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Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1898-06-09

Mrs. j. N. Sheppard is spending the
week at the home of her parents in Park
River.
M. l. Sullivan has bought McPhail's
platform scale and removed it down on
Oak street.
Misses Schneider g. Wild announce
special sale of millinery goods from now
until July 9TH.
Miss janet Watson retu rned yesterday
to resume charge of her music classes
after visit of several weeks with her
parents near Bathgate.
Jas. Balfour this week disposed of his
residence property on south Fourth street
to VIM. Slater, who recently leased the
Sullivan livery and feed barn.
I. M. Adams, one of the old time
travelling statesmen on the road, made the
usual round of calls Tuesday and was off
again on the afternoon train.
Jacob Spenst, ST., complains of losing
several sacks Of seed flax lately, which
goes to show that all the grain thieves
have not reached Bismarck yet.
The first issue of the Langdon Times
will be printed Tuesday. The plant ar
rived yesterday and is being placed in
the Reiber building on Second street.
j. McPhail carries complete line of
Mccormick farm machinery, also other
standard makes Of implements. His new
ad on the first page explains the whole
thing.
A fine residence is to be built by the
congregation of the Catholic church at
Mt Carmel for their paster. The lum-
Der is being hauled this week. They are
also enlarging and otherwise improving
the church.
Father Pouliot leaves Monday for Far
go to spend the week with the Catholic
priests of this state in an ecclesiastical
retreat at Bishop Shsnley's palace. A
dispatch to Fargo will reach him in case
of sickness.
The city council contemplate the pass
ing of curfew ordinance, by which it is
hoped with the assistance of the parents
to restrain boys and girls from running
at large until all hours of the night. 1t
will affect all children under Is years of
age and the hour at which they will have
to beat retreat to their own back yard
will be nine in the summer and eight in
the winter.
Rankln's temperance lectures at the
Baptist church have attracted crowded
houses nightly all this week. His sub
jects touch upon nearly all conceivable
points of the question and he succeeds in
holding the entire attention of his hear
ers from eight until eleven o'clock.
About 25O have signed the pledge and
accepted his emblematic boutonniere OF
old gold ribbon, to one and all of whom
it is hoped it will prove lasting blessing.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1898-06-09

OonaGOr OuaS. I1a1u uTOV0 up 1rOul w IL
ton last Friday and spent few hours in
town among friends Everyone is feeling
so good over the good crops of all kinds
of grain that business bids fair to oyer
grow the talk of political aspirants, &C.
cording to the Senator's views.
The McNeill boys, who number among
Loan townships most substantial farm
ers started five teams at work this week
breaking up the tree claim of Jas. Nc
Neill, north of Dresden. It is one of the
finest quarter sections in that locality,
every acre being fit for cultivation.
F. E. Remand, of Olga, spent Sunday
in the city. He reports large business
for the Mutual Reserve, of New York the
past few weeks in the eastern part of the
county. Next week he expects To leave
for trip to the Turtle Mountain country
where he will spend the summer, talking
insurance.
The near approach of circus day calls
renewed attention to the fact that the
John Robinson Greatest of all American
Shows is one OF the very few exhibitions
OF it's kind in which no gambling devices
or games of chance are permitted. Those
who patronize this famous exhibition are
assured of absolute protection from
sharpers of every description.
The awarding of the contract for the
building of housefor the resident priest
of st Alphonsus church, which was to
have taken place on Saturday has been
delayed for few days owing to recently
suggested improvements which will
change the plans already drawn. The
residence the people now propose to
build their pastor will cost about $4,000
and will be both al ornament to the city
! and comfortable home.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1898-03-10
ing that the democratic party in 1900
will swing back to the gold standard.

The Labor Commissioner of New
York has destroyed another idol of
the silver worshippers. In his report
just published he shows that the farm
ers of that state are complaining bit
terly of the reduction in the prices of
their farms, not in 1878, the year of
the crime nor in the years immedi-
ately following it, but in 1893, and the
the succeeding years in which the
free trade crime" began its work,
when the people elected a free trade
Congress and President. He says
specifically that the complaints of the
farmers are that their farms have been
reduced from so to 70 per cent. in value
during the past five or six years-not
during the past twenty-five or six
wears.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1898-03-10
A Wise Measure.

The step proposed in behalf of road
improvement in the bill introduced in
the Legislature by Delegate Gould is
an excellent one. Maryland has not
been derelict in the matter of road
construction. 1t is stated, that, last
year, 100000 was spent in this State
for this purpose. The aim of the pres
ent agitation is to direct the invest
ment of funds to the very best advan-
tage, to have work done intelligently
and scientifically, and to see that ma
terial and methods best adopted for
each particular locality are used.
The money is being spent now, and
spent under bad system. Therefore
it is not so much a question of raising
more money but how to wisely expend
the money the people of the State an
nually raise, that is to be considered.
To know how to do the work right
will be worth much more to the tax
payers of the State than the cost of
finding. out.
The Geological Survey Commission,
to whom is entrusted the task of in
vestigating road construction, has the
confidence of the people of the State,
and is we'll equipped for conducting
such an inquiry.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1898-03-10
THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 1898.
sbaII Oakland Remain behind?


In another column of to-day's RE-
PUBLICAN we publish the two bond
bills and new charter for Oakland, all
of which are now laws, they having
received the signature of Governor
Lowndes on Wednesday of last week.
There are two acts, as it will appear
by reading them, the one providing
for the issuance of bonds to the
amount of thirty thousand dollars
with which to establish water works
for the town, the other providing in a
like manner for bonds to the amount
of twenty-five thousand dollars for
the erection or purchase of an electric
light plant, Improvement of the
streets and the payment of the stand
ing indebtedness of Oakland.
At the present time Oakland's in
debtedness amounts to something
like six thousand dollars. The in
come from taxes is not sufficient, as
the town is now situated, to raise this
amount and at the same time. keep in
condition the streets and thorough
fares, provide for street lighting and
and the thousand and one other
things which every municipality
requires and must have. We are now
paying to the electric light company
about twenty-five hundred dollars
every yearfor lights. This is an amount
which the town is wholly unable to
pay and provide for other necessities
The contract with the electric com
pany will not expire for three years
yet, in the meantime if other arrange
ments are not made the bulk of the
taxes will continue to be applied to
this one object-street lighting. An
electric plant sufficient for the needs
least ten thousand dollars. Being
supplied with such a plant, the streets
can be lighted, and light furnished
subscribers at nominal figure, will
leave a surplus over the amount we
now pay to the electric company to
go into a sinking fund with which to
pay the bonds should they be issued
and will not in all probability in
crease the rate of taxes now being
paid by the citizens. Our streets are
as bad as country roads; they are a
disgrace to NINETEENTH century prog
ress, but with the means at hand it is
impossible to repair and keep them in
condition. Having the means and
after once repairing them thoroughly
they will need little if any attention
for the next ten or a dozen years, and
to acquire the means for this purpose
the issuance of bonds is proposed.
The water works bonding act car
ries with it bonds to the amount of
thirty thousand dollars. Oakland is
entirely unprotected against fire ex-
cept the protection afforded by the
chemical engine and the muscle of its
young men when an alarm of fire is
sounded. Having water works in
the town will tend to decrease the
rates of insurance, add to the SAM
tary condition, and bring the town to
the fore. Along with these improve
ments and the great blessings be-
slowed by nature upon this mountain
top there will be no healthier place
between the seas than right here in
Oakland.
On Monday next to decide these two
questions the people of the town will
be called upon, and we hope that the
majority of the votes cast on that day
will be in favor of improvement, not
deterioration.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1898-03-10
The Uses OF Banks.

At the last meeting of the American
Bankers Association a committee was
appointed ''to take up the work of in
forming people as tothe uses of banks
the object being to do away with the
unreasoning hostility which prevails
in many quarters to these institutions.
In the execution of this task the com
mittee has issued a pamphlet, which
sets forth the work which bank does
in a community. This book, says the
committee, sis intended as a primer;
the facts stated are elementary and
not in dispute, and the manner of
stating them is intended to be so clear
that all can understand" The idea
is an excellent one and is eXcellently
carried out. The little pamphlet is
free from technicalities, but gives a
clear insight into the principles and
purposes of banking institutions and
shows plainly the valuable functions
they perform. 1t should be the means
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1898-03-10

REPRESENTATIvE Bailey. the lead
er of the democratic party in the
House of Representatives, recently
made speech at Richmond which is
looked upon as an Inauguration of
the Congressional campaign in 1898,
and accidentally a sort of feeler for
the 1900 campaign. He endorsed free
silver and the Chicago platform gen
orally, and indicated pretty frankly
his adherence to Mr.. Bryan as the
Presidential candidate for the party
in the next campaign. Let's see. Isn't
this Mr.. Bailey the same who, in 1896,
made a speech in his own Congress
sional district saying he could not
endorse Mr.. Bryan or his theories, and
did not agree with many of the prin-
ciples laid down in the Chicago plat
form? And isn't ne the same Mr..
Bailey who got very sore throat
when he went to Illinois to make
speeches for Mr.. Bryan and found
that same Texas speech being scat
tered broadcast over the State?
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1898-03-10

THE case of free-silyer is evidently
losing its charm with many democrats.
1t is now understood that the New
York state convention this year will
be expected to ignore this question,
and that this disposition is making
itself apparent in many sections of
the country. So strongly marked is
this new development among demo
Gratis that such papers as the Phila-
delphia american, edited by Whar-
ton Barker, and the CaUcaSiGn, of
Raleigh, N. c., owned by Senator
Marion Butler, chairman of the pop
ulist national committee, are predict
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1898-03-10

THE FACT that the republican party
is responsible for all the benefits which
the beet-sugar industry has ever re-
ceived, and is known to be VIGOROUSLY
favorable to beet-sugar interests and
to the production of American sugar
for Americans, seems to be sufficient
answer to those who assume that the
Administrations policy of Hawaiian
annexation, if pursued, will result
disastrously to beet-sugar interests.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1898-03-10
What is
SCOTS
En1uIS .

1t is a strengthening foo5 ard
tonic, remarkable in its flesh-for1n-
ing properties. It contains Cod
Liver Oil emu1sified or partially
digested, combined with the wsll-
known and highly priced Hypo-
phosphites of Lime and Soda, 81
that their potency is materially
increased.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1898-03-10
What VWEKH Ae DOS

1t will arrest loss of flesh and
restore to a normal condition the
infant, the child and the adult. 1t
will enrich the blood of the anemie;
will stop the cough, heal the irrita-
ton of the throat and lungs, and
cure incipient consumption. We
make this statement because the
experience Of twenty-five years has
proven 1t in tens of thousands OF
cases. Be sure you get SCoTT'S E"'HisiOH.
soc. and $780, all druggists.
SCOTT & BOVINE, Chemists New York.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1898-03-10
REMITTANCES:

Eamittancss made ny nancy order, postal
. ne, registered letter or hank dram will ne ',t
our risk, il made otherwise, AT the risk Of tue
pauder. Address
THE REPUBLICAN,,
Oakland. Md
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1898-03-10
RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION:

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'Ine copy one year,. - "a
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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1898-03-10

AN ACT to authorize the Mayor and Town
Council of Oak land To issue coupon inter.
est hearing bonds for the purpose of pro.
viding fund to pay the floating debt of
the Mayor and Town Council of Oakla
and to improve the streets of said town
and for the purpose of purchasing and
operating an electric light plant for the
use and benefit of said town of Oak land
and to levy tax on the aSSessable prop
erty within said town TO pay said bonds
and the interest thereon.
WHEREAS, Prior TO the year eighteen hun
dred and ninety eight the tax rate in the
town Of Oak land for municipal purposes has
been limited to The sum of fifty cents on each
one hun ired dollars worth of a SsesSable pro-
perty in said town. which sum has been
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1898-03-10
ADVERTISING RATES.

Firsi Insertion for square 81 ten nonrartel
lIpas 81; each a lditiOnal Insertion after drst
s. cents per square of ten nonpariCl line.
o0sitivelynn deviation will he made from
ne above rates.
Evening journal., 1898-03-04

W. & b. Railroad Company asking for
cheaper rates and better service.
Harry Ennis. of EllSton, is visiting
Newport friends.
The attendance at the Red Mems ba-
zaar was much larger last night than
on the preceding evening.
Mrs. William Crawford is entertain
ing Miss Mortlock, of Wilmington.
Mrs. w. S. Quigley, of Wilmington,
spent yesterday with her mother, Mrs.
Joseph II. Gould.
Miss Anna Newlin is visiting Mrs.
Joseph Bennett.
lille Morris formerly OF Newport.
was married in Wilmington last night
to George ID. BOughman. Leonard @.
Vandegrift, Mrs. Ellwood COnlyn and
Mrs Samuel Kilgore represented New
port at the wedding.
Miss Emily Gregg spent yesterday in
Wilmington.
Mrs. Eliza Young went to Whining
ton on Wednesday to remain one week.
Mrs. DealSyne, of Chester, and Miss
Hattie King, of Wilmington, are visit
| ing William King.
Evening journal., 1898-03-04
FUNERAL OF MRS HARRIS

LARGELY ATTENDED IN STAFFORD
YESTERDAY AFTERNOON-WIN-
FIELD BRENSFTELD'S SAD AT
FICTION.
Special Correspondence Evening Journal
Seaford, March 4.-A1rs. Felice A.
Harris the mother of John Harris, Who
died in Baltimore on Tuesday, was
brought here yesterday ON the 1.26
train, and taken to st. Johns M. p.
Church, where the funeral sermon was
preached by Rev. Philip H. Rawlins.
The services were very impressive, not
dry eye being seen in the house.
One Of the daughters in her bereave-
ment tainted, but soon revived under
the tender care of friends. The body
was afterward borne to Odd Fellows
Cemetery, where the last sad rites were
performed. The pall-bearers were L,
q. Wallace, J. T. Sharp, N. H. Brown
and r. E. Ellis. The deceased leaves
three sons, three daughters, and a host
Of friends to mourn their loss
Winfield Brinsfeld, of Galestown,
who lost his eyesight few months ago.
was in town yesterday on business, &C
companied by his friend and nearby
neighbOr, ]. II. Short. Mr. Brinsfield
went to the pump one morning last
Fall, and, after washing his face, in
formed his wife that his vision was
getting dim. In a half hours time he
was totally blind, and his condition has
not improved since. It is thought that
the optic nerve is paralyzed
Mrs. w. w. Mcdowell entertained
the SorOsis at her home yester-
day afternoon. After the literary fea-
ture a collation. was served. The at
tendance was large.
B. A. Marsden, of Philadelphia, and
2. L. Schiemer, of Egg HarbOr, N. J..
were in town yesterday ON business.
Miss Hannah Hudson, OF Laurel. was
entertained by Seaford friends Thurs
day.
George Hearn, of Laurel, was in
town yesterday.
Mrs. John Jacobs and Miss Irene
Carr Of Bridgeville, were in town
Thursday.
William Medford, Edith Medford and
]. r. Neal, of Hurlock. spent Thursday
with friends in CaqfOrd
Evening journal., 1898-03-04
DOWN ABOUT NEWARK

OCCURRENCES OF INTEREST TO
THE PEOPLE OF THE COLLEGE
TOWN.
Special Correspondence Evening Journal
Newark, March 1.-The annual meet
ing of the stockholders of the Newark
Building and Loan Association will be
held in its office in Odd Fellows Hail
on Tuesday evening, March s, at 7.30
o'clock, by order of the board.
Examinations in the public schools
viii be held, commencing Monday. All
that have an average of S5 or over are
exempt.
Two men entered the chicken-hOuse
of John McKearns on Tuesday might
between 10 and 1 o'clock, and had bag
ged a number of chickens and ducks
when the dog awoke John McKearns.
his son, who fired three shots at the
thieves. One yelled is if wounded, but
they escaped. Recently a similar act
was tried on Forrest w. Dovett.
A dead was completed between Theo-
dore Armstrong and William Barton,
ST., by which Mr.. Barton exchanged his
house on New London avenue for Mr..
Armstrong's house on Main street,
above the Baltimore and Ohio rail-
road
Harry Culinary, Of this town. who
has been employed at Germantown, is
reported to be very ill at that place.
The Town Council held its annual
meeting on Wednesday evening
Nothing Of much interest was done
besides the settling of a few debts.
The Junior class Of Delaware Col
lege is having a book printed. 1t will
be out by the first of next month. II
gives in full the history of the institu.
tion and gives the pictures of the stu
dents of different classes in full drea
/ drill and many other pictures in CON
/ nection with the college.
Miss Carrie Bryan, of Philadelphia
who has been visiting Mr. and Mrs
Benjamin Campbell, has returned
/ home.
Miss David, of Philadelphia, who ha:
been visiting friends here, has return
| ed home
Miss Mabel Shellender. of Oxford
who has been visiting Mr.. and Mrs
Thomas Riley has returned home
John Croker, of New York, waI
stopping at the Washington House thii
week
A second edition OF a PHILADELPHIA;
paper is being delivered through ON
town during the war scare.
Evening journal., 1898-03-04
NEW CASTLES PROSPECTUS.

HE WORK IN THE HANDS OF
THE ENGRAVERS SOON TO BE
ISSUED.
The work of engraving the illustra-
ons for the new prospectus soon to be
sued under the direction Of the Com
ercial of this city, is about completed,
Id will soon be placed in the printers
ands. The Evening Journal cOrre-
)ondent was allowed TO examine the
lustrations, which will form part
the work, and, Judging from this, it
I'LL be safe to predict that, when
|Dmpleted, the prospectus will be a
Iork of art, as we'll as a comprehensive
Dol1let, setting forth the advantages
the city as a manufacturing site and
easure resort.
When the matter of issuing this
|orl1 was projected by the club it was
bought by many to be simply cut of
le question, but the citizens of the
|,wn became interested in the idea,
nd through liberal subscriptions,
ade the plan an assured success. 1t is
'slieved that by judicious distribution,
'eat benefits to the city will result.
Evening journal., 1898-03-04
PENINSULA NEWS PARAGRAPHS

Smyrna will hold an election for
Town COuncilmen next Monday.
Huldah b. Todd was yesterday ap-
pointed postmaster at Greenwood.
A memorial service for the Maine
victims was held in the Dover Roman
Catholic Church to-day
A beautiful window has been placed
in the Episcopal Church at Smyrna in
memory of Mrs. Juliet Polk Cummins
by her children.
William Mowbray, brother Of Rev. A.
s. MOwbray, pastor of the Elkton
Methodist Episcopal Church, stationed
at Nanticoke. has been called by the
Zion Methodist Episcopal Church, Cecil
county, TO become their pastor.
William r. Freeman, one CT the old
est and best-known farmers OF Cecil
county, died at his home in the Second
election district yesterday. after pro
longed illness, aged 70, He was mar
ried twice, a widow and five children
surviving him.
Evening journal., 1898-03-04
STORY OF A SLY FOX
ode LYMAN CAPTURED IT.
.3OMEBODY STOLE 1T, AND AN
ARREST MAY FOLLOW.

Ode LYMAN CAPTURED IT.
.;OMEBODY STOLE 1T, AND AN
ARREST MAY FOLLOW.
fcial Correspondence Evening Journal
Newport, March 4.-The M. e.
.urch sociafble was held at the home
Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert Yeates on
'dnesday evening, but the attendance
not as large as usual on account OF
\ inclement weather. The commit
in charge was composed Of Thomas
nam, Miss Senie Thesis and Miss
a Lyman.
lode Lyman attended a fox hunt in
lndywine hundred on Wednesday
/ caught the fox by throwing his
{ over the animals head. He
ought his prize to Newport, and,
owing that some of the hunters were
sious to secure it, he fastened it in
Jox and placed it in the room in
ich he was sleeping. On awakening
the morning the found that some
9 had stolen the fox while he was
5ep. He says he will offer a reward
the arrest of the offender.
lisS Alice Johnson returned TO Phil
lphia yesterday.
he Hamilton and jefferson Debat-
Societies will discuss the question
4 war with Spain this afternoon.
ewis Melvin is on visit to his
ther. Hn
petition will soon be sent to the p,
Evening journal., 1898-03-04
BEFORE THE MAGISTRATE

Dim MANLOvE AND JABEZ
ARCHEY, TWO COLORED LADS,
IN THE TOLL.
constable Moses B. Fleming succeed
last evening in capturing John Man
We and Jabez Archey, two colored
lys, aged about 16 and is years, re
ectively, charged with assault and
reatened abuse of Ida Cook and Wes-
~ Cook.
At the hearing before Magistrate
nvier they were unable to successful
refute the charge and were each
Id in S100 bail for their appearance
court. which they were unable tC
rnish and were lodged in Jail.
Evening journal., 1898-03-04
KENT LEVY CorrRT ELECTS

The Kent county Levy Court yester-
day elected the following constables:
Duck Creek hundred Nathaniel Pratt;
KenIton hundred Joseph G. Smith and
Lewis +. Hillyard; Little Creek hum
dred Thomas Hopkins; East Dover
hundred, Lon Clifton: West Dover
Hundred, Edward Bendell; North Muir
derkill hundred, Peter Brown; South
Murderkill hundred, W. II. Davis; Mil
ford hundred, Andrew j. Ross. The
following were elected Jail cOmmis-
sioners: w. II. Potter, James Todd and
James Mcdaniel DR.. T. G. Frame was
elected Jail physician.
Evening journal., 1898-03-04
NEW CASTLE NEWS NOTES

landals have broken out seventy-five
mes of glass from the windows of
2 large house at the Glebe farm.
]. Ernest Phillips is contemplating
2 erection of a new house on South
,th street, near fremont.
Up to a late hour hast evening, Nor
Gooden, the sick prisoner, was still
custody, the order for his release
t yet having arrived.