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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1937-06-10
C. w. REAM DECLINES THE
WELFARE GUARDIANSHIP
Would Not Accept ReappOint-
ment; Delbert Davis Elected

Charles w. Ream, Crellin, whose ap-
pointment as member of the Garrett
County Welfare Board expired this
month, declined a reappointment, it
was announced this morning by Miss
Ethel Miller, executive secretary of
the board.
at was with deep regret that the
other members of the board received
this announcement" Miss Miller said,
"as Mr.. Reams has given four years
of sincere and efficient effort to the
welfare problems of this county,"
Delbert Davis, cashier of the First
National Bank, was unanimously elect
ed chairman for the next year at the
meeting of the board last Friday even
ing, with all members present.
Three old-age pensions were granted
and several rejected. Ten aid to de-
pendent children cases were approved
and several rejected.
Mr.. Davis, the new chairman, and
Miss Miller were appointed to attend
a conference in Baltimore on Monday,
June 7, called by ]. Milton Patterson,
of the Board of State Aid and Chart
ties.
1t was announced that Federal au-
ditors will be in the county soon to
audit accounts under the Social Sc
curity Act.
During the month of May 90 fami-
lies received Aid to Dependent Chill
dren funds, amounting to $2,453.09;
nine persons received aid to the blind
funds, totaling $3.50; 1874 old-age pen
sioners received assistance, totaling
$6,032.25. Administrative expendi-
lures were $1,708.50.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1937-06-10
Junior In Oakland High School
Dies of Pneumonia

George Leonard Lands, Is years of
age, junior in Oakland High school,
died at his home near Deer Park on
Tuesday, June 8, of pneumonia. He
had been i'll eleven days.
The youth was born June IL, 1921,
at Massillon, Ohio, a son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Elvin E. Lands. He had resided
near Deer Park with his parents for
thirteen years.
Funeral services were conducted
this morning at ten o'clock from the
home with Rev. E. A. Critics, of Loeb
Lynn, officiating. Interment was ir
the King cemetery, near Loeb Lynn.
Surviving are his parents, two
brothers and one sister, Harold Lam
dis, Kennesaw Lands and Christina
Lands.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1937-06-10
REVIVAL OF TRADITIONS
TO Be FESTIVAL FEATURE
Mountain Choir Festival at Noun
tain Lake Park Sunday, July Is,
Will Be Outstanding One
p CHOIRS TO COMPETE

A revival of traditions that have
long been dormant will be represented
nv the fourth annual Mountain Choir
Festival to be held at Mountain Lake
Park on Sunday, July 10. AS in last
wears festival, attended by 5000 per-
sons, visitors will be seated in the
Bashford Amphitheatre, having seat
ing capacity of 5000.
This season, for the first time, DR..
John Finley Williamson, distinguished
director and founder of the Westmin-
ster Choir, will conduct the festivals
chorus of thousand voices. To attend
the festival DR.. Williamson will leave
San Francisco and come directly to the
first rehearsal of the Mountain Choir
Festivals choristers.
Last summer, in the choral contest,
which is an annual feature attracting
choirs from Pennsylvania, Maryland,
Virginia and West Virginia, SITS in
cash prizes went to three Of the COM
peting choirs. Cash prizes have been
increased to total of 1925 this year,
of which $500 represents first prize;
S75 for second prize, while $50 will go
to the group finishing third. Many in
ternationally known personages are
included in the Festivals list of spon-
sors and judges.
This year, constituting the first COM
munity venture of its kind to directly
bring about revival of the medieval
church ritual, DR.. Felix G. Robinson,
founder and director of the Festival,
will act as celebrant in choral eu-
charist, which will follow a solemn
procession to be held at sunset. The
Reverend Ralph C. Robinson, brother
of the founder, has been selected to as
sist in intoning the Solesmes Version
of plain-song which, edited by Canon
Winfred Douglas, and set to English
words, will be the musical setting OF
the Eucharist.
The rubrics for the order of SER
vice of the Solemn Procession, together
with the rubrics for vestments and the
line of march, have been derived
from ancient usages, such as the Sar-
UNI and Gallican Agenda.
DR.. Felix G. Robinson, recently ap-
pointed to the faculty of Westminster
Choir School at Princeton, N. j., as a
lecturer on the Christian Liturgies,
has personally supervised preparations
for every Mountain Choir Festival.
He has recently announced that twelve
choirs from four states have entered
the choral contest to be held on the
afternoon of July IS, and that the ev-
ening procession will consist of over
1000 brilliantly vested choristers, altar
boys and clergy. DR.. Robinson has also
announced that Henry Holden Huss,
noted American composer, has COM
posed, especially for the Mountain
Choir Festival, new anthem entitled
Winged Messengers of Peace" to be
sung during the festival program.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1937-06-10
1887 Soil Program Ends June IL;
Officers To Be Elected

Saturday, June IL, will be the last
day upon which farmers can register
their farms in the 1887 Soil Conserva-
ton program, John H. Carter, county
agent, announced.
The Soil Conservation association
will begin Monday, June Ia, to elect
officers for 1887. Election districts 2,
5 and will vote at Friendsville High
school, June IA, at 8 p. m.
Election districts Z, 8, IA, 16, 1, 10,
and 10, will vote at Sunnyside Grange
Hall June Is at 8 p. m.
Election districts 8, a, 9, II, IL and
Is, will vote at the WOW. hall in
Grantsville, June 16, at 8 p. m.
Everyone registering farm in the
soil program is entitled to vote, Mr..
Carter stated. Both landlord and ten
ant are entitled to one vote each. Fol-
lowing the election of officers at each
meeting there will be an open discus
sion on any questions members may
have about the program.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1937-06-10
WILD GAME PLENTIFUL
IN WESTERN MARYLAND

State Game Warden E. Lee Le-
Compile said that deer, wild turkey,
grouse and other wild game were
"more plentiful in Western Maryland
than for many years"
LeCompte said he believed "the mild
winter had a lot to do with the increase
in the game in that section of the
State" He added that the foliage was
plentiful, providing an abundance of
food and protection for the wild ami
mails.
The game warden returned to his Of
flee Saturday after making an extern
sive inspection trip through the game
refugees and visits with sportsmen in
Western Maryland. It was his annual
survey through this section of the
State.
He told of the increases noted in
game animals at several game refugees
located in Washington, Allegany and
Garrett counties, the Woodmont Rod
and Gun Club, the Federal resettle-
ment project area at Grantsville and
the State penal farm.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1937-06-10
FIREWORKS ORDINANCE is
PASSED AT COUNCIL MEET
Regulates Kinds That May Be
Sold; FOrbids Sale of Others

A new ordinance regulating the
kinds of fireworks that can be sold in
the town of Oakland and forbidding
the sale and setting off others, was
passed by Council and approved by the
Mayor at the regular monthly meeting
of the city officials Monday evening.
The ordinance becomes effective i'm
mediately.
The ordinance states that "no per-
son shall sell or expose for sale, nor
shall any person explode or shoot off
any fire crackres, fire works, squibs,
torpedoes, or rockets of any kind or
character within the limits of the town
of Oakland"
The following were exempted from
the ordinance: Sparklers, fountains,
flower pots, devil on the walk, small
Chinese fire crackers in packages, tri-
angles, ordinary caps, lights, torches,
sky rockets, non-eXplosive mines, Ro-
man candles, snakes and serpents and
cap pistols.
The ordinance also contains pro-
vision that no fire works can be sold
at any time prior to three business
days before July 4th, or the day cele-
brated as such.
Section of the ordinance makes it
unlawful to set off any fire works ex-
cept on July or the day celebrated as
such, and unlawful to set off any of
those which cannot be lawfully sold
in the town limits, at any time.
Council may grant permits and pre-
scribe rules and regulations for fire.
works displays by individuals or or
CARNATIONS.
Penalty for violations is a fine of
from 81 to $25 and costs, or confne-
ment in the County Jail for period of
thirty days, or both fine and impris-
onment, in the discretion of the police
magistrate.
At Monday nights session it was
also decided to arrange with the State
Roads Commission for the oiling and
screening of all streets of the town.
Monthly bills amounting to approx
imately $1,000, were ordered paid.
Pending receipt of the report of the
Chester Engineers there was nothing
further done concerning the building
of the proposed auxiliary reservoir for
the town.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1937-06-10
Large Group From County To
Attend WOmen's Short Course

Twenty-four homemakers of the
county, accompanied by Miss Mildred
Barton, home demonstration agent,
will attend Rural Women's Short
Course at College Park from June IA
to 10. Never before have so many
hOmemakers from Garrett county
taken advantage of this course, Miss
Barton stated. One of those making
the trip said, "No woman will ever
know what the Short Course will ac-
tually mean to her until she has had
the experience of the week there"
Those attending will include Mrs.
Nevin Broadwater, Miss Cora Hach-
man, Grantsville; Mrs. Guy Stanton,
Mrs. Mollie F. Turner, Miss Elizabeth
Yost, Mars Hill; Mrs. C. c. Beachy,
Bittinger; Mrs. E. O. Fouch, Miss
Bessie Rodeheaver, Miss Nell Lee and
Mrs. C. C. Gnegy, Mt. Lake Park;
Mrs. Margaret E. Casteel, Mrs. Naomi
Bernard, Mrs. Harry Friend, Mrs. w.
5. Patterson, and Mrs. John G. Robin
son, Oakland; Mrs. Asa Lewis and
Mrs. L. W. Duling, Kempton; Mrs. o.
P. Jones, Mrs. Delma Arnold, Mrs. l..
c. Hutson and Mrs. H. G. Macdonald,
Kitzmiller; Mrs. Eugenia James, OF
Shallmar; Mrs. Nora Mosser, Deer
Park; Miss Jessie Guard, an older
youth representative, Selbysport.
The group will leave Monday, June
IA, at GAS a. M, and will return on
Saturday, June 10.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1937-06-10
GOVERNOR NAMES Hustler
AS JUDGE IN 9TH DISTRICT
States Attorney Of Allegany
County To Succeed The Late
Judge RObb On Local Bench
WILL TAKE OATH TODAY

Major William A. Hustler, States
Attorney for Allegany county for thir-
teen and half years, was named Mon
day by Governor Harry W. Nice to
succeed the late David A. Robb as as
sociate Judge of the Fourth Judicial
Circuit of Maryland, which is COM
posed of Garrett, Allegany and Wash
ington counties.
Hustler indicated Tuesday that he
would resign from his present position
Thursday and at that time qualify for
judge before Robert Jackson, deputy
clerk of the Circuit Court in Cumber-
| land.
Huster's successor as States Attor-
ney will be appointed by the three
judges of the Circuit Court: Chief
Judge D. Lindley Sloan and Associate
Judges Frank G. Wagaman and Hus-
ter. Several persons have been men
toned as candidates for this position.
Hustler was born several miles north
of Cumberland above the Mason-Dixon
line in Pennsylvania, and when his
father died while Hustler was boy,
he learned the blacksmith trade with a
man named Gephart.
Admitted To Bar In 1911
He moved to Cumberland in his
youth and later studied law in Balti-
more, becoming a member of the bar
in 1911.
When he first started to practice in
Cumberland, he was associated with
the firm of Judge Sloan and the late
Judge Robb, whom he now succeeds on
| the bench.
Hustler was elected to the Maryland
House of Delegates for one term in
1912 and 1918 and served as attorney
for the City of Cumberland in 1922
and 1923.
Served In World War
He saw service on the Mexican bor-
der and in the World War. He never
got overseas in the latter war, but
earned the title of major for his army
service.
He has been active in Republican
politics in Allegany county for many
years, is a member of the Ali Chan
Shrine and Fort Cumberland Post, No.
10, American Legion.
His appointment to the bench will
expire in the fall of 1888. Hustler said
that he will be a candidate to succeed
himself in the 1888 general election.
Prior to the appointment of Major
Hustler, E. Ray Jones, present Secre-
tary of State and Oakland attorney,
was mentioned as one of the few aspi-
rants likely to receive the appointment
as judge, and many Garrett countians
were hopeful that man from this
county would be selected by the Gov
ernor. There has never been resident
judge from this county.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1937-06-10
Paul Dewitt Heads Officers In
Knights of Pythias Lodge

Paul Dewitt was elected Chancellor
Commander of the local lodge Knights
of Pythias at the regular meeting of
the organization last Friday evening.
Others elected to fill the chairs in
clude Ross Y. Stup, vice-chancellor;
Lloyd c. Liller, prelate; Carlton Bow
ser, sergeant at arms; Wade Mason,
inner guard; Paul M. Friend, outer
guard; Milburn w. Mann, master of
finance; Walter Hardesty, keeper of
records and seal; Prentiss DeBerry,
master of work; A. G. Gortner, mas
ter of exchecquer.
Charles F. White and Clayton Win
tiers were named as representatives to
the grand lodge.
Officers elected will serve for six
months and will be installed the first
week in July.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1937-06-10
YOugh Boosters Elect officers

The Yough Community Boosters
met in the Selbysport school house
Wednesday evening, June 2, when Of
ficers for the year were elected as fol-
lows: Charley B. Miller, president; Or
val Frazee, president; Claude
Fike, secretary-treasurer; officers to
care for the building, John L. Friend
and Walter Lowdermilk. A round table
discussion was held on various farm
problems. Music was furnished by Guy
Dewitt, Clarence Umbel, Earl Umbel
and Norris Riley from Sand Spring.
The next regular meeting will be on
July 7th.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1937-06-10
SAFETY COUNCIL AWARDS
MEDAL OLOCAL FIREMEN
Will Be Presented At A Special
Meeting Next Wednesday, June
18th, In The City Hall
TWO CERTIFICATES GIVEN

The National Safety Council has
awarded the Oakland Fire Depart
ment bronze medal "for meritorious
safety service" for the first aid rem
dered Louise OFT, II, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Paul OFT, last January %,
when the child was overcome by gas
fumes from a water heater in the
bathroom of her home and was APP
parently dead when found by her
brother.
Two members of the department
will receive certificates for their as
sistance. They are John ]. Sweeney
and Wilbur Davis.
The department has appointed a
special committee, including Walter
W. Dawson, Howard P. Stuck and
Robert Lohr to arrange ceremony on
Wednesday, June 16, at 1880 O'Clock,
for proper presentation of the medal
and certificates.
The meeting will be held in the City
Hall and number of persons are be-
ing invited to attend the ceremonial.
Louise Otis body was discovered by
her brother in a bathtub in about six
inches of water, with her face above
the surface. The fire department life
saving squad was summoned and it
was stated that the little girl was
pulseless when they arrived and APP
parently was dead. 1t was necessary to
force her mouth open before beginning
artificial respiration. The men worked
for fifteen minutes before she respond
ed, began breathing and opened her
eyes, but she relapsed and it required
another fifteen minutes of hard work
before she was able to breathe regular
ly. he is now apparently as well as
ever.
TIE medal is awarded by the Ma
til assSafety Council in recognition
toss6gse who successfully resuscitate
by the Schaefer Prone Pressure meth
cd. 1t is given in cases of electrical
shock, gas asphyxiation, drowning or
other accidental causes producing sus-
pended respiration.
On the face of the medal in bas-re-
lief appears a symbolic design which
has its origin in Greek mythology. The
three Goddesses of Fate-Clotho, who
spins the thread of life; Lachesis, who
determines it's length, and Atropos,
who cuts the thread of life, work I'M
der the scrutiny of figure symbolic
of safety. The figure of Safety stays
the hand that would cut the tread of
life.
Engraved on the reverse side of the
medal is the citation showing the name
Of the recipient, the date of the resus-
citation and the name Of the person re-
suscitated.
To date only 848 medals have been
approved by the Council which has
been in existence ten years.
Other feremen who assisted in the
saving of the child's life were Emroy
Bolden and DR.. R. L. Kercheval. ].
Frank Browning, who is city clerk,
assisted the fremen.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1937-06-10
Vacation Bible School To Begin
Monday, June Fl

The Daily Vacation Bible school
will begin its sessions Monday morn
ing, June 81, and continue two weeks.
The sessions of the school will be
held in the Oakland elementary school
building and will be conducted along
the same general principles as in for
mer years, with grades corresponding
to regular school.
The school is financed from offer
ings of the Union Lenten and Holy
Week services. All members of the
teaching staff have not yet been
chosen, it was stated this morning.
All parents are being urged to
send their children to this school.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1937-06-10
Garden Flower Exhibit Will Be-
gin On Friday

The Garden Flower exhibit, spon-
sored each year by the Oakland Civic
club, will start on Friday, June II, it
was announced yesterday by Miss
Lottie Loar, president.
People are urged to bring any dis
play of flowers they may have, TO the
lobby of the Garrett National Bank,
between the hours of 9 and II o'clock
on Friday morning. They will be dis
played over the weekend.
During previous summers, flowers
from a radius of twenty-five miles
have been brought in for exhibition.
The exhibits continue each week thru
out the summer.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1937-06-10
One Record Broken at County
Track Meet Last Week

One record was broken at the coun-
ty track meet last Wednesday, accord
ing to Marshall Brown, member of the
faculty of Oakland High school.
P. A. L. officials, who handled the
scoring announced at the close of the
meet that no records had been broken.
F. Burrell, Kitzmiller, in the 115-
pound class, made broad jump record
of II #. 8A inches. The record up to
that time was 16 #. 8 inches, made by
Marshall Brown for Oakland High
school in 1922. The jump this year sur
passed the old mark by more than one
foot.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1937-06-10
Ten to Graduate From St. Peters
ParOchial School On Friday

Ten pupils will complete their work
in st. Peters Parochial school this
year and will be eligible for entrance
into high school in the fall. Closing
exercises will be held on Friday morn
ing at the 500 o'clock Mass. Graduates
include Raymond Lambert, James
Hesen, Robert Hesen, Robert Rice,
Frank Fazzalari, Miriam O'Donnell,
Marcella Kerins, Betty Keller, jose
phine Rowan and Margaret Corliss.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1937-06-10
TWO BITTINGER RESIDENTS
KILLED In CAR ACCIDENT
Mrs. David Fresh and Son Ercil
Fatally Injured Near Meyers
dale, Pa, Monday Morning
DRIVER TO FACE CHARGES

Two Garrett county residents were
killed, and three others injured about
$3.50 o'clock Monday morning when
an automobile driven by a Cumber-
land youth collided with another car,
at curve on Route 219 between Mey-
ersdale and Salisbury, Pa, near the
Pine Grove Camp.
The dead are Mrs. David G. Fresh,
63, of Negro Mountain, near Bittin-
ger, who succumbed to her injuries at
8:45 p. m. Monday in Hazel McGilvey
Hospital, in Meyersdale, of fractured
skull and internal injuries, and Ercil
Fresh, 81, her son, who died almost in
stantly at the scene of the accident,
due to crushed skull.
The injured are David G. Fresh, 70,
husband of Mrs. Fresh, treated at the
hospital for cuts and bruises; Clarence
A. Settle, II, of Cumberland, suffer-
ing from shock, bruises, decorations
of the back and left side and possible
fracture of his ribs, and Carl Brooks,
of Cumberland, left leg bruised badly.
Driver Faces Charges
Settle, former student of LaSalle
Institute in Cumberland, who was driv-
ing one of the automobiles, according
to highway patrolmen, faces charges
of assault and battery, aggravated as
sault and battery and involuntary
manslaughter. Formal charges will be
placed against him when he is able to
leave the hospital, investigators said.
Settle, according to officials, had
gone to Meyersdale with three other
students from Pine Grove Camp and
were returning to the camp where
other Cumberland students were hold
ing a picnic, an annual event, when
Settles automobile ran off the high
way.
The Fresh family were enroute to
Meyersdale where Mrs. Fresh was to
be examined at hospital. Ercil Fresh,
driver, according to investigators,
seeing that an accident impended,
swerved his car from the right of the
highway and tried to climb small
embankment to avoid the crash. The
Settle automobile, which had gone into
the ditch on the left of the highway,
sideswiped the Fresh automobile be-
fore it came to stop.
None of the occupants was thrown
from the car. Two other students rid
ing with Settle, escaped injuries.
The bodies of Mrs. Fresh and her
son were taken to Grantsville and pre-
pared for burial.
Funeral services for both victims
were conducted yesterday afternoon
at 2 o'clock from the Bittinger church
with interment in the Bittinger ceme-
terry. ...-.
Besides Mr.. Fresh, husband and
father, the following other members
of the family survive: Mrs. Nora
Morrow, of Massilon, o.; Mrs. Victoria
Flanagan, Akron, o.; Mrs. Austin
Platter, New Germany; Miss Virgie
Fresh and Francis Fresh, Pennington,
Pa; Ray, William and Carl Fresh, of
Elliotsville, Pa. Twelve grandchildren
also survive.
Mrs. Fresh was a daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. George Bittinger, of this
county and was a member of the
Brethren church at Bittinger. Her son
also was a member of the same
church.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1937-06-10
Appointed Pastor of Blooming.
ton M. E. Church

At the annual Baltimore Conference
of the Methodist Episcopal church
held in Baltimore, Rev. j. H. Cooley
was appointed to the Bloomington
church as its supply pastor.
Bloomington is the only Garrett
county church in the Baltimore con-
ference, other Methodist churches in
this section being affiliated with the
West Virginia Conference.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1937-06-10

Rev. C. A. Shilke and C. Milton Sin
cell, accompanied by Mrs. Shilke, were
in Gettysburg last Saturday where
they attended the 25th anniversary of
the class of 1912 of Gettysburg Col
legt, of which Rev. Shilke and Mr..
Sincell We're members.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1937-06-10
To Address Rotary Club Friday

Rev. o. A. Bremen, of Seattle, Wash
ington, former pastor of the Lutheran
church in Oakland, will be the speaker
at the regular meeting of the Oakland
Rotary club on Friday evening. Rev.
Bremen was one of those responsible
for the organization of the Oakland
Public Library in Oakland more than
twenty years ago.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1937-06-10

Miss Blanche Elizabeth Forsythe, Of
triendsville, was one of those who
were graduated from the University
OF Maryland, College Park, at the COM
mencement exercises last Saturday.
Evening star., 1937-03-19
BULLION TRANSFERRED
$1sO,ooO,ooO on Way From New

$3.50, 100000 on Way From New
York to Fort Knox, Ky.
NEW YORK, March 10 (P).-The
sixth transfer of gold bullion from the
United States assay Office to Penn
sylvania Station. for shipment to the
Federal Treasury's impregnable vaults
at Fort Knox, KY, was made last
night.
The value of the lot, $4,000, 900,
brought the total to $87O,00O,OOO in
transfers since the first of the year.
AS was the case previously. last nights
shipment was heavily guarded by po-
lice, soldiers and plainclothes men
from the Treasury Department.