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Evening star., 1927-07-27

7 said, Cant you tell I was just
fooling?"
So we had dinner, and then Joan
startedto dress and she Is still dress
ing and am sitting here waiting, and
l just now asked Bill again to give me
one little drink. for my cold, and he
wouldn't, and he is going to stay in
with the baby while Joan and are at
the bridge club, and hope the baby
wakes up five minutes after we leave
and hOllers until five minutes before
we. come back, on account of it would
only be good exercise for him, but it
would bother Bill to beat the band,
and boy, how I would love to have
that guy bothered.
Evening star., 1927-07-27
Bread Dressing.

Have two cupfuls of soft, fine tale
bread crumbs. Add one-half a cupful
of melted butter, half teaspoonful
each of salt, pepper, and powdered
thyme. and mix thoroughly. This is
good to stuff chicken or veal. For fish,
use the same recipe except if conven.
lent use powdered sweet basil in place
Of thyme. For higher favored dress.
ing, especially for fish, add two table.
spoonfuls each of finely-chopped green
or red pepper and onion. Fresh or
dried mushrooms, the latter to be
soaked in cold water If used chopped
fine, are always q savory addition to a
dressing of this kind.
Evening star., 1927-07-27

terfuge to attempt to induce the
adyersaries to pass one Club trick
early in the hand, after which the
exigencies Of play may result in
another Club trick. The uncertain
Heart finesse should be held in re-
serve on the chance of making the
second Club trick or of forcing a lead
by West up to the Heart tenace.
Trick 6. After playing the Ace and
King of Diamonds, South, instead of
continuing, leads the King of Clubs
to induce the belief that he has no
more Diamonds and is attempting to
establish the Queen as an entry in
Dummy. West, counting game saved
with three Spade tricks, the Ace of
Clubs and the practical certainty of
trick with the King Of Hearts, be-
sides the possibility of a second Club
trick. declining the trap, covers the
King Of Clubs.
Tricks 9 to II. Declarer, foiled in
his attempt to steal Club trick, now
takes his three Diamonds to assure
his CONTRACT.
tCopyright. 1927
Mr.. Whitehead will answer Questions con-
cerning your Bridge problems Write to
him. care of this paper. inclosng self.
addressed, stamped envelope.
Evening star., 1927-07-27
DAILY DIET RECIPE
Wholewheat Gingerbread.

Butter, one.third cup; boiling water,
two-thirds cup; dark molasses, one
cup; egg. !: wholewheat -four, two and
three-fourths cups; baking soda, one
and one-half teaspoons; salt, one.half
teaspoon; cinnamon, one teaspoon;
ginger. one teaspoon; Glove, one-fourth
teaspoon.
MAKES TWO ONE-POUND CAKES.
Melt butter in the boiling water; add
the molasses. Cool. Add the egg
well beaten. Mix together the flour,
cooking soda, salt and spices. Add
these dry ingredients to the first mix.
ture, beat well. Pour into CREASED
small bread loaf pans and bake in
moderate oven 20 to 80 minutes.
DIET NOTE.
Recipe contains phosphorus, lime
and iron. The vitamins are not pres
ent because of the baking soda action.
Can be eaten in moderation by chill.
dren over 8.
Evening star., 1927-07-27

Baby Stuart" high chair. The orig
inai was shown in Sir Joshua Rey.
nolds' famous paintg of the tiny
kinglet, and Is now in the South Ken
sington Museum nj London, England.
This chair would be most at home
in a dining room furnished with
pieces of harmonizing character
sturdy without being crude, and dig
nified without being too formal. But
they might be of any Of several Pc
riods-English Tudor, Queen Anne,
early Colonial, French provincial or
Spanish.
Evening star., 1927-07-27
Lessons in English
By w. L. GORDON.

Words often misused: "a friend
is one who is regarded with a Ger.
tain amount of affection, while an
acquaintance" results merely from
an Introduction.
Otter mispronounced: Diocese. Pro.
nounced di-o-ses. as in die" un.
stressed, as in, "see."
Otter misspelled: Celebrate; le.
Synonyms: Untimely, intrusive. in.
opportune, inauspicious, unpropitious.
ineXpedient.
Word study: Use a word three
times and 1t is yours" Let us in.
crease our vocabulary by mastering
one word each day. Today's word:
Detected; depressed, disheartened. HE
sat there for hours, solitary and de.
iected."
Evening star., 1927-07-27

Nan Hartley. an artists model. has t,co
,;.x men enter her ne. one Mogtn Lse It,;o,, IS
is inst a poor artist. Martin Lee faHs
madiy in lore ,cith her. 6nt she lores Tom
she 0oes on uitA her aoork. although she
meets. Martin Lee oadin at a party. He is
still in iove. snih her. As .Summer. comes
on. Nan and Tom 90 into debt. The heat
is terrible. Tom is rerv impractical.
Evening star., 1927-07-27
HOME NOTES
By JENNY WREN.

There can be no slightest excuse
Tor ordinary or uninteresting furni.
ture In any ones home these days.
Even the baby's high chair can be
lovely thing, with age-old traditions,
IT one is interested enough to seek
such one out.
Here is a modern high chair which
is a perfect copy of the historical
Evening star., 1927-07-27
WORD COLF-Everybody's Playing 1t
REMEMBER THE RULES.
BY JOHN KNOX.

REMEMBER THE RULES.
to
b a o
Only one n a
RULE result which
SOLUTIONS YESTERDAYS PROBLEMS
4. TELL TOLL TOOL COOL.
5. "A
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to in do nsone.
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to in
your "steps"
Evening star., 1927-07-27
THE DAILY
HOROSCOPE
Thursday, july 28.

Aspects Of great promise are strong
tomorrow. according to astrology,
which finds benefic influences domi.
mating.
Under this sway the mind should
be calm and we'll poised, so that pa.
tience with the old and with outgrown
ideas may be maintained.
Keen vision regarding life and its
tience should mark the mental at.
titude early in the morning, when the
rule is most beneficial.
Farmers and all who depend on the
land directly for their sustenance
should profit from this date to the
beginning Of Autumn.
Labor and industry are subject to a
direction OF the stars that is most
fortunate, the seers announce.
Plenty of work Is to be provided,
digious size, 1t is forecast. for many
factories.
Astrologers empha size the fact that
this is pre-eminently a mans day for
good luck and they advise women to
be quiescent in all important matters.
Construction Is to be stimulated, so
that engineers, contractors. iron and
stee! workers and carpenters profit
greatly, it is prognosticated.
This is a fortunate date for those
who must submit to surgical opera
tions and most favorable to all that
pertains to hospitals.
Aviation continues under a plane.
tary rule that will draw to it prodi-
gious financial support, the seers
prophesy.
The sun appears to presage for per-
sons in high places a period Of dis
i :.
and criticism.
Distortion of motives on the part
of those who WELD power is probable
while this rule of the stars prevails.
Persons whose birth date it is have
the augury of a year Of unusual sue.
cess and happiness.
Children born on that day are likely
to have a high and noble destiny.
tCopyright. 1927
Evening star., 1927-07-27
Fi.eI MA ./.NZ.. Played BY SnAA1
Gallant Paints of fhe Kidding

Salient Points of the Bidding.
Vests hand is too weak for an
anformatory double. North does not
attempt to rescue" with two Dia-
monds, q backward bid that has no
place in sound Auction Bridge.
Salient Points Of the Play.
Trick 3. After playing to Trick g.
Declarer counts his probable tricks as
five Diamonds, one Spade, one Club
and one Heart, one trick short of
game. The ninth trick must be won
either by a successful Heart finesse
or by making both the King and
Queen Of Clubs, the latter difficult
proposition against correct defense.
The best plan seems to be by sub.
Evening star., 1927-07-27
CHAPTER XIV.
More Heat.

1t seemed to Nan that she had
never gone through such a Summer.
There were mornings when she lay
in bed too inert to move, and yet
knowing that she had to pose for some
one. She would nap a little, and
mirage of the sea rushing in on a wet,
Evening star., 1927-07-27

Little Miss Curiosity. the young
Chuck who had been taken home by
Farmer Browns Boy, had a mind of
her own. There was no doubt about
that; she had mind of her own. She
knew what she wanted and she in
tended to have 1t. She had gone ex.
ploring about the dooryard and she
Evening star., 1927-07-27
Garments Suitable for Travelling
BY LYDIA LIE BARON WALKER

1t is the experienced traveller who
Knows that certain garments and
dresses splendid for use at home are
not at all adapted to the exigencies of
travel. and who also knows what sort
OF wearing apparel is most satisfac.
tory when one follows the call Of the
road or the lure of water paths when
on pleasure or business bent.
rake hotweather needs, for in.
Evening star., 1927-07-27

A graduate Of Edinburgh Univer-
sity has been chosen chief parlormaid
at Crosby Hall. the international club
and hostel for the university at Chel-
sea- England.
Evening star., 1927-07-27

Chinese shoemakers with small
shops in India are copying European
feminine footwear in brocades, lizard
skin and similar materials.
Evening star., 1927-07-27

KNIT FRoCKs IN ANY FASHION.
ABLE NODE ARE SPLENDID
FOR TRAVEL, SINCE THEY DO
NOT MUSS.
stance. An organdy dress is delight
ful for torrid days at home. when
the matter Of pressing away the
wrinkles from the last wearing is
merely a matter of stepping to the
kitchen to do the work But it is prac.
tically useless after it's first wearing
when one is away from home unless
there is easy provision for doing iron.
ing, which is seldom the case. Hence
Evening star., 1927-07-27
Black Pussy Is Put Out.

OF course. 10 never can be right:
Yet lots of noise may win a fight.
Evening star., 1927-07-27

Continued In tomorrow's Star.)
Evening star., 1927-07-27
TyltOn
"Money-Back Offer

Go today to any drug store
and get a full size treatment
Of konized Yeosf. II not
delighted with the quick re-
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1927-07-21
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC
WORKS.
STATE OF MARYLAND
STATE ROADS COMMISSION
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS

SEALED PROPOSALS for building
one section of State Highway, as fol-
lows:
GARRETT COUNTY-Cont. G-3O-A.
One section of State Highway from
Friendsville toward the Pennsylva-
mia State Line, for distance of Is
miles (Concrete),
will be received by the State Roads
Commission, at its offices, COL Gar
rett Building, Baltimore, Maryland,
until IL M. on the 26th day of July,
1927, at which time and place they
will be publicly opened and read.
Bids must be made upon the blank
proposal form which, with specifica-
lions and plans will be furnished by
the Commission upon application and
cash payment of S1.00, as hereafter no
charges will be permitted.
No bids will be received unless ac-
companied by certified check for the
sum of Five Hundred (S500) Dollars,
payable to the State Roads Commits
sion.
The successful bidder will be re-
quired to give bond, and comply with
the Acts of the General Assembly of
Maryland, respecting contracts.
The Commission reserves the right
to reject any and all bids.
BY ORDER of the State Roads
Commission this 18th day of July,
1927.
JOHN N. MACKALL, Chairman.
L. H. STEUART, Secretary. 21-2t
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1927-07-21
BIDS FOR COAL WANTED

NOTICE rs HEREBY GIVEN, That
the County Commissioners of Garrett
County, Nd, will receive sealed bids
until IL o'clock noon, August 3, 1927,
at their office in the Court House in
Oakland for the necessary amount of
coal approximately $50 tons) to sup
ply the Court House and Jail until
July list, 1928.
Said coal is to be of quality salts
factory to the janitor.
All coal must be weighed on the
town scales before delivery and the
weight bill filed with the Clerk Of the
Board for each load delivered.
The coal bins of the Court House
and Jail shall be filled to their capac-
ity by October 1st, 1927, and all extra
expense incurred in the storing of the
coal shall be born by the contractor.
21-3t. W. G. MEYERS, Clerk.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1927-07-21
Added Attractions Nightly.

Mr.. and Mrs. Earl Robertson and
SON and Mrs. Douglas Bauer, of Cum
berland, arrived in Oakland Monday
evening and will remain here until
Sunday as guests of Mr.. and Mrs. j.
E. Harmed at their home on Second
street.
Mrs. Elwood Offutt and daughter
Miss Nell Offutt motored to Cumber-
land this morning to visit Nelson Of
futt, who was recently operated upon
at the Western Maryland Hospital for
appendicitis. The patient will be able
to return home Saturday.
Mrs. w. E. Gattens, wife of DR..
Gattens, recently established in Oak
land as a practicing physician, arrived
Sunday evening from Baltimore. They
will reside for the present at the home
of Mrs. Truman West, on Alder
street.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1927-07-21
ROAD PETITION.

Notice is hereby given, That thirty
days after the first publication hereof
application will be made to the Board
of County Commissioners of Garrett
county for the appointment of viewers
to view and locate a proposed new
county road in Election District No.
l, beginning for the same at the end
of Stewart Paugh's lane and running
west through the lands of Stewart
Paugh, Charles T. Beckman, Luther
Winters, G.. C. O'Brien, Mrs. Louisa
Beckman and Mary A. Rhodes to in
tersect the Swanton and Meadow
Mountain road at the mail box of
Mary A. Rhodes, a distance of about
one mile.
JOHN HERMAN,
LUTHER C. WINTERS,
STEWART PAUGH,
20-4t And others, Petitioners.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1927-07-21
PERSONAL AND LOCAL
NOTES OF INTEREST

Mr.. VIM. T. White, of Terra Alta,
visited Oakland on business yester-
day.
Miss Elizabeth Matheny, of Cum
berland, is here for visit to rela-
tives.
Miss Irene Smouse left Tuesday for
weeks visit to friends in Western
port, Md.
Mr.. Waitman T. Steyer, of near
Steyer, Garrett county, was here yes
terday on business.
Col. Nelson Thomasson, of Chicago,
arrived in Oakland Saturday to re-
main for some time visiting his
daughter, Mrs. Elwood Offutt.
DR.. John E. Legge, of Baltimore,
spent Tuesday with friends in Oak
land. He was accompanied from
Cumberland to Oakland by his father,
Mr.. George w. Legge.
Misses Stella Hart and Bernadette
Hart and their guests, Mrs. Elizabeth
Shaffer and Mr.. Sidney Agnelly, of
Washington, D. c., motored to Pitts
burgh yesterday. They will return to
Oakland tomorrow.
Mrs. F. O. Hinebaugh, son and
daughter, Paul and Helen, of King
mont, West Va, are here for weeks
visit with Mr.. and Mrs. Grover G..
Stemple and other relatives.
Mrs. Anna Koonse, of Washington,
D. c., returned to her home Sunday
night after having spent a week in
Oakland where she visited at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. 7. G. Hine-
baugh.
Mr.. and Mrs. Weems Nihiser, of
Lake City, Florida, are here for an
extended visit to Mrs. Nihiser's moth
err, Mrs. Truman West, having arrived
several days ago Dy motor lroHi Ihell
home in the South.
In honor of Miss Belle Browning, of
Washington, D. C., who is here on
visit to relatives, Miss Grace Jones
was hostess at bridge party given
at her home last Thursday afternoon
at which three tables were in play.
Mrs. Robert Stewart is visiting rel
atives in Frostburg and Westernport
this week. Her sister, Miss Laura
Boutwell,, who spent several weeks in
Oakland as her guest, returned to her
home in Westernport in company with
Mrs. Stewart.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1927-07-21
"Tillie The TOiler."

A special picture, with musical pro-
gram, to be shown for the benefit of
the Garrett County Free Public Lii
brary on Thursday and Friday nights,
July % and 20, "Tillie the Toiler." A
screamingly funny comedy featuring
Marian Davies, is coming at last to
the Maryland Theatre on the above
date. To see it once is to want to go
and laugh at Tillie again.
The Oakland orchestra will play
during the picture and between the
shows and the Oakland Male Quartet
will entertain the audience.
Come and bring your friends and
help boost the library, which is badly
in need of funds to defray past and
present expenses.
The library is pleasantly housed in
rooms in the Garrett National Bank
Building and competent librarian is
in charge two days week. Some eX-
cellent text books, besides works of
fiction, are numbered among the books
and the entire county and summer
visitors, it is hoped, will be interested
in it's support. COMMITTEE.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1927-07-21
SATURDAY,
The 18th Day of August, 1927,
At the hour of 1890 o'clock A. M,

At the hour of 1890 o'clock A. NJ,
in front of the Court House, in the
town of Oakland, Md, l will offer at
public auction to the highest bidder
all the right, title and interest of the
said L. J. Brown in and to that parcel
of land situate in Garrett County,
Maryland, and described as follows,
to-wit:
Beginning for the same at planted
stone marked "J.A.D.", standing on
the north bank of the Oakland and
Ryan's Glade road and N. % degrees
E., II feet from an anciently bounded
service and white oak tree, the origi-
nal beginning of Lot No. $50, and
running thence N. % degrees E., 104
feet, S. 81 degrees E., 140 feet to the
Northern limits of said road, and with
it S. 76 degrees w., TIA feet to the
beginning, containing a acre, more
or less, this being the same land which
was conveyed to the said L. j. Brown
by deed from Titus Delawder dated
July 81, 1903, and recorded in Liber
E. z. T., No. as, folio 258, one of the
Land Records of said county. Said
land will be sold to satisfy said Fl. ia.
and costs.
TERMS OF SALE-Cash on day of
sale. Conveyancing at cost of pur-
chaser.
w. D. CASTEEL, Sheriff
22-4t Of Garrett County, Md.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1927-07-21

Miss Mary Faherty went to Balti-
more last Saturday morning to re-
main for some time as guest of rel
atives.
Mayor L. M. Fraley and Mr.. Harry
West returned to Oakland Monday ev-
ening from a brief business trip to
Baltimore.
Miss Maude Marshall, of Sisters
vile, West Va, is here as a guest of
Mr.. and Mrs. J. w. Butt at their home
on Fifth street.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. E. Rathbun and
son Howard and Mrs. Harold Harmed
motored to Cumberland this morning
to spend the day.
Former Sheriff Guy O. Yutzy spent
Saturday in Washington, D. c., on
business before the Inter State Com
merce Commission.
Miss Zelma Ayers, R. N, of the
Mason Hospital, Clarksburg, W. Va,
spent last week in Oakland where she
visited Mr.. and Mrs. J. w. Butt.
Miss Ara Smith, who has been Wis
iting at the home of Senator and Mrs.
A. D. Naylor for the past week or two,
returned to her home at Parsons, w.
Va, on Monday.
Mrs. J. A. Turney left Oakland on
last Friday morning for Toronto, Can
ada, where she is attending the l. B.
S. A. convention which is being held
in that city this week.
Mrs. Charles yelling, Jr., and two
little daughters returned to their
home in Cumberland Sunday evening
after visit of two weeks to rela-
tives in and near Oakland.
Mrs. H. A. Crop, of Clarksburg, w.
Va, has returned to her home after
having spent some time at the resi-
dence of Mrs. Belle Crop on the
State road north of Oakland.
Mr.. James Kenny, of Westernport,
was here over Sunday visiting at the
home of Mrs. Nellie Maffett, Mrs.
Kenny having been at the home of her
mother (Mrs. Maffett) for several
weeks.
Reeves Blandford, who has been
on his vacation for the past two
weeks, which he spent on the South
River, near Annapolis, returned to
Oakland Monday and resumed his du-
ties in the First National Bank.
Mrs. Elizabeth Shaffer and her two
daughters, Julia Ann and Mary, anc
Mr.. Sidney Agnelly, all of Washing
ton, D. c., are here for a visit of sew
eral days at the home of Mrs. Shat
fer's mother, Mrs. John w. Hart.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1927-07-21
ORDER NISI

P. Clarence Barnes, Assignee of MORTGAGE,
VS.. William z. Hendrckson and Effie Hen
erickson, his wife, Mortgagors:
No 1852 Equity. In the Circuit Court for
Garrett County. Maryland;
ORDERED, This 18th day of July, in the
year nineteen hundred and twenty-seven. by
the Circuit Court for Garrett County. sitting
in Equity, that the sale made and reported in
the above cause by P. Clarence Barnes. AS
unless cause to the contrary thereof be shown
on i or before the 18th day of August, 1927
provided a copy of this order be published in
some newspaper published in Oakland Garrett
County. Maryland, once week for three sue
cessive weeks before the 18th day of August,
1927.
The report states the amount of sale to be
100000. f. T. IOWEh, Glerh'
True Copy-Test: E. z. TOWER, Clerk.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1927-07-21

Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Crop, after
spending two weeks with Mr.. Crops
mother, Mrs. Belle Crop, have re-
turned to their home at Clarksburg,
West Va.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Zeigler and
son, of Newark, N. j., arrived here
Wednesday evening for a short visit
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Hugh
Teets.
Miss Helen Treacy, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Owen T. Treacy, who has
been at her home in Oakland for the
past several weeks, returned to Bal
timore Saturday where she is contin-
uing her training as nurse in Mer-
cy Hospital.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lawrence K. Dixon
took their three children and the for
mer's sister, Susanna Dixon, to Cum
berland yesterday morning to have
their tonsils removed, the operations
being performed at the Western
Maryland Hospital.
State Senator and Mrs. A. D. Nay
lor, accompanied by their son Play
ford Naylor, motored to Baltimore on
Friday, returning to Oakland Monday.
Mrs. M. W. Crane, of Wilson, N. c.,
who had been in Baltimore for visit,
returned with the party and will be a
guest at the Naylor home for a week.
The Oakland Civic Club will meet
at the home of it's President, Miss
Thekla Fundenberg, Crook Crest, on
Tuesday afternoon, July 26th, at 300
o'clock. Mrs. A. E. Turner, of Homo
lulu, will be the guest Of the Club and
will give an informal talk on the
Hawaiian Islands. Mrs. Turner was
formerly Miss Lily Brown, of Oak
land.
The Eighth Annual Tennis Tourna-
ment, Western Maryland champion
ship, under the auspices Of the Wo-
mems Civic club of Mt. Lake Park,
will be held at the Park August 8
to 10. There will be events in mems
singles, women's singles, mems doub-
les, women's doubles and mixed doub-
les. Suitable trophies will be award
ed the winners and runners up in all
events.
Mr.. P. Clarence Barnes, attorney,
of Cumberland, accompanied by John
w. Averitt, son of the late Col. Aver
lit, owner of the Cumberland Evening
Times at the time of his death several
years ago, and H. 0. Amman, of Cum
berland, were visitors at The Repub-
lican office on Saturday. Mr.. Averitt
graduated from the Harvard Law
School in June and will practice his
profession in his native city.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1927-07-21
ORDER NISI.

The County Commissioners of Garrett County,
Maryland, VS.. Century Lumber Company.
No. 408 Miscellaneous Docket. In the Cir
cult Court for Garrett County, Maryland.
Ordered by the Circuit Court for Garrett
that the sale made and reported in the above
entitled matters by The County Commissioners
of Garrett County be ratified and confirmed
on or before the Both day of July, 1927 pro-
vided copy of this order be inserted in some
newspaper published in Garrett County once
week for three successive weeks before the
23rd day of July, 1927.
The report states the amount of sale to be
$4,000
True copy, E. y. TOWER, Clerk.
Test Z. z. TOWER, Clerk.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1927-07-21
Supper and Social.

The ladies of the Swanton Metho-
dist Episcopal church will hold a sup
per and social in the old Oss & West
store room at Swanton, on the even
ing of Saturday, July 80, 1927. A
splendid supper, nicely cooked and
pleasingly served, in addition to ice
cream and other refreshments will be
sold, and every body welcome, is the
word sent out by the committee in
charge of the affair.