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

dl the county nome, ldSL week.
w. T. Henderson was laid up with
| lame back, last week.
III. A. Gerlach, Millwood, w. Va,
! was a recent visitor with his son,
Homer, and family.
While at the Meigs cemetery re
Gently the matter of putting the
cemetery in shape that folks in the
| neighborhood could feel proud OF
| it, instead of ashamed was dis
cussed with friend, how to get
the folks interested to come and as
slst in the work. If neighbOr is
sick folks are never slow to come to
their assistance and harvest their
hay, cut and husk their corn-or
do anything that needs to be done,
which adds to the value of the
land in the neighborhood-but it
seems too many folks don't realize
that nicely kept cemetery attracts
the attention of more folks than the
other One is only heard and read
about, but the latter is-or would
be seen by thousands of folks pass
ing through our country. We stud
led a good while and have decided
we should tell it. A friend one
time told us about talking with a
! man who had much of worldly
goods about the condition of Gem
etery where some relatives Of the
the well-to-do man said "the town
ship takes care Of that cemetery.
Then our informant said Il went
| wild and cussed camp meeting.
| Perhaps he thought the dead had
been put on relief. rIow many OF
T. you want to help clean up the
| Meigs cemetery-and when?
| Frank Hatton who has been nom
mated for the hall of fame, was a
relative of the Radcliff family. He
was born in Noble county. He was
! editor of the Washington Post, and
was postmaster general under Ben
jamin Harrison.
| VIM Andrews has been off WPA
suffering with sciatic rheumatism.
Mr.. and Mrs. Emmett Wilkins
| Gina Whitney, and daughters
Ruth, Lenore and Mary Elizabeth
of Hull, H., were flying visitors
here last Friday. Mr.. wilkins, a
| former school teacher, is now farm
ing
| We wake up in the night and
wonder what 'fDock" will do when
he goes behind the muslin with
Franklin D. Roosevelt, third term
| and Howard P. Michener, third
term facing him, which causes US
to wonder what has become of our
friend Myers, who went through
four years as member of the Nor
gan county board of election, and
faithfully upheld the Republican
principles right-oh no, not II
wrong. and is missed more than any
man who ever served on the said
board by the continuing members.
DO Teachers Impress?
Recently we talked with a friend
younger than us, who asked: did
you ever go to school to father, "
when we answered in the affirma-
tive, he said, Il thought so from
your penmanship. | wish it didn't t
cost SO much to get cut-any way
here is the way he did til. b..
Strong, only he did it left-handed.
After we had written the item
about the Wilkins family, of ILL
nois, We found Emmett, and spent
some time with him They have
had-been residents of Illinois the
past 35 years. 1t had been IL
years since their last visit He re-
membered we old timers. The
younger generation seems to have
changed the most.
Eleanor, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs VIM. Fox, is quite i'll.
Mrs VIM. Rowland of Cumber-
land, is having public sale this
Thursday. The Rowlands We're for
mer Bristol residents.
Mrs. J. @. Little is quite poorly
with infirmities.
The Denzil Elliott car left the
highway at the Mrs. Fanny Lyle
residence Thursday p. m.-grubbed
one tree-broke off the mail box
post, and landed in the ditch. No
one was hurt, and the car went on
without any mechanical repair The
head-on collision between cars driv-
en- by George Chambers of Bristol,
and Pete Davis, of GAINESVILLE, re-
suited more seriously for the cars
but no one was hurt in either
instance.
Miss Marie Haines had her tom
tils and adenoids removed Tuesday
of last week.
Elwood Dawson of GAINESVILLE was
operated upon recently at Bethesda
hospital, for hernia. Our readers
will remember his wife as the for
mer Mary Embree. of Meigs.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer c. Hender-
son, Columbus, were Sunday guests
at the Henderson-R Risberg home.
We note by the Times Recorder
that Wilfred Mahan of GAINESVILLE is
in a hospital at Gallipolis He was
repairing his car, when the jack
slipped, letting the car fall, catch
ing him and injuring his head. He
is shovel operator with con-
tracing company
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Hivnor, Trla-
delphia, were guests Sunday of the
latter's sister, Mrs. Earl Wilson
and family
Abe Tolbert has added nancy
goat to his dairy. Anyone feeling
the need Of any Of this variety OF
milk, should rush their orders.
Mrs. Marjorie Paisley and daugh-
ter Miss Betty, GAINESVILLE, were
guests Of the formers parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Frank McCarty, last week
Mrs. Ollie Hurt Dies
Prof. E. E. Roberts, who has been
spending much of his vacation here
with his mother, Mrs. Lucy Roberts
received a message Sunday evening
telling of the death of his mother
in-law, Mrs. Ollie Hurt, which oc-
Cured at her home at <TazeWell
Va, Saturday night, aged rs years
She was the mother of eight chill
dren, seven of whom survive her
Mrs. E. E. Roberts, Bethany, W
Va; David, commander of sub
marine, at Hawaii; Kate, Seattle,
Wash; Mrs. j. C. B. Stewart, Long
Island; James, of Kentucky, and
Lois, who is postmaster Of her home