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Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1940-06-13

| inches of dirt dust under 1t, anc
when it rains that made mud under
| the material of size stone or grave
| they used, and as soon as we had
hard rain, or thaw out, automoblles
and trucks mired on these roads
and buried the small materials IN
the mud and gone forever Then
they would haul more of the same
kind of material and resurface, and
the same thing happened the next
year and so on.
There has been practically a to-
tai waste of all money and labor
spent on this type of roads, where
to not exceed in first costs, much
of present type roads they build,
they could build roads that would
hold up and not cut through IN
thaw-outs, and rainy weather.
To build a road you need a good
base and you can't get that out OF
one to three inch loose stone. At
ter grade is made, roll the subgrade
with lotion roller. Sandstone IS
plentiful in Morgan county, and
makes as good a base as anything
that could used. Put first course
of eight to IL inches wide, and six
to eight inches thick, or thereabouts
of sandstone laid as close together
as possible then roll. That is the
kind of base the Malta-New LeXing-
ton road has in Deerfield township.
Then put the maintenance size ma
terial of one inch and smaller about
four to five inches thick on top or
the sandstone base, and let the
traffic pack this down. This type OF
road costs little, makes an all year
round road and can be maintained
at same cost per mile to keep
smooth, as what they are building,
besides saving thousands upon thou
sands of yards of new material, and
have a road that won't cut through
every soft spell The cost of ma
terial and labor on present type
roads in Morgan county is not all.
They shorten the life of cars and
trucks, and also are very expensive
roads in the long run.
Moral: You cannot build road
without base that will not cut
through, and you can't make base
without small stone
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1940-06-13
ROAD NOTICE FOR VIEWING
AND HEARING

Whereas, T.. Dewey Parks ct al have
petitioned the Morgan County Com
missioners for establishing of a road
beginning at point on State High
way, Route No. rs, said point being
approximately one-quarter Of a mile
west of Noble-Morgan County line,
and extending south along the proper
ty line of Y. B. Parks and Ellis Fos-
ter and all passing through the prop
erty of Y B. Parks and terminating
on County Highway, Route No. 109. at
the creek crossing near the Harry
Lowe residence, and being distance
of approximately one mile and is To-
Gated in sections and 16, township
z, range 10 of Manchester Township,
Morgan County, Ohio
TIME FINED for VIEWING June %,
1910 at 200 7. NJ, and final HEARING
for July 3, 1910, at 10 a. m
CHESTER S. STRONG
1912 Auditor Of Morgan County.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1940-06-13
LEGAL NOTICE
IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS
MORGAN COUNTY, OHIO
Mary schwendeman, Plaintiff


Clara ]. Doherty, La Crosse. Wiscon-
sin as administrative with the will
annexed of the estate Of Matilda r.
Morganstern. deceased and the Rt.
Rev. Alexander J. McGavick as
Bishop Of the Roman Catholic Dio-
cese of La Crosse, Wisconsin, and
Frank Greener, Defendants
Case No. 6611
Clara j. Doherty, as Administrative
with the will annexed Of the estate of
Matilda f. Morganstern, deceased,
and the Rt. Rev. Alexander J. McGav-
lex as beneficiary in trust of said es-
tate whose respective places of resi-
dence are La Crosse, Wisconsin. viii
March, lS4O6 the undersigned Mary
Schwendeman, filed her petition in
the court Of Common Pleas, Morgan
.ouhty ONO, alleging that the de-
fendants named above have an inter
est in the following described real es-
tate to-wit: -.~-~7 7'--HzT~--
Situated in the Township of Nor
gan, in the County of Morgan, and
enty-one CID IN the second addition
TO the Incorporated Village of Nc
Connelsville, and also of In Lot num-
bered hfty-one !519 in the .old part Of
ing therefrom thirty 900 feet off the
west side of said lot here tofore con-
veyed to the U. S. aGovernmea eait.
The plaintiff alleges that she is
owner Of an undivided two-thirds
t2-3) part in fee simple of the prem
ises above described and that the es-
tate of Matilda r. Morganstern, de-
ceased, is the owner of an undivided
one-third G-3) part.of said premises
and the defendant Clara J. Doherty
is the Administrative of the will an
nexed of said estate and the Rt Rev
Alexander j. McGavick is the bene-
ficiary in trust of said estate.
The prayer of the petition is for
partition of said premises and that
the plaintiffs interest therein be set
off TO her in severalty or in the event
that said premises cannot be divided
without manifest injury thereto then
said real estate be sold and the par
ties having an interest therein be
paid their proportionate share of the
proceeds of said sale and for such 9TH
er relief as is just and proper.
The defendants named 4above are
required to answer on or before the
3rd day of August, 1910.
MARY SCHWENDEMAN.g e. ts
By A. B. Mercer, Her Attorney.
~ M ~ 81 III e&2196
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1940-06-13
SOME GOOD SUGGESTIONS
FOR ROAD BUILDING

This office is in receipt of a letter
which gives what we believe to be
good suggestions as to the building
and maintenance of our roads
Speaking of our bad roads which
made it necessary to close many OF
our schools, early this spring, and
the condition of our roads, in gen.
eral, the writer says in part:
This happens every year in the
spring in Morgan county; in summer
we have dusty roads and in winter
when not frozen up, mud roads, af-
ter all the money they have had
for several years. There must be a
reason for this, and there is. They
are not built right, nor by people
who have had road building eXper-
fence.
The way these roads have been
built was to make a rough grade,
then haul small crushed stone or
gravel and put on. | have seen
them put this material on with two
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1940-06-13
Lightner Ridge

Mrs Betty Edwards of Zanes.
vile and Susie Pattin and daugh
ter of Youngstown visited last weeR
with Mr.. and Mrs. r. P. Daugherty
Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Cox of Marietta
were Sunday visitors at the Daugh-
erty home.
Wilbur and Carol Pugh of Rox,
bury spent Sunday at the John Rog-
ers home.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Rogers spent
Sunday evening with Mrs. Anna
Geddes and family.
Dana White was pleasantly sur
prised Sunday afternoon when the
young people of Tabor came over tc
help him celebrate his birthday
Cookies and lemonade was served.
Mr. and Mrs Fred De Wore o1
Marietta, called on C. W. Scott, Sat
urday evening.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1940-06-13
POrtersville

G. NJ Bankes who has been suf-
fering with infection in his hand, is
much better.
The Sunday school convention
was held at the Zion church, Sum
day afternoon.
Russell Masterson who attended
o. S. U., the past year has returned
home for his summer vacation.
DIR. Smith Married
DR.. M. o. Smith and Mrs. Sarah
Fortney, of New Lexington, were
united in marriage, Saturday, June
s, by Rev. Fordham, at Newport.
Tuesday evening the newlyweds
were given an old fashioned sere-
made at the Smith home, Porters-
Vile, that was well attended DR..
Smith treated the crowd to cigars
and candy.
Mrs. Herbert Bankes and daugh-
ter Forest were GAINESVILLE visitors,
Monday.
Jimmy. Harry Gene and Annalee
Jadwin of Zanesville are spending
the week with their grandparents,
Mr.. and Mrs. C. w. Jadwin.
The Knights of Pythias and Pyth-
ian Sisters are having booster
meeting Wednesday night, June 10.
This will be an open meeting and
the members are extending a special
invitation to former members.
A group from the Sayre school ac-
companied by their music teacher,
Miss Christine Haley, sang at the
county Sunday school convention,
was held at Crooksville Tuesday at
ternoon.
Carlton Bankes had the misfor-
tune to step on nail Monday af-
ternoon, and is unable to be about. |
Miss Mary Ketcham who has been |
employed in the Mary Kent home |
the past several months, has return
ed home and Miss Dorothy Cornell !
has taken her place.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1940-06-13

q, Mr.: and Mrs. MaFu Geddes spent
Tuesday at Ernest Afchfffesh's.
IKE Atty and Mrs. Link Russell Of
Newark spent the week end atfeWfE'
lard Fox's. linot bus aiq III
Mrs. Charlotte Hale and Mrs. Rev
erdy Henery called on fElva Scott,
Monday evening eirfs 4aaf
Several friends helped Miss Fay
Waite celebrate her birthday, Sum.
day. fs MafFF f-H = ~
Clarence Eddeblute's of Stock
port called on Mr.. and I. Mrs. Oscar
Hooper's Sunday. aa
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1940-06-13
JESSE EMMETT FARMHOUSE

On June 4, 1910, as day was
drawing to close, footsteps steal
ed quietly into room, and found,
peacefully sleeping and in slumber,
that a dear husband and father had
passed to his sweet repose from
which no traveller returns. Jesse
Emmett Farmhouse was born near
Stockport and spent practically all
his life in that vicinity, which he eng
joyed very much. He was of quiet,
jovial disposition, speaking i'll OF
no one, ready to help anyone he
could as he went through life. As
the Master of old, skilled were his
hands, repairing wood his constant
delight, and eternity his goal. When
a young man he united with the
Methodist Protestant church at
Rev. d. G. Wees. Sept. 20, 1910,
ME M. Newton. To this union was
born one daughter, Goldie Irene.
He was affiliated with the Mod
ern Woodman, Camp No 1924, Nc
Connelsville; was Windsor township
clerk, and secretary-treasurer OF
the Morgan County Association Of
Township Trustees and Clerks. He
leaves to mourn their loss a wife,
Mrs. Linnie Farmhouse; a daughter,
Goldie Irene; three sisters, Mrs.
Frank Cooper, GAINESVILLE; Mrs. r.
D. Daugherty and Mrs. John Young,
Stockport route, and one brother, N.
H. Farmhouse, of Garfield, besides
host of relatives and friends. Two
| brothers and four sisters preceded
| him in death The reason why we
fail to see, it comes to you and It
comes to me; that hearts are brok-
| en-, and hearts bereft, when one is
taken, and the other left
Funeral services were held the
afternoon of June 5, at the Stock
port Methodist church. Burial was
| in Stockport cemetery. Pail bearers
were nephews of the deceased: Hal,
Leo Herman and Joe Dean Barn.
house, Raymond Newton and Clin-
ton Cooper.
from a distance were: Mr.. and Mrs,
N. H. Farmhouse and Mrs. Nancy
Smith, of Garfield; Mr.. and Mrs.
James Hupp, Duane Johnson, Vim
cent; Mrs. J. W. Farmhouse and
family, Blue Rock; Mr.. and Mrs.
Chas. Krigbaum, Columbus; Mr.
and Mrs. Frank Cooper, son Clin-
! ton, daughter Ruth, Mr.. and Mrs.
Hal Farmhouse, Mr.. and Mrs Leo
Farmhouse, Mrs. Kenneth Deiterly,
Marion Krigbaunn, Mrs. Nancy
Smith, Mr.. and Mrs. A. A. Heskett,
Ira Henery, Mrs. Homer Henery,
Mrs. Ruth Matthews and Mrs. Lora
KOCH GAINESVILLE
Card of Thanks
We wish to express our sincere
thanks to our friends and neighbors
for their kindness, sympathy, and
| floral offerings at the death of our
husband and father, J. E. Barn
house. Especially the ministers, Rev.
l.. S. Wees, and Rev. Walter Clark,
singers, and Miller funeral home
for their services.-Mrs. Linnie
Farmhouse, Miss Goldie Irene Barn
house.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1940-06-13
McCOnnelsville Rt. 3
w. J. Elliott Has CuIvert c.

w. J. Elliott Has CuIvert Contract
Walter J. Elliott has taken the
curVert job of Mr. Cisler, who has a
road contract few miles below Ma
rietta. Mr.. Elliott started to move
his machinery to the place Monday.
He and his family are moving to the
job Thursday, to remain for a few
months. Mrs. Christine Lindimore
will keep house for her father, VIM.
Shilling, in their absence. Earl
Stuart, Walter NORM and Roy
White are going with Mr.. Elliott to
work on the contract.
Miss Mona Belle Hooper spent
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1940-06-13

Financial, vocational, job place
ment and other aid to Christian
refugees from Europe is being given
by the Board of National Missions
through it's department of Jewish
evangelization in cooperation with
various nterdenominational agen-
cies. The organizations that thus
represent the Presbyterian church
in this work include the American
Committee for Christian Refugees,
the International Hebrew Christian
Alliance, the American Friends Ser
vice Committee and others.
Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1940-06-13
WORLD RELIGIOUS NEWS

There has just been organized
non-sectarian foundation for refu-
gee children which will place ia
American homes children arriving
here under existing quota laws from
war-torn areas of Europe. Clarence
Picket is president and Owen K.
Loyejoy is secretary of the organi-
cation. Some of the honorary vice
presidents are Mrs. Eleanor Roose
welt, Governor Herbert H. Lehman,
Bishop Bernard James She'll, Pro-
fessor Albert Einstein, President
Robert M. Hutchins.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-04-04
Truck Accident Rate
Is Lower Than Cars

Passenger cars, constituting ap-
proximately IS percent of the 875, 1000
motor vehicles registered in Mime
sofa, were involved in IS percent of
all traffic accidents reported to the
State Highway Department last year.
Trucks and large tractor-trailer
combinations make up IA percent of
the registered motor vehicles, but they
were in only II percent of the acct
dents, indicating that truck drivers
are-on the whole-better and more
careful drivers than the average driv-
er, according to w. F. Rosenwald,
traffic engineer of the department.
Trucks, however, had higher
fatality rate than passenger cars, &C
cording to the figures. Of the ,582
trucks involved in reported accidents,
one out of every Is was in fatal
accident. A total of 1878 passenger
cars were involved in accidents, but
only one out of every Is of these re-
suited in death.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-04-04
Fur Buyers Must
Report Each Day

Minnesota fur buyers now must
make daily report to the division Of
game and fish of the number and
kind of pelts bought and sold, under
a recent order by Director Lewis H.
Merrill.
This new regulation, approved by
Commissioner William L. Strunk, was
issued under authority conferred by
Article 1856, Laws of 1888, which
makes it obligatory on the part of
all licensed fur buyers to furnish the
director with such reports as he may
require for statistical purposes.
Letters containing the order and
blanks on which to make the reports
have been sent to all licensed fur
buyers in the state-about 600-by
the division of game and fish. Fail
ure to comply with the order, as with
other orders authorized by law, con-
stitutes misdemeanor and cause for
cancellation of the licenses.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-04-04
SILLY FEAR IN A SILLY SEASON
(New Ulm Daily JournaI

Dorothy Thompson and some of the
English flag wavers continue to tell
us that England and France are fight
ing our battles. Others tell us Fin
land is fighting our fight over on the
Karelian isthmus. Maybe they are
Let them fight We never asked them
to fight for us. We suspect they are
fighting for reasons of their own and
they never gave Uncle Sam much
concern one way or another until they
got into the fight themselves.
Some of these people who view
with alarm and look for Hitler and
Stain under their bed every night
tell us that if England, France and
Finland lose these powerful dictator
countries will be over here to take
the United States over pronto. Which
is just about the silliest idea in one
of the silliest of years. No matter
who ticks who over in Europe they
aren't going to do it without hard
struggle. Before the war goes very
far and very bitter the chances are
that all the great nations in Europe
will be drawn into it. When the war
is over these nations are going to be
bled white and impoverished and if
they have any strength left they are
going to have to use it in building
up their countries and restoring their
depleted economic position. 1t took
the European countries Is years to
get back to reasonably stable condi-
tons and this war will probably be
more devastating than the last.
Even then if a nation wishes to
attack us, this country, if it has kept
out of European war, will be ready
for any attempt at an invasion. We
will have conserved our strength and
will have the men and the money
to resist an attack If nation is fool
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-04-04
Well Done

Due to the excellent showing made
this year by the Askov high school
basketball team, there was added in
terest here in the recent state tourna-
ment.
After winning 81 consecutive games
and then losing out in the region
tournament, it was well that our
boys could attend the state tourna-
ment, lean back and enjoy the treat
of seeing others so actively engaged
in athletic contests. And big, and
successful state tournament it was
with Breckenridge finally winning
out over Red Wing by the close score
of 43 to 40. Breckenridge is small
city in northwestern Minnesota with
a population of but 1924, and there
fore deserves much credit for Win
ming the state championship.
But, let us not forget that our own
Askov boys did much to put our
community on the map. Our quin-
tette won, right and left, in county
and nearby county contests, which is
a real credit to the players as well
as the coach. Then Askov journeyeo
out into bigger competition and met
the strong team from Two Harbors
a city of 4,425. A high school ir
city of that size has so many more
boys to pick from for the team thar
a high school in a village the size
of Askov, which in the 1880 censu:
showed an actual count of 298 souls
Our boys made good use of the fine
new school auditorium the past win.
ter, and here's hoping that they viii
do just as well, or maybe even better
next year!
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-04-04
"NIGGER IN THE WOODPILE''

Editor Askov American:
The summary of IL major prin-
ciples of the C. o. P. program as
given the Associated Press makes no
mention of returning to a fixed gold
standard.
However, this "nigger in the wood
pile" is carefully tucked away in the
mass of proposals contained in the
116 page report of the Glenn Frank
committee.
The specific words are return to
a fixed gold standard"
The most important function of
government is to provide it's citizens
with an adequate and sound medium
of exchange.
The gold standard enables a few
international bankers to acquire own
ership and monopolize money and
credit. Therefore, it never has, and
never will serve as an adequate medi-
UNI of exchange. If not adequate, it
is not sound.
The gold standard, instead of serv-
ing the people as a medium of eX-
change, is serving the international
bankers as the worlds greatest medi-
UNI by which the peoples of the earth
are ensnared into bondage to become
the economic slaves of the money
manipulators.
Glenn Frank, Herbert Hoover, or
any other Republican leader, dare
not bring this issue out in the open
because the gold standard hasn't even
a wooden leg to stand on.
That is the reason why this "nigger
in the woodpile" is so carefully con-
cealed.
S. 0. SANDERSON.
Rochester, MINI.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-04-04

With the clubs paying the expense, it
makes for a more democratic choice
of delegates, and is credit to such
clubs.
We must also remember that, gen.
orally speaking, the Farmer-Labor
party represents the middle class,
and those in less fortunate economic
circumstances. The Republican party
is represented by people of more
wealth. If it were possible to get the
facts, it would be interesting to know
how many Republican delegates pay
their own way to their state conven-
tons, and how many have their ex-
penses paid by others. And who
pays?
Knowing the financial circum-
stances of Farmer-Laborites as a
whole, it seems out of place to en-
phasize that 10 counties out of 81
did not answer to the roll call al
the Rochester convention. Are the
conservatives sorry that all 81 did
not answer the roll call, or are they
hoping that more will be added tc
the 10? All in all it was big repre-
sentation in Rochester.
There might have been more justi-
fication for lamentation if other rea-
sons were given for the party dying
as opponents would like to have it
The Rochester convention demon
strated. however, that the party, as
a whole, has now seen its errors
and that there is great desire to
overcome them and get back to the
fundamental principle-that of doing
the greatest good to the greatest
number.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-04-04

we have Federal law passed like
the Townsend Recovery plan. No
matter how important the problem
of national defense may be, it sinks
into insignificance when compared
with the larger questions of unem-
ployment and old age pension.
No question should distract atten-
ton from the fact that there are still
IL ,0O0, 900 men out of work and that
among these are 100000 young men
who have never had job, and who
will never be employed until this
country adopts the Townsend plan.
Congressman may disagree about the
size and number of battleships, and
about the necessity for more and
greater airplanes, about the number
of soldiers America should have as
a standing army, but they cannot
quarrel about the number of unem-
ployed and the greater patriotism that
dictates that the right to work has be-
come as inalienable right as liberty
and the pursuit of happiness.
In our machine age, the right to
work means the right to live The
only real property is a job.
Our frontier is right here at home,
where this problem is still unsolved
1t is useless to talk about foreign
wars when we are having greater
one raging at home-the war against
poverty and hunger waged by work.
less men.
Until that is solved, nothing is
worthwhile The Townsend Recov-
cry plan is a nationwide retirement
security program, based on American
principals of equity and justice, with
out the possibility of discrimination
on grounds of race, color or religion
BENJAMIN E. VODRAZKA.
Brook Park, Mimi, April 2, 1910.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1940-04-04
FL. PRINCIPLES
(Watson Voice)

The Farmer-Labor party calls for
new social order That expression
may point to revolution or to
reformation. The leftist in the Farm
er-Labor party may see in this ex-
preston exactly the same thing as
the Republicans and the Democrats
may see in it-communism, the COM
plete humiliation of the capitalistic
system, social revolution. But the
rightest Farmer-Laborite, so-called
because he refuses such Interpretation
of the phrase new social ORDER" sees
in it a reformation of the existing
system in a way which will place
He sees new social order in which
private property is recognized as fun
damental to the happiness of the in
dividual only so long as it does not
trample the happiness of some other
individual under foot. He sees in it
social order which will provide
work for all who can and will work
by private enterprise if it can, by
government ownership if it must.
That means that the right winger
Farmer-Laborite believes government
must provide work when necessary
not as relief or a help for poor and
needy, but as part of a modern cap
italiStic system, in a machine age,
which left alone with only the profit
motive as driving power, fails to
furnish work and pay sufficient for
all men to provide themselves and
families with living according to the
standard an American has the right
to get. Human rights are to him
supreme. Property right has place
only as it serves the human right.
Man, not money, is the real value