The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-08-12
LOCAL N EW s.

Notice the call for primaries and
county convention in this issue.
Jacob Brown, Esq, of Cumber-
land, visited our Office Wednesday.
-Sardines 10 cents box at Cheap
Johns.
Judge Ritchey, of Frederick,
Md, is at the Oakland Hotel.
TIL. J. Peddicord, Esq, was in
Wheeling, w. Va, on professional
business Wednesday.
Cheap John has a full stock of
toys and fancy goods, cakes and con-
dictionaries.
Collector Margroff has authorized
Mr.. J. c. Durham to receive and re-
ceipt for taxes in districts and s.
Hon. Oliver Miller. one of the
Judges of the Court of Appeals of
Maryland, and lady are at the Oak
land Hotel.
-Bisop Andrews preached in the
NJ. E. Church, Oakland Tuesday
evening, and at the dedication of the
new NJ. Z. Church at Deer Park
Wednesday morning.
The B. & o. r, r. Co. has very
much improved the condition and
appearance of their siding lot in front
of the REPUBLICAN Office, by the APP
plcatiOn of gravel and coal cinder.
Fish Commissioner Delawder re-
ceived most elegant and substantial
boat this week, to be used in securing
trout for the Druid Hill Matching
house.
Married, at the residence of Mr..
Samuel Beachy, GrantsviIle, Md,
Aug. 18th, 1882, by Rev. J. Young,
Mr.. Elijah J. Btinger and Miss Eliza
Hare, both of Garrett county Md.
On Tuesday the miners of the
Cumberland region requested the
companies to name the place, date
and time for general meeting to
arrange a basis for resumption.
Mr.. Reuben Browning and wife,
of Bloomington, Ill.,, arrived at Oak
land Thursday, on a visit of two or
three weeks among relatives and
friends in this county.
The stock holders of the Noun
taid Lake Park Association will hold
meeting at the Mountain Lake Park
Hotel on August %. for the purpose
of electing officers for the ensuing
year.
The store room and residence of
Mr.. d. f. Offutt, of Oakland, was
lighted by gas Saturday evening. The
gas is furnished by one OF the Climax
gas machines. nut in by Mr.. Z. H.
Kemp, of Baltimore.
A party of four ladies and two
gentlemen from Baltimore, guests of
the Deer Park Hotel, left Oakland
Thursday morning for Black Water,
under the guidance of Mr.. Thomas
Bosley. They expect to remain about
a week.
The literary and musical enter
tainment given at Offutt's Hall Fri
day evening of last week, by men,
bers of Camp Lee, and students of
the West Virginia University, en-
camped at Mountain Lake Park, was
slimly attended, owing to the I'M
favorable weather.
"A Sunday School was organized
last Sunday at Mountain Lake Park,
with the following officers: Super
intendent, Rev. G. P. Masden Assis-
tant, H. H. Van Meter; Secretary,
A. r. Sperry; Librarian, ]. A. En-
low. Thirty-siX scholars were in at
tendance. The hour of meeting will
be at IL P. NJ.
The Oakland Glee Club, COM
posed of colored people of Oakland.
gave concert and character sketches
in Offutt's Music Hall Tuesday even
ing to a crowded house. The enter
tainment gave such general satisfac.
ton that it will probably be repeated
soon.
The large frame building at Eek
hart. occupied by Mr.. d. w. Bussard
as a store and warehouse, was totally
destroyed by fire about IL O'Clock
Wednesday night of last week. The
stock, which was total loss, is re-
ported to have been insured for IS, 500,
and the building at 81 200. The origin
of the fire is unknown, but it is
thought by some to have been in
cendiary.
Mrs. A. L. Steele, formerly of
Deer Park, but now employed by the
American Missionary Association of
N. Y. City, to labor in Chattanooga,
Tenn, among the freedmen, has been
spending couple of weeks with her
many friends at Deer Park and Oak
land. She will remain here until
about the 1st of September, when she