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sent word for the members to De on hand Thursday.
 This is going to be regular sery- ice" Judge Alb began, "and7we are go- ing to do it right. Let's have some songs and . prayer. Then the members in good standing financially cafa vote whether they want to keep this preach er'or fire him.
 Rev. Berry, who had been busted, led the prayer. It was followed by sing ing. Court house officials said they never heard such singing before. Then the judge asked all the members in good financial standing to prove it. Eleven were able to do so. He told them fo vote on whether the Rev. Berry should be retained or fired. The vote was unanimous for his dismissaI.
 ssYou are duly fired, parson," Judge Alb informed him. Then truning to the congregation, he continued: "All churches take up a collection; 90 we'll have to, too. l want two one-armed men to do that"
 There were no one-armed men avail able, so Judge Alb took chance. He called to Lige, the judges unofficial assistant, and told him to get busy. A deputy sheriff was pressed into service to perform a similar duty among ths white people. In all S6OS was col lected. not to mention 2 pair of dice.
 ''I'll keep these myself to settle hard cases with" Judge Ab said, sappropri- ating the dice. "We'll give this, money to the preacher who has just been fired. We want exesybody to be in good humor."
 Rev. Berry acknowledge the gift in an approprite speech. The services were concluded with a song.
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''SKIDS ARE PUT TO PARS()N BERRY Judge Alb Insists That All Business Must Be
 Regular

Another star was added to Judge Abs judicial crown Thursday when he negotiated settlement of a negro church. quarrel of long standing to the apparent satisfaction of all concerned, after injunctions and damage suits had been resorted to in vain.
 The court room was converted for the time being into a negro church, and all the concommitants of religious serv- ice, from the passing of the plate to the singing of hymns, were attended to with religious fidelity to detail. The con- gregation was made up of members of the Mount Elbo negro Baptist church, and county officials recruited from all over the court house. Few services in Jefferson county have been so well at tended.
 The controversy grew out of the un- willingness of the pastor, Rev. Henry Berry, to resign at the request of his congregation. The case was brought up before Judge Alb several days ago, but he refused to settle it on his own re-
 sponsibility, so he passed the case, and
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home may give the police tonight were hopeful that they might find the occupants of an automobile which spent several hours yesterday afternoon in the vicinity of the school where the boy was student The authorities also had theory that the boy may have been lured away by persons he knew and believed that the kidnapers, if not actually known to Mfr. Franks. were at least in close touch with his personal affairs
 The, father formerly was connected with the Illinois Watch Case com pany and the Rockford Watch com pany but in recent years had been en- gagged in the real estate business. He was generally repufed to be worth more than $4,OO0, ,OO0. The family lived in . palatial home in one of the most exclusive residential sections of the city. There are two other chil- dren, Josephine, IT years old, and John, 15 years old.
 Dozens of limousines drew up to the school yesterday afternoon and this fact served to confuse his relatives when they sought to learn whether the ,b boy had been driven away in q car.
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NATION AROUSED
 SEVERAL TIMES \ BY KIDNAPINGS

CHICAGO, H.. May 22.- Kidnap-
 ings, spotted with ransom gold,
 and death, have aroused the country at various periods during the last fifty years. Among the more famous ones are these: 1S74ECharlie Ross, stolen in Ger mantown, Pa, never recovered and supposed to have been killed.
 1874ACharlie Ross. stolen in Ger Kidnapped and body found later in Ohio.
 19OO- Edward Cudahy. Chicago, was kidnapped by Pat Grove, who served prison sentence. Cudahy4 was returned.
 1907-Ross Giordiano, New York, returned. Abductors arrested two years later.
 1909-BilIy Whitlaw, sharon, Pa., recovered after $10,000 ransom was paid. Kidnapers imprisoned. 1910-Mic hael Scimeca, New York, held for $S.O00, believed slain.
 1911-Letha and Hazel Gretchel, Chicago, recovered in Kenosha, Wis. : Baby Hencks, Chicago, believed slain. Abductors sentenced to Joliet prison.
 Lloyd Treszske, Cleveland, found in California after being missing 15 years.
 1915-Jimmy Glass, Jersey City, still missing. Believed slain.
 1917-Baby Lloyd Rect, Spring field. Mo, slain.
 1919-Billy Danzy, kidnapped in New Jersey. Body found in swamp, months later.
 1024-Rose Borth, Kidnapped by Moron in Chicago; recovered.
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 WASHINGTON, May 22.-A letter by Representative Fitzgerald of Ohio, a republican, to Mrs. Coolidge asking her to investigate the cast of woman con victed for alleged violation of the dry law, received a sharp rebuke from E. II. Clark, personal secretary to President Coolidge.
 Fitzgerald wrote Mrs. Coolidge a letter enclosing a. petition of veterans at the soldiers home at Dayton, O., asking for an investigation of the case of Miss Edna Bond, convicted last fall with her brother and man named Frank Trimble.
 Ms. Coolidge referred the letter to Clark, who wrote Representative Fitz- gerald rebuking letter, saying:
 Source Of Surprise
 "An inquiry at the Department of Justice discloses the fact that you have not taken up the case personally, when naturally this course was open to you as a member of Congress. It was a source of some surprise, therefore, that you should demand that Mrs. Coolidge see that this case gets the review that it should The wife of the President has not, and should not have any part in these matters, and the enclosures
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Pet" Party Cost S362, ,OO0
 Says Man, 83, At Trial

one day in July, 1916. he testified, she came to his office for money. While she was there,' he said, I embraced her and we had a betting party, just betting party your honor, and nothing else"
 Suddenly, the witness said, he heard n noise over the transom and saw the head of man who said he was policeman. \ was all excited and didn't know what to do. But while the man was still in my office Mrs. Daley made the suggestion which accepted to go see Mir. Coax ley, who would be able no doubt to straighten the matter out"
 Barbour testified that when he reached Coakley's office only two hours later he found not only Coax ley and Mrs. Daley" there but man who said he was Mrs. Daley's husband.
 By the time he got through paying ''resentfuE but identified detectives, lawyers, and the injured woman," Barbour, testified that he had ex- pended $362O00.
 Corcoran is now under five year sentence on other blackmail charges.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass, May a. Edmund D. Barbour, S3, suffering from heart. disease, infirm, and able ! to see but few feet in front of him, tottered to the witness stand of the Middlesex superior court and testi- fled that he had paid over to Daniel H. Coakley, disbarred Boston lawyer, 362, 900 in cash, bonds, and stocks, for -'petting" party he had in his office with Mrs. Daley.
 Barbour, a Boston China mer- chant, told the court that he has new CT been the same, since the occur ence, ---that his body became infirm and his mentality was shaken.
 Coakley and William J. Corcoran, former district attorney of the coun- ty, went on trial today on indict- ments for conspiracy to extort money from Barbour and others by means of threats between 1914 and the present time. Coakley is conducting his own defense.
 The incident, according to the witness, occurred in 1916. Barbour said that he had known the Mrs. Daley" for 10 years before. that. On
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CHICAGO YOUTH }. KIDNAPPED SLAIN
Continued From Page One) to. put the money in our possession.
 Tfva Tn9frAekinr.e

Give Instructions :e The letter asked that Franks have ] in readiness $S,O00 in $20 bills and $2,000 in $10 bills in a plain white wrapper Following receipt of this let ter Samuel Ettelson, former state sen ator and an4 uncle of the slain youth induced the father to make arrange. ments to have the telephone calls traced when the abductors called to give him further information, al- though Mir. Franks insisted on going ahead with plans to turn over the money. This order to the telephone company was cancelled, however, when a friend of the Franks informed them lie had overheard operators talking about the plans to trace calls made to the Franks home.
 The police tonight expressed the opinion that the kidnapers had alao learned of the plans to trace the telk- phone calls, and becoming frightened killed the boy and concealed the bodS.
 At 2 o'clock this afternooa, however, Johnson called Mir. Franks and told him that taxicab would call for hin at his home and the driver wouAl know where to take him to deliver the money. A few minutes later the taXlcaD ureW up put the drlver insisted he had no instructions except to call for Mir. Franks. In the excitement he drove away and the police are tonight trying to find him through the trac- ing the number of his cab.
 Khe body of boy was found houFs before the final call was received by Mir. Frank indicating that the kfd- napers intended to collect the mon&y even after numbering the youth. "A workman shortly after g o'clock saw the feet of the body protruding from a culvert in a swamp near 121st street, several miles from the boys home.
 Struck Over Head
 The nude body had been shoveti into the culvert head first. An exafs- ination disclosed that the youth bSd been struck over the head twice, posk- bly with hatchet The only meals of identification were gray sock Be- longing to the boy which was fouHI several hundred feet from the body aid a pair of horn-rimmed spectacles. M
 T was prepared to pay the morfg
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COTTON CASE HELD x. UP BY WITNESSES
Refuse To Testify Concerning
 Defunct Firm

NEW YORK. May %. Refusal of witnesses to answer questions cut short today the referees hearing into the ac- tiyities of the defunct cotton brokeras se firm of Scott Norris and O., which failed last November for more than ST. COG, 900.
 Although Carlisle Rowntree, head of the bankrupt firm, was alleged to be broke" it was testified today by Her bert J. Foyce. manager of the bond de- partment of a surety company, that Rowntree delivered $1, 800 in cash to the surety company as collateral on a $5,QO0 bail bond This bond was re- quired for Rowntree's release after he had been indicted last month on charge of conducting bucket shop.
 Two women, one of them stenog. rapher, earning $25 week, furnished collateral for the bond of Earl F. Me Guigan, alleged to have been a partner in the defunct concern and who also was indicted Joyce testified. He was the only witness who talked freely.
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for the return of my son." Mir. Franks said tonight. For that reason I did
 not notify the police because feared that something might happen to him if the men who had him learned the police were working on the case. I believed that as long as I kept faith
 with the kidnapers they would not harm my boy"
 At first, the police believed the boy had been drowned. For a time they also believed that the youth might be Philip Denny, a boy prominent in the the investigation of a parental school here several months ago who later dis appeared.
 Aside from the information that the taxi driver who called at the Franks
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STORE IS ENTERED
 THINK BANDIT HIT
Officers Fire On Fleeing Negro-No Valuables 7
 Taken

, Two negroes entered the stores of Hawkins Brothers, 101T- Fifteenth street, south, near midnight Thursday. escaped, were fired on by police, and one is thought to have been wounded in his flight. Only few dollars of merchandise was taken from the store before the negroes were discovered and police called. This is the second time the store -has been entered this year, the first attempted burglary being on the night of January 31, when the ban dits were also repnlsed. Officers Alex ander and Watson answered ~the call Thursday night.
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'M'ADOO IS VICTOR.
 AT NASHVILLE.
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(COntinued From Page One) the meeting to Finest Rice of Dyers- burg who as permanent chairman car ried the meeting to spirited conclu- sion, with incessant drumming on the speakers table, far past the hour of darkness.
 The platform, adopted by the con- vention, gave hearty endorsement to the administration of Governor Austin Peay, who is candidate for reelection on the democratic ticket.
 Allegiance was reaffirmed to the
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TO HOLD BIG SINGING
Four Counties To Unite In Memorial
 Meeting At Sardis Church

Several hundred residents of Jeffer- son, Blount, Walker, Fayette and other counties are expected to be present next Sunday at an old time singers meet, to be held in the Sardis church, beginning at 10 o'clock. This meeting will be held in memory of several prominent singers who have died dur ing the past year. Dinner will be served at noon on the church grounds by the ladies of the community. The meeting will last until about o'clock.
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IN THE AIR TODAY
(Copyright, 1924, For Arc. HeraId)

Copyright, 1924, For Age HeraId) HYEAF, New. York, 492 meters, w 9 p. rn., K. s. T.The Men " delshon male quartet.
 wGN, Chicago, 370 meters. to 10 D. m., c. s. T-Programi of classical and popular solos and dance music.
 WJY, New York, 405 meters, 8 D. m, E. s. T.BIow by blow description of Dundee Bernstein bout direct from polo grounds.
 WCAP, Washington, 469 meters, s 20 D. m.-Performance of Hay den's oratorio, '.The Creation"
 WOS, Jefferson City, 40 meters, 8 p. m., c. s. T-Program by the Morning Musical club,
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platform the national democratic com mittee may adopt and support was promised the nominees of the democrat ic party.
 Senator McKellar, addressing the convention while report from the platform was awaited. expressed con fidence that any nominee whom the democratis' offer will be elected the next president.
 A sling was taken at Secretary Mellon of the Treasury Department by Senator McKellar. when he < charged that there is another cabinet member that is more guilty than any other. He referred to Mir Mellon as the s'big- gest distiller in the United States of America" stating that Mir. Mellon had never been in sympathy with the en- forcement of the Volstead act, and that he never would be.
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 COULDN'T UNDERSTAND IT.
 "Ras, I heah you is gone into busi- ness" said Miss Miami Brown.
 ''Yas, dasso," answered Rastus Pink ley. ''I'se raisin' crickens an sellin' 'em."
 . What's de mattr? Has you los yo' appetite ?''-Boston Transcript.
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b o yS s
4 Kaynee Car7liUal

The makers of Kaynee wash togs want a thousand more boys in Birmingham dressed in Kaynee garments, so they've given us the cream of their stocks at a big cut in price to distribute during this drive.
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See the windows ours and others. It requires no skill to determine who offers the most for your money.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1924-02-28
LOCH LYNN


Oliver Hardesty spent the week
END with his brother, Daily, at Nor
gantown, West Va.
Rev. Bauman, of Terra Alta West
Va, a former pastor of the U. B.
church here, spent several days of
last week in tie village renewing old
acquaintance and assisting Rev.
Fultz in the revival services.
Rev. w. D. Burns, Of Clarksburg,
visited his family here last week.
Miss Mabel Tasker, of Deer Park,
spent Sunday with Mrs. Joe Taylor,
At her home here.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. D. Garter, of Key
ser, were visitors at the nome of B.
L. Hardesty on Saturday.
U. B. Church notes for Sunday, arc
as follows: Rev. F. L. Fultz, pastor
1000 a. M, Sunday school. You
need he school and the school needs
you; $3.50 p. NJ, Junior Endeavor;
TOO p. M, Christian Endeavor, fol
lowed by preaching services.
Mr.. Lincoln Calls, who has been i'll
for several weeks, has been advised
by his physician to enter hospital
for treatment.
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new well and perform the duties of
fortune teller. To some the prophet
is still merely tEat-a fOreteller of
what lies ahead. But he walked along
the highways, mingled with folks,
taught groups the truth as he knew
it out Of his own intimacy with the
Almighty and was presently in posi-
ton to call the people to great
camp meeting for life is at the dawn
when men see saint. 1t was g great
gathering for reforming the affairs
of religious thinking and symbols
were ruthlessly shattered. Decency
will not dwell in a room filled with
dirt. The prophet was at his high
task of making God real to the people
of his time and beyond that he had
small interest. He would teach them
how to apply that reality to all living
from court to cottage and in that lay
his greatness in IsraePs life.
THE TEST OF A PROPHET.
viii his teaching be understood?
That is what Jesus was trying to find
out when He asked "Whom do men
say that l, the son of Man, am? Had
Samuel gotten his lesson thru to the
heart of the people? The Philistine
lords feared his gathering would re-
suit in revolt and determined to stop
any attempt at unification among the
tribes. Swarming over the hills they
approached the company. Now it
was the same situation that had eX-
isted a quarter of a century earlier
when Israel faced the same desperate
odds with the same fear. Then it had
been the hurrying rush for the pro-
lection of the symbolic Ark, now there
was no suggestion of its need Things
are beginning to be discounted and
soul is replacing symbol. The real
test of a prophet in any age is here.
Can he lead people into the shrine of
spirit or will they worship the stones
out of which it is made? Money or
manhood, battleships CT ideals, pro-
fit or service, denomination or King
dom, materialism or spirituality are
some Of the protean forms in which
VIC find the constant oppositions in
all the ages. The forms change but
the task of the prophet never does
| he &c ,ooo1pI +pIoIr thoY,
in the worlds history. That Samuel
could do what he did makes him one
of earth's great. Prayer and the
touch of God upon the fearful people
changed them into victorious pursuers
of discounted enemy. And the
stone set up marks the record of every
| fighting soul and is the guide to all
real victory whatever the field.
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18th,
1924, at 200 o'clock p. NJ,

the following property, to-wit:
= All that tract, piece or parcel of
land known and distinguished in a
subdivision of tract of land called
"Lochiel,' as Lot No. 6, situate and
lying in Garrett county, in the State
of Maryland, containing 100 acres,
moer or less, which said property was
conveyed to Ulysses S. Jackson by
The Lochiel Lumber, Mining, Manu-
featuring and Improvement Company
of Allegany county, and others, by
deed dated July 10th, 1888, and re-
corded among the Land Records of
Garrett County, Maryland, in Liber
No. IA, folio 1875, ans peing also a
part of the same property which was
conveyed by the said Ulysses S. Jack
son and Susan L. Jackson, his wife, to
the said Thomas ]. Rayner and Mary
E. Rayner, his wife, by deed dated
September 23rd, 1914, and recorded
among the Land Records of Garrett
county aforesaid, reference to all of
which said deeds is hereby made for
a more full and Particular descrip-
ton Of said property.
This property is improved by a
two-story five room frame dwelling
house, large stable, spring house and
other outbuildings.
TERMS OF SALE.-CASH ON
DAY OF SALE.
RICHARD S. BELL,
51-4t Assignee of Mortgage.
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OAK GROVE

Mrs. Frank Wildeson and son were
visitors to German on Saturday.
Mr.. George Harvey was in Oak
land Monday on business.
Mrs. D. L. Moreland and family
spent Sunday with the formers sis
ter, Mrs. Paul Harvey.
Mrs. Frank Wildeson and son Win
ton and two young lady friends were
at Mountain Lake Park Sunday as
guests of Mrs. Chance.
Miss Crema Moreland spent Sun
day with Miss Lucille White.
Mrs. Henry Martin and family were
guests on Sunday of Mrs. James CHS
holm.
Mr.. Russell Harvey and Misses Der
othy Duckworth and Woodie Hilleary
spent last Sunday at the home of Mrs.
Henry Martin.
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Under and by virtue of power of
sale contained in a certain mortgage
from Thomas J. Rayner and Mary E.
Rayner, his wife, dated September
23rd, 1914, and recorded among the
Mortgage Records of Garrett county,
Maryland, in Liber E. z. T., No. 81,
folio 482, etc, and duly assigned to
Richard S. Bell for the purpose of
foreclosure, there being default in the
covenants and conditions of said mort
gage, the undersigned Assignee of
said Mortgage will sell at public auc-
ton in front of the Court House in
the town of Oakland, Garrett county,
MARYLAND. on
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MORTGAGES SALE
OF
A VALUABLE FAR NJ!
THE ONE PRICE STORE

Under and by virtue of a power of
sale contained in a certain mortgage
executed by Gus T. Hilleary and wife,
herring date the 9th day of October,
1919, and recorded in Liber No. rs,
folio 404, Land Records of Garrett
county, default having been made in
the covenants in said mortgage con-
tanned, the undersigned, named as at
forney therein to make this sale in
case of default, will on
WEDNESDAY, THE 18th DAY OF
MARCH, 1924,
at II o'clock a. m., in front of the First
National Bank Building in the town
of Oakland, Maryland, offer and sell
at public auction all that farm known
as the GUS HILLEARY FARM" in
Ryan's Glade District, Garrett coun-
ty, Maryland, and which is particu-
Larry described in a deed from So
phrOnia E. Duckworth and husband to
the said Gus T. HilIeary bearing date
September 18th, 1919, and recorded in
Liber No. rs, folio SGT, Land Records
of said Garrett county, to which said
deed reference is hereby made for the
courses and distances of the same.
This farm contains about 21S acres,
mostly cleared and is in good state
of cultivation; is improved by an ex-
cellent dwelling house and barn with
all modern conveniences and neces-
sary outbuildings; has a good or
chard on it; is well watered and is
convenient to school, church and fine
market; is considered one of the best
and most desirable farms in Ryan's
Glade District. The coal underlying
this land having been sold and con-
yeyed the same is not included in this
sale.
TERMS OF SALE-Cash.
FRED. A. THAYER,
Attorney named in Mortgage to make
Sale.
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MASON

Messrs. Raymond Conneway, En-
nest Ridder and Noah Lichty were 1e-
cent visitors at our school.
We have received our new books
at the school and they have been
placed in the library. All are very
much pleased with them.
Mrs. Oscar Ridder, of Silver Knob,
spent the past week with Mr.. and
Mrs. Ernest Ridder and family.
Mr.. Joseph Sanders and sons spent
Sunday at the home of Mr.. Harry
Moon.
Messrs. Wilbert, Archie and Har-
len Ridder and Mr.. John Dough, OF
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ORDER NISI.

E7ester A. Harvey ct al. VS.. Emily Welch
ct al.
No. 2J16 Equity In the Circuit Court for
Garrett County, Maryland
Ordered. this goth day of February, 1924, by
she Circuit Court for Garrett county, sitting
sa Equity that the sale made and reported
IN the above entitled cause by Ernest Ray
Jcnss, trustee, be ratified and confirmed, I'M
hess cause to the contrary thereof be shown
Gs OF before the 21st day of March, 1924 !;
provided a copy of this order be published in
same newspaper published in Garrett county.
fore the 14th day of March. 1924.
The report states the amount of sale to be
SS9000.
True Copy, E. z. TOWER, Clerk
Test: E. 2. TOWER, Clerk