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Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-19
Nozis Surprised.
Shocked at New
British Spirit

BERLIN, March 49, (UP)-The status of the Czech
state not be altered matter what Great Britain
does says high close to the government said
today the British refusal recognize the legality of
Adolf Hers conquest "As for u.s., the informant added
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-19
DRIVER FINED

M. G.. Evans Of Phoenix. accused
of drunk driving, was ordered to
pay a S75 fine or serve 37h days
in jail in FL Centre police court
Saturday.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-19
SoIons Consider
Liquor Control

SACRAMENTO, March 18. (UP)-Liquor legislation
and the relief problem foremost issues
on the calendar today as the California legislature ended
its second week of working the 1000 bills introduced
IN January An interim committee commissioned by the
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-19
INTEND TO WE'D

Antonio Castro, 45, and Beatrice
Burciaga, 38, Bakersfield residents,
Saturday filed a notion of their in
tention to wed.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-03-19
LICENSE ISSUED

A marriage license was issued
Saturday to Frank Stevens, %. and
Delora Huntley. 10, Calipatria.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1939-06-08

Much local criticism has been adnnstra-
tontion because of WPA road projects in this The
outburs concerning road Bristol and
Meigsve townships Whether the road good purpose
not whether money spent building than
will discuss here but hope be able
the which good authority
900 than $4,000
But whsf e that the road needed
does and that tor It's
should have been spent who blame 1t certain
- clear of place blame the national administration since
had absolutely nothing do with the selection this road Inc
blame rests solely absolutely with the officials of old Rock
Ribbed" Morgan county. Keep mind that the trustees OF
Meigsve townships who first asked for this road and
officially approved by the county commissioners and
county engineer They the building of this road possible
the auditor weight such
matters The sponsors this roadtusees and
had to put up before the national govern
consider project All the necessary
Morgan county this stretch of road had been made
project to be built with WPA labor.
time complaints have been registered concerning
projects national has been given
blame building roads needed the arguments being put
useful roads should have been built Keep this
mind before the gives its approval to any
of local officials and the
selecting the roads rests solely with the trustees county
and and not the national govern
So the Boulevard should not have been built be
and don't blame the national ad
ministration THE BLAME AND THE CRITICISM, IF SUCH
IS TERMED RESTS solely with MORGAN COUNTY o.
FICIALS-THEY AND THEY ALONE ARE TO BLAME
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1939-06-08

that. For 10 years following, adj
jacent land owners We're taxed be-
yond every compartment of their
pocket books. Anyway it is in poor
repair today. We halted and gazed
at the old house, (still occupied as
dwelling) where Johnny Bell was
born, and reached the teen age. His
father, James Bell, who met a tragic
death in Bristol township, was re-
tired steamboat engineer and how
he came to get back here in the
hills, so far from any navigabl6
river, VIC never knew. He curiously
remodeled his home and gave it
much the appearance Of steam
boat. No such aspect today. Quench-
ing our thirst at the spring below
the road, we wended our way across
the fields to what was once the
school ground CT the old ''Smith
District" Sixty years ago it was al
most surrounded with woods. To-
day the order is reversed. The
school ground is a miniature woods
with cleared. land on every hand. A.
ground.
In the midst of this grove, on the
east side, stands school house.
which was vacated when the district
was consolidated with Renrock. The
lower side of the ground has slipped
and private road, paralleling. the
public road, cuts across the ground
exact spot where the old school
house stood. Across the road in
the bottom is a great basin made by
a limestone quarry. The ravine on
the north through which runs a
rivulet, where we built dams to-
wade in--and get our pants wet
is still fringcd with beech trees. In
looking at these we were seized with
a feeling of disgust and indigna"
ton
Probably every country boy, when
he comes into possession of Bar
low knife, has an ambition to carve
his name on the smooth bark of this
native tree. Nothing wrong there
but those vulgar hieroglyphics. en-
blems or whatever you may choose
to call them, shows low breeding.
and we turn away in disgust. johnny
Bell and your humble servant may
both end up in jail, but it will never
be for any such misdemeanor as
that. Across the ravine, toward the
old Smith home, We set foot on the
ground where we played Round
town." ball. Today it is a truck and
strawberry patch We gazed with
fearful eyes over the scene and
tried to visualize how it appeared
three score years ago, but with the
exception Of the eternal hills, which
hens the spot in on every side ex-
cept the narrow valley whiGa ;a
home~"all was changed. The teach
ers who taught in our day, with the
exception of VIM. J. Johnson OF
Caldwell, have all gone to that
ssbourne from whence no traveller
returns"
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1939-06-08
WeSTland

Remember children's day services
at Pleasant Hill, Sunday evening"
Sunday visitors were Mr. and Mrs.
Bernard Benjamin, son Kenneth, at
Lee Benjamin's of Roosterville; Mr.
and Mrs. Henry Coleman, Column
Philo, Mr.. and Mrs. Lee Ford, Nc
Connelsville, Mr.. and Mrs Fred c.
Smith, son Francis, of Malta, at
Carlos Harris; Kenneth, Scott and
Richard Abel at Raymond James !;
Mr.. and Mrs Frank Miller at Har-
old Harris; Mr. and Mrs. Paul
Wells, son Robert, daughter Hope,
at Wendell Tompkins'; Mr.. and
Mrs. Orville Davis, son Roger, of
Licking View, Mr.. and Mrs Donald
Davis of Ringgold, at Frank Davis;
James Mr.. and Mrs. Chester Carr,
son George, of Athens, were Tues
house S. = Miss Maxine Kirkbride
spent Wednesday with Mrs. Leona
Wade.Mr and Mrs. Estel Dawson
and three sons, and Stanley Ben
jamin spent Saturday night with
their sister, Mrs. Syril Hotchkiss
and family, near Utica. Estel and
family visited Sunday with Harley
Dawson and family, near Utica
Paris, o., spent Saturday night with
the formers sister, Mrs. Cora Me-
Peak. All were callers at Carlos
harris Sunday forenoon John
Miller returned to Union City, N. j.,
last week, after spending some
weeks with home folks Mr.. anu
Mrs. Milton Berry, Mr.. and Mrs.
Jas. Harris, daughter Hazel, and
Alta Nelson attended church at
Zion ridge, Sunday. Mrs Rose
Barnes and family were supper
guests at the Raymond James home
Decoration day. Paul remained for
longer visit Francis NORM, near
Newark, is spending his vacation
with his grandparents, MI. and Mrs.
Carlos Harris Mr.. and Mrs. Geo,
Newburn of Raymond, O., are spend
ing the week with home folks
Sunday evening visitors were Mr..
and Mrs. Harvey Greathouse and
Robert Tignor at Jno. Greenhouses;
Harold Harris and family at Lester
Hartley ST. S. Spurrier of Cuya-
hoga Falls, formerly of Elliott, was
operated upon first of last week at
an Akron hospital, for removal of a
growth from the bottom OF his foot.
: he would a. nave 60 remain at the
hospital Tor d week. Kenneth Ben
jamin, Myron James and Howard
Nolan were Columbus visitors Fri
day and Saturday Miss Lauretta
Brown of Marietta is visiting at
Lester Hartley's 's.--Clyde Best and
family, Robert Best, son Bobby, of
Malta, were Sunday afternoon and
supper guests at Carlos Harris
Mrs Vergene Ray and daughters
Martha Kay and Shelia Faye spent
Saturday night and Sunday at T. H.
Rays of Ringgold. Mr.. Ray was a
Sunday visitor.
You still get that high class lubri-
Of cow N'C
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1939-06-08

point, the Dyes owned much OF the
land anyway, and that fact would
made the name appropriate. But
usage, or custom, makes thing
appear right and respectable, and
Renrock il is, and Renrock it will
Beginning to bear fruit. Inc
first indication of the amalgamation
Of the two Methodist denominations
came to our notice last Wednesday
when Rev. and Mrs. Mowery, Mrs.
Leura Dickinson, her sister, Flo
Stiers, and Mrs. Herbert Blackburn,
attended a district conference and
brotherhood rally at Bethesda park.
1t seems that 109 years is a long
time for the separated churches TO
get back together, but we are GLAD
that that day has come. 'Benoia,
brethren to dwell together in
unity!"--In our pilgrimage so far
through life we have seen the de-
veloping of the steel and concrete
age. On the other hand we have
witnessed the wanton waste ana
destruction of timber. Too many
barren and glaring sun-baked hill
sides that ought to be covered with,
at least some specie of trees. Wnat
somewhat rundown farm, known as
the McClintock place fell into the
hands of Miss Norma Tilden of Nc
Connelsville, the first thing she did
was to plant 1000 white pines on
a badly washed field. She may new
er live to reap any financial gain,
but this particular eroded held races
two public roads and has been an
eyesore for more than 40 years. We
may still be living when this barren,
unsightly hillside will have been
into thing Of hPalltV.
Miss Tilden is setting. an example
that would be we'll for others to
follow Is it the long lost Charlie
Ross,-or, what say? The first
kidnapping of which the writer re-
members, in which he became inter-
ested, was this Charlie Ross case
Always a mystery until Just recent
ly, when very Unexpectedly, ne turn,
up,-but is he the long lost Charlie!
WHY didn't he show up sooner,-we
wonder? The California court says
it's Charlie,-but can the court be
sure Quite lately he has been sub,
iected to a lie detector. We would
like to know how it turned out.
This annex to our letter is dedl-
Gated to our old schOOlmate Johnny
Bell. near Otho. After lapse OF
so years, "change and decay IN an
around / See." recently we miSse1
church service Sunday, of coursel
and TOOK a tramp,---they call it
hike now. We went up over an i'm
proved road over which, some years
ago, there was much dissatisfaction.
It cost $4,000 to build two miles.
It started nowhere and ended no.
where. The idea, at the time, seem
ed to be that it would later be ex-
tended to Caldwell and McConnels..
Vile. But route IS takes care OF
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1939-06-08
MOrganville

A party was held recently at Mr..
and Mrs. Clark Harrison's, near
Ringgold. Those present were Mr..
and Mrs. Ernest Mccall and chill
dren Beatrice. Myron, Harold and
Cecil, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Jones
and granddaughters Pat and
Helen Jones, Mrs. Minnie Roberts
and daughters Eloise. Edith, Ar
nd Me Gass aba Mare Mere anes Tar
ma and Velma Parsons, Ina Bankes,
Hazel Hale, Edith and Rosalie Nc
Peak, Mary, Billie, Junior, Grace,
Jane and Clairene Dawson, Martha
and Eugene Kincaid, Kenneth and
Kermit Kane, Malcolm Carter, Bob
Sands, Harold Price, Malcolm Thom-
as and the host and hostess and
Ruth and Anna Belle. Refreshments
were ice cream and cake. The ev-
ening was enjoyed by playing games
and all left at late hour hoping
that Mr.. and Mrs. Harrison would
again soon entertain the young
folks Ted Longwell, Junior and
Orin Jordan, Mrs. Olive Jordan, Mr..
and Mrs; Omar Carez and Children
ali harpy oy Pger leRe W. Snd va Were
over Sunday visitors at John Jor-
dams. John Jordan returned to
days, and Junior Jordan remained
here for visit--Mrs j. e. Day and
Mrs. Ruth Balding were Pennsville
callers, Wednesday. Mrs. Ruth
Balding was. suffering from gall
Spears assisted with the house
work. Little Miss Sonya Trimper,
eight months old daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Eugene Trimper who was
in serious condition with telescoped
bowel Saturday afternoon, is recov-
ering nicely.--Dr. C. V. Davis of
Pennsville was business caller in
this village, Saturday evening
daughter ni hte He Helen and and infant I grand nd
daughter of Newark, and Mr.. and
Mrs Joseph Finley and son Robert
were Sunday dinner guests at W.. l..
Alexande Mrs. Gertrude Trimp-
er of near Portersville is spending
the week with her parents and little
daughter here.--W. L. Alexander
and son Walter were Sunday callers
of McConnelsville and Miss Blanche
Torbert of this place were Saturday
evening callers at Mrs. Charles
Buckley and Mrs. Beryl
Buckley and daughters Audrey and
Arlene were Sunday evening callers
at Charles Fulton's on HICKORY
ridge Mr.. and Mrs. T. r. Wall
raven and Judge and Mrs. Arthur
Torbert and daughters Esther and
Marian were Saturday night and
Sunday visitors at II. V. Torbert's
Mr.. Torbert is still improving in
health. Frank and Pearl Barden
were Sunday callers at S. c. Mas
sey's. Mr.. and Mrs. Bert Hartley
and family were Saturday visitors at
the latter's sisters Mrs. Elizabeth
Ickes in East Bloom. They alsol
were Sunday visitors at Harold
Balls near Meigs.- - Mr.. and Mrs.
Ashford Jordan and family of
Woodsfield, O., were recent visitors
at John Jordan's.--M Mrs. Lula Webb
and two sons Ralph and Ronnie of |
Hooksburg spent last. week with
her father, James Trimper, near
Portersville Mrs. Ethel Jordan
was a recent visitor with Mrs.
Sarah Carr at the Lizzie Sands
home. |
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1939-06-08
RelnerSvilie

A public library has recently
been set up in this village. The
books are installed at Hills store
and the service is absolutely free
Mr.. and Mrs. Homer Lautzenheiser
and family motored to Canton Sat
urday, in order that they might at
tend a reunion there on Sunday
Patricia Ann, little daughter of Mr.
and Mrs Willis Welch, while help
ing dry dishes, slipped and fell
breaking q cup and cutting an ar
terry in her arm. She was rushed
to a doctor, and her arm is doing
nicely Sunday dinner guests of
Mr. and Mrs. w. w. Wilson were
MIR. and Mrs. Dorsal Kincaid and
daughter Donna Sue, Miss Mary
kupir and Rev. and Mrs Glen Peo-
pies and family Miss Louise Cal
endine who has been caring for
Mrs. Alice Walters, returned to her
home near Stockport, Saturday,
People in this village were late in
observing Memorial day Celebra-
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1939-06-08
Romance Of A
Great Civilization

Yucatan has become a great CEN
ter Of interest. Tourists and scien-
lists find it worth while to study
here a cultured and brilliant civili-
zation. They are arriving every day
by train, ship and air. Fine modern
buildings have been constructed in
the jungle to house them, and many
guides are trained and employed to
take care Of them.
Things were happening in Central
America a thousand or two thousand
years ago. Stirring events that
would eclipse those of Europe were
taking place. Within 500-mile
radius, 500 cities were rising that
are known now only by their ruins.
At present you will find an immense
plain covered with dense tangled
thicket. Once here f1ourished vast
and populous cities. 1t is believed
some cities had a quarter of a mil
lion souls. There was a certain
splendor about them, that rivalled
1.-The grandeur that was Greece, and
the glory that was Rome Their
culture was astonishing, even bewil-
dering. The more it is understood,
the more amazing it becomes.
The Mayans developed a calendar
that will need no change in $4,000
years. Compare this with our faul-
ty Julian, and more recent Gregor-
ian calendar. Theirs without tink-
ering worked perfectly, To have
chronology you must have mathe-
matics in a high degree. This they
had. They invented the cipher,
counting in orders Of twenty, as we
do in orders Of ten. We got our
cipher from the Hindus, or Arabs.
They developed astronomy, caucula-
ting solstitial changes and eclipses.
They were familiar with the rotation
of the planets. They represented
both earth and sun as round, hun
dreda Of years before Calico was i'm
prisoned for it.
They were architects and engi-
neers. They thought and taught in
symbols, and their buildings symbol
lied their calendar, religion, beliefs
and life. The detail of the sculpture
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1939-06-08
NIGHT SCHOOL HERE

The night school here which is available practically
splendid thing and should take advantage of the
opportunity affords Subjects available ypng shorthand
bookkeeping accounting and business English We do know
whether penlanhp taught should be- While
writing taking the place of hand marked degree
essential know how legbe hand-not
say fine beautiful writing vogue years ago. We
always carry typewriters with
Perhaps there line of business where the good
plain writing plays important in the bu
Much consumed the office
cipher written 1onghand Some of between
shorthand best
make and let that Newspapers often
task because Many of these DUE
poorly written copy, which has to be guessed" at
Learn much of typewring, shorthand possible
both coming be used and orebut don't forget
writing-the most important of them all.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1939-06-08
RenrOck

Eighty years ago this morning,
(Monday, June 81 there occurred
the worst killing frost that this
county ever experienced Nothing
like it since. That time the 9th
came on Sunday.--W are advised
Carr, aged 90, which occurred June
1st at the home of nephew, Alex
McClelland, in Wheeling. She was
the last to succumb and, we think
the eldest of the Furman Dye fam
lily. Her husband, Lemuel Carr, a
Civil war soldier, died at GAINESVILLE
several years ago. The Dye family
were all born in this community.
OF six or seven children, most of
farm just over the line in Manches-
ter township. 1t is our supposition
that the deceased was born here in
the old mansion house which sher
father built and occupied as a
dwelling and store,-in later
years known as the Paxton stand.
1t was about the time that Laura
was born that Furman Dye succeed
ed in getting post office establish
ed here and naming it Renrock. If
Mr.. Dye ever made any mistakes
this was one of them,-to allow
such senseless name as Renrock
to be foisted upon him, when an
appropriate name could have been
submitted. He was a man of rare
good judgment, and had a very
suitable name in his mind, but
when he went to McConnelsville,
(this was Morgan county them he
learned that there was already a
Dyesville in this state, and it was up
to him to find another name. He
was a long tiresome way from home,
and having little or no time for
thought, Judge Corner, in order to
help out, made the suggestion to
coin name by taking his (the
judge's) name and spelling it back
ward, (adding the letter k) might
help out in the dilemma. (Better
made it "Cornerville," since it was
so near the corner of the town
they added an extra letter, had they
added W at the front end and
someone had found wrens nesting
in the nearby projecting rocks. the
name could have been made more
fitting. Perhaps the matter may
have required prompt action, who
knows? If Mr. Dye had had the
time to consider, he might have
been able to have submitted very
appropriate name, fitting IN more
ways than one, as the following will
sons had double name ending
with ''land' Certainly it didn't
happen, that way, it must have been
that idea, the name to take the the
place of ''Dye Settlement" could
have been Dyelandville. But, hold
on! Mr.. Dyes sons, at least three
of them hadn't been born at this
time. And then from another view
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1939-06-08
YOUTHFUL BANDITS

Last week. Cambridge, r. E. Willis of Guernsey
count very best citizens murdered his place of business
which station and tourist Two boys IS
and the other only II years Willis station
and attempting hodp shot the twice through the
heart and through shoulder The bandits then fed with
any stolen automobile highwaymen caught
them few hours later and far from the of the crime The
trigger he did kill Willis but the fact that
three fired body dspove that Will
lis so far IS know armed.
It stated that the admitted other Thus
they became hardened criminals and Notwithstanding their youth
enency should be shown them They have confessed their
The full the should be that
swiftly and The thought death the electric chair for
boys horrible contemplate They chose the life of and
they suffer the It only through the ntcn
of the full penalty of law terrible crimes be dis
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1939-06-08
The Generous Scot Laughs Last

Surprise of surprises to all
Americans visiting Scotland is the
generous hospitality of the people.
The over-thrifty Scot is nothing but
a joke Scottish charities are mag
nificently endowed. The Royal In
f'ymary in Edinburgh, where doe
tors from all over the world are glad
to study, is wholly maintained by
voluntary contributions
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1939-06-08
Beverly Route

Children's day services will be
held at Mt. Olive church, Sunday ev-
ening, June H.. Services will begin
Ed Gordon, Mrs. Herbert Padgett
and Mrs. Calvin Stiers returned
Monday of last week from East Or
ange, N. j., where they had spent
several days and were present for
the golden Wedding celebration of
Mr.. and Mrs. George GordOn.--Mr.
and Mrs. George Wagner of Colum-
bus were callers of Chas. Wagner
and family, Memorial day Forest
Stiers and family, and Mr.. and Mrs.
Sam Archer were guests Sunday OF
Mr.. and Mrs. haywood Archer of
Malta.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1939-06-08
Morgan

turb these ruins as no gold was
there, for which we are grateful.
The ruins remain mute memorial
to Mayan progressiveness. Just why
no tribe in more favored temperate
zone, or elsewhere, never achieved a
similar triumph, cannot be conjec-
tured.-HoWard HI. Scott.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1939-06-08

tions did not begin until Wednes-
day and Thursday. Jane Dewitt of
Illinois is visiting with her sister,
Mrs. Lizzie Wilson of this village
Miss Dortha Thompson of Coal Run
vicinity is now caring for Mrs. Alice
Walters.-M Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Smith and Mr.. and Mrs. Robert
Smith of Bremen were Sunday
guests of Mrs. Rachel Smith of this
n1ace
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1939-06-08
1000 Varieties OF Tulips In May

May is the month in which to see
square miles of tulips in Holland,
where two thousand varieties are
grown today. Other thousands have
been discarded in the past as old
fashioned. but every bulb gardener
hopes his bulb will sport a new color
for new fashion.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1939-06-08
l. O G Al N ID w S

Mrs. j. w. Dover of this place en-
tertained Mrs. Anna Gatewood and
daughter DR.. Christine Gatewood
at dinner, Sunday.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1939-06-08

Beech Grove grange Friday even
ing, June 16. Roll call, name a pres
ident of U. S. and tell if Democrat
or Republican; song, by grange;
talk, Soil Conservation, John Dali
ey; song, Carrie Osborn; reading,
Edward Richardson; quiz, Lenna
Williams; song, by grange.
Tuesday evening Rev. and Mrs.
Glenn L. Tennell, assisted by mem
bers of the official board, and their
wives, entertained at M. E. parson-
age, members who have recently
united with church. Games We're
played and Mrs. Evelyn L. Button
showed pictures of Iceland and Nor
way. Refreshments were served.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1939-06-08

You still get that high class lubri
cation at COWAN'S.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1939-06-08

Knee length hosiery, 49c; alst
other hosiery in all cOlOrs.-
Drlry's.