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FORTY-SECOND YEAR. NO. 41
Spirit Liters
Wanted, For Sale, For Rent,
Lost, Found, and Miscel
laneous Notices.
RATES —Five cents per line for
each insertion.' No advertisement
accepted for less than 25 cents.
WANTED.
Two good girls for hotel work.
Good wages. Write to W. H. Farns
worth, Jenners, Pa. 11-13tf.
FOR SARE.
A new 12-Gauge Double -Barrel
Hammerless Shotgun. A beauty, and
a gun with unexcelled shooting qual
ities. Can be bought for two-thirds its
value. Inquire at The Spirit office, tf.
FOR SARE.
A 12-Gauge Single-Barrel Stevens
Shotgun. A good shooter and a late
model, nearly new. Can be bought
very cheap. Inquire at The Spirit
office. tf.
FOR SARE.
A fine new Stevens Ideal Rifle,
center-fire, 25-20 caliber. Can be
bought at a bargain. Inquire at The
Spirit office. tf.
WANTED.
Your orders for Engraved Cards,
Wedding Stationery, Birth Announce
ments, Private Stationery, in fact
everything in the line of engraved
work. Call at The Spirit office and
see the finest line of engraved samples
ever shown in Allegany county, tf.
WANTED.
Want Advertisements for this col
umn, They bring you business and
supply your wants. tf.
WANTED.
Your orders for all kinds of Plain
and Printing. No order too
large and none too small. Send your
orders to The Spirit office. tf.
WANTED.
Your orders for Steel and Copper
Die Printing. Finest line of samples
to select from ever shown in Allegany
county, at The Spirit office. tf.
WANTED.
Your orders for Rithographing,
Special Ruling, Embossing, Book
Binding, Steel, and Copper Die Stamp
ing, Gummed Rabel Printing, etc.
Reave your orders at The Spirit office,
or ask for estimates. What we can’t
manufacture in this line we can
secure for you at as low a price as
you can get by ordering direct from
larger concerns. tf.
| AS THE SPIRIT MOVETH J
NO LONGER A CAMPUS JOKE.
For the first time in. its history the
football team of one of the best known
State universities in the west recently
suffered defeat at the hands of an
agricultural college team. This
defeat analyzed seems to represnt
something more important than a
piece of sporting news. Despite the
fact that many frown at college ath
letics, it is generally the rule that the
colleges turning out the best represen
tatives of brawn and muscle lead as
institutions of learning.
With the athletic tide of supremacy
turning in favor of the agricultural
college, it is opportune to scan its pres
ent student body and note the change
that has taken place. A few years ago
the agricultural college was scoffed at
by most farmer boys. Then farmers’
sons had ambitions to be lawyers or
doctors; careers that required the
wearing of good clothes, even if prob
lematical in a remunerative way.
Today the agricultural college is the
most popular State institution of learn
ing. The universities having agricul
tural depatments are finding them
more attractive to youth than any of
the others. It is not only the farmer’s
son who is now registered as an“Ag”
student, but the strong and husky
young men of the towns and cities are
preparing themselves for an agri
cultural career.
In speaking of the defeat of the State
University team by the “Ag” school
team, a news story of the game reads:
The way the farmers pulled off their
forward passes was a marvel to the
9,000 rooters
The truth is the “Ag” student is
pulling off some forward passes in
several other directions that are mar
vels. The present sphere of the agri
cultural college student is described
by George Ade, Hoosier author, play
wrigt and farmer, in a story which ap
peared in a recent issue of the Coun
try Gentleman. To quote:
These boys are not going to head
for the cities to get desk jobs or slow
ly starve within overcrowded battle
ments of the learned professions.
They are going back to the farms to
raise more corn and wheat and oats
per acre than were ever raised before;
to feed the broad and buxom steer so
as to top the market; to live civilized
and useful happy lives in comfortable
homes surrounded by all the conven
iences and most of the luxuries.
So it is becoming plain that the
“Ag” student is no longer a joke.
That he is beginning to take the lead
in football championships is simply
another way of portraying the fact
that the cream of the youth of the
Nation is taking to agriculture, horti
culture, dairying and animal husband
ry instead of law or medicine or other
of the attractive professions. The
change is not a good one for the youth
alone, but for the Nation as well.
THE FROSTBURG SPIRIT
BADLY CRIPPLED!
ALMOST RUINED I
Such is the Present Condition of
the Printing and Publishing
Business of The Frostburg
Spirit, Through no Fault
of the Publisher.
DEATH HOVERS OVER EDITOR’S HOME AND
OTHER GRIEVOUS TROUBLES HARASS
HIM UNTIL ALL IS CHAOS THAT
NEARLY KILLS.
The Editor Takes His Patrons Into His Confidence
and Appeals to Them to Stay With Him in the
Interest of Justice and Fair Play.
A Brighter Day Will Undoubtedly Dawn, and a Newsier,
Better Frostburg Spirit is Bound to Come, if the
Patrons Will be Patient and Stick to the
Paper Through the Present Trouble.
To the public generally, and to the
patrqns of The Frostburg Spirit in
particular, I, P. R. Rivengood, editor
and publisher of The Frostburg Spirit,
have a statement to make that I feel
concerns many of you, as well as me.
It is not, therefore, that I merely wish
to burden you with a tale of woe that
lam penning these lines. Were I the
only sufferer in the case, I would pre
fer to suffer in silence and not burden
you with troubles which to some may
seem as matters that concern me only.
But lam not the only sufferer, as I
think I can clearly show.
On May 22nd of this year I came to
Frostburg and bought the plant of the
defunct Frostburg Mining Journal,
with the intention of giving Frost
burg a first-class weekly newspaper,
which the progressive and public
spirited people of this town were very
eager for me to do, promising me
liberal support and patronage.
When the plant was purchased it
was in a very unsuitable place to
carry on a printing and publishing
business, and the suc
cessor of the Frostburg Mining Journ
al, I made arrangements with my
landlords, Messrs. Hohing, Rapp and
Spier, to install my plant in their new
business block on Mechanic street,
the landlords assuring me that they
would have my quarters ready for oc
cupancy by the Ist of July.
Before agreeing to take the room, I
asked the landlords what the second
floor of the building would be rented
for, and after being informed that it
would be. rented for a dance hall,
lodge purposes or something of that
nature, I told them that under such
circumstances I feared that the first
floor would not be suitable for my
business, and that I therefore thought
I would have to look elsewhere for a
room.
To the objections I offered to the
place I am now in, both Hohing and
Spier gave me every assurance that
the floor overhead would be so con
structed as to be perfectly dead, that
no one below would be able to hear
anything going on above, and that no
one on the second floor would be able
to hear any worse from below. I told
them that if they were positively sure
that the floor would be as they rep
resented, I would take the room, but
otherwise not. They reitered their
statement, telling me I need not
worry, that the floor would have to be
as they said, and that they would
have no other kind put in.
After such assurance as that, the
deal was closed, but I did not get the
room until a month after it was prom
ised to me. Even then the place was
not yet fully completed, and during
the first month I had mechanics to
contend with and a big lot of rubbish
to clean out of the place.
After I had moved a considerable
portion of my property into the room,
I began to suspect that the place was
not as wide as two of the landlords
told me it would be, and upon meas
uring it, I found that it was nearly or
quite ten feet narrower. This looked
to me like getting gold-bricked, and I
promptly told Messrs. Rapp and Spier
about the deficiency in the dimensions
of the room. One of them replied
that if I wasn’t satisfied with the
room, that I didn’t need to take it. I
replied that I would figure up the
floor space and compare it with the
place I was vacating, and if the new
place proved to be ho bigger than the
old, that I could not accept it.
Upon fig'uring up the floor space,
however, I found that the new place
w</uld be large enough for my pur
pose, even though much smaller than
I was told by the landlords it would
be. I therefore moved all of my plant
into it, and in due course of time had
everything installed in such away as
FROSTBURG, MD, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1913
3 to bring forth much favorable com
i ment from all who called to inspect it,
r many of them pronouncing it a model
, printery.
1 I was put to much greater expense
. in getting moved and ready for busi
l ness than I anticipated, and the hard
t labor it required, much of which I did
3 myself, was almost too much for me,
- as I was in poor health when I came
l here, having just recovered from a
r serious spell of sickness which follow
. ed closely in the wake of several very
I distressing and nerve-racking surgi
cal operations. I w4?s therefore in very
o bad physical condition by the time I
3 was ready to launch the Mining Jour
, nal’s successor. But in spite of that
- great handicap, the paper was launch
, ,ed with a very nice lot of advertising,
- and the job printing and circulation
V also began to grow in a very satisfac
-3 tory manner.
My best efforts at the start at mak
t ing the paper newsy, were poor, I ad-
D mit, but as good as my health would
r allow. However, about the time I be
- gan to get in better form for the
- strenuous life of a newspaper man, a
i new trouble arose, a trouble which
I continues to increase in its blighting
v and ruinous effect on not only my own
:, health and business, but which is also
f causing my noble and sympathizing
- wife as much distress and anguish of
mind as it is causing me. We are
I both nearly worried to death by the
1 annoyance and loss of business which
I the new trouble is causing us, and I
t don’t knpw how much more of this
, killing worry we are going to be able
t to stand.
i The new trouble to which I refer is
t the great annoyance and damage I
> T am subjected to since the second floor
t of the building The Spirit is located
i in has been rented to a sporting club,
which uses the floor above for basket
-3 ball, 1 dancing and other forms of
i amusements. The floor, instead of
t being a dead one as was promised to
- me, is more like a sounding’ board,
t and the construction of the building
r is not strong enough to properly
o withstand basketball or dancing.
3 While the commotion is going on
I above, and that is practically every
3 night, also often during the daytime,
- the gas lamps and chandeliers in the
t print shop play a most nerve-racking
r tune, mantels drop off as fast as we
t can put them on, globes are jarred
3 loose from the chandeliers and break
1 into thousands of fragments, mixing
small particles of sharp glass with the
3 types in the cases, where the printers
3 are liable to get their fingers cut
- while reaching for the thousands of
s small pieces of metal that are requir
r ed to make up a newspaper form.
3 And that is not all, as our belts are
i kept jumping until they almost leave
the pulley wheels, while the bumping
3 and thumping noise above is enough
, to drive people almost out of their
s wits and badly cripple any business
s that has such a vexatious and expen
sive state of affairs to contend with.
r The smartest and strongest-nerved
1 man in the world couldn’t do credit-
I able newspaper work under such cir
r cumstances, and if you don’t believe
s it, dear readers, call at my place of
1 business almost any evening after 8
3 o’clock and be convinced. You are
I invited to call anyhow, whether you
3 believe my story or not, as you who
3 are patrons of The Spirit and want to
v see a good home paper in Frostburg,
3 are vitally interested in this matter as
well as I am. Many of you have paici
, your money on subscription and have
s a right to expect a good newspaper in
- exchange therefor. lam able to give
i you a good paper if I have half a
3 chance to do it, but neither I nor any
t other man can get out a good paper
1 under the annoyance and damage I
s have to contend with now. “Coon”
Rapp couldn’t even conduct a grog
gery, a cock fight or a dog fight suc
cessfully in such a place as The
Spirit is located in. Again I say, come
and judge for yourself at any time
when the rough and tumble fun above
is going on. If you come and observe
for yourself, you will then know a few
things you may not know now. You
will know how to sympathize with a
fellow mortal who has to do business
, in a room that is a veritable hell on
earth when the boys are having their
fun above. You will also realize if
you come what monumental nerve it
must require to take S4O per month
rent from a fellow mortal who was
promised much for his money, but
finds himself in possession of a room
that is nothing but a “gold brick” to
the render so long as the annoyance
and damage from above is not abated.
Some of the businessmen of the town
who have been in and observed what
I have to contend with, declare that
they not stay in the place rent
free, with S4O a month paid to them in .
the bargain, and neither would I if I
was out of it again.
This is a tale of woe, I admit, but it
: concerns many besides myself. It
concerns all of the many patrons of
this paper, and that is why I make it
public. I want you to know what not
only I, but we, all of us who want to
see a good local paper in this good
old town, are up against. I am not
trying to give you much besides this
tale of woe this week, because circutji
stances are such that I can’t.
to the annoyance and damage com
plained of, my plant is badly crippled.
I can’t operate E.ny of my three job
presses at all, evenings, hence have
to devote nearly all of the daylight
hours to job work, robbing the paper
of much of the time that should be
devoted to it. Even then I can’t take
care of all the job work that comes,
and must, perforce, allow much of it
to go elsewhere. Owing to suffering
a great loss in both the newpaper and
job business on account of the causes
mentioned, it is a case of the candle
of business and the candle of life
burning at both ends.
Friends, this isn’t right; it isn’t fair;
it isn’t generous or square; but I did
not decide on giving this matter to
the public until I appealed to my land
lords for relief, time and again, but
always in One ’landlord has
been sending me to the other, and the
other to the other, and so on. They
have admitted in the presence of wit
nesses that something must be done
to relieve me, but the only thing they
have yet relieved me of was money.
However, if the present state of affairs
continues much longer, Mrs. Riven
good and I will also be relieved of our
lives, for nothing is so killing as
worry, and the Rord knows we have
enough to worry over.
The point of complete physical col
lapse seemed near at hand to both of
us, last week, and might have been
reached ere this, had not addditional
grief and sorrow come to us from an
other source—grief of such a nature
as to make us exert all the force at
our command to keep from breaking
down, for the death angel is even now
hovering over our home, threatening
to take from us our baby boy, and we
must keep up in order to do what we
can toward saving his life.
With throbbing brains and aching
hearts we are doing all we can, while
the family is under quarantine, I
alone being allowed to leave the
house in order to procure such things
as the family must have for suste
nance. Our little boy has a malignant
type of diphtheria, taking sick last
Friday night, since which time three
doses of anti-toxin have been admin
istered up to this time. He is very,
very sick, and what the outcome will
be, time alone will reveal. In the
meantime his life hangs in the bal
ance, while we hope and fear alter
nately.
The mother is nearly worn out in
the sick chamber, while I am in my
office writing these lines. But my
heart is in the sick chamber also,
even though I am forbidden to go
there, and the little boy’s face is con
stantly before my vision. Even amid
the din here in the shop, I can hear
his pleadings to see his papa, and I
long to feel his little arms entwined
about my neck, to feel his little heart
beating against my heart, his lips im
printing a kiss upon my lips.
I am wondering whether a brighter
day will ever dawn for me and mine,
whether this thick gloom will not soon
be dispelled. Something seems to tell
me it will. I therefore appeal to my pa
trons to bear with me in this crisis, to
be patient, to stand by me with their
support until I can get the printing
plant moved once more, which I hope
to be able to arrange for soon.
I am determined to yet give Frost
burg a good newspaper, if such a
thing is at all possible, but it is not
possible with my plant where .it is
now located.
In conclusion I beg to thank the
many good people of Frostburg and
elsewhere for the generous patronage
they have been giving me, and for the
many kindnesses they have been show
ing me in many ways. Therefore,
dear friends, I am gratefully yours,
even though almost overwhelmed by
the wrongs and-grief now oppressing
me.
P. R. Rivengood.
BOTH HOUSES CLAIMED.
Anti-Saloon League Claims Good
Majority in Both Branches of
Next Legislature.
In a statement issued Nov. 6th,
William H. Anderson, Superintendent
of the Anti-Saloon Reague, said that
the results of the late election in
Maryland were satisfactory to the
league, and that the returns indicate
a local option majority in both houses.
His statement follows:
“The returns indicate a satisfactory
outcome of the legilative fight. The
league never gives out any names or
detailed figurers. It is impossible to
speak positively in the (.absence of
complete returns, but the returns thus
far indicate a comfortable local option
majority in both houses, in spite of
the city of Baltimore.”
There is nothing like being helpful
in any cause, but The Spirit is inclin
ed to think that the Anti-Saloon
Reague has little to hope for at the
'hands of the next session of the Mary
land Regislature.
laformatiou from the Frostburg
Postmaster.
It is the desire of the Postoffice De
partment that the widest publicity
possible be given the advantages of
mailing holiday parcels early in order
to secure the prompt despatch, dis
tribution and delivery of the great
volume of holiday mail, attention
being invited to the fact that it is
permissible to place on parcels the
words, “Do not open until Christmas,”
or words to that effect. This is the
first Christmas season the parcels post
system has been in operation, and the
department is desirous that the hand
ling of the mails shall be expeditious,
so that the public may be given the
benefit of quick and accurate trans
portation and deliveay.
Along with the words, “Do not open
until Christmas,” the following words
can be used: Inscriptions such as
“Merry Christmas,” “Happy New
Year,” “With Best Wishes,” which
may be placed on fourth-class matter
or on a card enclosed therewith.
Ulysses Hanna, P. M.
Senator Speicher’s Close Shave.
Senator Harvey Speicher, of Gar
rett county, who was re-elected to the
State Senate at the last election, got
there by a plurality of only 70 votes.
As Senator Speicher is a Republican,
and his county also Republican by a
normal plurality of 800 to 1000, his
narrow escape from defeat is natural
ly a marvel to many. Whether right
or not in its size-up of the issues of
the late campaign, we know not, but
the Oakland Republican gives the fol
lowing as the cause of Senator Speich
er’s greatly reduced vote:
“The result of the election in Gar
rett county was a surprise to the
public, as the returns were received.
No one trys to explain the mystery.
The returns clearly demonstrate that
the unexpected does occasinally hap
pen. No candidate had more deter
mined opponents than had Senator
Speicher. It is estimated that the
liquor interests of Baltimore and Al
legany county spent no less than $5,-
000 in their efforts to defeat the Sena
tor in his re-election. His straight
forward declaration in favor of the
state wide local option, and for pro
hibition made them his enemy, and
they determined to defeat him if pos
sible.
Western Maryland Erecting Ex
tensive Shops at Hagerstown.
Contracts amounting to approxi
mately $200,000 have been awarded by
the Western Maryland Railway Com
pany for tools and machinery neces
sary for equipping the new erecting
shop which the company is now build
ing at Hagerstown, Md. This is one
of the largest expenditures made by
the Western Maryland recently in
connection with the improvement
work now in progress at various
points along the line. The contracts
were distributed among a number of
tool manufacturing companies.
In erecting the new shop, the West
ern Maryland is fulfilling a promise
made by President Fitzgerald to the
people of Hagerstown some months
ago at a banquet given by the Cham
ber of Commerce of that city. The
chief executive of the Western Mary
land was a guest of the members of
that organization, and during the
evening he informed the banqueters
that his company proposed to dupli
cate the existing erecting shops at
Hagerstown. Shortly after this, plans
for the new improvement were com
pleted and construction actually
begun.
As fast as the tools ordered are de
livered by the manufacturers, they
will be installed in the new shop.
The building, with the new equipment,
will give the Western Maryland addi
tional shop facilities for repairing
engines, etc.
The Western Maryland *is carrying
into effect a rather extensive terminal
improvement program at Hagerstown,
including the extension of freight
yards and the erection of a new pas
senger station. The new station has
been in service for three months, and
the enlarged yards have also been
utilized for some weeks.
ARRANGEMENTS FOR
SECOND CORN EXHIBIT
Prizes of More Than One Hundred Dollars to Be
Given to Maryland, West Virginia and
Pennsylvania Farmers.
In hearty sympathy and friendly co-operation with the generally accepted
view that accords supremacy to agriculture as the bulwark of American pros
perity and commercial expansion, and in furtherance of the wide spread
movement of agricultural fairs and cereal exhibits which invite greater
achievement and more material results from the husbandman’s toil by en
couraging intensive cultivation, better methods of distribution for his pro
ducts, and the advantage which accrues from an observation of his neighbors
efforts along lines more scientific and fruitful than his own, Mr. Daniel An
nan, President of the Second National Bank of Cumberland, has announced
his second corn exposition, open to the farmers of Allegany and Garrett
counties, Md.; Mineral and Hampshire counties, West Virginia; and Bedford
county, Pennsylvania.
The success which attended the first exhibit of corn at the Second National
Bank one year ago, and the marked interest manifested by farmers who were
exhibitors, as well as the many who attended the cereal show for comparsion
and study, promptly induced Mr. Annan to repeat his venture upon a larger
scale—in fact that promise was exacted of him by the many observers who
recognized in the exposition an enterprise of value to the community in its
incentive for agricultural expansion and emphasized invitation to make two
ears of corn grow where one grew before.
The conditions governing the previous exhibit are identical with those to
prevail at the forthcoming event, but the prizes are double in amount and
more territory is included tha* before.
Twelve ears of corn, grown in the counties of Allegany, Garrett, Mineral,
Hampshire or Bedford shall constitute an entry, and in the event of a contro
versy or question as to the corn having been grown in the locality open to
the exposition, an affidavit of the grower to that effect may be required.
Entries will be received at the Second National Bank of .Cumberland dur
ing business hours from Tuesday, December 2nd, to Friday, December the
Sth. J udging of exhibits will be conducted by a recognized corn expert, prob
ably from one of the agricultural colleges, whose vetdict will be impartial,
and in abcordance with the actual merits of the entry.
All exhibits shall remain the property of Mr. Annan to be disposed of in
the interest of a public charity or beneficence.
The prizes shall be as follows: Fifty dollars in gold for the best exhibit of
12 acres o'f corn grown in the counties previously designated. Twenty-five
dollars in gold for the second best entry; fifteen dollars in gold for the third
prize; ten dollars in gold for the fourth prize, and five dollars in gold for the
fifth.
Farmers in this find adjacent counties are in full realization of the actual
profit which scientific crop culture implies, and they therefore appreciate a
movement or object designed to promote their interests. Hence the predic
tion that the corn exposition at the Second National Bank will not only re
ceive a large number of exhibits, but will arouse such a degree of Concern
among the farming element and others interested in agriculture as to insure
the annual repetition of this event with increasing importance, influence and
success.
TO POSTOFFICE PATRONS.
“Uncle Sfitti” Complains of Care
lessness that Causes Delay in
Delivery of Mail Matter.
The following letter recently sent
out from Washington to postmasters
all over the country, explains itself,
and will, no doubt, do much to aid
mail carrier and postmasters in mak
ing the promptest possible deliveries
of mail matter:
Washington, D. C., Nov. Ist, 1913.
To Postmasters:—
Your active co-operation is request
ed in an effort to relieve the postal
service of the burden imposed by the
growing evil of incompletely and im
properly addressed mail.
The delivery of letters, especially
in large cities, i# frequently delayed
and oftentimes made impossible by
the omission of an important part of
the address, such as the street num
ber, or the name of the street is omit
ted, only the name of the post office
and state being given. Another
source of trouble is the practice of
giving an address at the intersection
of two streets without giving the lo
cation of the corner, for in some large
cities a number of carriers’ routes
may terminate at the point, or it may
be the dividing line between the re
spective territories of the main post
office and a station, or between two
stations, and in the absence of the
notation “N. E.,” “N. W.,” etc., the
distributers are unable to determine
to which carrier the mail should be
thrown.
The increasing carelessness on the
part of the public in addressing their
mail is no doubt aided and abetted by
the practice of the Department in sup
plying deficient addresses, and also
by the exploitation in newspapers of
the ability of some clerks to decipher
“freak” addresses.
. Postmasters should advise their
patrons that complete and accurate
addresses are essential to prompt mail
delivery, and that they should co-oper
ate with the Department to the extent
of seeing that all mail orginated by
them bears a street number, or room
number in the case of an office build
ing, in addition to the name of the
city and state. Attention should al
so be invited to the fact that they can
be of material assistance in the edu
cation of the general public with re
spect to this requirement by having
all stationery intended for transmis
sion in the mails printed with their
complete street or office address.
Hereafter when the delivery of mail
is delayed on account of insufficient
address, that fact should be stamped
on the face of the mail, and rubber
stamps for this purpose, bearing the
words “Delivery delayed on account
of incomplete address,” may be se
cured through requisition on the
Fourth Assistant Postmaster General,
Division of Supplies.
Such publicity as can be effected
without expense to the Department
should be given the suggestions out
lined above.
Daniel C. Roper,
Fourth Assistant Postmaster General.
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WHOLE NUMBER 2,178
GARRETT COUNTY PRIZE
WINNERS.
Awards Made By Lqnaconiiig Fair.
Wheat, first, Harrison H. Fazenbak
er, near Npw Germany.
Oats, first, Jessie Warnick, New
Germany; second, F. E. Otto, New
Germany.
Rye, first, Jessie Warnick; second
H. H. Fazenbaker.
Buckwheat, Japanese, F. E. Otto,
second.
Corn, second, C. & A. Broadwater.
Sheaf oats, second, Jessie Warnick.
Sheaf rye, first, H. H. Fazenbaker;
second, Jessie Warnick.
Best 3 squash, Ben. F. Green, near
Eonaconing.
Best 3 head cauliflower, first and
second, The H. Weber Son’s Co., Oak
land.
Best and largest display of vege
tables grown by one exhibitor, B. F.
Green.
Best 6 turnips, Walter Crowe, Avil
ton.
Best 6 parsnips, second, The H.
Weber Son’s Co.
Best Green Mountain pototo, sec
ond, O. S. Fike, Avilton.
Best peck white potatoes, any varie
ty, first, Clark Bowers, Oakland; sec
ond, Hurley Miller, near Oakland.
Best collection of potatoes grown by
one exhibitor, B. F. Green.
Best peck Dooley potatoes, O. S.
Fike.
Best peck Crown Jewel, first, H. H.
Robeson, Avilton.
Best peck Rural New Yorker, second,
Daniel Miller, Kitzmiller.
peck white Freeman, first, H.
H. Robeson.
Best peck Early Triumph, first, B.
F. Green.
Best peck late Rose, also Blue Vic
tor, first, H. H. Fazenbaker.
Best 6 radishes, first, Walter Crowe.
Best 3 heads cabbage, second, H. H.
Fazenbaker.
Eargest squash, C. A. Bender,
Grantsville.
Best quart Eima beans, second, B.
F. Green.
Best 12 onions, H. ED>Fazenbaker.
Best six Hanovers, t. H. Glotfelty,
Oakland, blue ribbon.
Best 6 red mangles, The H. Weber
Son’s Co.
Best 6 carrots, H. H. Fazenbaker.
Best roll butter, second, Fred Otto.
Best jar butter, second, S. E. Broad
water, New Germany.
Best cheese, second, B. F. Green.
Best honey, Bloyd Durst, Grants
ville.
Pitiable Case of Alcholistti.
Eeon Getty, of Grantsville, at his
own request was recently committed
by Justice Doub, of Hagerstown, Md.,
to one year in the House of Correc
tion, on the charge of being a common
drunkard. Getty served two terms in
jail at Oakland for being intoxicated.
He said he wished to be placed in an
institution where he could not obtain
liquors, and his request was granted.
When alcohol gets such a hold on a
man as that, he is a pitiable object.