The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1905-02-02
FOR TOWN BOOMING.
The Organization of A Progressive
Commercial Club.

Commercial Club.
Many plans have been devised to
further the interests of small towns
and cities. The most common plan
and the one which has proved the
most successful is the organization of
commercial clubs in which all bust
ness men of the community co-ope-
rate for the common good of all, says
the Home Trade Advocate.
Commercial clubs are almost a ne
cessity in any town where harmony is
desired among the different business
classes in the carrying out of plans
for town improvement, securing of
enterprises of various kinds and the
general good of all. There is no rea-
son why these clubs in their member
ship should be confined to the resi-
dents of the town.
The farmers in the neighborhoo1
are as deeply interested in the sue
cess of town enterprises as are the
business men of the place, or at least
they should be, for what will help
along the town toward prosperity
will also help the farmer.
But in many localities there is SEN
timent that the interests of the far
mer and the business men are not par
allel. 1t is necessary that this feeling
be obliterated as far as possible, be-
cause there is no logical foundation
for it.
The better the town is the better
the local market for the farmers pro-
duce, the more equitable will be tax
alton and the better education facili-
ties All these are matters that con-
Germ the farmer in the immediate
neigbborhood of the town.
Many business men feel that 4
membership in clubs organized fog
promotion of town industries should
be confined to business men; that per.
haps the farmer would not be in &C.
cord with the town resident in i'm
provements. This is an error. 1t is
lack of confidence in the good judg.
ment of the average farmer.
Then again the farmer sometimes
thinks that he is not welcoule in an
association of business men. There
is no good reason why these senti
ments should exist. 1t is only by q
harmonious pulling together of the
| residents of the rural districts and The
business menthat the greatest gooC
can be brought about Cor the home
town.
The newsPape REACHES everybody
1t is the one agency which touches al
the people all the time. The scholar
cannot get along without it, the day
labOrer has 1T for his sole intellectual
food. Rich, poor. wise, ignorant
young, old-eyerybOdy reads the
newspaper, and it is the only form OF
literature of which this may be said
Thus the opportunity of the press i:
unlimited. 1T has the public ear. Ii
it any woGder, therefore, that nation
al ideals age, consciously or unconsci
ously mol&ed by the press?
The contract for the Masonic monu
ment to be erected liz Cumberland tc
the memory of DIR. Charles H. Ohr
past grand master, has been awarded
to the J. b. Williams Company Frost
burg. 1t Will be unveiled May 16. The
monument wall be of Barre granite
sarcophagus design. 1t will weigh II
tons, stand & feet and have a bast
of about 6 by feet, surmounted by
a subbase containing in relief "Ohr"
The central piece has four columns
with handsomely carved capitals, sup
porting an imposing eapstone engiav
ed with Masonic emblems and the in
scription, Erected by the Masons Of
Maryland" The monument com
plete will have the appearance of a
Masonic altar. On the die will be q
bronze tablet. suitably inscribed.