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The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1941-01-09
State Highway 3-4

Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Kortan, Jr.,
and son visited with Mr.. Kortan's
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Kor-
tan, ST., Sunday evening.
Mrs. Randolph Woeste visited
New Years Day with Mr.. and Mrs.
Anton Telling and family.
Orris Halverson called at the O..
L. Hanson home Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Andrew Huisman
were Monday dinner guests of Mr..
and Mrs. Ole Halverson.
Miss Ruth Botz left for st. Cloud
Sunday afternoon to resume her
teaching duties after spending her
vacation at the home of her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. c. F. Botz.
Bill Reese visited at the home of
his daughter and son-in-law, Mr..
and Mrs. Louis Huber, Sunday.
Mrs. Frances Grundman visited
with Mr.. and Mrs. Ray Walker
Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Willard Arvig Wis
tied with Mrs. Arvig's parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Herman Iwinski, Sunday
evening.
Mrs. Anton Telling was a dinner
guest of Mr.. and Mrs. Mike Fell
ing Friday.
Andrew Huisman called at the
Frank Kortan home Sunday after
noon.
Mrs. C. F. Botz visited with her
son, Norbert, at the Louis Huber
home Saturday.
Ralph Reese was a dinner guest
of Mr.. and Mrs. Ray Walker on
Thursday.
Mrs. Chas. Kortan, ST., and sons,
Steve and George, returned Monday
from Fort Atkinson, Iowa, where
they attended the funeral Of Mrs.
Kortan's brother.
Mrs. Ben Putnam and children
visited Thursday afternoon with
Mr. and Mrs. Herman Iwinski and
family.
Miss Lauretta Botz left Sunday
evening to resume her teaching
duties after spending her vacation
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. c.
F. Botz.
Ronnie Telling left Friday for an
indefinite stay with his brothers
and sisters in Minneapolis.
Miss Teasl Kennedy left Sunday
evening for Monticello to resume
her teaching duties. after spending
her vacation with her mother, Mrs.
Eva Kennedy, and brothers.
Joe Lindner was a business caller
at the Herman Iwinski home Sat
urday.
Miss Pearl Hanson visited with
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. o. L.
Hanson, Sunday evening.
Miss Dorothy Botz returned to
the G. F. Botz home after spend
ing her vacation at the home of her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Botz.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jerome Dusek and
daughters, Marlis and Mary Ann,
visited Sunday with Mr. and Mrs.
Chas. Kortan.
Ed Schurman was business
caller at the Herman Iwinski home
Thursday.
Mrs. Andrew Huisman visited
with Mr.. and Mrs. Anton Telling
and family Sunday evening.
Sylvester Botz visited at the
home of his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
c. F. Botz, and family.
Frank Kortan called at the o. L.
Hanson home Thursday.
Miss Bernice Telling returned
Monday to st. Cloud to resume her
studies at the Teachers College af-
ter spending her vacation with her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Mike Telling
and family.
Mrs. Helen Norgarden visited
Sunday afternoon with Mrs. Dwyer
and daughters.
Mrs. Anton Telling visited Friday
afternoon with Mr.. and Mrs. Ole
Halverson and family.
Mrs. Helen Norgarden and broth
ers, Steve, Richard and George
Kortan, visited Friday evening with
Mrs. Thomas Dwyer and family and
also helped Ann Dwyei celebrate
her birthday anniversary.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1941-01-09

Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Rekow, of Long
Prairie, were guests Of Mr.. ana
Mrs. G. Sohle on Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. L Macy and child
rem visited Mr.. and Mrs. Burt Sax
at Morris on New Years Day.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1941-01-09
n. K. CARPENTER
TRUCKING SERVICE

We will haul your livestock care
fully, efficiently and without delay.
Give Us q trial and you will find
our service entirely satisfactory.
PHONE I9F12-SAUK CENTRE
1884 pd.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1941-01-09

One-third of the worlds coal
supply is produced annually in the
u. s.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-10-02
B. and O. Request
For Abandonment
Being Considered

Decision in an appeal from an in
terstate commerce commission ruling
allowing the abandonment of the B.
and O.'s nineteen-mile Confluence and
Oakland railroad, was taken under
consideration yesterday by a three
judge statutory court in Baltimore.
The appeal was brought by the
Public Service Commission and the
Mccullough Coal Company of
Friendsville, who contended that
stoppage of the railroad would in
convenience the coal company and
residents of the area.
The defendants, the Confluence and
Oakland, the B. and O., and the gov
eminent, argued that abandonment
of the road must be carried out to
make way for the war departments
proposed flood control dam in that
area.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-10-02
Nc4la 0onzNsuts1on SuAaau
By REV. MINOR SPRAGUE,
Pastor of st. Pau's Methodist Church, Oakland.

October 5th will be significant day in all the Christian congre
cations around the world On that day Christians of many
and all lands will gather around their particular kinds of affairs
penitence and faith
Considering the state of the world when hate the march
and rampant it inspiring know that Christians
where able to maintain brOken fellowship through this
This days evdencng of this uniting force will stand out
in vivid contrast to the worlds broken dsoganzed condition 1t
will witness fellowship real and vital that
frontiers of break through the barriers of human prejudice
and above the clash conflict of warning nations
This observance does contemplate union Communion Serv
ices but rather that each local congregation shall seek to have all
its members its 1t expected that
Christian will whether his Church entering into the
fellowship that he will take his place in his Church
Worldwide Communion Sunday committing himself to the
wordas of the Church in this the needest of all generations
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-10-02
REV. SPRAGUE RETURNED
TO OAKLAND Passionate
Is Assigned Here for Third
Year by Methodist Conference;
Rev. Evans Returns to Park

A total of 473, pastoral assignments
was announced Sunday night at the
final session of the six-day West Vir-
ginia Methodist church conference,
held in Huntington.
Rev. Minor Sprague was returned
to Oakland for his third year as was
Rev. Garrett Evans, to the Mt. Lake
Park charge. Among the assign
ments in the Moorefield district
were:
c. E. Brandt, Romney, district
superintendent; Albright, Paul Ma
ness; Aurora, E. J. Johnson; Bloom
ington, Leslie R. Stewart, supply;
Corinth, U. R. Hinzman; GAINESVILLE,
Lantz Anderson, supply; Davis
Thomas, William Casio; Elk Garden,
to be supplied; Friendsville, R. l..
Greynolds; Gormania, S. R. Simp-
son; Grantsville, " R. Gillium; Kitz-
miller, Howard Wriston; Kingwood,
o. D, Curtis; Piedmont, j. L. Robert
son; Terra Alta, U. E. Wills.
Some former pastors in this area
have been assigned as follows: Rev.
|. S. Middaugh, Diamond street, Fair
mont; w. S. Patterson, Moundsville;
J. C, Buckley, Elm Grove.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-10-02
Teachers Elect Officers

At meeting of the Garrett Coun-
ty Teachers Association held Mon
day afternoon during the annual
teachers meeting in Oakland High
school, B. 0. Aiken, principal of Acct
dent school, was reelected president
of the group. Frank J. Getty, prin-
cipal of Grantsville school, was named
vice-president; Joseph Sollars, Kitz-
miller, secretary, and Erwin S. Smith
Oakland, treasurer.
Mr.. Aiken announced that Ernest
Spoerlein, chairman; Barbara Ann
Fogelsanger, Mrs. Merne Kloss,
Louise Dillon, Margaret Kochenderfer
and Mary Virginia Bolden would
serve as a committee to arrange for
the annual banquet.
Another committee was named for
the proper administration of dis
tribution of surplus food commodi-
ties including 0. P. Jones, Kitzmiller
chairman; Mrs. Lena w. Walker, East
VindeX; Arthur Scrogum, Accident;
Miss Josie NJ. Iden, Crellin; William
Grimm, Grantsville, and Mrs Inez NJ
Bush, Bloomington.
The Association appropriated $500
for increasing funds available to lend
to young people pursuing courses in
Teachers Colleges whose homes are
in this county, in order to meet the
certification requirements for teach
ing in elementary schools of Mary
land, the fund being known as the
Franklin E. Rathbun loan fund. The
appropriation was made in honor of
the thirty years of service of Mr.
Rathbun as superintendent of schools
of this county.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-10-02
School Buses TO Be Inspected In
County October 7 and s

Inspection of all school buses in
Garrett county by a representative of
the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles,
Baltimore, on October and 8, accord
ing to F. E. Rathbun, County Super
intendent of Schools.
There will be an inspection at Oak
land on Tuesday morning, October 7,
from 900 a. m. to 800 p. M; at
Accident on Wednesday morning, Oc-
tober 8, from 900 a. m. to IL o'clock
noon, and at Grantsville on Wednesday
afternoon from 1890 to 800 o'clock
in the afternoon.
This inspection of the buses is re-
quired by the Maryland State law,
Mr. Rathbun said. Arrangements for
the inspection of the equipment is in
charge of John L. Fitzwater, super
visor of transportation.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-10-02
NUISANCE TAXES BECAME
EFFECTIVE ON OCTOBER |
Citizens Will Find Almost
Everything He Buys Will Cost
More Than 1t Did Before
Wednesday

The new $S46,8O0,0OO nuisance tax
load became effective yesterday. This
extra annual tax burden was provided
under the record-breaking $685.
100000 revenue bill enacted recently
by Congress.
Here is how it will affect citizen
Tom, Dick and Harry-and also
Betsy, Jane and Mary:
Five percent on railroad tickets.
Five percent for dancing and
drinks, but no increase on beer.
Ten percent for trinkets, novelties,
jewelry.
Tennis racquets, golf clubs, etc,
ten percent.
Cigarets won't increase but there is
a 2-cent-a-thousand tax on matches
which might cost a person for his
lights.
Seven percent tax on a new car, 5
cents pound on the tires, 8 cents a
pound impost on the tubes. A S. an
nual use tax on the car will go into
effect next February.
Ten percent on new radio or re-
frigerator, piano, bottle of per-
fume or piece of luggage
Thirteen cents a pack for playing
cards.
Ten percent on Photographic APP
paratus.
Telephone bill up five percent on
local bills and 10 percent on most
long distance calls; kilograms up five
percent.
Ten percent on new typewriters.
Twenty percent on rental price of
a safe deposit box.
Ten percent levy on club dues of
more than $40 annually.
Movies will cost more. In Oakland
they will be II and % cents instead
of Is and % as the new bill put an
approximate 10 percent tax on all adj
missions costing 10 cents or more.
And others too numerous to men
ton
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-10-02
Scent CUT IN MARYLAND
PROPERTYTAXANNOUNCED
Governor O'COnOr Declares Huge
Surplus Warrants Sharp Drops
In Amounts State Must Raise

Governor O'Conor announced an
eight-cent cut in the state property
tax rate for 1912 and 1913, and said
he might call special legislative ses-
sion to white the state income tax.
The reductions would cut the real
and personal property taxes from
twenty-five cents per 500 to fourteen
cents in 1912, a forty percent drop,
and to thirteen cents in 1913 instead
of twenty-one cents.
The proposed slash in income levies,
however, would apply to 1941 earn
ings, O'Conor said. The governor said
swelling revenues, principally from
corporation, liquor, and income taxes,
made the reductions possible.
The state will have treasury sur
plus of $8,350,000 by the close of the
1941 fiscal year September 80, ac-
cording to ]. Willard Tawes, state
comptroller. The surplus this year
does not make the tax cuts possible
but the revenues which in 1912 are
expected to equal or surpass those of
1911.
The governor acted by proclama-
ton to reduce the property levies
through power conferred at the legis-
lature. A law passed then provided if
state revenues exceeded surplus of
2 million, the board of public works
at it's discretion could use all or any
part of it toward interest and prin-
cipal on the state debt Since all
revenues from the real and personal
property tax go toward debt retire
ment, the use of the surplus for this
same purpose reduces the amount of
property levy revenue needed. Fur
thermore the law provides that any
reduction under this provision must
be applied to the real estate tax.
O'Conor said a special legislative
session would be needed to reduce the
income tax, but that such action
could be taken up until month be-
fore the first installment on that tax
becomes due. The due date is April
Is, 1912.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-10-02
COMMISSIONERS
Are GIVEN BACK
COUNTY ROADS
Commissioner Browning Pre-
diets Great Difference in
Amount of Roads County
Will Get

County roads were given back to
the care of the County Commission
ers yesterday, the result of an enact
ment of the last Legislature, and to-
day there are about fifteen men
working for the county who were
working for the state earlier in the
week The State has had charge of
county roads in this county since
1888.
The Commissioners have appointed
Robert w. Sheckells as road engineer,
subject to approval of the commits
sion on October 6.
Sheckells is a former State Roads
Commission employe, and a graduate
of Lehigh university. He has been
superintendent of forests at the
Meadow Mountain CCC camp for the
past several years.
Cheston H. Browning, County
Commissioner, said this morning that
the road workers were engaged at
present at the Thayerville quarry
securing material for the Shallmar-
Kitzmiller road which is under con-
struction.
Mr.. Browning predicted that a great
difference would be seen in the
amount of improved roads that the
county would get under the new syst
tenn, which will be similar to the one
set in Washington county when that
county took over their own roads in
1889 He said since that time that
Washington county had constructed
40 miles of road, had acquired 5
crushers, graders, rollers and AZ
trucks. Roads are to be constructed
at an approximate cost of $4,000 per
mile. Roads under contract have for
merly cost $4,000 per mile, he said.
The money for road construction
and maintenance will be derived from
the one and one-half cent gasoline tax
and the estimated revenue for 1941-
AZ was placed by the State Roads
Commission at $4,000. Half of this
is to be used for construction of new
roads and one-half for maintenance.
Mr. Browning said that the State
roads auditor, w. A. Codd, said the
receipts would reach 10 percent more
than estimated.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-10-02
Two Health Nurses
Are Being Added to
County Health Staff
Mrs. Cole Began Duties Tuesday;
Mrs. w. E. Getty to Start Nov. 1

Two nurses are being added to the
nursing staff of the County Health
office, which will give worker in
each of the four sections of the coun-
ty.
Those to be appointed are Mrs.
Samuel J. Cole, Mt. Lake Park, and
Mrs. William E. Getty, formerly of
Frostburg, now doing industrial
nursing in Washington, D. C.
Mrs. Cole assumed her duties on
Tuesday as nurse in the Oakland dis
trict, taking over the work of Miss
Jane Addison, who has been unable
to work since she was injured in an
automobile accident several months
ago and who has been convalescing
in Baltimore. Mrs. Cole was former
ly connected with the health depart
ment about four years ago.
Mrs. Getty will not begin her du-
ties until November 1 and will then
be assigned in the Grantsville section.
Other nurses on the staff are Miss
Agnes Luers, Kitzmiller; and Miss
Helen Miller, Friendsville The latter
is remaining in the Oakland office
until a permanent health officer is
appointed for Garrett county DR..
Theodore Shrop, Cumberland, acting
health officer, was in the county on
Tuesday on business.
Miss Catherine Corley, state nurse
supervisor, Baltimore, was also in
Oakland on Tuesday comforting with
the county staff. She was accom-
panied here by Miss Addison for a
brief visit with friends. Miss Kath-
crime Lee Richardson is being en-
ployed in the health office temporar-
i11y
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-10-02
l52 County Students
To Have Part Time
Jobs Through NYA

Approximately 1890 students who
are continuing their education this
year in Maryland, will be receiving
part-time jobs through the NYA,
Glen D. Brown, state administrator
announced.
The number of students applying
for such work is 10 percent less than
last year. The work program will op-
crate in $50 high schools and 26 col
leges and universities.
Students employed will be between
16 and "a and in need of jobs to con-
tinue properly in school. Youth en-
rolled in secondary schools may earn
from $500 to $500 a month. School
officials are responsible for the selec-
ton of students to be employed, for
assignment and supervision of work
and certain phases of administration
of the student work program.
In Garrett county it is estimated
there will be 1852 employed in the
schools.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-10-02
80 Marriage Permits
Issued In September

Issuance of marriage licenses took
a slight jump in September over the
previous month but did not reach the
all-time high recorded in June of this
year.
Licenses for September totaled 80
with 313 applications making total
receipts for the month in this par
ticular item of $933.OO, received at
the office of A. G.. Ross, clerk of the
Circuit Court. Last month there were
303 licenses issued and in June 1886
were granted.
A glance at the records for the first
nine months of 1941 show that
total of 2,087 licenses and 2,168 APP
plications have been issued, showing
receipts amounting to $6,342 AppH-
cations cost $1.00 each and licenses
$500 each.
The number by months is as fol-
lows:
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-10-02
ADULT PROGRAM
OF EDUCATION
BEGINS TONIGHT
Seven Classes Scheduled by
0. HI. S. Instructors But
Some Do Not Begin Until
Next Week

Classes in adult education in Oak
land High school and other high
schools throughout the county will
get under way this evening.
Seven classes are scheduled by in
structors in the local school, but
some of them will not begin until
next week, it was announced from the
five instructors who are to be in
charge. Other classes may be added
later.
The purpose of all instruction given
is to increase the cultural, civic and
occupational intelligence of the per-
sons enrolled. The enrolment is
limited to applicants sixteen years
of age or over who are not attending
a regular day school. There must be
at least ten in each class for them to
continue and there will be 48 class
periods before completion of the
courses, with two being held each
week.
Business classes in adult education
will start this evening with courses
being given in shorthand, typewrit-
ing, bookkeeping and retail selling.
Anyone interested is asked to report
to the business department at
o'clock. E. S. Smith, commercial in
structor, will be in charge.
o. T. eraser, vocational agricuI-
ture instructor, has arranged for
classes in poultry and farm shop
work. The poultry class will begin
this evening at o'clock, the class in
farm shop to begin Monday, October
6, at p. m.
Miss Palma Lucente, home eco
Monies instructor, will start an adult
class in clothing construction and
knitting, which will begin on Tues
day night, October 7, at 7 o'clock mi
terested persons are to report at tho
home economics building.
Adult education classes in gens ~
science will begin Tuesday, October
7, under the direction of Carl H.
Everly. This course will consist of
discussions and demonstrations of
every day subjects such as "air and
the weather." Simple machines and
their uses" Magnetism and EIec-
tricity," Light and Sound"
Thomas V. Baucom has arranged
for classes in both economic geo.
graphy and mathematics. Both will
get under way this evening at
o'clock. In the former class the place
of the United States in the economic
life of the world will receive major
emphasis, while the mathematics
course will stress those aspects of
mathematics in which the adults are
interested, particularly those phases
such as production, marketing, and
consumption of agricultural products.
This is the second year for these
adult education classes which are
free to the participants. Instructors
are paid through state fund set up
for this purpose
Details of classes to be started in
the other five high schools of the
county will come from those centers.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-10-02
Civic Club Plans
Annual Fall Luncheon

The Maryland Council of Defense,
Womens Division, for Garrett Coun-
ty will be inaugurated and explained
at the annual fall luncheon of the
Oakland Civic Club, which will be
held Tuesday, October a.
Mrs. E, Z, Tower president of the
Civic Club, has been appointed Coun-
ty Chairman of the Council of De-
Tense. Mayor LaGuardia, New York
City, is National Chairman; Cover
nor O'Conor, Honorary Chairman.
and Mrs. John L. Whitehurst, State
Chairman.
All members and friends of the or
ganization are urged to be present
and reservations for the luncheon
may be made with Mrs. J. B. Lit
man.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-10-02
Jaycees Plan Quiz Program

At the next meeting of the Junior
Chamber of Commerce next Wednes-
day evening a member will conduct a
quiz on current events, for which the
winner will receive a $1.00 defense
savings stamps. These quizzes are
received from the March of Time
club, and will be a regular feature of
the clubs programs.
Charles L. Briner, Jr., president, an
nounced that the Swallow Falls
Harmonettes would furnish music for
the square dance to be held in the
City Hall on Halloween, October 81,
in connection with the celebration
here on that evening. The orchestra
to furnish music for the round dance
has not been secured.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-10-02
Farm Loan Group To
Meet On October 9Th

Members of the Garrett County Ma
tional Association will hold their an
nual meeting on Wednesday, October
8, at the office of Stuart F. Hamill,
secretary tFeasurer, in the Garrett
National Bank Building, Oakland, ac-
cording to an announcement by Albert
o. Riley, president.
The operation and responsibilities
of the association will be discussed and
directors will be elected to the board.
A representative of the Federal
Land Bank of Baltimore is expected to
be present and explain any new legis-
lation or operating policies affecting
the association.