Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1942-12-31
Rcinersville

Evidently those overseas letter:
were graciously timed for Christmas
arrival, but did not reach parent.
until last Saturday. The letter from
Wendell Ray, in Africa, to his par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Delmar Ray, and
dated about Dec. IA, and the two
letters from Denny Mclaughlin, il
Africa, to his parents, Mr.. and Mrs
Isaiah Mclaughlin.
Mrs. Elizabeth Allen received 6
letter Saturday from her son, Pvt
Rollin Allen, who is with a medica
detachment and was then at New
York. This soldier is thought to be
enroute.
Strange, anymore, how intimate
we are with the world and how peo-
pie in our remote corner can be de-
pressed by the death of European
Our interests and hopes were tied
up with the assassinated French
leader, Admiral Jean Francois Dar-
Ian. Giraud from the outside leads
but dominated by Germany can
France from within produce anoth-
er Darlan?
Mr.. v. B. Parks, Of the village,
is handicapped by an attack of rheu-
matism and gets about but little.
Pvt. Elmer Conger of Fort Nc
Clellan, Alabama, left Monday after
noon on his return, after furlough
nh hi,Vo OF o% ~ ic Hnod
grove home from the 18th, the date
of his arrival.
There will be preaching again
next Sunday night by Rev. Glen
Peoples.
A daughter weighing seven pounds
and fifteen ounces was born Tues
day, Dec. % to Mr.. and Mrs. Leroy
Ranshaw ella May Brown of
Charlotte, Mich. The mother is a
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Earl
Brown, formerly of this place, but
now of Malta.
The little hamlet of Keith in
Jackson township, Noble county,
which for time immemorial has been
an important mercantile point is
now added to the growing number
of "ghost" villages which dot this
hill country. Keith is a good eight
miles southeast of this post and the
splendid store-business built up
there by her late husband, Charles
Keith, was maintained by Mrs. Bes-
sic Keith up to about two weeks
ago when building and contents
were separately auctioned, the latter
by piece-meal. Mrs. Keith was for
merly Miss Bessie Quillen and when
her father was pastor of the local
M. P. church, she resided here and
school and is recalled as
then very youthful schoolmate by
the writer. Health considerations
as we'll as changing business condi-
tions are said to have prompted her
to sound the deatn-knell of Keith
as a merchandising center.
Doyle e. Teters visited his broth
er, John Teters, of Cross Roads vi
cinity, and was in the village last
Thursday. He has been q resident
of Canton and an employe of the
Hercules Motor Corporation for two
years. The company awarded him q
Christmas bonus Of $50.
Mrs. Riley Bolinger of the village
was committing between her home
and the home OF Mrs. Rosa Brown,
q short distance west Of Unionville,
for few days last week, the object
being to care for Mrs. Brown, who
is enfeebled and to assist the latter
in preparation for her public sale,
last Monday, which was held on
her 237 acre farm. Mrs. Brown
plans to make her home with the
Bolinger family, here.
Mrs. Viva Mcconnell, who went
to Cincinnati to be near her soldier
who is IN the medical de-
tachmant 1here, RS TF0Sdted p0@
sttfon as sten0gfaphef and ONCE AZ
sistant with the Crosiey Radio cor