Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1941-11-27
Meigs

Meigs
Our work last week took us over
some land that we did not know
was in North America-Rock run.
While we crossed it at night, we
are sure it would be a good idea to
crush the rock and put them on the
roads in that territory. We met a
lot of folks, one especially that re-
vived old memories-Mrs. Phyllis
Wiley, whose mother, the late An
ME Phillis, worked for grandfather
Gordon. Mrs. Wiley and husband
live on the latter's fathers Quinn
Wiley's farm in Center township.
Quinn is one Of the prominent stock
buyers of the county. We had a
pleasant visit with Will Taylor and
wife. Will don't have to work-it
just seems to be a pleasure to him
but - always has time to chat a
while. Luther Tippie has so much
land that it is hard to bound. Simon
Slater has parcel of land that he
hasn't looked upon but once in
eight years.
T. N. Shook and family, South
GAINESVILLE, were callers at the Ray
home, Wednesday evening. T. N.
brought us foot stool. AT the pres
ent we haven't time to keep our
feet still long enough to pay to put
them on the stool-but it is a fine
piece of furniture, for which we are
thankful
We are in receipt of a card from
A. A. Mendel, Valparaiso, Ind. Alva
wants us to tell him about two mar
BILE slabs which were left in their
old log smoke house First: the
Mendel home is now the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. Ode Tilden. We re-
member seeing the slabs and of
Sadie telling us about them. Alva
thought the name on the slab was
Elijah Stevens, when in fact it is
George Miller, who, as he says, was
killed when the Buckeye Bell blew
up at Beverly. Why they bought
the marker and never placed it at
the grave seems to be gone from the
memory of the present generation.
At least Charley Wilson, whom we
thought could tell, failed us. We
were glad to hear from Alva and
enjoy hunting up history and put
ting it in the record.
Mrs. Carrie Ray gave a dinner
Thanksgiving. Those present were
Mrs. Ona Warne, Mr.. and Mrs c.
F. Moore, McConnelsville; Mrs.
Christine Embree and children, of
Pennsville; Mrs. Forest Fuller and
son Ronald Malta; Miss Roberta
Ray of the Hazel Atlas company, of
GAINESVILLE, and Miss Loisine Ray, Of
McConnelsville.
Did it ever occur to you that when
we only had one Thanksgiving that
wool was eight cents per pound.
We enjoy asking the folks who
seem worried about the national
debt, how much crop payment they
have pulled down.
We have always been careful
not to say anything that could be
even construed by our readers to
mean a SLAM at someone. Last
week we used word which the edi-
tor, who is more kindly than we,
changed to another word, which
made the statement say what neith-
er of US meant-the English lam
guage is the queerest we know, in
fact we don't know it very well.
And now We have come to the day
after one of those days which al
ways mixes us up. We want to call
it Monday-oh, no, We didn't even
have cup of sweet cider Now we
find there is no rush to get our copy
into the office. Now we will eat the
neck and start to look Bristol town
shin over for the "-th" time after
which we hope to have something
worth while to tell you.
We are in receipt of card from
Ellis Wilson, FL Paso, Texas, and a
copy of Ell Paso, Herald Post. So
far we haven't had time to give 1t
only a passing glance. We are glad
the Wilson's are 0. k. Ellis is gov
ernment meat inspector. There are
still many we want to hear from
n. A. Strong, for instance, who
wieIds pen under the old rule,
which means readable.
It's Queer
Perhaps we are dumb OF under
standing. The old age pension law
has us guessing. We find that the
amount of pension one gets this
year, depends upon what we made
last year, regardless of whether we
had suffered a broken leg and so on.
1t seems what one might swear to,
might have something to do with it.
Give us a job and give the pension
to folks who can't work.
Was That All?
While we have not had time to
read much-or properly digest what
we read, we couldn't help telling
YOU about seeing where colored
man up the river, suffered two brok-
en- legs.
Thanksgiving
1t seems funny about two Thanks
givings. Our Republican friends
want to hang to the old one-and
take government crop control--feed,
seed and lime money on the flrst
one. and be thankful on the second,
Mr.. and Mrs. Choral Gerlach
(Marjory Ray) have named their
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