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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1918-01-24
BITTNGER.

Winter still continues unbroken with
the mercury lowering near zero, and
the whole landscape covered with snow
and ice to a considerable depth, and
everybody keeping on the most intimate
terms with the stove.
Sheriff George White, of Oakland,
made his first official visit to this COM
munlty last week.
Allen Stanton, who has been laboring
in other sections for some months, is
seen again among the boys here.
The mining and shipping of coal from
the Jennings and Bear Hill sections
continues to increase, several car loads
going out each week.
Clarence Oester has purchased a
small dwelling house.from C. E. Eli
thorp, and IS arranging to move same
to the farm recently purchased by him
and his brother Columbus.
c.. R. Broadwater made a business
trip to Salisbury, Pa, last Friday.
Communion services in the LutL eran
church have been postponed indefinite
lY, owing to the lack of heating ar
engagements for the church.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1918-01-24

Lynn, and P. F. Gortner, of Shabbona,
ILL.,, were visitors at MIR. P. P. Gort-
ner's Sunday.
Mr.. H. E. Yoder left Thursday for
Meyersdale, Pa. where ne has gone to
continue treatment for inhamatory
rheumatism, from DR.. Bird.
Ruth and Walter Schlossnagle are
visiting tteir sister, Mrs. Owen Mar
tin, at Mason.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Sanders and
Miss Ina Wamsley, Of Mil Greek, w.
Va. were Sunday visitors at Mr.. e. L.
Wamsley's.
MIR. Geo. Lee, is suffering from an
attack of heart trouble.
Mrs Hervey Smouse was a Saturday
afternoon caller on Mrs. Chas. Eggers.
MIR. and Mrs. Ira Culp and daughter
Addie, of Red Oak stayed at Mrs. j. J.
Schlossnagle's Saturday night enroute
home from Oakland.
The announcement was left for church
services Sunday morning and evening
by MIR. Daniel Kaufman, of Scottdale,
Pa, S. S. at half past nine. You are
all cordially invited.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1918-01-24

then, in 1894, the industry was again
started by the government that had
destroyed it. There had been a war
with China, which had shown the jap
anese their own great need for ships
Government subsidies were provided
for ship-yards, bounties offered to every
man who owned ship.
The ship-yards constructed on &C
count of this inducement were not an
important success. Not only did they
fail to meet the competition of those
Of Great Britain. but Japanese laborers
showed positive physical untitness for
steel construction. The government
aid to ship owners, however, resulted
in the gradual increase of Japanese
shipping, until by 1905 it represented
one eleventh of the worlds steam
tonnage.
1t took the European war to put the
shipyards on their feet. Through it
japanese ship builders have been able
to master the technicaIIties of the in
dustry, they haYe been able to sucsti-
ute machinery for the heavier con-
struction in place of workmen, and the
tremendous demand for cargo ships has
enabled them to standardize their con-
struction-always a great economy IN
shipbuilding as IN everything else. In
addition to their big war profits the
ship-builders were still subsidized by
the government last year to the extent
of 81, SOC, 900, while the bounty paid to
ship-owners rose to $2,616, IA.
Forty thousand skilled workers are
now employed by the industry. Many
smaller but equally profitable industries
haye grown up around it, including
even steel rolling mills For the war
has also taught Japan some valuable
facts concerning the manufacture of
steel, which should cut down the impor-
tation of that material in the years to
come. China, of course, must supply
the iron and coal, but Japanese states
men have seen to that. Thus the end
of the war will see Japan once more
ready to take prominent place in
marine affairs.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1918-01-24
JENNINGS


jennings IS shivering with the rest of
the country, the thermometer register
ing as low as Is degrees below zero
Sunday morning. In the lowlands of
Casselman valley 1t registered 10 be-
low. The wind was blowing a gale on
the higher land, which made travelling
very difficult. Potatoes and other pro
visions were frozen in some of the cei-
lars.
On Friday, Jan, 4, about 4 o. clock P.
NJ. Frank Hutzell's house was burned
to the ground, with nearly all its con-
tents. Frank and his wife were both
away from home at the time. The
origin Of the fire Is unknown. The Jen-
nlngs Bros. water system being out Of
commission on account of the plant not
being in operation, there was very
scentY supply of water with which to
fight the flames. The fighters barely
succeeded in saving Mr.. Bittingers
house on one side ana Mr.. Werkheisers
on the other side Of the Hutzell home.
Rev. H. A. Groves and Miss Lucretia
NJ. Wiley were united in the holy bonds
of wedlock on the 24th day of Deem
Der, 1917, and are now happily situated
in the home of the groom which the
bride is making to look homeEke again
the groom having been without house
keeper since the death of his wife and
the marriage of his daughter.
Milton Wiley and family, and Mrs.
Levi Resi- and her mother paid Mr.. and
Mrs. H. A. Groves a very pleasant
visit on Sunday, 9Th inst.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. A. Groves spent
Christmas at Hampton Buffers where
they were invited to turkey roast.
They report royal time
The infant child of MIR. and Mrs.
Silas Platter was buried on January
9th, at Bittinger. The funeral services
were conducted by Rev. Price, pastor
of the M. E. church at GrantsYille. Mr..
Platter and his wife are seriously ill.,
He has rheumatism and she has appen
dicitis. Their baby died of pneumonia.
Edward Swauger took his wife to the
hospital to be operated on for appen-
dicitis. She has been suffering for
some time from this disease. and has
spent good deal of money with the
expectation of avoiding the operating
table, but could not.
Ethel Layman, who tell upon the
corner of school desk and burst her
appendix and underwent very painful
operation in the Western Maryland
Hospital at Cumberland, Md, is now
convalescing.
Rev. Price is having a revival of re-
ligion in the NJ. E. church at Jennings.
T. E. Upole spent Friday and Satur-
day at Oakland on business.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1918-01-24
MOUNTAIN LAKE PARK.

Rey. VIM. Fallen and family are here.
Rev. Fallen preached at the Valley
church Sunday morning and at the Park
Sunday evening.
Rev. Flanagan family left yester-
day morning for Grafton.
Mr.. Echard, with a large force, Is
still loading ice for the B. & O.
The thermometer here Monday morn
ing was q below zero.
Rev. L. A Rudisill and wife arrived
Wednesday morning from New York in
a storm.
Mr.. Wolfe, of the firm OF Beckman &
Wolfe, is at Charleston, w. Va. where
he may go into the mercantile business.
The Park has no city water at this time
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1918-01-24
GORTNER

The funeral of Mr.. William Hahn.
formerly of Red House, late of Windy
Ridge, Pa, was held in the Union
church Monday morning, the services
being conducted by Rev. Glenn, of
Terra Alta, w. Va. Interment in the
old Yutzy cemetery at Sunnyside.
Bishop L. NJ. Beachy and Mr.. Daniel
Schrock, returned from Camp Meade
Thursday. Tor which place they left
here on the 14th, where they had gone
to see Noah Schrock who is stationed
there.
Arthur DERRICK is spending several
days az Fairmont, w. Va.
Messrs. Grover Gortner Of Loeb
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1918-01-24
THE PEOPLES FORUM.
The State Needs Christ.

The history of the State, has for the
most part been the history of men sus-
tanned by sublime faith in God. SAYS a
late writer, $50 long as our children
are trained in these truths and our
youth hold to this surprising belief in
Gods word, so long as we continue to
connect man with God, and holding fast
to His eternal word. maintain the sup
erlatve supremacy of mans soul above
mere brain and nerve tissue, so long
will our commerce extend; so long will
our literature and the arts advance; so
long will our institutions continue firm
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1918-01-24
EVANSVILLE.

A Red Cross social was held on
Thursday night at the Victor Hotel
under the direction of Miss Maud BeY-
ans, the chairman of the bureau. Cards
were the diversion. Sandwiches and
coffee were served. Ten dollars was
cleared over and above expenses. A
branch chapter is being formed here.
The officers elected are: Vice chairman,
Marie Conner; Treasurer, Vida M
Getty; Secretary, S p e - Miss
Gertrude Hone has been appointed to
oversee the kni' tlHs Ccpsitn an+ Mrs.
c. H. Bill and Hi' Care ~, y are
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1918-01-24
Notice to Farmers.

AS it will be necessary to order fer
tilizer early for spring delivery, | may
not get to call on all my customers.
You can mail or phone me your orders.
Don't pay war profits at both ends If
the line. Order of me and get low
prices and easy terms as before. Luther
Nine, Agent, Oakland, Md, Route /.
Advertisement
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1918-01-24
Information for Contractors.

Sealed proposals addressed to the County
Commissioners Of Garrett County and in
dOrsed Proposals for building section Of
State Aid Highway in Garrett County" up
on or along the Elder Hin road, beginning
at the Railroad Crossing in FriendsVllle and
extending towards HOyes, for distance Of
about three and two OEe-huudredtL miles,
C'.02l Will be received by the County Com
missiOners OF Garrett County, at their Of
ttCe Oakland. NarNlanN. umtil Y O,clunN noon
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-02-10
TESTING COAL FOR HEAT UNITS Frank Carpenter

thracite consumed you could figure the
value of its cost. Here in Washington,
we have to pay 81 and upward ton, so
that the briquettes from every ton of
bituminous coal would be worth $3.50.
You could also figure on 5000 cubic feet
of gas from the same ton of coal This
gas is just like that We are now burning
a. a cost of Is cents per 1900 Its value
is $375, and it all goes out in smoke
Now. the bituminous coal that goes into
the plant costs about s. a ton at the
nine, and it would seem that the city
could furnish the fuel and light so much
cheaper than now that 1t would be the
same as having either one or the other
for nothing. 1t certainly would cut the
combined cost of these things to half.
But That is not all" continued the
expert technologist There would be
additional savings for each ton of coal
In addition to the seven-tenths of a ton
of anthracite. and 5000 feet of illuminate
of sulphate of ammonia, worth about
2i6 cents per pound, and about two gall
Ions of benzol equal in value to the gaso-
lire we buy for automobiles, There would
also be the gas liquor, which could be
sold to the manufacturers of coal prod
ucts distillates. In short, there would be
at least a dollars worth of by-products
in addition to the fuel and gas. So you
see my estimates leave plenty of mar
gin for interest on the amount invested.
cost of operation and considerable
waste"
''But IL this Is so. why has not such a
plant been invented?"
II do not know replied the expert.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-02-10

'TWhy did we wait thousands of years
before we began to use steam and the
electric light 1 only know that there
is no scientific or mechanical reason
why something of that kind should not
be made"
In connection with the saving of coal,
the bureau of mines has made expert
ments as to the use of our lignites or
low-grade Goals. which are found in such
vast quantities over many parts OF the
west and in Alaska. We have thousands
OF square miles of territory in which
nearly every farmer might have coal
mine in his back yard. In North Da-
kota alone there are deposits of that
kind covering an area four times as
large as the state of Massachusetts,.
thick and altogether they have five times
as much coal as Pennsylvania. There
are other large deposits in Montana,
wyoming, Colorado and Texas. and
Alaska has hundreds of billions Of tons.
In Germany they take this poor coal and
make 1t into hriquettes which can be
used for fuel. They also run it through
gas producers by which they generate
electricity and gas for manufacturing
purposes. We might do the same, es-
tablishing the gas-producing plants at
the mines and sending electric power
to the industrial centers nearby. As ii
Is we have now something like 1000 gas
producers in the United States and they
have all been installed within the last
IS years. The largest OF them are using
Ignite or low-grade bituminous coal
copyright, 1918, by Frank G. Carpenter)
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-02-10
SAD FATE AWAITS
| BALKAN NATIONS
IF GERMANS WIN
Serbia Will Be Attached to
Austria and Montenegro
Will Be a Mere Vas
sal Kingdom

Amsterdam. December 10.--(Correspon-
dence of the Associated Press --What
Serbia and Montenegro have to expect
from victorious Germany is indi-
/ Gated in an article published in the
German papers from the pen of the
Austrian historian. Prof. Heinrich Fried
jung. He says:
1T will be the duty of the victor to
COILS slider carefully the good of the Serbian
people, and not make them pay for the
sins of their King and his advisors.
The uniting of Serbia with Austria Hum
gary will fulfill the desires of the eco
nomic ties In this way the Serbians
people would emerge from tho struggle
victors, in spite of their terrible suffer
ings. The house of Hapsburg will give
better guarantee for the prosperous de-
velopment of tke Serbian people than
their own dynasty which is responsible
for all their troubles. III Serbia kept her
army and her INDEPENDENCE, she would be
used as a tool by fanatics supported by
English, French and Russian money
But Incorporated in the Austrian empire,
| only small garrisons will be necessary.
Austria will allow Serbia to export her
products northward free of duty. The
| foolish policy of tariff wars against
| small neighbors must be abandoned. II
| the Serbian peasant does not have his
! sor taken away for military service and
| if lie can export the products of his soil
to Austria, he will be in very favor
able position.
1T would be criminal error to unite
Montenegro and Serbia. Montenegro
| could be allowed her independence with
pro cautions. Obviously Mount Lovcen
! cannot be given back to her. Enemy
statesmen make fine speeches about
small nations being allowed to decide
their own fate. But at the end Of the
war the great states will make use OF
the little ones In payment OF their in
dem mites. Austria and Bulgaria will de-
eide upon the future of the Balkans. In
general, there win be little change from
!! the present position"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-02-10

IN CCORDING to the council of
/e\ national defense, the saving
of coal ranks side by side in
Importance with the saving of
wheat. The day is fast coming when
shovelful of coal will be worth almost
as much as a pound loaf of bread. II
has already come to that in Italy and
France, and it may come to that in the
United States as far as waging the
war is concerned. We must save for
our immediate needs here at home and
for those of our allies abroad, and we
must save to maintain the foundation
of our Industrial success for the future.
1 have written of our vast coal reserves
and shown how small part of the
whole we have mined. 1 have shown
that we have more than half the coal
of the world, and that more than 9sls
per cent. of that is still in the ground.
But coal in the ground is not coal in
the cellar. 1t is like money in the
bank with your account overdrawn
and no right to check. 1t is like the
sweet tooth of the boy whose nose is
against the candy store window, with
a half-inch of plate glass between. AS
far as our present needs are concerned.
we have only the coal we can mine,
and our situation as to labor and
transportation is such that we cannot
get more coal out of the ground and
into the hands of the people.
1t Is no use to say that we are min
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-02-10
FEEL fine! TAKE
4CASCARETS" FOR
LIVER, BOWELS
Spend 10 cents! Don't stay bill
ious, sick, headachy, con-
stipated
Cant harm you! Best cathar-
tic for men, women and
children

Enjoy life! Your system is filled
with an accumulation OF bile and bowel
poison which Keeps you bilious. head
aclly, dizzy, tongue coated, breath bad
and stomach sour-Why don't you get
a 10-cent box of Cascarets at the drug
store and feel bully? Take Cascarets
tonight and enjoy the incest, gentlest
liver and bowel cleansing you ever
experienced. Youll wake up with a
clear head, clean tongue, lively step,
rosy skin and looking and feeling fit.
Mothers can give a whole Cascaret to
a sick, cross, bilious. feverish child
any time-they are harmless-neyer
grippe or sicken.-Adv.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-02-10

"Just what would such by-product
plant saver" I asked.
THAT would depend upon the prices
which the town is now paying for its
coal and llEht. For every ton of an
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-06-12
THROTGH FLANDERS fIelds
Dlan Concerted Action
To PreUent Wholesale
Fires and Accidents

Columbus. Ohio. June 12.-That the
United States each year burns enough
property 10 pay the interest on three
Liberty loans is the assertion OF those
who are I'm charge Of the program for
the patriotic fire prevention congress.
convened here for a three days ses-
sion under the auspices Of the Ohio
state industrial commission.
America burned up S267.560.7f0 IN
1917. Of which so percent was due TO
carelessness- The money thus de-
stroyed would have darkeued the Eu-
ropean skies with airplanes and blast
ed a path TO Berlin
over S700.000.000 is annually wasted
or burned I'm American kitchens. Tt
takes a barrel Of flour and other In
gradients 20 make from $50 TO 255
loaves OF war bread. and vet one
elevator fire destroyed 100000 IN
wheat
Zach year America wipes out the
strength Of a regiment OF the line
through accidents During one year
accidents in Ohio injured $4,000
workers
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-06-12
VIII SONS PAN-AMERICAN PLANT
MAY ADD TO MONROE DOCTRINE

sufficient guarantees TO all Latin suspicious and
knock the pins from under the Argentine plan.
This project of the president has been given casual
discussion BY dipoatists Of the various countries most
concerned and they understood to favor It principle
There better time than the present to revive It. It
would be good idea if president Wilson to invite
the American nations send representatives to confer
table draft such treaty he has suggested and
have It ratified by all the countries possible
Outside the American continent, the presidents utter
VIII be regarded expression OF his idea Of IN
ernaouaI relationships the world He intended that
should be regarded The president obviously Of the
opinion that If the plan for panAmerican league viii
work out satisfactorily the idea capable Of expan-
the world Ii is his most striking pronounce
favor OF league Of nations to enforce peace, such
as former president W H. Taft has long urged Whether
such scheme VIII work depends much human nature
and racial differences the fmness with which the
international fabric is knit
At least important IS the presidents proposal to make
practical application of his theory that troubles between
nations be avoided by guarantees that justice and fair
treatment free from the faint of commercial territorial
lust shall be accorded the weak nations weu the
strong
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-06-12
Daily NOUeLette
sANRo

% A NJ dis we're de Istment office of
n de nited States Gover'met
Army
The speaker was a strong appear
ing negro man and he had walked
boldly into the recruiting office.
Eyes. sir. this is the place. re-
sponded The officer
Am dis de place where you takes
de young mems and turns EN- into
soldiers what so fer T. XIII the en-
miesc"
Eyes. this IS the place" replied the
man in uniform. "Do you wish 10 en-
list in the army or The uavyg
That yere depens. hit all depens
Fust Use gwiue fer e ask youau for
some little Information disregardin'
dis yere Job. Use a fightin' man an
a wor1iu' man. I is. Dose youau hev
a place where you wants a man dat
amt afeard o. nothin. nothin' 'taue~
THAT is precisely the kind Of men
we want You look 90 be IN a most
healthy condition and we need you
here and now. VIII you sign upc'
"Dat depeus. dat "opens. What Z
wants Ter 20 know If Use gwiue ter
geir right down q work les as soon
as 7 lists. What I wants fer @ do is
ter git right down ter hard work the
fust thing Ise so fond OBJ di-Eiu'
trenches, cleaning out stables, water
IN. losses- carrFlu' salQhags. Lttin.
cauuols out Of de mud and dat we're
sore Of oh labor. lse a hard Workiu'
and de harder de work de better Ise
gWiue for q be pleased wild de job.
AS fer fiEhtn'. dat -lehtin' job is jest
my middle name. Use de besresr
fightin' man in AmeriEa, 7 is. an I
wants fer 90 start right out fghtin'
but Jest nachuallT I done rawther
did some few miles oh trenches fer q
sit my mussels in de right kind Oh
shape fer q swing around am carry
De big shells fer de batteries
Good Good-' exclaimed the re-
in a million. You are just the kind
Of O. man we want You Won't have
20 say another word. Most OF the
applicants who amble iu here want a
job lu the Quarternaster' depart
meut or some place where they won't
have 20 even have their feelings hurt
by seeing other men work. Trench
diEgers and fighting giants are what
we need We can give you All the
work you want BY gosh, this ls
big prize Sign this paper right here,
pull Off your clothes and get into tllr
uniform over there and you'I be a
big hero inside Of two weeks"
yes sab. yes sah,-' muttered Saubo
i'm a sort % awed and disappointed
tone. eyes sab. das an right. but
how about dat yere animation Aiu't
youse sWlue give me de zamina-
ti0n-"
Nothing doing with the ezauina-
dion You're all right You don't
have 90 be examined. You're O. husky
guy and that's all we need Strip
H.sr-
gan sliding back towards the door.
Oats all right. Mister officer. but I
amt gwiue fer o list 'thout no Fam
inatiol. no sah I ain'L lie got a hull
lot oh doubts bout dis we're listiu' am
amt gwiue fer to- list widOul YOU
calls in big bunch oh doctors fer
20 famine me fer Z see 81 7 amt plum
crazy"
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-06-12
Farm Army Recruited
For Kansas HarUest

Topeka. Has.. June l--With the
wheat harvest drive" only a few days
or. and. in fact, in some parts Of the
state already begun. an army Of 90.-
600 business and professional men is
complete i'm its enlistment today, un-
der the command Of General" Z. L..
FrizeI, federal farm labor agent
Tho army has been enlisted for ten
day periods Of 10000 each. These vol
untecrs win assist the regular har-
vest hands OF which there is q short
age. due to the war.
The men were secured by the la
Dor agencies. and by special cam
paigns conducted by commercial or
CARNATIONS. The men are. i'm large
part. those who have iu their earlier
years worked on the farms
Many women have accompani
their husbands to the fields and VIII
aid the farmer women In the house
work