The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1915-04-15
OUT OF TOWN HAPPENINGS
A Variety of Interesting Paragraphs
for Republican Readers.

The time to work the roads is when
they need it.
Miss Cora Bittinger, of Bittinger,
was Salisbury. Pa. visitor last week.
M. W. Kinsinger, moved from Prin-
cess Anne, Va, to Jennings, where he
will reside.
Mrs. Daisy Ritz, of Bond, visited her
father, Mr.. James Wilt at Western
port last week.
Mrs Melva BARLEY of Jennings, was
a guest of Mr.. and Mrs. C. E. Klingen-
smith, in Meyersdale, Pa.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Coed and two
children of Swanton are visiting at
at Piedmont and Westernport.
Charles Sharpless and family have
moved from KitzmilIer to Cumberland.
where they expect to make their home.
F. A. Werner, of FinzeI, who has
been at the Miners Hospital at Frost
burg, has returned home much improy-
ed.
F. E. Margroff, Accident, Md. is
convalescing at the Western MARYLAND
hospital at Cumberland with broken
leg.
Miss Maude Cosner, who has been
working for A. Dewitt Cosner. at Bis
mark, w. Va, has returned to her
home near Accident.
Ben Foster farmer near Colby.
Kansas, last year raised wheat crop
of $50 600 bushels, He owns several
thousand acres of land.
On March l. 1,378,874 barrels and
1,730, 662 boxes of apples were stored in
the 2S9 cold-storages reporting to the
United States Department of Agri-
culture.
Misses Mary Weimer and Gertrude
POLICEMAN, of Avilton, visited from Sat-
urday till Tuesday at the home of the
former uncle Curtin CLANCY, as Sails
bury, Pa.
Claud Davis and wife, Frank Davis,
wife and son of Davis, and John Davis
of Weston, w. Va, spent several DAYS
with Mr.. and Mrs. j. B. Davis at
Wislna, Pa.
The closing exercises of the Spring
Glade public school will take place to-
morrow 1880 o'clock. MISS Louise
Compton, the teacher, has prepared a
special program for the occasion.
George H. Glotfelty, OF McHenry,
and Lula E. Broadwater, of New
Germany, made trip to Cumberland
and Frostburg. While at the latter place
they called at the Methodist parsonage
and were married.
The amount expended by the State
on the road through Montgomery.
Frederick, Washington, Allegany and
Garrett counties in 1914, is $464, Isl. 80,
and S2O9, 900 remains for expenditure
this year. 1913. ISL 80 in all.
The cost of living is not in the cost of
production but in the cost of transpor-
tation over our highways. The ma
terlaIs that waste on most farms be-
| cause of bad roads if converted into
money would soon give US good roads.
Miss Almira Boucher. a senior at the
Weston Maryland Normal School, Frost
burg, is at the home of her parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. Phineas Boucher this
county, suffering from a nervous break
down thought to be the result of over
study.
Harmon's sale last Thursday attract
ed large number of people from all
parts of the county. Everything sold
brought good prices. A number of can
dldates were in attendance to express
their good will toward the general
public.
Mr.. John Seibert, of Merrill, has or
dered an oil drilling machine which he
will place on the farm of William Gil
pin. just ABOVE Homecoming. AS soon
as the machine arrives and can be plac-
ed in position, they will begin drilling
| for oil.
Bailey Liston, who is employed near
Thomas. W. Va, spent last week with
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Edward
Liston near Selbysport. His brother,
Bayard met him at Addison, Pa, where
they spent some time with relatives,
before going to the home farm
Hoy Kisamore, of Mouth of Seneca,
w. Va, last year planted the eyes from
four bushels of potatoes, using one eye
to hill, and raised one hundred bushels.
He plants his potatoes this way every
year and always has a good crop. In
fact last year he was about the only
one in this section who raised any.
People can't have Christmas Day or
Washington's Birthday any time
they want 1t. but everybody can have
a little "Clean-Up Day" of his own,
and dispose of all the truck that winter
leaves lying about in yards, alleys,
streets and public roads. And then,
maybe your neighbor seeing your good