The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1898-08-04

SuCSu VI le4dtiNeS anu IrleuuS.
Senator r. A Ravenscroft, of Acct
dent, arrived in Oakland yesterday
morning from the east and spent a
portion of the day here with friends
Rev. and Mrs. W. C. Davis and
daughter, of Allegany City, Pa, ar
rived in Oakland on Tuesday to visit
Rev. John NJ. Davis and other rela-
| tiYes.
Miss Viola Hessen, of Washington,
who spent few weeks in and near
town visiting relatives, returned to
her home in the above city on Sun
day last
Jerry Stanton, who has been en-
ployed in Chicago for few years in
! a large printing establishment, is
home to spend the month of August
with his parents.
Mr.. j. Lee McCom8s ir., who has
! been at Chattanooga, Tenn, for some
time, is now employed in the eircula-
ton department of the Times of that
city at a lucrative salary.
Messrs. F. \. Thayer q. S. Hamill
| and E. H. Sincell returned to Oak
land on Friday afternoon last from
the meeting of the State Bar Associa-
ton held at the Blue Mountain House
several days last week.
An examination will be held in the
public school house on Tuesday, Au-
gust Is, for the selection of persons
for appointment to free scholarships
| in a number of State institutions.
See advertisement elsewhere.
Stevens band, numbering about
twenty pieces, which is to furnish
the music at the Chautauqua this
year, came up to Oakland yesterday
morning and played several selections
at different points in town.
In this issue of THE REPUBLICAN,
the Board of County School Commits
sioners offers a reward of $25 for the
arrest and conviction of the person
who set fire to the Fort Pendleton
school house which was consumed
some time during the early spring.
Mrs. E. \. Ross, of Columbus, o.,
who arrived here in July, has i'm
proved in health and will leave in
few days for Aurora, Preston county,
and other points in West Virginia to
spend the month of August.
The town council has notified prop
erty owners along Second street whose
platforms were consumed by fire u
rebuild the same within a specified
time, otherwise the corporation will
build them and charge the cost to the
persons owning the property.
Mr.. H, 0. Hesen and family, of Mar
tinsburg, are on a visit to relatives
near town. Mr.. Hesen has been laid
up for several weeks with an attack of
infammatory rheumatism and came
here in the hope of receiving some
benefit.
DR.. James H. Shipperd, of near
Martinsburg, West Va, at one time
employed at Corinth by the Oakland
Coal and Coke Company, was a visi-
tor to Oakland Tuesday. Dr. Ship
perd has many friends in Oakland
who were glad to greet him.
Norman Sanner, OF the list Nd. Vol.
Inf. who spent week with his par
ents in Oakland, having had a fur
Tough for that length of time from his
duties, left on Thursday afternoon
last to join his regiment at Fortress
Monroe, where it is encamped,
DR.. a. J. Mason and Mr.. Harry
Black, both of Friendsville, were in
Oakland last Thursday evening at
which time DR.. Mason was initiated
into the mysteries of Free Masonry
by Oakland Lodge A. F. and A. NJ,
Mr.. Black having been initiated a
few weeks previous.
Rev. Father Martin ODonoghue. of
st. Peters church, Baltimore, spent
several days in Oakland last week,
returning to his home Saturday. On
Wednesday morning Father O'Dono-
ghue conducted services in the church
here in the absence from town of the
pastor, Rev. Wunnenberg, who spent
from Monday until Saturday with his
parents in Baltimore.
Chas. Brown of the Baltimore State
Normal, who visited friends in Grants
vile and vicinity returned by way of
the Metropolis Thursday last There
is Good Roads article in this issue
from his facile pen which we submit
to our readers. It's solid from the
ground up.-Meyersdale Commercial.
We have used Chamberlain's Cough
Remedy in our home for many wears
and bear cheerful testimony to its
value as a medicine which should be
in every family. In coughs and colds
we have found it to be efficacious and
in croop and whooping cough in chill
dren we deem it indispensa ble.-H. p.