The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1919-01-23
MEMORIAL ASSO-
CATION FORMED
At Meeting Held In Oakland
Yesterday Morning.

county assembled at the Court House
in Oakland and organized the Soldiers
and Sailors Memorial Association Of
Garrett county.
The districts were represented as
follows:
District No. 2-N. R. Selby, R. NJ
Liston, George D. Browning.
District No. 3-W T. Stanton, Chas.
H. Younkin, j. U. Stanton, Mrs. G.
c. Keller, Miss Gertrude Hone
District N. 5-H. NJ. Speicher.
District No. CIV. A. Smith.
District No. 7-Gilmor S. Hamill,
ST., A. D. Naylor, E. E. Friend, E. R.
Jones, Mrs E. z. Tower
District No. ST. G. Stahl, Jonas
Yutzy.
District No. 10-Chas A. Ashby,
P. ]. Garrett, C. H. Browning, C,ar-
ence Lashorn, Chas. R. Savedge.
District No. 13-John A. Long.
District No. 14-D NJ. Dixon, Chas.
w Ream, BENZ. H. Sincell, NV. Pen
dergast, Edward H. Sincell.
After temporary organization had
been effected the delegates devoted
their attention to the work of consid-
ering and adopting a plan for the per
manent organization of the Associa-
ton, and the following resolutions
were unanimously adopted:
/. The name Of this Association
shall be the SOLDIERS and Sailors Me-
mortal Association of Garrett County,
Maryland"
2. The objects and purposes for
which this Association is formed shall
be to build q memorial in Garrett
county, Maryland, to the soldiers and
sailors of Garrett county in the World
War, and to that end, to solicit, col
lect and receive contributions for said
memorial
81 The officers of this Association
shall consist OF president, a vice
president, a secretary, treasurer, an
executive committee to consist of two
members from each of the fourteen
election districts of Garrett county,
and a Woman's Section to consist Of
two members from each of said four
teen election districts
4. The officers of the Association
shall be elected by a majority vote of
those present, as delegates, at the or
ganization meeting to be held on the
END day of January, 1919, at the
Court House in Oakland, and shall
hold their respective offices until the
memorial is completed and dedicat-
ed. All vacancies in Office shall be
filled at a general meeting of the ex-
ecutive committee, called by the sec
rotary for that purpose, after ten
days notice by publication in the
newspapers of Garrett county, and
where a district or districts have no
representatives at the said organiza-
ton meeting, the president shall have
the power to designate the members
of the executive committee and Wo-
mems Section from such district or
districts
5. That The First National Bank of
Grantsville; The First State Bank of
Grantsville; The First National Bank
of charlottesville; The First Nation
al Bank of Friendsville; The Garrett
National Bank Of Oakland, and The
First National Bank of Oakland are
hereby designated as the repositories
of the funds of this Association to be
collected for the purposes aforesaid,
and said banks are hereby authorized
to receive and receipt for such fund or
funds as may be offered to them, re-
spectively, for the purposes of this
Association.
That contributors to the memorial
fund shall have the right to designate
the bank or banks to receive their do
nations at the time of subscribing to
said fund.
That the funds so received by said
banks shall remain on deposit there
into the credit and order of the trees
urer until the said memorial is COM
pleted, except, that the treasurer, by
and with the advice and upon the or
der of the executive committee, shall
be authorized and empowered to make
payment, on account, to the contrac-
tor for said memorial, from time to
time, as the work progresses, and in
such event the Withdrawals from each
of said banks shall be in proportion
to the funds on deposit therein, all
payments, as aforesaid, to be made
by the treasurer by check signed by
him and countersigned by the presi-
dent, upon the order of the executive
committee.
That the said banks, and each of
them, shall render to the secretary a
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