1939-12-14

A wedding supper was served
Sunday evening at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. w. S. Kelley, of Gaysport
in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Richard
George edna Bennett of Zanes-
vile, who were married Saturday
afternoon in the Market Street Bap-
tist church, GAINESVILLE. Following
the death of his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Pearl George, the groom had
made his home with his aunt, Mrs.
w. S. Kelley, of Gaysport.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1939-12-14

Mrs Angie Archer Mcconnell, of
Columbus, was the guest speaker at
the meeting Of the W. H. M. S. of
Trinity Methodist church, held here
Friday afternoon at the home of
Mrs. j. K. Bingham. Assistant hos
tesses were Mrs. Nellie Baker, Mrs.
G.. E. Northrup and Mrs Mary
Switzer. Miss Corintha Whipple led
the devotionals and Mrs. Kathryn
Root sang a solo. The hostesses
served refreshments
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1939-12-14

Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. T. Crum, near
Harriettsville, Noble county, cele-
brated their 51st wedding anniver-
sary last week at their home Mr.
Crum is II years of age and his
wife is 50. Garry Lloyd Maxwell
of McConnelsville route, son of Mrs
Trena Tidd Maxwell, and husband
is a great grandson of Mr.. and Mrs.
Crum.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1939-12-14

Electric Food Warmers, at the
Malta Hardware Co. 7d2
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1939-12-14

William Mitchell, 80, retired far
mer Of Meigs township, Muskingum
county, died Thursday at his home
of infirmities He is survived by
daughter, Mrs. Eva Mitchell, of
Blue Rock, and two step-sons, My
ron and William Hyatt, both of
Cumberland. Funeral services were
held Saturday afternoon at the Oak
land Methodist church, with inter
ment in the church cemetery.
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-05-05
Probate of Will

Probate Department In The
District Court OF The Ninth Judici.
al District Of the State Of Montana,
in and for the County of Glacier In
The Matter Of the Estate OF Fannie
c. Irwin. Deceased.
Pursuant to an order Ct said
Court. made ON the 9th day Of
April, 1889. notice is hereby given,
that Wednesday the 18th day Of
May, 1889, at 1000 O'Clock .. m. =,
of said day. at the Court Room Of
said Court. in Cut Bank. County of
Glacier. has teen appointed as the
time and place for proving the Will
Of said Fannie C. Irwin deceased =,
and for hearing the application If
Pierre A. Irwin for the issuance to
him of letters testamentary when
and where any person interested
may apperr and contest the same.
Dated the 9th day Of April,
1899.
Dan 8. WEIGH, Clerk
By M. E. Humble, Deputy Clerk
1st pub. May 9Th, last May II, 1899
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-05-05
PET ROOSTER HELPS
IN GROCERY STORE
Owner Says He Ought to Be
Partner in Business.

CHICAGO.-Pete Kallas runs a
grocery at 1921 Rerwyn avenue.
Pat is a White Leghorn rooster
with knowing eye, a red comb,
and an ear-splitting crow.
Now Pete steps forward to affirm,
on stack of sardine cans, that Pat
should be partner in the business,
along with the other Kallas BROTH
ers, Gus and John. And he tells
this story to prove it:
THAT rooster came in here three
and half years ago in a crate
with five other Leghorns," Mr.. Kali
las explains. I'VE sold the five
took 'em out and chopped off their
heads, right on that meat block over
there.
But every time we went to sell
Pat he'd crow at u.s. We'd put off
the sale from day to day. One GUS
toner insisted on that particular
rooster. We finally had to tell her
he wasn't for sale. We started to
call him Pat. He seemed to like it.
"One day we let him out of the
pen. He strutted around the store
ANN iiS PldSS llllG
a customer came in he'd crow.
Pretty soon he got to answering
the telephone. Now, whenever it
rings, he flies over to it and crows.
ION sunny days he walks down
the street as if looking for GUS
toners.
Hes jealous of other chickens,
too. When we have them in the
store he flies at the netting on the
pen."
A photographer who had heard
about Pat went to the grocery to
take his picture. He limited to Mr..
Kallas that he didn't think there was
a rooster ever Matched that could do
the things claimed for Pat.
"So?" said Kallas. You just
watch. Get your camera set up"
20, Pat" he called. The rooster
quit strutting around and hoped
up on the counter. He cooked an in
quiring eye at Pete.
Pat" asked kallas. What hap
pened to your brothers and sisters?"
The rooster, with detected
squawk and with tail feathers droop-
ing, flew over to the meat block.
He rolled over on his back with his
feet in the air, and lay motionless.
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-05-05
Hobby Crocheter Irked;
Loses on Years Work

ST. JOSEPH, MOB. ]. Haddan,
miller whose hobby is crocheting
and quilting, is discouraged these
days.
1T isn't right" he complained,
when you spend an entire year
crocheting bedspread and then see
another fellow win national cham
pionship with spread not half so
good"
Haddan said he learned his hobby
the hard way from his mother.
"Whenever I made mistakes l got
a spanking" he said.
He and his wife have teamwork
when they quilt. She is right-handed
and he's southpaw, so they start
in the middle and work to the sides.
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-05-05
One Out Of Eight

His faith in mans sagerness
to work for . living was shaken
recently when County Commits.
sioner Paul Standby of Lewis
and Clark wanted q hired man
for bis ranch. He went to the
building in Helena where tran
sients are given food and lodg.
ing. Approaching eight men
resting from . long nights sleel
Commissioner Standby offered
one job as hired man at fair pay
good food and a clean bed. He
half expected to be crushed in q
rush. One man said he'd try il
out. The other seven went on
resting in silence.
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-05-05
Dog Wanders Home After
Being Away for Two Years

CHICAGO.-Rex is just a dog,
wire-haired fox terrier, but he re-
membered what the old homestead
looked like after two and a half
years. The dog, owned by R. L.
Shape and family. had been miss
ing since July, 1886.
Recently, Mary Shape was walk
ing near the family home and came
upon bedraggled mutt. She yelled
REX" and the pup jumped up to
lick her hand. Taken home, he re-
membered every member of the
Shape family and ran straight to
his bed in the basement
Nobody knows where Rex was
during the last couple of years.
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-05-05
ARKANSAS DREAMS
OF DIAMONDS FADE
WHEN MINE PETERS
Ghost Town Now Where Once
A Second Kimberley
Was Expected.

GAINESVILLE, ARK.-Chill win
ter winds sweep across lofty, TOO
acre plateau at Kimberley, in the
Arkansas Ozarks, and rattle the
dimsy timbers of a scattered group
Of weathered shacks-empty now,
their framework like the clean
picked bones of some long extinct
monster thrown up from the NAV Of
the dead volcanic crater which
forms this plateau.
But those rickety buildings once
formed the nucleus of what was to
be q humming metropolis, built on
the very top Of a diamond mine
which was to rival the African KIM
berley fields for productivity.
Like Western Gold Towns.
But, like other ghost towns of the
gold and silver regions Of the West,
the Ozarks' Kimberley died. An in
dustry which was to have brought
millions of dollars annually into Ar
kansas has yielded bare 500, 900
in 80 years Of sporadic operations.
Diamond mines are rare. A bulle-
tin Of the United States geological
survey once described the Arkansas
field as the only diamond mines on
the North American continent.
The bulletin also explained the
most generally accepted theory of
the formation of the valuable
stones Of crystalized carbon. The
Arkansas field-the field proper
comprises an area of only about
60 acres.
This area, the bulletin said, is
the mouth of a volcanic funnel or
outlet through which flaming lava
once poured under terrific pressure
from the depths of the earth. With
it the river of lava brought masses
of peridiotite soil. Mingled in this
fine. sterile earth were glittering
bits Of carbon forced into crystaliza-
ton by the intense pressure existing
miles below the earth's crust.
Gems Equal to Kimberley's.
When Diamond John" Huddle-
ston, Murphreesboro farmer, found
the first two Arkansas diamonds,
and they were of the highest quality
equal to those of the renowned
Kimberley mines of South Africa
a rush to the so acre plot was
made and when it was over the en-
tire plot was cut up into small
claims-the largest of these held by
five separate corporations.
For time operations weAt ahead
on a primitive scale and several
thousand dollars worth of dia-
monds were taken from the field.
(The largest Of these was a stone Of
40.23 carats. Another of 2025 car
ats was picked up and third huge
diamond of 1876 carats was found)
Then. for some reason-some
sources say it was pressure from in
terests that wanted to prevent the
Arkansas field from competing with
Africa's Kimberley to force the
price down-the mining operations
slackened and died.
But, whatever the reason, the Ar
kansas diamond mines soon were
forgotten by most.
Sporadic attempts have been
made in the past 10 years to reopen
the mines. but for some reason the
efforts always fail.
And the dreams of an Ozark dia-
mond empire fade again into the
dreary aura which surrounds the
ghost town of Kimberley.
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-05-05
White Tomato Developed
By California Physician

SACRAMENTO, CALIF.-It's Ell
Tomato Blanco now-which means
in Old Mexico the white tomato.
The colorlesS addition to the to-
mato family. the state department
of agriculture disclosed, was so
christened by Mexican workers en-
ployed by DR.. Jonas Clark, farmer
and physician Of Gilroy, who devel-
oped the product after eight years
of experimentation.
Doctor Clark described the toma-
to as absolutely white, about the
same sire n an ordinary tomato,
hut much sWsStsr.'
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-05-05
First Deer Had No Antlers

Records prove that the first known
species of deer was very small ana
without antlers. dating back to the
lower Miocene period.
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-05-05
Honesty and Politics

Honesty" said Uncle Eben, "is
de best policy. an rs mo- den half
expectin' to see de day when it's
also considered de hes politics"
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-05-05
True Love Never dies;
Woman Faithful Till 1O2

NEW ORLEANS.-Marie Alice
Lazende's sweetheart was killed in
the Civil war and every year on his
birthday for rs years she lifted a
glass of wine and said:
"Bientot, mon bon Anne" (Soon,
my we'll beloved.)
She was buried recently, having
died at the age Of 102. Miss La
zende told her sweetheart that if he
did not return from the war, she
would never marry. She never did.
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-05-05

Prohibited Steel for BRIDGES
Steel was prohibited in England
for bridge construction as late a.
1877.
Evening star., 1939-07-30

eccentricities Thompson combined
in the part of Joshua Whitcomb.
Getting up the play in Swanzey
was an activity that could make a
scene in "The Old Homestead" itself.
The local folk took hold as if it were
family reunion. None but a native
played in any of the AZ parts. A
daughter of Otis Whitcomb, mistress
of the Old Homestead as it is today,
was on the Costume Committee.
Edward j. Hanna, on the Advisory
Committee, was one of the company
that took THE Old Homestead
around America IS years on end in
the era when it was the best-known
American play. He's a selectman Of
Swanzey now.
Perley Stafford, who played the
judge, runs the local garage and he
remembers buying the last car Den
man Thompson drove,/ a White
steamer.
Just beyond the corner of the
Whitcomb homestead in q pine
fringed pasture the men of the town
built an open-air theater, working
evenings. It's right across from the
Swanzey Town Hall. The commit
tee hoped to seat 1900 persons at
each performance Thursday, Friday
and Saturday night.
1t seems strange that this was the
first spot in Swanzey ever to stage
''The Old Homestead. SWanzey
must be almost the only town in
America that never saw the play.
1t had no stage big enough. The
local folk used to 60 to Keene to see
the show. Some saw It 40 times.
| Special trains used to run down to
Evening star., 1939-07-30
And Now the Old Homestead Sees The Old Homestead

Boston, where "The Old Homestead
opened at the Boston Theater in
April, 1886. Denman Thompson still
was playing in it in the Hub in 1908.
"It's long story how we came to
do the show" says Mrs. Harold w.
Adams, whose husband and son were
in the play, too. 1T really was
Leland Bogue's idea"
1t began in 1888, when Swanzey's S
2O0th anniversary conceded with the
centennial of Denman Thompson.
The town combined the two celebra-
tions. Three years later North
Swanzey put on pageant that in
cluded a pantomime of '"The Old
Homestead" Mrs. Adams was the
author.
This section of the town didn't
have anything" she explains. mo
grange, no social center, not any,
thing. We raised $500 on the pag-
cant and built the community house.
We've been thinking of doing some
thing to finish paying for the house.
Leland Bogue is interested both In
the community house and the Con-
gressional Church, and he suggested
the organizations join and pay of
both mortgages by doing the biggest
thing the town ever tried, q local
production Of The Old Homestead,
done by Swanzey people. He's worked
night and day, like q lot Of others.
Swanzey is entitled to anything 1t
can salvage from the Denman
Thompson legend. He drew upon
his home town background for the
one great success Of his life. Until
he developed 1.-THE Old Homestead"
he was = failure, one Of the In
Evening star., 1939-07-30

Vulnerable itinerant players of bit
parts around the United States and
Canada. A twinge of rheumatism
had already threatened to end his
career as dancer of Irish jigs and
highland filings when he thought up
a new act for himself, as Uncle
Josh, a Yankee village character
who goes to the big city and has
humorous adventures. He'd been
on the stage before that a quarter
of a century without making a dent.
But. Uncle Josh made him q rep
utation that grew to vast proportions
when, under shrewd management
and brilliant collaboration, he de-
veloped it into a full play of four
acts. 1t is the one thing Denman
Thompson did. On it his fame rests.
A very considerable fame. He was
So when 1.-The Old Homestead" was
first played. He played in 1t 10
times a week, 40 weeks year for
Is years after that and never de-
sired to do anything else. He did
it till he was 70, when he died
The show made him money in
such huge figures-$3,0 900 900. ,ac-
cording to the chronicles-as only q
prodigal son could have learned
how to spend as fast as he made
1t. Indeed, Denman Thompson was
the prodigal son Of the play. It is
photographed In the deepest
sense, that it is filled with the
memories, acquaintances, incidents,
instincts and emotions OF . man
who never lost his nostalgia.
Neleased by North American Newspaper
Alliance Incl
Evening star., 1939-07-30
By Louis M. Lyons.
SWANZY, N. ]


There's hard road runs by the
old homestead now. But oxen still
are to be seen in the hay fields in
Denman Thompson's old home town
and the folk in the village were
yoking theQ up to use last week In
the play that made Swanzey famous
to an earlier generation of Amer
leans.
It was the first time "The Old
Homestead" has been staged in the
town whence came its quaint char
acters and its folkways that gave
the play such phenomenal success
as only "Uncle Toms Cabin" and
one or two others ever have enjoyed
on the American stage.
1t was to pay of the mortgage
on the church and the community
house that Denman Thompson's old
neighbors, who remember his jokes
as well as they remember the
familiar lines in his play, revived
"The Old Homestead" for three
days.
Denman Thompson has been dead
these % years. But Swanzey still
is filled with the legend Of his play
that caught up the common ways
of New England village into en-
during drama that touched the
heartstrings of a sentimental nation
of transplanted villagers. It's still
a distinction in Swanzey to be a
descendant of one of the two local
characters-Otis Whitcomb ant
Joshua Holbrook-whose names ant
Evening star., 1939-07-30
Speed Filler Turns Actor
But Isn't Allowed to Flv

as mo. 1 speed pilot" in 1894 and
1888 and received aviation's top
award, the Harmon Trophy "for
making the greatest contribution to
aviation" in 1882 and 1898.
His 1888 honors make him a sort
of defending champion for 1899.
Tall. heavyset, with a small mus
tache ending in sharp waxed points,
Turner said he enjoyed work in pic
lures because of the opportunity
to present new developments in
aviation in constructive, educa-
tional manner.
He worked with Howard Hughes
in the filming of "Hell's Angels"
stunted in Dawn Patrol" and other
pictures and has been in many .
newsreel.
The Republic film, Flight at Mid
night" Is his first acting job. The
picture probably viii have its pre-
miere at the Cleveland air races
this fall.
Turner has q contract to make
two more pictures, but he denied
the possibility he might desert flying
for the screen.
"Airplanes are everything to me-"
he said.
"I'll never have much time for
anything else"
Evening star., 1939-07-30
Consistency Is One Jewel
Not Worn by Playwrights

he wrote his current ABE Lincoln
in Illinois" and Broadway has sell
dom seen a more serious, fervent and
patriotic play. At about the same
time last season came the w. p. A.
hit drama of the young man Lincoln,
Prologue to Glory" which E. p.
Conkle wrote.
Now for the tidal wave point:
Along with the hits that Sherwood's S
and Conkle's plays achieved the
Hollywood studios tossed into pro-
duction a brace of Lincoln movies
and a chain of plagiarism suits al
ready have been the result. They
appear to be cases that only Solo,
mon well versed in both history and
legal technicalities can solve salts
factorily.
The Lincoln wave will continue on
Broadway in the fall for Elmer Har.
(See PLAYWRIQHTS, Page F-20
Evening star., 1939-07-30
Shirley Temples Career
Reaches Critical STAGE
Daryl Zanuck Discovers Her
Fans Want Good Stories in
Addition to Cuteness
By Hubbard Keavy,
Associated Press stafY Writer.


Shirley stage career and no one
is better aware Of it than Daryl
zanuck produced pictures He saws he expects to
star her in many
The thing is Shirley has long enough slight
and in leters which they still large They say
.ey there isn't much the Temple
To zanuk this thing must have better pictures
He denied but not slipping
declaring that although the the
has not shown proportonate increase
Shirley beautiful certainly is better
are more oefne
support"
This extraordinary for six years
nave been stars for but
No. making choice for four Shirley
No juvenile star lasted long.
Greatest Attraction
Since Valentino"
attraction since Valentino
and adds that more people have paid perform
Shirley the boss continued
Jackie reputation stayed with him. but do YOU
know how starring pictures appeared Eight Only eight
Shirley has 81 features them
The first story in the order will be Bluebird"
lncks creation.
Incidentally spiritual qualities this story with the
realism of "Ihe adjoining
Shirley opportunities she never had
before and certainly far interesting than
like plots conceived to present her cuteness
a Child
In One Way, Too
1T problem
specialist a types things Specialists last
long but Shirley the story
suggests possible
100000 would be material for
this year."
manuscripts revolving
his chair fair handful perhaps half scripts
treatments Of one story by several writer's.
explained
don't always e We work them assign them to different writer's
and keep at them Then when they still don't je junk
"shrleys admire tremendously
conclusion retain their interest something
and different She be cute and still do something"
Finding acting material for specialist keep
top. faced but
zanhck is nothing If not confident