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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-08-11
TO INVESTIGATE RELIEF
NEEDS OF COUNTY AUG. 16
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the School Board office, less than 1000
children attended the elementary
schools, and it is obvious that every
one of them did not require assis-
lance. Mrs. Tower states that she told
Mr.. Lewis that school children would
need 5000 pairs of shoes this school
year.
However, conditions are critical in
many sections. At present, according
to Mrs. Towers report made to The
Republican Tuesday, 816 families,
comprising 1850 individuals, are now
receiving aid in one form or another.
At Kitzmiller alone, mining town in
the Potomac Valley, 300 sacks of flour
are distributed weekly by the Red
Cross. Since the first of the year
two carloads of flour have been used
and two additional cars have been re-
quested to take care of the demand.
The Friends Service Committee ex-
pended $4,000 in this county last win
ter, giving hot lunches and milk to
4O1 school children in nine schools,
and in supplying food to many pre-
school children, mothers and infants.
This assistance ended on July IS. The
Garrett County Chapter Of the Red
Cross has spent $3.50 since the first of
the year and the Central and local
Relief committees more than $500,
made up of donations from local peo-
pie and the Children's Aid Socitey of
Maryland.
Mr.. Lewis, in his report, said he
learned that most of the miners in
Garrett county are getting work only
one day a week and many of them
less. This report included towns of
Crellin, Vindex, Kempton, Shallmar,
Bloomington, Jennings, Kitzmiller
and others.
The case of the farmers is not as
acute as the miners. They are get
ting sufficient to eat as general rule,
although they have taxes to pay and
practically no profits from their pro-
ducts with which to meet them. Many
miners have set out garden plots
this year which will help to support
them during the winter, but in some
mining sections the ground is too
rocky for productivity.
Mr.. Lewis said his visit in Garrett
county had convinced him of the ne
cessity of Governor Richie making
application as soon as possible for re-
lief under the Federal Relief act
passed by Congress in the last days
of the past session.
The Federal Relief act provides
$780, 100000 for relief purposes to the
states. Any state is permitted Is
percent of this amount, but applica-
ton must come from the governor.
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THOMAS r. MURPHY.

Thomas R. Murphy, aged II years
and Is days, died at his home at Dry
Run on Tuesday, August 2, 1882.
He united with the Methodist Epis-
copal church early in life and re-
manned steadfast throughout his en-
tire life. He had been ill more than
eight years.
He is survived by his wife and
eight children and two step-daugh-
tiers. His first wife was Clara Myers
who died March 6, 1901. To this
union were born two children, James
R. Murphy, Cumberland; and Mrs
Clarence Preston, Frostburg. The sur
viving wife was Lula Alexander Ora
ham, and to this union were born six
children, Glenn T., of Bittinger; Rob-
ert B., Allan S., John H., Wilmer E.,
and Mrs. Howard Broadwater, at
home. The step-daughters are Mrs
Fred Beeman, Nikep, Md, and Mrs
Russell Otto, Homecoming.
Funeral services were held Thurs
day afternoon, August 4, at Dry Run
school house with Rev. H. A. Groves,
of Frostburg, Officiating. Interment
was made in the Murphy cemetery.
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Delegates Attend Pittsburgh
Tableland Meeting

Messrs. C. N. McIntire, Delbert
Davis, Cheston H. Browning, and L.
S. Middaugh attended the meeting
of a committee in Pittsburgh which
is planning for the joint conference
of the Allegheny Tableland associa-
ton and the Allegheny Tableland
council of the Pittsburgh Chamber of
Commerce, which is to be held at Mt.
Lake Park August &c and 81.
The Pittsburgh group plans to send
delegation larger in number than
that which came on the two-day tour
in June, and all the people of the
Tableland are being urged to attend.
A definite program for community
effort over a period of five years at
least, is to be worked out, which is
expected to help in the disposal of the
products of the farmers of this re-
gion at right prices.
Pittsburghers are trying to learn
what the Tableland area has to offer,
who the producers are, what they
have to sell and how they are willing
to package it so that they may con-
tact them with people in Pittsburgh
who actually buy such products.
They also want the people of the
Tableland to know what Pittsburgh
has to offer them without encroach-
ing on the business of the Tableland
merchants, and they want to get bet
ter acquainted with the people of this
section, person to person.
The first session of the conference
will be a general one at p. M, Fri
day, August &c. j. B. Watson, presi-
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GREEN GLADE

Sunday school will be conducted
Sunday afternoon at 200 o'clock, fol-
lowed by preaching service at 800
o'clock with the Rev. Burkhart in
charge. Young peoples meeting at
500 o'clock with Miss Nellie Wag-
ner in charge.
Revival services will begin Monday
evening, August Is, at 7:45 o'clock
with Rev. Burkhart in charge. Miss
Richie, of Frostburg, will assist in
this campaign.
Miss Pauline Barnard was hostess
at a party on Saturday, August 6,
given at the ]. w. McRobie home.
Those present were John Bowers,
Ronald Wagner, Martha Dewitt, Mel
lie Johnston, Paul Bowers, Nellie
Wagner, Clara Baker, Charles Glass,
Daniel Baker, Evelyn Glass, Theo.
Boyard, Clarence Tasker, Calvin Nc
Robe, James Johnston, Jr., David
McRobie, Elvie Beckman, Pauline
Barnard, Mr.. and Mrs. Ray Beck
man.
Miss Idella Johnston, who has been
visiting her sister in Washington,
Pa. has returned to her home here.
M, and Mrs Ray Beckman spent
Sun@zy here visiting Mrs. Beckman's
parents.
Clarence, Ruth and Peter Howard
and Dale Johnson, Bloomington, Md,
spent the weekend at Hazelhurst.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. W. McRobie were
in Oakland Saturday on business.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin Smith, Pitts
burgh, spent the weekend camping
at Hazelhurst.
DR.. ]. w. Engle, Keyser, W. Va,
is building a cottage at Hazelhurst.
Robert Hamilton, James Stewart
and Harold Doolan, all of Homecoming,
are building cottages at Hazelhurst.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lee Allen, Keyser,
West Va, spent few days at Hazel
hurst recently.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mattelky, Romney,
w. Va; Mr.. Hoffman, Keyser, w.
Va, spent the weekend at Hazel
hurst.
A cottage is being constructed at
Loeb Haven for Mr.. Watson, of Pied
mont, w. Va.
Mr.. and Mrs. Finley Gray, Wash
ington, Pa, are spending the week
here visiting relatives and friends.
DR.. Wolverton and family, of Pied
mont, w. Va, were here over the
weekend.
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Birthday Party

On Thursday afternoon Mrs. D.
Edward Offutt gave a tea celebrating
her sons first birthday. Decorations
were carried out in colors of blue and
pink. Mrs. Paul Naylor gave several
monologs, Mrs. Gordon Mealy sang
the Mother Goose Rhymes and Miss
Betty Broadwater played several
piano selections. Mrs. Thomas Dew
eny, Jr., of Charleston, and Mrs. L.
A. ellison, Cleveland, Ohio, poured
with Mrs. Byron Besse, Mrs. William
Sturgiss, Mrs. Albert Doub, Jr., Mrs.
Leo Helbig, Mrs. Bess Offutt Polk,
Misses Grace Jones and Marybelle
Miller assisting. Out of town guests
were Mrs. Thomas Deveny, Jr., Mrs.
L. A. Gibson, Mrs. Wilson Humbird
and Mrs. Albert Doub, Jr., Cumber-
land; Mrs. Lyle Wilson, Keyser, w.
Va, Mrs. Grace Petit, Hopemont;
Mrs. Finney Lakin, Terra Alta, w.
Va; Mrs. William Burruss, Hemlock
Hollow; Mrs. Sally Burch and Mrs.
Charles Bolgiano, Loeb Lynn; Mrs.
Henry Kloss, Pittsburgh; and Misses
Esther, Ethel and Philina Clarke, of
Noblesville, Ind.
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DIED..
HOWARD CROSS

Howard Cross, S., former coal OPP
orator and native of Garrett county,
died at his home near Keyser, West
Va, Sunday morning after an illness
of some time. He is survived by his
wife, Mrs. Matilda Stricken Cross;
one son, Edward J. Cross, Gleason,
w. Va; two sisters, Mrs. Calvin
Simpson, Tunnelton, W. Va, and Mrs.
Ernest Schell, Westernport, and one
brother, James E. Cross, Emoryville,
w. Va.
Funeral services were conducted at
Keyser Tuesday afternoon with inter-
ment at Bloomington, Garrett county.
Mr.. Cross was born at Bloomington
September %, 1874, the son of Henry
and Margaret Cross. Following an
early education at Bloomington he
began work in the coal mines at
Franklin. In 1912 he purchased a
small mine at Emoryville and by 1916
he was one the most important OPP
orators in West Virginia. At one
time he was president of the Silver
Creek Mining Company, West Vir-
ginia Junction; Grace Coal Company
at Harrison, w. Va; oll-Cross
Coal Company, Emoryville; Wabash
Coal Company, Hartmonsville, w.
Va; the Lane Coal Company, Hart
monsville; the Twin Mountain Coal
Company, and a company operating
mines in Preston county, w. Va. In
1881 he was named vice-president of
the Eastern Coal Mining Company.
Mr.. Cross was a member of Mount
Carbon Lodge, A., F. & A. Masons,
the Wheeling Scottish Rite to the 33d
degree, of Ali Chan Temple, A. A. o.
N. M. S., and of Cumberland Lodge,
No. SO, B. P. o. Elks.
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TENNIS TOURNEY FINALS
TO Be PLAYED ON FRIDAY
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will be presented to the winners Of
the mems and women's singles.
Mems Singles
Paul Sullivan, Pittsburgh, d. C. S
Weber, CO, 6-1; D. R. Hixon, Greens.
burg, Pa, d. Harry S. Whoolery, 60
rs; S. w. Brayer, Pittsburgh, d. B
]. Huey, Ga, 6-3; Bartrand Welsh
Rockville, d. D. Underwood 60, 81
Randolph Shields, Winchester, Va.
d. James. G. Allen, Pittsburgh, 6-1
6-1; Andy Smeaton, Pittsburgh, d
]. N. Kilmer, Fairmont, 6-1, 6-2.
Second Round
DR.. John L. O'Loughlin, Pittsburgh
d. Karl Ulrich, Washington, Pa, 60
60; Robert Lampus, Pittsburgh, d
Ralph Weber, Oakland, 81, 60; Ed
gar Alcorn, Pittsburgh, d. Mearl R
Atkins, 60, 81; John R. Brown
Pittsburgh, d. DR.. 1. r. Trimble, 6-1
GO; Lou Florian, Washington, Pa, d
DR.. w. R. Foster, Grafton, Pa, 60
6-1; Paul Sullivan, Pittsburgh, d. D
R. Hixson, rs, Ga.
Third Round
Edgar Hammer, Greensburg, Pa.
d. H. E. Taught, GO, ga; J. O'Lough-
lin d. James E. Allen, Jr., 6-3, 6-2i
Bob Lampus d. Ed. Alcorn, 1910
Ga; John Brown d. Lou Florian, Of
Washington, D. c., rs, 20, 6-1; Bar.
trand Welsh, Rockville, d. Paul Sui
Ivan, Pittsburgh, 81, 60; William
O'Loughlin, Pittsburgh, won from E
A. Knoche by default; Ran Shields d
Bud Leyda, Ga, So; Frank Broida
Pittsburgh, d. Thomas Grymes, 81
GA, and Edgar Hammer, 6-1, 60.
]. O'Loughlin d. Ed. Alcorn, Pitts
burgh, 60, Ga, while ]. Brown de-
faulted to Welsh. VIM. O'Loughlin de-
faulted to Randolph Shields, defend
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-08-11
Beyond the County

In Fairmont last week four Of FIVE
boys riding in an automobile, were
killed instantly when, rounding a
curve. at high rate of speed early
one foggy morning, they struck a
telephone pole.
At Springfield, ILL.,, John B. Cole
grove, banker under sentence for
banking irregularities, was kidnapped
Friday and beaten and finally thrown
out of an automobile onto a friends
lawn.
At Muskogee, S. A. Berrie, minis
ter, was held for investigation, after
he had married girl two months
after his wife's death, whose body
exhumed, showed traces of poison.
At Uniontown, Pa, Richard Uphold,
in saving his three year-old son from
drowning when skiff in which they
were riding capsized, met his death
in the Monongohela river.
In East Liverpool, Ohio, Governor
White, of Ohio, in an address at a
meeting of the American Legion said:
during the last fifteen days Ohio
has seen the greatest improvement
since the depression started. The
end of economic stress is in sight"
At Uniontown, Pa, a woman, she
and her family without food, killed a
woodpecker, which is protected, was
arrested, convited, fined ten dollars
and costs. Unable to pay she was
committed to Jail.
West Virginia, according to treas
urer's last report, has a balance in
the treasury of 4 million, 500 thous-
and dollars, and more than million
tied up in closed banks.
On Wall Street, Saturday nearly 2
million 800 thousand shares of stock
were sold, the busiest Saturday since
1880, and stocks gained from one to
twelve dollars a share, in many
instances.
At Frazier Point, Calf, the fire
outlook receives his daily paper by an
airplane, which drops the San Fran
cisco paper on the way to Los Angeles
and the latter paper on his return.
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NEW GERMANY

Holy Communion service will be
held this Sunday morning at the Re-
formed church at 1890 o'clock, with
Rev. A. M. Wright in charge. You
are invited to attend.
Mr.. and Mrs. Neyin Brodawater and
family, and Mr.. Gilead Broadwater, of
Grantsville; Mr.. and Mrs. R. Embrick
and family, Lloyd Kamp and family,
and Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis Ramp were
Sunday guests at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. S. L. Otto.
Mr.. Johnson, representative Of the
Farm Bureau Automobile Insurance
company, Cumberland, was business
caller in this community one day this
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Floyd Wampler and
son spent Sunday at. the home of the
formers parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Floyd
Broadwater.
The next meeting of the BUSY Bee
club will be held Thursday night,
August 10, at eight o'clock, with Har-
ry Murray as leader. Topic "Our
share in making Christ known to the
world" '.t
Mr.. and Mrs. Sam Otto and family
spent Sunday evening at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. Austin Kamp, Grants
vile.
Mr.. and Mrs. Floyd Broadwater and
family, Willard Otto and Homer
Broadwater visited at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Ellis Martin on Monday
night.
Mr.. VIM. burst visited Charles
Jenkins on Sunday.
Miss Elizabeth Martin spent the
past week visiting relatives in
Gilmore,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-08-11
NDAYS OF OLD
FORTY YEARS AGO

Jonas E. Gnagey, Grantsville, EN-
barked in the hotel business in that
town by renting and equipping the
'Mellinger brick structure.
At a congregational meeting of the
Oakland Lutheran church, it was de-
cided to erect the new church on the
Tower lot, corner of Third and AL
der streets, the present site of the
McIntire building.
Among the new postoffices estab-
lished by the Department was one in
Garrett county to be known as Krug
with D. H. Shank as postmaster. The
office was to receive special mail SER
vice from Confluence, Pa.
Improvements on the local electric
light plant were completed, consist
ing of an engine and boiler, much
larger and with greater capacity than
those formerly used. The plant was
in charge of Abraham Lawton and
William Nair.
The Republican county convention
met with all districts represented ex-
cept 9 and II. E. E. Sollars was
chairman and B. H. Sincell, secretary.
TWENTY YEARS AGO,
The Garrett County School Com
missioners met with President Glot-
felty and Commissioner Yost pres
ent. E. A. Browning retiring super
intendent, presented the financial
statement showing a surplus of 1900
on hand.
Col. A. G. Sturgiss, who had been
an invalid for more than two years,
planned to leave here for Battle
Mountain Sanitorium, South Dakota,
for treatment.
Lloyd Hoover, Jennings, was killed
in wreck on the Jennings railroad
near Bittinger, and several others
were injured.
The merchants of Mountain Lake
were complaining of dull trade.
Homes and business places in the
town of Friendsville, which suffered
damage resulting from a flood week
previous, were being repaired and
rehabilitated.
The Kendall saw mill at Kendall
was burned on Sunday, resulting in a
heavy loss.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-08-11
ARE WE BARBARIANS?

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The attempt of the allied govern
ments to hitch together the cancel
lation of reparations and debts owed
to the United States by entering into
a more or less secret "gentlemen's"
agreement at the Lausanne conference
made it necessary that President
Hoover, in order to disabuse the minds
of European statesmen as well as our
own internationalists of any cancel
lationist ideas, issue a statement in
which he said that the American
policy regarding war debts had not
been changed. Nowhere did this
statement of the American President
kick up more violent reaction than in
France. An example of the trend of
French opinion on President Hoover's
statement and the American position
was given by La Liberte, French
Nationalist paper, as follows:
''Verily Pontious PLATE was not
more cynical or more odious. What
was the Lausanne conference if not a
direct and logical consequence of the
Hoover moratorium? Does this gov
eminent, which obeys gangsters,
thieves and assassins of babies in the
cradle, dare to assume such height
of moral authority that it thinks it
can dictate to Europe and France?
Americans are the only race which
passed directly from barbarism to
decadence without knowing civiliza-
ton"
Such is the French outburst when it
is suggested that after securing bill
lions in territory and money from the
defeated central powers, they pay
something more on their debt to Uncle
Sam. The very suggestion that we
want any nation to pay its debts in
dicates that we are uncivilized! That
we are even decadent as a nation,
when we insist upon believing in the
sancity of international obligations!
When we hearken back in memory
little more than a dozen years and
remember how these same French
newspapers were calling on US franti-
cally to hurry, and when we try to
visualize what sort of tune these same
French newspapers might now be
singing if Uncle Sam hadn't hurried,
we marvel that barbarous and decad-
ent Americans could have done so
much. The more we read of Washing
ton the more we think that he was
right. You will remember that he
said something about there being no
such thing as permanent alliances and
friendships among nations. This is
especially true when one friendly ma
ton lends another money, and then
tries to collect after the crisis has
passed.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-08-11
WILLIAM PORTER WEIGH

William Porter WEIGH, aged II
years A months, and A days, of neal
Oakland, died at his home Saturday
morning after a lingering illness
Funeral services were held Monday
afternoon from his late home at 2:3C
o'clock, Rev. C. A. Shilke, pastor OF
st. Marks Lutheran church, officiat-
ing. Interment was made in the Oak
land cemetery.
The deceased was born near Keyser
w. Va, March 81, 1861. He spent
the early part of his life in Mineral
county, w. Va, later moving to Gar
rett county in the Sunnyside vicinity
where he engaged in agricultural
pursuits.
Sixteen years ago he moved to his
home near Oakland and was employed
by the State Roads Commission, as
patrolman on the Gortner, Oakland
and Mt. Lake Road, which position he
held until he was taken i'll.
He is survived by two sons, Bert
of Oakland; and Walter, of Norbeck
Md; three grandchildren, five broth
ers, and five sisters. His wife pre-
ceded him to the grave two months
ago.
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ing champion.
Mems Doubles

We'll , DOGUicS
Sullivan and O'Loughlin d. Nelson
Offutt and T. Grymes, 6-2, 6-3; R.
Weber and G. May d. S. S. Johnson
and DIR. 1. R. Trimble, 6-3, 81; R.
Shields and Welsh d. Mearl Atkins
and H. E. Taught, Ga, GO.
Bud Leyda and Bob Lampus d. Jas.
Allen and Randolph, Elkins, W. Va,
81, GO, and j. Brown and John
O'Loughlin trounced j. Devins and
E. Gale, 60, 6-3.
WOmen's Singles
Betty Cochran, Chevy Chase, d.
Mrs. L. W. Hodgson, Cumberland,
Ga, 2-6, 6-1.
Frances Grimes d. Marion Butler,
Washington, GO, Ga; Frances Wal
ker, Washington, d. Betty Cochran,
Chevy Chase, Ga, 6-3; Marian Sulli-
van, Pittsburgh, d. Evelyn Claybrook,
Cumberland, GO, 60; Ruth Martinez
defaulted to Margaret Carspecken.
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Mother of Mrs. julius Littman
Succumbs After Brief Illness

Mrs. Ella Lee Donaldson Hanna,
widow of Walter Hanna, died at her
home on Hammond street, Western
port, last Monday night. She had
been i'll only a week.
Mrs. Hanna was active in civic
and welfare work in her community
and was prominently identified with
various organizations having to do
with civic and educational affairs. She
is survived by four daughters, among
whom is Mrs. julius B. Littman, of
Oakland.
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night following an illness of pneumo-
MIA, will be held tomorrow afternoon.
Mr.. Praeger was a Past Grand
Master of Odd Fellows of Maryland
and was member of the Knights OF
Pythias and of the Masonic frater-
nifty.
He was we'll known in Oakland
having come here upon many occa-
sions to speak at fraternal celebra.
tions. Active pallbearers will be
chosen from members of the Allegany
County Bar Association, of which the
deceased was a member.
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Gard of Thanks

We desire in this manner to express
our heartfelt thanks and appreciation
to those who so willingly helped US
in many ways during the illness and
after the death of our father. We
also wish to thank those who fur
nished cars and gave beautiful floral
tributes.
Bert, Walter and Mrs. Laura WEIGH
and Families.
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Comes Here to Recuperate

DIR. and Mrs. George E. Clarke re-
turned to Oakland last night from
Baltimore accompanied by Mr.. Frank
lin McClain, of Cleveland, Ohio, who
will be their guest here recuperating
from a major surgical operation per-
formed at Johns Hopkins hospital re-
Gently.
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Death of an Infant

One of the five-month-old twins,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Victor Tas-
ker, did Wednesday about noon at
their home on Second street.
Funeral services will be held this
afternoon, Rev. D. C. Trimble officiat-
ing.
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SAUL PRAEGER

Funeral services for Saul Praeger,
So, Cumberland, who died Tuesday
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-02-12
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