The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1936-01-30

last weeks issue of across the way.
You should have brought it in person
to be printed in this column, and then
people might have known what you
were talking about.
My original article merely stated
that in publishing a story about you
volunteering your services in procur-
ing and planting permanent commu-
nifty Christmas tree, the paper across
the street failed to mention that the
city council had appropriated $40
for this volunteer work"
The minutes of the Council meeting
show this money was appropriated.
You also admit somebody else is do
mating the tree. That gives you $40
for perhaps cutting down a tree and
hauling it to Oakland, digging hole
and planting the foliage.
At a patriotic mud-slinger," as
you term me, I wonder if one has to be
on the fire department or city council
in order to contribute good for ones
community.
If the name scoops implies to you
"an instrument or implement with a
wooden handle most generally used in
a barn or barnyard to make walking
conditions more tidy" let me suggest
that your mind certainly runs in
rather untidy places, and that to be
exact you should be thinking of a
pitchfork.
Have you never heard of a sugar
scoop, from which emanates sweet es-
sences? Better take a couple of Jumps
to sweeten the taste.
Now isn't that silly thing to argue
about?
The social whirl, among other
things, has been affected by the
weather. People are afraid to leave
their homes at night for fear the fires
will get low, or too high, and those
arranging parties are afraid they
can't get the house warm enough for
their guests.
So one day you get the invitation
and the next the cancellation or post
,ponement of the affair. There will be
"a last-minute rush before Lent, if this
weather doesn't soon let up.
#**
And speaking of weather, the group
in Harned's drug store is planning to
sally forth to Sang Run on the night
of February /, no matter what the
thermometer says.
, They are taking along some cotton
and adhesive tape. They are going to
take along also one mattock and a
shovel, probably scoop shovel. They
ARE expecting to surprise Herr Ground
hog and Mrs. Groundsow in their nice
warm bed and prepare the way for the
end of winter. They are going to blind
fold both of them so that no matter
if the sun shines the following day or
not, there won't be chance OF them
seeing their shadows.
Now if that doesn't make for an
early spring, then maybe these wealth
Ter men can do something about it.
This snow and sub-zero weather does
wet monotonous after couple Of
months Of it.
The Baltimore Sun this week termed
Oakland the "ice box Of Maryland"
Now if we would get this much public
,ity about the weather in the summer
time, we should have quite list OF
summer residents.
$50
It is well known that Maryland's
roads are kept in better condition
during the winter SHOWS than those
of sister states, Pennsylvania and
West Virginia, and that many times
Maryland plows assist those Of other
States in keeping the roads clear.
And then to have Governor Kump, Of
West Virginia, report to the newspa-
pers that on his trip from Washington
to Elkins the only trouble he had was
in Maryland. 1t was learned that Gov
ernor Kump was held up somewhere
near Red House on account of a pillow
that had broken down temporarily.
The story made il look like getting
stuck in drifts in Maryland was a
general thing instead of an exception.
That wasn't very nice of the Gov
ernor, especially since he was first
stuck with quite a number of other
motorists on Allegany Front while
in his native State.
Now since the relief report, we Won
der what kind of bullets the ammuni-
ton factory at Accident will manu-
facture next. While some of the "pill-
cts" have had little powder in them,