The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-07-24

at TIE REPUBLICAN office.
Peter Enos, \. ID. MAYORS fore
man. has been sick for several DAYS.
Our McIIenry and Mt. Lake
Park letters were received too late
for publication.
Rev. c. +. Clark will preach in
the Lutheran church Sunday morn
ing at 1870 o'clock.
Sewing Machine Agent Bennett
was laid UP two or three days last
week by Il severe cold.
The b. & @. Il. r. Co. are pre-
pairing to erect large water tank
in the depot yard here.
Rev. G. W. W. Amick preached
in the Ev. Lutheran church Sunday
morning to large audience.
The Oakland division of the Nor
nal school opened Tuesday morn
ing with an enrolment of -.
L. D. Walker, Esq, fell one day
last week, and sprained his left ankle
and is now going about on crutches.
Read the notice in another col
umn in regard to our special offer
to club with the Detroit Free Press.
G. S. Hamill's big black dog
Grover, was killed one day last
week by being run over by train
No. As.
p. p. Gortner & Bro, the mer-
chants of Sunnyside. have had a
new spring wagon built at Naylor &
Enos' shop.
A stock company composed of
citizens of Terra Alta, on Saturday,
bought the Worthington Hotel at
Terra Alta for 81, 1000.
The Mysterious Social Club, COM
posed of the walters of the Oakland
Hotel will give an entertainment in
Offutt's Hall on Thursday night
Aug. 6.
The st. Louis and Baltimore base
ball mines passed through Oakland
Tuesday evening on Especial car
attached to No. 5, on their way to
st. Louis.
Work is being steadily pushed on
the new NJ. K. church, Oakland,
and it is expected that it will be
finished within the time specified
in the contract.
THE REPUBLICAN of next week
will contain good description Of
McKaig's stone works which are
situated about one and a-half miles
west of Oakland.
Two youthful citizens of Oakland
were arrested by Policeman Cline
last Friday night for fighting and
enriched the city treasurer to the
amount of $2.25 each.
This has been the dullest season,
for summer visitors, Oakland has
experienced for several years, the
reason of which the hotel managers
are at loss to understand.
Capt. b. B. Dovener has accepted
an invitation to address the old SOL
diers of Preston county on August
II, on the occasion of an encamp-
ment at Kingwood, commencing
that day and ending the goth.
Visitors at Monte Vista will be
interested in the new summer
house, the woods around Crystal
Spring and the rustics which invite
to rest. Crest a Bit" and "Sit a
While" are among the most popu-
lar of these seats.
Our special nd-soliciting agents,
Messrs. J. Lee Harne and.J. Ed
Kildow are now in the lower end of
the county. They report success at
all points they have been. Our
readers may confidently expect q
better paper in the future.
John A. Grant has purchased the
II. P. Tssker property on West
Liberty street. Mr.. Grant will
take possession in few weeks and
thoroughly renoyate his newly ac-
quired possessions. When all i'm
provements shall have been made
he will have one of the handsomest
residences in town.
The Morgantown. people are
greatly exercised over the action of
Che town council who have ordered
another election on the whiskey
question. Last fall the same ques-
ton was submitted and resulted in
closing of the saloons. Now the
whiskey people have succeeded in
getting . re-submission, The