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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-03-03
SELBYSPORT

Several of our residents were pres
ent at the American Legion meeting
at Friendsville on Friday evening.
Frank Frazee lost a valuable COW
one day last week when it was taken
sick and died.
Earl Bowser and family attended
church at Accident on Sunday.
N. r. Selby and W. W. Schlossnagle
were business visitors at Uniontown
Pa, on Saturday.
Misses Ruth Lowdermilk and Jen-
ME Timney were visitors at the home
of Mrs. Donald Frazee on Saturday
Miss Hazel Schlossnagle and Mrs
w. L. Durham were visiting Mr.. and
Mrs. U. S. Frazee one day last week
Floyd Fisher, of near Confluence
was a visitor here Saturday and Sun.
day.
Mrs. Dorsey Fike, Fearer, is visit.
ing at the home of Alva Lytle.
Fred Lowdermilk and family, Of
Friendsvil1e, were visitors on Sunday
of Mr.. and Mrs. ]. T. Grove.
A. W. Grove and family, Friends
vile, were here Sunday visiting Mr.
and Mrs. J. T. Grove.
w. w. Frazee and family, Mill Run
Md, were Sunday visitors of Mr.. and
Mrs. F. L. Frazee.
There are several cases of humps
in this community.
Those who are i'll at present are
U. S. Frazee, Izetta Frazee, Ronald
HENDERSON and Mrs. Donald Frazee
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-03-03
You're Full of Soup

Tell me what you eat and I'll tell
you what you are.
Biting the nails is no indication that
the system needs iron.
The human body requires so many
calories to keep it warm. A calorie
is that amount of heat required to
change square inch of goose flesh
to 81 degrees Fahrenheit, Eastern
Standard Time. 1 will show you the
effects of various foods upon the body
and gravy upon the vest.
Food is divided into several groups:
Fats, starches, blueing, and ironing
wakes. We get our heat from the
sugars, starches and red underwear.
A suit of red underwear is equivalent
in heating value to two portions of
horseradish, a bottle of tobasco, two
oil stoves and one pipeless furnace.
Meat is a vegetable by-product. 1t
is simply hay, grass and grain that
has been predigested by some animal.
Grapefruit is large orange that
has been crossed with a shower bath
like Archibaldson's.
And now, tell me what you eat,
and I'll tell you what you are. I'll
tell you what you are anyway-you-
?*!*- .!?:*-?. Besides that you are
just an ordinary human being and
would like to eat everything if you
were sure you wouldn't get fat, fat
ter, or latest.
Take Scoops advice-eat what you
want and laugh-at least you can
laugh at the other fellow who followed
the same advice. Laughing jiggles
the liver, nourishes the funny bone
and tickles the palate. And to those
who never had their palate tickled
before, believe me, it is some sensa-
ton!
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-03-03
ANYBODY REMEMBER this
PICTURE OF YESTERDAY?
Old Cuts Uncovered in Search
This Week Will Be Published
In The Republican
LOOK FOR THE NEXT ONE

In searching for a particular cut,
requested by customer, members of
The Republican staff uncovered a
number of plates, showing groups of
people gathered at various places in
the past. Some of them are in the
dim past, while others are not so old.
In the hopes that these plates
might recall interesting events in the
lives of its many readers, The Repub-
lican will reprint few of them, be-
ginning this week with a picture TAX
en- in front of the Oakland Grammar
school building.
Information as to the exact date
the picture was taken, and some of
the people shown in it, will be received
at The Republican office with pleas
ure.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-03-03
MARRIAGE LICENSE TOTAL
FOR FEBRUARY SURPASSED
With % Issued in Past Week,
Total for Month is 80


With twenty-five marriage licenses
issued during the final week of the
past month, the February record was
surpassed by nine, at the Office of the
clerk of the Circuit court for Garrett
county. The new record for Febru-
airy is SO and surpasses the former
all-time record of 80, which was made
last year.
Six of the licenses issued during the
past week were granted on Saturday,
one license was marked "don't pub
lish," while two applicants were re-
fused permits on account of the youth
fulness of the contracting parties.
James Holland Mills, 80, paper MAX
er, and Rosa Catherine Funkhouser,
%, paper maker, both of Luke, Md.
George William Brown, Fl, laborer,
Fairmont, West Va, and Hilma Elaine
Boserman, 20, nurse, Norton, w. Va.
Nick Ciccarelli, %, miner, and Mary
Besedich, 10, both of Pennington, w.
Va.
Kenneth Carroll Gregg, %, student,
Morgantown, West Va, and Patricia
Hathaway, "a, student, Redwood, W.
Va.
Marion Doyle Reed, %, dairyman,
and Josephine Elizabeth Boyce, 10,
stenographer, both of Grafton, W. Va.
Lawrence Camden Tate, 10, (par-
ents' consent) truck driver, Union
town, Pa, and Grace Sutton, 10,
Smithfeld, Pa.
Lindsy Lesson, 26, teamster, and
Gladys Ruth Hayhurst, 10, both of
Fairmont, West Va.
Paul Blaine Frum, 81, farmer, Nor
gantown, West Va, and Majorie Helen
Donley, 81, Dilliner, Pa.
Ford Ambrose Fancher, 81, painter,
Schenevus, New York, and Halle Jane
Harvey, "a, Mt. Lake Park, Nd.
William Blondell Barr, 81, mechanic,
Fairview, West Va, and Gladys Merle
Sethtal, 10, Daybrook, West Va.
Charles Henry Fowler, 81, truck
driver, and Syvilla Rae Wilkes, Fl,
nurse, both of Republic, Pa.
Grant W. Reynolds, 25, tool dresser,
Janelew, West Va, and Diana Grace
Spaur, 81, glass worker, Weston, w.
Va.
James Capes, "a, blacksmith helper,
Connellsville, Pa, and Julia Marie
Corona, 81, LaBelle, Pa.
John Willis Nutter, %, farmer, Ok
ford, West Va, and Sylvia Marie
Wade, 81, West Union, West Va.
William Turoczy, %, laborer, Wen
del, West Va, and Alkaline Amelia
Shaw, 81, Grafton, West Va.
Paul Flanagan, 81, mechanic, Hen
bricks, West Va, and Leecy Fay Rem
nix, 10, student, Parsons, West Va.
Charles Edward Berry, "a, sales
man, Fairmont, West Va, and Alice
Marie Gardner, 20, student, Montgom-
cry, West Va.
Harold Golf Erwin, %, planer,
French Creek, West Va, and Sylvia
Jane indian, 26, bookkeeper, Buck
harmon, West Va.
Lawrence Frederick Oneacre, 26,
electrical engineer, New Martinsville,
West Va, and Lena Eleanor Reed, 20,
student, Morgantown, West Va.
Edgar Duke Growden, 26, motion
picture operator, and Thelma Athey,
20, clerk, both Of Cumberland, Md.
Arthur Lewellen, %, laborer, and
Ada Blanche Schroyer, %, store clerk,
both Of Friendsville, Md.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-03-03

The guy who makes you promise
not to tell soul so he can have the
fun of doing it himself.
Necktie f1ippers-out.
Anonymous letter writer's.
"Guess who this is?"
Girls who smoke cigarettes just to
be smart.
Long-winded speakers.
Consistent snorers.
Scandal mongers.
Most of the radio advertising.
People who enjoy bad health-and
like to talk about it.
And a lot of other things.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-03-03
By Scoop Himself

We have some newcomers in ouc
fair town, and I never would have
known they were living here had their
names not been announced from the
Fairmont station where the Boys
Band was broadcasting. They were
Mr.. and Mrs. F. E. Ratbush, Mr.. and
Mrs. Stanton D. Whiskey, Mr.. and
Mrs. Paul B. Waylor, DR.. and Mrs.
Boardwater and Mr.. Condor and Mr..
Kalball (Col. Bell).
And did Mayor Stemple have Micro
phobia for the first few seconds of his
talk! When I asked him for his
speech for publication I told him I
wanted everything except the tremo-
los. Microphobia, if you must know,
is a disease. Very few people are
immune. It strikes one some minutes
before he faces the mike" and usu-
ally fingers a few minutes after he
begins speaking.
Due to Mayor Stemple's strong con-
stitution, his recovery was rapid, and
before he had passed through the in
PRODUCTION he had conquered the dis
ease without resorting to stimulants.
And then, did he tell them about Oak
land? And how! Mayors speech,
minus the tremolos, is found on an
other page of The Republican today.
*##
In case any of the Legionaires or
Rotarians want to know anything
about Fort Necessity, believe that
I can arrange to get speaker here
to address them on the subject.
The high school students who went
to Cumberland to see and hear Ad
miral Byrd last Friday afternoon
thought they were near the South
Pole on their return journey. Their
bus broke down and they called STAN
toms truck into service, and coming
back, it wasn't so hot. It's little
early for open air joy riding.
***
Drug Store Branching Out
Prescription department added to
Kennedy's Cut Rate Drug Store" says
a Washington (Pa.) paper.
***
"There Is little change in trousers"
says the fashion writer. Yes, and the
dollars are all gone, too.
#**
A Boston secretary who killed her
employer will plead insanity, the
newspapers state. Anybody who kills
any employer these days is crazy.
1 WONDER
How many people in the county
there are with birthdays on February
29th? Besides Lois Ross.
If anybody in Oakland can beat me
wiggling my ears.
If we are going to have any win
ter, and if the summer will be turned
topsy-turvy.
If Archibaldson will ever grow up.
If we are helping the Relief Com
mittee as much as we ought?
If anybody still reads this column.
If Henry McComas can whistle with
that front tooth missing.
How Harry Stemple would look on
stills.
Who's going to run for Mayor.
How many bachelors will still be
bachelors on January 1, 1888.
How's your Aunt Fanny?
There Ought To Be a Law Against
Not putting caps back on toothpaste
tubes.
Back-slappers.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-03-03
KITZMILLER
Birthday Party

Mr.. and Mrs. Hugo Devaul gave
a birthday party in honor of their
son "Douggie's" fourth anniversary at
their home Friday evening. Among
those present were Patricia Ann
Shore, Joe Henry Pritts, Billy Mar
tin, James, Johnny Rollman, Larry
DeVaul and their mothers, Mrs. E
James, Mrs. H. J. Pritts, Mrs. Huge
DeVaul, Mrs. ]. A. Shore and Mrs
Clarence Rollman.
Handkerchief Shower
Mrs. Bender's Sunday school class
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-03-03
GEMS OF THOUGHT

Full redemption removes remorse.
Christ can change sadness to glad
ness.
Sin Is like a river which begins in
a quiet spring and ends in stormy
sea.
Jesus on earth-his path, his spirit,
his ways-is the measure Of our walk
and obedience.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-03-03
Gets Bigger Contract

Gets Bigger Contract
Mr.. Earl Stump, superintendent for
the Roberts Schaefer Construction
Company, has completed the work
here and has gone to Widen, West
Va.-From Kempton newsletter.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-03-03

LESSON TEXT-John 13:1-17.
GOLDEN TEXT-Even as the Son Of
man came not to be ministered unto,
but to minister, and to give his life q
ransom for many.
PRIMARY TOPIC-Jesus Washes the
disciples Feet.
JUNIOR TOPIC-Jesus Performs q
Humble Task
INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOP
;1C-Jesus Dignifies Lowly Service.
YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOP.
lIC-The Spirit of Christianity.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-07-28
FATAL LABOR RIOT
AT ILLINOIS DAM
One Killed, Many Wounded
in Marseilles Battle.

Marseilles, Ill-A labor feud, smol-
dering for weeks flared into battle
in this prairie town. In half an hour
of sharp fighting, one man was slain,
two were severely wounded, four
teen others received gunshot wounds
of varying seriousness, and twenty
more were dubbed and beaten.
One hundred and twenty-seven OF
the rioters were in the county jail at
Ottawa. A heavy guard was posted
over the dam under construction on
the Illinois river waterway here where
the outbreak occurred and state police
patroled the town. Sheriff E. ]. We'll
ter and his men held themselves in
readiness in fear Of another clash as
groups of union men gathered on the
street corners and muttered vengeance
against the nonunion workers whose
shotguns, rifles and pistols had driven
off the attack upon the dam.
The slain man was Steve Sutton,
forty=fve, of Joliet. He was one of
the mob of 400 which, armed with
clubs, advanced upon 100 dam workers
who had barricaded themselves behind
heavy trucks and electrically charged
wire. The attackers were largely
made up of recruits from Grundy, La
Sale and Will counties, summoned
here by union officials to picket the
dam and stage demonstrations. SUIT
ton was felled by blast of buckshot
from shotgun. He died half an hour
later.
The most seriously wounded were E.
L. Chambers, Villa Park, ILL.,, shot in
head and arm, and Cecil Hopton, Mar
settles, shot in eye and head. All
those wounded were union workers
the barricaded dam workers.
One Of the strange features Of the
riot was the fact that the squabbble
which caused it had just been ironed
out in conference between Herbert
w. Miller, superintendent of the Mil
er-Hutchinson Construction company,
which is building the dam, and Tony
Augustine of Joliet business agent of
the laborers' union, which was seeking
to organize local in Marseilles and
put union laborers to work on the dam.
Miller met Augustine at the Ottawa
airport and agreed to permit union
to be formed and to pay his laborers
40 cents an hour.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-07-28
Mellon Coming Home to
Talk of War Debts Cut

London.-Andrew w. Mellon, Amer
lean ambassador, sailed for home on
the Majestic to lay before President
Hoover personally Europe's urgent
plea for drastic reduction in the war
debts owed the United States.
This was learned from reliable
sources shortly after the unexpected
announcement of Melons departure
was made.
Even at the embassy, where it was
emphasized that the ambassadors trip
was in connection with personal af-
fairs, 1t was admitted that he would
seize the opportunity to acquaint the
President with his observations on the
European political and economic sit
uation.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-07-28
Flyer "Points" Burning
Craft at Sea; Four Rescued

Monmouth Beach, N. J.-Lieut. W..
w. Harrison, an army pilot attached
to the staff Of Gov. A. Harry Moore
Of New Jersey, dipped, banked and
stunted over the ocean ten miles off
Monmouth beach until he attracted
attention to the plight Of four men
threshing about in the sea after their
cabin cruiser had burst into flames
AS a result, the fishing boat Fidus
from Sheepshead Bay, N. Y, raced to
the spot and rescued the four just as
one, thoroughly exhausted, was about
to sink.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-07-28

perhaps in this instance the rabbits
foot worked backwards You just
can't trust magic not to reverse itself
for some people. Take four-leaf clo-
vers. 10 the vast majority they bring
good luck, but to little Eva they
bring illness, disappointment and dis
aster, and she would sooner pick poi
son Ivy than the treacherous clover
Then there are the terrible black
cats, the sight Of which is fraught
with disaster for so many. With
little Eva the omen reverses Itself.
She Is cat worshiper and has raised
dozens of black ones. She became
so used to their crisis crossing before
her that 1t established sort of i'm
munity. She discovered it once when
black cat saved her life. The an
imal ran across her path and she
stopped to pet 1t just before two au.
tomobiles crashed together and piled
up on the sidewalk Mt the exact spot
where she would have been passing
IL oiiC hduh oIoppCu " pCt LiC Sot.
Our office boy is not so lucky. The
last time black cat ran across his
path he had four fiat tires before the
day was done. True, the tires weren't
so good anyway, but they would have
held up very well If it hadn't been
for the cat. He has very bad luck
with brooms. too. Every time he Is
hit by one he gets arrested for some
thing. Once when he was sweeping
out his fathers store. he hit a friend
playfully with the broom. "Oh, don't
do that" the friend cried, "I'll be ar
rested" And within "a hours he
was riding to Jail in the Black Maria
for speeding Little Eva says it is
sure sign and that one reason she
hates housework is that brooms are
such menace. The vacuum cleaner
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-07-28

has helped to keep some Of our best
women out Of Jail. Eva thinks it
would be smart idea for all police
men to carry broom with which to
hit obstreperous gangsters.
Down in the island Of Haiti they
have a sweet little custom that Eva
is thinking of adopting. They make
an effigy Of their enemies which they
torture with good effect. In order to
make the torture effective they must
get a piece of their enemy to paste
on the efligy. A hair from his head,
pairing from his toe nail, or even
the dirt upon which he has spat is
sufficient The witch doctor then
puts curse on the image. and all
that is necessary is to stick pin in
the effigy in the exact spot where you
want the enemy to hurt. The only
trouble Is that it doesn't work so
we'll on Americans. When the Unit
ed States marines went to Haiti the
natives made countless effigies with
which to torture the intruders, who
guffawed loudly at the spectacle, and
never had single pain. This would
argue that the enemy must be pos
sessed of a lively belief in magic be-
fore he could be discounted, but it is
worth trial.
No matter how much common
sense people have, few Of them are
free from some form of superstition.
There are those who swoon If they
sit down to a table that has thirteen
round it. Others can't walk under
ladder without falling in fit. but
Eva Is the only one know who be-
lieves in every form of balderdash in
existence. Even when the rabbit
foot slips 1t has no effect on her be-
lief in charms or her vivid respect
for voodooism.- Indianapolis News.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-07-28
NOT ALWAYS WISE
TO TRUST "CHARMS"
Some Have Been Known to
Work Backwards.

Little Eva Is the most superstitious
person / know. She wears an ele-
plants hair ring on her finger and
carries a rabbits foot in her bag.
She observes all the known cere-
monies for prevention of misfortune,
such as saying "bread and butter"
when walking with a friend and the
two are separated by passing on OPP
posite sides of a lamp post. When.
ever she is unwise enough to remind
the unkind fates that she has not
had cold in long time, she finds
that 1t confuses them a little If she
knocks on wood and it cripples their
efforts at revenge.
Recently she presented a friend
rabbits foot for her protection, but
it played her false. Shortly there
after the friend was in an automo.
bile accident, and had her scalp
ripped open for quite space. But
did this disaster shake Eva's faith in
efficacy of rabbit pedals? Not at all
She had two explanations ready in a
moment. One was that inasmuch as
she had not killed the rabbit herself
she could not be sure that it was
the left hind foot This is the only
foot that has any real magic in it.
but commercial dealers are not care
full to ascertain the original location
of the amputated foot.
The other explanation is that ev-
erybody has two contrary signs. and
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-07-28
Biblical Fortress of Sichem

fered bold spectacle: with the hor
'zontal lines Of the walls, one super.
Imposed upon the other: with the
gigantic dimensions Of it's stones. all
concentrated in the elliptic city plan
the fortress doomed in the landscape
Standing at it's side. the two natural
bulwark. Mounts Garizim and Ebal,
reinforced the impression of i'm.
pregnabilty.
Even today one who stands at the
foot Of these gigantic walls has the
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-07-28
T. A. Clark, Famous Dean
of Men. Dies in Urbana

Urbana, Il.-Thomas Ankle Clark,
Americas pioneer dean of men. is
dead. He who knew more men per-
sonally than perhaps any other cam
pus personality died Of an ailment
diagnosed as cancer. He had been i'll
since his retirement from the faculty
Of the University of Illinois last Au-
gust. He was seventy.
Dean Clark was the originator
among universities of the office from
which he retired. His mastery of stu
dent psychology brought him nation
al fame.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-07-28

Geographically Sichem was one Of
the most important points in Pales.
tine. Situated in the narrow noun
tain pass between Mounts Garizim
and Ebal-the high road of travel
between the east and west-it
blocked the route from the Jordan
valley TO the coast plain and pro
invasions of the nomadic hortes
coming from the east. It's strategic
function Is thus obvious. Sichem Of
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-07-28

sense of being. as the Biblical peo-
pie walled. "in our own sight as
grasshoppers. One is impressed
by It's sheer physical strength. and
understands the fearful panic of the
Tsraeltes as they listened in Kadesh
Barnea to the reports which their
spies brought back from the Land
of Canaan.
The builders of this fortification
system were the Utilities. who were
known to have dwell in Sichem as
early as the time of Jacob. 1900 B.
G. (Gen. 34).
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-07-28
Les Angeles Judge Indicted

Los Angeles.-The county grand
jury indicted Superior Judge Walter
s. Gate on charges growing out of
the American Mortgage company re-
Ownership racket Investigation. The
indictment charged receiving bride.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-07-28
Milk Given Away
in Los Angeles War

Los Angeles-A milk war ragged in
Los Angeles with many markets sell
ing milk at 3 cents a quart, or two
quarts for cents. Several of the
stores gave milk away with the pur-
chase Of other articles. Milk dealers
said they feared the price war would
last at least 80 days.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-07-28
Use Double Shifts

Hartford, Conn.-Rubber factories
In Naugatuck are operating double
shifts, with the largest pay rolls In
three years, the state department Of
labor reported.