The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1911-03-30
FRIENDSVILLE.
Still winter does not want to let 90.

Still winter does not want to let go.
The band was out serenading Satur-
day night and everybody spoke in high
est praise of their playing.
Miss Effie Fox spent short vacation
| IN UniOntOWn, Pa, returning on Mon
day.
Word was received Sunday morning
by telegraph that John H. Cuppett, of
Death was due to typhoid fever. Mr..
Cuppett was well known here, as for
years he was successful merchant Of
our town. He was always kind, court
eOus and a gentleman. He had host
of friends and all extend their sympathy
to the widow and her two sons in their
hour of affiiction.
The surveyors for the new road will
be here this or next week. They would
have been on the ground soon, but for
the bad weather. However word was
sent from headquarters that they will
start the survey as soon as the weather
viii permit.
We hear that there is prospectsof the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad extending
their line to Oakland.
Orval jenkins has had beautiful new
sign hung outside his restaurant.
Tom Fike returned home from Bal
more on Friday.
George Kolb was visitor to Accident
for few days last week.
Mrs. Salathlel Savage is out again
after her long siege of sickness.
Miss Iva Savage returned home the
latter part of last week from Pittsburg.
where she had undergone a surgical OPP
Grafton at the Mercy Hospital.
Rev. Jasper Frantz came home for a
visit to his mother last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Smith. of Nor
gantoWn, are visiting at Ami Frank
houser and family with Mr.. and Mrs.
Howard Wolf. They leave Tuesday
for home.
The public school will close for this
term on Friday of this week.
We are to have normal school here
this summer.
And now what do you think of a fac
tory for canning fruit, vegetables, etc?
This town is far from beng a back num-
ber We have enterprising business
people here who don t have to consider
long when a good thing is proposed to
them. Mention of cannery for can
ming vegetables, ETC., was made in last
week s REPUBLICAN, and our people be-
came very enthusiastic over it and a
company will be formed Immediately
with sufficient capital raised to start
first class concern and work pushed so
everything will be ready for this sea
sons crop. And now a word to the
farming community, and those who have
truck patches, large and small: 1t is up
to YOU to raise the required fruit or
vegetables to make this q success. /
There is no crop that the farmer can
raise that will bring in as much money
per acre as growing vegetables when
YOU have market for them, as this will
be
Mrs. Jessie Frazee returned Monday
from q visit to her daughter Mrs. Paul
at Unamis, where she spent several days.
Why not make use Of our clay depOs-
its. This would make a capital location
for a brick yard.
II is getting time to do the cleaning
up around our dwellings, after the hard
winter and while we are doing that don |
forget our cemetery. Let US appoint
time and get out there and fix it up.
You can tell what kind Of q town you
are entering by the way your cemetery
is taken care Of. If you have no loved |
ones resting there, don't forget that |
the time must come when we will be |
laid there with our dear ones.
There are not enough REPUBLICAN |
papers coming to this town and vicinity. |
We think it would pay a representative |
of the greatest weekly to visit our city |
and stir up things. The news items |
from here generally take in the whole !
business and are just as good as if we |
had q paper right here. Subscribe citi- |
zens and keep posted on the news Of the |
day.
The band talks Of erecting a stand |
for the purpose of giving evening con-
certs during the summer months.
There seems to have been quite
prize fight few miles out of town, al
though we don't think fists were used
as weapons. We heard pitchforks and
rocks We're resorted to. Maybe it would !
pay some one to come here and teach
the manly art, but for our part we
would sooner kiss and make up.