Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1940-02-01
Morgan February

an County Democrat. "
| born in Ohio in 1845. She died
Jan. 1, 1929. oJ OF their eight chill
! dpen five are living.
! Judge Barclay attended common
schools in Morgan county, Ohio, and
the McConnelsville high school. His
own efforts were chiefly responsible
for giving him a liberal education
and bringing him to the threshhold
of legal career. He attended the
Ohio Normal University and taught
school for seven years. He first
studied law in the office of w. III.
Phipps at GAINESVILLE. In 1894 he
went to Iowa and continued his law
studies at Winterset, and on Jan. g.,
1898. was admitted to the bar at
Des Moines. He practiced ten years
in Sac county, Iowa, and in 1903
came to Idaho. After a brief stay
at Twin Falls he established his
home in Jerome in September of
the same year, and soon had built
up profitable law practice. While
living in Iowa he served four years
as county attorney of Sac county
He served four years as prosecuting
attorney of Jerome county, and In
1880 was appointed judge of the dis
trict court of the eleventh district
In the fall of that year he was elect
ed to the bench, as candidate on
the Republican ticket Judge Bar
clay was director of the Jerome
National bank. He was a past
grand of the Independent Order of
Odd Fellows, a member of the Mod
ern Woodmen Of America His wife
is Presbyterian. His hobby was
dogs
Judge Barclay married in Novem-
Der, 1899, Miss Nellie May McKen
ma. She was born in Illinois,
daughter of Edward McKenna, who
moved with his family to a farm in
Iowa in 1880. Judge and Mrs Bar
clay had two children: Wayne A.,
born in January, 1901. was educat-
ed in the Jerome high shcool and
the University of Idaho; and Ken
meth M, born in September, 1902,
is now employed as peace officer
in the city of Twin Falls On July
IL, 1881, he married Mary 1. Vas
sar, of Lewiston, Idaho, and they
L.,
September II, 1892.
Riding Skirts
While it seems but yesterday
when women rode horseback on side
saddles, and each one had skirt
which was made of black or brown
material. 1t was made with a band
which fitted about the waist, was so
long it hung below the feet of the
wearer. The purpose was to keepl
mud and flying hairs off the cloth
ing of the wearer. In muddy times
the tail of the garment would be !
stiff with the mud thrown thereon
by the splashing of the horse asl
they plodded through the then mud
roads.
Side saddles and riding skirts are
now mostly memory. Many flaps
Off these saddles were used as shoe
sOles. The women who travelled
that way, are either riding in the
heavenly chariots-or are too old
and stiff to hop on and off the old
up-on-block
Wit and Humor
Some of the finest samples of hui
NOR have never been put in print. InI
the lips of men and women whom
the world never knew as humorists,
or wits. There is something funny
about humor. Only about 30 per-
cent of what is spoken as humor is
the Simon Pure-and of that only
about 2.3 percent of the listeners
get it. the first day The folks of
Bristol have always been far and
away above the average as vendors
and recipients. We feel this is ex-
planned by the fact that everyone
here had Irish blood in their veins,
or wished they had
In our boyhood farmers of the|
west side hauled their coal from
Bristol. They would start long be-
fore daylight with their teams, and
often then they would have to waitI
for their load. Since the advent ofl
trucks much of the coal burned in
the township is hauled from otherI
parts of the county. We are not
sure that we have paid a properI
tribute to the men who went under
the hills and dug, shoveled and
wheeled. Most especially we should
like to call your attention to thel
men who worked by the light of the
oil lamps filled with lard OIL I'll
you never dug coal. or was in a |
bank where one of the lamps was
used, it would be hard to make you
understand what the "coal diggers," II
(they call them miners now) of
those times underwent With theI
smoke from their lamps and the
hardships they underwent; they !
made the cuts by hand, knocked |
down, shoveled the coal into cars
and pushed them out by man pow
er. If they didn't have it in the
beginning they acquired it, if they
kept at it many years. which leads |
us to the fact that we saw John |
Peter Carnes who started work in a !
coal bank at II years of age, and |
Charley Anderson who spent many !
years of his life under the hills, |
stripped in the undertaking parlor, |
after death, when their bodies were
being prepared for burial Mus
cles? We were about to say "big- |
ger than our arm" After looking |
our arm over, we believe leg is the |
word we want to use With all their |
hard work they got but little pay |
Coal sold at four cents per bushel |
at the bank The land owner gotl
one cent, by furnishing the timber, |
and the digger got three cents