The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1915-01-21
OUT OF TOWN HAPPENINGS
A Variety of Interesting Paragraphs
for Republican Readers.

A Variety of Interesting Paragraphs
for Republican Readers.
Preston county, w. Va, has S615
school children and 5837 of this number
attend school,
Mr.. Geo. Miller, of Accident, is the
guest of his brother L. w. Miller and
family, at Elk Lick, Pa.
Homecoming is to have poultry show
February 2 to 6 inclusive A number
of good prizes are offered,
Bliss and Bruce Groves, of Deer
Park, were recent visitors at White
Oak, Preston county. w. Va.
Basil Garlitts, of Friendsville, was
visiting friends and transacting busl-
ness last week at Confluence, Pa.
Mr.. William Grones. an aged farmer
Of Aaron Run. Garrett county, who has
been quite i'll for several weeks, is still
in precarious condition.
Simeon Glotfelty. aged Y years,
prominent farmer of Garrett county,
who became Frustrated with illness
six months ago, is still confined to his
home.
Carey McMahon and sister, Miss
Elma, of District No. 8, Garrett county,
have gone to Springfield, Ill, to visit
their uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs.
Edward Carey.
A farmer from the vicinity of
| Swanton reports that apples are worth
only 25 cents bushel in that vicinity.
Let everybody get busy and eat
barrel of apples.
Clarence Wicklow, who had been en-
ployed at the Rush Hotel, Confluence,
Pa, for the past three years, has NOV
ed to Friendsville, where he has pur-
! chased livery stable.
A York county, Pa, farmer has
stored 10000 bushels of wheat, waiting
for higher prices. That's some wheat
and some fortune Wouldn't it be
nice if some Garrett county farmers
could say as much?
Already we begin to hear talk about
the Garrett County Fair for next fall.
Some are inquiring, will there be a
fair? Is there single reason why
there should not be a fair held? No,
but there are hundreds OF reasons WHY
there should be one.
Charles W. Frost, a prominent cit
izen of Garrett county and a descend
ant of the founder of F1ostburg, was a
week end visitor at Frostburg. Mr..
Frost for many years made weekly
visits there on his market wagon, but
since retiring he comes only on social
calls.
While playing with some beans,
two yeai old child of Erastus Harms.
of near Everett, Pa. one of the beans
lodged in the child's windplpe. and the
child choked to death. The child had
placed bean in its mouth, and when
the mother attempted to remove it, the
little one laughed and tried to swallow
it. DR.. B. F. Hunt was summoned,
hut tie chil1 died n the physician near
I'd the bone
During the winter get some new
ground ready for the turnip patch
The best, sweetest turnips are produa-
ed on newly cleared land. Also plan to
increase your buckwheat crop This is
the time to plan FOR the spring work.
Talk it over with the boys of the home
circle. Get them interested, Give
them a piece of ground for their own
profit and care. Make the year 1915
the best and most successful year of
your farm life.
it is rumored that the Paterson Min
ing Company, operating in both Mary .
land and West Virginia, which company
originated in Bloomington. is contem- |
plating the leasing of the mines operat- |
ed and owned by the American Coal .
Company Of Homecoming. These mines,
which include the mines opened at |
Homecoming and in Barton called the
CALEDONIA Mines. will in all probability .
be operated by electric power, and
should this come to pass, it will mean
the employment of several hundred
men in both Homecoming and Barton.