The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1914-11-26
OUT OF TOWN HAPPENINGS
A Variety of Interesting Paragraphs
for Republican Readers.


Thanksgiving service.
J. A. Lantz, of Aurora, Is visiting
his daughters, Mrs. 0. C. Wilt and Mrs.
Claud Maxwell. at CIarksburg, W. Va.
Mrs. Frank Frszee, of Selbysport,
visited her old home at Ear, W. Va,
and was the guest of Ezra Turney and
family.
Merchant Smith, of Hoyes, shipped
last Friday five live and twenty dressed
turkeys to Connellsville, Pa, on a
telephone order.
The prospects for good work at the
mines at Bayard look blue. The men
have only,,worked three days this month.
Several wild turkeys were killed in this
vicinity the past week
Miss Hattie Haas. of Eglon has gone
to Marietta, O., where she expects to
spend the winter with her sister, Mrs
j. B. Mccormick. Mrs. Haas will join
her there after visit with relatives at
Aurora.
Mr.. and Mrs. Simon Miller, daughter
and Miss Cora Miller, of Springs, Pa,
motored to Aurora. where they are
spending few days with Mrs. Miller's
brother, Jacob Beachy, and other
relatives.
Horses and mules valued at 81, 499. 900
have been shipped from the National
stock Yards at St. Louis. Mo, to the
French and British government since
the war began, according to state
ment given out.
The farmers all over Garrett county
ought to make preparation for bump
er oats crop next spring. also for an
increased buckwheat crop. The war
in the far east will create a large de-
mand for all kinds of grain and pro-
duce.
Slas Beachy, one of Garrett county s
most active farmers. shipped car of
cattle east, from Jennings. The cattle
got as far as Cumberland, when they
were halted by quarantine officers and
returned to Jennings, where they were
unloaded.
Rev. S. K Fike and daughter Miss
Anna of Cordcva, Md, are visiting
friends and relatives at Eglon. After
a short visit Mr.. Fike expects to re-
turn home, but Miss Anna will spend
the winter with her grandparents, Mr..
and Mrs. P. S. Fike.
On Nov. Goth, Thanksgiving night,
Miss Lucille Hammond, of Keyser. will
give a recital at the Mt. Zion church,
beginning at 73O. Tickets are on sale,
10 cents for adults, 10 cents for children.
One-half of proceeds will go on pastor S
salary. Let everybody attend.
Mrs. David Schoentag of Grantsvlle,
was taken to Cumberland Sunday, in
the Stein ambulance to the Allegany
Hospital, suffering with typhoid fever.
A. the hospital last night she was said
to be resting as we'll as could be ex-
pected.
The butchering of home grown hogs
is now the order and every day one OF
more families in the town carefully
prepare bountiful supply of pork for
the coming year With plenty OF
sausage, buckwheat cakes and maple
syrup life "Mongst the Hills of Garrett
is decidedly worth while.
Mr.. Tommy Tanner of Eglon, gave
sport to a number of the men working
on his saw mill, accompanied by some
of the town people, by buying a bee
tree of Mr.. Jacob Slaubaugh, about six
miles from Eglon, and motored to where
it stood and chopped it down, from
which they obtained quite few pounds
of honey.
Some of our Garrett county farmers
are fixing up their properties for
comfort and convenience and others
are building new homes. Among the
latter is Dick Swauger of New
Germany. Jessie Merrill, of Avilton, is
putting cellar under his home and in
the future can take better care of his
crop of vegetables.
The Garrett county farmers have
right on their farms everything needed
for the Thanksgiving dinner and plenty
of it. Garrett county grown celery;
Garrett county cranberries, Garrett
county apple butter, Garrett county
honey, and in vegetables about every
thing that is good and eatable. So let
our farmers and their families eat,
drink and be merry, for theirs is the
land.
John T. Davis fifty acre potato
''patch" at Harding, harvested about
10000 bushels of "Murphy's" which
was yield of 200 bushels to the acre
and vet some people say that it was moi
a good year for potatoes. The extract
is taken from the Randolph Enterprise
That potato crop was worth something
and that kind of farming pays, May
scores of Garrett county farmers do as
we'll next fall.
The average production of corn pei