Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1942-01-08
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We drove the hearse for Web
Moore, the day Mrs Carr was bur-
led. Frank Knox has told us that
she was buried in the first vault put
in the Lebanon cemetery. We
couldn't see any way to get a hearse
in there today
Between spells of pain caused
by we know not what, while at
times 1t brings back memories Of
green apple eating-while we have
been reading about flowers in
bloom, we are sure we haven't been
to green apples. We will try to
scribble some Thoughts of the past
that come to us. Someone has said
when you begin looking back, you
are getting old. We well remember
when boy with what pleasure we
listened to old folks tell of events
of their younger days, and wonder
ed if we could ever talk as interest
ingly, and that recalls that one time
our departed friend, H. H. Oglevee,
once said to our wife. 81 can't un-
derstand Byron, he never says any
thing funny, but writes the funniest
stuff / read" Then / had to tell
Ruby that I got paid for writing.
But How Could They Get Them?
If there is any stores who have
fur coats they don't want to carry
over, there is a lot of German SOL
diers who would like to have them.
Conservation
We presume overshoes, size nine
and over, will be hard to get after
while. Since writing the foregoing
we learn lot of rubber goods will
be off the market-rubber shoe
soles, cheaper grades of gloves, hot
water bottles-but the thing that
worries us most, erasers for lead
pencils.
1t May Save Them Time
While we think OF 1t, If you know
who your grand and great grand
parents were write it in a book,
some time some of your children
or grandchildren will want to know,
also when and where they were
born.
While we don't know much
about the oil and gas business, we
do know that some folks will get
rental when the time comes, and
those who refuse to lease will be al
lowed to continue to hold their land
rentless. We also know that all
land needed is under lease. If any
more is leased it will be on the
lessee's terms.
We are sorry that our good
friend Carl Patterson has to be sick.
Carl is one of Morgan eouuty's men
who when he walks down street,
casts an influence for good, even
though he says not a word-but
words of advice and wisdom are al
ways at his command. May he soon
recover and remain a pillar of our
county and country for many years.
We sometimes are led to wonder
about folks who while in our sec
tion are mentioned when they do
anything worth while When they
move to bigger field we scan the
items from there and fail to find
even hint that they live there. A
prominent attorney of our county
seat, now deceased, was credited
with saying II would rather be a
big man in little town, than lit
tie man in a big town."
By letter received from their
son, Elmer, Mr.. and Mrs. Homer
Gerlach learned he was o. k. He
requested them to save the front
page of each of the daily papers,
from which we surmise, while he is
one of the actors, he is not getting
as much news as folks at home.
Snow And Ice Accident
The Dana Wallace car left the
road at the junction of the Bear
Run road and 78, Saturday evening,
running over the bank to the left
breaking off telephone pole, then
into the fence. Mrs. Wallace (Hel-
en- Huffman) suffered facial Iacera-
tions. Mr.. Wallace escaped injury.
After Robert Wilson pulled the car
back onto the road with a tractor,
their home at Chesterhill.
Mrs. Lille Gerlach showed us a
report card which John Whitney
gave Lulu Moore. The card bears
date December IL, 1908, Mutton
burg school," Miss Lulu registered
100 on the department thermom-
eter.
Clarence (Abe) Tolbert, showed
us three pennies and nickel which
were in the fire at their home
which stood on the site where the
former Lafe Lindimore house now
stands in Malta township. The
coins are firmly bound together.
Whether this would prove anything
in the matter of welding metals we
know not. OF course it wouldn't
pay to burn house down to weld
nickel and copper.
January S and August didn't
seem to have the same influence on
thermom in this section. One
had to look we'll down toward to
see the top end of the red line Mon
day morning. On account of the
cold and snow, school buses were
running behind schedule on the
morning trips.
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