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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-02-04
BITTINGER

Your troubles a ton, or your trou-
ble's an ounce,
For your trouble is what you make
it.
1t isn't the fact that you're hurt that
counts
But the question is: how did you
take it?
William Dietel and family, of near
Jennings, were guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
Oliver C. Buckle, at their home in
this village, last Sunday afternoon.
Cecil Bittinger and his sister, Miss
Mildred Bittinger, of near Hagers-
town, Md, spent last week with rela-
tives in this community.
DIR. N. R. Davis, of Grantsville, was
called to Bittinger last Sunday after
noon to attend Mr.. and Mrs. C. E. FL
lithorp, who are ill at their home here.
Rev. E. E. Campbell has so far re-
covered from his long illness as to
have been able to make some calls
among his parishioners last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles H. Wiley
spent last Sunday afternoon at the
home of Mrs. Wiley's parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. VIM. Brenneman, in the North
Glade community. :
Joseph Gilpin, of the Dry Run Sec
ton, was a pleasant business caller
in Bittinger last Saturday morning.
The local Homemakers Club was
entertained by Mrs. J. B. Emory at
her home here last Thursday after
noon, at which meeting a full member
ship of the club answered the roll
call.
Last Sunday was the coolest day of
the winter in this locality, the mer-
curry ranging from ten to fifteen de-
grees F. during the entire day.
Miss Ethel Bittinger is spending
this week with friends in Frostburg
and Cumberland.
Ralph Buckle spent the weekend
with his former school mates at the
Frostburg State Normal School.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-02-04
NEW GERMANY

Sunday school this Sunday morning
at the Reformed church at $3.50, fol-
lowed by church services in the M. E.
church at 1920, with Rev. A. C. Bell,
the pastor, in charge.
Mr.. and Mrs. Forrest Robson, of
Frostburg, and Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis
Warwick spent Sunday at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. S. L. Otto.
William Daley, Monongah, West
Va, is visiting members of the Diel-
ing family, in this community.
Emmons Warwick has recently been
employed in Cumberland.
Mrs. Floyd Broadwater and daugh-
tiers, Freda and Mabel, spent Sunday
afternoon at the home of Mrs. John
Dieling.
Otis Kamp, Grantsville, spent the
weekend visiting relatives in this
community.
Mrs. Arthur Broadwater, Mrs. Lee
Broadwater, Mrs. Marshall burst and
Mrs. Floyd Broadwater were guests at
the home of S. L. Otto on Thursday.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-02-04
GORTNER


Mr.. Charles Walls, of Grantsville,
was here on Sunday when he preached
Sunday morning and Sunday evening.
Clarence Taylor and Harry Beeghly,
accompanied Jesse Gnegy and Ray
Beeghly on a bear hunt of several
days duration near Bayard, w. Va.
Mr.. and Mrs. Larney Martin, of
Pennington, w. Va, visited Mr.. and
Mrs. Joe Martin last week.
Noah Slabach and Mrs. Hattie
Wamsley were guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
Joel Slabach on Sunday.
Mrs. Robert Gauer and Mrs. Oddie
Swager spent Tuesday afternoon with
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Grove.
S. W. Slabach, Charles Walls, and
Mr.. and Mrs. Sam Beachy and chill
dren spent Sunday afternoon with
Mrs. Mary Dever.
Mrs. Anna Bittinger spent the
weekend with friends in Washington
and Baltimore.
D. L. Swartzentruber and Miss
Mary Lichty accompanied the Misses
Yoder, of Arthur, ILL.,, to Greenwood,
Del, on Wednesday. Enroute they
stopped in Baltimore where they Wis
tied Miss Lichty's father, who remains
Johns Hopkins Hospital patient.
Mrs. Elizabeth Williams, of near
German, and Miss Vera Swain, of near
Homecoming, spent the weekend here
with Mrs. Albert Sisk.
Mrs. o. S. Ridder spent Saturday
evening with Mr.. and Mrs. Mac Rid
der.
Walter Dever and Miss Clara But
Ter were visiting at the home of Wal
ter Schlossnagle here on Sunday.
Mrs. VIM. WEIGH spent Tuesday at
the home of Mrs. Junkins at Fellows
vile, w. Va.
Misses Vera Swain and Anna Vir-
ginia Slabach, Mrs. Paul Welch, Mrs.
Elizabeth Williams, Mrs. Noah Sla-
bach and Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Sisk
were recent visitors at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. 1. L. Beckman, Lynndale.
Mrs. Hervey Roth and Misses Fan
ME Yoder and Mary Lichty attended
quilting party at the home of Mrs.
Ray Mosser at Red House on Friday.
A number of relatives and friends
from here attended the funeral of the
late Mrs. John Robey at Loeb Lynn
and Gnegy Church on Thursday last.
Mrs. Roby is survived by her husband
and two daughters, Abbie, of Pasa-
dena, Cal, and Jennie, of Cannons-
burg, Pa; also four brothers, Messrs.
John, Joel and Daniel Gnegy, of Gar
rett county, and Cornelius Gnegy, of
Kansas.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-02-04
DEER PARK

Mrs. E. Fitzwater is quite i'll at her
home here.
Mrs. Warwick, of Meyersdale, Pa,
visited Mrs. E. Knox recently.
Mrs. D. A. McNemar is visiting in
Cumberland with friends.
Mr.. Guy Gregg, of Weston, W. Va,
was here with his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. w. R. Gregg, a few days last
week.
Miss Hazel Gates will be leader of
the Christian Endeavor meeting at
Deer Park on Sunday.
Mr.. B. T. Thrasher, who has been
seriously ill the past month, is slightly
improved.
Russell Thrasher has returned to
Washington, D. c., after being here
the past two weeks nursing his father.
Paul Thrasher, Keyser, w. Va,
spent the past weekend here with
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. B. T.
Thrasher.
Mrs. Milton Pritts and daughter
Lois, of Kitzmiller, were here recently
visiting relatives.
Salem Broadwater and son Robert,
Ashful King and Mr.. and Mrs. o. J..
Harvey were recent callers at the B.
T. Thrasher home.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-02-04
UNDERWOOD

The grounding did not have a
chance Tuesday as it showed and
rained the entire day.
Our school has had its mid-year
tests and the report cards show fav-
orable progress in pupils work during
the school term. The teacher is Miss
Merle Menke.
Harry Nicholson and family and
Mrs. R. j. Nicholson were visitors at
the Floyd Shaffer home at Red House
one day last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Iret Ashby were Wis
-itors on Sunday at the home of Rev.
and Mrs. Hutchinson.
Earl Sims and family were visiting
Mr.. and Mrs. L. G. Nine on Sunday.
Oliver Smith and family, of Fair
chance, Pa, were guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. Harry Nicholson on Sunday.
Beecher Morris and family, Oak
land, spent the weekend with Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles Fulk.
Those i'll at this time in this COM
munity are Mrs. Daisy Greathouse,
Charles Fulk, Charles Menear. Miss
Genevieve Menear, of Morgantown,
who has been nursing in that city, is
home caring for her father.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-02-04
IN DAYS OF, OLD
FORTY YEARS AGO

The Oakland Improvement, Manu-
featuring and Development Company
of Garrett county was incorporated,
with E. H. Sincell, president; D. E..
Offutt, vice-president; F. A. Thayer,
secretary; A. G. Sturgiss, treasurer;
E. E. Sollars, ]. w. Veitch, E. M.
Spedden, H. ]. Mayors, H. W. Nc
Comas, Warning Thomas and the above
officers constituting the board of di-
rectors. The company was organized
for the purpose of improving and de-
veloping Oakland and Garrett county.
A saw mill owned and operated by
Louis Littman at ST. anton, was de-
stroyed by fire, along with some man.
ufactured shingles, entailing loss OF
$4,000 with no insurance.
Eighteen freight cars were wrecked
at Bloomington, many of them falling
to the Western Md. Railway tracks
where that road passes beneath the B.
and o. tracks on the Bloomington
bridge spanning the Potomac River.
A regular old-time blizzard struck
Oakland. The grounhog seemed to
understand his business, as he had
seen his shadow two days previous.
Messrs D. E. Offutt, G. w. Delaw-
der, G. S. Hamill and R. r. Browning
went to Annapolis to look in on the
Maryland Legislature then in session.
Lakin, 6-year old son Of Mr.. and
Mrs. G. B. M. Friend, of near Oak
land, was playing with pocket knife
and fell upon it, the blade penetrating
his abdomen.
TWENTY YEARS AGO
The furniture and fixtures of the
knights of Pythias lodge was moved
from the former lodge room in the
First National Bank Building to the
new Knights of Pythias building on
Third street, which had recently been
completed.
Cold weather was prevailing with
fine shedding snow.
The store of D. E. Offutt and Sons
was burglarized and goods valued at
$3.50 to 5000 carried away. Two col
ored men were arrested in Brunswick
charged with the robbery.
Thomas Harne butchered two four
4een-months-o hogs, which Melted
1925 pounds.
Senator Speicher prepared bill for
Introduction in the Senate to divide
Election District No..8 into two vot-
ing precincts.
February, 1912, was composed of
% days; of these days there were five
Thursdays and The Republican had
five issues that month, something
never before occurring in its history.
February, 1872, had five Thursdays,
but that was before The Republican
was established. The calendar will not
show five Thursdays again in Febru-
airy until the year 1910.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-02-04
KITZMILLER

The funeral of Mrs. Blanche O'Don-
aid Price, aged AZ, who died at Me-
mortal Hospital Cumberland, was held
at the Methodist church here Sunday.
afternoon at 200 o'clock, with inter-
ment in the Nethkin, cemetery. She
was a resident of this place for many
years and was a member of the M.
E. church and active, in church work.
Mrs. Price was the mother of two
small daughters, Esther and Lillian,
and is also survived by her husband
her mother, one brother and one sis
ter.
The pallbearers were Joe Craver,
Joe Beals, C. E. Rafter, w. S. Arnold,
Harry Wilson and w. D. Walter; the
fiowerbearers were Misses Verba Wal
ker, Gladys HamiIl and Lucy Poole,
Mrs. Blanche Wilson, Mrs. Lydia Da-
Wis and Mrs. H. G. Barrick.
Quite a large number of persons
from distance attended the funeral
among them being Mr.. and Mrs. H. l..
Price, Buckhannon; Mr.. and Mrs. R.
A. Price, Frostburg; Mr.. and Mrs.
J. M. Price, Keyser; DR.. and Mrs. Le-
Roy Price, Shinnston; Herbert Price,
Mr.. and Mrs. Dawson, Bloomington;
Mrs. W. w. Davis and son David, Miss
May Davis and Mrs. William Howard,
New Haven, Conn; Mrs. Clara Lau-
nell, Everett Koontz, Mrs. Alice May
ers, Moundsville; Mrs. Lola Rankin,
Mrs. Robert Durham, Westernpert;
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Simpson and
Miss May Simpson, Cumberland.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-02-04
World Day of Prayer to be OBJ
served in Oakland

World Day of Prayer, sponsored To-
cally by the Oakland churches, will be
observed here on Friday afternoon,
February IL, in Garrett Memorial
Presbyterian church, it has been an
nounced. The meeting will begin at
$3.50 o'clock.
The service will be in charge of
Mrs. W. w. Grant. Addresses will
be made by Rev. Walter B. Brock and
Rev. David C. Trimble.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-02-04
Sang Run Attendance

Those pupils in attendance at the
Sang Run school, Miss Charlotte Pot
ter, teacher, who made a perfect at
tendance for the month of January
are:
Paul Dewitt, Everett Dewitt, Rob-
ert Savage, Harold Fike, Helen De-
witt, Marjorie Friend, Pauline Friend,
and Martha Friend.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-02-04
Crellin School Report for the
Month of January, 1882


The following pupils of the Crellin
school had perfect attendance marks
during the month of January, 1882:
Room I, Miss Eva Montgomery, in
structor-Harold Kisner, Frank Min
er, James Patton, Gayle Shaffer, Ken
meth Welch, John Jones, Clara De-
Witt, Catherine Zimmerman, Evelyn
Tasker, Naola Sisler, Betty J. San
ders, Alberta Meats, Nettie Mersing.
Room II, Mrs. Belle H. Nine, in
structor - Arlie Breedlove, Clyde
Friend, Robert Faherty, Kenneth
Shaffer, Eleanor Smith, Martha Bit
finger, Sarah Hayes, Vida Jorden,,
Henrietta Wilt, Loretta Bargner, Will
vene Wilt, Geraldine Shaffer, Betty:
Shaffer, Dorene Patton, Cathryn Nc
Cabe, Francis Lipscomb, Virginia
Hinebaugh, Anna Belle Nair, Veryl
Weimer, Carlton Sterling, Dewey
Meats, Calvin Forman, Carl Breed
love, Earl Ashby.
Room III, Arthur Friend, instruc-
tor-Harold Dewitt, Junior Gilmore,
Robert Henline, Billy Adams, William
Faherty, Billy Gilmore, Garland Lew
is, Virgil Meats, Robert Patton, Harry
Sanders, James Sterling, VIM. Nair,
Betty Ashby, Glendine Bowman, Leah
Carskadon, Marguerite Carskadon,
Hilma Rodeheaver, Helen Shaffer,
Marie Simmons, Mary Stahl, Farrell
WEIGH, Madeline Ashby, Alberta Can
non, Marjorie Hinebaugh, Erma Jor-
den, Bertha Meats, Elwood Uphold,
Maxine Uphold, Lavina Lipscomb.
Room ", Miss Resale Click, in
structor-Dorsey Ashby, ODDS Jorden,
Edward Faherty, Ivan White, Stan
ley Dewitt, Ray Ashby, Wendell
burst, Dale Ellis, Dorain Ellis, Helena
Ashby, Vera Breedlove, Margaret Gil
more, Sarah Lipscomb, Helen Sterl-
ing, Edwania Wilt, Mary Collins, Elo-
ween Evans, Marguerite Forman, Ha-
eel Jorden, Juanita ReXroad, Vonda
Sanders.
PIT. A. Meeting
The regular monthly meeting of the
Crellin Parent Teacher Association
was held on Monday evening in the
Crellin town hall. An audience of
three hundred was very delightfully."-
entertained by the ladies, they being
responsible for the present months
program. Fathers of the pupils in
the school will be responsible for the
February program.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-02-04

Mr.. Clever Poole, of Moorfeld, w.
Va, visited here on Sunday.
Mr.. George Nethkin, of Baltimore,
is visiting friends here.
Mrs. J. E. Chappell, of Cumberland,
visited her sister, Mrs. Ethel Bender,
on Sunday.
Mrs. G. w. Kitzmiller, of Cincin-
natl, Ohio, is visiting at the home of
Mrs. V. E. Rafter.
Miss Froney Williams, of Washing
ton, D. c., visited her sister, Mrs.
Lucy Paugh, short time recently.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-02-04
Bowling Matches Scheduled

Lefty Groves bowling team from
Homecoming will meet the Oakland
team at the Recreation on Tuesday,
February 9. Last Friday Homecoming
defeated Oakland at Homecoming 1926
to 1886. Paul Turney rolled the high
est score for one game, making POS.
The Morgantown Masonic team de-
feated Oakland at Morgantown 1869
to 1885, last Tuesday. A return game
will be played at Oakland on Tuesday,
February 16.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-02-04
Fire Department Answers Three
Alarms

The Oakland Fire Department was
called out three times during the past
week as a result of three fue fires.
Very little damage resulted in all of
the three cases.
The calls came from the home of w.
S. Friend, Pleasant Valley, on Sum
day afternoon; the home of E. Carl
Frame, Mountain Lake Park, Sunday
night, and from the postoffice at Deer
Park on Tuesday morning about $50
o'clock.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-02-04
Home Demonstration Agents
Schedule

February 10, Oakland Homemakers
club, 2 o'clock, at the home of Mrs.
Clarence Spear.
February II, Sunnyside Homemak-
ers club, 2 o'clock, Grange Hall.
February IL, Kempton All, $3.50
o'clock, school building. Kempton
Homemakers club, 1880 p. m., school
building.
February 13, Red House All, at 2
o'clock, at the Wolf home.
February IS, Swanton Willing
Workers All, 7:30 p. NJ, Club house.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-02-04

ance during the month of January
were:
Harley Stahl, Delbert Sims, Clinton
Shaffer, Adam Lucas, Stanley Lucas,
Kyle Moon, Warden Stahl, Earl Soel-
ter, Mary Nine, Anna Lee Fike,
Maxine Stahl, Jessie Sims, Geraldine
Soelter, Leah Arnold.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-02-04

The Republican is Garrett County's
longest established newspaper.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-02-04
Sunnyside SchOOlAttendance for
January

Pupils of the Sunnyside school, Miss
Hazele Vivienne Garlet, teacher, who
did not miss a day in attend
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-02-04

FOR SALE-Team Farm Horses.
Apply Box 3, Deer Park.-Advertise-
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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-02-04

Kasco Poultry Feeds make more
eggs at less cost.-OAKLAND
FEED STORE, Oakland, Md.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-02-04

The Republican, largest circulation
of any Garrett County newspaper.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-06-01
The Name of Garfield

Once again Garfield is to play prom inent part in q republican national conven- ton. James R. Garfield. son of the ssssssinat- cd president and secretary of the interior in Theodore Roosevelts Cabinet. is to prepare the platform for presentation to the conven- ton in Chicago this month. He has been commissioned by President Hoover in his capacity as chairman of the resolution com mittee to form this rather srduous and thankless task. According to reliable infor- nation Mir Garfield plans to include in the B. O. p. platform some sort of suggestion for resubmission of the 18th amendment.
 The name of Garfield recalls the repub- liean national convention of 1880 at which James A. Garfield was nominated. It was the outstanding one of republican party history It required 36 ballots to nominate him, so hopelessly deadlocked were the delegates between General U. s. Grant, James c. Blaine and John Sherman. Garfield himself wasn't a candidate until the ballot ing was well under way. He went to the convention. which was held incidentally at Chicago, to nominate John Sherman. His speech was brilliant and only eclipsed by that of Roscoe Conklin whose nomination of former President Grant was ranked for years among the greatest of oratorial feats.
 The 1880 convention resolved itself into battle of personalities with Roscoe Conklin and James c. Blaine venting all the enmity and spleen that existed between them. Blaine was candidate which was enough for Conklin to rise to supreme heights in nominating General Grant who was seek ing his third nomination despite protests of his closest friends Conklin controlled 300 votes for Grant from the very first ballot to the thirty y-sixth. Blaine was close second with Sherman third A scattering few voted for Garfield When the Blaine and Sherman forces realized how futile it was to buck Conklin individually they united and swept Garfield into the nomination. lie was subsequently, elected.
 He was shot by Charles J. Gulteau, disappointed office seeker on July 2, l88I just four months after his inauguration. l he tragedy occurred in the railroad station at Washington. He was removed from this city to Elberon, New Jersey where for so days he suffered His death occurred on September I9, 1881. and was followed by wave of genuine sorrow from one end of the nation to the other He was only '49 at his death. Who knows to what heights Garfield might have ascended. His political star was just rising when fanatic snapped his life thread. And now another Garfield will play a prominent part in republican national convention We wonder if Chicago will aoain witness the stormy scenes that 1t did in 1880 when the first Garfield went there
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-06-01
Judge Wheeler Proposed

The Hartford Times, always staunch supporter of former Chief Justice George w. Wheeler of the Supreme Court, believes that he would make an excellent candidate for the United States Senate on the demo- cratic ticket this fall. His opponent would be, we presume, Senator Hiram A. Bing ham of New Haven. There is no question but what the democrats should nominate the strongest candidate they can find to oppose cenator Bingham this fall. With distinct democratic tinge displaying itself prematurey chances of clean sweep at the polls are good.
 On several occasions the name of the former chief justice has been linked with various political offices. Although still member of the democratic party he has not displayed lively participation in its actlvl- ties since he assumed the judicial robes. His devotion to duty was long pointed out in this state as an example to the younger lawyers. The qualifications that he could bring to any office for which he might care to run, now that his age excludes him from judicial duties any longer, are many and of the highest order He would be distinct dQQllIOH tO lIc utHlOSIdtiI tikhtl'
 Speaking of his nomination the Times remarks That nomination would be hailed everywhere as quite as important contr- button to the effectiveness and dignity of government as was the nomination two years ago of Governor Cross It would at tract the votes of thousands of independents and of republicans who are dissatisfied with Senator Bingham. The situation offers the party an opportunity to rise above pre- iudce and partisan considerations and make a nomination which would compel respect and admiration of the entire nation. That is splendid tribute and one we'll de- served.
 Far be it for us to discount the availa- bility of Judge Wheeler or to take exception to the Times statement but 1t occurs to the writer that so far as we know Judge Wheeler is an advocate of the dry laws. We don't know his present stand on the sub- feet of prohibition, but if it has not changed of recent years, then he still believes in the enforcement of the present liquor laws. Un- fortunately for the democrats Senator bing- nam is just now one of the leading anti prohibitionists in Washington and the leader of the wet cause in the Senate. If the re- publicans of Connecticut are dissatisfied with Senator Bingham we know good many democrats who have praised his recent activities in behalf of legalized beer etc. While the nomination of Judge Wheeler may reflect great credit upon the democratic party it might result in Senator Bingham $ reelection solely on the wet and dry issue. Wed like to see Judge Wheeler running against Senator Bingham, but as wet op- posing wet not dry against wet.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-06-01
Debts and Disarmament

European suggestions of debt cancellation usually annoy Americans. Not that our people are mcrcilessly determined to take their pound of flesh or squeeze blood from turnip: in fact, they assented to rather liberal cancellation when the present debt settlements were made. They are annoyed by the failure of the debtor countries to of- fer real inducements for further concessions on our part The most powerful induce ments would be genuine limitation of arma- ment expenditures and honest participation in further plans to insure world peace.
 At last there is frank recognition of this attitude in England. The London Times. in d moderate plea for further debt remis- sion. says: What IS not so generally real zed Gin Europe). is that substantial step toward disarmament IS necessary condition for the settlement of those intergovernmental debts which are paralyzng international trade
 Americans would go much farther than they have yet been willing to go in this direction if they saw indications of real dis armament in the present arms conference at Geneva. Moreover. such move for mill tary disarmament might bring an answering move in America for economic disarmament, in the form of general lowering of the tariff barriers now helping to paralyze inter- national trade.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-06-01
THE MACDONALD MEMORIAL
(New Haven Journai-Courier)

(New Haven Journal-Courier)
 Very few men live to see me-. morials to their achievements. Us- ually men have to die before the attention of the public is attracted to them and their accomplish ments. This will not be true, how ever. of James H. Macdonald, of this city, who is known as the father of Connecticuts highway system. A site for the memorial has been purchased in the town of Avon, the scene of one of Uncle Jim's' pet projects when he served the state in the capacity of high way commissioner. It will consist of five acres of land at the crest of Talcott mountain.
 The commission appointed last year by the general assembly is authorized to erect q suitable tab let "in commemoration of the en- gineering achievements of James H. Macdonald, former state. high- way commissioner, as pioneer in the development of highways". | The state can do nothing more appropriate than to honor one who has been so effective in the de- velopment of thoroughfares as MT Macdonald. Connecticut owes much to the far-sighted pioneer in I the field of engineering who
 planned her highway system so that when the automobile came 1t found roads adequate for it's needs.