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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-10-06
THE COVE

Mr.. and Mrs. Leslie Savage and son
Harry and Mr.. George Savage mo-
tored to Uniontown, Pa, on business
last Wednesday.
Professor B. o. Aiken, of Accident,
and Mr.. ]. L. Fitzwater, attendance
officer, of Oakland, were visitors of
]. C. Hertick on Saturday.
Visitors at the home of Mrs. E.
Mallau during the past week were
Mrs. ]. C. Hetrick, Mrs. Fred Hook
man and son Glen and Blaine Hetrick,
of Grantsville; Mrs. H. P. Collier and
daughter Leah, C. ]. Hanft and son
Arthur, of Keyser Ridge; Mr.. and
Mrs. E. E. Glass and family, Leslie
Savage and family, Rev. H. H. Flick
enscher and Miss Fife Margroff.
Mr.. and Mrs. Vernon Ollie and
family, of Pittsburgh, Pa, were
weekend guests of August Harmon
and Melchoir Kolb.
Misses Louise and Erna Hartman,
of Accident, were Sunday guests at
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Hartman.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Smearman, OF
Addison, were Sunday guests at the
home of Mr.. Henry Smearman.
Miss Edna Lohr was Sunday
guest of Mrs. Leslie Savage and Miss
Effie Margroff.
Mr.. William Starner was a Sun
day guest at the home of John Het-
rick and family and Miss Anne Het-
rick.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. A. Glass and son
DIN, of Washington Blvd, spent
Sunday at the home of Mr.. and Mrs
Bert Griffith.
Mr.. Albert Beckett, of Bear Creek
spent Sunday with his brother, Mr.
Martin Beckett, of Harnedsville.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-10-06
Perfect Attendance Record of
Loeb Lynn School

The following pupils of the Loeb
Lynn school have been present every
day during the month of September:
Alvin Wrightsman, Kenneth Itch
nell, Joseph Murphy, Dale Simpson,
Carl Calls, Henry Gibson, Robert
Simpson, Carleton Calls, Glenn Kill
Illus, Harland Paugh, Carl Liller,
Ralph Weeks, Frederick Tichnell,
Ralph Baker, John Foglepole, Grant
White, William Burch, Catherine Muir
ply, Roberta Bailey, Mary White, Sue
Sweitzer, Helen Liller, Rosemary
Simpson, Evelyn Sloan, Lorena Baker,
Juanita Murphy, Daryl Bray, Lindsay
Bray, Leo Calls, Murray Paugh, Ar
thur Tichnell, Boyd White, Lorraine
Cook, Emma Calls, Emma Liller,
Ethel Murphy, Mandie Sisler, Mary
Vincent, Eva Shaffer, May Sloan,
Juanita Wrightsman.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-10-06
Mortgages Sale of Farm

Default having been made in the
payment of the principal and interest
on a certain mortgage executed by
George Bowser and Agnes May Bow
ser, his wife, dated August Ia, 1929,
and recorded in Liber No. SO, folio
465, etc., one of the Mortgage Rec
ords of Garrett County, the under
signed as Attorney named in said
mortgage to make sale in case of de-
fault, hereby gives notice that on
Saturday, the 18th day of October,
1882, in front of the Court House in
the town of Oakland, Maryland, at
2 o'clock P. NJ, he will offer and sell
at public auction all the following
two pieces of land, situate, lying and
being in Garrett County, Maryland:
~. That parcel of land that was
conveyed to the said George Bowser
by Joseph Bowser and wife, by deed
dated April goth, 1917, and recorded
in Liber No. ", folio 155, ETC., Land
Records of Garrett County, contain
ing 301a acres.
(2). The land that was conveyed
to the said George Bowser by John
T. Mitchell and wife by deed dated
the 18th day of December, 1910, and
recorded in Liber No. 81, folio 1893,
etc., Land Records of said Garrett
County.
Except those two parts of this last
named piece that were sold and con-
veyed by said George Bowser and
wife (a) to Lewellyn Burkholder, 100
acres, by deed dated August 80, 1924,
and recorded in Liber No. 88, folio
353, etc., and (b) to Ernest Resh,
by deed dated May 16, 1917, and re-
corded in Liber No. 72, folio 268,
Land Records of said Garrett County,
containing about go acres; the amount
of said tract remaining and which
will be sold, containing about 81 acres,
or total of 81 Y acres in all.
Said property is improved by a
good two-story dwelling, stable, etc.
and is partly cleared and in cultiva-
ton.
TERMS OF SALE-Cash. Convey
ancing at cost of purchaser.
FRED. A. THAYER,
Attorney named in Mortgage to make
sale.
Advertisement S4-4t.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-10-06
NEW GERMANY

Sunday school and worship Sun
day morning in the Reformed church
at the usual hours.
Miss Jennine Jenkins and Charles
Jenkins visited at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. Norman Hoover, Jennings,
on Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Floyd Broadwater
and family spent Sunday at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. Stephen Broadwater,
Avilton.
Mr.. and Mrs. Asa Fresh and family
were entertained at the Alvin Cook
home, Frostburg, recently.
Miss Mary Jankey and Lorraine
Otto motored to Deer Park Sunday
where they visited Mr.. and Mrs. Rob-
ert Jankey.
Mr.. and Mrs. Floyd Broadwater had
as guests on Sunday evening Mr.. and
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-10-06
Beyond the County

In Chicago on Sunday, by score
of IS to 6, the New York Yankees
captured the worlds baseball cham
pionship, defeating the Chicago Cubs
in four straight games.
At Morgantown, w. Va, at meet
ing of the West Virginia Newspaper
Publishers, DR.. Carl w. Alderman,
Dean of the Pulitzer School of Jour-
nalism, said that the American news
papers were "better managed than
the government and our banks, and
should be credited with preventing
social revolution in the United
States"
In Norfolk, England, dwells Ivan
Langley, 16 years old, who weighs
APO pounds, with a 24-inch neck, 60
inch chest and GO inches around the
waist.
At Hagerstown, damage suits, the
majority of which are results of auto
mobile accidents, totaling $250,00O
have been filed in court.
At Washington, William Green, of
the American Federation of Labor
announced that unemployment, at the
end of August, totaled 11,500,000, an
increase of 100000 over July.
In Charlestown, West Va, thieves
apparently more desperate than in
Garrett County, stole and carried
away three full-grown allegators, on
exhibit at the Kanawha County fair
In Chicago, gang of rum runners
are reported to have sold 100000
gallons of alcohol for 10 million dol
lars in western states during the past
five years.
In New York City the report of the
Board of Education shows that each
days absence of a high school pupil
costs the city 46 cents.
In New Haven, Conn.,, DR.. L. F.
Baker, noted Johns Hopkins medical
authority, states that "shell shock" OF
neurosis of the traumatic, is on the
increase since the world war.
At Baltimore, E. Don Ross, presi.
dent of the National Association OF
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-10-06
YOugh Community Boosters

The Yough Community Boosters
held their regular monthly meeting
in the Selbysport school house on
Wednesday evening, October 9Th. The
meeting was opened with some selec-
ton of music by Wayne Wolf and
Murrel Nedrow.
John H. Carter, county agent, spoke
on the subject of the Tableland activ-
tiles. There was an open discussion
about the organization. The county
agent also discussed in detail the
potato show in Oakland, Tableland
fair in Pittsburgh and the Livestock
show in Baltimore, which was fol-
lowed by additional musical selec-
tions.
The next meeting will be held on
November End.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-10-06
Homecoming Day at U. of M. 10
Be Observed Saturday

An all-day program has been ar
ranged for Homecoming Day at the
University of Maryland at College
Park Saturday in which the football
game between the Old Liners and Vir-
ginia Polytechnic Institute will be the
feature.
Starting at ten o'clock in the morn
ing the activities at College Park Sat
urday will continue until the Home
coming Dance ends at midnight.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-10-06
SAND! SAND! SAND!
For Building Purposes and Con-
struction Work
Third Street. Oakland, Md.
C. H. BROWNING,
NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE

NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN That
on the 18th day of October, 1882, at
the hour of ten o'clock in the morning
of that day, at Central Garage, in the
town of Oakland, in the County of
Garrett, in the State of Maryland, the
undersigned will then and there offer
for sale to the highest bidder for cash
the following described property,
viz: One nine-foot 24-Tooth McCor-
mick-Deering Hay Rake; 1 McCor-
mick-Deering Manure Spreader.
Dated this 28th day of September,
1882.
INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER
COMPANY OF AMERICA.
By J. H. NORDECK.
Advertisement 34-1t*
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-10-06

Credit Men, in an address said the
recent activity in the textile, oil and
shoe industries, as well as the rise in
commodity prices, indicate financial
recovery.
Near Charlestown, West Va, after
raid and seizure of quantity of
alleged liquor in an abandoned coal
mine, dry agents discovered that the
moonshiners had about completed an
electric alarm system, attached to IL
sticks of dynamite, which, few days
later would have wrecked the mine on
entry when electrical connection was
made.
At Baltimore, a fully loaded pis-
toll, the fourth within a short time,
was found in the cell of prisoner at
the Maryland penitentiary, along with
other articles intended to effect an
escape.
At Doylestown, Penna., hundreds
of persons were thrown into panic
when 2 of 9 lions, being exhibited at
the annual fair, escaped from their
cages and charged across the grounds.
An attendant grabbed one of the
animals by the tail and finally COR
relied him and his mate followed.
In New York, a mistrial caused by
the misconduct of a juror, was de
clared in the trial of u. S. Senator
James j. Davis, member of the Su-
preme Council Loyal Order of Moose,
for aiding a lotterv.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-10-06
YTbt Who Crashed Here in
August Has Criminal Record

A warrant issued against Edwin
Kenneth Reese, airplane pilot, who
crashed his plane just south of town
about the middle of August, on the
charge of passing a worthless $50
check on a Dayton, Ohio, bank, has
disclosed the fact that the man has
a criminal record and has his photo
graph among the files of the Dayton
police force.
Il, is now being sought by the
Burr Detective Agency. He has al
SO ! used worthless checks in New
Yor..: and st. Louis, and there is al
so a warrant for his arrest from New
York authorities.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-10-06
Adjoining County Forms Unit
of Allegheny Tableland

A Tucker county unit of the Allie
gheny Tableland association was
formed at Parsons and two delegates
elected to attend the annual meeting
of the association which will be held
at Grantsville on Monday, October
II. Mr.. and Mrs. w. F. Lipscomb are
the delegates. Over twenty exhibits
from Tucker county will be entered
in the fair at Pittsburgh, October ID,
ID, and Is. A number will attend the
banquet at Pittsburgh on the second
day.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-10-06
Lutheran Conference Elects
Officers
Elects

Rev. Charles G. Aurand, of Wheel
ing, w. Va, president of the Lutheran
Synod of West Virginia, preached the
closing sermon of the annual confer
ence of the Synod of West Virginia
in the Lutheran church at Friends
Vile, on the theme "The Church fac
ing her present task"
Rev. R. T. Vorberg, Of Keyser, W.
Va, was again elected president; Rev.
Frank Herzel, of Westernport, vice
president, and Rev. Howard Amick, of
Wheeling, w. Va, secretary treasurer.
There were about 35 ministers and
laymen present.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-10-06

WANTED-First class farmer for
first class farm on first class road
at Clarksburg, Montgomery county,
between Frederick and Washington.
For Sale, Good Lloyd Baby carriage,
with top, 81; large oil heater, So; IL
in. gas heater, So; baby safety bed and
mattress, 81; baby walnut high chair,
SO; double corner lot, large furnished
cottage and garage at sacrifice. See
T. D. Richards, Mt. Lake.-Advertise-
ment Salts
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-10-06
CHURCH SERVICES
Bittinger Lutheran Parish

Rev. David E. Straesser, Pastor.
Services for October 9-Zion, Sum
day school at 10; morning worship at
II; Emmanuel, Sunday school at 10;
Luther League at Z; evening worship
at 8. October 16, Holy Communion at
IL, with reception of confirmation
class. We invite you to worship with
us at these services.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-10-06

St. PauPs M. E. Church, Oakland.
Rev. w. S. Patterson, Pastor
Sunday school at 9:45 o'clock a. M;
public worship at 10:45 a. M; Ep-
worth League meeting at $50 p. M,
and evening worship at 1880.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-10-06


SLIPPERY DRIVING DAYS
AHEAD! You'll need tires that
GRIP. Enjoy the safety of stout
new Goodyears this fall and
winter. Save trouble, time,
money-equip your car now.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-10-06
PAID LOCAL NOTICES

advertisement Salts
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1932-05-20

Under requirements of act of 1927,
Consolidated Statutes of North Caro-
lima, and subsequent amendments
thereto, the undersigned will on
MONDAY, June 6, 1892
beginning at 10 a. m. and continuing
until the sales are completed, at the
court house door in Salisbury, N. c.,
sell for unpaid taxes due the county of
Rowan for the year 1881, the follow
ing lands as set out below under town.
ship subheads, the acreage and the
mount of taxes being shown oppos-
lite each name in which the tax is
listed.
These taxes may be paid on or be-
fore sale date, by adding accrued cost
and any penalties that may attach.
Cal L. Miller,
Sheriff of Rowan County.
The following are the lands to be
sold:
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1932-05-20
Corporations

Salisbury Realty & ms. Co., T. M.
Hines, 1892 acres sc
Southern Oil Co., Real Estate ---------- 2.s
Southern Oil Co. of N. c., 4 lots ---------- 2.2
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1932-05-20
China Grove Township
White

Alexander, J. B.. 4 acres --- II
Arrant, D. D., 1 acre -------- COL
Archie, H. o. Mrs., LA acres, Bal. -- 80. Is
Baker, John H., 2-3 acres ------- 5.8s
Hall, B. s., 2 IL acres, 4 lots - 4.7e
Bakins, Wilbur Morgan, 1 acre -- $50
Beaver, Ellen Mrs, At acres ------ 1878
Beaver. J. B., 2s acres ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 2s.4s
Beaver, J. J.. 70 acres ----- 1922
Beaver. J. p, Sc IL acres -- 1874
Beaver, ]. ", 2 lots l4.42
Beaver, Melvin. 1 lot ---- 500
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1932-05-20
Corporations

Barney Improvement Co., 80 acres ----14s.S7
Granite Curb Co., 55.7 acres ----------1oo.4
Peeler Quarry Co., 2 1-2 acres ------.--- 8.72
Southern Railway Co., IA acre -------- ~
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1932-05-20
Corporations

Baker & Co., 1 lot $12.O;
Southern Bond & Mortgage Co., 6 acres 6.84
Southern Oil Co. OF N. c., / lot -------- 22.5i
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1932-05-20
Colored

Partee. J. L., 10 $40 acres ------- 22.34
Todd, John A., 10 IA acres ---- 22.SS
florence, S. j., a. acres .--------- 1874
Evening star., 1932-10-23
Army and Navy News
Navy.

Navy.
IN less than a month, the Naval Line
Selection Board will be convened at the
Navy Department for the purpose OF
recommending officers for promotion to
the grades of rear admiral, captain ana
commander from the next lower grades,
respectively. 1t is expected that the
selection will include 8 officers Tor rear
admiral, % for captain and A for COM
mander, the latter to be selected by a
board to meet in February OF 1883.
The identity of the officers who will
compose this years Selection Board has
not, up to the present time, been re-
vealed. but there is a general impress
sion that the probable choice OF board
personnel will include Admiral r. H.
Leigh, commander in chief OF the
United States Fleet, former chief OF the
Bureau of Navigation, in the capacity
of presiding officer. The designation
of Admiral Leigh for this important
circumstance leaves the situation very
much open to conjecture.
Incident to the recent transfer of
Rear Admiral David F. Sellers from
command of Battleship Division l, with
u. S. S. Texas as flagship to command
of battleships of the Battle Fleet, with
the rank of vice admiral, and With
u. S. S West Virginia as flagship. and
assignment of Rear Admiral Frank H.
Brumby to command Battleshlp
Division l. a number of changes have
been made in the staffs of those organi-
cations, as follows: Lieut.. Comdr.
Jerome L. Allen from radio officer Of
Division /. to communication officer of
the battleshipS, as relief of Lieut.. Comdr.
Carl F. Holden. who has been assigned
to the U. S. S. Maryland. Lieut.. Comdr.
George T. Howard. WHO has been on
duty as flag secretary of Battleship
Division l. will be the new flag Secre-
tary of the battleships as the relief of
Lieut. Comdr. William NJ. Fechteler.
who will come to Washington for duty
at the Navy Department in the Fleet
Training Office Lieut.. Comdr. Theo-
dore T Patterson will go from first
lieutenant of the U. S. S. Texas to flag
secretary of Division l.
Army.
Fifteen officers of Infantry, seven
colonels and eight lieutenant -colonels
will begin tomorrow at the Infantry
School, four weeks of instruction in
the refreSher course. This course is
designed to acquaint high-ranking
officers with the recent advances made
in Infantry tactics and weapons. The
colonies taking this instruction include
Walter Kruger. Albert w. Foreman,
James A. Marmon, James NJ. Petty,
Douglas Potts. Grosvenor L. Townsend,
Thomas S. Moorman and Lieut. Coils.
Edward McCammon, Rowan P. Lemly.
Franklin L. Whitley, Thomas P. Nc
Neil, Frances C. Endicott, James H.
Van Horn, Edwin Gunner and James
M Scammell.
In compliance with recent orders for
reducing the number of War Depart
ment general staff officers in Washing
ton from l09 the present quota, to SO.
Gen. Douglas Macarthur. chief of
staff. has approved the method of eff
fecting the reduction of 16 general
staff officers Two vacancies exist at
the present time, and they will not be
filled
Evening star., 1932-10-23
JESSEL DIVORCE ASKED
Musical Comedy Star Charged With
Cruelty in Reno.

RENO, New, october % CP.-Mrs.
Florence Courtney Jessel filed suit
here today for a divorce from George
Jessel, the musical comedy star, who
has been frequently linked in romance
with Norma Talmadge. screen actress.
Mrs. Jessel's complaint charged
cruelty, and was accompanied by
request for private trial. Approval of
a property settlement agreement. dated
October 49, 1882. also was asked. but
its terms were not revealed. The Jessels
were married in Chicago in May, 1923.
Evening star., 1932-10-23

Industrial activity in Shanghai,
China, Is increasing.
Evening star., 1932-10-23

BY the color of the picot top
you will know them! Think of
the time it will save when
matching them up or in buying
your favorite hosiery shade! And
besides. you are getting a beau
tiful full fashioned sheer chiffon
hose in sizes 8l2 to 1912.
Kanns-Street Floor.
Evening star., 1932-07-03

gether they went over the shattered parts of
the cabin.
And when all the evidence" had been thor
oughly weighed and considered, Steinmetz
built a lightning generator. With it he un-
leashed a discharge of a million horse power
within q ahundred-thousandth of a second. 1t
Vas the frsi artificial bolt OF lightning ever
created and man was on his way toward
tanning the "sky terror"
The wizard of electricity Immediately built
another generator, this one ON the roof Of
tall factory building With it he produced and
, hurled synthetic" thunderbolt of 5,Oo0.000
horsepower in five millionths of second
CTEINMETZ had taken another forward step
- in his campaign to solve the mystery OF
lightning. but he died before he could make
more experiments and the knowledge he had
gained was passed ON to another generation
Soon after his death there came from Europe
the cathode ray oscillograph, fast in its
speed of operation that it could closely measure
instantaneous electrical discharges.
With this instrument engineers were able to
establish field laboratories and spy upon the
lightning, so to speak. Meters were made to
measue the cloud field overhead Other instru-
ments registered various other activities of
the mystery monster.
And with all the evidence" thus gathered
the engineers were able to produce in
laboratory an artificial stroke OF lightning that
conformed in every way with an actual stroke.
In the end the engineers knew just exactly
how lightning streaked and pranced about the
sky and then streanled to the earth
THEY were able to learn how rapidly light
] ming surge would play itself out travelling
over transmission lines and they virtually con-
quered the lightning flashes, so far as the
transmission wires were concerned simply by
running "shieid wires Just above the trans
Evening star., 1932-07-03


to the music of terrific thunderclaps.
Suddenly jagged bolt cut through the air
like the long lash of whip. The cracker
found its way through giant oaks to spend its
fury on an isolated cabin built under sheltering
branches along the Mohawk River. The cabin
was wrecked.
The bolt had selected for its target the
Summer camp of the late Charles Steinmetz,
known the world over as an electrical wizard"
And in SO doing it literally started some
thing"
Stainmetz the man who toyed with thou
sands of bolts of electrical current a babe
toyed with a rag doll. started fight to pene-
trate the shroud of mystery that cloaked this
monster of the heavens which came and went
in the milhonth part of second and left,
often death and destruction in its wake. And
r though Steinmetz has long been gone, the fight
+ he started is still carried on-and man is
.eonquering. 1888
Il -. s~@ .@s srs2
aISF course lightning win never be stopped
-'\C"that is. there viii undoubtedly be light
ring as long ~as there is man. Tholgh ex-
ieferfhfefits have shown it possible to Capture
tho electrical power IN the FISHES, science has
inst about abandoned any idea of Harvesting
. the bolts for commercial use.
= Steinmetz was working in his laboratory at
the General Electric Co. plant in SShcnec-
tad3 when word came that his cabin had been
destroyed He fastened to the camp TO
investigate.
Fragments Of his wrecked cabin were
ries. For days. the site of what had once
been his cabin, he searched patiently and
thoroughly
Bsck IN the laboratory he went over every
fragment OF his wrecked Summer csmp The
late Thomas A. Edison joined him and to-
Evening star., 1932-07-03

Lightning rods came into disrepufe
years ago =. ]. probably becanse Of the
high-pressure saiesmas,ship connected
soish them. but they hare virtually
been uindioated by recent experiments.
Evening star., 1932-07-03

FIERCE electrical storm was sweep
ing the Mohawk Valley in New York
State.
Brilliant flashes of lightning illu-
minated the hills for miles around,
to the music of terrific thunderclaps.
Imperial Valley press., 1932-09-13
Fourth Game Of
Series Tonight

Recovering from the shock OF a
5 to l victory for the Brawley
All-Stars over the FL Centre ALI
Stars at Brawley last night, Ell
Centre fans tonight win be regaled
with the fourth game OF series
to decide the championship Of the
FL Centro night league.
The Golden State Creamery goes
into the contest at Wilson field to-
night with a good chance to win,
if Joe Hurst is in any condition at
all A victory for the Creamery
would tie the score at two games
for the Creamery and two for the
Macks, and would make the fifth
game necessary to decide the
championship.
Last nights encounter at Braw-
ley assumed all the proportions of
regatta, since the field had been
flooded and was not yet dry.
Brawley deserved the win, however,
hitting Sheffield fairly hard. The
only cheering Ell Centro was able
to do was for Ted Ehmke, who got
three hits.