Do You Remember
Published in The Spirit of
Democracy dated Thursday, February 22, 1923
When there was only
one bank in Woodsfield?
When Jacob Reinherr ran a bakery on the corner where the
Woodsfield Clothing Store now is?
When Attorney R. F. Sears was a Methodist preacher?
When there were no paved streets in Woodsfield?
When Vic Donahey carried President Harding’s home county?
When men wore leather boots?
When there were lot of people in Ohio in 1920 who voted the
Republican ticket and didn’t vote it in 1922?
When most of the older set of men wore chin whiskers, and stogies
and cigars were seldom seen?
When all ball games were called “Long Town” or “Round Town?”
When mother used the fine tooth comb every morning before we went
to school?
When there was no such thing dreamed of as culling poultry in this county?
When Col. S. Tschappat of Clarington commenced recording and
reporting records of rainfalls?
When David Weber graduated from the Star school in Summit township?
When Aglon Whitacre entered the mercantile business?
When Uncle John Fisher ran a blacksmith shop near the Fleming school
house just north of Buchanan church, and was assisted by his son Isaac,
who was also a wagon maker while Garrison ran the farm?
When Grandmother Laffaree was the leading physician in this community when
she gathered roots and herbs and brewed her own medicine?
When George Feiock drove six horses with a jerk line and a jockey stick
on the lead pair; hauling tobacco to Clarington and store goods on the
return trip?
When George Weber owned Little Jimmie, the crack race horse of his time in the
county; how the men and boys admired Jimmie when George brought home the
bacon?
When H. F. Seebach built the first flying machine and tested it out by flying
from the roof of C. G. Oblinger’s tobacco warehouse--how the wing failed
to work and Henry landed in a pile of wreckage but still full of
determination to fly?
When we had a male quartette composed of Fred Young, Henry Seebach, Louis
Stephens and Fred Knopf--used to sing “Die Wacht Am Rhine,” and “Wier Fahrin
Auf der Eisinbahn So Lang is uns gafelt?”
When J. W. Reeves had the largest hog in town, weighing 600 pounds,
and could not get a barrel large enough to scald it in?
When every family in Lewisville had a cow and pastured them on the public
highway?
Provided by Lena Kahrig Pettit -- e-mail: Lena Pettit