The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1931-10-22
TABLELAND GROUP ELECTS
OFFICERS FOR YEAR 1882
]. B. Watson, Confluence, Again
Chosen President; Oakland
Bids For Music Festival
TO COPYRIGHT SLOGAN.

Reorganization OF the Allegnany
Tableland Association, and plans for
an ambitious program for 1882 were
the fruits of the second annual meet
ing of the Association at Brookside
Inn, near Aurora, last Friday evening.
]. B. Watson, of Confluence, Pa,
was elected president of the Table
land group, after having acted as
president for nearly year. Nat T.
Frame, of Morgantown, w. Va, was
named vice-president, and Mrs. Ruby
Ward, of Masontown, w. Va, was
chosen secretary. Delbert Davis, of
Oakland, was elected treasurer. Bush
rod Grimes, of Mountain Lake Park,
organizer of the association, had been
the secretary-treasurer during the
past year.
A board of directors composed of
two members from each of the three
states of the Tableland was elected
by each state acting separately, and
the board selected the officers. The
Pennsylvania members are W. Guy
Critchfeld, of Somerset, and Mr.. Wat
son, of Confluence; from Maryland,
Delbert Davis, Oakland, and Charles
w. Ream, Crellin, were chosen; West
Virginia members are Mrs. Ward and
Fred Stemple, of Eglon. Two mem
bers from the Pittsburgh Chamber Of
Commences Tableland Council were
named, Joseph T. Miller and Joseph
P. Taggart, both of Pittsburgh.
Oakland and Somerset, Pa, both
made bids for the second annual Ia
bleland Music Festival next year, but
action on this question was referred
to the board of directors, to be de-
cided within one month.
To Copyright Slogan
A committee was named to obtain
a copyright for the name and slogan
of the Tableland Association, the same
to be used in marketing standardized
high quality Tableland products, con-
sisting mainly of maple products, po-
tatoes and buckwheat. This was the
first move on the part of the Table
land to act as an agency encouraging
the commercial development of the
eight counties in the three States.
Another committee was selected to
attend the annual meeting of the Gar
rett County Maple Products Associa-
ton, to confer with that organization
and to make arrangements for cooper
alton with it.
DR.. w. B. Hindman, chairman of the
Fort Necessity Memorial Association
at Uniontown, Pa, extended an invi-
tation for the Tableland group to pre-
sent a pageant on Monday, July 4,
1882, in connection with the three-day
dedication of the reconstructed Fort
Necessity. This matter was referred
to a special committee.
The Allegheny Tableland area, a
part of the Greater Pittsburgh re-
gion, occupies the highland portions
of Fayetts and Somerset counties,
Pa; Garrett county, Md; Preston,
Monongalia, Tucker, Mineral and
Grant counties, West Virginia.
Quite a number of persons from
Oakland and vicinity attended the
Brookside meeting, including almost
the entire membership of the local
Rotary Club, some Of whom were ac-
companied by their wives, and num-
Der of others.
Miss Sara B. Huff, whose work as
the director of the Somerset Music
Festival is well remembered and APP
preciated, was one of the guests at
the dinner following the afternoons
meeting of the Tableland Association.