Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1940-07-04
FACTS ABOUT BUCKEYE
BOYS STATE
(Ry Vernon Cronin)


Bob Longley, George Price and
Malta and McConnelsville at Boys
State. Since the camp started Sat
urday at 2:30 officially, we left
here about IL o'clock. When We
entered the colosseum there were
three tables for registration. We
handed them our registration cards
and they gave us back white card
which had on it the name of the
city and the name of the county
you were to be in. While we were
standing in line many of the boys
who had their name up for nomina-
ton for some state office came along
the line introduced themselves and
asked us for our vote
BY six o'clock in the evening we
were all tired and hungry, SO we
went to supper. Our city was first
in line to supper, SO l guess we were
rather lucky the first evening. Not
having enough time for primary
we used the caucus system to select
our city and county nominations.
while the state nominees were Sc
lected by convention was
delegate to the Federalist conven-
tion and our man for governor won
on the third ballot, while our man
for lieutenant governor won on the
second. Sunday evening there was
big political rally in the colosseum
and each party's speaker took his
turn at the microphone to try and
win the loose votes. The National
lists seem to have done the better be-
cause they won four out of six state
offices including the governorship.
Price was defeated for the office
of treasurer, but later received a
position on the police force. Longley
was elected to the council Of his
city while 1 was elected mayor of
the one / was in
From Tuesday until Sunday even
ing the cities functioned and an
award was given out each night for
the best city. McGaw city won this
the most times, particularly be-
cause of the originality used in dec
Grating their city. The best city
Sunday was to receive gold
statuettes and this also was won by
McGaw city. The best county was
also chosen Sunday and it happened
to be Galbraith county. Since our
city was in Galbraith county and
one of the five of 16 to receive some
of the gold statuettes we thought
we did right we'll "Pete'' DeWeese
was dean Of Boys State and also
Maestro" because he brought to-
gether over 100 boys and organized
very good band.
Our governor was inaugurated
Monday evening and he was brought
in by the state highway patrol. He
was dressed in very formal attire.
At our general assemblies there
were many notables there to speak
to us including Mayor Burton of
Cleveland, Mayor Stewart of Gin
cinnati, Judge Zimmerman and Ar
thur H. Day, both of Ohio's supreme
court. One day we were honored
by having Governor Bricker pay
each city visit. Last, but not least,
at the final assembly Tom Mix of
moving picture fame gave us
short talk on Americanism.
The second Monday all the mem
bers Of the winning city and county
We're allowed to go down street and
do as they desired. Some of the
boys went to the State University;
others to the capitol and others
took in a picture show.
Mondays assembly lasted until
IL O'Clock because it was graduation
night and each boy received his
pin and certificate
We wish to thank Malconta Post
No. "a of the American Legion, the
Ladies Auxiliary and the Rotary |
club for making it possible for us
to attend