The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-01-08

street, is prepared to accommodate a
few boarders. Rates reasonable. If
The sessions of the Farmers Insti-
stitute held at Accident Monday and
in Oakland Tuesday and yesterday
were all well attended and interest
ing to surprising degree.
What has become of the big hog
stories? None of them have reached
us this year. Usually by this time
there are several people claiming the
belt for big porkers.
Mr.. Chas. D. Smith, of Oakland,
who went over to Parsons, W. Va, a
week or two ago, has been appointed
Prosecuting Attorney for Tucker
county bv the County Court, fact
which is pleasing to many of his
friends in Oakland
A Wheeling policeman has been
shot by a worthless cuss who was
carrying a revolver when the police
man hailed him. Most stringent en-
forcement Of the laws against carry
ing concealed weapons seems to be
needed to put a stop to the fatal
habit.
A telephone line is being built from
Keyser up the line of the West Vir-
ginia Central Railroad to Barnum,
Shaw, Blaine, Elk Garden and other
points. The line will probably be eI-
tended to German where a connec-
ton with the Garrett County Tele-
phone lines may be made which will
put Oakland in close communication
with her sister towns on the southern
border of the county.
Messrs. j. M. Davis & Son have re-
ceived in the past ten days two car
loads of nails and wire for fencing
purposes. One car contained con-
signment of "Pittsburg Perfect
fence which is constructed on entirely
different lines from other fences.
The wires being electrically welded
both stay and strand become one
piece of steel and the user gets double
strength at the joints. This fence is
made in six heights from 22t inches
up to SO inches, with stays ~ inches
apart. The price is low considering
the construction and saving of labor
in erecting it. 1t
No two thermometers hereabouts
appear to be able to agree. Each one
hoe N J;Horon+ toIo to +on Ae+bov
are all in the same business it would
appear to be the proper thing, in this
day of combines, for them to get to-
gether and form a trust. and agree to
tell the same story. Then people may
believe them; but when one says ten
above, another six, and another four,
others still two below, the whole
batch of them is discredited, and we
have to rely on the frost on our nose
and in our toes to tell just how chilly
we ought to feel. Evidently Their
mometers need to get together and
to agree on tale, and then stick to it,
The numerous exhibits Of apples at
the Farmers Institute in Oakland
yesterday deserves more than a pass
ing notice. Those exhibited by Mr.
Henry Sines, which were grown upon
his farm in the Sixth District, were
among the largest apples ever pro-
duced. They were of the Fallow-
water or Lady Blush variety and six
specimens were exhibited. One of
the number weighed % ounces and
measured fifteen inches in circumfer-
ence. They were fayorably COM
mented upon by the lecturers who
stated that in all their experience and
after visiting every section of the
country they had never seen any
thing approaching them either in
size or appearance. Mr.. Mahlon
Schooley also exhibited several varie-
ties which were close second. All
the exhibits were commendable and
easily outranked the fruit grown in
what is known horticulturally as the
fruit belt
Speaking of newspapers Sam Jones
says: eff l wanted to get a right
square judgment I'd rather go in a
newspaper Office than in court of
justice. No man whose life is true,
pure and just is afraid of the news
paper press of America. They are the
best detective force in the country to-
day. They have punctured more
shams, and so far as | am concerned,
l say take off the bride and let them
go. The only ones that will be hurt
will be the shams and frauds. If you
want a paper to abandon any special
thing connected with the business
side of the paper, be consistent, put
up the money for that part of the
business or shut your mouth. Usual
ly the people who help to support a
paper the least are the biggest kick
ers. Whenever you see lot of papers
and people after another paper try
ing to injure it. you may put it down
once for all that paper is after some
existing rottenness and is doing
good"
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