The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1921-05-19
Mr.. R. E. Sliger is having a garage
'rected at his home and other repairs
md improvements made thereon.

and improvements made thereon.
Mr.. c. N. McIntire spent Tuesday
and yesterday at Petersburg, West
Va, on business.
Mr.. Luther j. Brown has taken a
position as travelling salesman for the
Oakland Hardware and Furniture Co.
of Oakland.
The officials of the Garrett County
Fair Association are now engaged in
preparing the annual catalogue for the
fair to be held this fall The prize of
ferings will be as large or lager than
those of last year. The booklet will
contain besides the premium lists as
arranged by the fair people numerous
advertisements of merchants, manu-
facturers and others engaged in bust
ness pursuits in the county and the
joining counties. 1t has been found
that this means of advertising has
been profitable investment for those
who have used the medium in years
gone by and larger patronage in
this line is confidently expected by the
management of the fair for 1921. The
book will be issued much earlier this
year than it was last year and in
greater numbers.
The Republican has it from source
deemed trustworthy that early in the
spring Vermont maple sugar dealers
shipped to some Garrett county pro-
ducers of sugar barrels in which to
deposit and ship to the New Englan
ders Garrett county maple syrup. At
ter the season had closed and the pro-
ducers in this county had their crop
barreled and ready to ship the Yer
monters wrote them saying that 60
cents per gallon was the top figure for
the product. Another in the county
received a circular from Vermont
firm of sugar dealers saying that they
would be pleased to ship maple sugar
to his or any other address he may
furnish at the rate of $3.50 per gal
Ion, and they do say that the Yankees
from Yankeedom are handwriting and
strictly honest. Garrett county syrup
at 65 cents per gallon, taken to Ver-
mont there canned and probably adul-
tered and shipped back to Garrett
county people at $4.50-some profit.
The first white man of whom we
have record traversing the route of
what is now the National Road was
Christopher Gist who had been liv-
ing near the North Carolina State line
and who came into Maryland at the
request of the Ohio Company to ex-
plore the land toward the west. He
arrived at Wills Creek in October,
174J. Wills Greek is a good-sized
stream flowing into the Potomac at
what is now Cumberland. The In
dams knew it as Caicutucue, a name
both difficult to spell and pronounce,
which led perhaps to its early discar-
dance. Upon this stream in a small
cove IN the great mountain which rises
there lived a friendly and influential
Indian, whom the early traders called
Will. Probably the nearest English
staggcr they could make at his Indian
name. So the stream Caicutucue, be-
came Wills Creek and the mountain
at Cumberland Wills mountain and
upon the highest point the body of the
Indian Will was inferred at his death.
Jeanette Arnett Leeper in the Cum
berland Evening Times.
The "Survey Fad" is given this gen.
eral dig in the Westminster Times
There is to be a survey made of
farm life in Maryland to ascertain the
sanitary and social conditions. The
Survey fad is growing so rapidly
that almost everything under the sun
is being or will be surveyed. Colleges,
churches, schools of every degree, in
situations of every character, depart
ments of Federal and State Govern
ments are being surveyed by special
lists. These surveyors are high-sal-
aried experts or near-experts, and
they are paid to find out what is
wrong, and they would lose their
standing as expert surveyors if they
failed to find the conditions, systems
and operations bad-very bad. The
reports they make are usually of such
a dismal, dark-brown shade that we
wonder everything has not gone to
smash long before this. 1t makes one
feel as if, after all, our boosted prog
ress, enlightenment, civilization and
superiority have been a delusion and a
snare, and we are not much more adj
vanced than the most benighted peo-
pies of Africa. Surveys may be good
things, but while they hammer every
thing we are now doing, they get us
nowhere, because the reconstruction
recommendations are so elaborate, eX-
pensive and impracticable as to make
them impossible.
Until a few years ago, the public
school law required minority represen-
tation, but the Act of 1916, by provid-
ing that appointees should be made by
the Governor "from the citizens of the
county gave him free hand. When
Governor Harrington named Mrs. Lee