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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1936-11-12
SELBYSPORT

Rev. and Mrs. R. L. Maness and
daughter Dorothy, of Masontown, w.
Va, were here on Tuesday. They were
greeted by their many friends. Rev.
Maness served as pastor of the M. E..
charge here the past two years. They
were accompanied to their home by
Mrs. Hattie Casteel and Miss Cleora
Glover, who spent several days at
Masontown.
Rev. L. E. Ressegger, Morgantown,
w. Va, and Rev. A. S. Wolfe and son
Sterling, of Terra Alta, visited Mrs.
Nathan R. Selby at her home here on
Saturday.
Rev. ]. F. Hockenberry preached to
a large congregation here on Sunday
morning.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bert Griffith and fam
lily, Mrs. Emma Brown, of Cove, Wis
tied Mr.. and Mrs. Jackson Lyle one
day recently.
Tom Shay and Mabel Wilson, Mr..
Baker and son, of New Eagle, Pa;
Mrs. Amanda Brown, Mr.. and Mrs
Edward Hickman and family visite'
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Bowser, on Sun
day.
Mrs. Maude Price and Miss Morris
of West Decatur, Pa, were weekend
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1936-11-12
PAGE THREE
DIR. E. T. MOwbray Married

Of interest to his many friends in
the Park comes the news of the mar
riage of Rev. Edwin T. Mowbray, 70 of
Baltimore, Nd, and Caroline Snavely,
"a, of Sparrow's Point. The ceremony
was performed by Rev. A. S. Now
bray, brother of the bridegroom in
Washington
Rev. E. T. Mowbray is a former
pastor of NJ. E. church in Baltimore
and former superintendent of the
Frederick District of the NJ. E. church,
Baltimore Conference. Rev. Mowbray
is well known and extremely popu-
lar summer resident of Mountain Lake
Park. For several years he has been
associated with all Park interests. May
we offer through The Republican, our
congratulations.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1936-11-12

The fiftieth birthday celebration of
the Statue of liberty recently was the
occasion for many oratorical out
bursts on the subjects of liberty"
and freedom"
1t remained for an obscure young
Austrian, newly arrived in this coun-
try and scarcely able yet to speak the
language, to give the clearest and
simplest explanation of what liberty
means to the American people. The
incident was related by Dorothy
Thompson, journalist. She wrote:
"Why did you come here?" asked.
"They would have called me up
next month for military SERVICE" he
said.
"You don't want to fight?" I asked.
"For WHAT" he said. "No, don't
want to fight. Not for what l had
there. l couldn't make living. Not
what you'd call living. l wanted a
chance"
"a chance for what?" I asked.
"a chance to work." he said,-"to
make some money and keep it and
get a home and do as I please. 1
want to get what I'm worth and I
want to keep it. Back there you don't
get enough ever to save anything,
and what you've got they tax away
from you. They take care Of you
when you're sick, according to their
own ideas and they'll give you bread
if you're out of job, but there's no
future. There's never anything to
look forward to. They think they
know what's good for you"
"Who do you mean by they?" I
asked.
"The government, the bureaucrats,
the soldiers, the bosses. They don't
give you a chance. They don't let
you alone"
"What is freedom ?" I asked.
He looked amazed at the question:
"It's where you can breathe" he said,
land be man."
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1936-11-12

Klee Anne Gale, granddaughter of
Mrs. Eugene Commerford, is spending
some time in Terra Alta with her
father, Richard Gale, Jr., and her
grandparents.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harvey Criss, Fair
mont, spent Saturday and Sunday here
at their cottage.
Guests at the Allenhurst over the
weekend were Chester Moye and
mother, Mrs. Moye, Mrs. Montgomery
Reay Shaffer and son Montgomery, all
of Washington, D. C.
Mrs. F. NJ. Murphy and sister, Mrs.
Bessie Zahn spent the weekend in
Uniontown where they were guets of
Mr.. and Mrs. J. A. Clark and Miss
Virginia Marshall
Hal Jacobs was in Baltimore last
week,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1936-11-12
Overheard
AVHTON

Vernon Robson, the seventh son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Enoch Robson, of this
community, received his operators
license at Squire Browns last Satur-
day. All of the sons of Mr.. Robson
have secured their operators license
through Mr.. Browns Office.
Mr.. and Mrs. Willie Broadwater, of
Garrett, Pa, spent Sunday here with
their parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis
Broadwater.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lee Broadwater, West
ernport, and Mr.. and Mrs. Owen Lewis
and three sons spent Sunday here with
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Broadwater.
Robert Merrill returned to a CCC
camp near Baltimore on Sunday after
spending a week here with his par
ents.
Miss Mary Merrill, Frostburg, was
here with her parents Saturday and
Sunday.
Mrs. Fannie Weitzell is spending a
few days in Frostburg with her
granddaughter.
A box social held at the Avilton
school house last Thursday evening
was we'll attended and everyone thor
oughly enjoyed the occasion.
Mr.. and Mrs. o. S. Fike were pres
ent at dinner given at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. George W. Weitzall at
Accident by the Griffin Brothers.
Emroy Glotfelty, Bittinger, spent
last Thursday night here with Cecil
Fike.
Kenneth Wilburn was here Thursday
evening.
Miss Elizabeth Workman was a
guest on Thursday evening of Mrs.
Joshua Turner.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bernard Mckenzie,
Cresaptown, spent the weekend here
with Mr.. and Mrs. George Grove.
Mr.. and Mrs. Scott Wilhelm, Joe and
Eddie Grove, Mr.. and Mrs. Julius Will
helm and children, Thomas and Floyd
Wilhelm, Bernard Mckenzie, George
and Harold Grove, Lawrence Hayes
were callers at the o. S. Fike home an
Saturday night. While there the party
husked several shocks of corn.
Ellis Robson, Mt. Savage, spent a
short time here Sunday with his par
ents.
Miss Kate Bannatyne visited the
Avilton school one day last week.
Several of the children of the Az
ilton school have chickenpox.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1936-11-12
The Onion Gets Publicity

There is now on a fight over sup
pressing onion breath. They are hav-
ing a convention about it in Kalama-
zoo, Michigan The New York dele
cation, on the conservative side, advo-
Gates development of onion breath re-
movers, but the radical element which
revels in onion odors, refuses to take
preventive measures and as result
has long given the onions bad name
in polite society.
A new machine is to be demonstra-
ted for testing the strength of onion
breath. The machine transforms the
strength of onion breath into heat
which in turn sets afire a piece of
paper treated with chemicals.
Personally Pm in favor of the
onion breath remover, especially if
there's that much danger of fire. In
my day I've smelled some pretty dam
gerous fire hazards. Up until now l
never thought there was any danger
other than the possibility of actually
blowing one over, suffocation, or loss
of appetite.
Onion breath thus far is the only
sure cure for halitosis uncertainty.
One need never worry after eating
onions. He can be sure he has it.
The worst of it is a lot of people
are proud of it. Says Archibaldson,
shortly after 1 have enjoyed a good
old Bermuda onion sandwich with a
little Hamburger on it.
According to news story the other
day James A. Farley and other am
bilious Democrats are out to complete
the devastation of the Republican
party, to reduce it to a state of utter
impotency.
May we suggest he call on the help
and assistance of Charles E. Hoye
Independent, who was all set fol-
Sang Run and the County to &c
Democratic.
Farley stated he was all set tc
elect a Democratic governor fol
Maryland at the next election, but
was rebuked considerably by the
Baltimore Sun, which stated Mary
land had always been able to care fol
itself long before Farley was evel
heard of.
With all this talk of the revival Of
the AAA and NRA it was refreshing
to hear an address last weekend al
the West Virginia Journalism confer
ence at Morgantown by Democratic
editor from Gulfport, Miss, who is
unalterably opposed to them and most
of these New Deal measures.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1936-11-12

Jokingly he told of the race be-
tween his state and that of South
Carolina. Mississippi went for Roose-
welt only 81 percent whereas South
Carolina was for him SO percent,
beating Mississippi for the first time
in years. However, he also pointed
out that Mississippi and South Caro-
lima, according to statistics, were the
two most illiterate states in the union.
He explained the voting laws in his
state. A Negro, in order to vote,
must be able to interpret and explain
the law when he is challenged at the
polls. A Negro was accordingly
stopped and he was asked to explain
what was meant by the Elk Post Facto
law. After scratching his head for a
minute the Negro replied: "Boss, it
means that this here Niger amt
goin' to vote"
During the last so years 18 new in
dustries have been developed in
America giving direct and indirect
employment to 10 million people.
These include motor vehicles and af-
filiated industries such as rubber
tires, gasoline, etc.; electrical machin-
cry, manufactured ice, mechanical re-
frigerators, typewriters, air craft,
monographs, radio, motion picture
apparatus, and several others.
Overheard
Two little girls not at all well
dressed walking along by the Garrett
National Bank and looking longingly
in the window at the doll dressed in
dollar bills: "Gee, l wish 1 could
win that doll. I wouldn't care thing
for the money" The innocence of
youth.
Evening star., 1936-07-26

the legendary figure Of that old Amer
lean epic. However, she Is only TO be
found on the floor of the elevator
bar $50 called because long ago
f1oater humorously put at its door a
stolen sign, ITO the Elevator"). One
is very apt to wonder what the IL
beautiful Greek figures, themselves
uncovered recently from under many
coats of wall paper, thought when on
Wednesday last the noted artist, Her.
modem Davis. obeying Whim, painted
her twice life-size on the bar room
floor. He decided to make 1.-The face
on the bar room floor" legend every
where, an actuality in Central City.
AS in the European communities
when the fiesta is on, the citizens of
Central City have prepared many
things which make the event pleas
ant and picturesque for its visitors.
Housewives have opened their homes
to accommodate persons who desire
to remain overnight. Old miners have
hunted up tools and equipment. Mer-
chants have put the original signs
over their stores and arranged inter-
esting exhibits of photographs in their
windows. Costumes and antiques are
on display together with ancient ve-
hicles in an effort to bring back the
atmosphere of early days.
THE women are helping their guests
to find the thrill of browsing
around in the haunts Of those ancient
Evening star., 1936-07-26

prospectors who dug for gold. Under
many of their homes they show you
some Of the old mines In their living
rooms you see many Of the old pieces
which they got out Of the deserted
houses.
The fortunate visitor may enjoy
some Of the native dishes of the pio-
neer women. In the early days the
miners wives, who were mostly Cor
niSh settlers. in large white starched
aprons, trudged to the mouth of the
mines, each carrying the shining,
secured dinner pail with hot lunch
for their men. These Cornish women
left behind them culinary secrets that
are still the pride of the women in
Gilphin County.
Several Sundays ago I was invited
to dinner at Mrs Seabright'S, best
known cook in Central City. And after
viewing innumerable gewgaws of Vic
torian days arranged on whatnots, I
sat down to a feast of Cornish pasties,
saffron bread yellow as gold dust and
luscious with citron and eggs. Then
at last the favorite desert of the min
ers was, with much ceremony, placed
on the table. A pie, half to be eaten
with thick cream, and the other half
to be eaten plain so as to get the full
taste Of the wild currants. This is a
dish served by the wives of Central
City only on special occasions, for the
women and children must climb as far
Evening star., 1936-07-26
Old Glass Factory

Dearlng the carpentering, Mr.. Harr-
over put on the galvanized iron roof.
Gray & Noyes furnished the engine
and boiler, and George E. Kirk did
the painting. DR.. w. F. Wallace, SON.
in-law of MIR. Purdy, was the super
intendent of the works.
Like the other glass factory. however,
this one also finally failed-though in
much less time.
After retiring from the painting
business, Mr.. Purdy became president
OF the Patriotic Bank of Washington,
then located at the corner Of D and
Seventh streets northwest, where is
now the Lincoln National Bank. He
was one Of the early residents of lower
Pennsylvania avenue, near the first
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad station
at Second street northwest. He also,
at one time, operated a lumber and
coal yard on First street, just above
the Avenue. Purdy's court, in that
neighborhood, was named for him.
We wonder today, what the people
who have passed on years ago would
think Of Washington should they ever
be permitted to return to earth, and
then the same thought suggests itself
in slightly different way; what would
We think of Washington if we were per-
mitted to return here 100 years hence?
I really wonder.
Evening star., 1936-07-26

President Grant paid Central City q
visit.
Today crooked, sleepy Eureka street,
where the signs of so years ago
are still hanging from the shop
windows, is filled with the Nations
famous, numbers of theater lovers
and vacationistS from every State in
the Union. For the annual festival
in the old mining town with its thea
ter Of noted players piques the inter-
est of thousands of travellers from
all corners of the world.
Many of them stay at the old Teller
House, which has also been restored
and Is being managed by the Opera
House Association. 1t is interesting
to see how visitors are glad to pay
$40 to s25 for a single nights rest on
the bed once occupied on his visit
there by U. S. Grant, then President
of the United States.
These are gala nights for the IA
NOUS old inn, which Is connected to
the opera house by an old-fashioned
garden. After the theater many a
party is given, for the Central City
social season awaits these three weeks
to come out in full swing New gowns
have been bought and the theater and
hotel are resplendent in finery and
Jewels as 1t was in the day when
money was rolling out of the noun
tain.
A newcomer in the gay throng is
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Continued From Second Page.)
Washington was one of the pioneers
this great industry.

this great industry.
The local industry, however, was not
always prosperous, and there were
times when it ceased to operate for
brief periods, and finally for all time.
In the city directory for 1843, it is still
listed, but its name does not appear
in the next directory printed in 1886,
and it is quite likely that 1t ceased
to operate about this time, and from
then on 1t was used for other purposes
A BOUT 1870, John Purdy. who, W.
are told, had an1assed fortune in
the painting and paint and glazing
business, erected large structure on
the Washington side of Rock Creek,
at Twenty-sixth and N streets, and
there attempted to revive the glass
manufacturing industry. But hardly
had Mr.. Purdy got started when fire
destroyed his plant to the extent of
$4,000. This old structure was Of
wood, and nothing was left of it after
the fire but the chimney and the iron
portion of the machinery, rendered
worthless by the heat, and, though M.
Purdy was very old, yet he was not
discouraged but set about clearing
away the rubbish and soon erected on
the site Of the ruins brick fireproof
building. which, upon completion, was
equipped with new machinery, and
the plant once again put in operation.
According to an old item, We find
that the old building was II feet long
by 81 feet wide, with wing Sc feet
long by 46 feet wide. There were also
a blacksmith shop and engine room,
% feet square, and the grounds were
inclosed with a high board fence.
Mr.. Plrdy believed in home industry
and saw to it that only Washington
contractors did the work. Augustus
Davis built the brickwork, Morsell q
Evening star., 1936-07-26
WOMEN OF AMERICA
Play Festival, Recalling Towns Greater Days,
Is High Point in Year of Those Who
Live in Central City, Colo.

you have but to close your eyes-and
in tight gown with ruff1es and laces,
you will hear PATHS light tread as the
nightingale bursts into song.
1T is the women of Colorado who
L. are in the main responsible for the
reopening of the opera house and for
rehabilitating the picturesque mining
camp so as to make a complete setting
for the great festivals they were plan
ming. They had been working with
the owners toward that end, when five
years ago it was presented to reluct-
ant recipient, the University of Den
yer, as a monument to Colorado pio-
neers.
The leading spirit in this movement
is Anne Evans, daughter Of John
Evans, first Territorial Governor of
Colorado, who had lived in Central
City. While Miss Evans is officially
Just a member of the Central City
Opera House Association, all of the
women admit that she is Central City.
Just as her father grubstaked the
miners in the early days, this keen
eyed, gray-haired veteran has always
grubstaked the needy artists Of her
country When the theater was to be
restored, needing the money for the
project, it was she who conceived the
idea of making memorials to the
rugged frontiersmen out of the solid
hickory chairs which we're still stand
ing from early days. And many women
paid S100 to have plaque placed on
a chair with the name of one of their
forbears who had blasted fortune and
fame for Colorado from the rocky hills
and gulches of Gilphin County.
Since its great revival four years
ago the finest talent of the American
stage has played behind its footlights.
Gladys Swarthout, Richard Bonelli,
Lillian Gish, Walter Houston, Nan
Sunderland, Helen Freeman, Kenneth
McKenna and many others have been
delighted to participate in these festi-
walls. And among them you find many
a Coloradan who boasts of being from
these parts A member of the pres
ent company is Erna Webber, grand
daughter of Thomas Lytle, who discov-
cred the Caribou mine in this district,
from which the silver was taken to
make the bricks that paved the street
in front of the Teller House when
Evening star., 1936-07-26

here enjoying the huge success
of Central City's Fifth Annual
Play Festival. 1t is the exciting
climax to their years activity.
In this old mining town, high on the
slopes of Colorado's Continental
Divide in the Rockies. for IL months
each year, the women lead simple
isolated lives. And then in the twelfth
they crowd anew all the adventure
and excitement of those gold boom
days when Central City was larger,
more prosperous and more cultured
than Denver, so miles away.
One of the most dashing and spec
tacular periods of their history is now
being dramatized in the historic Gen.
of celebrated New York stars is
presenting the Gilbert and Sullivan
comic opera The Gondoliers' on the
very same stage where such famous
thespians as Edwin Booth, Lotta
Crabtree, Joseph Jefferson, Bernhardt,
Modjeska made history in the early
days. In those days miners and gam
blers Wed with society women in
showing their appreciation of hearing
such talent in a gold-hungry city,
which literally hangs on the jagged
mountainside.
You sit in the historic Opera House
under the glittering crystal chande-
lier and feel the crimson Brussels car
pet beneath your feet. And it is hard
to realize that the Opera House be-
came a tumble-down building 40
miles from nowhere" ever since the
Leadville boom which emptied Gen.
trail City. The restoration of it even
to the frescos, the murals and the
long pier glasses has been excellent.
Tender memories of glorious by-gone
days crowd upon you as you listen to
Lee Whitney magnifcently singing the
part of Gianette. Somehow you feel
Evening star., 1936-07-26
Astaire Blacks Up.
ERED ASTAIRE has no ambitic

ERED ASTA1F4E has no ambitions
to become nanny" singer-but
despite this the famous wing footed
star goes black-face for the first time
in his career in Swing Time" the
new R-K-O-Radio film musical, in
which he is again teamed with Ginger
Rogers.
Astaire's donning Of the burnt cork
Genes in the course of the spectacular
"Bojangles of Harlem" number, a
glittering John Harkrider creation of
glass and chromium, in which ne ca
vorts in a unique hand-andfoot tap
dance to the accompaniment Of %
dancing girls.
Through the rest of the picture he
portrays nimble gambler whose COM
plicated romance with Miss Rogers Is
carried on in a gale of hilarious diff
ficulties.
Evening star., 1936-07-26
as the timberline to gather the pre-
ciouS berries.

ciouS berries.
1T IS q pleasure to converse with
these women, for they take such a
keen interest in the outside world.
1--WE may be 40 miles from nowhere,
hidden in a pocket of the Rockies -
they tell me, but We read the news
papers and magazines and know what
is going on. The radio has brought
many things closer to us.
And one finds that what they learn
they put into practice, for they are
giving their children many advantages.
Among them can be counted an excel
lent library, a class for pre-school-age
children. a dental fund and now a
permanent gymnasium and recreation
hall for the youngsters of the commu-
nifty.
Gone is the wild mining outlook, ex-
cept during the festival Instead has
come church-going family life.
And one must never make the mis-
take in talking, to the citizens, of Cen
tral City as being a ghost town of the
old days. They are quick to show you
up by telling you that 800 men are
employed in the surrounding mines.
That rs mines have been recently
opened because of new methods Of ex-
tracing ore, and that s690,760 in gold
has been taken out last year.
Evening star., 1936-07-26
SYLVAN CLASSICS
Comedy and Tragedy by Shakespeare to
Be Offered Elm Brief on Tuesday
Evening Near the Monument.

bethan garb which Is so often done
especially in the case of The Comedy
of Errors" but in the raiment Of the
Romans and of the Greeks at the
time" Of the play story. The plays
are given as an experiment, perhaps.
for the audience will experience some
thing new in seeing the actors in
tragedy and comedy, and Shapespear-
can tragedy and comedy at that. in
single evening.
1T will be in the nature Of dramatic
contributor" to the Summer fes-
tival season which is sponsored by thc
Community Center Department and
the Office of National Capital Parks
for both plays will be given in brief
arranged to tell the story concisely
but completely-in less than an hour
and a half in all.
The version of Julius Caesar"
which is to be used on Tuesday night
by the Washington Players has been
arranged by Arthur Rhodes Of the
East Washington Troupers, who will
direct both plays. and runs so min
utes The version of THE Comedy
of Errors" is that made by B. Iden
Payne, for the stage Of the Globe
Theater, at the Century of Progress,
Chicago, and plays in SO minutes.
The players in that period Of time
will be required completely to change
mood, character and costume, and
for this reason, perhaps. the greater
play will be given first. as offering less
difficult character transition for the
players. Of the total of 35 players in
the two productions, more than half
will appear in both the tragedy and
the comedy of the evening.
A tentative plan to present "Per-
icles, Prince of Troy" as part of the
Shakespeare Festival Program was
under way by the Washington Players
but several weeks ago it was decided to
offer only the two plays this year,
with promise perhaps of more to come
in the future.
1t may we'll be that, one Of these
days, the Capital City will have its
own Shakespeare festival during the
Summer time, in the National Sylvan
Theater at the foot of the Wash
ington Monument, and pilgrims may
come far and wide to attend the
festivals in the open air. under the
stars, on the beautiful poplar -flanked
stage, in the moonlit shadow of the
tall white shaft that honors the
memory of our first President.
Evening star., 1936-07-26
Odets' New PLAY.

WITH the script of a new stage
w play under his arm, Clifford
Odets has left Hollywood for New
York to watch his latest opus go into
rehearsals at the Group Theater. The
play bears the tentative title, THE
Silent Partner"
Odets recently completed the screen
play of Paramount's THE General
Died at Dawn" for Gary Cooper and
Madeleine Carroll, as his first movie
assignment.