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The Republican., 1925-06-04
GRAND THEATRE SOLD
Fixtures Sold to the Palace The
atre Company of Oakland
and FrOstburg

Messrs. Stuart F. Hamill and Ber-
nard l. Gonder, who have been operat-
ing the Grand Theatre in Oakland for
the past year or more, disposed of
their furniture and good will in the
business on last Saturday to the Pal
ace Theatre Company of Oakland and
Frostburg. The latter company will
operate the Grand on Saturday nights
only until repairs on its property at
Frostburg are completed when the
seating and other fixtures in the build
ing will be removed and installed in
the Frostburg house.
The Palace Theatre Company now
operates theatres in several towns in
Maryland, among them being The
Maryland in Oakland, of which Mr..
Joseph Spates is the local manager.
The Republican., 1925-06-04
MARRIED.

Benner-Lee At the parsonage of
St. Marks Lutheran church in Oak
land, on last Friday evening, by the
Rev. D. NJ. Funk, Miss Lily Florence
Lee, of Oakland, and Mr.. Hugh A.
Benner, Of Detroit, Michigan. The
bride was attended by Miss Amelia
Lauer and Mr.. William Bailey was
best man. Mr.. Benner is a civil en-
gineer and has been in the employ of
the General Construction Corporation
here for several months past. Imme-
diately following the ceremony the
couple left for Saginaw, Mich, where
Mr.. Benner will be employed in con-
struction work.
Observation-Disclosures Inez Hamill
of near Oakland, and Mr.. Michael Kill
dow, of Oakland, were married at the
parsonage in Loeb Lynn Heights on
Thursday evening of last week, by the
Rev. William Anderson. The bride is
a daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Patrick
Hamill, of Rosedale, while Mr.. Kill
dow, engaged as a coal operator, is
the son of Mr.. Hopwood Kildow, re-
siding south of Oakland. The couple
will reside here.
The Republican., 1925-06-04

the public expense. You will have lit
tie difficulty in picking out such peo-
pie, and scant attention should be
paid them. However, where the GRIM
inal law has been violated, you should
have no hesitation in indicting whom
ever the evidence justifies you in be-
lieving guilty.
You should be as expeditions as is
consistent with the proper investiga-
ton of the matters brought before
you, so that the county may be saved
any unnecessary expense. Usually the
grand jury completes its work y
three or four days, but you are in no
way bound by this, and should take
whatever time you deem necessary
for the proper performance of your
duties.
The grand jury completed the in
vestigation of the matters before it
yesterday afternoon and after making
its report to the Court was discharged
from further service at this time.
Following the completion of the ap-
peal docket, which was composed of
several trivial cases, and the hearing
of land case, court recessed until
Monday morning, upon which day the
criminal docket will be taken up.
1t is said that the grand jury re-
turned thirty-one indictments.
The Republican., 1925-06-04
SWANTON


The Swanton bible class held its
monthly meeting and social Wednes-
day night.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Racey, of Pied
mont, spent the weekend with the
formers parents, Mr.. and Mrs. A. H.
Friend, at this place.
Mrs. Edward Shaw and children, of
Keyser, are visiting Mr.. and Mrs. ].
G. Friend.
Mrs. Mary Burk, of Piedmont, W.
Va, spent Decoration Day at her for
mer home in Swanton.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Reckner spent
the weekend with the formers broth
er, Mr.. Robert Reckner.
Misses Olive and Pearl Friend at
tended the graduation exercises at the
Western Maryland Hospital in Cum
berland when their sister, Miss Grace
Friend, received her diploma as a
nurse.
Mr.. Dale Mosser, of Pittsburgh, is
spending his vacation here with his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Truman Mos
ser.
Mr.. and Mrs. Homer Wilt of Pierce,
West Va, spent Sunday with Mr.. and
Mrs. J. F. Friend in Swanton.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bennie Sweitzer are
very happy over the arrival at their
home of a new daughter.
Miss Cecil Lawrence, of Keyser, W.
Va, spent the weekend at her home
here.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Lewis, of Oak
land, were visiting the latter's par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. F. P. Sweitzer,
at this place on Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Rexroad, of
Crellin, spent the weekend with rel
atives here.
A crowd Of young folks from this
place went on a picnic Saturday. All
reported a good time.
Quite number of the people Of our
village are improving their homes by
having the buildings painted and 9TH
erwise repaired.
The Republican., 1925-06-04
GARRETT COUNTIAN GETS
THE HALE SCHOLARSHIP
James Fairfax Hamill, Oakland,
Chosen By Trustees of Har-
ward Law School.

James Fairfax Hamill, of Oakland,
now in the last year at Princeton, who
recently won the Princeton fellowship
to the Harvard Law School, has been
awarded the scholarship offered each
year by Richard w. Hale, of Boston.
The trustees of the Harvard Law
School select the member of the en-
tering class who, in their judgment,
shows the greatest promise of success
and he is awarded the Richard w.
Hale scholarship.
Mr. Hamill, who is q years Of age,
prepared at the Boys Latin School of
Baltimore. While there he edited the
"Inkwell," was president of his class
in his senior year and was instrument
tai in inaugurating a student council
as a governing organization of the
student body.
Entering Princeton in 1921, he
wrote a pamphlet on PARTY Readjust-
ment in the United States," which is
to be used as a text at Princeton next
year.
He is president of the University
Law Club and chairman of the board
Of the "Princeton Tiger" the humor-
our peper of the institution.
Mr. Hamill will enter the Harvard
Law School in September. He is the
son of Mrs. G. Semmes Hamill and
the grandson of Nj. Gilmor S. Hamill,
dean of the local bar, of Oakland.
The Republican., 1925-06-04
MEMORIAL DAY GENERALLY
OBSERVED In OAKLAND
Weather Conditions Were Per
feet and March to Cemetery
Viewed by Crowds

Saturday last was Memorial Day,
observed generally throughout the
country upon which occasion tributes
were paid the fallen heroes of the
three great wars-Civil, Spanish
American and World War-by the
survivors of those conflicts. 1t was
a day also in which many a grave
neglected the other 364 days of the
year upon which a flower or a wreath
is laid by some loving hand that has
carried it for long distances.
Last Saturday was an ideal day in
Oakland and upon this occasion the
grave Of nearly every one inferred in
the several cemeteries was decorated.
The parade to the cemeteries, which
lie Immediately adjacent to each other,
was formed in front of the Pythian
building on Third street and after
marching through the principal thor
oughfares the cemetery was reached
where an address was delivered by
DR., Archibald Moore, pastor of the
Methodist church.
The prarde was composed of the
members Of the Knights Of Pythias,
American Legion, Boy Scouts and
about thirty members. of the knights
of the Klan, fully robed, and a host of
school children.
Through some misunderstanding
no music was available for the occa-
sion. The Friendsville band had been
engaged. but failed to materialize.
The Republican., 1925-06-04
Golden Anniversary

A most enjoyable time was that at
the home Of Mr.. and Mrs. W. S..
Shrout at German, on Saturday, May
30, when they celebrated their fifth
eth anniversary of married life. Both
are well and happy and are highly re-
spected by everyone in the communi-
ty. They were born and reared near
Romney, West Va, and have resided
at German and vicinity during their
fifty years Of married life. Those
present to partake Of the nuptial
feast were Mr.. and Mrs. Duling and
son, Mr.. and Mrs. w. H. Ridder and
daughter Jane, Mr.. and Mrs. T. O..
Winters, Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. Aronhalt,
Rev. and Mrs. Johnson and daughter,
Miss Anna Dilgard, Mr.. J. R. Schaef
fer, Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. G. Williams,
Mrs. Bette King, Mrs. Bessie Eyer,
Mr.. E. j. Miller, of Burlington; Mr.
II. H. Harper, of Steyer; Misses From
ME and Evelyn Williams, Miss Fran
ces Ridder, Miss Bennie Digman, Mr..
Wilbur Shrout, of Barnum; Mr.. Chas.
Harsh, Of Luke; Mr.. Jacob Lantz,
Mrs. Ida Boltz and Mr.. ". J. White.
The Republican., 1925-06-04
Marriage Licenses

Marriage licenses for the week
ending Tuesday at noon have been is
sued to the following applicants at
the Office of the Clerk Of the Circuit
Court in Oakland:
Joseph Thomas Kroner, %, miner,
and Mary Annie Vargo, 19, both of
Gates, Pa.
Ruben Philip Kroner, %, miner,
Gates, Pa, and Christina Mary Cam
encheck, 19, High House, Pa.
Robert Lee Smith, 21, salesman,
and Gertrude Marguerite Newbrough,
20, telephone operator, both of Fair
mont, West Va.
Garland Clay Boggess, 21, hatcher,
and Halle Frances Roberts, 10, both
of Parkersburg, West Va.
Roy Forrest Fraley, %, coal loader,
and Zelma Mary Born, 1S, both of
Reedsville, West Va.
Russell Brown Hartzell, %, rural
mail carrier, and Ella Ruth Ridgeway.
IS, both of Ellington, W. Va.
Dallas Donald Cornell, "a, and Elsie
Marie Kennedy, 21, office clerk, both
of Clarksburg, West Va.
Haskell Olaf Lanham, 21, street car
conductor, and Elsie Marion Wilson,
21, printer, both of Fairmont, W. Va,
Michael V. Kildow, AZ, coal opera
tor, and Inez Mana Hamill, %, school
teacher, both Of Oakland, Md.
Edward Roy McCarl, 20, musician,
and Mary Edna Johns, 2S, both of
Pittsburgh, Pa.
Russell Gordon Beatty, 25, potter,
and Margaret Christina Grim, 1S,
both of Warrington, W. Va.
Arthur D. Roebuck, 26, service sta
ton, and Grace Catherine Sennette,
"a, telephone operator, both of I'm
iontown, Pa.
William Clyde Heck, SO, iceman,
Fairmont, w. Va, and Dora Eliza
beth Lockhart, 20, laundress, Cataw-
ba, West Va.
Hugh Atlin Benner, 26, civil engi-
neer, Detroit, Mich, and Lily Flor
ence Lee, 20, Oakland Md.
Bradford Keyser, 10 (parents' con-
sent), student, and Velma Columbia
Dayton, 19, student, both of Beling-
ton, West Va.
Marion Shillingburg, 21, mill wor-
ker, and Eleanor Tibbetts, 19, laun-
dress, both of Beryl West Va.
Ray Lester Lemmons, 80, mine mo-
torman, and Elizabeth Anne johnson,
40, both of Dellslow, West Va.
Harry Dolby Stalnaker, 25, butcher,
and Helen Rachel Hendershot, 18, stu
dent, both of Morgantown, w. Va.
Wilfred Aronel Thompson, 18, (par-
ents' consent), student, and Dorothy
Virginia Keyser, IS, student, both of
Belington, W. Va.
Cecil Leonard Ford, 81, mechanic,
and Ethel Channels, 10, both of Par
sons, West Va.
Lloyd burst, 81, laborer, and Miri-
am House, 20, both Of Grantsville, W.
Va.
Frank Charles Mesaros, %, and FL
len Anne Snider, 10, store clerk, both
of Clarksburg, W. Va.
Michael Bartrug, 81, farmer, and
Alice HiXenbaugh, 20, both of Bur-
ton, West Va.
Edward N. Knisley, 81, railroad
conductor, Fairview, West Va, and
Minnie Stolnaker, %, Fairmont, West
Va.
Denzel Lee Bonnell, 81, laborer, and
Helen Martha Weese, 19, both of FL
kins, West Va.
Two applicants were refused Hcen-
ses.
NnTICE
The Republican., 1925-06-04
Makes Strike In Oil.

While Congressman Samuel A.
Kendall, Of Meyersdale, Pa, who is
in the Kendall Lumber COM
pany's operations at Crellin, near
Oakland, was lying i'll at his home, he
received advices that he had become
an oil magnate. The well he and his
sons have been drilling in Wetzel
county, West Va, came in big. When
the well was dynamited, the oil spout
ed into the air 100 feet and many
barrels escaped before the well could
be capped.
The Republican., 1925-06-04
st. Matthews p. E. Church.
Rev. A. J. Torrey, Rector

Rev. A. j. Iorrey, Rector
1000 a. M, Church school; 11:00
a. M, Holy Communion and sermon,
"The Most Holy and Blessed Trinity"
Please note, that the Bishop Of
Maryland, the Rt. Rev. John G. Muir
ray, D. D., will make his episcopal
visitation for the purpose of confir-
nation on Tuesday, June 9th, at 10:3O
a, m. Not only our own people, but
all who would Ike to meet the Bishop
or attend service are most cordially
welcome.
Deer Park Chapel-Sunday, June
7, 1880 p. NJ, evening prayer and SER
mon. The services of this chapel,
which have been discontinued during
the winter months, will reopen next
Sunday. Services will be held twice
a month during the summer at 1870
p. m.
The Republican., 1925-06-04
st. Marks Lutheran.
Inc Friendly Church.
Rev. David M. Funk. Pastor.

Inc FrlenQly church.
Rev. David NJ. Funk, Pastor.
9:30 a. M, Sunday school. Mr.. G..
j. Altstetter, superintendent.
10;45 a. M, worship. Sermon by
the Rev. Roy Hashinger, of Clarks-
burg, West Va.
7:15 p. M, Christian Endeavor, Mr..
Wellington Yutzy, president.
500 p. M, worship. Sermon by the
Rev. Roy Hashinger.
There will be no "Quiet Hour" SER
vice held on Wednesday evening of
next week.
We cordially invite you to worship
with us.
The Republican., 1925-06-04
CHURCH SERVICES.
st. Paul's NJ. E. Church, Oakland.
Rev. Archibald Moore. Pastor.

Rev. Archibald Moore, Pastor.
9:45 a. NJ, Sunday school. Mr.. E.
R. Jones, Superintendent.
700 p. M, Epworth League. Mr.
Townshend Naylor, President.
500 p. m, evening worship.
Wednesday, 500 p. M, prayer
meeting. At 4:15 p. M, Wednesday,
the Junior Epworth League, Miss
Grace Loar, Superintendent.
The Republican., 1925-06-04
Garrett Memorial Presbyterian, Oak
land.

Rev. Henry A. Grubbs, Pastor.
Sunday school, 1910 Ga. m.
At HOO a. M, a Children's Day
program will be rendered.
c. E. meeting at 6:45 p. m.
The Republican., 1925-06-04

Mr.. Dwight Townshend, who has
been in the employ of the Kelly
Springfield Tire Company at Detroit
during the past year, has been trans
ferred from the home office to Cincin-
natl and placed in charge of the sales
management for that district.
The Republican., 1925-06-04
NOTICE.

All members Of Sunnyside Grange
are requested to attend the next reg
ular meeting on June 10th, at 500
o'clock p. m. Refreshments.
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we fought our way in defiance of Nature and the
elements.
Each night, or rather at the end of each days
allotted marching time, we camped with reasonable
comfort in a snow house, heated by kerosene stove.
The time was to come, however, when were too
exhausted to build igloo at the end of the days
march, and slept in no more shelter than that
afforded by silk tent and our fur sleeping bags,
which latter by the way became the only semblance
of creature comfort we had left.
A hundred miles out on the pack we came to the
belt of open water which separates the central Polar
pack from the land bordering ice. This strange
moat some two miles in width at the point where
we reached its Shores babe fair to prove an impas
sable barrier. l had brought small folding canvas
boat but realized the impracticabty of launching
this cookie shell with the temperature of the air
nearly Is degrees below the freezing point.
We camped the edge of the gap to await
solution of the problem. Scouting to either side
along the brink of the lead, found place where
it was partly covered over with thin new ice, and
the hope came to me that further freezing would
complete the bridge.
1t did. We woke the next day to find the lead
Eheeted from pack to pack but by a Sickeningy thin
coating. My heart sank as | tested this scum, but
my desperate resolve moved me to essay the crossing
That, believe, was the most fearful experience
of the entire Polar campaign. With snowshoes on
our feet, and the little troop of men and dogs well
scattered and linked by ifeines, set out in the
very frgid face of DEATH 1t seemed impossible that
the ice could bear our weight As crept upon the
SIulI yleIuSu W Jul IISdu uuuuldIeu III waves
like cream milk crock when the crock is shaken.
At each forward step felt soulshrnking certainty
that the lead would open and engulf the whole ex-
petition, it had others before Eternity stood
still traversed that terrible two miles.
But we crossed without wetting foot, paw or
sledge runner and the relief felt was as the looS-
ing of tourniquet from my senses.
Now we were on the very cap ice of the earth:
now the high climax of the journey began Through
terrific storms, intense cold and over extremely
Jagged ice, we toiled autOmatons, painfully cut
ting down the distance which separated us from the
goal Our fuel and food ran low; we were never
warm and always hungry and tired beyond telling.
The ice glare was ceaseless torture to our ewes
screened though they were with the amber goggles
i had devised. Madness lowered in the hideous
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Christmas or the for its observance, but they
were far from averse to complying with my holiday
proclamation. While Francke and l RECALLED
selves with the finest of civilized delicacies, our
Eskimo neighbors gorged happily on various prep
aratons of blubber and rancid meat.
The remainder of the Winter night was spent in
practice marches the ce in moonlight hunts
and in putting the finishing touches on the expedition
gear, Early in February of 1908, started the first
of three. advance parties across Smith Sound to
Acpohon, the great island to the west of Greenland,
across which it was my plan to march the most
workable route to the Polar Sea.
On February 10, with the years first sunshine,
/ embarked on the journey that was to take me TO
unparalleled glory to unthinkable suffering, and to
the very gates of death. With at the start were
Francke and nine Eskimos, with eleven sledges and
more than hundred dogs. Nearly thousand miles
of heaTtbreakng travel lay between me and my goal,
though the airline distance from Annoatok to the
Pole is about 700 miles.
Fighting the rough ice of the sound, we made fair
going to the shores of mysterious Acpohon. Some
time spent in searching for pass this ice
sheeted rugged land, but at last we located route
through valleys and over glaciers which promised
reasonably direct and practicable trail across the
island
AS we set our sledges westward through the
mountains, | was beset by one great anxiety-would
we encounter game enough to provision the journey
overland so that all the supplies brought from
Annoatok might be reserved for the march across
the Polar sea? This worry was soon set at naught,
for we found the unknown wilderness quite populouS
with musk OK, bears and hareS Again fortune had
favored me; my precious supplies remained
touched as we lived off the country in true pioneer
fashion.
During the march across Acpehon, we encoun-
tered the coolest weather of the season, the minimum
temperature being 83 degrees below Zero Such cold
is beyond comprehension of jewellers in temperate
lands; to me, accustomed to the Arctic climate,
it seemed marvellous that humans could survive in
atmosphere often more than $50 degrees colder than
the body temperature. Yet we suffered no extreme
discomfort, clothed and fed as we were with the
highest possible heat conserving efficiency.
True, our faces and fingers were npped, and the
frigid metal of guns and other equipment inflicted
Sundry painful burns when it touched unprotected
skin, but with full stomachs and warm furs
easy victors in the battle against cold.
One incident of this stage of the Polar drive
which recall very wildly is the DAY When the
Shadows Came Back" The sun, of course had
shone for an increasingly long time each day since
the departure from Annoatok but it was still very
low on the horizon, and the air filled with
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I'M. But chose only one. realizing as did that
natives were my main dependence. The single
hpanion picked to remain with me in the Arctic
IS Rudolph Francke, young German of fine
! raeter and high culture, who sgnally indicated
choice of him in the days that were to come.
Early in September, the John r. Bradley turned
! prov southwark, and left Francke and me alone
prepare for the great adventure. Alone, that is,
bur race; we had an entire Eskimo tribe, of about
p members, to aid us in our preparations
l wasted no time in launching the preliminaries
| my plan. Almost every man, woman and child
the tribe was soon at work, killing game for
at supplies, building sheds, gathering furs and
king clothing. Francke and had built a house
packing cases and sod, which served both as
|dence for us and as workshop for the Eskimo
h-builders whom l quickly trained to fabricate,
m the wood had brought for the purpose,
e of sled of my own design This vehicle in my
Mon, combined all the best and few of the bad
lures of other sedges.
And sledges, let me say, are as indispensable to
tic travel as iivvers are to the modern tin cam
rist. To the strength and lightness of my sledges
tribute much of the credit for the attainment of
Pole.
Tons of meat-walrus, narwha caribou and
3ller game--were secured and stored through
efforts of my little bronze huntsmen, myselfand
I ncKe. ms meat was indispensable as SuSCen-
e for the troop of men. and dogs that were to
ort me on the first stage of the Polar march.
pemmican had brought from civilization, how
r, was almost the sole diet of Etookishook,
gelah and myself on the final DASH
Meanwhile, the women of Annoatok and other
dement's along the coast were busy fabricating
by garments to keep warmth in the bodies of the
Nall seekers. Shirts they made of bird skins,
marvellous creations they WERE Coats were of
or caribou; trousers of bear, boots of seal and
kings of hare fur,
There were two episodes of that Winter at
loatok which graved themselves deeply upon
memory. One was the occasion of the suns
arturo, a time of indescrbable sadness for the
mos, who made of it sort of mourning feast
their dead. For several days they wept, sang
res and danced funeral measures in the eerie
light which followed the last sunset of the year.
n, as the long night settled down in earnest,
recovered from their strange grief madness and
e cheerful as before.
Quite the reverse in spirit was the observance
christmas at Annoatok. By this time the supplies
the expedition were nearly all assembled, and
mind was aglow with the knowledge of pre-
edness. &c. when the Yuletide came, declared
Feek of feasting and rest in the camp The
lily heather natives. of course, knew nothing of