The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1914-11-05
OUT OF TOWN HAPPENINGS
A Variety of Interesting Paragraphs
for Republican Readers.

Even the weather went dry last Tues
day
Everybody up this way is singing the
long meter doxology.
George Turner, of Avilton, last Sat
urdaY lost one of his fine horses. 1t
was valued at $3.50.
Miss Gladys Hamill, of KitzmiIler,
/ spent the week end with Miss Mary
Davis at Frostburg.
Miss Maggie Cleary and Mr.. Jacob
Stump were the only candidates for the
post Office examination at Bloomington
Mrs. Elizabeth Albright, step-mother
of W. A. Smith of Hoyes, is quite i'll at
the home of her daughter, in Pittsburgh,
Pa.
Everybody is shaking hands with
Senator Speicher when they meet him.
Do you wonder at them doing SO? There
/ is reason for it.
Mrs. Clary, of Deer Park, who has
been visiting friends at Antioch, W.
Va, is now the guest of her daughter,
Mrs. J. F. Gravson, at Cumberland.
/ Daniel Switzer has returned to his
home at Eglon, from Baltimore where
he had been in hospital for some time,
but received no benefit as his condition
is about the same.
A number of Grantsville ladies' took
an active part in the local option cam
paign last Tuesday. They kept a re-
5pectful distance from the polling both,
but did excellent work.
Hunters get your guns in shape as
the hunting season will soon begin, as
it is reported that game is plentiful
this season. Be careful, avoid accidents
and don't violate trespass laws.
The school house at Hutton was Slight
~ damaged by fire yesterday afternoon,
Loss about $50. The origin OF fire is
supposed to be from spark from the
Crelin Lumber Co.'S engine.
Mr.. Cramer was in Eglon few days
ago for the purpose, of buying lumber
from Mr.. Tanner, who has saw mill
in the glades and has bought fine tract
of timber there which will take some
time to work up.
Are all the children going to school?
The greatest gift parents can bestow
upon their children is a good education.
You make great mistake every day
you keep your boy or girl away from
the school room.
The state road from the stone house
to Plney Grove has been completed.
This completes the state road to Cum
berland Everybody is delighted in
having this work finished. 1t will now
be pleasure to drive to Cumberland
instead of hardship.
The Reitz applebutter factory Of
Salisbury, Pa, has been running day
and night for the past several weeks,
and many barrels of cider have been
made, as well as thousands of gallons
of applebutter, many farmers coming
from Avilton and New Germany.
According to the contractors, the
Wang Construction Company, the con-
crete work on the new three-mile sec
ton of road on the National Pike from
the Six Mile House to Narrows Park
has been completed, but the road will
not be open for traffic for about ten
section, which is fourteen feet wide.
two feet and half OF earth is being
leveled off and rolled even with the
serface of the concrete road, adding
about five feet to the width of the road.
In other words there will be about two
feet and half of rolled earth road on
either side of the concrete work. This
will afford all the room necessary for
automobiles and other vehicles to pass
safely. This will practically complete
this portion of the Cumberland road, -
or Old Trails road, from Cumberland to
the Pennsylvania State Line, thence to
Wheeling The first road built by the
government was this Old Trail road.
the most historical and picturesque
highway on this continent, and is to
form part of the great Ocean to
Ocean" highway, no where upon which
is there more beautiful scenery than
that between Frostburg and Grants
vile.