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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1925-02-12
LOCAL HUNTERS WILL BE
IN PICTURE AT MARYLAND
Feature Shown Will Give Same
Thrill AS That Felt In
Stalking Game 81

One can almost hear the rustling
leaves, the call of the wild turkey and
the subsequent crack of the gun from
the action depicted in the motion pic
ture Hunting in Maryland" which
will be an additional feature at the
Maryland Theatre Tuesday, Wednes-
day and Thursday, February II, IS
and 10.
This picture, which was taken un-
der the personal direction of State
Game Warden E. Lee LeCompte when
the hunting season was ushered in
last November, shows number of
local sportsmen in action.
The picture is long enough to give
local hunters the same thrill as that
felt in stalking game. However,
there were many other pleasues en-
joyed by the Game Warden's hunt
ing party which did not get into the
picture, according to one of the hun
tiers.
In addition to a turkey hunt, which
was staged in Allegany county, the
picture shows a successful duck hunt
ing trip on the Eastern Shore of the
State and a quail hunt.
1t also includes a trip to the Gar
rett county game preserve where deer
and ring-neck pheasants were beau
tifully pictured and shows the hatch
ing and raising of ring-neck pleas
ants on the game preserve.
The picture was taken November
l, 1924. 1t is 1000 feet long and the
time consumed in showing it is about
the same as that used in showing an
ordinary comedy. This feature will
be shown at theMaryland on the dates
above in addition to the regular high
class program.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1925-02-12
Work Is Resumed on Huge Dam
on Cheat River by West Penn

With the opening of offices at the
scene of construction as we'll as the
general offices in Point Marion, the
preliminary work on the Cheat River
dam near Cheat Haven was started
by the West Penn Power Company
last week. The first corps of work
men reached the scene several days
ago and are engaged. in clearing up
the property preparatory to the cree
ton of 20 or more construction camp
houses where the laborers will be
housed. In addition, the big office
building and hotel are being cleaned
out and put in condition for occupan-
cy. When the work is completed the
offices in Point Marion will probably
be closed and the administration de-
partment moved to the site of the
dam, some distance from Point Mar
ion up the Cheat River.
The railroad spur from the B. & o.
main line will also be one of the first
projects undertaken and when all is
in readiness a small of army of work
men will be transported to the scene
and actual work on the dam will get
under way.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1925-02-12
KNIGHTS OF ST. PAUL
New Organization in Connection
With St. PauPs M. E. Church

Under the supervision of the pas.
tor, DR.. Archibald Moore, and several
interested members of the congrega,
ton, the male membership of St
PauPs Methodist Episcopal church OF
Oakland was recently organized into
a body which is known as the Knights
of St. Paul.
At a meeting of the Knights hello
at the parish house a short time ago
the following officers and executive
committee were elected:
President, Playford A. Naylor;
secretary-treasurer, Cecil Smith. Elk
ecutive committee, P. A. Naylor, Cecil
Smith, F. Z. Rathbun, E. R. Jones
and William Butt.
The purpose of the organization is
to promote the spirit of good fellow
ship and to assist the pastor and the
official board in matters pertaining
to the church and its several organi-
cations.
The Knights as a body will be adj
dressed Sunday morning by the pas
tor, Dr. Moore, who will deliver 3
special sermon to them and to which
all the men of the community are
cordially invited.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1925-02-12
OAKLAND TO PLAY SUTTON
QUINTET HERE TONIGHT
Oakland High Will Play Sham
rocks on Local Floor Tuesday

One of the best games of the sea-
son is expected to be played on the
local basketball floor tonight when
the Oakland A. AS cagers will pit
their skill against that of the Sutton
(West Va.) Collegians. The Sutton
team is regarded as one of the strong
teams of the State.
Tuesday night of next week the
Oakland High School team will play
the noted Shamrocks of Mount Say
age, who have been running wild this
season. The visiting team is greatly
strengthened by famous "Laughin'
Bill Reagan" The Shamrocks in a
recent game at Mt. Savage, while
playing Oakland, ran up a good score
in the last quarter, but-as Oakland
is now prepared against this, the
game promises to be holly contested.
The Oakland people who have seen
the High School play in preliminary
games are we'll aware of the fact that
Oakland has fine, clean and fast
team composed of Jim and Johnny
Wolfe, Jim Pollock, Graydon Lewis
and Henry McComas.
This will be the first game Oakland
High is playing on their own hook
and everyone who is going to attend
The game has a nice treat in store.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1925-02-12
WIDOW OF ENGINEER TO Be
PAID INSURANCE WEEKLY
Among First In Tunnel After
Blast, He Won Goal, But
Lost His Life

The last chapter of how a young
engineer employed by the General
Construction Corporation in putting
though the first section of the nine
foot tunnel to be used by the Penn
Service Company in generating cleo
tricity at the power house located on
the Youghiogheny River in Garrett
county, was written on last Friday by
the State Industrial Accident Com
mission, sitting in Baltimore, in the
form Of an award of $4,000 in weekly
payments as compensation to the
widow of the dead man.
Samuel Foster Plyler, World War
veteran, aged thirty years, had been
engaged for several months at the
camp of the construction corporation
as one of the assistants engineers in
the tunnel work. On the morning of
November 22nd last, at ten o'clock,
after hard grueling work on the part
of the engineering corps and hun
dreds of men employed as laborers
and in other capacities in and about
the tunnel, which is more than mile
long, that section of the tube lead
ing from the east portal to the bot
tom Of shaft No. ! was broken thru
after several hundred pounds Of pow
der and other explosives had been
fired. That he might have the distinc-
ton of being the first man through
the opening Plyler and another of the
shaft employees set out in a race be-
meath the ground and before the gas
and fumes following the explosion Of
the powder had been cleared by the
fans used to drive air through to the
workmen.
Mr.. Plyler was overcome and rem
dered unconscious. He was carried
from the tunnel and the same night
sent from the camp to the Davis Me-
mortal Hospital at Davis, West Va,
where he died on November 22nd,
pneumonia having developed. Davis
was the home of Mr.. Plyler where he
is survived by his wife and two chill
dren. DR.. R. R. Roth, of Davis, W.
Va, testified before Commissioner G.
l.. Eppler, who sat in the case in Oak
land on Monday Of last week, that he
had seen similar gas cases in his ex-
perience in wartime hospitals.
This tragedy is one of a number
that has been written since the be-
ginning of work on the project
more than a year and a-half
ago. Considering the number of men
engaged and the danger attending
them at every turn, it is surprising
that more men did not meet like
fate.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1925-02-12
MOVEMENT STARTED TO
INTERNATIONAL HIGHWAY
And To Electrically Light 1t
From Washington, d. c., to
Los Angeles, Cal.

Prominent business men of Union
town, Pa, are responsible for the
movement just set on foot to double
the width of the National Highway
and to electrically light it from Wash
ington, D. c., to Los Angeles, Cal.
This proposition has been commu-
nicated by the Rotary. Club of the
Pennsylvania town to like organiza-
tions in towns and cities located on
the old road.
Uniontown is now engaged in wild
ening and relighting the portions of
the National Highway running thru
the heart of the city to conform to
the double width proposition. Citi-
zens of Fayette county, in which I'm
iontown is located, are the sponsors
of the ambitious and wholly feasible
scheme to have the road widened and
lighted by electricity throughout its
entire length.
The Uniontown Rotary Club, thru
Earl S. Herford, is asking all Rotary
Clubs from Washington to St. Louis
to cooperate in arousing interest in
this project in all their home service
organizations, and to assist in pro-
curing necessary legislation for funds
from cities, States and the nation, to
complete this work, first from the
Capital to St. Louis and then to the
Pacific Coast.
1t is understood that Uniontown
people have laid the plans before the
councils in Frostburg, Cumberland, Ha
gerstown, Frederick and all other in
corporated towns and titles in Mary
land through which the National
Highway passes.
Briefly, the plan is to make the
National Highway double its present
width and have it electrically lighted
throughout its entire length. With
these results accomplished, the Ma
tional Highway will naturally take
its place as the leading trans-conti-
mental highway in the United States.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1925-02-12
KITzMILLER MAIDEN, LOVE
CHEAT, INDICTED BY JURY
Miss Betty Normand Is Charged
With Swindling Chicagoan
in Her Matrimonial Mill

Betty Normand, pretty Kitzmiller
maiden, who has been in the Cumber-
land Jail several weeks, is under in
dictment in the United States Court
at Baltimore, charged with swindling
A. A. Kostiak, of Chicago, ILL.,, in her
love mill.
Miss Normand was arrested some
time ago by United States Postoffice
operatives after numerous complaints
had been filed from many sections of
the country charging the girl with
having obtained through promises of
marriage, various sums of money
transmitted to her through the post
office channels.
According to Assistant U. S. Dis
trict Attorney Forester, of Balti-
more, there are many other sophisti-
Gated men from the big cities whom
the simple country girl is said to have
swindled by offering through an adj
vertisement in a matrimonial publica-
ton to become their wife.
Forester said, however, that the
names of the other men probably will
not be brought into the case as eve
caught the girl red-handed and she
probably will plead guilty"
He added that should she plead not
guilty and be acquitted because of
her youth, beauty or apparent unso-
phlstication, the United States would
use her alleged swindling of other
big city men until a conviction was
obtained.
Betty is alleged to have obtained
money from men in the big cities by
promising to go to them if they would
send carfare. They did and it is said
she reaped harvest.
One offer of marriage still holds
good, said United States District At
torney Woodcock, despite the fact
that the girl is now indicted as love
cheat. 1t is from a man in Brooklyn,
N. Y, Mr.. Woodcock stated. The
Brooklyn man has written to Mr..
Woodcoek asking him to "fx it up' so
that wedding bells will ring, but the
lawyer says he hasn't time to play
Cupid.
Miss Normand is still confined in
the Cumberland jail but will be taken
to Baltimore for trial just before her
case is called in the United States
Court there.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1925-02-12
GETS 80 DAYS IN JAIL FOR
DRIVING WHILE DRUNK

Edward Hoffman, of Friendsville,
arrested last Friday night at Cum
berland by State Policeman Edward
Dyas, on charges of driving an auto
mobile without a license and while
under the influence of liquor, was
found guilty of the charges by Mag
istrate Oliver H. Bruce, Jr., at Cum
berland Saturday afternoon. He was
fined $40 on the former charge and
sentenced to serve thirty days in the
Allegany county Jail on the latter
charge.
Hoffman's automobile collided with
a car driven by Edward F. Webb, the
Allegany County Superintendent of
Schools, in the Narrows above Cum
berland Friday night. Hoffman was
slightly injured. Both machines were
damaged. Webb, at the hearing, con-
tended that Hoffman ran over to the
left side of the road and caused the
collision.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1925-02-12
(yRANTSVILLE WOMAN WAS
DROWNED In CASSELMAN
Victim, While Battling Water for
Live Stock, Fell Through
Hole Cut In Ice on Stream

A tragic death occurred near the
town of Grantsville last Wednesday
evening between the hours of five and
six o'clock when Mary Catherine
Ringler, aged As years, who resided
with the family of Arthur Resi-, near
the covered bridge on the road from
Grantsville to Bittinger, fell through
a hole in the ice covering the Cassel-
man river and was drowned.
The woman went to the barn at the
time above stated for the purpose of
milking the cows and also for the
purpose of watering the animals
Water for this purpose was procured
from the river, being carried in buck
cts after being dipped from the river
through a hole cut in the ice.
After being absent from the house
longer than usual Mrs. Resi- became
alarmed and called to the barn, but
receiving no answer she notified Mr..
Resi- and other members of the fam
lily and a search was instituted for
the missing woman. Miss Ringler's
tracks were followed through the
snow to the hole in the ice and it was
also observed that the water buckets
were missing from the barn which
fact strengthened the belief in the
minds of the searchers that some
thing unusual had befallen her.
Neighbors were summoned and a
systematic search was made along
and down the stream. At a point
about 100 yards below the bridge the
body was recovered at ten o'clock on
Thursday morning with one of the
water pals still grasped in her hand.
The search for the body was carried
on all of Wednesday night, the river
being dynamited several times.
Miss Ringler was about as years of
age. She was reared by the late Mr..
and Mrs. Levi Kinsinger, deceased, of
Casselman, and continued to reside
4 nth the two daughters, Misses Ida
md Kate Kinsinger, when not en-
ployed elsewhere.
The funeral Of the deceased was
held Saturday morning from the Men
monte church at Casselman, the in
terment being made in the cemetery
nearby.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1925-02-12
SPEECH MADE. BY LINCOLN
IN 1853 PUBLISHED TODAY
Delivered Shortly After Debates
Between Emancipation and
Stephen A. Douglas

The text of a speech made by Abra-
ham Lincoln in Springfield, H., Octo-
Der 80, 1858, will be published today
in the New York Times which news
paper states that the address has
never before been made public.
The manuscript of the speech is
said by the Times to be in possession
of Oliver R. Barrett, Chicago attor-
ney, who has given permission to the
University of Chicago Press to print
it in a book.
Students of Lincoln's career, it is
stated, regard this speech as highly
important. 1t was made shortly af-
ter the debates between Lincoln and
Stephen A. Douglas had been con-
cluded in their campaign for the Sen
atorship from Illionois. The election
was held November and it was said
to be apparent to Lincoln when he
delivered the address that his defeat
was inevitable and his political ca
reer probably at an end.
Text of Speech.
"My friends, today closes the dis
cussions of this canvass. The plant
ing and the culture are over and there
remains but the preparation and the
| harvest.
81 stand here surrounded by friends
some political, all personal friends,
trust. May l be INDUCED in this
closing scene to say few words of
myself. | have borne a laborious and,
in some respects to myself, a painful
part in the contest. Through all |
| have neither assailed nor wrestled
with any part of the Constitution.
The legal right Of the southern peo-
pie to reclaim their fugitives l have
constantly admitted. The legal right
! Of Congress to interfere with their
/ institution in the states | constantly
denied. In resisting the spread of
slavery to new territory and with
that, what appears to me to be ten
dency to subvert the first principle of
, free government itself, my whole eff
fort has consisted. To the best of
my judgment l have labored for and
not against the Union. AS l have not
felt, so l have not expressed any
harsh sentiment toward our southern
brethren. l have constantly declared,
as | really believed, the only differ
! ence between them and US is the diff
ference of circumstances.
81 have meant to assail the motives
of no party or individual and if
have in any instance (of which l am
not conscious, departed from my pur-
pose to destroy the Union; and be.
spattered with every imaginable obi
Gus epithet; and some who were
friends as it were but yesterday, have
made themselves most active in this.
have cultivated patience and made
no attempt at a retort.
Ambition has been ascribed to me.
God knows how sincerely l prayed
from the first that this field of am
bition might not be opened. l claim
no insensibility to political honors;
but today could the Missouri restric-
ton be restored and the whole slavery
question replaced on the old ground
of liberation by necessary where it
exists, with unyielding hostility to
the speed of it, on principle, I would
in consideration, gladly agree that
Judge Douglas should never be out,
and | never in, an office so long as we
, both or either live"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1925-02-12
TO ASSIST IN MAKING OUT
INCOME TAX RETURNS

Deputy Collectors Of Internal Rev
enue have been assigned to various
sections of Maryland to assist tax
payers in making out their tax re-
turns on incomes. Deputy Collectors
will visit places in the Oakland terri
tory on dates as follows:
Oakland, Feb. 16 to 81; Grants
vile, February %; Friendsville, Feb
ruary "a; Kitzmiller, February rs;
Frostburg, February 16 to IS; West
ernport, February 25 and &c; Barton,
February 27; Homecoming, March 2
and 3.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1925-02-12

a splendid opportunity for the firm to
display their wares to advantage.
The two dwellings, erected by Mr..
A. R. Martin on a portion of the G.
S. Hamill property located on Liberty
street, which Mr.. Martin purchased
some months ago, are both complet-
ed. One of the dwellings faces on
Liberty street and the other on Pen
nington street. The Liberty street
house is now occupied by Mr. Martin
and his family.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1925-02-12

Marshall Brown, J. Berkheimer, Jas.
Pollock, Henry McComas.
Reading, Abe Lincoln. Mary Jankey
Address .......... Rev. A. J. Torrey
Demonstration ......T The Boy Scouts
Star Spangled Banner. Music Glass
Tonight Thursday the Oakland
High School basketball team will play
the Terra Alta High School team at
1880 o'clock. This is the fourth game
of a five-game series. So far Oak
land has won two of the three games
played.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1925-02-12

Jumping at conclusions is about the
only mental exercise some people are
capable of taking.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1925-02-12

While our feet are firmly on the
ground, our eyes should be looking
always forward.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1925-02-12
Oakland High School Notes

The students of the Oakland High
School will render the following pro-
gram at their usual Friday afternoon
assembly meeting to which the public
is cordially invited:
Imperial Valley press., 1925-11-13
Thief PurlOins
Officers Auto

Hard luck did not wait until
Friday the l3th' to visit Officer
John B. Mayo of the FL Centre po-
lice department, but descended upon
him last night when some nervy
thief stole his car from the corner
of Fifth and Main streets.
Mrs. Mayo parked the ear on
Fifth street while she went to at
tend a meeting of the Pythian Sis
ters. Upon her return less than an
hour later, the car had disappear,
ed. Believing some of the other
Officers in the department might
have used it, Mayo made inquiries
but could not locate the car.
A description of the automobile
was telephoned to all valley cit
les and to Yuma, but up to noon
today no trace of it had been found
Fortunately for Mayo, the car wa:
insured against theft, but he is 90.
ing to have to do considerable
walking until the insurance can be
adjusted.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-11-13
WOMAN IS FINED
FOR VIOLATION
OF SCHOOL LAW

T. F.. Proctor of this city was fin
ed $50 this week by s. T. RobinsoE
justice of the peace at Seeley, who
suspended the fine, which wasGfm-
posed for working children in a
cotton field during school hours.
Complaint was made to Stanley
NJ. Cue, deputy labor commissioner,
that Ruth May Harrel, Is: Herman
Harrell, IL; Archie Harrell, 9, and
Earl Harrell, 7, were working in
Proctor's cotton field within plain
sight of the Seeley school, during
the hours they were supposed to be
in school.
Accompanied by Harry Skinner,
school attendance officer, Cue Wis
tied the field and found the children
at work. Complaint against Proc
tor followed. The latter stated he
had given his foreman instructions
not to work the children and that
they were being worked without his
knowledge. This prompted the
IS action i'll suspendiug the
fine.
Matte HarelI, mother of the
children, was charged with violation
of the compulsory school law. None
of the children have attended school
thus far this year, it is said. She
was fined $3.50 on each of three
charges, Proctor paying the fine fol
her.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-11-13
ARGUMENTS OVER
RATE SCHEDULES
ARE PRESENTED

Hearing on the proposed schedule
of rates for Imperial Valley was
concluded before Examiner Austin
of the California railroad commits
sion at the court house late yester-
day afternoon.
Arguments on the schedule sub
mitted by the truckmen and by the
shippers and growers, were submit
ted to the examiner by Attorney
CHARLES E. Scott, representing the
growers and shippers, and Ross and
Whitelaw, counsel for the truck
men.
The evidence presented at the
hearing by witnesses, will be sub
mitted to the railroad commission
accompanied by the recommenda-
ton Of Austin, and q decision will
be rendered by the commission. At
the request Of both parties, Austin
agreed to ask for an early decision
in order that the rates may be do.
cided upon before the opening Of the
lettuce season.
Many Of the prominent growers
at the hearing declared it would be
cheaper for them to purchase trucks
and do their own hauling rather
than pay the rates demanded by the
truekmen in their schedule.
Imperial Valley press., 1925-11-13
PINCH FOURTEEN
AS GAMBLERS In
RAID LAST NIGHT
Chinese, Japanese, Fill
pinOs Are Rounded Up
in Rear of Restaurant

Fourteen men, including Chinese
Japanese and Filipinos, were arrest.
ed by Deputy Sheriffs Stirling Os-
walt and wild Horse Cornell
son, in a gambling raid on Chin.
csc restaurant on Broadway be-
tween Fourth and Fifth streets last
night. ~
The officers found the place fit
ted up as restaurant in front
while the rear was devoted to gamb-
ling, all the men arrested beng en-.
gagged in poker games when the of
ficers entered. The rear windows and
and doors were heavily barred and
locked. CorneiIson happened to To-
cate the KEY to the front door and
surprised the players before they
were aware of the presence Of the
Officers.
The men arrested gave their NAM
es as Lee Tuck, Henry Nah, All
Sing. NJ. O. Sarge, Herochio Galicia,
D. Felix. Augustine Bachib, n.
Nones, Vesta Dignon, Marcel En-
bario. Pete Vestes, B. B. Jesus, G..
NJ. Ciga and K. Ishi.
Tuck, Nah and Sing We're released
on bail of 800 each. The other
players put up bonds of $25 each to
guarantee their appearance in court.
1t is doubted if they will show up
for trial however, the usual proceed
ure in such cases being to forfeit
the bail money deposited.