The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1930-05-08
Beyond the County

Ut Washington, "a, Mr.. and Mrs.
Robert E. Burnside, lawyers, bear the
distinction of being the first man and
wife ever admitted to practice before
the United States Supreme Court.
At Fairmont, w. Va, Capt. George
M. Alexander, of the West Penn, is
the new president of the Union Bank
of that city, formed by the merger of
the Peoples National, Fairmont Trust
and Home Savings Banks.
At Washington, the Census Bureau
has announced that Fairmont, w. Va,
and Hannibal, Mo-, are the first repor-
ted twin cities of the 1880 census,
each having 23,O16 people.
At Washington, Dwight w. Nor
row, Mexican Ambassador, announced
that he would reject an appointment
to fill a vacancy in the U. S. Senate
caused by the resignation of Walter
E. Edge, now Ambassador to the
French nation, but would be candi-
date for Senator in the coming cam
paign.
At Fairmont, a glider club has been
organized to satisfy the large number
of thrill-hungry people in that vicin-
ity, a sail plane having been ordered
to be delivered within the next few
weeks.
At Reno, Nevada, 1911 divorces
were granted in 1929, falling short
of 1928 by 81. Attorneys fees, court
costs, alimony granted, etc., amounted
to approximately 5 million dollars.
An approximate census report gives
total population in the United
States of about 122,25O,O0O, a growth
of approximately IA per cent. Birth
control, higher living standards, late
marriages and more women at work
being the reasons given of a decrease
in the rate of growth, it being Fl per
cent between 1910 and 1920.
In Baltimore county, four men con-
nected with the flying fields were ar
rested Sunday in an attempt to en-
force an old blue law against Sunday
commercialized flying.
At Aberdeen, Md, thieves sawed
the bars and gained entrance to the
store of J. E. Cook and trucked away
safe weighing 300 pounds contain
ing $1,000.
At Philadelphia, a tablet set in. the
walls of house has recently been I'M
yelled, concentrating the 132nd
anniversary of the composition of the
song "Hail Columbia" by Joseph
Hopkins, of that city.
At Hammond, Ind, a new derby hat
worn by Benjamin Webb, was so
violently jammed against his right ear
in an automobile accident that the
member was amputated.
According to the reports of fifty
five companies, there were built in
the United States during 1929, mil
lion and a quarter miles of power
lines, serving 1889 farm buyers of
power.
In Rhode Island, the inscription on
a tombstone which has been placed on
cemetery lot where DR.. William P.
Rothwell will be buried reads, "This
Is On Me-"
In San Francisco, the telephone di-
rectory lists Pedro Zyxx and Kant
tules Xanttafulos. In Chicago, A.
Zzynac. In New York, Zebediah z.
Zzyz and Margaret W. Zzzyn.
At Hammond, Ind, Mort Evans,
who weighs $50 pounds, while travel
ing to see his trade in Ford auto
mobile, sneezed violently, when his car
split in two.
In Baltimore three men, alleged to
have been running lottery in viola
ton to law, were held up in their room
by two racketeers and robbed Of
more than $2,400 and jewels to the
value of more than $1,000.
In Chicago,'a woodpecker flew away
much disappointed and Disguised
when he found that he had been peck
ing an hour or more at steel pole,
thinking it wood.
In Washington, the Supreme Court