The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1931-07-16
SCOOPS COLUMN
BY SCOOP-HIMSELF

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By SCOOP-HIMSELF
Well, Scoop has returned to Oak
land, This Republican, Archie's house,
the lake, and his work, but he isn't
quite sure whether he has come down
to earth or not. Being up in the clouds
for two weeks and then to be left
dangling in mid-air, where gravity has
no power, it is impossible to say wnai
the outcome will be.
I appreciate all the honors which
Archibaldson, Carl Frame, Hizzonor
Mayor Stemple, Lawyer Fisher Fra
ley, the staff, including the Boss Ed
itor, Colonel Bell and the admirers
and readers of Scoop bestowed upon
me land Mrs. Scoop in their write
ups of two weeks ago. 1t must be
because somebody forgot to cover
their heads the night of the big frost
that made them so free with their
compliments, etc.,-mostly etc.
Anyway, they were very good, and
Scoop will be glad to turn over the
reigns of this column to anyone Of
them without a referendum, fieri fra
Gus of corpus dilectii, at any time,
when the spirit moves them.
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Maybe 1 should tell you something
of my (and Mrs. Scoop's) trip, exclud-
/ ing, of course. the minor details.
First, I have never seen so many
State highways turned into cow pas
lures. How the animals can get suf-
ficient nourishment from gravel, ma
cadam and cement to furnish the nee
essary quarts of milk each evening is.
beyond me, but whenever a COW gets
her mind set on bunch of tar bar
rels on the opposite side of the road,
Lincoln or an Austin doesn't mean
| thing to her. We never saw cow or
bull that didn't think it had the
right way, and we have seen some
of 'em sitting behind steering wheels,
too.
What we saw in New York would
empty a blank page. While we were
just two blocks from Broadway they
had noisy welcome to the round
the-world fliers and a parade up the
main drag that would have equalled
the Fourth of July parade here, ac-
cording to those who saw it. We knew
about it when we read of it the next
day in newspaper at Easton, Pa,
the first paper we had seen since The
Republican of week before.
We saw where IcaboG Crane went
horseback riding in Sleepy Hollow,
and where the bear went over the
mountain.
We didn't have chance to sunburn
our tonsils or what have you looking
at the tall buildings in the big city,
but those inside gills did get tired
from Tapping so much a; the taxi
drivers, who seemed to be on all sides.
The best things we saw on our trip
were the mountains of Garrett county
and West Virginia and Deep Creek
Lake.
And the two-day celebration ar
ranged for us upon our return to Oak
land stirred us to our inner depths.
Never was such a celebration given
even to our senators or assemblymen
upon their return from Ritchie''s pris-
on at Annapolis. The fact that it fell
on the Fourth of July made it all the
better for those who wanted to do
little celebrating of their own.
We want to thank the firemen and
the Legion for all the trouble they
had in getting up this party for US.
Although the expenses must have
been heavy and burdensome to some,
we won't spoil the spirit in which it
was arranged by offering any money
to the two organizations. We shall
long remember this sacrifice.
Just when thought I was begin
ming to look normal again, somebody
in the Court House on Monday, while
I was in the Clerks office getting the
marriage licenses for the week, asked
me if I was an attorney. Have 1
changed for the worse that much?
You know, the lawyers standing in
this respect was above the average
until Lawyer Fisher Fraley passed
the bar examination.
I could say lot about Neil "Cus-
ser" Fraley this week, because he
was the head oratorio at the "pro-
charter mass meeting on Saturday
night in the Hall of Archaeology and
Physiology at Mountain Lake Park,
but there will be enough about Noun