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Evening star., 1935-05-26

The Ladies' Guild Of Kenilworth
was entertained at the home of Mrs
Harry Kent, with Mrs. Alex Pietrie as
assistant hostess. The president, Mrs
Samuel Baxter, presided.
A strawberry festival will be held
at the recreation center June 5.
Plans are being made for the an
nual Summer outing and will prob
ably be definitely decided upon at the
next meeting, which will be held at
the home of Mrs. Charlie Donaldson
with Mrs. Samuel Baxter as assistant
hostess.
Evening star., 1935-05-26

AmId0n- FaIrUfOtHtf NUs5tH.
A luncheon for Mrs. R. z. McCon-
chic, retiring president, was given by
the Executive Board at the home Of
Mrs. Evelyn Strout on May 81. Other
guests were Miss K. Doonan, princi-
pal; Mrs. Mary z. O'Neil, Mrs. M.
M. Vycital, teachers at RoSsell. Mrs.
E. Strout presented Mrs. McConchie
with a handbag on behalf of the
Executive Board. The annual school,
boy patrol luncheon will be held at
the Rossell School next Tuesday.
Buchanan.
At a meeting May Is Mrs. L. B.
Castell installed the following officers:
Mrs. George stilwell, president; Mrs.
Evening star., 1935-05-26

The 1888 Association of Matrons
and Patrons will hold a benefit card
party at so NJ street northeast Friday
at pm.
Evening star., 1935-05-26

Mrs o. G. Hankins, sixth vice presi-
dent Of the District of Columbia Con-
gress of Parents and Teachers, In
stalled the following officers: Mrs.
Edna Weakley, president; Mrs. Nora
Embery, first vice president; Miss
Crook, principal. second vice presi-
dent; Mrs. Ida Doyle, secretary, and
Mrs. Carrie Domer, treasurer.
The retiring president, Mrs. Andrew
Gallia. was presented with q past
presidents pin by Miss Crook In be-
half of the association. A corsaSe
was presented to Mrs Hankins. Grade
CONTINUED on Seventh Pags.l
The Republican., 1935-01-17
Eastern Star Officers Installed

Officers of the local chapter Order
of the Eastern Star were installed
on Tuesday evening in the Masonic
lodge room. The installation was in
charge of Mrs. Walter W. Dawson and
Mrs. Cecil Smith.
Those who took as their stations as
officers following the installation GER
emony were Mrs. Jesse j. Ashby, Jr.,
worthy matron; E. Ray Jones, worthy
patron; Mrs. Byron Besse, associate
matron; Charles F. Hammond, asso-
ciate patron; Miss Beryl Davis, secre-
tary; Mrs. F. E. Rathbun, treasurer;
Mrs. Harold Harmed, chaplain; Mrs.
H. P. Stuck, marshall; Mrs. Donald
R. Sincell, organist; Mrs. Darwin
Martin, conductress; Mrs. Delbert
Davis, associate conductress; Mrs.
Scott w. Shirer, Adah; Mrs. John H.
Carter, Ruth; Mrs. Ray Teets, Esther;
Mrs. 1. R. Rudy, Martha; Miss Anna
Thrasher, Electa; Mrs. Vernie R.
Smouse, warder; Mrs. Frederick A.
Thayer, Jr., sentinel.
The Republican., 1935-01-17
BIRTHDAY BALL FOR THE
PRESIDENT TO BE GIVEN
To Be Held In High School Au-
ditorium Wednesday, Jan. 80

The second annual birthday ball for
the President will be held in the Oak
land High School auditorium in Oak
land on Wednesday evening, January
80, according to DR.. E. l. Baumgart-
ner, chairman of the committee having
the affair in hand.
The proceeds from the dance will be
for the benefit of crippled children
throughout the United States. Last
year the entire amount was turned
over to the Birthday Ball commission,
but this year 70 per cent of the pro-
ceeds will remain in Garrett county
and 80 per cent sent to the commits
sion for use against infantile paraly-
sis.
More than 5000 communities in the
country will hold dances upon that ev-
ening.
The local committee includes vari-
Gus representative of organizations
who have assisted in crippled chill
dren's work and others. The mem
bers of the committee are DR.. Baum
gartner, representing physicians and
the Oakland High School alumni; Mrs.
Ruth vonBaumann, health office; Mrs.
c. Milton Sincell, Maryland League
for Crippled Children; Mrs. Frances
Frisbee O'Donnell, Board of Educa-
ton; Harold L. McMillen, Rotary
Club; Emroy Bolden, fire department;
Mrs. Neil c. Fraley, American Legion
Auxiliary; Miss Adeline Sincell, Mrs.
w. R. Offutt, Miss Helen Treacy,
Mrs. D. Edward Offutt, Mrs. Byron
Besse, Mrs. James Willison, Miss
Helen Jones, Jack fowler.
The Republican., 1935-01-17
R. c. McCOmas Appointed Su-
pervisOr of Assessments

Richard C, McComas was in receipt
of letter Friday morning notifying
him that he had been appointed Su-
pervisor of Assessments for Garrett
county. The appointee was one of the
number recommended for appointment
by the Board of County Commission
ers at the meeting of that body dur
ing the month of December.
The appointment was made by the
State Tax Commission of Maryland.
Following the resignation of Ernest
Ray Jones, which was transmitted to
the Commission early in December to
become effective with the beginning
of the year, no meeting Of the tax
commission was held until Thursday
of last week, when the appointment
was announced.
Michael J. Lindsay, chief supervisor
of assessments for the State of Mary
land, was in Oakland Monday and ad-
ministered the oath of office to Mr..
McComas and instructed him in the
management of the office affairs. Mr..
McComas will assume his new duties
Immediately.
The Republican., 1935-01-17
Mrs. Helen Lee Dennis Will Give
Program of Readings and
ImpersOnatiOns

Mrs. Helen Lee Dennis, wife of
William L. Dennis, superintendent of
the Swallow Falls CCC camp, who
has been a resident of Oakland for the
past ten months, will present a pro-
gram of readings and impersonations
in the High School auditorium on
Friday evening, January 25, beginning
at 7:45 o'clock.
The entertainment is being spon-
sored by the young people of ST.
Marks Lutheran church and an ad-
mission charge of Is cents and 25
cents will be made.
Mrs. Dennis is graduate of North
field Seminary and of the American
Academy of Dramatic Arts in New
York City. She has studied under
noted dramatic teachers and has ap-
peared in Oakland on one or two occa-
sions where she has left good i'm
preston of her work with her audi
ences. Aside from concert appearances
Mrs. Dennis is familiar to radio audi
ences, having broadcast from New
York and New England stations.
Mrs. Dennis will give monologues,
dramatic readings, melologue and i'm
personations at the entertainment
scheduled for the 25th inst. These
numbers will be interspersed with
musical selections by local talent.
The Republican., 1935-01-17
Fire Damages Home of John
Guthrie, Sixth Street

Fire, caused by an overheated coal
stove, damaged the home occupied by
John Guthrie and his family on Sixth
street, south of Oak street, llalsltl Fri
day at noon.
The fire department was called and
extinguished the blaze before it broke
through the roof of the burning struc-
ture. The house was badly damaged
by smoke and water. The property be-
longs to Miss Dora Martin of Oak
land.
Some anxiety was felt for the safe
ty of Mrs. Guthrie when it was re-
ported to members of the fire depart
ment that she was still in the house
but it was later learned that she had
gotten out before the fremen arrived.
The smoke was so heavy from the
burning tar paper roof that person
could have been smothered within a
short time, firemen stated.
The family consists of the father
and mother and four small children,
the mother and children being confined
to their home at the time of the fire
suffering with measles. What re-
mained and was usable Of their house
hold effects along with members of
the family, were taken to the home Of
Eli Meats, west of town, by Robert
Stanton's truck and motor car.
Called Again Yesterday Evening
The firemen were called again last
evening about six o'clock when the
garage and workshop of G. H. Will
liams, about mile north of Oakland,
on Route 81, was discovered to be on
fire.
Mr.. Williams had been working in
his shop yesterday afternoon and had
gone into his house, standing nearby,
for his evening meal. All his plumb
ing tools, his automobile and acces-
sories were destroyed as the blaze had
assumed too much headway before the
department was notified. The loss is
estimated at $1,000.
The Republican., 1935-01-17
COUNTY REPRESENTATIVES
GET POSTS ON COMMITTEES
None Are Given Important AS
signments In Either House

Republican members of the Mary
land Legislature were given little con-
sideration by the presiding officers of
either the Senate or the House in
making committee assignments, which
were announced yesterday. Not only
were the Garrett county members
ignored on the important committees
but Republicans from other sections
of the State were likewise given little
or no consideration.
The two important committees in
the Senate are the Finance and the
Judicial Proceedings Committees,
which have about ninety per cent of
the legislative work to consider. The
personnel of the Finance Committee
has been increased from eleven to
fourteen, but. only two Republicans
have been named as members of the
body. In previous sessions, with eleven
members, there were more Republi-
cans appointed with even fewer men,
bers of that party occupying seats as
Senators.
Senator J. Allan Coad, a Democrat
from st. Mary's county, is chairman
of the Finance Committee. Republican
Senators from Carroll and Calvert
counties are the only members of their
party appointed to the committee.
Governor Nice will have fight on
his hands in the Senate and House" !"
one observer asserted, "and the Demo-
cratic majority in both branches may
defeat some of his programs. 1t looks
to me that the Democrats have organ
lied along strictly party lines"
Senator Friend on Eight Committees
Senator Clifford Friend of Garrett
county, was appointed on eight COM
mittees: Agriculture and Labor, EX
ecutive Nominations, Federal Rela-
tions, Library, Printing, Public Build
ings at Annapolis, Railroads and
Canals, Retrenchment of Expenses of
STATE government.
House Committee Assignments
In the House Assemblymen Ed
wards and Groves were each placed
on three committees, and Assembly,
man Cullers was appointed to 4 posts.
Mr.. Edwards is on the Education,
Civil Service Reform and Temperance
Committees.
Mr.. Groves is on the Currency, Elec-
tions and Printing Committees.
Mr.. Cullers received appointment on
Expiring Laws, Federal Relations,
Library, Manufacturers Committees.
Indications are that the Legislature
will recess until the middle Of next
week following today's session.
The Republican., 1935-01-17
Knights of Pythias Lodge Off
GERS to Be Installed Tomorrow

Recently elected officers of Garrett
Lodge, No. 113, Knights of Pythias,
will be installed at the regular weekly
meeting of the organization on Friday
night of this week. The installation
ceremonies will be in charge of Ar
thur Lawton.
The new officers include Jesse J
Ashby, Jr., chancellor commander;
William McRobie, vice-chancellor;
Clayton Winters, prelate; Charles F
White, master of work; Earl W.
Shartzer, master at arms; Walter
Hardesty, keeper of records and seal;
Milburn w. Mann, master of finance;
Alva G. Gortner, master of exchequer;
Prentiss DeBerry, inner guard; Paul
Dewitt, outer guard.
At the conclusion of the installa-
ton ceremonies refreshments will be
served, and all members of the lodge
are urged to be present.
The Republican., 1935-01-17
$40 BIRTHS, PIG DEATHS
ARE RECORDED in COUNTY
Both Show Increases Over Pre-
viOus Year-June Heaviest
Month For Births and Deaths
MORE GIRLS THAN BOYS

There were $40 births in Garrett
county during 1884 and 219 deaths,
according to figures obtained from Dr.
E. C. Peck, health officer. Both are in
creases over last year. Of the total
number of births, $50 were male and
270 were female. Male deaths totaled
125 as compared with "a deaths of
female.
The deaths listed included % chill
dren who were born dead and 21 who
died before reaching the age of one
month. Only eleven children died be-
tween the ages of one month and one
year
Deaths of children before and i'm
mediately after birth can in many
cases be prevented by better care of
the mother before and after the birth,
but it is deaths in this group which
are hardest to avoid, DR.. Peck stated.
To prevent unnecessary deaths,
mothers are urged to consult their
physicians as soon as a baby is ex-
pected. Infectious disease of the blood
is the commonest preventable cause of
deaths in these littlest ones, it was
stated.
Three babies died of measles-pneu-
monia during 1884, condition which
is said to be avoidable if serum is
given the baby not later than 7 days
after it is exposed to measles.
Fewer Babies In Maryland
AS for the entire State, fewer babies
were born in Maryland per 1000 popu-
ulation than during any similar period
covered by records. The drop was
slight-from 1862 in 1888 to 16.1-but
it followed declining trend which has
been apparent for some years. The
death, however, has also been declin-
ing, so there is no cause for con-
cern about possible shortage in pop
ulation in Maryland.
In Garrett county, June was the
most prolific month, both for births
and deaths, 62 having been born and
80 deaths occurring. The births and
laa4L. H., ,>,oo+be fol1o11ys
The Republican., 1935-01-17
PRELIMINARY REPORT OF
RED CROSS is GIVEN OUT
Shows that 16S in County Joined
During Drive; Quta Was 600

A preliminary report of the Red
Cross membership during the recent
drive for members shows that 16e
in the county have joined the organi-
zation. The county's quota was 600
Mrs. Samuel Cole, county chairman
stated no reports have been made by
several of the community chairmen
and was of the opinion that the num-
ber would be increased, probably to
200 or more. The drive closed on De-
cember 81.
Names of members which have not
previously been published include the
following:
Oakland-Miss Mary Speicher, DR.
R. L. Kercheval, DR.. E. C. Peck, F. R.
Shaffer, Leighton Brothers Garage
Mrs. J. D. Darby, Miss Rosalie Click.
Eearl Ault, Accident.
Joe Ranklo, Kitzmiller.
Shallmar-Margaret Poole, Mrs
Emily Griffith, Miss Gladys B. Hamill,
Alyce E. Hartley,,cH A. Marshall.
Crellin-Mrs. Lester Yutzy, Miss
Iden, Mrs. ]. W. Baker, Mrs. Harold
Ream, E. F. Colaw, Mrs. Homer Shat
fer, Mrs. Stanley Ashby, Mrs. j. F
Ashby, C. w. Ream, Margaret M
Graham, Mrs. Dwight Ashby, Mrs
Ernest Ashby, Ralph Dewitt, Mrs
Frank Graham.
Miss Edna J. Brydon, Bloomington
The Republican., 1935-01-17
Library Board Elects

At the annual meeting of the Gar
rett County Public Library board held
on Tuesday afternoon, Mrs. H. A. Lor-
aditch was reelected president for
1885. Others named as officers include
Mrs. D. Edward Offutt, vice-presi-
dent; Mrs. James Willison, secretary;
Mrs. Foster D. Bittle, treasurer; Miss
Elizabeth Leary, librarian.
Plans for inaugurating a travelling
library and for raising revenue were
discussed by the board members.
The Republican., 1935-01-17
High School Glee Club To Pre-
sent Campus Daze"

Campus Daze," an operetta, will
be presented by the Oakland High
School glee club on Friday, February
1, in the High School auditorium.
The cast of characters will include
Phillips Thayer, Gertrude Casteel,
Mildred Hamilton, Louise Moomaw,
William Wildesen, Edward Paugh,
Dolores Kerins and Charles Mason.
The cast was selected after members
of the club had tried out in various
parts.
The play is under the direction of
Mrs. Ruth Conley Brown, music in
structor in the school.
The Republican., 1935-01-17
RAIDERS SEIZE THREE BIG
STILLS NEAR KITZMILLER
c. o. ROhrbaugh, Second Offense
Owner Taken Into Custody
Friday Afternoon
TWO OTHERS ARRESTED

Described as Garrett county's lead
ing bootlegger by Investigators of the
Alcohol Tax Unit in charge of VIM. R.
Harvey, of Cumberland, Claude o.
Rohrbaugh Of near Kitzmiller, was ar
rested at his farm in that community
last Friday afternoon. When taken be-
fore Justice of the Peace Charles F.
White for hearing he waived exam
ination and was held under $1,000
bond for the action of the grand jury
at the March term of the Circuit
Court when he will be tried under the
local dry law.
Investigators stated they found
three 1OO-gallon copper stills on the
premises, in addition to fifty gallons
of whiskey in the cellar, where large
supply of oak chips, jars and kegs
were also found by the officers. In ad-
dition to paraphernalia used in dis
tillation, the investigators stated, an
ageing furnace by feet, was de-
stroyed. The officers stated the fur
mace was heated with wood and was
covered with heavy piece of sheet
metal on which white sand was laid.
The kegs containing liquor were also
placed in the hot sand, they said to
hurry the ageing process of the liquid.
Two of the three stills were found in
the barn with twenty-five empty mash
barrels, while the third still, investi-
gators said, was located in the gar
age and had not been used. Fifty feet
of copper worming was found nearby,
they said.
Rohrbaugh is a previous violator of
the county dry law, he having been
convicted in the local court on State
charge about four years ago, for sale
of liquor in Garrett county.
Two Others Arrested Saturday
David S. Bowman, of,'Cherry Creek,
near Oakland, was also arrested on
liquor charges about $3.50 o'clock Sat-
urday morning. The specific charge
on which Bowman is being held for
action of the grand jury is that of
operating an unlicensed still in the
cellar Of his home. Bowman is a far
mer and officers stated they arrived at
the home just as Bowman was COM
pleting night operation at the liquor
plant. Ten gallons of new liquor, 15-
gallon still and three barrels of mash
were confscated.
Bowman was arraigned before Mag
istrate W. F. King at Oakland and
held under $500 bond for action of the
Garrett County grand jury at the
March term of the Circuit Court.
Following the arrest of Bowman
and a rapid fire of questions pro-
pounded by the officers to Bowman,
the investigators visited the home of
Gilbert Gank, brother-in-law of Bow
man, near Hutton, this county, and
seized ten gallons of alleged whiskey.
There was evidence, the officers said,
that the plant seized at Bowman's had
recently been removed from Gank's
home. Gank was held under $500 bond
for action of the Garrett County
grand jury following his arraignment
before Justice King Saturday after
noon.
The Republican., 1935-01-17

Mrs. Alex. Georg, accompanied by
her son and daughter, motored to Oak
land yesterday and spent several
hours in town attending to business
matters.
Evening star., 1935-12-08
LIFE IS VIVIDLY RECOUNTED
Chapter on Conflict Which Led Establishment of Asso-
ciated Press Among Volumes Highlights-French Mid
die Class Mirrored in New Novel - Another Writer
Analyses Roosevelt.

nor made grotesque for the sake of
unrealistic comedy.
Portrayal of the Pasquiers' life Is
indeed one of those happy literary
feats wherein group Of people and
a situation which might be typical Is
described, but in such manner that
its typicalnesS is never monotonous.
M. Duhamel has not attempted to
make his family representative of a
class by denying its members individ-
uality. He works by the opposite for
mula of supplying them with individ-
uality in great abundance. The re-
suit is an intensely living picture Of
the household, crowded, inharmonious,
oppressed, discontented and ridiculous.
The father may be taken as the
most accomplished example of this
method of character drawing. Pas
quere pere has no remarkable virtues
and no remarkable vices; he is vain,
dishonest, cowardly. and utterly self
ish. But-he is not bad sort of fell
low, as M. Duhamel shows him to us.
He longs to raise himself above meager
life to which poverty has bound him.
He works to accomplish this, although
he refuses the responsibility once the
Evening star., 1935-12-08

a high commission in his army. then
engaged in the civil war which fol-
lowed the assassination of Julius
Caesar. Horace's career as a soldier
ended when the republic ended:
when honor at Phillippi fell
A prey to brutal passion,
I regret to say that my feet ran
away
In swift iambic fashion"
He returned home, with his fathers
modest property conascated, himself a
member Of the wrong party. He some
how found job as clerk in the
treasury department and in his spare
time devoted himself to poetry He
first turned to satire for two reasons;
he was embittered and, for the mo-
ment, at a sad disadvantage in life, and,
secondly, ''satire" was the one field of
literary endeavor which at that time
had not been pre-empted by some other
writer. Whatever the nature Of some
of these poems, they brought Horace
into contact with his lifelong friend
and patron, Maecenas, the secretary
of state of Augustus, through the in
PRODUCTION of his newly made friends,
Varius Tucca and Vergil. two Of the
Evening star., 1935-12-08

the poet, the complete accord and
understanding which he established
between his readers and himself. He
tells us most. directly, in his "Satires"
and his "Epistles," but it is his "Odes"
that reveal the qualities of the man
in a more subtle way.
Horace was born of poor freedman
father in the little village of Venusia
modern Venosa), on the eastern slope
Of the Apprentices, about 185 miles
southeast of Rome on the still extant
Appian way. The father, whose un-
selfish devotion, broad vision and
moral rectitude Horace has simply
and beautifully immortalized, took mis-
son to be educated at the capital city
There he attended him daily at his
school work and in their walks about
the city gave him counsel and advice.
After finishing his basic education
Horace went to Athens, the greatest
university town of the day. This time
his father, who was to. die before
Horace returned, did not accompany
him.
THE second period Of the poets life
began with his acquaintance with
Marcus Brutus-of Shakespearean re-
nown-who offered the young student
Evening star., 1935-12-08

antiquity found near the District
are practically contemporaneous. The
days when mammothS browSed and
bison stampeded in vast herds over
the District meadows were only yes
terday. The forest grew 100,000,00O
years earlier than their first appear
ance. Oceans have submerged the
area in the interval. Hills have risen
and sank again. River courses have
changed.
All the while, like an enchanted
princess of the old time, the embalmed
woodland has lain in its clay tomb.
Let sunshine fall upon its dark an
cientneSs and it would vanish. 1t was
such forest as the eyes of man never
have looked upon. 1t might have
been growing upon another planet
SO far was its appearance, as this
tentatively can be reconstructed, from
anything on earth today.
1t was such a forest as might have
been pictured in the Inferno Of
Dante-so shadowy, wierd and grue-
some were its dark colonades.
In the branches of this forest no
bird songs heralded dew-bejeweled
mornings. Ten million years must
pass before the first carolings of the
thrushes. A thousand springtimes
brought no breeze stirred froth of
blossoms Flowers, pink and white,
had not taken shape in the green pat
tern of natures blanket. Time was
spinning. No frightened rabbits sour
ried through the underbrush. No
squirrels chartered in the tree-tops.
They first appeared a hundred mil
lion years later.
IT WAS a soul-leSs forest, without
mind and without love. Only hum
ger and fear were there. No nest
building, no motherhood, no storing
of food, no joy and no grieving. Only
Shiny, lizard-like creatures crawled
over the mud or basked in the sun
shine that fell on grassless inter
stices. No grass yet grew in the
world. Perhaps few giant dinosaurs
crashed through the bushes-near
the end Of their days of dominion
on earth. Perhaps some tiny, rat-like
dinosaurs glided silently away at the
approach of the monsters and sought
their eggs to suck-and these were
the creatures from whom were to
arise all warm -blooded animals and
man.
There was no pain in that forest.
Eyes we're dim and probably incapable
Of color discrimination. All the earth
lay in perpetual gray twilight-for
these creeping things that dwelt upon
It. Even as today, brooklets made
music over sandy bottoms-but there
we're no ears to hear that music.
Sight and sound we're not born.
1t was a woodland of brooding, ter
rible silence. Perhaps there was the
rare hum of an insect on sunny days
but nobody knows whether these
ancient insects were capable of hum
ming. Only the crashing of branches
as titanic tempests swept landward
from the ocean broke into the sound
leSsneSs of this alcove Of time.
At night strange stars rose over the