The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-04-14
LOCAL EW S.

room is rapidly approaching compile
ton.
Mrs. J. Lee McComas and sor
Lee left Monday for visit to friend:
and relatives in Baltimore.
MIR. T. w. Casteel has improved
the appearance of his meat market
by the application of coat of paint
Died, near Oakland, Tuesday
morning, Ida. daughter of Andrew
and Mary Kimmell, in the 18th veal
of her age.
-Messrs. John Shartzer & Bro, are
having their furniture rooms repaint.
ed. Mr.. John Harne is doing the
work in a creditable manner.
Father O'Sullivan, formerly 10
Gated here, paid his numerous friends
in Oakland visit Monday and Tues
day,
Starts Military Institute, Of
which Maj. w. o. Ison, of Oakland.
is one of the professors, has been re-
moved to Tarrytown, from Portchest-
err. N, Y. .
Mr.. Ralph T. WiIburn, formerly
of McHenry, moved to Oakland last
week. For the present he will occu-
Ply, jointly with Mr.. George Lough-
ridge, the Totten house at the east
end of the Davis bridge.
Farmers and others desiring a
genteel, lucrative agency business, by
which So to $50 day can be earned.
send address at once, on postal, to
HI. G. Wilkinson & Co., 1876 and 1877
Fulton Street, New York.
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The County Commissioners ad.
jOurned Saturday. The only business
of general interest transacted, except
as published in our last issue, was the
reappointment of Mr.. Edward Mar
croft tax collector for the ensuing
year.
The County Commissioners of
Allegany county, Monday, appoint
ed the following officers for the ensu-
ing year: Treasurer, G. l.. yelling.
ton; Tax Collectors, G.. S. Wilson, J.
M. Shober, J. j. Keller, and Adam
Thompson.
-Messrs. Shartzer & Brother are
erecting an addition to their work.
shop, on the railroad, near Offutt's
store, to be used by Mr.. CIagett Ped.
dicord as a news stand, confectionery,
&c. Mr.. Peddicord will occupy the
new room in few days.
-Messrs. Boyer & Sons. butchers.
have very much improved their meat
market, near the Memorial church,
by ceiling it throughout and and by
the application of a coat of paint.
They are now ready for the spring
and summer meat campaign.
Mr.. w. P. Totem, Executor of
the estate of Ezekiel Totten, decea,.
ed, has laid off about 100 acres of
the Totten farm, adjoining the town
of Oakland, into building, truck and
pasture lots, which he will offer at
public sale some time next month.
Rev. VIM. Stoudenmire lett Oak.
land Tuesday morning for Washing
ton and Baltimore in the interest of
the Deer Park church building. He
lectured in Washington twice during
the week and will preach in the
First Lutheran church, Baltimore,
Sunday morning.
The novel spectacle of a physician
being carried through the streets on
a stretcher to visit a patient was wit.
messed by the people of Oakland
Monday. The physician was DIR. J.
Lee McComas, who has been confined
to his bed for about a month with
sciatica, or neuralgia of the sciatic
nerve.
The B. & o. r. r. Co. has force
of carpenters at work erecting der
rick and making other preparations
for the sinking of an artesian well on
the Oakland Hotel grounds, to sup
ply the hotel with water. The Com
pany propose to 60 to depth of 900
feet should not a sufficient flow be
obtained at less depth.
Died, in Oakland, Tuesday, after
long and painful illness, Mrs. Laura
M, wife of Mr.. F. p. Arnold, in the
9th year of her age. Deceased was
consistent member of the M. E.
Church. She had been married less
than a year. Her afflicted husband
has the sympathy of the entire COM
munity.
james Cornish, aged about 70
years, of district No. A, had his hip
broken Friday of last week, by a fall
in the barn of Mr.. VIM. A. Michaels,
while threshing. The injured man
has no relatives in this section, and
deDends entirely uDOn the cha ritahIe