Morgan County Democrat. (McConnelsville, Ohio) 1886-1943, 1942-12-24
Rolling Correspondent

/ Minnie Bell, we are Saddened. From
our earliest memory, j. j. and Min
ME Bell resided near our child
hood home. She was an exceptional
woman. Through years of afflic-
tion her mind centered on the old
lneighbors. 1t made us feel glad
7. when told by the daughter, Ber-
nice, that after her speech was i'm
raired she had trouble 10 find cut
what her mother wanted, then
found il was that she read our sec
| ton in the Morgan County Demo-
| crat, which repaid us for all the
extra effort we have ever made to
tell about folks she knew. 1t was
with pleasure we noted her chill
dren chose as pail bearers, men
who had lived near and enjoyed her
spirit of knowledge, wit and so on
Many join with your scribe in ex-
tending sympathy.--We were glad
to find Ben Reed much improved in
health when we called at his home
last week. Ben never seemed as old
as the family Bible recorded. AS
we have noted the signs, Home of
E. M. Stanbery Birthplace OF How
ard Chandler Christy, and so on,
we have wondered if there would
ever be any more Morgan county
folks who would ever be worth
sign. But last week we read some
poetry composed by M. p. Daniel,
blacksmith, school teacher, turkey
raiser and insurance agent, which
leads US to wonder if he should not
have a sign at the light saying 'One
mile to the M. p. Daniel home, the
oet.--Recently we called on our
friend Ed Choguill, near Todds. He,
like your scribe, is too old for army
service, and not able for the ar
duous work Of the farm, but has to
do it. Perhaps he can get a teach
ing job, if they get to the place
where they want teachers who
know, rather than where they have
beehive have a good friend who
said to a neighbor, "He thought we
were queer" (meaning him), land
we thought him queer (meaning
u.s.. If our being queer makes him
like us, as we do him, we are glad.
I'm our travels last week we met
our friend Mrs. Ollie McKitrick, Of
Penn township. We have never
forgotten how good she was to her
uncle and aunt, Mr.. and Mrs. Thos.
Van Horn, when we were caring for
the former--In our leasing we have
found some folks who can't see past
the rental, to see the snags in some
leases. while we are now with
the board that Says "McConnels-
Vile Corporation we can't see
much difference in our health.
While we find we can have water
without going away down, or up
street, we miss the folks we chat
ted with in our spare time at Stock
port. We feel we are better situat-
ed. II our friends at Stockport |
want us to write any legal papers
we can come down and back on the
train. The said train goes the |
wrong way for Stockport folks
We were glad to note the improve
ment in the health of our friend /
and neighbor, Mrs. Olive Broedel. I
While we haven't seen our friend |
Lossie Glenn, yet, we have inquired !
about him. He is one man who
has been an incentive to us to try !
harder to be somebody. We notice |
jumbo eggs are not worth so much.
If you have any, Lossie, don't let
them cheat you. Bring them in at
one cent above what they offer you.
While we have not had time to
the land around about where
we sleep, we find we are south OF
the store of the man whose ad
folks read even though they never
saw him or his store. On the east
we find Carlos Riecker, whom we
call judge, but who we who have
known him since when his legs
were hardly long enough to reach
the ground, and he viii be Carlos to
us when he gets to the supreme
rt.-At this time we are like
The man they told about, who al
tended a protracted meeting, when
the preacher asked him If he didn't I
want to work for the Lord, said II I
have job with Deedrick now, T
when l get through with him ! /
might take another job" am .
working now, but # you have any /
notary work, see us. When we I
can't do that, VIC win be interested I
ln what have you. Let us work-let +
others have pensions, and relief
We looked in on the Catholic ladies T
market Dec. 10, From the amount f
Of food on hand we thought we I
could get what we wanted when T
ready to come home. When we re-
and they were $40 to the good
After thinking it over we feel that |
Rolling Correspondent will be more
for our scribbling than
any other. If you know anything
we should write, tell us and we will |
be glad TO all our friends, the
sick and shutins first, then to all
the rest, merry Christmas and
Happy New Year. We are in re-
ceipt of letter from Rev. Eugene
Pierce, former Morgan
county boy, now minister of Grace
Methodist church, Newburgh, N. Y.
The death of Abram Hogue, of
Penn township, took another of our
friends. We were sorry we didn't
get to call at the home. Thinking
it may keep our friend Vickroy
from getting homesick. let us tell
him that It's powerful cold at the |
seat this Sunday night Dec |