The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-12-23

Tor Sl0,OO0 to pave the streets and
erect an electric lighting plant for the
town. This is move III the proper
direction but $4,000 will be about
one-third of the amount required.
In the last and also in this issue of
THE REPUBLICAN ex-Countv Treas
urer Edward E. SoIlars advert;ses
thirty-one pieces of real estate at pub
lie auction for taxes due and in arrear
for the years 1894 and 1895 The sales
will take place on Saturday, Jan. 8th,
at two o'clock p. IN. in front of the
court house in Oakland.
John Griffin, of GAINESVILLE, O., saws:
Il never lived day for thirty years
without suffering agony, until box
OF Witch Hazel Salve cured nv piles"
For piles and rectal troubles. cuts,
bruises, sprains. eczema aud all skin
troubles DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve
is unequalled. Oakland Pharma cy
Tomorrow night is the time set to
render the cantata of"Santa Claus
! in the opera house here. The curtain
will go up promptly at $50 O'clock
and those who attend will be well
repaid for the time spent The af-
fair has been under the direction of
DR.. Robinson and Mr. Edwin I. Mitch
ell and its success will be owing to
the untiring Iabors of these two gen
| tlemen. -
A children service will be held in the
opera house by st. Matthew's SUNDAY
school on Christmas night at 7.30
o'clock. \ full program consisting OF
music, recitations, readings, carols,
dialogues, etc, will be rendered. The
public is cordially invited TO be pres
ent. Seats free.
II crave but One Minute, " said the
! public speaker in husky voice; and
! then he took a dose of One Minute
| Cough Cure, and proceeded with his
oratOry. One Minute Cough Cure is
unequalled for the throat and lungs.
Oakland Pharmacy
Isaac Lucas, miner for the Davis
Coal and Coke Company, was struck
by Baltimore and Ohio passenger train
No. As, Monday evening. Tween
West FirginiaJunction ardPinG .lont,
and seriously injured o." ii his
lower limbs WAS broken, bc"ldos being
hurt internally. and recci ing a scalp
wound. Lucas lives at edmont and
has wife and one child.
There is time for everything: and
! the time to attend to cold is when it
starts. Don't wait until YOU have
| consumption but prevent it by using
| One Minute Cough Cure, the great
remedy for coughs, colds Group, bron-
| chltis and all throat and lung trou-
| bles, Oakland Pharmacy.
A sunrise meeting will be held in
the lecture room of St paul's NJ. E.
church on Christmas morning under
the auspices of the Epworth League.
All Leaguers and church members are
cordially invited to attend and take
anything they select as an Offering for
the needy of the community The
services will begin promptly at seven
o'clock. The meeting will be in
charge Of Mr., Fred a. Thayer.
Newman, next door to the postofiice.
has just received a fine assortment of
toys, consisting of sleds, hobby horses.
shoe flies, dolls in endless variety,
Xmas tree ornaments, tool chests,
rocking chairs, toy books, Gum balls.
toy dishes, cook stoves, tops, toy fur
niture, mechanical toys, and a variety
OF other toys too numerous to men
ton. 40
The scholars of the Oakland public
schools on last Friday presented Pro
fessors Sanner and Frazee with hand
somely bound copies of the poetical
works Of Poe and Tennyson. Such
| actions as the above on the part of
pupils show with what respect and re
gard their teachers are held. The
presentation of the books came as a
great surprise to the teachers. The
school room was decorated with cut
flowers from Weber's gardens and
looked very pretty.
All lllC iCl)ttI IuIenOS u IUe pubic
schools in Oakland with the excep-
ton of one or two grades, closed on
Friday afternoon for vacation of
two weeks. Those departments (the
primary not closing on Friday did so
at noon on Monday as one-half day
was lost on account of the disarrange-
ment of the furnace some time ago
and the teachers were requested by
the School Board to make up the lost
time, thus making the term ever fifty
days actual teaching.
Rev. S. NJ. Engle, the new pastor of
the Presbyterian church, is winning
golden opinions from his congregation
by the excellent sermons he is preach
ing. Last Sunday he took for his text
the words: Pure religion and unde-
filed before God and the Father is this,
to visit the fatherless and widows in
their affiiction, and to keep himself |
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