The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1937-01-21

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er to change his mind between the time
this is being written and the time it
appears in print, but we'll take a
! chance.
June In January
This time in 1936-Record shatter-
ing cold wave hit the county, termed
toughest night since records had been
kept at Weber's. Temperature at 20
below with strong winds prevailing.
Four cars pile up due to binding
snowstorm, injuring five people. More
than so inches of snow had fallen in
December and January and there were
several more days left in January.
1852 below zero and II inches of
snow.
1912-40 below zero.
Here's what has been happening this
year. Snakes have come out to warm
up. Temperature has been in the SOS
and COS. Buds have appeared on
shrubs and some trees. A little bit Of
blowing was going on before it got so
wet. So far no swimming parties
have been planned at Deep Creek, but
who can tell what another week will
bring forth? In the southern states
the heat is causing trouble to the
tomato crop. In the west they are
having heavy snowstorms and much
cold. California fruit growers are
having trouble to keep old man frost
away.
The weather bureau has blamed the
nations freak weather of the past few
weeks on "traffic jams" in the atmos-
phere. 1t was explained that high
pressure zones had persisted since
about January over both the Atlantic
and Pacific oceans. The Atlantic area
sends warm tropical air northward
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while in the Pacific zone a frigid
stream of polar air flows southwark
from Canada as far as Texas. The
amazing thing has been the narrow
boundary maintained between the cold
and warm air streams. Temperature
has varied as much as 60 degrees with
in single state.
If it wasn't for so much sickness
this warm weather could last through
February and March and you wouldn't
hear single squawk out of me. Each
day of warm weather brings us nearer
to spring. Now if the grounding just
acts right, spring is practically upon
US. Get out your garden tools.
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The Borrowing Habit
We have heard a good bit lately of
the all too common practice of borrow
ing newspapers. The person who does
it continually is usually nothing more
or less than plain stingy. Rather than
pay the small subscription price he
makes it practice to go to his neigh
boris house and borrow his copy
many times before the subscriber has
had chance to read it himself.
Those really not able to pay for a
subscription are certainly welcome to
read the news. But the person who
has the money and gets his Republi-
second hand hasn't any sympathy
coming to him.
Often the person who buys paper
wishes to keep each weeks copy for
future reference, or clip articles for a
scrap book. Many families wish to
retain their paper for at least week
so that every member may have time
to see it at their leisure. Yet they feel
that they cannot refuse to give it up
when their neighbor asks to borrow it.
Surely the only proper thing to do
is to subscribe for The Republican in
order to get the real news of the coun-
ty. Don't expect your neighbor to do
it for you.
Now if everybody who is guilty
would let the above soak in, we would
increase our subscription list by IS or
100.
You can tell how extensively some
people travel by the number and
variety Of hotel towels they hang every
week on the clothes line.
The Housing Problem
The construction of small homes or
an apartment house would seem to be
a good investment right now in Oak
land. There certainly is shortage of
residences. It is as difficult to find
an empty house now as it was during
the days the Deep Greek dam was
being constructed.
The cause of the shortage is in a