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HE Valley firms whose names
appear on this page are ask
ing your consideration Of their claims
for your business.
All of them are well capable II
their respective lines, and seek your
business on merit and merit alone.
You will do well to investigate
their ability to serve you.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1935-06-20

trail through the forest as first step
in the restoration Of the historic path.
Personals
Elwood Gortner and family, of Mes
sine, ILL.,, are visiting Mr.. and Mrs.
Harvey Gortner.
Charles E. Paul is a patient in Ne
mortal Hospital, Cumberland, having
been operated on for a mastoid tumor
from which he had been suffering for a
month.
Mrs. R. E. Sliger entertained the
members of the bridge club and other
friends at the National Hotel recently.
Mrs. A. c. Stanton and Mrs. Flor
ence Maurer entertained the bridge
club with breakfast meeting Satur-
day morning.
Melvin Beachy, Philadelphia, and
Frank Beachy, Swissvale, spent the
weekend with their mother, Mrs. j.
w. Folk.
Mrs. Joseph F. Fahey, Mrs. Frank
Getty and Miss Leona Clark enter
tanned with a shower in honor of Miss
Mary Miller at the Casselman Hotel on
Tuesday afternoon. Miss Miller has
announced her engagement to Mr.. Hol-
liday, of Somerfield, Pa.
Mrs. Walter Runner, Pasadena, Cal,
Mr.. and Mrs. J. S. Messersmith, Col
yer, Pa, and Mrs. Mildred Willender,
and daughter, of Philadelphia, were
guests of Mrs. Rhoda Paul Livengood
last weekend.
The local ball club played the New
York Bloomer Girls on the local field
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1935-06-20
The Evolution of The Fire Engine

At the time of the burning of Rome
by the Gauls in 800 B. c., every citizen
was ordered to keep in his house "a
machine for extinguishing fire." This
machine, a form of syringe, was the
first known "fre engine" From such
a modest beginning has grown our
splendid modern fre-fghting equip
ment.
The first record of a fire department
was also found in Rome. During the
reign of Augustus Caesar, a freight
ing department, consisting Of seven
companies of a thousand men each,
was formed. It's duties included not
only actual frst-fghting, but also
policing the streets in the vicinity of
the outbreak in order to prevent loot
ing.
Fire alarms came into use in medic
val times, if not earlier. In many towns
a Waterman, whose duty it was to
watch for fires, was stationed in a
high tower. He gave the alarm by
ringing bell, blowing a horn, or firing
a gun.
In 1859, Peter Stuyvesant, governor
of New Amsterdam, organized the first
fire department established in Ameri-
ca by municipal action. Two hundred
and fifty leather buckets and a supply
of ladders and hooks imported from
Holland, were distributed. A tax of one
guilder for every chimney was i'm
posed for the maintenance of the de-
partment. The alarm was sounded by
twirling a rattle. In 1869, Brent
Master" was appointed, who, it seems,
was the first fire chief in this country.
The first real fire engine was used in
1888 in a fire on London bridge.
However, the citizens of London were
powerless, with the equipment at their
disposal, to control the terrific con-
fagration which devastated the city in
1866. The early fire engines were
hand-operated. One of the earliest
consisted merely of a horse-drawn
tank, which was filled and replenished
by bucket brigade. An early form
of pump elected the water. Due to the
fact that the range of the steram
made it necessary to take the appara-
tus close to the fire the engine itself
was often consumed by the flames.
This condition led to the development
of more powerful pumps. The inven-
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1935-06-20
EVANSVILLE
Melvin Beachy To Receive Degree

Melvin Beachy To Receive Degree
Melvin E. Beachy, son of Mrs. J. w.
Folk, will receive his degree in medi-
cine on Wednesday at the University
of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa. He
was graduated from Brown Prepare
tory School, Philadelphia, in 1927, and
received his A. B. degree in 1881 at the
University of Pennsylvania. He is a
member of the Alpha Kappa Kappa
fraternity and William Pepper Medi-
cal Society.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. w. Folk, Mrs. H. J.
Bender and daughter Jane, of Grants
vile; Frank Beachy and Miss Anna
M. Loghran, of Pittsburgh, will at
tend the commencement exercises in
Convention Hall.
Dramatic Club Organized
At a rehearsal of the musical COM
edy, Marrying Marian" held recently
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. H. ]. Ben
der, the principals of the cast formed
"The Grantsville Dramatic Club" and
elected the following officers: Presi-
dent, Mrs. c. 0. Keller; vice-president,
Mrs. H. J. Bender; secretary and treas
urer, Mrs. George Edwards. 1t is the
aim of the club to present a play each
year and donate percentage of the
proceeds to some local organization.
This season the play is being given
under the auspices Of the NJ. E. Sunday
school, but next year the club hopes
to be upon it's own feet.
Full rehearsals for Marrying Mar
ian" are going on under the direction
of one skilled in the art, and even
though the production is still in a
rough state and still to be greatly de-
veloped and polished before its public
presentation, every member of the
cast is most enthusiastic as to the
outcome.
The play, a musical comedy in two
acts, will be given in the w. o. W.
Hall the last Friday and Saturday ev-
enings in June. The ticket receipts will
be given to the M. E. church. 1t is the
hope Of the club that everyone will
patronize the play and thus help in
a most worthy cause.
w. O. w. Initiates Class
Fifteen candidates were initiated
into the Woodmen of the World lodge
Tuesday night Of last week. The work
OF cOnferrlng the degree was exempt
fed by the Crellin degree team.
At the meeting there were about so
members.
Short talks were given by State
Manager E. A. Olsen, of Washington,
D. c.; Deputy Spencer Graham, of
Crellin, and Captain Parker, of Cum
berland Camp No. 6. The membership
of the local organization has been in
creased during the year. A social ses-
sion concluded the affair.
High School Graduation
The graduation exercises for the
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1935-06-20

ton of hose, in 1872, made it possible
to locate the engine at a safe distance
from the fire. The water was con-
veyed under pressure from the engine
to the fire.
In 1921, an improved type of en-
CINE was constructed in England by
Richard Newsham, who also made the
first fire engine to be used in the
United States. Water was supplied to
it by hand, and was pumped out thro
hose. Later developments brought
into use a suction hose, which elimi-
mated the necessity for the bucket
brigade.
The steam fire engine was invented
in 1929 by John Braithwaite, of Lon
don. The first practical steam fire en-
CINE used in the United States was
the "Uncle Joe Ross" which was in
vented in 1852 by Alexander Bonner
Latta. 1t was put into operation in
Cincinnati early in 1853. 1t threw from
one to six streams of water. A single
stream one and three-quarter inches
in diameter could be thrown a dis
tance Of 240 feet. The use of the steam
engine in fighting fires soon became
general. Steam was used almost ex-
clusively in operating the pumps at
the great Chicago fire in 1871.
By 1928, practically all large cities
in the United States had discarded the
horse drawn and steam fire engine,
and had adopted the present motor
engine. The gasoline engine supplies
power both for the propulsion of the
vehicle and for the operation of the
pumps. The motor engine is superior
to the steam engine, because of the ra-
pidity with which it can be brought
into action, its lighter weight and its
greater water capacity.
In out-of-town districts, where there
is a shortage of water, or for small
fires, the chemical engine is invalua-
bic. In port cities the fire boat is in
dispensable in fighting dock fires.
Although fire was one of mans first
discoveries, the evolution of the fire
has taken many centuries.
It is to be hoped that the advance
which has been made, together with
the spread of fre-prevention knowl
edge, will continue with increasing
rapidity until fire shall truly be the
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1935-06-20

senior class of the local high school
were held Thursday evening in the
Lutheran church. The principal ad-
dress was made by Miss NJ. Theresa
Weiderfeld, Supervisor of the State
Department of Elementary Education.
Mr.. F. E. Rathbun, County Superin-
tendent of Schools, presented the diplo-
mas to the graduates with appropriate
remarks.
Members of the graduating class
were Josephine Hamill Glotfelty, Alma
Marcella Bittinger, Manetta Opel
Menges, leila Mae Beachy, June Is
abel Stephen, Pauline Pearl Swauger,
Helen Naomi Michael, Helen Wilma
Fresh, Helen Virginia Misseman, Ly-
dia Marie Wiley, Beulah Izettta Buck
ell, Ruth Eileen Otto, Edith Walls,
Gladys Viola Beachy, Oma Ellen
Edith Ellen Bittinger, Mabel June
Merrill, Mary Pauline Broadwater,
Edna Roberta Swauger, Sara Celina
Turner, Naomi Alice CLANCY, Donald
Schaefer, Ira NJ. Stark, Kenneth Harry
Edwards, Edward Charles Hetz, Mar
shall DIN burst, Nevin Lee Warwick,
Ivan c. Swauger, Glenn Edward Mil
Ter.
School Principal Resigns
Announcement has been made of the
resignation of Mr. Mullinix, principal
of the local school, who has accepted
a position in a school located near his
home at Damascus, Montgomery coun-
ty, Nd. Both Mr. and Mrs. Mullinix
were engaged in teaching in the local
school and their contemplated depar-
ture is sincerely regretted by a large
circle of friends in this community.
Mountain Choir Festival
Mrs. R. E. Sliger is in charge of
the sale of tickets for the Mountain
Choir Festival to be held at Mountain
Lake Park next Sunday. Mrs. Sliger
states that forty per cent of the pro-
ceeds on the sale of tickets will be
turned over to the Crippled Children's
fund of the county and especially set
aside for the purpose of purchasing
glasses for children whose parents are
financially unable to do so. Persons
desiring tickets should see Mrs. Sliger.
Child Swallows Pin
Mary Ruth, five-year-old daughter
OF Mrs. Ida V. Wiley, of Jennings,
swallowed a pin one day last week.
She was Immediately taken to the
office Of DR.. Davis in Grantsville and
the pin was removed without serious
results.
Restoration of Braddock Trail
The local Civic Club went on record
last week as favoring the proper res
toration and marking, in so far as pos
sible, the old Braddock Trail as a
bride path, in cooperation with the
Rotary Club Of Frostburg and the
Great Crossings Chapter, Daughters Of
the American Revolution of Somer-
field, Pa. The boys of the community
under proper leadership will blaze the
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1935-06-20
Card of Thanks

We wish to extend our thanks and
express our appreciation to our friends
who so generously donated the use of
their cars and for floral tributes and
other help and kindnesses during the
illness and following the death of our
wife, mother and grandmother.
HORACE R. D'WITT, STEPDAUGH-
TER AND GRANDCHILDREN.
Advertisement 1t.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1935-06-20
COMMISSIONERS MEETING

NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN That
the Board of County Commissioners
of Garrett County, Maryland, will hold
its regular bi-monthly meeting at it's
offices in the Court House, Oakland,
Maryland, on
MONDAY, JULY 1, 1885,
for the purpose of transacting all
business that may be brought before
them.
WALTER G. MEYERS, Clerk.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1935-06-20

Monday afternoon. Five innings were
played with the decision in favor Of
the local club.
Mrs. Lee Beachy, Mrs. Fred. Liven-
good, Mrs. Guy S. Stanton and Eliz-
abeth Yost are attending the Rural
Women's Short Course at College
Park this week.
Allen Rodamer is spending the sum-
mer at Mt. Alto, Pa.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-08-21
NEWSPAPERS, OPINION
SOAKING THE OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES THE .,
LITTLE STOCKHOLDERS = y.

One trouble about the enormous taxes proposeo
70 he levied against corporation incomes Is 'i'''
fact that those huge totals are shared out 10
,srsons who are by no means rich The proper pro-
poI,ro vonId he to tax the dividends going to tne
ndiv;dpals as such; l. e., to tax the rich man h"o'
nd tho little man less in proportion.
Manv Of the great corporations of the country
s.ve from 100000 to 100000 stockholders Most
81 those stockholders poor men and women VI
- tho very most men and women of very moderate
.;ncomes They have sought to invest. some HUE
so,,inps to bring them in some income. The gross
income of their corporations should not be severely
taxed because that is merely to overtax these tte
stockholders.
That sort of thing is a strong disbursement 10
small holders of capital to invest It, instead u
that the government should encourage the Sil'@ii
man to save and invest.
The continual attacks corporations tendS 10
divide the people into two classes; those VINO nave
and those who neither have nor ever mtend 10 Try
TO save or have. and are thereby encouraged more
and more to attack those who have-Newberry' D
c., Observer.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-08-21
COTTON AND THE SOUTH

No humble submission to present tehoehcieS =!
conservative low tariff Democrats in the South Is
Indicated by the present situation, however oh
tho contrary the manner in which the cotton crisis
i developing and the probability that 1t Will reach
a very acute stage by next August. are hKely 70
find echoes in the Democratic Congressional prl-
maries in some of the cotton producing states ouc
inc. the coming year. The manner IN winch the
foreign markets for cotton have been destroyed
and are still being destroyed without any eHof'
whatever being made by the administration 10 save
them. is causing much alarm and even some mag
nation among an increasing number OF southern
neople. It seems to us to be almost unthnkaDle
that these people will not make themselves 'healu
in effective protest during the coming year. II
MANY of these people recognize the more than
probable futility of attempting to revolt against
the administration, they do not feel the same way
about the Democratic primaries. If present poll
cies are not changed, and # in the meantime, as
seems likely the consequences Of those policies be-
Gin 10 be felt with increasing intensity during the
months ahead it is at least probable that TINS VIII
result in crystaizing sentiment in the South anu
that this sentiment will find practical expression n
the congressional primaries. 1t is likely to bob Up
also in state conventions of the party and it may
even find means for expression in the next Demo-
cratic national convention For the sentiment is
growing rapidly, and it is bound to seek effective
iexpresson.-Texas Weekly. -...
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TRYING TO ABOLISH WORK

A strike is an industrial battle-one not sup
posed to be fought with violence but which Is
Strikers are employed persons who for reasons CT
their own quit their work. They are one Of the
warning parties.
Mr. Fulp, the state federal relief administrators,
announces that one Aubrey Williams of the ma
tiona ERA office at Washington has given him
notice that mill workers unemployed by reason
of striking or voluntary closing of mills be given
Jobs near their homes where practicable, with d.
rect relief to be provided for those for whom no
work is available"
Thus the government of the United States de-
cares itself the ally of the strikers in industrial
battles 1t takes sides. 1t becomes the commissary
department of the strikers You merchants, farm
ers filling station keepers, lawyers, all Of you who
pay taxes, put up the money.
With the United States government giving notice
that persons who quit their work shall be fed and
housed by it, there is no reason why any lady or
gentleman employed in any way whatsoever should
hesitate about going on strike when disposed 1t
is safe procedure.
The United States has become an instgator and
inciter of industrial warfare.
The New Deal pretends that it would relieve un-
employment, but the fact is that it is trying q
abolish work-Charleston News and Courier.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-08-21
LET THE TEST BE SPEEDILY MADE

If the social security bill is unconstitutional as
seems to be held by some rather eminent lawyers
and flock of them, that fact ought to be ascer-
tanned as soon possible-much sooner than it
was developed that the NRA beyond the pale.
A test case should be Immediately started some
where to the end that it would be in the supreme
court when it re-cOnvenes in the early fall.
The security measure is of such vital bearing
upon industry and corporate interests as to their
future presses upon them with such heavy hand
of taxation and thus calls upon them to make 50
many farreaching plans to meet its provisions that
it should be determined as soon practicable
whether it will stand up or not before the test Of
that the employing world may pre-
pare to make final and permanent adjustments
thereunto Charlotte Observer. .....
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-08-21
BUY REAL ESTATE

Dr. w. w. Ball, editor of The Charles
ton News and Courier, is devotlng mueh
space in that South Carolina newspaper 10
a campaign to encourage his fellow coun-
trvmsn to make immediate investments III
real estate. Editor Ball sees initiation and
Reputation in the near future, as a result
of the policies of the national admmlstra-
ton. and advises South Carolinians who
are not land owners to get title to real
property at once. When the evil day comes
they will have homes and lands on which
they can subsist until the storm passes.
The Charleston editor offers sound ad-
vice. He realizes, of course, that an invest
mentIin land is not absolutely safe. A Com
muniSt dictator may come along and eX-
propfiate all owners of land and vest own
ership and control in the government, as
was done in, Russia, but that will be the
last step into chaos in this country; and Ii
the country succeeds in throwing off, the
incubus of radicalism and restoring normal
American conditions, the owners of real
estate will find themselves in the strongest
and most favorable position of any class oil
citizens.
Editor Ball advises against buying bonds
especially the bonds of the national Social
ist administration. He has more faith in
the bonds of Charleston county and South
Carolina than in the paper of the Raw
Dealers His opinion of bonds is probably
similar to the opinions of large majority
of the country's population. The govern
ment's ''baby bond" campaign has been
the biggest flop in the history of American
financing. That shows what the average
citizen thinks about Socialist bonds, al
though it is not to be taken in any sense
as an estimate of his sentiment toward his
country.
Bonds of the Washington regime are be-
ing purchased now by two classes of pep
pie. The very rich, who are still in the
grip of that old government bond fetish
and the appeal of tax exemption; and the
banks. No doubt most of the banks are un-
willing purchasers. The government has "a
firm grip on their threats. They would
commit suicide by declining to buy.
The Times-NewS, however, is directing
attention to the advice of the Charleston
editor because it believes that advice that
is good in South Carolina is good in NORTH
Carolina. Buy real estate-especially farm
lands-there is no better investment in this
period of raw dealing. .....~.......,.
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LETTERS TO
THE EDITOR

NOTE-No unsigned com
munications are published by
The Times-News. All letters
must be signed with the real
name of the author. No COM
munications signed with a fic.
ti.iors name will be published.
EDITOR
Editor, The Times-News:
As a summer visitor of long
standing, | am writing to ask you
why it is that Hendersonvllle
does not permit Sunday movies
These are presented in AshevilIe
and most other tourist centers
Their absence makes this q very
dull town, so that the tourist
need something to enllven Sun
day evening for entertainment.
Hendersonville is growing al
ways as an important summer
tourist center in the south
Therefore it should seek to keep
itself up-to-date and attractive
to its throngs Of visitors. Even
then there is danger that it will
not keep up in the race.
HUGER BACOT,
of The News and Courier and
The Asheville Citizen.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-08-21
By FRANCISCO REA
(Copyright 1885 by United Press)

ROME, Aug. p. )UP3.-From
the snow-tippcd Alps to the tip
of Italy's boot" sounds the thund-
Ell of marching troops as Premier
Benito Mussolinis Legions pre-
pare to. project Fascist destiny
into Ethiopia's steamlng wastes.
II Duce is preparing for two
wars and has two armies. One
war is that with Ethiopia which
is expected to start in late Sep
TENDER or early October. For
that he is cquipping 100000
colonial troops with cork helmets,
light uniforms and high boots.
The other war is just con-
iecture-a European war three
years hence. Against that the
dictator is building an army of
100000 steel-helmcted, warmly
uniformed men capable of fight
ing under European conditions.
This is called the Metropolitan
army.
Although Mussolini will have
100000 men under the colors.
In addition there will be 100000
blackshirts in reserve.
Mussolini believes he has am
pie time to finish his African
operations before the European
situation becomes acute but he
is holding sufficient men under
arms at home in case any enemy
should think to catch him weak.
When the entire million IS
under arms it will be divided
as follows: 100000 colonials
in Africa; 100000 colonials in
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-08-21

The income from the lint of the 1884 crop, IN
GLIDING government cash payments to farmers, was
equivalent to only little more than half of the
average annual income from the crops of the ten
years ending July 81, 1929. AS long as this income
is supplemented by relief money and other govern
ment expenditures in the South, and the displaced
labor of the cotton fields is supported at public
expense the full effect of what this means will be
obscured. But we very much fear that day of
sad awakening is ahead of the South-Texas
Weekly.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-08-21
IL DUCE PREPARES TWO ARnIFS
FOR TWO WARS; ONE IN AFRICI
AND POSSIBLE WAR IN E1IR0pF

Italy ready for scrv...
ca; 100000 Nr.... % Air.
| troops. ''',a,
" Blackshirt reso,-.l
aljv will he ayailoII,. "lo'tiVr.
guard. DIS Ion.
The Colonial from.
centratcd near so,,E are coy.
Thc MctropoI:tar, u No1
quarters near the ro. ...,'y head,
tier-facinp, Franz ..'..a tgor.
Jugo-Slavia. Basc, ..a "a a..
Alcssandria, Milan. IT, Iudt
ogna, Florence. Rom. ~ b..
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-08-21
Dutch Gets By

Well, the wide, wide cockeyed
world has seen a jury of II men
more or less good and true free
Dutch" Schultz, bloated Bronx
beer baron, of the governments
charge of evading payment of in
come taxes on profits made from
bootleg booze.
The trial judge did not like the
verdict. He said it would help to
destroy public confidence in the
courts. He even went so far as to
assert that the verdict was
prompted by something else than
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-08-21
LACK COURAGE OF CONVICTIONS

Commenting on national political condi-
tons, The Texas Weekly says: .,
mo Southern revolt in sight. There is
much discomfort among Democrats, but
they will vote the ticket"
Which is equivalent to saving that a
majority of the citizens of the South lack
the courage of their convietions-and the
charge probably is true. r... .s ...
There was time when no man could
truthfully lay this charge against the
Southern people, but it seems them days
is gone forever" The SAVIOR of the pottage
is irresistible. ...,., .M