The Zanesville Lions will be having their annual Halloween Party on Monday evening, Oct. 30th. Get your costumes ready so you can win a cash prize. After the judging, the Lions will serve you free hot dogs, chili, chips, cookies and punch. You can then stay to play free bingo for great prizes. All ages are welcome to attend.
Regular happenings are going on in Zanesville. Check with the new business “Just Add Chips” as they are extending their hours and will be open a little later than usual. The Kinseys, who own the business, have also moved their family to the apartment upstairs at their business. Stop in and get acquainted with this now Zanesville family.
If you have not been a customer of the County Line Pizza and Pub you will want to check out their great place to eat in town check to see their open hours.
Of course, you can get lots of prepared food at Lengerich Meats as they have a large variety in their showcase. They are open six days a week and are known all over for their meats.
The Tower Life Center Church on Wayne Street has announced that they have begun having a “worship Night” series for the 2023-24 season. Everyone is welcome to attend these meetings that will be held at the church. The special services are scheduled for the second Wednesday of each month through the month of May 2024. The next service in the series will be at 7 p.m. at the church on Oct. 11.
The churches of Zanesville are all three open to all who want to attend any services and special activities happening at their sites. You are all welcome.
In the midst of so many things to do in September, I spent a few days attending my sister Mary Lou McBride Burkhart’s estate sale down towards Huntington on Hosler Road. She collected lots of family things so I wanted to buy some if they were included in the sale. I found 10 or 15 old books with my dad’s name in them, some had my grandpa Dr. J.L. McBride in them, and also some were old school books of my Uncle Dr. Maurice McBride.
One in particular was a numbered library book from the library of Ida Taylor who ran a library in her home here in Zanesville many years ago. The home still stands, was built in 1904, and sets on the corner of Wayne and Broadway. To historians it is know as the Dr. Botts house. Dr. Botts was married to Ida Taylor.
I loaded a box of books and they agreed to bring them up for sale. Another young man was looking at them and I thought, “Oh, no! It looks like he is very interested in making a bid.” I had to think for a while of what I was willing to spend on family history. The bidding started and the young man was bidding against me! He went as high as $85 and then he stopped.
A few more things sold and then this young man came over and I supposed he wanted to buy one of the books he was interested in. Not so! He had in his hand a roll of bills which he gave to me and said he was paying for my books as he never intends to bid against family. Thank you Jared Foote, I will be calling him soon to let him know how much I am enjoying these books.
Of special interest to me was the book on Teddy Roosevelt who my father idolized. My father Don McBride’s name was inside the cover. I need to read much of it as my Dad was known to tell tall tales and one was about Teddy Roosevelt’s Poncho Villa and my Dad going up San Wan Hill so I need to verify this and I might just find an answer.
I will be forever thankful that my father loved history and loved to tell us all about it. Without his input we could not have compiled the Zanesville 1976 History Book that I am still selling for just the copy price. We have sold about 1,500 of them and I get compliments on the publication all the time. I may have a few copies available at Pioneer Days in Huntington at my booth inside.
The day before the sale I noticed a pile of some kind of egg shaped hunks of heavy metal. Memory served me well as I remembered Dad having them at the barn. They were all rusted and there were different weights in the pile. I told the auctioneer, who didn’t know what they were, that they were weights for bulls horns. You put the horn inside and tightened them with two screws. With these hanging on the horns the horns grew down not straight out.
My Dad was an old fashioned farmer or I wouldn’t have known this and we had some pretty scary bulls! In fact, we had a set of blinders that kind of look like a women’s bra made of metal. If Dad looked at a pretty woman my brother Dave, when he was little, would remind Mom to, “Get the blinders.” Now you can look these up on your computer.
I purchased other things at the sale. The sugar scoop to my mother’s sugar bowl that now belongs to our son’s family along with her Seller’s cabinet, and her sugar cookie cutter that will be added to the cabinet’s collection. My Mother bought the cabinet in 1931 from her brother for $30 when she married my father.
The sale went well and how interesting as my sister had lots of things tagged for history. I need to do that too!
