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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1916-08-03
SWEEP GERMANS
FROM TRENCHES
British and French in Heavy
Artillery Assault to Take
Advanced Third Line
STRONG S0MME OFFENSIVE

London.-Advanced sections OF the
German third line were swept away
by the British and French in a ire
menoous artillery assault ON a front
OF eight miles. From east of Delville
wood to the Somme the blow Wa:
struck and whole systems OF trenches,
the work OF months, were carried
More than 500 prisoners were cap
tured.
The most pronounced gains were
made by the British. Colonial troops
rushed forward beyond the Waterloo
Farm, Trones Wood and the Haltzo-n
Farm, formerly mere outposts of the
British front, breaking well beyond
the frontiers of the German third
line, and establishing themselves N
strong positions.
This victory puts the Franco-BritiSh
allies in position to strike a power
full blow at Combles, the strong Ger
man point OF support between Ba-
paume and Peronne. 1t also marks
further advance of the wedge which
Is being driven into the Kaiser's front
between these two key positions OF
the l00-mile Noyon salient.
Berlin reports the repulse of ten
tauve night attacks by the British
in the Pozieres section, while Gen
eral Haig, in a dispatch, says there
was no lighting thereabout The ar
tlllery fire OF the British is steady
lily gaining in strength until it has
drawn amased comment by the Ger
man general staff
a strong offensive has been develop,
ed by the German Crown Prince on
the eastern bank of the Meuse South
OF Fleury and west OF the Thiamount
work German attacks were launched.
They have been uniformly repulsed.
the French War Office announces. 1t
Is believed the object is to prevent
the transfer OF French troops To the
Somme. A, heavy bombardment is
proceeding along the front northeast
OF Verdun
The British statement says three
hostile aeroplanes were destroyed and
several others We're forced to land
in a damaged condition.
The French War Office reports that
in series OF assaults French troops
carried an entire system of German
trenches north of the Somme on a
front OF nearly one-half mile.
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American Note Accepts Plan Of
Joint Commission to Ad.
just Differences
CARRANZA ASSENT ASSURED
Report From Mexico City That Luis
Cabrera, Minister of Finance, Will
Head Mexican Members of the
Commission.

Washing on.-President Wilson &C
eepted in modified form CarranZa's
suggestion that a commission be ap-
pointed to decide whether the Ameri-
can troops shall evacuate Mexico and
70 settle the difficulties now pending
between the two countries.
The Presidents acceptance is con-
yeyed in a note to the Mexican For
etgn Office which acting Secretary of
State Polk handed to Eliseo Arredon-
10, the Mexican Ambassador Desig-
pate. Assurances had already been
keceived here that Carranza will ac-
$spt the notifications suggested by
this Government.
: These notifications are that the
Commissions scope of action be broad
kped 80 that other matters which the
United States may regard as peril
nent to an improvement in the friend
~ relations of the two countries may
be established.
The commission will meet some
where on the Jersey coast and will
be composed of three commissioners
from each country.
The commissioners whom Carran-
"a has tentatively selected are said
TO be Luis Cabrera, Secretary of the
Treasury; Albert J. PAM, president
OF the Mexican National Railway, and
Ignacio Bonillas, Secretary of Commu-
nications.
II is understood at the State Depart.
ment that there may be some delay
and uncertainty about the naming of
the American commissioners. Gen.
Qoethals, Louis D. Brandeis, Associate
Justice of the Supreme Court, and
Judge Victor j. Bowling OF New York
are understood to be under consider
alton.
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the K. of P. Hall. Mrs. Catherine
Murphy was toastmistress.
On Friday evening last friends of
John ]. Thrasher rendered him a sur
prise party at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
M. A. Browning, in honor of his ami
versary. Those present were: DR.. and
Mrs. Judson Miller, Mr.. and Mrs. Otis
E. Alternately, Mrs. Sue LaughIin and
Halle Hartley, Misses Caroline Walker,
Kate Walker, Rene Pew, Gladys HamlIl,
Jane Long, Georgia Junkins, Alice
Campbell, Mae Alternately, Beryl Alb
ernathy, Mary Sprague and Iva Bishop;
Messrs. Ney Smith, Irwin Ruby, Carte
Long, Paul Neville. John Shores, James
Campbell, G. B. Pew, Charles Sprague,
Clarence Robinson, John j. Thrasher,
John Marville, Harry Brown, Jesse
Walker, Robert L. Wilson, Carl Camp
bell. Irwin Pond and Selby Bosley.
The mines are running full time and
the men are doing better than they
have for some time.
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Higher Education In I Home

One advantage that the college woman
has over her self-taught sisters, when
1t comes, to efficient housekeeping, Is
her knowledge of the ideas back of GER
tain household mechanism and her un-
Outstanding not only of the results that
follow various conditions but of whv
such results come about.
Every house wife knows, or should
know, the elements upon which the ice
box is constructed. She should know that
cold air is heavier than warm air. and
that therefore the cold air drops. The
ice is placed in the upper part of the
refrigerator. The air in contact with
it is cooled, and therefore contracts and
becomes heavier, volume for volume,
than the remainder of the air in the
refrigerator. This cold. heavy air sink
down through an opening in the bottom
of the ice-chamber and forces the light
er warm air up along the sides of the
refrigerator to the ice, which causes
Tue meltlHS pTOCeSS.
The mistake which many housekeep-
ers make with regard to their ice boxes
is due to lack of understanding about
the action of heat. They are chary of
opening the upper chamber, where the
ice is kept, thinking that this will melt
the ice and so cool the ice box; whereas
1t is the lower chamber, where the food
is kept, that they should be careful
about opening too often, or leaving
open. Each time the lower door of the
refrigerator is opened, the cold air
comes out at the bottom and is replac-
ed by warm air. This admits heat to
the refrigerator. Many housewives are
careless about letting these lower doors
stand open while they are using the
foods stored away there, thus losing
most of the cold air they have been so
careful to collect while they watchfulIy
guard the lid of the ice-box to keep the
warm air away from the ice, not rea-
lizing that although some of the ice
might be melted in this way it would
not begin to warm the refrigerator as
opening the lower doors would do.
Now, while cold drops, or travels
down, heat rises or ascends, and is
forced upward by the cold air currents.
Thus it will be seen that the heat from
fire travels in the opposite direction
from the cold sent out blythe ice. Hence
while the ice box is kept closed at the
top, so that the cold air may not be
wasted, a stove Is kept open at the top
so that the heated air may not be vast
ed.
The building of fire was one of the
first activities of civilization. From the
earliest blaze of dried sticks, kinded
by spark from two stones struck to.
.gether. down to the modern gas or
electric range is far cry; but the ideas
Of fire making have never been devlat-
ed from. Benjamin Franklin built the
first stove in lS42, and ever since then
the action of the ordinary cooking stove
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FALLS BEFORE RUSSIANS.

LOndOn-The British won complete
control Of POzieres. the last houses
which the German had succeeded in
retaining is the ruined village being
carried in night fighting.
The capture of Pozieres is one Of
the most important successes yet won
in the British offensive. The village
stands on high ground dominating a
great sweep of the plateau over which
the battle OF the last three weeks has
been fought. II gives General Haig
artillery command OF the new Ger
man positions to the eastward.
The village had been converted into
a veritable fortress Each house
bristled with machine guns and each
road was filled with barricades from
which a terrific fire was directed on
the English and Australian troops
Every house and barn presented a
separate obstacle and each was won
after a battle at close quarters in
which the grenade and bayonet play
ed the principal part. The losses on
both sides were very heavy.
Erzingan. the strongly fortified
Turkish city in central Armenia, fell
into the hands OF the Russian eau
casus army under Grand Duke Mich
olas, who thus has cleared the whole
OF Armenia OF Turks.
Russia has 100000 men under
arms and they are fully equipped 1t
is believed that Russia will throw
an overwhelming number of troops
into the Armenian campaign, will take
Sivas and begin series of attacks
upon Constantlnople.
Germany has sealed the Belgian
frontier She is pouring great masses
Of troops into the west md the from
tier has been closed as a precaution
against any of their movements be
coming known.
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New York.-An unknown number Of
dead and injured. more than fifty
million dollars in property loss, five
states shaken. and millions of per.
sons within a radius OF a hundred
miles frightened TO distraction. is the
partial total of the damage wrought
by an explosion OF war materials in
Jersey City,
While only one body has been re-
covered. the loss of life is believed to
have been considerable in the ex,
element Of the explosion, little or no
effort was made by anyone TO take
census of those known to have been
in the vicinity
Black Tom Island. an area OF re.
claimed land which projects into New
York Bay from the Jersey shore. i'm.
mediately behind the Statue of Liber.
ty was the scene of the explosion.
Six Lehigh Valley Railroad piers
and the National Storage Warehouse.
comprising "a three-story brick build.
ings, about 100 feet deep. were the
principal sufferers.
Between S25.00O,OOO and $40 900 600
worth Of property belonging to these
companies was hurled into the air By
the series Of explosions. Thirteen
storage warehouses and their contents
were burned, dozen barges and their
contents burned or blown up. and
probably three tug boats sunk.
The New Jersey Central Railroad
pier, half mile from the source Of
the explosion also was damaged.
Three tugboats, with an aggregate
crew Of about "a men, are listed as
missing. These boats are the Geneva,
Lehigh Valley boat, and the Bridge
ton and Ithaca. Jersey Central boats.
When last seen the little vessels
were bravely forcing their way into
the blazing barges In an effort to re.
move them
Then occurred the big explosion. 1t
Is feared they were blown TO pieces
and lost with their valiant crews.
About a million dollars worth of
damage was done on Bedloe's and Ell.
lis Islands. Ellis Island suffered Sc.
verely
Countless homes and business
places running into the hundreds Of
thousands were more or less dam.
aged in Jersey City, Hoboken, Man.
haitian, the Bronx. Queens, Brooklyn.
Staten Island and adjacent cities and
towns.
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brother home.
Mrs. Sophia Winterberg has been
spending fortnight with her daughter,
Mrs. lydia Wiley, Of Bittinger.
Mrs. Ida Bershberger is having her
residence painted, the work being done
by Forest Beachy and Jonah johnson.
Misses Minnie Miller and Amelia
Frantz, are spending their vacation in
Akron, Ohio.
Dr. A. F. Speicher, wife and daugh-
ter, of Los Angeles, Cal, were guests
of Mr.. and Mrs. c. H. Bill last week.
Ward Beachy and son, Lee, have
been plastering and repairing the home
of Michael Nathan,
Miss Anna Brady, Anna Gehauf and
Nellie Johns. of Frostburg, returned
nome after two weeks at the Cassel-
man.
Miss Minnie Rush has been i'll with
the measles.
Mr.. and Mrs. Reuben Bowen, from
the Eastern Shore of Maryand return
ed home after week visit with their
son, Dr. R. c. Bowen.
Miss Ora Grove, of Frostburg, is
guest of Miss Thelma Glotfelty.
MIR. and Mrs. Goddard Doerr were
Cumberland visitors last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Wesley q. Ambell and
neice, Gladys, of Pittsburgh, spent
week with Mr. and Mrs Harry Ambell,
at the Kurtz farm.
Mrs. Harvey Parsons spent part of
last week as the guest OF Mrs. Fred
Livengood.
Mrs. d. H. Woltersberger, of Rock
wood, was the guest of MIR. and Mrs.
Albert Swauger, last Thursday.
DR.. and Mrs. Bruce Lichty and daugh-
tiers, Misses Helen and Hilda. and Miss
Miriam Glessner were guests of DIR.
and Mrs. G. C. Keller on Sunday.
Misses Hattie and Madge Enlow and
Icle Friend, and Albert and Clifford
Enlow, of Friendsville, were guests of
Mrs. Susan burst, last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Wass, of Addi-
son, Pa. were the guests of Mrs, Mary
Miller one day last week.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1916-08-03
EVANSVILLE.

A picnic was held on Thursday after
noon by the embers of the Lutheran
Cradle Roll department, the party con-
sisting of the mothers and their babies
AMI superintendent, Mrs Chas. B.
Getty. The mothers who were present
with their babies were Mrs. Henry
Schaefer, Mrs. j. A. Carney, Mrs. Ira
Wright, Mrs. Albert Swauger, Mrs.
Howard Ringer, Mrs. Joel Miller, Mrs.
George Younkin, Mrs. Arthur Shlrer,
Mrs. Edgar Roberts. Rev. and Mrs. E.
E. Oney were also present, Mrs. Oney
bringing some pretty jars of Reymer's
candy for the babies. Refreshments.
consisting of icecream, cake, and sand
wiches were provided by the ladies.
Pretty souvenirs. in the shape of a
cradle, were given the mothers by the
superintendent, and tiny cradle rolf
felt penants to the babies. The after
noon was spent in the Casselman or
chard, near.the pavilion, and all en-
joyed it immensely, This department
numbers about twenty-five babies,
there having been several removals
and few have been promoted to the
beginners department which occurs
when the babies are four years old
Mrs. j. W. Delany entertained about
thirty guests at the Evans bungalow
by giving a marshmallow roast Most
of the guests were from town. Dane
ing and games were INDUCED IN, music
being provided by the Victrola. Re
freshments.w were served.
Several picnic parties were held at
the river by the young people and
children during the week. Boating
and swimming are daily pastimes, the
cool retreat ofithe riverside being ideal
ly pleasant these hot days.
Miss Margaret Galley, of Garden,
Md, and Miss Mary Porter, of Oak
land, are guests of Miss Ruth Keller.
MISS :Oma Orendorff, of Jennings,
is guest of her sister. Mrs. L. H.
Bittinger.
Mrs. Will Folk, of Jennings, was a
business visitor in Grantsville. Satur-
day.
Chas. Bong, from Cumberland, spent
few days with his brother, H. C.
Bong, of this place.
DR.. j. c. Carney spent few days at
Belleville, Pa, last week, visiting his
mother, who is quite i'll, ReY. W. H.
B. Carnegie Garrett, accompanied his
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1916-08-03
TO PURCHASE DANISH ISLANDS.
Wilson Hopes for Ratification at the
Present Session.

WashingtOn.-Onicial announcement
was made at the White House that
negotiations have practically been
completed for the purchase of the Dan
tsh West Indies by the United States
from Denmark for S25,000.0O0
While details OF the treaty are not
yet given out, it is understood that
the United States would come into
complete possession of the islands.
Word has been received from Den.
mark that the treaty is practically
certain OF being ratified
apprehension was felt at the State
Department that German might OBJ
ject TO the transaction. In previous
negotiations Denmark has enjoined
secrecy for the reason that the great
publicity given to the subject would
no doubt increase the difficulties here
Copenhagen and make il more diff
ficult TO carry the matter through to
success" For years Germany has de-
sired a coaling station In the West
Indies, and also she was understood
TO be DESTROYS that Denmark should
not part with them in the possibility
THAI there may some time be a con
sohdation Of the Danish Kingdom with
Germany.
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WORLDS NEWS M
CONDENSED FORM

BERLIN, via Sayville-The LokaI
Anzeiger reports a great confederation
to have occurred in Petrokrad. In
which the Putilof gun works and
other establishments were DESTROYED
NoRFoLk.-An appeal probably
will be taken by the German Govern.
ment from the decision of Federal
Judge Waddill awarding the captured
British liner to the English owners in
the libel proceedings for possession
of the vessel.
McALlEk, Texas.-Confirmati Of
reports that number OF Japanese of.
hoexB in CaLTansa's army In northern
Mexico was had here from officers.
NEW YORK;. Pierpont Morgan,
ST., who died In Rome, Italy, March
81. 1913, left an estate appraised at
$7s.140,024.
MEXICO CITY-A decree was 10
sued by Lopez do Lara, the Governor
Of Federal district ordering that all
vacant land within the Federal Dis
trict be cultivated, planting to begin
within few days.
OTTAWA, Ont.-Profits on war con-
tracts TO the amount of $750,000 have
been voluntarily returned to the Bri
tish Treasury by F. w. Baillie, of
Hamilton, president OF the Canadian
Cartridge Company.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1916-08-03
GORTNER

W. H. Smouse has purchased a Hud-
son car.
Miss Nellie Sanders spent the past
week with her cousins, Webster and
Lee Slabaugh.
Messrs. Earnest and Harvey Gortner,
Misses Ruth Irwin and Jane Tompson
motored to Black Water Falls, Davis,
W. Va, Sunday.
Mrs. Alex Faidey and Mrs. Sutton,
of Summit Mills, Pa, and John Grew
were weekend visitors at their brother
S. j. Lichty's home.
Mrs. Will Feathers was visiting at
Will Welch's recently.
Roy Lee and lady friend were at Mt.
Lake Sunday evening.
Mrs. Noah Beachy and children and
brother Simon Schrock, of Norfolk, Va,
are visiting home folks.
Sarah Sanders, who had been visiting
her niece, Mrs. Dayton Teats, returned
home Thursday evening.
Miss NellieBecker, of Lancaster, Pa,
is Speeding some time at this place with
friends and relatives.
Will Herman, wife and children, of
Terra Alta, spent Saturday and Sunday
with Mr.. Herman's sister, Mrs. R. L.
Gauer. We are sorry to note Mrs.
Gauer's condition is not improved. Miss
Mary Lichty has been staying with
them for some time.
Mr.. and Mrs. Noah Yoder and child
rem, of Grantsville, were visitors here.
Grandma and Mrs. Bert Smouse and
Miss Ruth have been on the sick list.
Fred Slabaugb, wife and daughters,
Sadie and Vesta, were the guests of
Mrs. Catherine Slabaugh,
Mr.. and Mrs. Schramm and children,
of Piedmont, were visiting at j. H.
Sanders.
DR.. R. D. Becker, accompanied by
Stop Swartzentruber apd Miss Dode
Lichty expect to leave Tuesday in DR..
Becker's car for Millersburg, Ohio.
Mrs. viii Wagner and children are
guests at C. T. Sanders.
Misses Margaret Slabaugh of Oak
land and Blanche Clark of Morgantown,
W. Va, spent Friday with Miss Emma
Burkholder
A number of our young people spent
Sunday afternoon at Highland Park"
Church services Sunday morning at
1870; also Sunday evening at 7:30,
Everybody come.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1916-08-03

has been studied and developed and
made applicable to all sorts of heating.
Strangely enough, however, the home
woman, who has had more to do with
the kitchen fire than has anyone else,
has known little about the stove except
to make fire as she was taught, ex-
pertinent with the hampers, and try to
regulate oven heat. She has never un-
derstood just how to keep her house
warm in winter and cool in summer.
although if she had been taught the
action of air currents she would have
known. Her house, tor example, would
be much cooler in summer if she opened
the windows at both top and bottom,
instead of merely at the bottom or the
top. Cold air we have learned, sinks,
while warm air rises. Therefore. open-
ing a window at both bottom and top
lets the warm air escape, and the cool
enter-the colder currents forcing the
warmer ones up and out.
Another point based on the action of
air currents is that if a door leading
from warm room into cold room is
opened. the cold air enters the room at
the bottom and forces the warm air out
at the top. Some housekeepers have
an idea that they keep their houses
warmer or cooler by keeping their
rooms closed up. According to this
rule, letting the heat of the warm room
out into the cool would give a cooler
ventilation, as the same amount of cold
air would enter the warm room and two
rooms hold more air than one. 1t would
simply be question of providing an
outlet for the warm air at the top.
The modern woman will acquaint her
self with these facts about the WINS
and wherefores of the results she wishes
to get. She will look beyond the sur
face of her apparatus and try to under
stand how it works. She will know. for
example, not only how her walls are
papered but what lies beneath the
paper. She will learn that house walls
are made of layers of non-conducting
material, with layer of air between
them. The inside surface of the inner
layer absorbs heat from the air and
radlates part of it back into the room.
Part, however. is conducted through
the layer by radiation. The inner sur
face Of the outer layer absorbs this heat
and radiates part of it back to the IN
ner layer. Part of it, however, is con-
Quoted through and converted into the
outer air.
Every woman who manages a home
should understand the basic things as
well as the surface things about it, If
she would handle her house and her
work intelhgently. The higher educa-
ton of the housewife is demanded in
these days of better system, wiser
management, and the best results with
the minimum effort and expenditure of
time.
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A Money Saving Chance For You.

Get rid of your old scrap iron, old
rags, old gum shoes, copper and brass.
We are paying best cash prices for
same.
25c per hundred for iron; SEC per
hundred for rags; sc per Id. for rubber;
from sc to 10c per Id. for copper and
brass.
We are located at the old Hamill
house, opposite the electric light plant,
Oakland, Nd.
A. g. TARLo, Proprietor.
Adv. 1875 months
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1916-08-03
POSTAL SAVINGS INCREASE

Increase Due to Country Wide Pros
perIty of Wage Farmers.
New York.-All June records for
postal savings deposits were eclipsed
last month when net gain OF over
$3.sp0,0O0 was made, quadrupling the
net increase for June, 1915. The
gains were general throughout the
counttry, notably in the smaller indus
TRIAL centers. Postmasters attribute
thsty increase to the country wide
prosperity of wage-earners and 81, 900
win be accepted from each deposition
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1916-08-03
GERARD SENDS PRISON REPORT
Barracks at Ruhleben for British In
pepiorable Condition.

London.-A dark picture of the
treatment. of British prisoners at the
Rehleben camp, in Germany, where
civilians are interned, is given in a re.
port by DR.. Alonzo E. Taylor, Attache
Of the American Embassy at Berlin
The report reached Viscount Grey, the
British Foreign Secretary from James
W. Gerard, American Ambassador to
Germany, through Walter Hines Page,
Ambassador to Great Britain.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1916-08-03
GREAT SCARCITY OF LABOR

Projected improvements Are Aban-
doned by Steel Mills.
Pittsburgh.-Scarctty of labor In the
Pittsburgh district-that is, of COM
mon labor-has finally for.ed a tenn
porary abandonment Of the extensive
work in by-product coke oven building
for the Carnegie Steel Company. Two
very important plants we're contem-
plated for this year, that at Clarion,
Pa, near Homestead where the first
installation will be 604 ovens to be
followed by another of 604.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1916-08-03
GERMAN PLIGHT ADMITTED

"Frankfurter Zeitung" Calls Nation
"8eseged Fortress"
London.-Grave admission of Ger.
many's plight is contained in a re-.
view of the war UP to date in the
part: Germany is besieged fortress
Therefore everything depends upon
the besiegers as to when an end will
be made of the bloody work. That
Germany will never haul down its flag
we know very well; but our enemies
do not know it."