Thursday, April 3, 1924
High winds characterized the weather Saturday and Sunday. Roads dried up remarkably fast, but fences were blown down that have always stood up before.
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Terrible floods and washouts last Saturday in the Western Maryland country. A number of lives were lost and great damage done at Cumberland. The West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company lost heavily at their Luke plant. The Western Maryland Railroad has been tied up.
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There were 348 persons at the Methodist Sunday School last Sunday – an increase of 70 over the Sunday before. They ranged in age from R. E. Overholt, aged 85 years, to little Miss Margaret Billingsley, the pastor’s daughter, who is less than a year old.
At the Presbyterian Church, there was an attendance of 228, an increase of five over the Sunday before…
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Two stylish dressed young men were brought to jail the past week by C&O officer Taylor to answer to a charge of robbing a passenger on a C&O train. The victim of the sharpers, Harlan Pittman, a Pocahontas man, who was going to join the army and inadvertently displayed a roll of money when one of the crooks asked change for a $5 bill in the course of a friendly card game in the smoker. Pittman discovered his loss of $160 and a recruiting officer aided him in recovering his money. The third member of the card party believed to be a pal of the two arrested could not be found on the train. The two men arrested gave their names as L. E. Davis and James Foley. – Fayetteville Pick and Shovel
SASSAFRAS TEA
This is now the time of year when every well regulated household is conditioned with its daily potion of sassafras tea. The only real sassafras tea is made with sugar water. Go to the woods and grub out some sassafras roots. Reject all but roots with red bark. The blue kind is supposed to be bitter. Tap a sugar tree and catch a bucket of sap. The water from the maple is just as good. If you can get the sugar water no other way, borrow a bucket of sap from a neighbor’s camp. Pay him back when it rains. Personally, I have never paid much attention to scrubbing the roots too clean. It is healthy dirt, and it is said the human system craves and requires so much sand anyway. Besides, much of the soil is shaken off chipping the bark and the rest goes to the bottom. After all this preliminary, put on the pot and boil. This steeping business may be all right for store tea, but sassafras to be right, requires heroic treatment. The tea should be drunk hot, sweeten to taste preferably with maple molasses or sugar. I never choose milk in mine. I can only add the testimony of an aged friend who says he has always had his sassafras tea in the spring and in all his 85 years he has always noticed that he has lived through to grass.
THE ROTARY CLUB
On Last Thursday night, steps were taken towards the organization of a Rotary Club in Marlinton. The idea, the development of practical service in the community. The Motto is “He profits most who serves best.”
Rotary Clubs are organized on the unique rule that only one business or profession can be represented in its membership. For instance, the club in any city can only have one butcher, one baker, one candlestick maker, etc. This plan is held to be representative of a community. The men of no single occupation or calling can in any way predominate in or take over the club. The name Rotary comes from the custom of meeting around in the offices of the members. The first Rotary Club was organized in Chicago 19 years ago. A lonesome young man got the idea that there were others who were just as lonesome as he was, and who could welcome companionship of the right stripe as much as he would. The founder of Rotary is still alive.
There are now Rotary Clubs in about 30 different countries with a membership of over 100,000…
