The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1927-03-10

The play will be given in the w. o.
w. Hall on Friday and Saturday
/ evenings of this week.
The True Blue Glass of st. Johns
Reformed Sunday School held very
enjoyable and profitable five hundred
party in the hall last Thursday even
ing. A large number of people from
Salisbury and other out of town
places attended.
Hot Lunches To Be Served at School
Arrangements have been made in
the Grantsville school thru the Do
mestic Science Department of the
high school, of which Miss Marian
Price is instructor, to serve hot
lunches to those pupils remaining at
the school for their midday meal.
The food and drinks served are pro-
vided at cost to the pupils. The prin-
cipal, Prof. R. R. Webster, is to be
commended upon this step forward in
his school.
Thru proceeds of play recently
held and socials, one room of the
high schccol was equipped with desk
chairs of the latest approved type
which were furnished by the Dulaney-
Varney Company, of Baltimore, thus
providing much needed equipment.
Entries are being made for the
Boys Defamation Contest to be held
here early in April. The final coun-
ty contest will be held in Oakland
this year.
The percentage of attendance for
the month of February in the high
school was 1928 and in the elementary
school SO. Those having 100 per
cent attendance record in the ele-
mentary school for February were
Rozella Younkin, Eleanor Younkin,
Betty Patton, Alma Bittinger, LaRue
Bittinger, Paul Folk, Ralph Shu-
maker, jacob Miller, David Paul, Ell
wood Klotz, Fern Baker, Evelyn
Beachy, Mary Bevans, Pauline Hen
dershot, Mildred Paul, Helen Swaug-
err, Walter Younkin, Robert Younkin,
Allen Rodamer, Glenn Miller, Blaine
Bittinger, James Bocher, Clayton Ed
wards, Joseph Paul, Junior Shearer,
Junior Suder, Earl Younkin, Rhoda
Shumaker, Mary Miller, Edith Bit
finger.
Parent-Teacher Association
Hold Meeting
In the Parent-Teacher Association
meeting recently held at the Turner
school, the teacher, Miss Regina Lor-
aditch, presided; Mrs. Clyde Newman
compared the duties of a teacher with
those of a mother; Miss Miller spoke
on the value of nature study; Miss
Loraditch explained the compulsory
school law and cited its advantages,
which was followed by an open dis
cussion on ways and means to beau
tify the school grounds; following
this was the social hour with re-
freshments. The honor roll pupils of
the school for February are Laura
and Sara Turner, Virginia and Ora
Warne, Bernice Beachy, Byard and
Albert Newman.
Railroad Spur Being Built
The preliminary survey Tor the
railroad spur from the Castleman
Valley up Shade Run, west of Grants
Willie, was started on Monday morn
ing. This work was planned for sew
eral weeks ago, but was delayed be-
cause of the heavy snow. This spur
will be about 2h miles long and will
tap the mines of the Myers Coal Co.
of which Mr.. C. A. Bender is pres
ident, the Yoder mine now owned by
Hugh Carey McMahn and the mines
of the Shade Run Coal Co. with open
ings on the farm formerly owned by
Jacob j. Folk near the Pennsylvania
State Line.
The Mutual Telephone Company
has enjoyed healthy growth of bust
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flee in Grantsville. An extension has
just been added to the switchboard
and is being rapidly filled, because Of
the large number of private lines be-
ing used in the town and the demand
from groups Of business men outside
of the town for strict business lines,
thus avoiding the Objectionable lis
tening in which has been all too prev
alent on country telephone systems.
Asks Support of Library Project
DR.. James Nydegger, former res
ident of Oakland, and now a doctor
in the U. S. Naval Academy at An
napolis, has made most generous
offer to Garrett county, having offer
ed to erect a memorial in Oakland to
the memory Of his parents who were
residents Of Garrett county, in the
form of fifty thousand dollar library
hui1dinp. sufficiently large to house