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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-01-30
VY-ANNUAL
STATEMENT ARE
PUBLISHED
Budget For 1941 and Receipts
and Expenditures of 1910
Are Listed in Detail
SEE PAGES 6, Z AND 8

Final figures on the annual levy
were released this week by the County
Commissioners and the itemized ac-
count of estimated receipts and dis
bursements for the year is being pub
lished in full on page eight today.
One Of the items which held up the
levy last week was the appropriation
for the County Welfare Board. The
account shows that the county will
furnish $37,073.81 and the state will
furnish $147133.54, making a grand
total of $184,207.35 to be spent in the
county during 1911 for welfare work.
These funds, according to Mrs.
Dorothy Ogbum, executive secretary
of the county welfare board, will for
the most part be used by persons in
the county who are unable to work and
support themselves and their families
About one-half of the grants will be
made to people past 65 years of age,
she said, and the next largest expendi-
ture would be needed for care of chill
dren who, for various reasons, had
been deprived of parental support.
Mrs. Ogbun added that it was high
ly unlikely that the county board
would be able to do more than refer
to WPA employable people who make
application for assistance, as the
budget is planned on the premise that
such able bodied persons and their de-
pendents will be provided for through
private industries, unemployment
compensation, or WPA.
The money is to be expended as fol-
lows: total amount first, county's
share, second and State and Federal
share, last.
Old age assistance, $82,648.96;
$13,934.83; $68,714.13.
Aid to Dependent Children,
$43, 285.39; $1,92518; SAL ,36O21.
Needy Blind, $2o400; $40; 81, 500.
General Public Assistance, $26, 124;
$4,000; $12,942.OO. (No federal
participation.)
Board of Children, $4,000; $1,000;
$1,000. (No federal participation.)
Administration, $25,549; $5,091.8O;
$20,457.20.
Totals, $184,20735; $37,O73.81;
$147,133.54.
Other items to be expended by the
county during 1941 are listed in de-
tail in the levy.
Annual Statement
The annual statement of the re-
ceipts and expenditures of the County
Commissioners for 1910 is being pub
lished today on pages six and seven,
and show everything in detail.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-01-30
Citizens Organize
Historical Society
Temporary Officers Named at
Meeting in High School
Tuesday Night

Decision to organize Garrett
County Historical society was made
at meeting of an interested group of
citizens from all sections of the county
at the Oakland High school on Tues
day evening.
The meeting was called by a COM
mittee named by the president of the
Garrett County Teachers Association,
as the latter group had felt the need
for society of this type in the county
Marshall Brown, member of the
committee, was made temporary
chairman and Merle Frantz, B. O..
Aiken, w. R. Browning, Miss Eliza
beth West, Charles H. Barr, and Chas.
E. Hoye all spoke briefly concerning
the need for the society. These talks
were followed by the motion to
organize.
Temporary officers were Fred. A,
Thayer, ST., president; Marshall
Brown, LIST vice-president; Miss Viola
Broadwater, End vice-president; Miss
Crystal Elliott, secretary.
Three committees were appointed:
constitution: Charles E. Hoye, chair
man, Charles H. Barr, w. R. Brown
ing, T. c, Bittinger, B. o. Aiken;
museum and library room committee,
Miss West, Charles E. Hoye; member
ship, Miss Ruth Field, Mrs. Frances
Comp, Mrs. Madeline Michael, Miss
Josie M. Iden, James H. Ross, John
Capel, Merle Frantz, Foster o. Spell
cher, Miss Gladys Hamill.
The society will meet again on
Thursday, February 27, in the high
school when permanent officers will
be named.
Mr. Brown explained the aims and
purposes of the organization as col
Letting, preserving and creating in
terest in local history so that it might
not be lost to future generations. All
interested persons are being urged to
be present at the next meeting.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-01-30

grounding as weather prophet is
widespread. 1t is said to have been
introduced in America by early Ger
man settlers. The original prophet
was the badger, but he was supplant-
ed by the marmot because the latter
is more common.
February End is also known as Can
dlemas Day. Candlemas is the feast
of the publication of the Virgin Mary
or Presentation of Christ in the Tenn
pie, and is so called because the can
dies for the altar or other sacred uses
are blessed on that day.
In Scotland it is one of the quarter
days.
Grounding day in Quarry, Pa, is a
solemn occasion: An organization
there makes a pilgrimage to the hole
of the grounding and after a close
scrutiny of the weather, the leader
makes his prediction of just how ''the
wind blows"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-01-30
FORMATION OF TAXPAYERS
LEAGUE UNDER DISCUSSION
Resolution to Cut State Budget
to Be Presented to Several
Organizations in Oakland

Formation of a county Taxpayers
League here hinges on the outcome
of the presentation of a resolution of
the Citizens State Budget Emergency
Committee to various organizations
in town to get their reaction.
The resolution calls on the Governor
and members of the General Assem-
bly, to cut the State budget in every
way possible.
Don Kirkley, of the Maryland Pub
lie Expenditure Council, Baltimore,
was in Oakland this week explaining
the purpose of the Budget Emergency
committee to various people and try
ing to learn if there was any senti-
ment in this county for a taxpayers
league. Several counties in Maryland
have already organized.
The resolution will be presented to
the Business and Professional Wom-
ems club by Miss Mary L. Helbig; to
the Rotary and Lions clubs and to the
Junior Chamber of Commerce, and
possibly other organizations.
Mr.. Kirkley will return to Oakland
on February 10 ito speak before the
Junior Chamber meeting explaining
the reason of the organization. "Bet-
ter government at less cost is the real
reason behind the movement" he said
The Maryland Public Expenditure
Council, he explained, was privately
endowed organization. There are nc
dues, no fees, no contributions.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-01-30
Solons' Secretaries
Get State Salaries
SS,745 Paid Out to Secretaries
Without Working Space
at Capital

The State of Maryland paid out
$8,745 in two days in salaries to the
private secretaries of Delegates and
Senators, it was announced from the
State comptroller's office. This was in
spite of the fact that few private sec
retaries to the general assemblymen
had appeared at the legislature. OBJ
servers there said the secretaries
must be invisible because few, if any,
have put in an appearance, and if
they did there wouldn't be room for
them to work.
The records showed that in many
cases the entire 5000 provided by law
for secretarial help for each legisla-
tor already had been collected. One
secretary, it was disclosed, earned her
5000 before the session began Janu-
airy 1.
Fifty-three delegates and two SEN
ators had arranged for the payment
of the secretarial fees, in whole or in
part, records showed. In some cases
the secretaries are wives of assembly
men.
Many of the secretaries listed have
the same family name as legislators,
indicating they might be sisters,
brothers, uncles and aunts. Those on
the secretarial payroll included two
from this county:
Doretta R. Brenneman, McHenry,
certified by Delegate Nelson Brenne-
man, June l, 1889, to January "a,
1941-$200.
Virginia E. Groves, Swanton, GER
titled by Delegate Martin L. Groves,
June l, 1910, to January %, 1911
5000.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-01-30
Orphans Court Proceedings

The Orphans Court was in session
on Tuesday and among other proceed
ings was the granting of letters on
the following estates:
Estate of Julia A. Shaffer, late Of
Oakland; letters of administration
TO Edward A. Shaffer, a son.
Estate of Laura A. Sliger, late Of
Friendsville; letters of administra-
ton to Lewis R. Jones, local attor-
ney.
Estate of Peter Hoye, late of Mount
Zion; letters of administration to
Stanley Weimer, Mount Savage, SON
in-law.
Lewis R. Jones was appointed guar
dian of Gertrude Sliger, Friendsville.
The first account of Homer M. Yo-
der and VERNE M. Maust, executors
of the estate of Simon M. Yoder, was
filed and ratified.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-01-30
Freeman F. Guard, Music In
structOr, SelbyspOrt, Suf-
fers Broken Arm

Freeman f. Guard, music teacher,
resident of the Selbysport COM
munity, suffered the fracture of his
arm last Thursday in an automobile
accident at a point near Selbysporr
when the steering gear of his car
failed and the machine went over a
bank, upsetting and throwing Mr..
Guard and his father, Jefferson Guard,
aged SO years, out of the vehicle as
it went over.
The injured man received surgical
aid at Friendsville. The elder Mr..
Guard, while not seriously injured,
suffered from shock and numerous
bruises.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-01-30
Eligible Voters Now
478; Is Are New Ones
Only Small Number Are Added
to Rolls in Mondays
Registration

"Where are Oakland's 1872 voters ?"
is a question now being asked, as the
conclusion of the annual registration
day on Monday showed only an addi-
tional 25 with enough interest in mu-
nicipal matters to get their names on
the registration books.
AS the record now stands there are
Ats citizens eligible to vote in mu-
nicipal elections. In previous registra-
tions since the passage of the law in
1899, there were 456 registered. The
additional 25 on Monday made 481,
but three names were stricken from
the books on account of death, leaving
total of 47S eligible voters.
The registration of voters was re-
quired by an act passed by the 1889
legislature Prior to that time there
was no conclusive way of knowing
whether a person was entitled to vote
in city election or not.
In 1886, during a contest for mayor
there were 1872 ballots cast. The pre-
vious high was 627, recorded in 1884.
In 1887 when the Sunday movie ques-
tlon was before the voters there were
GLIB ballots cast.
The six-inch snowfall, the worst of
the winter, may have been one of the
reasons for the small turnout. An
other reason given was just lack of
interest.
The annual election will be held in
March.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-01-30
PEDESTRIANS OF STATE
MUST BE MORE CAREFUL

Records completed for the month of
December by the Maryland Traffic
Safety Committee, the state commits
sioner of motor vehicles, the Mary
land State Police and the Baltimore
city police disclose that traffic acct
dents claimed sixty-three lives on the
streets and highways of this state
during that period.
1t is a deplorable accounting, being
the highest December death rate in
four years and an increase of 43.4
percent over December of 1889.
Sixteen of the deaths occurred in
Baltimore city and fifty in the coun-
ties. In Allegany county there were
thirteen accidents, causing two deaths
and injuries to nineteen other persons.
Garrett county, it is good to note, had
no motor casualties during the month
The report shows that pedestrian
accidents continued to lead all other
types for severity. Thirteen of the
sixteen persons killed in Baltimore
city, or 1,3 percent, were pedestrians;
while twenty-eight of the fifty killed
in the counties, or Sc percent, were
pedestrians.
This dreadful showing indicates
that the pedestrian apparently has
not yet learned to respect the limita-
tions of drivers nor to realize fully
that the motor vehicle is a lethal in
strument. The lesson here is that all
who go out into the. streets or high
ways must exercise extreme caution
at all times. 1t also carries further
warning for all drivers.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-01-30
FriendSville Tax Law
Change Being Urged
Senator Friend Would Exempt
Certain Buildings From
City Levy

A bill to exempt from municipal
taxation buildings and personal eff
fects on land within the town of
Friendsville not laid out as town lots
or town property has been introduced
in the General Assembly by Senator
Clifford Friend of this county.
The measure, which would repeal
and re-enact with amendments sec
tion of Maryland law dealing with
taxes in Friendsville, would, if enact
ed, become effective June l.
"The mayor and city council" the
new bill provides in part, ''may from
time to time cause an assessment to
be made of all property liable to state
and county taxes within the corporate
limits of Friendsville and to levy a
tax thereon not exceeding 81 on the
$500 in any one year, and said prop
erty shall be assessed at it's actual
cash value, and the lands included
within the above-named corporate
limits which have not been laid out
as town lots or as town property
shall be exempt from taxation, in
Guiding the buildings and personal eff
fects thereon
The old measure, which Senator
Friend would change, provided that
'the lands included within the above
named corporate limits which have
not been laid out as town lots or as
town property shall be exempt from
taxation with the exception of the
buildings and personal effects there
on"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-01-30
Tau Phi Lambda Chapter Or
ganized By WOOdmen Circle

Carnation Grove No. 8, Supreme
Forest Woodmen Circle at Crellin, has
organized an auxiliary of the society
known as Tau Phi Lambda, national
sorority. This includes members whose
ages run from 16 to 30, for active
membership, and those over the age
of 80 as social, honorary or alumni.
The officers elected were: President,
Cathryn Forman; vice-president, Lee
ota Carskadon; secretary, Dorcas
Forman; warden, Ruth Sanders;
Grove sponsor, Mrs. Vera Bittner;
musician, Mary Sue Sweitzer.
The purposes of this society are to
train younger members for leadership
and social service. The members are
pledged to comfort assocites and their
families in sickness, sorrow and adj
versity, and the social obligation also
reaches non-members.
Members are already are doing well
fare sewing and knitting which may
be sent abroad to help distressed for
eign neighbors.
The chapter is also organizing a
degree staff. 1t sponsored radio pro-
gram in Crellin on January 90, and
there are other plans for the year.
This is the first chapter organized
in Maryland, it being No. SO in the
United States. The chapter is given
the Greek name Gamma Rho. There
is also chapter in Washington.
The charter will be presented at
banquet later by the State president of
Woodmen Circle.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-01-30
Civic Club Forms Committee
For War Relief Sewing


At the regular Civic club meeting
on Tuesday afternoon committee
was formed for sewing for war relief
as follows: Mrs. E. |. Baumgartner,
general chairman; Mrs. H. C. Riggs,
chairman of group cutting of gar
ments; Mrs. F. E. Rathbun, chairman
of distribution; Mrs. w. w. Grant,
assisted by Mrs. Harry White, in
charge of sewing; Mrs. E. 2. Tower,
packing and shipping. a.
The group will meet Tuesday and
Wednesday afternoons after school.
Anyone wishing to assist in this work
may secure material from Mrs. F. E.
Rathbun.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-01-30
Too Good to Last!

1t was too good to last! Last week,
for the first time in months, the Jail
was empty of law violators.
But William Walter Friend, of the
Deep Creek Lake region, was arrested
on a charge of stealing motor and
other items from the lake cottage of
William Hamilton, and at hearing
before Magistrate C. F. White he was
held for the Grand Jury under bond
of $500.
Mr.. White said Friend was the
"caretaker" for several cottages along
the lake.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-01-30
PROTEST AGAINST BUDGET
INCREASE GROWING FAST
Committee Issues Warming There
May Be Attempt To Rush Bud
get Through Legislature

"The taxpayers protest against the
$6,000,000 increase in the proposed
State Budget is growing like wild
fire." Curtis J. Ireland, Bethesda, who
is chairman of the Citizens State
Budget Emergency Committee, has
announced.
The Committee, which was set up by
interested tax-conscious citizens two
days after the Governor announced
his Budget, released bulletin to CO.
operating associations all over the
State warning them that there is an
apparent attempt to rush the Budget
through before the people have time
to fully register their protests.
"From Garrett county to Somerset
wave of protests is rolling up against
waste and inefficiency. Permanent tax
payers associations have formed in
Washington and Frederick counties.
Already organizations Of permanent
economy groups is under way in Tai
bot and Wicomico counties, and emer-
gency county committees have sprung
up in nearly all others not already hav
ing taxpayers associations. In Balti-
more City the Emergency Committee
that led the recent drive to kill the
$5,000,000 bond issue is joining with
the counties in the Budget protest.
Service clubs, business and civic
clubs and women's organizations ali
over the State are cooperating in a
mass protest against the increased
State appropriations. Eighty eight
doormen to open fifteen doors, as re-
Gently exposed by the Sunpapers, and
proposed budget which includes two
organists in the State Prison and
music teachers in reformatories have
aroused the taxpayers to detrmina-
tion to do something about it," Mr..
Ireland declared.
President Harry S. Middendorf has
brought his powerful Taxpayers
League of Baltimore County into the
State economy movement. The direc-
tors of that organization, whose
membership numbers over eight hun
dred families, sent resolutions to the
legislators demanding that the new
Budget be cut to the bone so that tax
payers can bear the coming cost of
national defense without endanger-
ing their standard Of living.
Mr.. Ireland pointed out that the
economy movement was not a criti-
cism of the Governors Budget as
such. "In normal times it might be
justified" he said, "but in the present
emergency when conservative esti-
mates place Maryland's share of the
first % billions of the defense costs at
345 million dollars, which is equal to
$778.56 for every family in the State,
we are forced to cut our local expen-
ditures if we are to save the taxpayers
from ruin. This is not only common
sense, but practical patriotism. Other
States are doing it, and so should
we."
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-01-30
Red Cross Receipts
Go Over $500 Mark
Twelve Members Added and $2l
Received By Local Chairman

Membership in the local chapter of
the Red Cross has been increased by
the addition of twelve members and
the sum of $21 since the last report
published in The Republican, accord
ing to Mrs. Paul B. Naylor, roll call
chairman. These figures brings the
membership in the county to All and
the money received to $501.25. There
is still additional funds to be turned
in, Mrs. Naylor said.
The quota for the county this year
was six hundred dollars and those in
charge of the campaign are anxious
that this figure be reached. The drive
will be continued. The present total
is more than has been received during
the campaign in the past number of
years.
Anyone caring to join may give
their money to the treasurer, j. M.
Jarboe, at the Garrett National Bank
or send it to the roll call chairman at
Oakland
Memberships this week included
Mrs. Harold M. Dawson, Miss Lang
ford, Oakland; R. L. Sebold, Mrs. E.
C. Clatterbuck, Edward Helbig, Mrs.
Patrick Garrett, Mrs. Ellen Lee, Mrs.
Elsie M. Walters, Deer Park, solicited
by Mrs. Walters; Mrs. o. o. w. Tas-
ker, Mrs. G. o. Boatman, Mrs. Lester
Adams, and check from Mrs. Joe
NJ. Gender, treasurer of political or
ganization, in the amount of $40.
Mrs. Naylor said the Garrett Coun-
ty Chapter appreciated the fine work
that had been done and was in hopes
that others would contribute.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-01-30
Missionary to China to Speak
Here Friday

On Friday evening, January 81, at
eight o'clock, the Rev. Paul P. Ans
pach, Lutheran missionary to China
and now home on furlough, will bring
the community an address on condi-
tions as they are there today, at St.
Marks Lutheran church. That great
teeming throng of this mighty but
silent empire seems to be making it.
self ready for a struggle that will re-
suit in its emancipation from the
grasping fingers of foreign powers
and we should be glad to have first
hand information about it.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-01-30
Formal Opening of
New Pritts Garage Is
Scheduled Saturday
Full Program of Events to In
clude Free Showing of Moving
Pictures at 1880 p. Nj.

A full program of events has been
arranged by Ralph Pritts for the for
NAL opening of his new and modern
garage on Liberty street on Satur-
day, February 1. The garage has been
open for business for several days but
an invitation for everyone to visit this
garage is being extended in an adver-
tisement in today's issue.
There will be three door prizes
awarded and a desk calendar present
ed to every visitor.
The main feature will be the free
showing of moving pictures, begin
ming at 1880.
Arrangements have been made for
the showing of "Army on Wheels -
"Wheels Across India" and Fluid
Drive"
The first depicts fast moving OPP
GRAFTON of mechanical equipment by
the new streamlined divisions of the
United States army. The film was
produced by the Dodge truck division
of the Chrysler Corporation in CO.
operation with the war department.
The second film is high spotted by
many incidents, customs and prac-
tees that are part of native life in
India which have never before been
recorded by motion picture. 1t is an
account of the travels of the explorers
Armand Denis and his wife, the for
mer Leila Roosevelt.
There may be other short subjects
also, according TO Ralph Pritts, own
er. The free showing will last prob
ably one and one-half hours.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-01-30
County Gets Real Snow

Garrett county got its first real
snowstorm of the year on Sunday and
Sunday night, with six inches of snow
covering the ground. The temperature
remained moderate during the storm
and throughout the entire week there
have been no low readings.
Prior to the storm there had been
much ice, making travel difficult.
There has been no indication, how
ever, Of thaw.