The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1930-01-09
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*BEYOND THE COUNTYS

At Oxford, Nd, Mary w. Stewart
holds the record for efficiency anc
length of service, having become
postmistress in 1877, and working be.
fore then in the same Office under hel
father who was appointed by Presi.
dent Lincoln.
Primo Camera, Italian prize fight.
err, 6 feet inches tall, weighing 274
pounds, New Years day ate light
breakfast of 2 glasses orange juice
A eggs, 6 slices of toast and 2 quarts
of milk.
The seventy-two children, victims
of a blind panic which followed q
motion picture theatre in Scotland
New Years, were given mass funer-
al and all buried ina single grave.
At Gary, Ind, Rev. Father John B
Deville, on Christmas Eve, shed his
overcoat and wrapped it around a
mans shoulders shivering vag-
rant. The priest caught cold and is
very ill of pneumonia.
In South America, 300 sheep had
their first drink of water in three
years the other day. The government
is conducting experiments to produce
a drought-resisting animal.
On January 1, in Pasadena, Calf,
nearly a score of persons were over
come by the heat watching the parade
of the Annual Tournament of the
Roses.
Isobel McPhail, aged A years, or
phaned in Seattle, is on her way from
Chicago to Scotland, accompanied
only by a rag doll.
Evidently satisfied with his bar
gain, a Michigan man, married six
years ago, sends to the minister who
married him, a Christmas gift each
year in the form of a substantial
check.
On January 8, fire blazed for more
than 80 minutes about the dome of
the capitol of the United States, the
loss being only about $4,000.
In a report to Congress this week,
it is stated that the Republican
National Committee has no debts but
a balance in it's treasury of $136,000
while the Democratic National Com
mittee has outstanding obligations of
nearly 100000.
In Illinois, youth, thought to have
encroached. upon the territory of a
rival gang of rum runners, was first
shot and then cremated inside an
automobile, his body piled on 8-five
gallon cans of alcohol.
In 1899, C. L. Jenkins, of Virginia,
secured marriage license but his in
tended bride decided to remain single,
The intended groom retained the
license and asked the woman to be
his bride every year until she died
two years ago.
Suffering from the recurrence of an
old complaint, former President and
Chief Justice Taft, has been forced
to. end his court work and go away
for rest. His illness is causing
much anxiety.
AS announced this week by Johns
Hopkins University, two chemists
have discovered means whereby the
danger from monoxide poison is end
ed, claiming that an auto properly
equipped consumes the deadly gas.
During December, in Baltimore, 255
persons visited the tomb of Edgar
Allen Poe in Westminster churchyard
Fayette and Greene streets.
On january Z, 1889, the first Presi-
dental election was held in the Uni
ted States, George Washington, the
candidate, receiving every vote cast
by the electors. John Adams was
elected vlce-president.
Following a custom Of the last
three or four years, the employees Of
J. P. Morgan & Co., received a whole
years pay, totaling approximately
three million dollars.
In Florida this week, severe frosts
and cold winds caused great damage
to beans, peppers, strawberries, ant
egg plant in a number of the truck
ing districts.
/ At Chestertown, Nd, Benjamin
Lively, farm hand, returning from {
ducking trip, shot an IS pound male
Seal. There is much mystery about
its appearance in the Chesapeake, 81
far south of its natural habitat.
In November, official reports from
the Canadian Customs state that 2S6,
4S6 gallons Of alcoholic beverage.
were cleared from the Dominion fol
the U. s.. President Hoover ha.
asked Congress for 80 new boats t.
combat liquor running on the Grea
Lakes.