Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1942-01-29
Meigs

While We have often thought
that if the Republicans on the east
side of the river were real smart
| they would vote the Democrat tick
| ct, yet we never realized until re-
| Gently that it could be possible that
| there is no one on this side capable
Of serving on the county election
| board. If there is anyone on the
! east side who has been a loyal
GOPer who feels an urge to ill
| the place, you had better get the
executive committee member s
| name on the dotted line. Hurry is
the word. It's very sad, but it's
too late, the west side has it.
While it is out of our territory,
we can't help telling you that Ches-
ter A. Kidd has purchased the for
mer Charley Mummey farm of 10
acres in Meigsville township. The
Kidds have resided on the farm for
some time, and have been good to
our friends Jimmy and Eta Beatty,
and we are glad they are to con-
tinue.
At the Ethan Hall home we were
shown a mold for making of clay
pipes. 1t seems they figured on
pleasing all pipe smokers as it was
made to make both straight and
crooked stem models.
The Frank Meyer sale was We'll
attended Goods offered brought
good prices. One bunch of ewes,
not bred, brought $7.85 per head
Mr. Meyer who suffered stroke
and had his hand badly burned
the home of his brother at New
Matamoras.
School Enrolment Down
The enrolment in the Bristol
school is down to IA Last year it
was "a. When told this our mem
ory went back to the time when we
had 65 in the Meigs school, with
10 other schools in the township.
Then we got to counting and we
found in our count 80 houses that
were in the township that are gone
and 1913 that have no children in
the grade school. Most of the de-
crease from last to this year is at
tributed to folks moving to get
employment in defense work
VIM. Cain, former Bristol resi-
dent, is reported quite i'll at the
state hospital, Athens.
We couldn't help wondering Sat
urday if one of the good preachers
of the town was preparing SER
mon from the text, ''Let your light
SO shine" Anyway if he told his
parishioners to let their light shine,
we got to tell him to turn his light
off-in broad daylight.
We are in receipt of card from
Forest Tomson, who with Mrs.
Tomson is at Tampa, Florida. He
said: eyes, the paper caught up
with us; will be here and at st.
Petersburg for some time; nice and
warm here. Will write you a letter
soon. Mr.. and Mrs. Howard Hoop
er are here. We are all o. k We
hope this finds you and all we'll"
We are anxiously awaiting the let
ter
Monday of last week we called
on Perl and Alma Lindimore, Lafe
Lindimore and sister Amanda
Smith We found Perl and Alma
feeling well. Lafe, while slipping,
said he was feeling first rate. MOI
gan county folks have to hand it 10
Mandy for knowing the past and
present She can switch from the
past to the present with as much
ease as do our modern fluid drive
automobiles. We always come
away wiser. Here's hoping they
may all be spared many years.
We meant to say in writing Of
the marriage of Guy and June Rad
cliff that Guy held the honor for
long time of being the only native
born resident of our village. The
two children of Mr.. and Mrs. Earl
Ellis now have the honor.
We have heard much about
heredity. Of course most of it was
tracing a black sheep back to some
other black one, who had kicked
over the traces. In our talk with
Mandy Smith we discussed natural
musicians, which of course brought
us to David and Bill, whose fiddling
has touched many Even the rheu-
matte tried to shake a leg when
they played. To our inquiry-how
come she said grandfather Jenkins
was not only fine violinist, but he
knew good instruments.
Letter from Cal Hauke and Wife
We are in receipt of card from
Mr.. and Mrs. Cal Hauke Coma
Lyle), Ramona, Calf. They say:
"You wonder who reads the Meigs
items in the Democrat. Well we
do and always find them interest
ing and we hope you will continue
reporting for many years. 1t has
been AZ years since we left Morgan
county, and we have taken the
Democrat most Of those years. We