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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-11-17
MOVIE WILL BE SHOWN AT
PIT. A MEETING TONIGHT
Reels Show Work Among Grip
pied Children In Hospitals

A moving picture of work among
crippled children in hospitals and the
hospital schools will be shown at the
Grammar school building in Oakland
tonight, it was announced this morn
ing by DR.. George E. Clarke, local
health officer.
The picture is shown in connection
with the regular monthly meeting of
the Parent Teacher Association of the
school and a special invitation has
been sent to members of the Oakland
Civic Club to be present. This invi-
tation is also extended TO sitizens in
general who are interested in pro-
gram of this nature, Mrs. Walter Ste
vens, president of the Parent-Teacher
Association, stated. This evenings
meeting will convene at 1880 o'clock.
DR.. Clarke will show the picture
again tomorrow evening at the regu-
lar weekly meeting of the local Rotary
Club and will be assisted upon both
occasions by Sprigg Tower, who will
operate the projecting machine.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-11-17
MANY HUNTERS APPLY
FOR CUNNING LICENSES
Probable That A Record Number
Will Secure Tags

A new record for applicants for
hunting licenses was established at
the office of the Clerk of the Circuit
Court for Garrett county on Monday
when two hundred sixteen hunters
applied for the tag which permits
them to roam the woods in quest of
game.
Hunting season in Garrett county
opened Tuesday and it is said that
small game and birds are plentiful
throughout this section of country.
According to Albert Ross, clerk of
the Circuit Court, all pervious records
for hunting licenses will be broken
this year, as there had already been
1893 licenses issued Tuesday evening
with the prospect that the entire
week would be busy one with hunt
ers filing in and out of the clerks
office.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-11-17
Annual Re-registratiOn of Scout
Troop To Be Made Soon

The annual re-registration of men,
bers of Oakland Scout Troop, No. 1,
will be made within the next few
weeks, according to George H. Hanst,
scoutmaster. Blanks for the re-reg-
istration of the members have been
received from national headquarters
with orders to list only names Of
Scouts who intend to remain active
in the troop.
With the exception of seven or
eight, the entire membership of the
troop will be re-registered. Each
year every scout in the country must
register prior to the date of the or
ganization of each individual troop.
The Oakland troop was organized in
December of 1924, and at the begin
ming of 1888 will be starting on its
tenth consecutive year. There will be
approximately As registered for 1888.
Plans are progressing for the or
ganization of another Oakland troop
and one at Deer Park. Harley Daw-
son, Eagle Scout, is assisting in the
formation of the Deer Park troop.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-11-17
Pleasant Valley Grange To Hold
Shooting Match and Supper

At the regular bi-monthly meeting
of the Pleasant Valley Grange held
recently it was decided to hold a
shooting match on the grounds on
Thanksgiving Day from 1000 a. m.
until 400 p. m. Turkeys, ducks and
chickens are being donated by the
patrons of the Grange as prizes for
the winners. An oyster supper will
be served in the Grange Hall from
500 until 700 the same day under
direction of the ladies of the CIR, nge.
The public is cordially invited to each
of these events.
At the regular meeting of the or
ganization tonight Mr.. Buckingham
and Mr.. Ramsey, of the State Fores-
try Department, will show pictures
on forestry topics. This feature of to-
nights meeting is open to the public.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-11-17
SIGNING OF ARMISTICE is
COMMEMORATIVE HERE
Services Are Conducted on Court
House Lawn Friday Morning

Rev. w. S. Patterson, pastor OF
St. Pau's M. E. church in Oakland,
gave the address at the Armistice Day
celebration in front of the Garrett
County Court House last Friday
morning before a large number OF
citizens, including about five hundred
students of Oakland high school with
their instructors.
The service was conducted after a
parade of the Legion Drum and Bugle
Corps and the Gilbert-Brown Boys
band, which organization played a
number of patriotic airs.
Rev. C. A. Shilke, of the Lutheran
church offered the invocation and Jos
M. Gender, commander of Proctor Kill
dow Post, No. II, presided.
Following the service here members
of the Legion Drum and Bugle Corps
went to Cumberland, where they par
ticipated in the celebration there al
2:3O o'clock Friday afternoon.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-11-17
GARRETT COUNTY SINNER
FIRES ON REVENUE FORCE
No Casualties Reported Follow
ing Gun Battle at Still In Bear
Hill Community Last Night
DELBERT WILT CAPTURED

Federal investigators and Garrett
county officers will go out on a man
hunt today. They will seek an alleged
moonshiner who fired several times at
the officers when they raided still
on Bear Hill, near Jennings, Garrett
county, last night. The officers ar
rested Delbert Wilt, of Jennings, and
brought him to the Garrett County
Jail on charges of manufacture and
possession of liquor. Wilt returned to
his home less than two months ago
after serving a term in the Maryland
House of Correction following his con-
viction on the charge of attempting
to kill his father with an axe.
Federal Investigator Harvey accom-
panied by four aides and Deputy
Sheriff Clarence Spear, of Garrett
county, raided the plant, which had
been under surveillance for several
days. The officers noticed volumes
of smoke arising over the tree tops
and surrounded small log hut before
closing in. Wilt was apprehended,
but his companion, new man in the
community whose name is for the
present withheld, fled down the hill
toward his home.
Two of Officer Harvey's aides gave
chase to the fugitive, who stopped and
started throwing stones at his pursu-
ers. After brief stone battle the
man again fled and reaching his home
obtained a pistol. He ordered the
deputies to leave and fired three shots
at their feet. The men, who were I'M
armed refused to retreat and the man
told his wife to get his rifle. He then
fired two shots close to the mems
heads and they returned to the log
hut where the other officers were dis
mantling a 6O-gallon still and where
they had also seized Is barrels of
mash and several gallons of alleged
whiskey.
While the officers were demolishing
the plant Willis companion again ap-
preached through the woods and fired
several times. The officers crouched
behind the log hut and Harvey fired
several shots from his automatic
shot gun. The man disappeared and
the officers could find no trace of him.
The man is known and according to
Deputy Spear the man-hunt will go
on and his arrest is looked for.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-11-17
Health Conference Held at City
Hall, Cumberland

At a regional health conference
held last Thursday at the Cumber-
land City Hall and attended by repre-
sentatives from incorporated towns in
Washington, Garrett and Allegany
counties, community health problems
were discussed and talks were given
by prominent health department Off
Gals.
DR.. Joseph P. Franklin, deputy state
and Allegany county health officer,
presided. DR.. George E. Clarke, health
officer for Garrett county, and DR.. w.
R. Cameron, health officer for Wash
ington county, assisted in the pro-
gram. A. Charles Stewart, chairman
Of the Board of County Commission
ers delivered the address of welcome.
District nurses from the three coun-
ties, county physicians, representa-
tives of the schools, social workers,
members of the Cumberland Health
Department stats and others attend
ed the meeting.
Talks We're given by DR.. R. H.
Riley, of Baltimore, director of the
State Department of Health; DR.. John
Collinson, chief of the State Bureau OF
Vital Statistics; DR.. j. H. NJ. Knox,
Jr., chief of the Bureau of Child Hy-
giene; DR.. C. H. Halliday, epidermist
of the Department of Health, and
Abel Wolman, chief engineer of the
Department of Health, who discussed
sanitary problems of communities.
Among the matters discussed were
communicable diseases, infant NOR
tality, use of dried milk for feeding
of infants, medical inspection in the
schools, diphtheria, budgets to pre-
vent curtailment of health work, mu-
nicipal care of contagious disease,
control of scarlet fever, undulant
fever, food poisoning and the crippled
children.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-11-17
500 PAIRS OF SHOES TO Be
GIVEN GARRETT'S NEEDY
Baltimore PhiIanthrOpist Comes
To Relief of School Boys and
Girls in The County
HIGH TOPS FOR BOYS

That he expected to receive 500
pairs of shoes within the next two
weeks for distribution to boys and
girls throu. hout the county, was the
announcement made this morning by
Grover C. Stemple, Mayor of Oak
land.
Through a communication from
William Raymond Moody, acting
agent for Raymond A. Sinskey,
Baltimore banker and philanthropist,
who is making this donation to child
rem of school age who are in need of
shoes, states that the order will be
placed Immediately with the manufac-
turer and that the shoes thus received
will be new and well made.
Mr.. Sinskey has confined his
philanthropy to Baltimore City, but
it is understood that through the eff
forts of Mr.. Moody and Mayor Stem
pie, Mr.. Sinskey has been interested
in the poorer people of the entire
state and will expendxmuch money in
relieving their distress in this con-
nection.
The shoes for the boys will be of
the high top style, while those for
the girls will be sturdy shoe of a
lower cut.
1t has been stated that the donor
requires only the names and adj
dresses of all children receiving a
pair of shoes through this channel,
and that there is no particular "red
tape" connected with the awards.
Shoes will be distributed through
Oakland, Accident, Friendsville, Crel-
lin, Grantsville, Bloomington, Deer
Park, Swanton, Mountain Lake Park,
Kempton, and any other section of
the county where the need for them
prevailes.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-11-17
MORE THAN $4,000 TO Be
PAID TO CHRISTMAS CLUBS
Approximately 1925 DepOsitOrs
Residing In and Near Oakland
to Receive Checks December l
S44O,OOO,OOO IN THE U. S.

More than $4,000 will be sent out
from the Oakland banks on December
l in Christmas Savings Club checks, it
was announced today. This is slightly
less than the amount distributed last
year. The money will be disbursed
to more than 425 depositors in the
Garrett National and the First Ma
tional Banks.
Four hundred forty million dollars
will be distributed to about ten and
one-half million members of Christ
mas clubs by more than seven thous-
and banking institutions and organ
izations, according to an estimate by
Herbert F. Rawll, president of the in
corporated organization.
The average amount received by
each member amounts to SAP. Over
seven millions of the entire amount
will be distributed in Maryland.
Member banks, reporting, uniform
ly predict an increase in Christmas
club activities for 1888 as result of
greatly improved conditions in the
general banking situation and a re-
stored confidence of the public in the
country's banks.
The inception of the plan and or
ganization of Christmas Clubs twen-
ty-two years ago anticipated the need
of providing an easy method of sys-
tematically accommodating funds fol
the specific purpose of Christmas re-
quirements. Based on a direct-by.
mail inquiry to a number OF. individual
members of the Christmas Club, Mr.
Rawll points out that an increasing
number of people are becoming tax
conscious and using the facilities OF
the club for accommodating money fol
the payment of taxes falling due al
the end of the year.
The Christmas Club savings feature
was established seven years ago il
Garrett county by the First Nationa
Bank of Oakland. Six years ago this
feature was adopted by the Garrett
National Bank of Oakland.
Many of the checks which will be
received on December l will be cashec
and the money spent in the immediate
community.
Small Amount Each Week
By depositing small amounts eacl
week those who have taken advantage
of the clubs now have sufficient sum:
accumulated to meet the demands fol
Christmas.
New Years Christmas Clubs will b.
opened in the local banks on December
8. There are clubs for Is cents
week; so cents, $1.0O, $500, $500 ant
so on. The money deposited in tn
banks draws interest which is included
in the checks paid at the end of tn
year.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-11-17
Young Man, Bitten By Copper
head Snake, Is Recovering

Claude Duckworth, a young men
of Vindex, this county, was in Oak
land Tuesday consulting his physi-
clan following a siege of blood poison
ing, the result of the bite of cop
perhead snake. Mr.. Duckworth was
bitten on the foot by the reptile when
he was engaged in work near Capa-
pom, West Va, on October 5, blood
poisoning having developed a week
later.
The young man may yet lose a toe
of his right foot, but his general con-
dition is much improved and he ex-
poets to walk without the aid Of
crutches within the next month or
six weeks.
Mr.. Duckworth is under the care of
DR.. Henry W. McComas, of Oakland.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-11-17
X. of P's To Go To Cumberland

An invitation from Cumberland was
received and accepted by the members
of Garrett Lodge, No. 113, Oakland,
to attend a meeting of that order
which will be held in Cumberland on
Wednesday evening next. The local
organization members will leave
Wednesday afternoon and it was
stated by Harry Stemple, a local
Knight, that large delegation was
expected to visit the Cumberland
brethren.
The meeting is a district conven-
ton and several of the Grand Lodge
offers will be there as well as repre-
sentative of the Supreme Chancellor,
and the Supreme Vice-Chancellor,
Reno S. Harp, of Frederick.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-11-17
Reduction Is Made in Health De-
partment Salaries

An unannounced reduction in salary
went into effect last month in the
State Department of Health, it was
learned here Tuesday when the local
members of that department received
their checks for the precering month.
1t is understood that the officer in
charge of health work in Garrett coun-
ty received a reduction in salary of
rs per cent, while the corps of nurses
received reductions totalling 20 per
cent.
The reductions in salary, coming as
they did without previous notice, were
needless to state surprise to those
effected, but it was said that in every
. instance the reduction was accepted
and the health work will be carried
on with tn esame degree of efficiency
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-11-17
TWO FIRES DURING WEEK
CAUSE MUCH DAMAGE
Incendiarism Is Blamed For
Oakland Blaze

Fire of undetermined origin practi-
cally Quilted the second floor of the
residence of F. M. McClelland, Mt.
Lake Park, shortly after l o'clock
Saturday morning. The blaze was
discovered by Mr.. McClelland, it was
said, when debris from the ceiling be-
gan to fall upon his bed, waking him
from a sound sleep.
The Oakland Volunteer Fire de-
partment responded and confined the
blaze to the McClelland residence, but
the flames had made such Roadway
before they were discovered that the
fire was not controlled until much
damage had been done. Several ad-
joining properties were endangered
but the fire department prevented the
flames from spreading.
Fire of incendiary origin destroyed
a barn on the property of George
Fulk, Oak street, Oakland, on Sunday
morning at 1888 o'clock, after the
flames had been discovered by officer
B. B. Nethkin.
This fire marks the sixth in a series
of incendiary fires in Oakland during
the past several months and effort is
being made to apprehend the insane
person responsible for these con-
fagrations.
The barn was used as a storage for
some old furniture and other house.
hold effects from the Fulk residence.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-11-17
Sessions of Standard Teachers
Training Schools

The Standard Teachers Training
schools, of which Miss Gambrill, of
Baltimore, is the dean and teacher
are under way with a registration OF
rs in Oakland and 20 in the Kitzmiller
school.
Sessions in Oakland are held in ST.
Pauls church. Four yet remain-this
evening, Friday evening, Sunday ev-
ening and Monday evening, upon
which latter evening the dean viii
give credits to all who have complet-
ed the course. The Kitzmiller school
will be in session Sunday afternoon
Tuesday evening and will conclude on
Wednesday evening.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-11-17
OVER 500 new MEMBERS
STILL NEEDED In RED CROSS
County Workers to Increase Eff
forts This Week-Drive To
End Thanksgiving Day
QUOTA IS 600 MEMBERS

Increasing the intensity of the
drive, Mrs. Samuel Cole, county chair
man of the National Red Cross, and
her district chairmen will endeavor to
secure the quota of 600 members thru
out the county during the next week.
''With only 60 members reported this
week, the county workers will carry
on their work with greater effort than
ever before in order that Garrett
county goes over the top in this i'm
portant drive" Mrs. Cole said yester-
day.
This year very special appeal is
made for generosity in paying dues
to the Red Cross, as needs for funds
this winter will be unusually great.
1t has been suggested by the county
chairman that citizens not being
called upon by a solicitor, to forward
their dues to the district chairman
who will Immediately send them their
receipt, button and Red Cross sign for
the window. This suggestion is made
because of the fact that many times
a solicitor calls at home when no
one is there, and therefore the solicit
tor fails to get into personal contact
with any member of that household.
Crellin took first place during the
first few days of the drive for men,
beers, which got under way on ARMS
tice day, by reporting IL members.
They are, Mrs. Sara Hughes, Miss
Eva Montgomery, Merle Frantz, Miss
Anna Dawson, Miss Resale Click, l..
C. Yutzy, Miss Hasaleah Yutzy, little
Miss Dolores Yutzy, Homer Shaffer,
Mrs. Stanley Ashby, and Howard
Phares. Later, however, Oakland came
through with a larger list, which in
cludes the names of Joseph M. Gender,
$ Miss May E. Wass, Miss Willoughby
Mccormick Cole, Mrs. Paul McIntire,
Mrs. Thurl Billiard, Mrs. E. z. Tower,
Mrs. Harry White, Mrs. Archibald
Moore, Miss Lois Ross, James Hart,
S. 81. jackson, Berne Teter, A. T. Mat
thews, Mrs. Dora Coddington, F. A.
Smouse, N. C. Fraley, H. L. Miller, j.
M. Jarboe, The Garrett National Bank,
J. B. Littman, The Coffman-Fisher
Company, West Maryland Power Co.,
First National Bank, w. L. Gibson, H.
C. Sincell, J. E. Harmed, Henry Lauer,
A. G. Gortner, T. A. Gender, F. A
Thayer, E. A. Shaffer, and Mrs. Eva
Falkenstein Bishoff.
Other persons in the county who
have paid their membership dues fol-
this years drive are George Wagner
Grantsville; Mrs. Jennie Freeland
Gormania; Henry Speicher, Miss nellie
Alexander, Accident; Samuel Wright
Salisbury; Mrs. George Warwick, OF
Bloomington, Mrs. C. B. Miller
Friendsville, E. ]. Hamill, Mrs. Maude
Hamill, Mrs. Milton Pritts, Mrs. Ear
Pritts, Stanley Bender, Mrs: Ethel
Bender, H. l. Wilson, Mrs. Edward
James, Mrs. Daniel Walker, Joe Runk-
alo. Frank Vodipevic and DIR. A. X
FidIer, all of Kitzmiller, and Mrs. b
o. Aiken, Accident.
Mr.. Wagner, of Evansville, has beer
the first person in his district for the
past four years to send in his mem
bership fee, and Mr.. Speicher, OF Ac,
cident, was the first in that district
to send in his fee this year.
Mrs. B. o. Aiken is district chair
man for the Accident district.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-11-17
Golden Eagle Killed Saturday

A Golden eagle, with a wing spread
of seven feet one inch, was killed Sat-
urday during the noon hour by w. E.
Spoerlein, near Gortner. After firing
a number of charges at the bird from
a shortgun, but without striking a
vital spot, he secured a rifle from his
home and shot it as it was resting in
a tree on the farm Of neighbor.
The weight of the bird was ten
pounds and it had wing spread OF
z feet l inch and tail spread OF n
inches. Mr.. Spoerlein expects to have
it mounted.
The eagle had been in the commun-
ity where it was shot for upwards OF
two weeks and as far as could be
learned had done no damage to poul-
try or other property. 1t was the
first eagle to be killed in this section
in a number of years.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-11-17
Brotherhood Elects Officers

The meeting of the Lutheran Broth
erhood was held Tuesday evening at
which time two interesting addresses
were made and enjoyed by those pres
ent. The speakers were T. C. Bittin-
ger, who took up the life and work
of Gustavus Adolphus, and G. J. Alt
stetter, who spoke on Henry M. Muh-
lenberg, the early Lutheran mission
airy in America.
The Brotherhood elected the follow
ing officers: President, D. R. Sincell;
vice-president, Ernest Townshend;
secretary T. C. Bittinger; treasurer,
Lester Bittinger.
The Brotherhood will attend church
in body on Sunday morning, Decem-
Der II, when it is expected that the
Rev. Bernard Gibbs, Terra Alta pas
tor, will preach the sermon.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-11-17
TWO MEN ARE HELD ON
DRY LAW CHARGE
Sixty-twO Gallons of Alleged
Whiskey is Seized

James 1. Kinser, of Vindex; and
Leo M. Rowan, aged about 20 years,
of Mt. Lake Park, were arrested by
Federal Investigator William R. Har-
vey, at the Kinser garage, near Vim
dex, Monday on charges of manufac-
ture and possession of liquor. Kinser
was lodged in the Garrett county jail
in default of bond while Rowan
posted bond in the sum of $500 for his
appearance before the grand jury.
Investigator Harvey said the men
were operating 50-gallon still in the
garage basement. The officer re-
ported seizure of 81 gallons of alleged
whiskey and 10 barrels of mash.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-11-17
Barn and Contents Destroyed

The barn of Carl Martin, near Red
House, and its contents was destroyed
Tuesday night by fire. The blaze was
discovered at 1870 o'clock but was
so nearly consumed at that time that
nothing could be removed from it and
as result two horses and two large
hogs were burned as was also two
hundred bushels of corn and other
grains and hay.
The structure was said to have been
large one and was built about II
years ago.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-11-17
Corrections

In the county financial statement
printed in today's issue of The Re-
publican it is enormously stated that
Maude Pritts King received funds for
the support of herself. The funds paid
Mrs. King by the county was for the
support of the Friend family. Another
item was in error, that of $3.50 paid
the Garrett National Bank for interest
should read Garrett National Bank
for rent for the Garrett County Public
Library. These corrections are made
by direction of the clerk to the Coun-
ty Commissioners, W. NJ. Frazee.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-11-17
Union Thanksgiving Service To
Be Held In Lutheran Church

Union Thanksgiving service will be
held on the morning of Thanksgiving
in st. Marks Lutheran church at ten
o'clock, when the sermon will be de-
livered by the Rev. w. S. Patterson,
pastor of St. Paul's NJ. E. church.
Rev. D. C. Trimble will read the Pres
ident's proclamation and Rev. Shilke
will have charge of the service.
Everybody urged to attend,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-11-17
SGet News and Advertisements
in Early Next Week

Due to the fact that Thanksgiving
has always fallen on Thursday; due to
the fact that Thanksgiving is pext
Thursday; due to the fact that the
Pilgrims of New England started a
custom of giving thanks on that day;
due to the fact that Thanksgiving is
declared national holiday; and due
to the fact that The Republican will
be published on Wednesday next
week, all correspondents and adver-
Users are asked to get in their copy
one day earlier, to insure publication.