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Montana farmer-stockman., 1948-02-01

ERVINGS special mating chicks and 4-week-
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Montana farmer-stockman., 1948-02-01

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Montana farmer-stockman., 1948-02-01

We puy live turkeys.
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Montana farmer-stockman., 1948-02-01

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Montana farmer-stockman., 1948-02-01

WHITE HOLLAND young toms and hens for
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Montana farmer-stockman., 1948-02-01

NEWPORT Broad Breasted Bronze poults- U. s.
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Montana farmer-stockman., 1948-02-01
COCKERELs

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Montana farmer-stockman., 1948-02-01

PEAFOWL Pheasants, bantams, guineas,
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Montana farmer-stockman., 1948-02-01

o sss 96 ne No 1No saraagb Wh rnn s s1s 90 ne poI ieS
less $3.50 discount. Also Austria Whites,
White Rocks, straight run $3.50 per 100,
cockerels $3.50 per 100. 500 or more 81 per
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Write for special folder. Granite City Hatch
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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-11-11
Thai AL MAY Aoue Enough

Phelps Adams Chief of the Washington New
York Sum- recently defined the essential difference between
capitalism and communism these words THE communist
ing the rich and his fine home No should have
much The capitalist, seeing the thing, says All
should have much. Communism born of poverty and
hungerseeks to perfect system for the equal distribution of
scarcity Of goods that ultimately has enough of
thing CapaismbOrn of hardship and toseeks to provide
such pentude of goods that ultimately all have enough
Of everything"
The main technique used by communists and socialists to
argue that capitalism makes possible luxury for the few, while it
exploits Yet according study recently completed at the
University of Notre Dame the opposite is true Over thirty
period SO of all income has to those with
earnings less than $4,000 year Ando equal Importance
the trend has been steadily raise the percentage
earned by people of modest means.
how does capitalism stack against the other systems
which operation throughout the world? The evidence in its
favor overwhelming According Mr. Adams have 46 per
worlds electric AZ cent OF its radios 6O per
cent life insurance policies and 85 cent of its auto
mobiles.
So much for material gains The record also shows that
capitalism economic system which exist along with
maximum of individual freedom
Every controlled enterprise matter what name 1t
goes bv inevitably accompanied by and regmena
ton of the northumberland in the final stage by government
based on terrorism and slavery-lndusra News Review
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-11-11
Friendsville Girls
Cop District Title

Friendsville High Schools field bail
team won class I'D" championship of
district No. l by defeating Williams
port High school of Washington
county at Grantsville on Monday, by
the score of II to 5.
Coach Wilbur Glenn's girls who
captured the Garrett county honors
by taking eight consecutive games,
scored in every period and shot five
field goals in the final quarter to put
the contest on ice.
Jean Friend, inside left, accounted
for seven of Friendsville's goals
while Elsie Sisler scored twice and
Bessie Capel and Shirley Friend one
each.
Friendsville will play its next game
with the winner of District No. 8.
The fnalists in that district are New
Windsor and Arundel.
In the Friendsville lineup also
were Enlow, Schroyer, HENDERSON,
Fisher, NJ. Sisler, A. SisIer, Daley
and Dewitt Substitutes were DERRICK,
S. Friend, K Friend, d. Friend, Il.
Capel, Rodeheaver.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-11-11
Observe Seventeenth
Anniversary Event
With Huge Sale

Another milestone in the progress
of The Half Price Stores is being
celebrated this week with their seven
teenth anniversary sale.
Six pages of advertising appear in
this weeks issue of The Republican
devoted exclusively to items to be
found in their stores, and from these
pages over $4,000 circulars have been
printed and distributed.
During the past year two new
stores have been added to bring their
total to ten, including the parent Oak
land store.
Other stores are located at West
ernport, Md, Meyersdale, Pa, Par
sons. Petersburg, Moorefield, Frank
lin, kingwood, Redwood and Keyser,
w. Va. The two latter stores were
opened this year.
The stores are under the manage
ment of Irwin Field, son Of Mrs. f.
H. Field and the late Mr.. Field. The
latter came here in 1881 to establish
the first store.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-11-11
Children's Book Week
Planned Next Week

The Ruth Enlow Free Public
Library of Garrett County, located
on the second floor of the Garrett
National Bank building, has just re-
ceived a large shipment of new books
for children, according to Mrs. Jessie
Zukowski, librarian. These books
suitable for children from pre-school
age to teen-age boys and girls, will
be on special display at the library
during Children's Book Week, Nc.
vember Is to 20.
The books on display will be ar
ranged in twelve groups to stress the
1913 Children's Book Week slogan
Books tell the story" she said.
Some of these groups include pic
ture books for very young readers
which are beautifully illustrated by
such well known illustrators as Walt
Disney; fiction for all ages which in
cludes books of humor, adventure and
mystery; books on animal life which
tell stories and facts about animals;
and books about people and the lands
they live in.
All parents, children, teachers, and
anyone else of Garrett county, who
may be interested, are being invited
to visit the Children's Book Week
display. Each person visiting the
library during Children's Book week
will be given a 1913 book mark in
yellow and dark blue carrying a re-
production of the 1913 Book Week
poster and a message from Frederic
G. Melchor. Newbury- Caldecott book
marks will also be given free to each
person visiting the library. The New
bury Caldecott bookmarks list all
winners of both medals with 1913
titles included.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-11-11
Merchants To Sponsor
Christmas Campaign

With some few changes, the mer-
chants of Oakland will conduct a
Christmas shopping campaign in Oak
land again this year, it was decided
at a meeting of the members of the
Mt. Top Chamber of Commerce last
Thursday evenir The campaign
will begin the last week in November
and will continue until Christmas.
Preliminary plans for the campaign
were made. No parade is to be planned
but instead the value of prizes to be
awarded will be increased from 81 800
to $4,000. Coupons will be given away
with each $10O purchase made in the
stores of participating individuals.
Last year a coupon was given for each
25-cent purchase.
A new feature will be the appear
day visit He will visit in all the
day vsiit. He will visit in all the
stores each day for a ten-day period
prior to Christmas. The treat for all
the children will be retained and en-
larged.
Another innovation this year will
be the addition of Illuminated street
decorations, stretched from one side
of the street to the other, similar to
those used here for several years
prior to the war.
Participating merchants will have
two advertising circulars published
instead of four as was the case last
year.
Several committees were appointed
which will meet weekly to make def
mite plans, it was announced by New
ton Coplin, vice-chairman of the
board, who was in charge of the meet
ing.
He said proposal to lower the
membership fee from SIS to $40 was
not acted upon.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-11-11
Entry Wins Third
In Hereford Glass

Melvin Custer, Swanton, won third
place in the lightweight Hereford
class at the Pittsburgh Livestock
show and Sale, held last week, it was
announced by A. L. Curtis, assistant
county agent upon their return to Gar
rett county. The steer weighed 815
pounds and brought SO cents per
pound at auction.
William Stanton, Grantsville, was
eighth in the lightweight Shorthorn
class. His steer weighed 855 pounds
and brought the same amount at
auction.
The Grand champion steer, weigh
ing 1885, brought $500 per pound,
and it was purchased by the Atlantic
and Pacific Tea company. This COM
pany also purchased the reserve
champion and two thirds Of all the
animals at the show.
The grand champion was owned by
John TAFT of Mercer county, Pa. He
will receive about three-fifths of 3d.
425, and the balance will be divided
equally among the entries of the two
hundred fifty-one steers. Ten of the
exhibitors from this county will share
in this fund, and include Dale Glot
felty, Dale Custer, William Stanton,
Leo Custer, Evelyn Custer, Phyllis
Custer, Melvin Custer. Some had more
than one animal on exhibit.
The prices of the steers, other than
the tops in the show ranged from SAL
per hundredweight down to $34. The
reserve champion brought so cents
per pound and was owned by John
Feather, of Bedford, Pa, and weighed
1,105 pounds.
The grand champion lamb of the
show was Southdown owned by Ar
thur Baxter, also Mercer county, Pa.
This lamb brought 1928 per pound.
There were no lamb entries from Gar
rett county.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-11-11
Official Returns
Published I'm Detail

Official election returns were tabu-
lated last Thursday afternoon by
members of the Board of Supervisors
of Elections, and appear in detail on
another page of today's paper.
The figures showed no change
whatever in the figures for Dewey and
Warren, but cut down the Truman
and Barley vote by 81. The official
tabulation also added SO votes to j..
Glenn Beall to boost his district total
in his successful try for reelection to
Congress.
There was no change in the pro-
portion of the votes for and against
the various amendments.
The official tabulation totals: Dew
ey and Warren, 1886; Thomas and
Smith, %; Truman and Barley, L.
9O9; Wallace and Taylor, %; Thur
mond and Wright, 2; for Congress, F.
Byrne Austin, 1854; Beall, 1874.
For Elgin Referred Law 581,
against LIPS; for anti-subversive
amendment 1928, against 692; for
new counties amendment, 2S7, against
SO4; for annual legislative session,
426, against 954; for Baltimore park
ing, 2S5, against 713; for short term
governor, 929, against 719; for Balti-
more slum clearance 262, against IA;
for religious gifts amendment 57l,
against $50.
As a state Maryland decided to pro-
vide for annual legislative sessions,
prohibit members of subversive or
CARNATIONS from holding state, city
or county elective or appointive jobs;
made it easier for Baltimore City to
condemn property for Stun clearance
and off-strect parking projects, and
simplified method by which General
Assembly may pass on gifts to re-
ligious institutions, and limited the
governors tenure of office to two
consecutive terms.
They approved the proposal to
amend the constitution to call for a
majority of the registered voters to
favor changing county boundaries be-
fore such could be done. The heavy
vote in Baltimore county which fav-
ored this amendment turned the state
tide.
They turned down the act which
would have ended the term of w. Lee
Elgin, commissioner of motor vehicles,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-11-11
Gets Special Award

The Motor Service Company of
Grantsvillc was one of the Ford Motor
company dealers who were presented
with special certificates of merit by H.
NJ. Lidgard, district manager, at a
meeting in Pittsburgh last week. The
award was for outstanding perform
ance under the company's new -Four
Letter Dealer program"
The award signified that the dealer
ship had done an outstanding job
during the past year in complying
with the four principles of automobile
leadership operation which the COM
pany considers most important to
good industrial citizenship and proper
service to customers and community,
financial stability, progressive man
agcment, competitive spirit and ade-
quate facilities.
The certificates are mounted on
plaques for display in dealers show
rooms.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-11-11
Federal Agents Find
Stills; Owners Fined

Federal agents of the alcohol tax
unit, Charles C. Cushwa and helper,
arrested Emory Nail and George Nail,
of near the Pennsylvania State line
north of Friendsville, on charges of
possession and manufacture Of moon
shine liquor The arrests were made
last week.
At a hearing before Magistrate J.
U. Stanton in Grantsville last Friday
Emory Nail was fined 5000 and costs
and George Nail was fined 500 and
costs. Both fines and costs were paid.
Authorities said they discovered a
25-gallon and 40-gallon still on the
Nail property. 1t was the first moon
shine liquor case in the county for
several years. Under powers granted
to magistrates in recent years, the
case was tried Immediately and the
traversers did not have to wait for a
regular term Of court.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-11-11
Smoke and Fumes from Fire Fan House Fill Main
Heading, Cutting OFF Air; Rescuer Among Dead;
Mass Funeral Held for Four of Victims

Five coal Miners three of them brothers, died asphyxaton
coal mine tragedy last Thursday morning at the George
Nehken NINE about and onehalf miles of Kzmer
when the fan house the mine destroyed by fire
and fumes filled the main heading
The victims Martin Keller co. single; Clarence Keller
So married. Herman Keller 49, married. Robert Jackson
married. all of Kzmie and Charles Franklin Keifer mar
ried Mt. Storm, w. Va.
This most serious mine disaster to the many
about 1913 when fire broke gasoline
which operated induction fan pumping air
the drift mine Fumes from the burning motor followed the
shaft filling section of the heading cutting the air
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-11-11
Joint Mine Probe
Begun at Kitzmiller

The fan house fire which brought
death to the five coal miners at KitZ-
miller last Thursday is the object Of
joint probe by federal and state
mine inspectors.
Indications were that improper
conditions may have been behind tie
gasoline-fed blaze that fed smoke
into the No. shaft of the company,
fatally choking four diggers and a
fifth who went below to warn them
of the danger The fumes, driven into
the mine by the gasoline-powered
fan came from fan house built of
heavy mine timbers.
The federal mine-safety code,
quoted in Washington by J. J.
Forbes, chief of the Health and Safe
ty division, United States Bureau of
Mines, provides that "all main fans
shall be installed on the surface, in
fire-proof housing. The code, Forbes
said, is enforceable only by recon-
mendation, not by law.
The Maryland mine code does not
contain in Section 1902 on ventilation
any provision about freproof fan
houses. The Nethken shaft, Forbes
said, had never been inspected by of
fcials of the Federal Bureau of
Mines.
Explaining that unless someone
makes specific request or complaint,
federal inspectors ordinarily do not
visit mines employing fewer than 25
men, he said that his records listed
only six employees for the Nethke 1
mine.
He said w. Dan Walker, Jr., en-
gineer in charge of the district in
spection office at Fairmont, w. Va,
filed a preliminary report. DR., j. j.
Rutledge, Baltimore, chief mine en-
gineer and head of the State Bureau
of Mines, has been on the scene and
Frank Powers, Frostburg, and Clyde
E. Rowe, Westernport, have been as
sisting.
The Nethken mine, according to re-
ports, is a recent one, dug since the
end of the war.
Calling this type of sutfocation ac-
cident unusual, Forbes recalled vari-
Gus presidents in mining history.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-11-11

The mems bodies were found about
10 feet apart, within 200 feet of the
mouth of the pit.
DR.. Ralph Calandrella, Kitzmiller;
and DR.. Thomas B. Lusby Oakland,
were summoned to the scene, as were
also members of the Oakland Volun-
teer Fire department with their in
halator equipment. The mine rescue
team and the Kitzmiller volunteer
firemen were also there to apply arti-
ficial respiration and work continued
on the five victims for three hours.
Rescuer Among Victims
Investigation indicated that Robert
Jackson went into the mines to warn
the other four of the fire in the fan
house and in making this heroic eff
fort to save the workmen he too died.
Jackson, native Of Vindex, had been
living in Kitzmiller only short time,
He was married to Gladys Paugh,
kitzmiller, about six months ago. He
was driver at the mines Jackson
was outside the mines when the fire
started. He drove his pony and one
car into the mines. On the way to the
pit he met George Nethken, mine
superintendent He told Nethken Of
the fire and the latter said Get the
men, Nethken began fighting the
fire with hand eXtinguishers.
Another driver, Paul Keller, son Of
Clarence Keller, one Of the victims,
was outside and he and Fred Burrell
were fighting the blaze.
Rescue workers said it appeared
the men walked into a pocket" Of
bad air or fumes and Just dropped"
Community Shocked
The mining section was visibly
shocked by news of the five deaths
1t was the worst mine disaster the
area could recall since about 1914
when a mine in West Virginia just
across the Potomac from this oper-
alton, known as Mine No. 20, cX-
ploded. In the disaster some residents
recall, % or % men were killed.
The three brothers were natives Of
Kitzmiller, members of a we'll known
family there and were always inter
ested in community affairs, sports
events and in particular the Kitzmil-
Ter baseball team.
Martin Keller was unmarried, an
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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-11-11
Cover Remains To
Be Re-Buried Here

The remains of Pfc. James II. Cow
er, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Francis H.
Cover, Water street, Oakland, who
was killed in action in Italy August
l, 1914, are among the remains of
1929 Americans who lost their lives
during World War II which have been
returned to the United States from
Italy aboard the U. S. Army Trans
port Lawrence Victory.
Armed forces dead originally in
tered in temporary military ceme-
teries are among those brought back
to this country. A total Of 80 re-
mains were returned upon instructions
of next of kin residing in Maryland
Mr.. and Mrs. Cover received word
last Tuesday of the arrival in Phila-
delphia, and they were of the opinion
that it would be two to three weeks
before his remains would arrive in
Oakland. Funeral services are to be
conducted in the Lutheran church.
Cover was aged 10 at the time of
death. He had been overseas since
February, 1914 after having been in
Quoted August Is, 1913, and receiving
infantry training at Camp Lee, Va,
and Camp Adair, Oregon.
He was graduate of Oakland High
school and prior to entering the ser
vice he was employed by the Orange
Crush Bottling company at Oakland
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1948-11-11
NO ACTION taken
ON incorporation
BY CITY COUNCIL
Oakland's Governing Body To
Make Further Study Following
Formal Protest By Large
Delegation
TO MEET AGAIN NOV. %

A decision to make a further study
of the probable extension Of the
corporate limits of the town of Oak
land before coming to a definite con-
clusion, was made at the regular
monthly meeting of the Mayor and
Town Council on Monday evening.
The decision was made at the bust
ness session after having heard a
delegation of about fifty residents of
the outlying districts who were
present to make a formal protest of
extending the limits.
Petitions carrying forty-five names
were presented to the council which
protest such incorporation until "such
time as Mayor and Town Council can
assure a water supply, a sewerage
system, street lights, police and fire
protection, garbage disposal and
other privileges existing in town and
show financial ability and willing
ness to render these services and con-
veniences in return for the increase
in taxes"
w. r. Offutt represented the pc
titioncrs and presented the signatures
to the council members. Following
this there was some discussion for
about two hours, some calling at
tention to the fact that it would be
years before some of those taken in
to the corporation would receive any
benefits, some that the area included
farms, some that there was not ade-
quate fire plugs, sewerage disposal
and improved roads in sections of the
town already Incorporated
Mayor Joseph limbaugh outlined
his plan to give all services as quickly
as possible and declared he would
help anyone in the future who might
be in office to carry out the plan. He
pointed out that much money spent
in Oakland this year had been put
in water and sewer
lines where it could not be seen, and
that the way was being paved for i'm
mediate improvement in conditions in
some sections.
In executive session the council de-
cided to postpone action until more
information is received and a COM
plete canvass and survey of the area
made. A special meeting is to be held
on November % to render decision.
The suggested extension went as far
south as the roadway north of Irwin
Clusters home, west to include Stand
ard Oil, Gulf Refining companies and
Oakland Sales plant; to include Har-
desty Brothers lumber mill at edge of
Center street, north of John I. Mitch
ell home, would include Davis ad-
dition to town of Oakland, Lew Corn
ish property, R. o. Winters dairy
property at northeast edge of town,
would include Harve's Market at in
tersection of Mt. Lake road with route
219.
An ultimate reduction in insurance
rates, an immediate reduction in
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