The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1931-09-03
TO BROADCAST FEW MUSIC
NUMBERS OF FESTIVAL
Tableland Group Will Be Heard
Over KDKA, Pittsburgh, Be
tween l: 80 and 200 Friday
NEW TALENT UNCOVERED

A foretaste of the quality of music
to be presented at the Allegheny Ia
bleland Association Music Festival at
Somerset, Pa, Saturday and Sunday
of this week, will be given to the pub
lie from 1:30 to 200 o'clock, Eastern
Standard Time, from radio station
KDKA, Pittsburgh, when participants
in the Festival will go on the air.
A new personality will join the
ranks of radio performers when Mil
lard Williams, of Tunnelton, w. Va,
"The Mountain Oriole," will whistle
bird limitations learned. direct from
the birds in his own Preston county
mountains.
Garrett Stringed Instrumentalists
L. Guy Garrett, of Uniontown, Pa,
will lead the Garrett Family Quartet
in string numbers. Others of the
quartet are his three sisters, Miss lima
Garrett, Bertha Garrett Jeffrey and
Matilda Garrett Hunter Soloist for
this group is Jess Sargent, of Browns
vile, Pa. The CARROTS will on this
occasion confine themselves to "Zeb
Turner's GAL" "The Grounding Song"
and possibly one other.
Miss Frances Hockinberry, of Nor
gantown, W. Va, will play "The Bum
hlo Roo - or, ;,,,;tot;1,o ,,,,DoLo,, ~ A.
violin, and will also present a num-
Der on the marimba.
Darcy Wilson, of Morgantown, W.
Va, director of the Music Festival
pageant, will outline the eight coun-
ties of the Tableland, will explain the
purpose of the Allegheny TableIand
Association, and will extend an invi-
tation to attend the Music Festival
the following day. He will also pre-
sent the musicians to the radio audi
ence. Miss Sara B. Huff, of the Agri-
cultural Extension Service of West
Virginia University, will extend an in
vitation to attend the Sunday concert
of home and religious songs, and will
devote few words to her music pro-
gram in West Virginia.
To Crown Queen Mapleheart
J. V. Babcock, Allegheny county
(Pa-) commissioner and leading lum-
herman, of Pittsburgh, Pa, will crown
Betty Beachy, II, of Grantsville, as
Queen Mauleheart at the maple sugar
pageant in Saturdays program. Ev-
cry child in Grantsville under IL years
of age has been invited to participate
in the maple sugar pageant.
The pageant on Saturday afternoon
will portray the early lumber indus
try of the Tableland region and give
the public an understanding of the
value of tableland products and all it
has to offer.
There will be union community Sum-
day school service on Sunday morn
ing and on Sunday afternoon the pro-
gram, beginning about 1:30 o'clock,
will be in the nature of an art pro-
gram made up Of all the talent fur
nished by choruses, bands, male and
female voices in anthems and special
and community singing.
Garrett county will send quite
delegation of people to watch the pag-
eantry and also to take part in var
ious sections of the program. On
Saturday about so people of Grants
vile will take part in the pageant,
along with the Junior drum and bugle
corps from Oakland; while on Sunday
there will be the grange choirs, the
union choir of Oakland, the American
Legion drum and bugle corps, and the
Brown Boys band of Oakland.
Cecil Ramsey will run his bus to
Somerset on Saturday, leaving Mt.
Lake postoffice at $3.50 a. M, and
Oakland, City Hall, on Third street,
at 8:45 a. m. The trip can be made
for $1.O0.