The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1926-03-04

Broadwater spent Monday, Tuesday
and yesterday in Cumberland where
they attended meeting of the asso-
citation of American Surgeons at
which DR.. Charles H. Mayo, the noted
surgeon of Rochester, Mimi, was the
principal speaker and the guest of
honor at banquet rendered him at
the Fort Cumberland Hotel in Cum
berland last night.
Mr.. William w. Frazee, of near
Hoyes, is at the home of his daugh-
ter, Mrs. Harry Naylor, on Second
street in Oakland, suffering with a
broken hip which he sustained last Sat
! urday at his home when he slipped
on the ice and fell. He was accom-
panied to Oakland by DR.. R. A. Rev.
enscroft, of Accident. The fracture
was reduced by Drs. Ravenscroft and
McComas at the office of the latter in
Oakland after an x-ray picture had
been made of the broken bone.
On Wednesday, March 10th, at 1880
o'clock p. M, joint meeting of the
board of directors of the Garrett
County Fair Association and the bus
mess men of Oakland, has been called
by officers of the Association. This
meeting is very important and may
determine the future of the Fair. 1t
! is absolutely necessary that every res
ident and especially every business
man of town cooperate with the fair
management to make these annual
events the success they should be.
Arrangements with the broadcast
ing station KDKA, Pittsburgh, Pa,
have been completed for the appear
ance there on the evening of the goth
inst. of the Browning Brothers with
their violins and harp. The Garrett
county musicians will have a part in
! the program to be broadcasted that
evening from $3.50 until 1000 o'clock.
Mayor Fraley of Oakland was in re-
cepit of a letter from the director of
the Pittsburgh studio containing the
information given above this morn
| ing.
At the weekly assembly of Rotar-
ians last Friday evening at the Will
liam-James Hotel, Mr.. Scott Shirer,
Scoutmaster of Troop No. l, Boy
Scouts of America, was the honor
guest and principal speaker of the
evening. Mr. Shirer's talk had to do
with Boy Scouts entirely and many
if not all assembled received first
hand information concerning the or
ganization which now has more than
two million boys enrolled as members.
The speaker made very favorable
impression upon his audience and the
Rotarians as body pledged their sup
part to the local troop after thanking
the speaker for the excellent address
he delivered.
On Thursday evening of last week
the Maryland Forestry Association
held its annual meeting in Baltimore.
Former Senator w. McCulloh Brown.
of Garrett county, was again elected
secretarytreasurer. The aim of the
meeting was to emphasize "Education
in Forestry" District Forest Warden
j. Frederick Virgin brought out the
education of the children by means of
tforest clubs. Shirley w. Allen, for
ester for the American Forestry AS
ISOLATION, told of the method of talk
ing to children and illustrated the
points by simple line drawings or
comparisons. State Forester F. w.
Besley gave an illustrated talk on the
noted trees of Maryland. A. L. Sines,
of near Oakland, was among those
present at the meeting.
An exhaustive survey recently COM
pleted in penal institutions of this
country showed that of about $4,000
inmates of those institutions about
600 had received high school educa-
lions and less than 200 were gradu-
ates of colleges and universities. This
report gave rise to a second investi-
cation which was made by an educa-
tional institution of standing, with
that while it requires only about 5000
of public funds per year to educate
boy or girl, beginning with the gram
mar school and on through the college
or university, it requires $500 per
year in actual cash of the public mon
les to maintain prisoner in the insti-
tutions investigated, which leads one
to the conclusion that it is cheaper
to educate a boy or girl than to al