The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1891-12-18
HERE AND ELSEWHERE.

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timore two or three days since our
last issue, on legal business.
Deputy Collector E. II. Sincell
went to Baltimore Tuesday night
on revenue business.
Jacob Shartzer, one of the old
reliable farmers of Accident dis
trict, was in Oakland Tuesday and
Wednesday.
W. D. Nydegger, of Washing
ton, q former resident Of Oakland,
is in town this week.
S. T. Davis the green grocer, has
gone to Somerset on business.
We acknowledge pleasant calls
from G. H. Stuck and M. W. Lyt-
tie, Of Selbyport, and Austin Spell
cher, of Engle's Mills.
Rev. G. W. W. Amick and fami-
ly, arrived in Oakland on Thurs
day night last, called here by the
fatal illness of Mrs. Amick's broth
er, Lee Philips.
Mr.. Jonas Gnagey and daughter
Cora, from Garrett county, were in
town yesterday. They are on their
way to Los Angeles, California, to
visit Mr.. Gnagey's sisters.-Cumb.
News.
Jefferson Ralston, of Deep Greek,
was in Oakland Tuesday on bust
ness.
Mr.. Pollock, principal of Glen
Echo Chautauqua, was in town
Tuesday arranging with Capt. J.
NJ. Jarboe for the erection of a cot
tsge at Mt. Lake Park.
Miss Florence Parks, of King
wood, is visiting at S. t, Jones'.
Mr.. and Mrs. e. A. Fraley spent
Sunday in Terra Alta visiting rela-
tives.
Hon. j. P. Jones, of Terra Alta,
was in Oakland Tuesday.
Bruce Hesen, who has been in
the west for some time, returned to
Oakland on Monday, and left
Tuesday evening to visit relatives
in the east.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. NJ. Spedden
spent Saturday and Sunday in
Deer Park.
Miss Sadie Spedden visited
friends in Deer Park Saturday.
Mrs. VIM. Bourchier and daugh-
ter and son, MIR. A. X. Bourchier,
of Batteau, Ontario, Canada, ar
rived in Oakland on Friday last
and are at the Glades Hotel, where
they will remain until the Rusche
house, which they have rented,
can be fitted up. Mrs. Bourchier
is the mother of P. J. Boucher,
the real estate agent of Oakland.
Mr.. Ambrose List, treasurer of
Mountain Lake Park Association,
who was severely injured sometime
ago by fall from his buggy, has
recovered and is able to be at his
place of business again.
Col. VIM. E. Merrill, United
States Army, engineering corps,
who spent several years in Oakland,
dropped dead on a railroad train at
Endfeld, ILL.,, on Monday evening.
Colonel Merrill was born in Wis
consin in 1925, graduated with
first honsrs at West Point in 1859,
and served in the engineering de-
partment all through the war, at
times in West Virginia, in North
Virginia, in the army of the Cum
berland, in Washington and else
where in the East. He leaves a
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sons and two daughters.
At regular meeting of Alta
Lodge, No. 514, knights of Honor,
held Thursday night the following
officers were elected: Dictator,
Thomas j. Peddicord: vice-dictator,
John Compton; assistant dictator,
James 0. Cleveland; reporter, DR..
S. Townshend; financial reporter,
A. G. Sturgiss; treasurer, George
Nj. Mason; chaplain. Rev. j. NJ.
Davis; guide, David Little; guar
dian, DR.. j. Lee McComas; senti-
mel, Col. j. W. Veitch; past dicta-
tor, NJ. l.. Scott; trustees, J. NJ.
Davis, DIR. s. Townshend and NJ.
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