The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1931-04-23
SCOOPS COLUMN
By SCOOP-HIMSELF

report, I'll be happy.
I'd like to see Roland Gilbert
dressed up like McIlwee was last Fri
day night as leader of the Village
Band.
Some day the Oakland Boys banc
is going to have reputation like the
Handley band does now.
Is there anybody who didn't wish
that the bass singer in the Clatiir
quartet would sing solo? Boy
when he cooked his head to one side
and opened that aperture of his, the
audience knew that harmony was be-
ing emitted. How those Negroes
could sing! Didn't you like the teeth
of the first tenor? (or could you see
them?)
What will be the peoples attitude
toward miniature golf this summer?
Jim Painter didn't get a fishing
license until last week and the season
has been open since April 1.
Archibaldson and 1 went out last
Thursday evening after a strenuous
day in getting out the weekly enligh-
tenment. We caught the usual num-
Der of little finch and the usual num-
Der of trout-20 to 0.
Every spring I try to believe l can
stay young by high jumping, broad
jumping, etc., along with my scouts,
but the sore ligaments and muscles
the next day and for three days
thereafter tell me it's no use.
And if l was 10 years younger l
would have been in swimming before
this instead of telling the boys they
are crazy for thinking about it.
I never really fought forest fire
until Sunday, and then two in one day.
After the one at Crsytal Spring was
under control, Annabel Stemple, men,
Der of the group of Virginia Fraley,
Margaret Kochenderfer, Martha En-
gle, Edna Kraft, and Mary Thomas,
remarked that 81 had no idea there
were going to be so many at our
party" The supper was continued
without coffee, and the matches were
saturated with water and thrown
away.
Di-di Jim, the Office devil, is going
to run the opposite way when the fire
whistle blows. Saturday he went to
the fire station to find out where the
fire was, and he did. When he came
back he was deeply impressed about
fighting fire among thorns and under
brush. Just ask to see his impress
sions.
Were Helen limbaugh and Mary
Louise Helbig mad when they found
that the good looking man, whom Bob
Stanton said was President Hoover's
secretary, was only just an ordinary
telephone MANI" After they had
studied up on fishing possibilities in
the county, just to tell the secretary
about it.
Bob Moomaw, of the Park, after
seeing in this column the communica-
ton from his brother in New Jersey
calling for an electric mixer on the
lawn of the William-James hotel, sta
ted that he wasn't interested in the
least about mixers. What he wanted
was an automatic machine that would
pull up those four-foot parsnips Of
his.
Andrew Gender can carry over two
hundred pounds. He does it every
day-upstairs and down.
Mr.. Tower, clerk of the Circuit
Court, likes to be called "E. a."
Hell's Angels is said to be an ex-
ertmely wonderful picture.
Archibaldson has become an ex-
pert quartetist.
If you want to see Mayor Stemple
WELD a shovel, watch him Friday
afternoon as he plants the first tree
at the High school. If he isn't sched-
uled for that ceremony, he ought to
be.
I'd like to know a good remedy for
onion breath. I could eat as many
onion sandwiches as Jimmie Fazzala-
ri probably does.
Archibaldson likes them on the 9Th
day of the week and the second Tues
day. Wasn't it Ben Franklin who said
SIN onion, there is strength
Firemen have been wearing stock
ings inside out these last two weeks
saying it cools them off to turn the
hose on their feet.
That box of Uneeda biscuits in
Fraleys' store window is for a mans
size lunch.
This column this week is dedicated
to Archibaldson otherwise known as
Mose) without whose constant en-
enlargement and helpful criticisms it
would have been finished in just
about half the time.
At Clarksburg, W. Va, Tuesday, %
persons were made homeless when fire