The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1916-12-14
EVANSVILLE.

The funeral of Nancy Shaw Miller of
New Germany, Md, was held in the
Grantsville Lutheran church on Thurs
day afternoon and was one of the most
largely attended for years, all of the
friends and neighbors in the community
in which she lived having come out to
pay their last tribute of respect to the
! dead. An extra box car was added to
theJ jennings freight to accommodate per-
sons coming from that place. Flowers
were in prOfusion and were very beau
tifuI. The service was conducted by
Rev. E. E. Oney of the Lutheran
church, assisted by Rev. Price Of the
NJ. E. church.
The deceased, as stated in last weeks
Republican, met her death by suicide,
| having emptied the contents of a shot
gun into her abdomen, in the absence
of her husband aad after sending her
eldest child, little girl of four. to
neighbor with a request that she come
over. Upon the latter's arrival the
deed was already committed and the
young woman dying.
She was but % years, months and
Is days of age, having been born June
18th, 1898, and welded to Henry Miller
of Garrett county, in 1911. Three child
ren, her husband and parents and two
sisters and three brothers are bereaved.
What sad Thanksgiving for the
family-the stricken husband and
motherless little onesl With apparent
" everything to make her happy, one
can but wonder in what chaotic. over
wrought condition her brain must have
been before such a deed could have
been possible; or perhaps, some of the
many Ills the human flesh is heir to had
assailed her, causing her silent suffer-
! ing. For weeks she had not been her
usual self.
Her neighbors speak of her as good
woman and good mother. God knows
and understands the things that appear
to US as in glass darkly and He is the
Judge and merciful one. Poor little
girl mother, lying so white and still on
her satin bed! Surely no thought of
the havoc she would leave in her wake
the distracted husband, the motherless
little ones and sorrowing relatives could
have entered her mind when she COM
mitted the awful deed that carried her
into eternity! She is in His hands,
Tennyson says: 1--WE have but faith,
we cannot know, for knowledge is of
things we see" Some day the veil will
be lifted and things that are now cloud
ed and ineXplicable to her dear ones will
then be made clear, for we shall see
Him face to face and all things will be
made plain to us.
The sQueal of the porker is heard up
on all sides and some very large hogs
have been butchered. the largest thus
far being one of Marshall Beachy's
which tipped the scales at Alb pounds
when killed. This mammouth porker
was one of three killed for Mr.. Beachy,
their combined weigh was eleven hun
dred pounds. Many other large ones
were butchered in the neighborhood.
Mrs. Charles burst, of Salisbury,
spent Wednesday with her sister, Mrs.
Richard Younkin.
Miss Christine Winterberg spent
several days with friends IN Elk Lick.
Misses Marie Conner and Blanche
Miller spent their Thanksgiving holidays
with Mrs. Truman Frankhouser, of
Keyser, W. Va.
MRS. Sophia Bong has been quit ill
for the past week, but, while still in
critical condition, is holding her own.
A number of persons from here at
tended the auto races at Uniontown.
Born, to Dr. and Mrs. R. C. Bowen
on Friday, Dec. LIST, big baby boy.
DR.. H. T. Robinson, of Cumberland,
spent Sunday at the National hotel.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. P. Miller and family
spent Thanksgiving day in Salisbury
with Rev. and Mrs Oney. In the even
ing the pastor and his wife were supper
guests of Mrs. Miller at their home at
Stone House farm.
DR.. and Mrs. ]. A. Carney spent
Thanksgiving day in Cumberland.
Mrs. R. R. Sanner, of Oakland, has
joined her husband here and is:nat 'the
Casselman hotel. Prof. Sanner is feel
ing himself again and resumed teaching
Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. P. Miller entertain
ed on Sunday by giving a big turkey
dinner, the guests being Mrs. Irene
Hayes and son and Mr.. and Mrs. G. S.
Zeller.
The Ladies Aid Society met at the
home of Mrs. ]. U. Stanton on Thurs
day afternoon, Rev. and Mrs. Wilson
being present along with the village