The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-02-09

PIC llObHSi as my WIG. mFS helb-
Fer was surp Used and astonished, as it
twas the first intimation she had of
such a game being played. When
Lee Roy left home Sunday morning
he told his mother he would not be
back for dinner as he was going to
spend the day with a friend-Graf-
ton Sentinel.
This is what neigh bOring exchange
say about public spirited citizen and
what he can do for his town: The
| prosperity of a town, village or city
is not guided by thu wealth of its in
habitants, but by the uniformity
with which they pull together when
Ian important duty is to be accom-
}plished A man with thousand dol
lars at his command and an interest
in the welfare of his town at heart
will do more for the building and i'm
provement of it than a millionaire
who locks up his capital and snaps
his finger at home progress.
Seventy five Anne rican women met
in Havana on the 25th ult. to arrange
sor memorial of the destruction of
4 the battle ship Maine, on Feb. Is.
Mrs. Estes G. Rathbone presided, and
a letter from Capt. Sigsbee was read,
suggested as features of the pro
gramme prayer, singing if desired,
address by one or two prominent
persons, and a volley fired over the
graves by battalion of marines from
the United States battle ship Texas.
Capt Sigsbee wrote that he had
granted the request Of deputation
of sailors and marines of the Texas to
be allowed to decorate the graves.
Depu ty Sheriff w A. Brown, who
went to Baltimore few weeks ago
to receive treatment at the Univer-
sity Hospital for bladder trouble,
was operated upon and had intended
coming home on last Friday but was
taken with relapse and is again
confined to bed in the hospital. In
a letter received by Sheriff Lee a
few days ago Mr.. Brown has little
hope of recovering and stated that
h S present condition 5 much
worse than it was when he entered
the hospital. He has many friends in
Oakland who will be sorry to know of
his condition. We trust, however,
that he will recover speedily and re-
turn to Oakland.
The outlook for a very good wheat
crop next year is promising No re
ports of a contrary nature have yet
been heard. There has been con
siderable hard freezing without snow
on the ground, but it seems of late
years that such freezing does not ma
terially affect the growing cereal.
lola timers say that from 40 to 80
years ago, and even less there was
great deal of grain lost by hard freez-
ing. Sometimes whole wheat fields
have been rooted out. This can be
accounted for by the Iooseness of the
ground then, when it was new and
more susceptible to the expanding
process of the frost.
Local sportsmen will be interested
in the present bills before the West
Virginia Legislature relative to the
repeal and amendment Of the game
laws of that state. Since 1896 a law
has been in force prohibiting the kill
ing of deer and was to continue till
| 1908. One bill now before the legis-
| lature amends the present law and
| limits the time for hunting all small
| game to two months and deer to a
month and half Another bill is to
| allow game to be shot and shipped
out of the state for commercial pur-
poses, and still another bill gives the
fish and game warden $1,000 a year
instead of a bonus and title which
is now his sole recompense. Since
the passage of the deer law that ami
NAL has increased wonderfully and if
permitted to remain ON the statutes
there will be no danger Of the animal
becoming exterminated.
Away back during the years before
the war of the Rebellion when all of
the voting population of this section
of the county used to go to Sang Run
and vote, they had lively elections,
more so than they have now The
contests were not any more vigorously
| fought, but the scenes incident to
voting were fraught with much more
| genuine knocking. Men, now is the
shady side of life, tell how, when boys,
they participated in making an old
fashioned election interesting. From
all parts of the county men in squads
would go to Sang Run in the after
noon to vote. There would be fac
lions on both sides, of course, and gen
orally before the day closed black eyes
would be about as numerous as bal
lots. We didn't have the Australian
ballot then to preserve the fairness
of regular contests.