The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1926-09-23
SOLUTION OF LAST WEEKS
CROSSWORD PUZZLE.

fOlnC, Mo-, government HOSplCal
few days ago.
Miss Shepard, of Scranton, Pa, who
has visited Mrs. Joseph F. Fahey for
several weeks, has returned to her
home.
Miss Elizabeth Ann Grove, of New
Germany, died at her home Friday,
September 18th. She was past II
years old and is survived by one sis
ter, Mrs. Margaret Wiley, and four
brothers, D. w. Grove, Robert, Mel
son and H. S. Grove, all of near New
Germany. Funeral was held Sunday
at 2:30 p. M, from the Methodist
church with interment in the ceme-
terry adjoining. Rev. L. G. Robinson
officiated.
Clayton Diehl has returned to Get
tysburg College at Gettysburg, Pa,
where he is enrolled as a student.
Merle Hershberger and Harvey
Stanton returned Sunday to the Uni
versity of Maryland, at College Park.
where they will resume their course of
study.
Miss Martha Engle returned to the
Western Maryland College at West
minister, Md. to resume her studies.
DR.. and Mrs. G. B. Ryland and
daughter, of Pittsburgh, Pa, Dr. and
Mrs. Harry Ryland and children and
Mrs. Susan burst, of Meyersdale, Pa,
were Sunday guests of Mrs. Lille
Younkin.
Frank Beachy, of Smock, Pa, spent
the weekend with his father, Mar
shall Beachy, and family.
Col j. H. Cudlipp, of Baltimore,
was guest Of Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Eel
Ter over the weekend.
Rev. Charles Peters of PHILADELPHIA
was a guest of Mr.. and Mrs. Fred
Livengood Saturday and Sunday
Mr.. and Mrs. D. D. Otto and Mr..
and Mrs. Ray Otto, all of Springs, Pa,
and Miss Barbara Wisserman, of Ne
gro Mountain, have. returned from
trip to Gettysburg, Philadelphia New
York City, Niagara Falls and points
in Canada.
Misses Elizabeth Leary, Coral Nc
Robe and Irene Smouse and Mr.. E.
R. Jones, of Oakland, and Rev. G. A.
Teske, of Cumberland, were Sunday
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. j. j. Bender.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Johnson and
son, of Cumberland, are guests at the
Dixie Tavern, Little Crossings.
DR.. 7. o. Broadwater attended the
Maryland State Dental Association
meeting held at the Fort Cumberland
Hotel in Cumberland Tuesday.
The work and aims of the Agricul
tural department of the Grantsville
High School was demonstrated at the
Community Fair held here on Thurs
day and Friday of last week. On the
first day of the fair the judging teams
from Oakland, Accident and Friends
vile high schools came over to Judge
dairy cows. A purse was made up by
the First State and First National
banks of Grantsville and a prize will
be given the winning team. Mr.. w.
c. Jester, County Agent, is the judge
of the contest.
The agricultural classes of the local
school had exhibits at the fair. The
booth of garden and crop products
grown by the boys, was attractively
displayed, Their project records were
shown, giving accurate accounts of
work, time and money spent on their
projects. Other work done by the
boys in the school room was shown,
such as grating fruit trees, rope ty-
ing exhibits, different kinds of fertili-
zers, grasses, cereal crops, corn and
corn products. Some of the shop work
shown consisted of seed potato cutter,
seed testing box, self-feed hopper for
chickens, flower boxes, inter box, egg
tester, etc.
There were also several demonstra-
lions given on how to produce clean
milk. A clean boy, milking clean
cow into clean closed top bucket as
against dirty boy milking dirty
COW into an open top bucket. The
spectators upon viewing the milk and
operations agreed that they would
rather use the first mentioned milk
than the latter. The value of low
bacteria count in milk was also ex-
planned and the requirements of the
Department of Health of Baltimore of
the producers of city milk was told by
the agricultural instructor. Another
demonstration given was a milk test
for butterfat and the uses of the Bah
cock tester explained. The next was
a soil testing demonstration for lime
requirements. A sample of soil was
taken from the fair grounds that had
been unknown to have been treat
with lime. The Turog test showed the
requirement to be 5000 pounds per
acre.
Many questions were asked and
much interest shown by the farmers
in the work of this department of the
high school.