Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1940-08-29

what is known to us old timers as
the Hempfield farm, at our sisters.
The Hales own and live on the for
mer Ephraim Ellis land in Penn,
and Esther in Windsor, but only
some hundred feet apart. The
Hales have improved their farm and
added much to its productivity. Mr..
Hale has done much better than
the man who made two grow, where
only one had grown. He has made
tons of clover grow where none had
grown, for many years al least.
Mrs Hale remembers many of the
folks who were their neighbors
here in Bristol. On the morrow we
started west over old trail which
for many years was the route of
the U. S. Mail, and passengers,
from Stockport to Chesterhill. Those
of you who never made that trip by
hack, especially in the winter time,
would not have seen that road as we
did 1t is now an improved country
road but we understand 1t is TO be
widened with WPA labor, unless
Willkie is elected, and balances the
budget Seems he hasn't mentioned
balanced-not even balanced ra-
tions for the laboring class-but
seems anxious about the utilities.
AS we came past the former EWart
and Henery farms. and noted the
houses were gone or Transformed
into places to store feed and ma
chinery we wondered about those
who had lived there. Later we
found Chester Ewart-but their
story will come in some future is
sue At the Miner bridge we
turned off and went up over the hill
past the VIM. ("Dad') Starting
place, which is now occupied by a
family named Cain, then on to the
George Startling home. Let us
stop here to tell you we have al
ways had good neighbors-but new
er none better than the Dad and
George Starting families. We found
George and Tanner the same as 80
years ago except they looked as
though someone had sprlnkled
whitewash in Tanners hair, and
spilled it in Georges. Their chill
dren have all left the nest. Our
next stop was with John Plerpolnt,
who owns and occupies the former
Shook property This is where Ruby
and yours truly started our married
Journey A new house replaces the
one we occupied, also other new
buildings. John Was moving his
potato patch. We thought perhaps
we were bothering him until he
said it hurt him to NOW, so We
thought it was all right to keep him
from suffering. We found a new
store was getting off to a good start
at Todds, with Mr.. Cheadle, son of
our friend Ell, now deceased. From
there we rode with man who had
mo Riders" on the windshield
right in front of us. Our next stop
was at the Hugh Ellis home. We
found Hugh quite badly indisposed
but glad to see us, and still di-
recting the work on the farm. He
is glad to have his friends come IN
and chat while. In the evening
We went up to the village on the
hill At the door of our cousin,
May Creighton, we pounded quite a
bit-but got no response. We
didn't find out whether she was on
her honeymOOn-or AFRAID 1t was
Hitler We met some Of the Bow
mans who spent some of their cash
on Mouse Run. They seemed in
good spirits. Hon Fred McInturf
showed US through his vegetable
and flower garden, a sight worth
seeing. His tomato plants made US
think of Jack and the Bean Stalk.
The worst thing we know about
Fred is that he is a Republican. AS
our representative he didn't make
as much money as some. He had
the idea he was there to work for
Morgan county folks-not the big
utilities, and Morgan county didn't
know they should pay him more
than his salary, and he can face his
home folks--and not as hypocrlte.
Back to Hugh's for the night. The
next morning we came to the Rieck-
er home. We found Flora looking
much better than on our previous
visit We found young lady there,
but not the one we mentioned some
time ago. Carlos has occupied some
seats We haven't and never will
but we occupied the same one he
did coming from his home into the
county seat. We will let the editor
tell about the town folks, as we
never learned to play bridge. We
can't understand why church folks
didn't endorse pedro and 7-up when
we were young.
No, the cool spell wasn't caused
by our tanning our friend Lizzie OF
the Spurrier Ridge pencil.
While "Tade" Greer's hip ap-
pears to be doing nicely, she seems