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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1924-03-20
CIRCUIT COURT WAS IN
SESSION MONDAY LAST
Court Continues Mandamus Case
of Johnson VS.. City Council

The March, or non-jury term of
the Circuit Court for Garrett county
convened in Oakland last Monday, be-
ing presided over by Associate Judge
Albert A. Doub, who arrived here that
morning from his home in Cumber-
land, Arguments were made in num-
Der of matters, the Court returning
to Cumberland the same afternoon,
following adjournment.
The really only important matter
brought to the attention of the Court
was the mandamus case of Joseph c.
Johnson VS.. the Mayor and Town
Council of Oakland. This suit was
docketed several months ago by Mr.
Johnson and sought to compel the
town authorities to repair and re-
open the Oak street bridge spanning
the tracks of the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad. Johnson's place of bust
ness, that of a garage owner and au-
tomobile dealer, is located almost di-
rectly adjoining the bridge and he
claimed in his bill of particulars at
the time the case was docketed that
by reason of the bridge being closed
he was placed at disadvantage and
as a consequence his business and
manner of making a livelihood were
seriously menaced and was seriously
handicapped. The case was argued
at the December term of the Court
at which time an order was entered
directing the Mayor and Town Coun-
Gil to proceed at once in making such
repairs to the bridge and reopen it
for traffic.
About the same time the State
Roads Commission and the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad Company entered
into an agreement that they would
make the necessary repairs at their
joint expense and nothing was there
fore done by the town authorities in
carrying out the order of the Court.
Monday the attention Of the Court
was called to this fact by Johnson's
attorneys and following this the
Court continued the matter for an in
definite time.
1t is the general opinion that with
the opening Of spring the bridge will
be rebuilt under the agreement be-
tween the Roads Commission and the
Railway Company without cost to the
town.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1924-03-20
Snow Delays Maple Sugar Max
ING.

The unprecedented fall of snow at
this season of the year in Garrett
county has served to work great
hardship upon maple sugar and maple
syrup manufacturers in the sugar
producing sections of the county. The
season is far advanced and snow to
the depth of two or three feet yet
covers the sugar tree groves with the
result that in many camps not a gal
lon of syrup or pound of sugar has
been produced. At the present rate
the snow is melting it will be another
week before the ground is clear of
snow, following which, with warm
days and cool nights the sap will be-
gin to rise and the camps will be OPP
ened. The season thus being linz
tied production will be greatly cur
tailed and the income of the farmers
who depend largely upon this source
Of revenue at the opening of spring
will be sorely disappointed.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1924-03-20

At the Oakland High School on
Friday, March q, at 2:30 o'clock p.
M, debate will be participated in
by the fourth year Latin class under
the direction of Miss Ruth Conley.
The subject for discussion is, Caesar,
the Worlds Greatest General" The
debaters will be as followss:
Affirmative, Rose Rice, Harold
Ream; negative, Roselle Bishoff, Hen-
ny Hamill.
The judges will be Mr.. F. f. Rath-
bun, Superintendent of Schools; Mr..
Thomas A. Gender and Mr.. Harold
Harmed. All are cordially invited.
The program of the afternoon was ar
ranged by Ralph Smouse, president
of the third year class.
The Oakland High School has or
ganized an orchestra among its pu-
pills, which will be supervised by Miss
Ruth Conley. The personnel of the
new organization is as follows: Piano,
w lllld IlCllb, SOlilCIS, IISl bSIb NJ
ans, Harold Ream, Erval Ream; clar-
met, Harold Yutzy; saxophone, Mar
garet Friend and Claude Friend; ban
10, Russell Brown; snare drum, Cletis
Carskadon; bass drum, Roy Mickey.
The members met for the first time
Thursday evening, March -, when
the following officers were chosen:
President, Wilma Friend; vice-pres-
ident, Herbert Adams; secretary, Har-
old Ream; treasurer, Roy Mickey.
The orchestra expects to furnish the
music for the school play to be given
some time in April. All are expected
to be present to see this Rustic Ro-
meO" and hear the orchestra.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1924-03-20
National Highway Now Open
West of FrOstburg

The great number of men engaged
in removing snow from the National
Highway west of Frostburg succeed
ed in having the road open for traf-
fic yesterday, after = complete block
ade extending from Monday of last
week until last night. In addition to
more than a hundred men at work
almost continuously for a week five
massive snow plows were also en-
gagged in clearing the highway. The
snow ranged from three feet on the
level to fifteen feet deep at drifted
points, notably at Johnson's and also
at I.ayman's east of Frostburg.
The road leading from Oakland to
the National Highway at Keyser's
Ridge was, cleared of snow Tuesday.
During the blockade of the Pike
Frostburg was so crowded with tour
lists who had become stranded that
many had difficulty in securing quar-
tiers. Many of them, having been on
the road longer than they expected
found themselves short of funds and
in some instances they were COM
pletely broke.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1924-03-20
Marriage Licenses

Marriage licenses for the week
ending Tuesday at noon were issued
to the following applicants at the office
of the Clerk of the Circuit Court in
Oakland
Joseph Snider Floyd, baling ma
chine operator, of near Boothsville,
West Va, and Virginia Victoria Mar
tin, 18, student, of near Bridgeport,
West Va.
Guy Edward Nestor, 18 (parents'
consent), farming, and BERTHE Blanche
Mohler, 20, both of Lost Greek, West
Va.
ODDS Clarence Hedge, %, glass wor-
ker, and Ottie Heckard, 20, both of
Clarksburg, West Va.
Harold Benjamin Null, 25, pool
room manager, and Mabel Adeline
Newton, 10, both of Macfarland, w.
Va.
Lonnie Tucker, %, coal miner, of
Shinnston, West Va, and Ethel Fort
ney, q, of Weston, West Va.
James Harvey Cooke, 81, coal min
er, Wheeling, West Va, and Hazel
Hostetler, 20, Hundred, West Va.
Benjamin Jerome, %, coal miner,
and Josephine Frum, 18, both of Nor
gantown, West Va.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1924-03-20
st. Marks Lutheran, Oakland
"The Friendly Church"
Rev. David M. Funk, Pastor.

Rev. David M. Funk, Pastor.
Third Sunday in Lent, March %.
$3.50 a. M, Sunday school, Mr.. G..
J. Altstetter, superintendent. A well
come to everybody. Every man in
the church as well as those not en-
gagged elsewhere in Sunday school are
cordially invited to attend the mems
class.
10:45 a. M, worship. Theme:
"Christ the Light of the World"
Gas p. M, Christian Endeavor, Mr..
Wellington Yutzy, president.
1880 p. M, worship. Theme; Jesus
third message from the Cross"
Wednesday, 1880 p. M, special Len
ten service. Subject: "Who Am II"
Monday, 700 p. M, Senior Cate
chism; 1880 p. NJ, Teacher Training.
Saturday, 200 p. M, Junior Cate
chism.
Make special efforts to attend the
Lenten services.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1924-03-20
Knights of Pythias Notes

Garrett county is all right. Yes, it
is better than that-it is the
best place in the good old U. S. A.
with Mexico thrown in for good meas
ure. Our authority? None other than
our good brother DR.. McComas. We
listened attentively to his account of
his trip to New Mexico, Texas and
Mexico. We looked at his post card
views and went home, thanking God
for providing us with snow drifts in
stead Of sand dunes and buckwheat
cakes instead of hot tamales. We
feel that we express not only the SEN
timent of Garrett Lodge, No. 113, but
of the entire community by saying
that we are glad to have the Doctor
with us again looking so fine, feeling
so fit and going strong. We modestly
take a little credit to ourselves for
being able to make the correct dag
nosis of his case, but we credit the
Doctor for his ability as surgeon,
for he Immediately performed sue
cessful though painless operation up
on himself and produced the yarns.
Next Friday evening the rank of
Knight will be conferred upon class
of six Esquires. Members of degree
team, take notice.
PUBLICITY COMMITTEE.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1924-03-20
Oakland Garage Man Snow
bound.

Mr.. George Kerins of the Kerins'
Bros. Garage, Oakland, entered upon
an adventure of many unforeseen diff
culties when he left Pittsburgh, Pa,
in an automobile on Tuesday of last
week about noon. Everything went
we'll until along in the late afternoon
of that day when Mr.. Kerins stalled
his car in snowdrift at Keyser's
Ridge, 81 miles north of Oakland on
the National Highway. At this point
he spent the night at farmhouse.
Early Wednesday morning realizing
it was useless to try to drive his car
to Oakland, he started to walk and at
600 o'clock that evening he found
himself at McHenry, twelve miles
north of Oakland, where he spent the
second night. Resuming his journey
Thursday morning after having Sc
cured a pair of snowshOes from HUI
bert Bowman, of McHenry, who had
accompanied Mr.. Kerins from the
Ridge to McHenry, he was met few
miles out of Oakland by man who
was riding a horse and leading an
other, and accepting the invitation of
the horseman he mounted one of the
animals and rode into Oakland, reach
ing here shortly after noon that day
AS it had been many years since Mr..
kerins had ridden a horse, he feels
more the effects of the ride than of
the twenty-mile walk.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1924-03-20
THE DEATH RECORD.
]. ARTHUR CHISHOLM

J. Arthur Chisholm, aged 55 years,
of Friendsville, where he was engaged
in the lumber business, died near
Morgantown on Tuesday following a
brief illness of pneumonia, His re-
mains were removed to his late home
yesterday and on Saturday the body
will be taken to Gormania, his former
home, where interment will be made
Sunday with the Masonic lodge of
Oakland, Of which he was a member
in charge. Mr.. Chisholm is survived
by his wife and one son, Donald.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1924-03-20

Mr.. C. w. Winters, of Horseshoe
Run, whose sale of personal property
was advertised in The Republican to
occur on March IL, has been postponed
until Wednesday, the 26th, the post
ponement being made necessary on
3ccount Of the condition of the roads
and weather on the previous date.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1924-03-20
JOHN w. MARONEY

John w. Maroney, of Oakland, died
suddenly last Friday morning about
two o'clock of heart failure. He was
aged 60 years and is survived by his
wife and a number of children. His
funeral took place from st. Peters
Catholic church in Oakland Tuesday
morning with interment in the Cath
olic cemetery.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1924-03-20

The Republican enjoyed brief bus
mess visit on Tuesday from Mr..
ZENITH Wiles of the firm of Wiles &
Murphy, merchants, Deer Park, at
which place they are doing a splen-
did business.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1924-03-20
CHURCH NOTICES.
Garrett Memorial Presbyterian, Oak.
land.

Rev. Henry A. Grubbs, Pastor.
Sunday school at 1000 o'clock a. m
HOO a. M, morning worship.
6:45 p. M, Christian Endeavor.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-08-11
GARRETT P. SERVISS EXPLAINS
LAW OF GRAVITATION
Attraction Between Bodies Varies Directly With
Mass and Inversely With Distance.

distance is doubled the force falls
to one-quarter OF what it was
before; if the distance is tripled.
the force diminishes to one-ninth,
and so on. If this were not so
the universe would all fall to-
gether and end in common
smash.
When we put the two branches
Of Newton's law Of gravitation
together-one prescribing that
the attraction must vary directly
as the weight Cmass) Of the
bodies concerned; the other that
it must vary 1nversely as the
square Of the distance between
them-we get a foundation on
which has been erected the whole
marvellous structure of gravita-
tional astronomy, the chez
d'oeuvre of the human mind.
Your idea that the rotation OF
the earth on its axis produces
it's gravity is without foundation.
The centrifugal force resulting
from the rotation decreases, to q
small extent, the effect OF the
gravitative attraction upon bod
les on the earth's surface. But
this does not affect its attrac-
ton upon bodies not sharing its
rotation or constituting a part OF
it, such, for instance, as the
moon.
AS far as we know axial rota'
ton is a common phenomenon
among all heavenly bodies. All
of the planets rotate on their
axes and the sun rotates on its
axis. What started the rota.
tional motion we do not know.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-08-11
DIR. FRANK CRANES
DAILY EDITORIAL
By DR.. FRANK CRANE.
Club Des Cent

FEW years ago a club founded in France called
IA the Club des Cent which, its shows had .
"A membership strictly limited hundred, and
devoted to keeping the tradition OF French cooking ana
encouraging good hotel keeping.
This organization since its foundation, undertaken
regular survey of France and reckoned that each of its
members has already travelled, by motor twenty-five
thousand miles search of good and comfortable INNS
In fact the Club Cent not only ready to patronize
palaces and goodass hotels but also the most modest vii
lage provided scrupuousy clean and provided also
that the cooking is good. y
Some of the of the Club worth looking
They
"Hotel keepers give us good attendance and you will
become rich. Give bad attendance and it will be the
for you''
"Coffee made in advance is but bad coffee"
Keep your cheese under glass Feed your guests
not the flies
meals the Club des Cent knows other factory than the
kitchen"
Every year this club awards two gold medals the chefs
and cooks who after searching inquiry have proved
worthy of such a distinction.
Some while ago group of members of this club went
mission the United States They travelled the French
Line what known the Compagne Generate Transit
lantque They found the cooking these ships admirable
and that French culinary traditions observed and that
the boats the Paris and the France the chefs
real gastronomic artists
This year the Club des Cent awarded its gold medals to
NJ Jean Leer chef of the France and NJ Jean Lndauer,
chef of the Paris These medals presented their
cipents at breakfast luncheon given board the
France when NJ j. dial Paz the president of the great
French shipping company presided and when the members
do homage these chefs who had successfully initiated
many travellers into the delights of real old fashioned
French cooking.
The French additionally the best cooks in the world
and it but right That organization should get behind
this tradition and give it furtherance.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-08-11
Many Votes in One
AS Protest Against RELIGIOUS Discrimination

Daniel Cohalan, former supreme court Judge Of New
York chairman of Tammany Halls law committee and
chief adviser of Charles Murphy out against Davis
and in favor of La Toilette That great deal more
than ONE boiling vote.
that tens of thousands of Democrats New York
angeed by what they believe to have been religious
ton against Smith in the convention will leave the Democratic
party for THIS election at least They will vote for La Fol-
don't want Republican vote to njure their Democratic
record but they their La Toilette stand as
rebuke of the religious discrimination of which they
the Democratic convention.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-08-11

Will you please explain to
your readers the so.called claw
of gravity"-that invisible force
which tends to draw all bodies
toward the center Of the earth?
mother earth is whirling around
at a rate Of about 1000 miles
an hour? Suppose the earth
ceased to revolve, would attrac-
ton be the same? Again, what
causes the earth to keep revolv-
ing, and do all the planets and
heavenly bodies also revolve on
their axes?-Reader, Detroit"
"HE Flaw" by which gravity
acts. or operates, il easily
Il explained. being a matter Of
observation; but the nature Of
gravity is another thing. That
has never been accounted for to
everybody's satisfaction. The
theory of attraction" covers 1t
very nicely, until we inquire how
it is possible that any attraction,
or drawing force. can be exercised
between bodies at a distance from
one another and not connected
by any physical or material, link.
Some assume that the link con-
sists Of the so.called "ether" sup
posed to fill all space, so that
everything is immersed in 1t and
thus connected by 1t. Then grav-
ity-or in broader sense, gravi-
tation-is assumed to be the re-
suit of strains in the ether, tend
ing to draw bodies together. What
is meant by this may be suggest
ed by a string Of India rubber.
Stretch 1t and it's ends tend to
draw together and the string
shortens. So a chunk of India
rubber, II stretched, or deformed
in any way, tends to draw back
again into it's original shape.
If this does not seem to Illus
trate very clearly the case OF a
lifted stone tending to fall toward
the earth, at least 1t starts the
imagination toward an explana.
ton by showing how the ether.
by being very elastic, might pro-
duce similar effects upon bodies
immersed in 1t.
But then comes Einstein and
by means of transcendental
mathematics demonstrates Grams
cendentally) that there is no ether'
and that gravitation Is not a.rorce
but an effect arising from an
inherent curvature" or space.
But we are here in the dark.
among the barbed wires. in the
no.man's-land, between the
trenches Of the battlefield or SCI
entific theories, and the wisest
course for us, with our unhel-
melted heads in danger, is to get
out of the tangle and the gloom.
Let us give a few moments to
the only claw" that Newton was
able to find governing gravita.
ton. He demonstrated, by the
aid of the kind Of mathematics
that is based on common sense
and common experience, that
something causes all physical
things and all particles of mat
ter to draw together.
He proved that the heavier a
body is the greater is its AT
tractive force" on gravitation, a
body of a hundred pounds weight
has a hundred times as much at.
tractive force as has a one.pound
body. The earth has about twelve
septillion times as much attrac-
ton as a one;pound body. 1t has
about 1900 as much as has
the sun.
But, and this is an infinitely
important but" the gravitational
attraction of any body falls off
very rapidly with increase Of
distance from the body and from
the center of the body exercising
the attraction. In fact II falls
off in proportion to the square Of
the increase of distance. II the
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-08-11
Sap and Salt

The drug store is a mans idea
not Gods.
II you are an acorn, give your
self enough time to grow.
Family secrets cannot be con-
cealed from the doctor and drug
gist.
It REQUIRES skill akin to genius
to dispose of ashes In an artistic
way.
A present on your birthday is
poor compensation for the year
added to your age.
A woman Is harder to under
stand after you marry her than
she was during counting.
Hez Heck says: adam prob
ably got more fun QUITO bein'
deceived than any man who ever
lived"
Costly collins have no influ-
ence upon st. Peter.
Hitting a man is risky unless
you do a good job Of it the first
blow.
Drug store beauty Is q good
deal like a cheap fabric--it won't
wash and hold its color.
While it may be hard to live
with a woman, 1t may be still
harder to live without her.
The peculiar thing about hon.
esty and religion is that while it
Is difficult to acquire them, they
are mighty easy to lose.
1t Is much easier for a girl to
decide who not to marry than to
pick out the man she should,
there being so many more of the
first kind.
Beauty is perishable, but a
sweet temper lasts as long as its
possessor.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-08-11

Gertrude is Randall Fetons wife, and when it comes
to deyouring joy in her fiery she has the Moloch
skinned. There yseven varieties of uncomfortable
wives Gere is the fftyseventh and the sourest of the
lot There's obvious why Gertie should be the
sourest She's not very beautiful woman but there are
many who palmer and yet cheerful about it. She has
comfortable home, sufficient MEANS adorable chill
dren good health and her arches haven't fallen But all
this good fortune affects Gere just about as much as
bright April sunbeam affected the Moloch Gerte is de-
ermined to be filled with the devouring flames of discon
tent, and the Old Nick himself can't stop her.
Her peeve probably started when she was dav old
and the at the hospital put bigger bib on the next
baby than she put Gere Right then and there Gertie
started to accumulate grievance and she never ceased
She is now twentysix is safe bet that during every
day OF those wenysx has abored to ease
Gertrudes suffering soul No. she's not violent She is
indeed most estmable young woman in many ways She
was dutifu and affectonate daughter; she is loving
Woodworking wife. No wife did her duty more thor
oughy and constantly than Gertrude gave you less
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-08-11

to satisfy that craving.
Randall FELTON, madly in love with her when they
married Her gentle melancholy fired him to deeds
Of vaor He that he alone understood and appreciated
her. and that all her former associates unfeeing
brutes. He worked the English language overtime telling
her how much finer she than other human mud and
she Tapped up every syllable. Tapped them up as the
Mooch Tapped the little soft babies which given
it to stay its peevishness.
Then they married. Gradually Ran began to
leave off the conversational adornments as husbands will
and get down to regular talk And the minute he did
Gertie suffering soul began pant Deep dark clouds
of gloom. Seeing which RAM instead of giving her the
healthy haha she deserved shoveled in the compliments
once more. And he's been shoVellng since Never
once has he known the happy careree companionship
which husband should experience Every word guarded
lest give offense every act of hers praised feed
Unsuitable vanity
Does either of them realize that Gertrude is monster
OF sefshness and concei No. indeed They think she is
sweet good woman. Well, they called the Mooch god
(cOpyght 1924 King Features syndicate
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-08-11
Two Questions

The Chinese discourage kidnapping in practical way
Having caught two hdnapers with twenty stolen children that
they going to sell somewhere else in China the officials
stood the dnapers in the public square, after parading
them through the streets, and had them shot.
Is not that sensible way to deal with kidnapers? No
alenists for those Chinese kidnapers. n
Are frecrSckers worth while? Are they necessary? Two
chiefly on last Fourth Of July Is that paying TOO dearly
for noise in patriotism?
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-08-11
By ELSIE ROBINSON

chance to forget that she was doing it.
She has so many virtues that they stick
out on all sides like the spines on a porcu-
pine, and affect her friends and family in
much the same way. And there is the main
cause of her unhappinesS.
Gertrude knows she has virtues. She
collects them just like some folks collect
bugs or postage stamps. She never neglects
them Everyone has told her that she's
worth her weight in gold and she knew it
even before she was told. But she wants
them to keep on telling. Every day in
every way Gertrude is growing better
and she wants all. her friends to make
sound like a calliope about it, She yearns
for appreciation as the Moloch yearned
for infant flesh. And those who are