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White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1917-03-23

d. F. O'Shea, president Of the
Spokane district farm loan bank,
who has been attending confer.
ence in Washington, D. c.. Of dis.
trict presidents, says machinery
will be set in motion for making
loans just as soon as possible. He
arrived in Spokane Thursday and is
making arrangements to secure
quarters and speed up final organ
ization. District bank presidents
received instructions concerning the
interest rate. They will be uni
form throughout the country and
will not exceed 81 per cent.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1917-03-23

Is Your Subscrip=
.----tiOn Paid?----:

Because of the high cost of
everything that goes to make
up a newspaper nowadays. the
Spokesman finds, as most of
the country papers in the state
have already found, that it
cannot afford to carry on it's
subscription list any except
those paid in advance. For
the number of its subscribers,
this paper probably has fewer
who are in arrears than any
other paper in TIE state. But
those few are just enough to
represent the difference be-
tween profit and a loss. So
on and after May LIST the
Spokesman will go on a pay
as-you-go basis. The state
ments that will be sent out
are not intended as refec-
tion on anyone's credit, but
merely to call attention to a
matter that might be other
wise overlooked. The date
your subscription expires ap-
pears on the margin of the
paper just opposite your name.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1917-03-23
Don't Neglect
Dormant Spray

l once heard a prominent fruit
grower, who owned 400 acres of
orchard, say that it seemed as though
every grower had to go through
the stage of extravaganza and the
stage of false economy before he
could settle down to growing fruit
from a business standpoint.
This year lot of the fruit grow
ers in Benton county are trying to
swing the pendulum of economy
too far south, and fear they will
pay very dearly for it before the
seasonis over.
Your dormant spray, either sui
phur-lime or oil, is an insurance
against San Jose scale-one Of the
worst pests to contend with that
ever got into an orchard. One pair of
scale allowed to propagate through
the season will produce over bill
lion offspring.
There is absolutely no way to
guarantee any rancher that he has
not few scale in his orchard in
the spring, carried there by bird or
insect the fall before. Allow these
to go unchecked and next fall you
will have a lot Of scaly fruit. Now,
| do not want to see any money
wasted on the orchard, but | would
ten times over rather see you waste
q little on dormant sprays than to
see you have scale on your fruit
next fall.
AS whole, most of the districts
are clean, but little false econ
omy on the part of few and our
troubles will begin. You will have
the scaly fruit and it will be my
unpleasant task to condemn it. Who
will be to blame?
Do you carry insurance on your
house and barn?
Are they more important than
your apple crop?
LUKE POWELL,
Dist. Horticulturist
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1917-03-23

An error was made in last week g
Spokesman in announcing the a.
mount of maintenance to be col
lected from the users under the
White Bluffs Water company sys-
TEN. The total amount to be col
lected is $16 per acre; 81 to be
paid in at once and So on the 18th
Of each of the first four months of
the irrigation season. The Spokes-
man said that the last four pay.
ments would be $3.50 each.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1917-03-23
Rabies or
Hydrophobia

| For the past few months rabie.
has been quite prevalent in certain
sections of the Northwest among
dogs and coyotes. There has been
much loss of other domestic stock
as the result of being bitten by
rabid animals. 1t is disease that
can usually be readily recognized
by the clinical symptoms that ami
mails suffering from it display, es-
pecially those animals which are re-
sponsible for it's spread such as
dogs, coyotes, cats, etc.
There are, however, simple dis
eases in which symptoms similar to
those in rabies are sometimes en-
countered. For this reason it is
frequently necessary to make a d.
agnosis by other means than elm
ical observation. This is especially
true when animals or human beings
have been bitten by dogs or coyotes
suspected of having the disease.
The Veterinary Division of the
Washington Experiment station has
received many specimens Of sus-
pected rabies material which could
not be successfully examined on &C.
count Of having been improperly
secured and preserved. For this
reasons it is important that persons
sending rabies material for exam
nation to the Experiment Station
take cognizance Of the following:
Definite diagnosis Of this disease
is made either by microscopic ex-
animation Of the brain of the af-
fected animal or by incubation Of
the same into rabbits or guinea
pigs. For this reason it is neces-
sary to have the brain of the af.
fected animal in as perfect a state
as possible and it should not be
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1917-03-23
Columbia Lowest
Known in Years

The Columbia river is lower now
than it was ever known before at
this season of the year in the mem.
DRY of the oldtimers. The cold,
backward springn with practically
no warm weather to thaw the snow,
is the cause. Because a few years
ago they extended the intake at
their pumping station at Coyote
rapids quite distance out into the
river, the Hsnford company will be
able to furnish water to it's Gus
toners as usual on April LIST. The
water is far below the intake of
the White Bluffs Water company's
plant, however, and unless there is
decided change In the weather
within the next ten days, it will be
some time after April LIST before
the patrons under that system will
get water. There has been little
rainfall since the close of the last
irrigation season, and, consequently,
there is very little moisture in the
ground now.
Mrs. M. E. Tromanhauser has
purchased the building formerly
occupied by the Charles Eilertson
grocery store in the old town. The
building is being moved out this
week and will be located on the
corner lot north of the Norton
building in which Mes. Troman-
hauser is now conducting the laun-
dry. Mrs. Tromanhauser intends
to move into it at once and will be
better prepared than ever to handle
her laundry, which has grown be-
yond her present quarters. She
has just added mangle to her
other equipment. which will greatly
facilitate her work and permit her
to turn it out in better shape than
ever.
The annual meeting of the Wom-
ans club. continued from March
18th was held Wednesday ar the
home of Mrs. F. j. Bonn. The fol-
lowing officers were elected for the
ensuing year: Mrs. M. S. Meek,
president; Mrs. G. w. Shaw, vice
president; Mrs. w. j. Kincaid, Sec
rotary; Mrs. r. d. Barge, treas
urer; and Mrs. James Shepherd,
Mrs. j. P. Weber and Mrs. Andrew
Boag. directors.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1917-11-01
FROM CAMP MEADE.
Corporal Middleton Gives Good
Report of Garrett Boys.
Oct. och, 1917.

Oct. 2J.h, 1917.
To the Editor Of The Republican:
Today finds the boys at Camp Meade
in good trim and spirits. The drill and
exercise is being continually made hard
er, but it does not prove to be any more
tiresome if as much as at first. In
spite Of the fact that some of the fell
lows complain of insufficient grub quite
number Of the boys are getting
stouter. This is especially noticeable in
the cases of private Bailey Liston and
corporal Paul Liston. We all are about
agreed that corporal Paul will some
day be General.
Sergeant Livengood is making a good
showing. He complains about not
having enough to do to make him tired.
Says this is the easiest month he has
ever spent in his life. Sergeant Sincell
and myself are always getting into
trouble for keeping our window open at
night, A lot of the fellows here are
afraid of the night air.
Corporal Stanton is another fine SOL
der and bids fair to hold down a better
Job. His chief trouble is floating. He
has far away look in his eve even when
he is standing at attention. We had a
visit from two of his brothers Sunday
who brought US a cake that lasted ever
so short time.
The camp is much more comfortable
now. The stoves, furnaces etc are all
in working order and we have hot
water as well as cold. Most of the
fellows are fully equipped as regards
clothing and bedding.
My stay at Camp Meade will be short.
Upon examination the other day a
slight disturbance was located in the
region Of my heart and as result I
have been recommended for discharge.
| expect to return to Oakland and take
up my work in Garrett county again.
With best regards.
Corp. A. G. MIDDLETON.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1917-11-01

Mrs. Harry Hodges and baby, of
Keyser, W. Va. are in Oakland the
guests of Miss Molhe Porter.
The ladies' composing the Aid So
clety of the NJ. f. church at Swanton
entertained in honor of Mrs. c. w.
Burk and family who will shortly re-
move from that point to Hagerstown.
About thirty ladies were present
and a profitable as well as enjoyabl
afternoon was spent. The removal
from Garrett county of Mr.. Burk ane
his family is sincerely regretted.
Rev. Frank McCamic, of Deer Park,
was in the city this mornin5 and an
nounced services in his circuit as fol-
lows; Deer Park. Sunday morning at
IL; Thayerville. Sunday afternoon at 3;
Dodge, Sunday evening at 7.45. On the
18th inst. Mr.. Mechanic will preach at
Swanton at II O'Clock and at North
Glade at 7.30 the same evening at
which time he will begin a protrscted
meeting. Mr.. W E. Moon will be in
charge of the singing.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1917-11-01
MOUNTAIN LAKE PARK.

At John Stevenson's sale Tuesday the
grain brought good prices but the live
stock prices did not come up to
expectations. The hay and straw is
being baled and will be sold at private
sale, There will be near one hundred
tons of this feed. The attendance was
not large on account Of the very dis
agreeable weather.
The Nj. E. church Ladies Aid served
a lunch consisting Of sandwiches, pie
and coffee, the proceeds being about
$50 90.
Richard Moore has leased the barber
shop from E. E. Kessner in the Hicks
House and will conduct it this winter.
Mrs. Chance is making Improvements
to her cottage known as the Waugh
Cottage, and will occupy it this winter
if it can be gotten ready in reasonable
time.
Mrs. Mary Hamill is still critically
i'll.
Mr.. and Mrs. Russell Cuppe:t were
here several days visiting relatives and
friends. They left for their home in
Clarksburg Tuesday.
Mr. UptoL -Jppett expects to spend
the winter Clarksburg. He will
take his family there.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1917-11-01

Donald Sincell, son of the editor,
who is a student at the Keyser Prep.
spent Sunday at home.
For SALE-A horse in fair condition.
Will sell cheap. Apply to H. Z Gibson,
Mt. Lake Park. Advertisement.
Miss Eleanor limbaugh returned
home Sunday afternoon from ten
days visit to relatives in Baltimore.
Mr.. Samuel G. Steyer, of near White
church, was in the city last Friday
when he called at this office on bust
ness.
For SALE-One good brood mare.
Will sell cheap. Apply to J. N. Michael,
on Oakland and Mt. Lake Park road.
Advertisement
Lieut.. Charles Morris SinceIl, of Camp
Meade, spent Sunday in Oakland with
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Benz. h.
Sincell.
Mr.. George w. Lohr, of Grafton,
spent Sunday and Monday in Oakland
with relatives, returning to Grafton
Tuesday morning.
Mrs. Mamie Goss is preparing to
move to Washington, D. c.. where she
has rented and will operate an apart
ment house during the winter.
The ladies' of town are requested to
tibet at the rooms of the Red Cross So
'clety at the Court House on Friday
afternoon of this week to sew.
Mrs. John Ault returned home Friday
afternoon after having spent several
weeks at Braddock, Pa, and Fairmont,
West Va. visiting her daughters.
Mr.. John Ault went to Braddock,
Pa, last Friday to accompany his
daughter, Mrs. SchlossDagle, to Oak
land. who is expected sometime during
the week.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. W. Stewart and
daughter Helen, left Oakland Tuesday
morning for Daytona Beach, Florida,
where they will spend the winter, ex-
pecting to return to Oakland about May
1st.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1917-11-01
CHURCH SERVICES.
ST. MARKS EV. LUTHERAN

ST. MARKS EV. LUTHERAN.
Rev. S. E WICKER, Pastor.
Bible School, $50 A M.
Morning Worship, 10:45 A. NJ.
Luther League, $50 P. NJ. Miss
. "a Falkenstein Leader.
- Vespers, 7:30 P. M.
All are invited to these services and
especially those with no church home.
ST. PAUL'S NJ. E. CHURCH.
W. M. SHULTZ. Pastor.
The calendar for the week will be as
follows:
Sunday school, $3.50 a. m.
Morning service, 1915 a. m.
Epworth League, 7:l5 p. m.
Preaching service, 500 p. m. Subject
Jr. Epworth League, Wednesday
afternoon at 4:15.
Prayer Meeting Wednesday evening
at 800.
Come and worship in this "Home-like
Church"
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
Preaching services Sunday morning
at II a. m.
Evening Service, 7.30 P NJ.
Sabbath School, 2.3OP. M.
All cordially welcome.
REV. j. C. ELY, Pastor.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1917-11-01

Mrs. GIlmor S. Hamill returned home
Tuesday from a weeks visit to Balti-
more.
Mr., Joseph Jordan, of Kempton, visit
ed his father, Mr.. Henry Jordan near
Oakland several days recently.
Mr.. Earl Savedge returned to Oak
land Tuesday from Baltimore where he
disposed of car Of sheep and car of
cattle Monday.
The girls S. 0. Club entertained a
number of their friends at a Hallowe'e en-
party Tuesday night at the home of
Miss Helena Marquis
Mr.. and Mrs. D. NJ. Dixon returned
home this morning from a visit to
Chamberspurg, Pa, where their daugh-
ter is a student. They also visited Bal
timore while away.
Mrs. Gertrude Lake-Slnsel, of Graf
ton, returned to her home in that city
Tuesday after having visited her
mother. Mrs. James Brock in Oakland,
for few days.
Mrs Charles R. Savedge has returned
from Cumberland, bringing with her
her little daughter Luella who was
recently operated upon at Western
Marya land hospital for appendicitis.
The Garrett National Bank requests
this paper to announce that the new
Liberty Loan Bonds subscribed for
through it are now ready for delivery.
Call at the bank and get your bonds.
Miss Lucy Dawson, the Field Secre-
tary of the Woman's Socitev, of Balti-
more Presbytery, will speak in the
Presbyterian church on Friday evening
at 7:30. Her theme is Africa. She is
speaker and fine treat is IN store for
all. Gentlemen too are invited.
Holy Mass will be offered in Fender
CASTS Hall, at Hutton, Md, tomorrow
morning -triday immediately follow
ing the arrival of the West bound &C
commodation, at that place. The ser
vice will be conducted by Rev. James
E. Connell, pastor of St. Peters church,
this city.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
| COmpany's carpenters are building
new and very substantial boardwalk
from the end of the municipal walk
leading from Second street to Railroad
street and on to the station. The east
end of the walk is being materially
widened, following out a suggestion
made few weeks ago by a resident of
/ town.
Mr.. Carl Richardson, photographer
of much taste and ability with head,
quarters in Piedmont. West Va, where
he maintains and conducts a studio, is
spending the week in Oakland showing
| large number of local photographs
upon an enlarged scale. Among the
views shown are Yough River scenes,
and a number of the quiet driveways
in different sections of this community.
The management of the MARYLAND
Theatre requests US to announce that
notwithstanding the fact that the cleo
trio light plant may be Incapacitated,
yet the theatre will be brilliantly IL
Illuminated with gas on Friday night, by
the calcium light plant of the attrac ton
playing Uncle Toms Cabin. So throw
away all fears with respect to light
and attend the show.
Subscribe for The Republica n.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1917-11-01
GORTNER

Mrs. Teua Murphy and daughter,
Miss Marie, Of Clarksburg, w Va,
spent Saturday and Sunday with Mr..
and Mrs. P P. Gortner.
Mr. N. E. Miller, of Springs, Pa,
preached two very edIfying sermons in
the Union churcl Sunday, the subject
IN the morning was, Eye are Witness
for Him, " and in the evening, The
Pearl of Great Price"
Mr.. and Mrs. Joel Slsbaugh are visit
ing relatives in Somerset county, Pa,
at this writing.
Miss Mabel Cuppett. of Mt Lake
Park. was the guest of Mr.. and Mrs.
w. r. Spoerlein Friday and Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis Beachy and Mrs.
F. S. Irwin took dinner at Simon
Swartzentruber' Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. w. c. Buncutter, of
Sunnyside, have taken into their home
Hazel Schrock, of Dobbin, W. Va.
Lee Sander and sister Miss Pauline,
were visitors at Robert Lathrum re-
Gently.
Messrs. Irwin Miller. r. l.. Gaur,
and son Ojde, N. E. Miller and family,
Misses Lena Slabaugh and Emma
Burkholder, spent Sunday at Simon
Lichty's.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1917-11-01

Mr.. Neil V. Liller, who is engaged
with the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
at Keyser, spent Sunday in Oakland
with his mother and other relatives.
Mrs. Henry W. McComas returned
home Saturday night from Baltimore in
which city she bad spent two weeks as
the guest of her son, Mr.. Harry Nc
Comas and other relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roy H. Hamill and
children, of Huntington, West Va,
were guests for few days last week
of Mr.. Hamill's parents in Oakland, re-
turning to Huntington Sunday after
noon.
Mrs. E. H. Smouse and family, of
Deer Park, moved to Oakland Monday
for the winter months. They are oc-
cupying rooms in the property owned
by Mr.. D. E. Olfutt located on Second
street.
County Superintendent F. E. Rath-
bun went to Bjttinger Tuesday morning
on business connected with educational
matters in that section of the county,
being accompanied by Mr.. Silas 0.
Wiley.
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Thayer, the for
mer superintendent of the treeport
Coal Company, whose mines are locat-
ed near Corinth, West Va. were Sun
day guests of Mr. and Mrs. Fred. A.
Thayer in Oakland.
Mrs. w. W. Grant returned to her
home in Oakland Sunday evening from
Cumberland to which city she had been
summoned owing to the illness of her
father, who was operated upon on
Wednesday of last week.
Mr.. Frank Browning, now assistant
road foreman of engines with head
quarters in Baltimore, spent a portion
of last week in Oakland with his family.
Mr.. Browning expects to move his
family to Baltimore, sometime early
next month.
Mr. Mahlon Miller, of near Grants
vile. was in Cumberland last Saturday
where he expected to meet his son.
Private Samuel Miller, of the 3l3th
Regiment, stationed at Camp Meade,
who was recently operated upon for ap-
pendicitis in Washington Hospital and
who was furloughed nome to recuperate.
Mr.. H. Kahl, of Egeland, North
Dakota, returned to his home Monday
after having spent a week with his
father, Mr.. Louis Kahl. at Accident,
this county. Before leaving for his
western home Mr.. Kahl called at this
office and renewed his subscription for
another year for his favorite Garrett
county newspaper.
Mr.. G. C. Martin, of near Clarks-
burg, West Va, arrived in Oakland
| Tuesday to spend a short time with
relatives and friends and to transact
business. Mr.. Martin, until recently,
was engaged in business in Oakland
when he removed to a point in West
Virginia where he is prospecting, we
are pleased to state.
Assistant Postmaster George Rode
HEAVIER, who has been transferred from
the Oakland Office to the postoffice at
| BTaddock, Pa, where he becomes q
city carrier, left Oakland for that
point last Friday morning. He will be
succeeded here by Mr.. Arthur Schlos-
snagle, who expects to arrive with his
family early next week.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1917-11-01
Butter Fat Prices.

At the Garrett county Creamery this
week We will nay ~ cents pc, ID. for
Butter Fat. -Advertisement. 81
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-07-21
.TETANUS PLOT May
PROVE FALSE ALARM
Kansas State Laboratory Finds No
Trace of Bacteria On Court
Plaster
lRv Associated Press.l


Kansas City, July 21.-Investiga-
ton of three men arrested in Kansas
suspected of being connected with
efforts to start an epidemic of dis
ease through the sale of infected
court plaster, led yesterday to the
release of one of the men and the
statement that another probably
would be freed today. The third,
who gave the name of John Lying, is
being detained at Marysville.
Ten guineapigs were inoculated
yesterday with cultures taken from
samples of the suspected plaster.
Government psychologists said the
culture contained bacilli of tetanus.
The death of Charles Milford at
Winfield, Kansas, after he had
treated a sore leg with plaster also
is being investigated. He was found
in an unconscious condition and
could not tell of his illness. officials
last night had not announced what
motive was behind the alleged plot,
but are endeavoring to find out If 1T
was part of German terrorization
propaganda in the grain belt.
Lawrence, Kan, July 21-Tests
made in the University of Kansas
bacteriology laboratories of samples
of court plaster thought to have
been inoculated with tetanus germs
have failed to reveal any such bac-
terra, it was announced here yester-
day. Ten pieces of court plaster
were sent to the university from
different parts of Kansas following
the arrest of peddIers suspected of
being German agents attempting to
spread disease throughout the state.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-07-21
FRENCH SCHOOLS
HELD IN CAVES
(By Associated Press.l

New York, July 2l.-Schools in
caves, with pupils and teachers wear
ing gas masks, are extremes to which
war-ridden France has gone to insure
alone is the prophecysof an enduring
nation, says a report of the regents
of the University of New York, by
President Finley of the university,
who recently returned from an edu-
which he studied the effect of the war
on the French school system.
While France has restricted the use
of food, fuel and light, has discour-
eyed travel, has modified every able
for one moment forgotten her culture
defense, said President Finley. Wom-
en- by thousands have taken the plac-
es of men teachers called to the front,
many of whom, finally incapacitated
for battle by wounds, have again re-
turned to teach.
President Finley especially sought
the advice of France in meeting like
conditions here. This advice, summed
up is. he said: .-
"Do not let the needs of the hour,
however heavily they fall upon the
neglect of the defenses of tomorrow.
Sacrifice everything to bequeath the
spirit that has made the Institutions
which we would preserve and enlarge
in our children"
France had no time to make no
plans for else than immediate de-
fense." he said. Her universities
were at once practically emptied of
men when some should have been held
in order that they might give a more
efficient service later"
Mr.. Finley urged the United States
to take time to prepare against such
exhaustion of our technical skill and
professional equipment.