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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1924-06-19
TUBERCULOSIS CLINIC
Will Be Held at the Court House
In Oakland June 18th.

Miss Vida Getty, R. n, of Grants
vile, Garrett County Public Health
Nurse, has advised The Republican
that a tuberculosis clinic will be held
at the Court House in Oakland on
Wednesday, June 25th, with DR.. John
NJ. Nicklas, Medical Consultant of
the Maryland tuberculosis Associa-
ton, the examining physician.
DR.. Nicklas would like all cases
coming to him to be referred by a
local physician, as it is the object of
the clinic to cooperate with them in
this service. The patient will be ex-
amined and report returned to the
physician.
No fee is charged for consultation
and those who can pay and those who
cannot are treated the same. One of
the important issues of the clinic is
the treatment prescribed for the con-
facts and suspects, that is, the people
who come in touch with tuberculosis
in some form, or who have symptoms
of the disease.
Arrangements have been made with
the Public Health Association of Gar
rett county to hold monthly clinics
throughout the county. The July
clinic will probably be held at
Friendsville and the following month
at Kitzmiller. 1t is felt that by con-
Quoting the clinics in this manner the
people in every district can receive
the ultimate benefit of this service.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1924-06-19
Arrested and Fined On Drunk
and DisOrderIy Charges

Justice West had before him on
drunk and disorderly charges a num-
Der of men and one woman from Deer
Park Monday morning and assessed
a fine of $25 and costs in each case.
The parties were Frank Clary, Har-
old Browning, John Beebe, Edward
Thrasher and Mrs. Maize Simons, the
latter of Washington. All paid their
fines and were released. On Tuesday
Clary was again before the Justice on
a similar charge and was again fined,
the sum assessed in this case being
SIS and costs. With Clary on his sec
ond eseapade was NJ. E. Kelley, en-
ployed as a painter at the Deer Park
Hotel. Kelley was fined $40 and
costs, which he paid.
Justice West also had before him
for trial Monday afternoon two other
residents Of Deer Park, 81 anson Bra
dy, white, and William Carroll, coll
ored, on the charge Of being drunk
and disorderly. Each paid fine of
S. and costs and they were discharg-
cd %rom custody.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1924-06-19
OAKLAND HIGH SCHOOL
COMMENCEMENT FRIDAY
Evening When Exercises Were
Held In Maryland Theatre

The Thirteenth Annual Commence
ment of the Oakland High School was
held on Friday evening, June 18th, in
the Maryland Theatre. The house
was crowded to the very doors, show
ing the widespread interest of the
people of the community in the boys
and girls of the class and of their
future life.
The class, composed of twenty-six
excellent young people of the town
and vicinity, included sixteen COM
mercial students and ten academic
students and was the largest gradu-
ating class in the history of the high
school.
The graduates were as follows:
ommercial-Bonnie Marie Cal
houn, Bertha Henrietta Bell, Nellie
Catherine Nethkin, Anna Geraldine
Maffett, Phyllis Marie Turney, Au-
drey Catherine Trickett, Olive Lor-
enc Orendorf, Elva May Shaffer,
Mildred Norine Knots, Ruth Cecilia
Lawton, Elmus Luther Ream, Carter
Bruce Forman, George Kenneth Lift
man, Forrest Gortner, Marshall Gran
vile Brown, Darwin B. Martin.
Academic-Mary Elizabeth Falk-
enstein, Helen Elizabeth limbaugh,
Eleanor Ellsworth Townshend, Mar
garet Vernon Leighton, Verba Roselle
Bishoff, Rose Mary Rice, Wilma Car
men Friend, Mary Frances Bur-
roughs, Harold Edmund Ream, Henry
o. Hamill.
The speaker of the evening, Mr..
Saul Praeger, of Cumberland, gave
a very interesting address in the form
of a debate. He took the affirmative
side Of the question, which he stated
thu: Resolved, That an education
is the best thing for any boy or girl,
second only to religion" 1t is need
less to say that the affirmative side
won by unanimous vote of the large
audience.
The speaker also admonished the
members of the graduating class to
be grateful to the State of Maryland
and to the United States and to re-
pay in some way the benefits which
had been given them by the free
school system of the land.
The diplomas were presented the
class by Mr.. Harvey A. Loraditch,
president of the County Board of
Education, a seach student in turn
came forward to receive the reward
for which he or she had been striving
since entering the grade schools.
The Republican extends its con-
gratulations to the class collectively
and to each member composing it,
with the wish that in the life work
before them they may be eminently
successful and may always be hon
ored members of the communities in
which theV NAV cast their lot,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1924-06-19
BURIED HOARD OF DEAD
MISER OF FINZEL FOUND
Phineas Werner, Aged Recluse,
Had Secreted $4,000 Beneath
Floor OF His Cabin

Stranger than fiction is the story
of the life of Phineas Werner, aged
sc years, who died in a little one
room shack located on his fifty-acre
farm near Finzel, Garrett county.
which village lies on top of Little
Savage mountain a few miles north
OF the National Highway.
Three days before the death of this
aged hermit relatives found him lying
on his bed of straw in one corner of
the dingy little room. Half conscious
and half starved, he mumbled that he
was very sick, but said it was of no
use to call the doctor, as he was sure
that his time to go was very near at
hand. However, a doctor was sum-
moned, but hopes for his recovery
were abandoned when it was learned
that infirimities of age, together with
undernourishment and improper care
IN the early stages of his illness had
weakened his system and that he was
already dying. Death came with a
friend and one relative at his bedside.
Those who knew him always spoke
of him kindly. His mode of living was
OF the poorest; his clothing was scant
and he never, during the last twenty
five years of his life, wore socks. His
meals consisted chiefly of pinch cakes
made of cornmeal and eggs, while it
is known he often times dined upon
bran, corn or oats chop. The earth
served as a floor of his home and
a pile of straw in the corner was his
bed.
Calvin Paul, a nephew, of Finzel,
was the relative nearest his heart, and
to him, it is reported, in his dying
hours, willed the ffty-acre tract of
land and the shack in which he lived
Following his death, Mr.. Paul tore
the shack down, using the good lum-
Der thus salvaged in some repair
work on his own home not many
miles distant. The remaining tim
bers were burned only the charred
ruins of the hermitage being left
showing where it had stood.
About three weeks ago Levi Gar
litz, a farmer residing in the vicinity
of Finzel, who was taking an idle
stroll through the woods, happened
upon the remains of the Werner cab
in. With stick in his hand he aim
lessly whisked it through the charred
debris and dislodged a stone which
uncovered to his amazement wad
of paper currency half burned Ex-
animation developed that he had re-
moved the keystone of the hermit's
strong box from which bills ranging
from 81 to 500 were taken, the total
amount approximating $4,000.
Mr.. Werner said nothing of the hid
den money during his lifetime and
when prepared for burial only seven
dollars were found in his clothing.
The find has aroused some excite
ment among the friends and acquain-
tances of the dead man and it has
been reported that since currency
was found it is possible that a bag
of gold is also buried on the farm.
Foundation for such story is based
upon a report told by a woman who
claims that Mr.. Werner displayed the
gold to. her about eleven years ago.
The burned money was reclaimed
at Meyersdale bank one day last
week.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1924-06-19
STATE ROADS COMMISSION
THANKS GARRETT LADIES
For the Part They Took In Ex-
ercises Incident to Bridge
Opening Over Severn River

Mrs E. T. Tower of the committee
having in charge the preparation and
display of the Garrett county float at
the opening of the Severn River
bridge at Annapolis last Saturday, is
in receipt of the following letter from
Mr.. John n. Mackall, chairman of the
Maryland State Roads Commission:
Annapolis, June II, 1924.
Mrs. E. z. Tower, Oakland, Md.
Dear Mrs. Tower:
We wish to express to you our deep
appreciation for the splendid demon
stration you furnished at the OPEN
ing of the Severn River bridge at An
napolis last Saturday.
Certainly your float and the spirit
of cooperation which it represented
added very materially to the success
and pleasure of the day.
Please extend our thanks to all who
took part Very truly yours,
J. N. MACKALL, Chairman.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1924-06-19
242 MILES OF MARYLAND
ROAD BUILT WITH U. 5. AID
Progress Made In State On Sys.
TEN Designated Under The
Federal Act.

Two hundred and forty-two miles
of roads in Maryland have been COM
pleted, so miles now are under con-
struction and six miles have been APP
proved for construction under the Fed
eral Highway Act of 1921, it was an
nounced Saturday by the Bureau of
Public Roads, United States Depart
ment of Agriculture.
A total of S131,427 now remains
to be expended in Maryland under
the act. Roads to be built and paid
for out of this fund have not been
selected as yet.
The Federal aid highway system in
Delaware, Maryland, Virginia and
West Virginia includes 6,512 miles.
This mileage by states is: Delaware,
301; Maryland, 1924; Virginia, 3,O16,
and West Virginia, 1901 miles.
This system Of highways has been
designated by the States and approx
ed by the Secretary of Agriculture
as provided by the Federal Highway
act. According to this act, the State
highway departments We're to desig-
nate a system of roads not exceeding
Z per cent of the total rural mileage
for improvements with Federal aid
up to so per cent of the cost.
Appropriations for Federal aid to-
falling S540,000,000 have been made
since 1916, and considerable progress
already has been made on the system.
The total apportionment during this
period was: Maryland, $4,013,004;
Delaware, $1,373,904; Virginia, &c.
144,390, and West Virginia, 1885,
$50.
Although two of the appropriations
were made before the Federal High
way act restricting the expenditure
to roads of the federal-aid system,
the greater part of the expenditure
has been on the designated system.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1924-06-19
AUTO MISHAP SUNDAY
In Which James Wolfe Was In
iured and Car Damaged

Sunday evening about dark the au-
tomobile of Mr.. G. A. Fraley, of Oak
land, was slightly damaged and the
driver of the machine, James Wolfe,
sustained several painful injuries and
bruised when he was struck by car
operated by Gilbert Roy of Sang Run,
en- the road leading into Oakland from
the north. Wolfe's injuries consist
of two or three cracked ribs and an
injury to his shoulder besides cuts
on his head and face, while the rear
of Mr.. Fraley's car was damaged to
the extent Of S25 where it was struck
by Roy's car after hitting Wolfe, vine
was standing directly back Of it.
Following the occurrence Roy was
placed under arrest and before jus
lice West last night ne was Iined S.
fos diving Ieckiessiy,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1924-06-19
PRISONERS TAKEN TO
PENAL INSTITUTIONS
Those Sentenced to Penitentiary
And House of Correction
Went Last Night

At midnight Deputy Sheriff Frank
Blake, accompanied by another Off
Ger left Oakland with four prisoners
who had been sentenced by the Court
last Friday to serve in the penal in
stitutions of the State.
Those taken to the Penitentiary
were William Soblasky, for burning
the barn Of W. D. Althouse at Cor
man and given four years, and Charles
Spring, one year for the theft of au-
tomobile accessories.
David Shank, in lieu of paying a
fine of $500 for bootlegging, goes to
the House Of Correction for months
and j. E. Aronhalt, one year for a
statutory crime.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1924-06-19
nadette Hetrick, Elma Schroyer, Oh
ga George.
Boys Dodge Ball

nadette Hetrick, Elma Schroyer, Oh
ga George.
Boys Dodge Ball
Oakland d. Kitzmiller, 1910; Kemp
ton d. Mt. Lake by forfeit; Oakland d
Hutton, 1913; Kempton d. Crellin
1873; Oakland d. Kempton, 14-11.
Winning team, Frank Wolf, Edwin
Hamill, Clarence Leighton, Robert J.
Stanton, Richard Stemple, Robert
Stanton, Willie Nair, Frank yelling,
Bernard Moon, Edward Maroney.
Girls Dodge Ball.
Kitzmiller d. Kempton, 1873; Hut
ton d. Crellin, 7-6; Kitzmiller d. Ac-
cident, 1879; Oakland d. Hutton, IA
10; Kitzmiller d. Oakland, 1913. Win
ming team, Frances Pratt, Geraldine
Haver, Vera wilson, Mildred Cough,
Jenny Vocopivec, Madeline Tranum,
Georgia Boyce, Hilda Harvey, Max
inc Craver, Elva Shank.
VOlley Ball Tournament
Oakland d. Grantsville, 30-10; Ac-
cident d. Oakland, 22-7. Winning
team, Hildegard Miller, Olga Georg,
Ola King, Oma Friend, Grace Hetrick,
Ruth Speicher, Bernadette Hetrick,
Eleanora Reynolds.
End Ball Tournament
Accident won. Winning team, Mel
lie Speicher, Louise Harmon, Iva
Fratz, Cora Alice Fisher, Beulah Mar
CROFT, Evelyn Richter, Katherine
Speicher.
Speed Ball Tournament.
Oakland d. Crellin. Winning team,
D. Burroughs, d. Helbig, B. PaytOn,
E. Reams, H. Yutzy, J. Willetts, j.
Lee, C. Miller, J. Duke, F. Lonergan.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1924-06-19
All-Day Meeting and Basket
Dinner.

On Sunday, June Goth, there will be
an all-day meeting with a basket din
ner at the U. B. church at Pleasant
Valley. Rev. 7. ]. Foster. conference
superintendent, will be the principal
speaker, and Prof. ]. H. Ruebush,,
dean of music of the United Brethren
College at Dayton, Va, will be in
charge of the singing. Last but not
least, the Crellin Boys Band will be
present. The Ream and Friend Or
ehestras, as well as the male quartet
of Crellin will also be there to assist
in the music. The detailed program
will apear in The Republican next
Thursday.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1924-06-19
RESULTS OF ANNUAL FIELD
MEET OF GARRETT COUNTY
Held at Mountain Lake Park On
Thursday, June IL, Under
Public School Auspices

The annual field meet of the public
school pupils of Garrett county was
held at Mountain Lake Park on last
Thursday at which large number of
the schools of the county were repre-
scented and which were attended by a
crowd variously estimated at from
1900 to 1000 people.
The winners in the various contests
as announced by the director of the
meet, We're as follows:
Summary Score.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1924-06-19
Notice to the Membership of
Oakland Lodge, No. 1872.

The members of Oakland Lodge,
No. 1872, A. F. and A. NJ. will attend
Divine worship in st. Marks Luth-
eran church, Sunday, June 22nd, at
1915 o'clock a. m. All members will
take due notice thereof and govern
themselves accordingly.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1924-06-19

Rev Mr.. mcdonnell, of Baltimore,
has been appointed pastor Of ST. Mat
thew's parish and will conduct his
first service in the church here on Sum
day morning and each Sunday there
alter during the Summer.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1924-06-19

The Mountain View Hotel in Oak
land ia serving chicken dinners every
Sunday and Wednesday, from 1890
until 200 ., Ri.
Gunnison news-champion., 1924-03-07
Steam Shovel to Work
On Blue Mesa S0o1,

At the county commissioneFs' meet
ing Monday, the question was settiet
df matching with tk,ooO of c0unty rpel
money proposed appropriation oI
5000 construction funds from tn
State Highway Commission to b
used in keeping the steam shovel bsuy
from the Montrose county line east no
Blue Mesa this summer.
This has been mentioned before in
the News Champion as a project in
mind by the highway department, but
It had not bsen actually approved BY
the county officials. The steam shovel
which worked last summer on the Blue
has been in use this winter on Nor
wood hill. It will be thru with this
job in June, and will then be brought
up the Cimarron. Starting at the
county line, new survey has been
adopted which will strike up the Little
Cimarron further before climbing the
grade. This will make six per cent
road all the way, cutting out the bad
spot opposite the Longtin and rlohr
ranches. 1t will, however, pass half
dozen more ranches in Gunnison
county on the Little Cimarron.
The $4,000 appropriation should
carry the work this summer to the top
of the Blue divide, and perhaps fur
ther.
Gunnison news-champion., 1924-03-07
WHY NOT RENAME
A FEW STREETS3

A very gratifying improve-
ment is the decision Of the town
council to order street numbeT-
ing in Gunnison. In. this con-
hection, however, we have heard
number Of citizens remarl5Ithaf
before the street signs at inter
sections are put on, would it not
be fine time to change few
street names?
There meyer was any system
about having names Of states for
both avenues and streets. As
long as we have Tomichi Avenue,
that name and present avenues
parallel might retain the same
names of New York, Virginia,
Georgia, etc, but east and west
from Main street--that is the
streets running north and
south-could well be changed to
First, Second, Third, Fourth,
ETC., perhaps omitting the Boule-
ward. There is no great senti-
ment that we know Of concerning
any Of them, and it will be a
tremendous saving in time in
directing folks, and locnting
houses for all time to come, as
the town grows.
OF the avenues, there are just
two that News-C Champion has
heard suggested might well be
renamed. These are Ohio Ave-,
which should by all means be
changed to ~Collere Avenue"
and Denver. which might well
be called Hartman Avenue, in
graceful compliment to tie earii-
est setterS In tie valley, 4r. and
Ars. Alcnze Hartman, whose
home faees sthe avenue.
II yUu think - 4 . good
taing, spsek . ~ %pwn tsustses
Gunnison news-champion., 1924-03-07
BALDWIN GIRL
MARRIED TO EASTERNEH

Special Correspondence for the News
Champion, March I, 1924.
Dan Cupid is again busy in our
neighborhood. capturing Mr.. Bernard
Smith and Miss Margaret Zeilinger,
two well known and popular residents
Of Baldwin. who were united in marIi-
age in Gunnison Tuesday. Rev. Jas.
+. Cotter performed the ceremony,
only few Of the intimate friends Of
the couple were present. The bridc
was beeamingly attired In lovely
gown Of peaeh-toned chiffon, with hat
10 match, and carried . Colonial bou.
4uet Of roses.
Amer the ceremony, the wedding
party n,otored to the home Of the
brides parents where a sumptuous
wedding dinner was served
Mr.. and Mrs. Smith will leave in q
few days for the east on their honey
moon and intend locating in Pennsyl-
vania in the near future. A large
number Of Baldwin folks turned out
to charivai them and wish them q
long and happy married life.
Mrs. Smith is the youngest daughter
Of Mr. and Mrs. Valentine Zeilinger
well known ranch folks of the Ohio
Creek valley. Mr.. Smith is from
Pennsylvania until recently, when he
came west and for time worked nj
the Alpine mine.
Gunnison news-champion., 1924-03-07
Town Callc,,a II !.
Set FOR Toni III

Z Mass meeting Of the Peoples Patty
will be held this evening at 1880 It
the court house.. The terms Of Mayor
Zugelder and Councilmen c. L. Stone,
Ashton Winslow and H. C.. Bartlett
expire on April ist, and successors
are to be nominated.
1t seems to be the general opinion
that these gentlemen have worked
hard and faithfully in service Of the
public, and that they should be re-
elected, provided they will accept the
positions again. Mr.. Bartlett is away
much of the time, and is said not to
care for the job again. In that case,
we learn that Verne Mauer's name is
favorable mentioned for trustee.
Gunnison news-champion., 1924-03-07
STREET NUMBERING ORDERED
BY GUNN|s0M TOWN TRUSTEES
Step Toward City Free Delivery Taken. System
Established With Main and Tomichi as Bases
To Buy Legion Park Block.

AS step toward securing city mail
delivery, the town council took action
Tuesday night to provide for number
ing all houses and business blocks in
the city.
After considerable discussion, 1t
was decided to make Tomichi Avenue
and Main street the center of the
numbering system, all blocks east of
Main street to have the prefix east
and all toward the river to be num-
bered west" Similarly those north
and south of Tomichi will have the
prefix n. and S. The numbers are
to be secured by application TO the
town Treasurer between April lst ard
June lst This will have the job all
completed by the opening of summer
school. Metal or porcelain numbers
will be used, each block using those Of
certain hundred from the designated
base. The numbers will be furnished
by the town and will be quite mex
pensive, running around five cents
each, 50 that it will only cost you ten
to twenty cents to get numbered, il
you do the work yourself. However.
Gunnison news-champion., 1924-03-07
BODY OF MRS. CLARA BIEBEL
BROUGHT HERE FOR BURIAL

The body of Mrs. Clara Biebel ar
rived in Gunnison last night from Sal
Francisco, for burial beside her hus
band in Masons' & Odd Fellows ceme
terry. The funeral was held this after
noon at two o'clock, from the Catho
lie Church. A number of formel
friends and neighbors attended to psy
their respects to the departed.
Mrs. Biebel died on February End
just 20 years to n day from the death
the death Of her husband, the late F,
Ernest Beibel, which occurred in Gun.
nison, where the family was living at
the time. Mr.. Biebel was a brother
Of the late August and Charles Biebel,
who came here as pioneers from New
York in the early days and took q
prominent part in making Gunnison
Mrs. Biebel's death was due
10 bronchitis. She was sixty-four years
Of age 1t the time Of death. The fam
ily left Gunnison some nineteen years
ago for the Pacific coast, the children
now reading in or around San Fran
cisco. They are: Mrs. Tessie George,
Mrs Clara Poket, Miss Irene and
Charles L. Mrs. George and Miss
Irene accompanied their mothers re-
mains to Gunnison, making the long
trip that she might lie by the eide OF
their father in that last, long sleep.
Friends who remember the family,
extend sympathy to the bereaved re-
latiyes. in the passing Of their be-
loved mother.
Gunnison news-champion., 1924-03-07
Road improvements
At Pitkin Proposed

w. H. Corum was a visitor from
Pitkin Monday, bringing = petition
signed by pretty much the entire pop
ulation there, asking the county COM
missiouers to agree with the State
Game and Fish department to build Z
new road around the base Of the
mountain via the fish hatchery. It ID
proposed to greatly enlarge and inn
prove the hatchery this year, and
make i son3evhst show place for
touristss AZ pree1ut on has to - %
rdfkin snd tkem Sack . nib on Thu
side hin TO reach the hatchery. again
back-tracking to Pitkin 20 get out,
This sidchill road can be extended q
couple Of miles to join the present
county road At the foot Of the park
and the pad overseer estimates It car
be built in fair shape for $2500.
The commissioners were favorable
to the idea, but requested the game
and fish dept. to secure 81 1000 from
the State Highway department, It be-
ing for a state enterprise. II is be-
lieved this can be done, also a few
hundred from the forest service. The
county will take care Of the rest ot
the expense.
This side hill road faces the south
and is out of the drifting winds acros.
the park. It may eventually be found
to be the best all-year road to Pitkin
altho slightly longer than the present
highway.