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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1928-05-03
GARRETT COUNTY WOMAN
ATTEMPTS TO END LIFE
Ill Health and Dependency Are
Given as Cause For Act.

Mrs. Cora Duckworth, wife of Chas.
Duckworth, residing one mile east of
State Line on the National Highway,
and three miles west of Keyser Ridge,
attempted to end her life by cutting
her throat in four places with razor,
at the family home sometime between
three and five o'clock on last Wednes-
day morning. Mrs. Duckworth has
been in i'll health for some time, hav-
ing undergone a surgical operation
and not having fully recovered from
it's effects. She has been Respondent
and was unable to work, it was stated
by members of the family and those
who made an investigation of the
affair.
Mrs. Duckworth was found at five
o'clock by her husband, who was
sleeping in an adjoining room at the
home. DR.. N. R. Davis, Grantsville,
was Immediately summoned and he
dressed the woman's wounds and as
sured the members of the family that
she would recover. Mrs. Duckworth
was in very weakened condition as
result of losing so much blood prior
to her discovery and the arrival of
the physician.
She is the eldest daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Peter Beachy and the mother
of five children
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1928-05-03
To Hold Two District Short
Courses May As; May rs.

Miss Venia M. Kellar, State Home
Demonstration leader, has made spe-
cial arrangements for two district
short course meetings in clothing and
house furnishing. Miss Helen Shelby,
the district agent and clothing special
list, will be in the county and conduct
these meetings, Miss Elsie Benthien,
local agent, has announced.
The first meeting will be held May
AS in Grantsville for the members of
the Homemakers Clubs in Accident,
Friendsville, Bittinger, Turner and
Grantsville. The second meeting will
be held in Oakland on Monday and
Tuesday, May and 8, for the Home
makers Clubs of Sunnyside, Mt. Lake
Park, Loeb Lynn Heights, Hutton and
Oakland.
The course will include fitting and
making guide pattern, color, chill
dren's clothes, window decoration and
house furnishings. A more detailed
plan of work and program will be sent
to all Homemokers' Club members in
a short time.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1928-05-03
BOYS BAND STILL HAS
ROOM FOR NEW MEMBERS
Additional Boys Will Be Wei
confederation Made

There is still plenty of room in the
Gilbert-Brown Boys Band for new
members, stated r. R. Gilbert, direc-
tor, yesterday, and anyone who is de-
sirous of joining is most welcome, he
said. The altos, trombones, baritones
and bass horn sections will be built
up by any new applicants, as the band
now has plenty of cornet and clarinet
players.
The cornet of DR.. John E. Legge,
of Baltimore, which was given to the
band as long as use was made of it,
was brought to Oakland last Thursday
by Mr.. Henry Lauer upon his return
from Baltimore, and this will be given
to one of the members of the organi-
cation.
There was a donation of five dol
lars this week." Mr. Gilbert said. "The
donor expressed wish that nothing
be said to indicate who it was that
gave SO literally"
New caps were purchased and were
given to the boys last Sunday after
noon. These caps will be worn by
the members upon all public occa-
sions. 1t is also planned to buy white
trousers to match the hats in the very
near future. ''The band will appear
on the street before very long" Mr..
Gilbert promised.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1928-05-03
Only Seven ReactOrs Found In
1914 Cattle Given Tuberculin
Test in Garrett County

Twelve hundred fourteen cattle have
been subjected to the tuberculin test
in Garrett county during the past four
weeks by DR.. D. E. Poe and DR.. M. H.
Trout, of the Department of Agricui-
ture, and only seven reactors have
been discovered, according to County
Agent J. L. McGlone. This is still
far better than any other county in
the State" Mr.. McGlone said yester-
day.
The two specialists will be here two
or three weeks longer, it was stated,
as they expect to make the test in
the Ryan's Glade section of the county
within the next few days. Many re-
quests have come to the county agent
for this test and he wants all those
who desire the test to notify him at
once.
Cement Specialist Here.
C. E. Wise, cement specialist, is in
Oakland and vicinity this week in the
interest of better dairying conditions
and is lecturing at the various high
schools in the county.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1928-05-03
PLANS BEING WORKED OUT
FOR FRIENDSVLLE SCHOOL
New Elementary and High Build
ing Expected to be Erected and
Completed by October First

Plans and specifications are being
worked out by the County Board of
Education for the erection of new
elementary and high school building
at Friendsville, according to County
Superintendent of Schools F. E. Rath-
bun.
Capt. A. A. Hileman, Frederick, is
the architect and he has promised to
send blue prints of the proposed build
ing within the next few days, Mr..
Rathbun said. When these are APP
proved and adopted by the Board Of
Education bids will be asked for the
erection of the structure.
The building, which will be modern
in every department, will contain ten
to twelve rooms, one of which will be
spacious assembly hall. The struc-
ture, should it be erected, will be COM
pleted and ready for occupancy in
November or December, according to
present plans. -'.-
In preparation for this building pro-
gram practically block of land in
the town of Friendsville was purchas-
ed in December, 1925, and plans have
been more or less in the working ever
since.
The Friendsville building will COM
plete a sort of cycle among the high
schools in the county. In 1918 the
Oakland high school was begun, and
since that time Grantsville high school
has been substantially added to; Kitz-
miller has had new building erected;
an addition has been built to the Ac-
cident structure and according to the
rotation of the cycle, it is now the
turn of Friendsville.
Additions and improvements to
other buildings are badly needed at
this time, but it was felt that the need
of Friendsville was the most pressing
in the matter of facilities for edu-
eating the present generation of boys
and girls.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1928-05-03
Standard Teacher Training
School To Open Monday Night

The Standard Teachers Training
school will hold it's first session on
Monday evening, May 7, at 1880, in
St. Marks Lutheran church, Oakland,
and will continue each evening with
two class periods and chapel period,
concluding on Friday evening when
credits and awards will be given out,
according to officials who have been
instrumental in having the school or
ganized.
Three splendid courses are being
offered, with splendid teachers. Text
books will be used in each course and
each pupil is required to register.
All officers, teachers and Sunday
school workers in the community are
expected to take. advantage of this
school and opportunities it offers.
The officers are expecting an enroll
ment of one hundred students.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1928-05-03
JOS. E. HARMED ELECTED
PRESIDENT OF ROTARIANS
At Meeting of Board of Direc-
tors Held Last Night.

Joseph E. Harmed was elected presi-
dent of the Oakland Rotary Club at
a meeting of the Board of Directors
held last night at the William-James
Hotel and will succeed DR.. Henry w.
McComas, who has served in that ca
pacity since the organization of the
club more than two years ago.
Mr.. F. E. Rathbun was elected vice
president; Delbert Davis, secretary;
R. R. Gilbert, treasurer; H. c. Sincell,
sergeant-at-arms.
The Board of Directors was chosen
at the regular meeting of the club on
last Friday night and is composed Of
the following Walter W. Dawson, j.
E. Harmed, Charles w. Ream, F. E.
Rathbun, James A. fowler, R. R. Gil
bert and H. W. McComas, the latter a
member of the board by virtue of be-
ing past president of the club.
Mr.. Gilbert, Mr.. H. A. Loraditch and
Mr.. Ream all gave short impromptu
talks at the meeting Friday evening.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1928-05-03
Boys Potato Club Getting Ready
for Planting Seed

Planting of the certified potato seed
sent out by the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad to the Certified Potato Seed
Club of Oakland and vicinity, will
take place in a short time, according
to o. T. eraser, agricultural instructor
in the Oakland high school, who is su-
pervising the work. L. S. Hartley,
agricultural agent for the Baltimore
and Ohio, was in Oakland on Saturday
and distributed the seed, which came
from Northern New York growers.
The members of the club, who are
planting one-half acre each of pota-
toes are as follows Lawrence Bittinger
William Friend, Joseph Glotfelty, Ben
son Kelley, Harland Ridder, William
Spiker, Charles Spoerlein, Logan
Weber, Wellington WEIGH and Lester
White.
The railway company furnishes five
bushels of seed potatoes to each men,
Der, which is sufficient to plant a
quarter of an acre, and each boy has
purchased additional seed which will
give him a quantity sufficient to plant
another quarter acre. The work will
be inspected at regular intervals by
Mr.. Hartley and County Agent Nc
Clone. A prize will be awarded the
grower of the best crop.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1928-05-03
WORST STORM OF SEASON
FELT DURING WEEK END
Fall of rs Inches of Snow Re-
corded, Which Leaves Sud-
denly, md Flood Feared

One of the worst snow storms of the
year was experienced in this section of
the country on Friday and Saturday,
the U. S. Weather Bureau instrument
at Weber's showing that 26 inches OF
snow fell during the period from
Thursday midnight until Saturday af-
ternoon at five o'clock.
High winds in parts of the county
drifted the snow and blocked all high
ways leading out of Oakland until
late Sunday night.
The West Penn buses, operating be-
tween Oakland Morgantown; the Mey-
er Transit Co., operating a line of
buses to Thomas and Davis, and the
Blue Ridge busses running from Oak
land to the National Highway, wer9
all unable to maintain their schedules.
In some cases all attempts to make the
runs were abandoned, especially on
the Keyser Ridge and Morgantown
runs, when the vehicles became snow
bound on the roadways. Telephone
communication was interrupted as
well as telegraph lines being down I'M
til Monday. Oakland and other sec
lions served by the West Maryland
Company, was without lights or cleo
trio power from Saturday afternoon
until Saturday night nine o'clock.
Grantsville and the surrounding
territory was without electric energy
from Friday until Sunday night.
Flood Was Feared.
When Wilson Greek, which runs
through the heart of town, began to
rise rapidly Monday morning a flood
in the business section of town was
feared. The water continued to rise
until evening when the creek waters
receded. About this time Little Youg1
River showed signs Of rising and 1t
was feared that the waters from this
stream, backing up into Wilson Greek
would eventually overflow and do dam
age to the stores and other property,
UuG IONdIu evening IllS "eNNA SNNN-Ne>
back in the regular channels and the
pending danger was passed.
Members of the Oakland Volunteer
Fire Department and several of the
City Councilmen worked throughout
the day in doing what they could to
relieve conditions as they arose along
the creek and river banks.
Damage to Telephone Co.
Maryland telephone companies SUI
fered severely, 300 poles being broken
down and service to more than 25O0
families was interrupted, The cost
to the telephone company by reason
of the damage sustained as result OF
the storm will be more than 100000,
according to W. A. Condit, vice-presl-
dent of the C. & P. Telephone Com
pany. In West Virginia the damage
was in excess of $225,000; in Virginia,
the estimate was placed at $4,000.
Tuesday saw hardly a trace of the
severe setback to the season, as the
strong sunshine of Sunday and Mon
day quickly melted the snow.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1928-05-03
GAS RATE TO Be REDUCED
JUNE |, IT is ANNOUNCED
New Schedule Will Affect Oak
land, Mountain Lake Park,
Loeb Lynn and Deer Park

A new scale of rates, descending
from the present flat rate of 80 cents
per thousand cubic feet, has been filed
voluntary with the Public Service
Commission of Maryland by the Cum
berland and Allegheny Gas company,
according to R. R. Gilbert, local man.
ager, and beginning June l, the low
er rate will go into effect. Letters
regarding this reduction were sent to
the Mayors and Town Councils of Nj.
Lake Park, Loeb Lynn, Deer Park and
Oakland.
Following is the new schedule Of
rates as announced in the letter:
Rate per thousand Gu. fit. for first
5000 Gu. it., gross, 81 cents, net, 80
cents; rate per thousand Gu. it. for
next 5000 Gu. it., gross 72 cents, net
70 cents; rate per thousand Gu. #.
for all additional gas, gross 81 cents,
net 60 cents.
The gross revenue, based on 1927
consumption, will be reduced by S22,-
900, it was stated, and corresponding
ly the Maryland consumers will be
benefited by $4,000.
This is a voluntary reduction on
the part of the Gas company, accord
ing to j. A. Mayors, vice-president,
in order that it's domestic and COM
mercial consumers may be in a posi-
ton to enjoy more liberal use OF
gas, and for a greater variety of pur
poses, at a very much less possible
cost than under the present flat rate.
for the training of officers and also
for teachers. At least one hundred
registrants are expected.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1928-05-03
BOTH PARTIES TO HAVE A
PRIMARY ELECTION MAY 7
Republicans and Democrats to
go to Polls Monday To Partici-
pate in Choosing Candidates

Primary elections for both the Re-
publican and Democratic parties will
be conducted in Garrett county Oh
Monday, May 7, according to the
Board of Supervisors of Elections Of
the county which body gives the law
full notice in today's Republican and
has also caused a facsimile of both
the Republican and Democratic bal
lots to be published.
The Republicans, in voting for Her.
bert Hoover for president indicate
their choice of him as their candidate,
but should they vote for an uninstruct-
ed delegation then their votes would
indicate their preference for some Of
the other candidates for the nomi-
nation for the presidency.
The Democrats, according to the
ballot published in The Republican,
will vote for either Senator Bruce oc
Mrs. Virginia Peters-Parkhurst for
the nomination for United States Sem
ator.
The places for holding the polls may
be ascertained by referrin gto the
notice of election, which is also print
ed in The Republican today. The polls
will open at 800 a. m. and close at
700 p. M, when the ballots shall be
counted, as provided by law.
Those nominated at the primary
election in Maryland and the Presiden-
tial candidates to be named by the
National conventions of the major
parties will be the candidates to be
voted for at the general election n
November of this year. In addition
the following candidates will be voted
for at the November election, they
having complied with the provisions of
the election law and being unopposed
in their own parties:
For United States Senator: Phil
lips Lee Goldsborough, Republican.
For Congress: Frederick N. Zih'-
man, Republican; Davis j. Lewis, of
Cumberland, Democratic.
Certificates of candidacy for dele
gates to the Republican State conven-
ton to be held in Baltimore, have been
filed with the local Board of Election
Supervisors, and as they are unoppos-
ed, certificates of election will be is
sued to them:
Republican convention: L. M. Fra
ley, Ernest R. Jones, Henry Meyers
and Benjamin H. Sincell.
Democratic State Convention: E.
A. Shaffer.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1928-05-03
Ryan's Glade Farmers Meet to
Discuss Good Roads.

About twenty farmers were present
at a special meeting at Ryan's Glade
last Thursday, when good roads and
dairying were discussed at some
length.
Many farmers of that section are
DESTROYS of bringing their milk to
Oakland to be shipped, according to
J. L. McGlone, county agent, but the
lack of good roads does not permit
this except at certain periods of the
year.
A committee was appointed at the
meeting to wait on the County Com
missioners in the interest of an i'm
proved road through that section.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1928-05-03
r. r. Siding Expected to be Built
Soon

The railway siding, which is to lead
to the site of the proposed new dairy
in Oakland, which was to have been
constructed this week by the Balti-
more and Ohio railroad, will be put in
as soon as the farmers have guaran-
teed the delivery of 500 gallons Of
milk daily, County Agent McGlone
said this morning. Promises for APP
proximately 45O gallons have already
been made" he said, land l expect to
have the required amount by the end
of the week."
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1928-05-03
HEALTH WEEK IN GARRETT
COUNTY MAY 2S-JUNE |
Clinics for Children, Tuberculo'
sis and Orthopedics for Chill
dren To Comprise Program

A welfare clinic for children from
one to seven years of age, tubercu'
losis clinic for all ages, pre-school
clinic and the second orthopedic clinic
to be held in Garrett county, will be
the program to be carried out during
the week of May %, which has been
designated as Health Week, according
to Miss Rhesa NJ. King, county public
health nurse of Oakland.
The program as arranged is as fol-
lows: May %, welfare clinic for chill
dren from one to four years Of age,
starting at $3.50 o'clock and continu-
ing throughout the day. This clinic
will be in charge of Dr.. Charlotte
Gardner, of Cumberland.
May 20, the same clinic continued
for children from four to seven years
old. There will be examinations Of the
chest, ewes, ears, nose, throat, teeth,
weight and measurement and those
needing attention will be referred to
their family physician for diagnosis
and treatment.
Nav 30, tuberculosis clinic to be
conducted by DR.. John Nicholas, Bal
timore. All old cases as well as new
ones should report at this clinic. Chest
condition, expectoration Of blood, etc,
will he investigated
May 81, clinic for all children OF
pre-school age, who will be old enough
to attend school in the fall, will be
conducted by local physicians and any
one in the county who is in Oakland
on that day, may be examined free or
charge. This is to ascertain whether
or not the child is in proper condition
to enter school, This clinic will he
held in connection with the Field Day
meet. which is to occur on that day
in Oakland.
June l, the second orthopedic clinic
in the history of the county will be
held with DR.. George Gennett, OF Bal
timore, in charge. All return cases
and any other cases not examined last
year should attend at this time.
Lunch will be served at the Court
House, as was last year. The Boy
Scouts will assist and cars for the
TRANSFORMATION of patients will be do
mated by members of the Oakland
Rotary Club. More details of this
clinic will be announced later, Miss
King said.
Money For the Cripples.
The Lenten service offerings taken
in the various churches prior to Eas-
ter, amounting to $52.42, has beea
turned over to Miss King for the ben
eft of the crippled children.
Other Health Notes.
Miss King returned home Saturday
from the health conference in Balti-
more where she spoke on Supervision
of Crippled Children" Before return
ing she visited all the orthopedic pa
tients now in the hospital sent from
Garrett county and found them doing
quite well.
Miss King has just completed an
examination of pupils in the Grants
vile district, after having spent three
weeks in that community. Children
with defects were referred to the fam
lily physician for diagnosis and treat
ment.
Patients for the tuberculosis pre-
ventorium, a camp located near Bal
timore for tuberculosis contacts, are
now being lined up by Miss King.
Those in the county to go to the in
stitution will be selected in short
time, she said.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1928-05-03
Nominations at Deer Park.

At a massmeeting of the citizens
of Deer Park held one evening last
week the following nominations were
made for the municipal election to be
held during the present month; For
Mayor, Charles A. Ashby; for Coun-
cilmen, P. J. Garrett, j. W. Walter,
Michael Madigan, P. J. Lohr, R. l..
Sebold and H. V. Thrasher.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1928-05-03

Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Stanton have
announced the birth of son, Andrew
Robert, born yesterday morning.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-04
LUTHER LEAGUE

An invitation to attend the seventh
annual convention OF the Maryland
Synodical Luther League has been ex-
tended to all Luther Leaguers by Rev.
Or. Ulysses S. G. Rupp. pastor of
Evangelical Lutheran Church, Frederick,
Md. the convention church. This con-
vention will be held September and
3. Austin w. Howard, corresponding
and statistical secretary of the Mary
land Synodical Luther League, has rem
iered report. showing the substantial
gains In the league work. Other printed
reports have been furnished by Robert
c. Blocher. treasurer; Virgil w. Doub.
educational secretary; Hugh ], Rhyme,
life service secretary. II. p. Carnmerer.
sustaining membership committee men,
Der: Mrs. w. Y. Garrett. junior league
secretary and Miss Hattie c. Herbert,
intermediate secretary.
During the first three Sundays IN
August Miss Emma Holzer. District
league missionary secretary, will super
intend the Sunday school organized at
the tuberculosis health camp. The
boys class will be taught by Robert J.
Volland. president-elect of the Luther
League of the District Of Columbia, and
Henry Whiting. intermediate secretary
of Rtonement Luther League, vice c.
Bertram GelSton. District league treas
urer. who is attending the Lutheran
Summer assembly at Gettysburg, Pa
Personal Conviction Versus Follow
ing the Crowd" is the topic which will
be presented tomorrow evening at
Zion's League. Second and UpShur
streets. by Miss Mary Leonherger, and
at Luther Place Church by Miss Mar
garet Simonson.