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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1914-03-19
MORE ROAD BIDS ASKED
BY ROADS Commission
State Aid Road To GOrtner and Sec.
ton on National Road TO Be Built.

BY advertisements in to-day'S Repub-
lican the State Roads Commission in
vites bids for the construction off two
sections of road, one State-Aid PROPOSE
ton leading from Oakland via the
Weber farm TO Gortner, a distance of
near six miles, and the other for the re-
surfaclng of a section of the National
Road between Piney Grove and Avilton,
the latter having been previously adver-
tised and.the bids rejected as being too
high.
The State-Aid road proposed to be
built is to begin at the eastern limits of
Oakland on the Mountain Lake Park
road and follow its present location,
with one or two minor changes, 20 the
intersection of the road leading to the
Weber place, crossing the tracks of the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad at Weber
station, mile or more east of Oakland
and continuing through the property on
a new location to intesect the Aurora or
West Union Road at the Thompson
place. thence over the old location of
the Aurora road to Gortner.
Two surveys for this road have been
made and submitted to the Roads Com
mission. One following the old road
beginning at the southern limits of Oak
land near the home of the late Peter p.
Lohr and the other via the Weber farm.
The Roads Commission selected the
latter route, deemlng it better grade,
thus eliminating one or two steep nils,
notably the Mont Vista Hill.
Bids for this work are to be submit
ted to the Board of County Commits
sioners on or before April 4th. Of the
amount necessary to construct the road
the county as a whole furnishes forty
per cent, the residents or those who
have become signers to the subscrip-
ton papers obligating themselves to pay
ten per cent, while the, State will
furnish the residue, or fifty..per cent.
This will be the first State-Aid Road
to be built in the county, provided the
bids are satisfactory to the Commits.
sioners and all other requirements of
the law pertaining to the work are
complied with.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1914-03-19

pooh! Pooh'' said the Weather
Man. The grounding is fable. In
the first place, whoever saw such a
beast. In the next place, even if he
exists, he cannot foretell the weather
forty DAYS IN advance Nobody can do
that. I can't do it myself.
After being heartily agreed with he
was alphabetically shown that the
grounding was the familiar and much
priced weather prophet of the great
masses of the people; that horny handed,
hard headed farmers sat up all night
preceding February 2 to watch how the
canny little beast behaved when the sun
hit its chubby carcass for the first time.
at is science versus common sense, /"
the Weather Man was told gently;
results versus protestation; facts
versus fiction. The grounding deliver
ed the goods! How often has the local
sharp missed and hit on predictions
carrying only sixteen hours ahead"
Then the weather man got busy.
He unrolled maps, brought forth heavy
ledgers and produced much red ink
figures stamped on department red
tape.
eve claim so per cent. of hits since
February 2" finally announced the
Weather Man. But he weakened when
shown the groundhog's brilliant record
since February 2, and reluctantly adj
mitted:
Certainly it looks as if the ground
hog had made good this year, but it,
pure coincidence. Why that animal
got no weather reports. he has no
telegraphic communication all over
this country, it has no red tape, not
even so much as a bottle of red ink. F."
Evidently with a man so lost to
reason, further argument was useless.
The weather sharp was left contented
with his decisions.
Meanwhile it is interesting to learn
that while the one and only grounding
is the peerless leader of all animal
weather prophets, yet nations who
possess no groundhogs find some com
fort IN the prediction deduced from
bears, badgers, wild geese, ducks and
swans.
Methodist ladies will serve chicken
pot pie at the Lutheran church next
Thursday evening.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1914-03-19

much of the fund as they chose on their
own territory, and the commission re-
ceiving no compensation, it would be
difficult at times to have the attention
of the members. These and other
objections to the Shartzer bill were
discussed with Senator Speicher, of
Garrett, by number of citizens of
both Kitzmiller and Friendsville, the
localities interested, and it was decided
to introduce an entirely new bill in the
Senate eliminating the defects IN the
previous measure. Senator Speicher,
therefore. has introduced bill for this
purpose IN the Senate. 1t provides for
an appropriation of $25, 900, the smaller
amount being deemed insufficient and
the commission will be Imposed of six
members-three from Kitzmiller and
three from Friendsvlle The Commits
sioners will receive 30 cents per hour
for actual services performed, and
numerous other notifications are made
The Speicher bill will be pushed
vigorously and has a splendid chance of
passing The Shartzer bill will probab-
ly remain In the Ways and Means Com
mittee, where it was referred when in
troduced.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1914-03-19
NEAR-BEER HEARING.
Alleged ViOlator of Liquor Law De-
Ciared Not Guilty and State Appeals.

Last Saturday Oakland was fairly
well filled with residents of Kitzmiller.
who came over here as witnesses and
principals in a near-beer case instituted
week or more previous by the State,
IN which the Commonwealth charged
number of men engaged in br siness at
kitzmiller with having violated the
liquor law in selling soft" drinks
which contained alcohol in sufficient
quantities to produce drunkenness.
The hearing was before Justice
Fries and the State was represented by
States Attorney Renninger. the main
witness being DR.. G. o. Miller, State
chemist. of Baltimore. who had analyz-
ed the drink and found that it contain
ed 269 per cent. of alcohol. j. T.
Merritt was on trial and the evidence
showed that the retailer sold unlabeled
malt which was manufactured in
Frostburg. The maltmaster of the
brewery was one of the witnesses for
the defense. his testimony being to the
effect that when the brew is tested and
shows greater amount of spirits than
is allowed water is added and the per
centage thus lessened.
The State examined four witnesses
and the defense seven, the verdict of
the Justice was not guilty. An appeal
was noted and the case now goes to
the Circuit Court. Messrs. Griffith of
Keyser, and Offutt, of oakland were
attorneys for Merritt.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1914-03-19
OLD MR.. GRouNDHOG
CAME OUT VICTORIOUS
Beat the Government Weather Sharps
In His Prediction Of Bad Weather.

Monday was the last of a forty-day
set-to between the grounding and
the weather sharps. Final reports
show the weather forecasters in full
retreat, with barometer and windgage
in hand, still bluffing, but unable longer
to hold out against the nature given
foresight of the queer little beast who
saw his shadow in the bright sunshine
of February 2.
For, on Candlemas Day, otherwise
calendared as February 2, the county
was bathed in clear, cold sunshine and
the old saw runs:
If Candlemas Day shows the ground
hog the sun,
1t means that the winter has just be-
gun.
Or, as the down-country people prefer
to quote it:
If Candlemas be fair and clear
There'll be two winters in the year.
So much Cor the original cause of the
battle between the grounding in It's
pristine wisdom and the weather sharps,
with their awe-inspirlng apparatus and
their prophetic announcements of snow
storms that get lost in the Atlantic and
hurricanes that peter into gentle spring
like breezes and fair DAYS that become
sOggy with pea soup, fogs and lower
ing clouds.
The weather man Aas found buried
in strengthening maps, nearly hidden
from view by telegraphic reports from
Pacific to Atlantic and from Florida to
Maine.
'The grounding has made good once
more, " he was gently reminded. THE
beast saw its shadow February ,. Just
forty days ago; and since then there
has been nothing but billiards, hur-
icanes, flying roofs, vanishing snow
storms, Ice knee deep, frost-bitten feet,
nipped ears and general Polar condi-
tons"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1914-03-19

Methodist ladies will serve chicken
pot pie at the Lutheran church next
Thursday evening.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1914-03-19
Operation Performed.

Mr.. George T. Porter, of near Oak
land, was operated upon az the Home
Sanatorium in Oakland Monday by Dr.
Hawkins, of Cumberland. Mr.. Porter
has been quite i'll for some months past
and the operation showed that his illness
was the result of an abscess which
had formed on his lower intestines. He
is doing nicely and will be able to re-
turn to his home in a short time.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1914-03-19
Married.

COMPTON SLABAUGH-At the Pres
byterian manse in Oakland on Feb
auary II, by DR.. j. C. Ely, Mr.. Thomas
Compton of Oakland, and Miss .Orpah
Slabaugh of Mountain LakessPark, were
joined in wedlock. The couple will
reside at the Park.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1914-03-19

Fish Commissioner W. A. Smith of
Hoyes, came UP to Oakland Tuesday
night and left here on train No 4 for
Baltimore where he went to look after
the affairs of his office.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1914-03-19
MRS. Wallet G. MEYERS.

Mrs. Walter G. Meyers died at her
home in Crellin on last Friday ssand was
buried at Blooming Rose cemetary,
near Friendsville, Sunday afternoon,
the funeral being attended by a large
number of friends and relatives, many
of them going from Crellln in sleds on
Sunday morning. Mrs. Meyers death
was due to pneumonia. She is survived
by her husband and several children.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1914-03-19
THE DEATH RECORD
ARTHUR SAVAGE.

Arthur Savage, aged 35 years, son of
Thomas Savage, of Friendsville, died in
Pittsburgh on Sunday of pneumonia
and was buried at Friendsville Tuesday.
The deceased was engaged as a travel
ing salesman, and was i'll but short
time
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1914-10-02

There have been but two men in all the worlds
history who had personal liberty" and in neither case
did it last long. Adam and Robinson Crusoe were the
two. Adam found Eve and gave up his personal lib
erty. Crusoe discovered his man Friday and Crusoe
lost his personal liberty. Those who cry personal lib
erty wouldn't take it if they could get it. Personal
liberty doesn't mean what they think it does.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1914-10-02
VIRGINIA'S

about Prohibition. Liquor is bad for any race or ma
tionality, and especially for a people that is strug-
CLING up out of ignorance and slavery. For the states
that have in them dependent peoples in large num-
bers, there is an example in Virginia which may be
emulated with profit. The great cry of the day is for
efficiency, and alcohol is the greatest destroyer OF
efficiency.
in Virginia there was united, persistent agita-
ton, education, organization. No stone was left I'M
turned, no voter neglected. No campaign can be
successfully prosecuted in any other way. The Anti
Saloon League is naturally the leader, but from all
foes of the saloon must come intelligent, willing CO.
operation if success is to be hoped for.
The drys in Virginia were rightly called Prohibi-
tionists, but the vets were known as local optionists.
Years ago, in every state, the drys, who were strug-
CLING to get ~foothold, were local optionists, and the
vets were anti-optionists. When the drys had at
tanned sufficient strength to. wage a campaign for
state Prohibition, the vets advanced to the stand
vacated long ago by the drys. The vets never have
the temerity, in these days, to advocate the saloon
oh, no! They predicate their campaigns on regula-
ton, local self-government and the like, for there is
no apologist for the saloon.
Just as rapidly as any reform progresses, its an
tagonists take UP the camp fire vacated by the army
of advancement, and would hold progress back to
that deserted abiding place. Nobody hopes to stop
Prohibition-even the most sanguine of the liquor
supporters know better than that-and the only hope
of the vets is to hinder and retard the progress of
Prohibition.
In Virginia the vets adopted the same fake or
carnations of so-called business men and the like,
but the voters weren't deceived the least particle. 1t
has come to the point that the mask doesn't hide any
longer, for the hideous features of the liquor business
are manifest through any disguise, no matter how
perfect it may seem to its originators.
Hurrah for Virginia!
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1914-10-02
What the Convicts Say

Out of 1890 %convicts in the Ohio state ~peniten-
tiary, 1853 claim that drink caused their downfall.
The saloonkeepers are licensed to trip up the unwary
for profit. The more men the saloonkeepers ruin, the
more money they make. The rumsellers want the
people to continue giving them the special privilege
of keeping up this game, but the people won't permit it
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1914-10-02

N~AACNA 49, Ah 1N Of0 OOAAAAOb III " q
of more than $4,000, the voters of that state decided
against the saloon and in favor of Prohibition. Vir-
ginia was added to the rapidly lengt1ening list of
states that have decided to stand for the best inter
ests of the citizens against the liquor business and its
attendant evils.
When West Virginia, youngest daughter of the
states that have been carved from the old mother
state, voted for statewide Prohibition, the older COM
monwealth took notice and decided to emulate the
example of her daughter. 1t is idle to speculate on
what the result in Virginia should have been, had the
Mountain state gone wet but it is not to be doubted
that the victory in West Virginia had a great effect
in the right direction in Virginia.
On November 3, Ohio, another child of Virginia,
and whose people are made up in large part of the
descendants of ~emigrants from the older state, will
vote on statewide Prohibition. If the victory in
West Virginia helped to bring about a victory in
Virginia, will not the two victories help Ohio?
The fact is, no matter how strong the liquor
power may be, nor how slowly, to the enthusiast, the
progress seems to be, liquor is everywhere marked
for destruction. Virginia has added one vigorous as
sault on the ramparts OF the enemy.
But not only in nearby states will the effect be
felt. The Pacific coast states are voting this year,
and their eyes have been on Virginia. Tremendous
impetus will be given the dry campaign in every state
that is voting this fall, and the effect will also extend
to those states which have announced elections for
next year.
In the other states that are voting this fall, the
present Indications are for victory for Prohibition. If
all Of them, or a majority, follow Virginia's lead, there
is nothing to prevent a stemless tide of Prohibition
from rolling all over America. At the next session of
Congress a resolution submitting to the people Of the
states an amendment to the federal constitution, pro-
viding for nationwide Prohibition, will be placed up
on its passage. There can be no doubt, with the ac-
emulation of victory behind it, all over the country,
that the resolution will go through, and the amend
ment be placed with the people. Once the people get
it, and the liquor business is doomed.
Virginia's battle and resultant victory present
several lessons. One is, of course, that the churches
and all the forces Of righteousness were lined up for
Prohibition, whereas all the forces of evil, together
with a few good men and a vast number of weak
lings, took their stand for local option. This lineup
has come to be the fashion all over America.
In Virginia, as in all Southern states, there is a
new awakening, a new Southern spirit, that presages
we'll for that section, as it does in fact for the whole
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1914-10-09

NJ. Warren ajoute qu;au cours
de sa visite il a pu s'assurer que
les Francais n'avaient pas employs
les tours de la cathedrale CONNIE
poste d'observation ct il ajoute ce-
ci:
"J'ai pass6 deux jours a la ca
thedrale ct j'ai eu une entrevue
avec le cure. J'ai visit6 toutes les
parties de la batisse ct j'ai pu voir
tous les dommages. Je puis certi-
fer que le bombardement 6t6 fait
intentionnellement ct sans raison
aucune.
sLe - de septembre, pedifce
en- question a essuy6 lie feu des Al
demands. Les magnifques vitraux
de la nef ont 6t6 entierement de-
fruits, ceux du sanctuaire existent
encore mais la plupart sont gran
dement, endommag6s. LIE feu a cal
cine la plus grande partie de la
magni6que facade de la tour du
nord, de meme que la claire-voie
LES murs ext6rieurs ont subj
des pertes irr6parables. Les pier
res Sc d6tachent d'elles-memes en-
y touchant. Tous les chapitauz
ct autres effets ornementaux que
les hammes ont pu atteindre ne
pourront jamais etre restaures''
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1914-10-09
UN TEMOIGNAGE
AMERICAN

De retour q Paris apres avoir
pass6 quelque temps dams le Nord,
M. Whitney Warren, c6lebre archi-
tecte de New-York, Went de pu-
blier un int6ressant r6cit de son
voyage ct snrtout de son passage q
Reims on il a fait une inspection
generate de la c6lebre cath6drale
qui tant soufert du bombarde-
ment allemand. M. Warren d6cla-
re emphatiquement que les dom
IMAGES fats a la cath6drale sont
incalculables ct que cette merveil-
le de Part chr6tien ne pourra ia
mais etre restaur6e convenable-
ment.
M. Warren, 6tant membre cor
respondent de lInstitut de France.
a pu obtenir la permission de vlsi-
ter la cath6drale. Bien que son
inspection n ait pas revetu un ca
ract4re o&ciel, le r6sultat men q
pas moins etc transmis q M. My
ron T. Herrick, ambassador anne
ricain en- France.
"S'il reste aujourd'hui quelque
chose de la cath6 6drale'', a declare
M. Warren, s'c'est grace 3 Ia forte
construction de ce que lon peut
appeler Ia carcasse de l'6difce. Les
murs ct les vontes 6taient 81 soil
des qu'ils pouvaient r6sister auz
instruments de guerre modernes"
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1914-10-09
IL NE DEGENERE PAS

LIE prince h6ritier d'Allemagne,
durant les premiers jcurs du terri
BILE combat qui s'est livr6 sur la
Marne, await fx6 ses quarters ge-
n6raux au chateau de la baronne
de- Baye pres de Champeaubert,
dams le d6partement de Ia Marne.
Ce chateau 6tait celebre pour les
nombreuses ct magnifques collec-
tions d'objets dart quill contenait.
Or, yoici ce que Ia baronne de
Baye 6crit au Temps, de Paris:
lie prince h6ritier a pile tout
linterieur du chateau. II a fait
main basse sur une quantit6 de me-
dailles de prix, d'armes antiques,
de vases pr6cieux, de draperies,
etc. DE magnifque coupes ct une
quantit6 de souvenirs precieux
pour Ia famille sont disparus. Des
portraits d une grande valeur ont
etc lac6r6s ou enlev6s avec des
meubles de prix, mais la plupart
de ces objets ont etc abandonnes
plus tard par les Allemands dams
leur hate a fuir'
La baronne affirme que le prin
&c h6ritier d'Allemagne a frappe
du talon de ses bottes un des por-
traits de lempereur ct de Pimp6ra-
trice de Russie qui 6tait expose
dams Ia chapelle du chateau.
Ce bel exploit nous rappelle
ceux des anciens feodaux de la
vieille Allemagne, feodaux aux
quels les Hohenzollern font du
reste orgueilleusement remonter
la souche de leur maison ct qui,
sortant de temps en- temps de !eur
mid d'aigle", descendaiant dams
la plaine pour piller ct d6vaster
les humbles chaumi6res des serfs
ct des artisans.
Fred6ric-Guillaume ma pas de-
gen6re. II est reste digne de la
Tongue lign6e de bandits-gentils-
hommes don't lie pro6l farouche Sc
dessine dams les cadres dor des
galleries de Posdam ct d'Unter-den-
Linden.
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1914-10-09
DECES

Nine Henri Mount, de Dayton,
MINI, est d6ced6e lie 5 octobre
apres une longne maladie, soufer-
te avec une resignation vraiment
chr6tienne. Nine Mount est nee
au Canada. Ellie 6tait agee de 81
ans. Son epoux ct quatre enfants
lui survivent. Ellie appartenait
aux Danes du Rosaires de r6glise
Notre-Dame de lourdes, Minnea-
polls. Ses funerailles ont eu lieu
a Dayton, au milieu dun grand
grand concours de parents ct d'a-
mis-. On y remarquait Nine Bruy-
ere, dAnoka, ainsi que Mines j.
Sabourin ct Charles L6veill6e, de
Minneapolis, amies intimes de
Nine Mount. Les porteurs 6taient
Pierre Bouler, Almon NORM, Rene
Deschenes, Gerry Bouler, Isa1e Ca
ouette, ct Joseph Deschenes.
Nous prlons la famille d'accep-
ter nos plus sinceres condolences
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1914-10-09
Bazaar Notre.Danne
de LOurdeS

-Une petite variation dams les
amusements s'indique pour Mile
Emma Joncas, lun des candidats
pour une bague de diamant du ba-
zar. Ellie demande lencourage-
ment de ses amis en- assistant q
une brillante soir6e de danse qui
sera donnee pour son b6nefce
lundi soir, lie II octobre, sale A.
0. U. W., 80 Avenue Centrale, q
lissne de la s6ance du Cercle Ste
Anne.
lie jeudi soir, lie Is, ce sera
Nine z. Campeau, qui secondera
Mile Violet en- Dormant une partie
de cartes aussi dams la sale du
soubassement de l'6glise de Nd.
de Lourdes ct, etant presque a la
veille de la semaine du bazar, ce
sera probablement la derniere par
tie de cartes en- I'honneur de Mile
Violet. Ellie invite done tous ses
amis ainsi que ceux de Nine Cam
peau a y assister en- grand nombre.
'! La seule requete sera l5c. d'admis-
sion, ct 6 beaux prix pour mes
sieurs ct danes seront donnes aux
gagnants.
M. Jos Lalibert6 Sc recomman-
de aupres de ses amis CONNIE can
didat pour rautomobile du bazar
de la paroisse Notre-Dame de
Lourdes. Vendredi, 9 oct, il dome
une soir6e de danse, ct pour ceux
qui men sont pas amateurs, il J
aura partje de cartes dams une
sale voisine, A. o. U. W. Hall.
80 Avenue Centrale. Les billets
ne sont que de Is cents ct donnent
droit chacun q une chance sur une
belle chaise, don du grand maga-
sin L. S. Donaldson.
Ny manquez pas ct tout en- vous
amusant vous aurez particip6 d
une bonne euvre.
-Une seconde parties de cartes
sera donn6e vendredi le. 9 octobre,
dams la sale du soubassement de
r6glise Nd. de Lourdes, au ben6-
fee de Mile Alma Langlais, Pun
des candidats pour une bague de
diamant du bazar de cette paro;s-
Sc. Mile Langlais espere que tous
ceux qui FONT d6ja honor6e de leur
encouragement, y assisteront avec
d'autres amis.
| -Dimanche soir, Is oct, aura
lieu dams la sale du soubassement
de r6glise Nd. de Lourdes, une
grande partie de cartes au bene6-
ce de M. Georges Prenevost, Fun
des candidat pour Pautomobile du
bazar. M. Prenevost y invite ms
tamment tous les paroissiens ct
ses amis. Beaux prix.
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1914-10-09
UN PRELAT ALSACIEN
FUSILLE

Mgr Kannengieser, un eminent
6crivain Alsacien a 6t6 fusille par
les Allemands. Ce nouveau crime
s'ajoute q la iste deja trop Tongue
des f6rocit6s teutonnes. s
Mgr Kannengieser await public
au Correspondent dix ans avant
les travaux de Georges Goyau, des
6tudes tres importantes ct tres for
tement document6es sur pAllema-
gne, les luttes religieuses du Kul-
turkrampt ct Organization du
Centre catholique. '.Sans doute,
les Allemands ne lui ont-ils pas
gpardonn6 sa franchise ct lis ont
supprim6 rhomme, ne pouvant
.tuer les id6es r6pandues par lui. Z