The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1910-12-08
SWANTON.

Thanksgiving feast and observance, her
dinner was chioce and her gratitude be-
You'd measure; but the occurrence being
annual makes the time long and dreary
between meals. Notwithstanding the
biting air and dark night a large as
semblage was in the brightly lighted
and well warmed M. E. church waiting
announcements suitable to the day.
Cheerful music, several recitations and
two addresses followed the customary
deyotions impressively conducted.
The B. & 0. contractors erecting ad-
ditional railway facilities between Swan
ton and Piedmont, have finished the
chief part of the original design and
have removed all their forces, except
small crews constructing concrete walls
required in places too narrow to allow
requisite space for widening the road
bed. This costly improvement does not
mean a continuous third track from
| Swanton to Piedmont, but sidings at
| intervals along that route over an enor-
nous grade convenient to switch off
slow trains for the right of way of faster
| and more important trains.
Mr.. Charles J. Golden, who has been
on protracted visit to eastern states
and cities, is back at his home.
Mr.. C. Lansdale West of Baltimore,
who has been sojourning in Swanton for
recuperation of health, has returned
to Baltimore.
Miss Bessie A. Miller, of Providence.
Rhode Island, this week ended a visit
to her ancestral home in Swanton to re-
sumo her duties in a position in Provi-
dence.
Since the formation of Garrett never
has game been so scarce nor so difficult
to find as in the hunting term of TIE fall
just ended. Very few hunters were in
duced to go out.at all, audit is question
able if the number of pheasants killed
will exceed dozen in this entire com
munity noted in previous years for its
abundance Of that superior game.
And, Mr.. Editor, readers of your col
umns, and citizens of every class and
shade of opinion greatly deplore the de-
mise Of the widely known attorney, Mr..
Thomas !. Peddicorj, of Oakland, and.
it may be safe to say. that in the his
tory of Garrett no similar sorrow has
reached so many hearts and homes.
The passing Of Attorney Peddicord
from the conspicuous place held by him
in the walks Of men leaves a vacancy
which no one to day in sight can fill.
Time and prominence have so impressed
| his individuality upon our county seat
and its legal proceedings that it will be
saddening in the future to view them
without him. From the time Garrett
first declared her place among the coun-
ties Of Maryland Mr.. Peddcord has
been known and admired in every class
of intellectual discussion no less from
the public rostrum than before the
bench Of this State 1t is said he was
IN the first case of our first court and in
the last case held before a judge prior
to his death, and with but a few excep-
tions, appeared on one of the two sides
of every case of the Garrett docket.
His professional pursuits were a wide
range and lead him in most every rami-
| fication reached in a lawyers practice.
And in all, through the deepest and
dimest arch ways of the law. he bore
the flame of a safe explorer. His
memory seemed superior to every strain
| imposed upon it, and in trials with clouds
Of witnesses and confusing testimony
his memory, unsupported by a note,
| would never fail him. Facts and decla-
rations were fixed on his retentive mind
ready for the slightest deviations of the
witness. Such are some OF the attri-
butes Of this splendidly gifted lawyer
as seen through eyes of one who has
known Ultimately through the long span
| of that lawyer career in Garrett. At
ter his work was done, and the close OF
rich achievements in the profession
adorned by his magnificent abilities,
surely neither the time nor the place
for the final departure could have been
better chosen. In the mellow season
when the dropping autumn leaves teach
the mutability of all earthly things;
soothed by love and ministered to by
skill, at peace with men and looking to
the light of the believers trust over
the paths of the valley, he crossed the
one divide between the shadow of this
world and the glory of the changeless
Kingdom.
Miss Beatrice Hayward, of Bond, is
forming a music class at Swanton, Civ
ing instructions upon organ, violin and
piano. RELLIM.