The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1909-12-02
GARRETT COUNTY CEREALS
SWEEP THE STATE
At the Horticultural Society Meeting
in Baltimore Yesterday.

from State Senator w. McCulloh Brown,
president of the Maryland Horticultural
Society, stating that Garrett county, as
usual, was away ahead of other portions
of the State in winning prizes at the
Society meeting now in session in Balti-
more.
MIR. Browns telegram, while not go
ing into details, was to the effect that
Garrett county won the sweepstakes
prize for wheat, first prizes for oats,
buckwheat and barley and second and
third prizes for corn.
/ Competing, as Garrett county did,
against the whole state on wheat, it is
indeed a source of qualification for
every farmer to learn that this county
has won everything for its exhibit of
this staple grain, and also to know that
the first prizes have been awarded,Gar-
rett county growers for oats, buck
wheat and barley.
For your Christmas baking try Pills
bury Best -four. For this week only
IS cents sack. Baumgartner
Mr.. Philip T. Peddicord, a student at
Parkersburg, W. Va, where he is tax
ing business course, spent Thanksgiv-
ing in Oakland with his parents Mr.
and Mrs. j. c. Peddicord.
Dr. Henry w. McComas returned to
Oakland Saturday night from Baltimore
where he went to receive treatment for
an ailment both serious and painful.
He is very much better and has re-
sumed his practice.
Miss Ellen Cornell, of the Baltimore
Store, went to Baltimore last Friday
morning to which city she accompanied
her sister, Mrs Dennis Glover. of Hut
ton, who has become patient in one
of the hospitals there
The revival services which are in
progress in the Baptist church IN Loeb
Lynn are gaining in int crest daily and
will be continued during this week and
probably the next. The pastor is being
assisted by Mrs. John E. Garrett, of
Baltimore, and Rev. |. G. McEndoe, of
Mt. Lake Park
For your Christmas baking try Pills
bury Best -four For this week OILY
IS cents a sack. Baumgartner's
Mr.. }. NJ. Crane and "Buckwheat"
Jackson, both of Kingwood, the latter
editor of the Preston News, were in
Oakland last Friday where they attend
ed the K. of P District meeting. Others
present from Preston county were W.
w. Shcch, R S. Hollis and several
others belonging to the Rowlesburg
lodge
At the National Horticultural Society
meeting held in Council Bluffs, Iowa,
last week, fruits and vegetables of
Maryland were exhibited and won many
prizes. A gold medal was awarded for
cauifower grown by Messrs. H. Weber
& Sons, the Oakland florists and gar
deners, being the only prize of this
character awarded at the show.
Mr.. Robert c. McCandlish, treasurer
of the Inter State Trust Company,
spent Wednesday afternoon at Han
cock with his nephew, Mr. Robert j.
McCandlish, cashier of the First Ma
tional Bank. Mr. McCandlish went to
Berkeley Springs in the evening and
spent Thanksgiving with Mrs McCand-
fish, who is sojourning there. Cumber-
land News.
Mr.. Lincoln Calls, of Mountain Lake
Park, has circulated petition address
ed to the Board of County Commission
ers asking for the appointment of con-
stable for the 18th and 14+h districts.
The petition has been very generously
signed by many leading Republicans
and will be presented to the Commits
sioners when that body meets next
Tuesday.
DIR. sB. Frank Selby returned from
balIliloIc yesterday HlOTnlflS whence
he accompanied Mrs. Selby last We'd
nesday morning where the latter under
went surgical operation in the Mary
land University Hospital Friday of last
week. Her condition when DR.. Selby
left her bedside Tuesday evening was
most encouraging and her speedy res
toration to health is looked forward to
with pleasure by her family and friends.
In a sensational attempt to enter the
home of T. H. Davis, near Washington,
ID. C., young man giving his name as
David Fulford, supposedly a burglar,
became lodged in the chimney and "all
the kings horses and all the king
mem could not pull him out again.
The position of the intruder was so
painful that he was compelled to veil
for assistance, the family being
awakened by his cries. A vain attempt
was made to pull him out of the chin
ney feet foremost. A similar unsuc-
cesstul attempt was made to haul him
up by means of a rope let down from