The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1898-04-21

man, though Germany gets the credit
for having planted in the counties of
Western Maryla and a sturdy stock,
from which have sprung the success
full farmers and business men and
fine, healthy and beautiful women of
the present race.
What might have been disastrous
fire was discovered in its incipiency
on Thursday at noon and extinguish-
ed before serious damage resulted.
The fire occurred in J. M. Falken
STEMS wagon making shop and was
caused by hot eoal from the forge
in A. ID. Naylofs blacksmith shop,
which adjoins, al which set fire to
the partition. Cl s.of smoke was
pouring from evel Tow and door
when the fire engf red, but in q
remarkably short4 .a.lthe flames
were extinguished. The loss is small.
Messrs. G. E. Tysinger g. Co., who
conducted a green and fancy grocery
business in the Felty building on
Alder street, have sold out t9 Mr.. w.
H. Kildow, of Piedmont, Who has
taken charge of the store and who will
conduct it on cash basis. Mr.. Kill
dow is young man of sterling bus
mess qualities and his residence and.
brsinSss transactions in Oakland, we
hope, may be both pleasant and
profitable. Mr.. Tysinger will travel
for the Ohio Valley Coffee company,
of Parkersburg, W. Va.
The current issue of the Mountain
NeaCS is handsomely illustrated with
half tone views and scenes about the
Park. The first page contains a
striking picture of Rev. John Thomp-
son, the Bishop of Mountain Lake
Park. "a great improvementcan be no.
ted in the appearance of the previous
as well as the current issues, they hav-
ing been printed on THE REPUBLICAN
press. After having tried some nov
ices in the printing business to do the
press work the management of the
NeaDS came to the conclusion that to
procure better results higher price
for the work would be no object and
they accordingly gave the novices
their discharge and brought the type
forms tosthis office from which the
paper will hereafter be issued.
In 1888 my wife went East and
was attacked with rheumatism. She
received no relief until she tried
Chamberlain Pain Balm Since
that time we have never been with
out it. We find it gives instant relief
in cases of burns and scalds and is
never failing for all rheumatic and
neuralgia pains.-D. G. BRANT, Santa
Ynez, Cal. For sale by Oakland Phar-
macy and DR.. j. w. Laughlin, Deer
Park.
Hagerstown adopted the method of
putting tramps to work repairing the
public streets and kept it up until
every tramp in the country got wind
of the CONSUMPTION, and gave Hagers-
town a wide berth. Frederick has for
some time been engaged in compell-
ing them to work on the county stone
pile, but in neither of these expert
ments has it yet been demonstrated
that the tramp as an institution has
any prediction to work unless it is
TO work the rrowler
| was reading an advertisement of
Chamberlains Collie, Cholera and
Diarrhoea Remedy in the Worcester
Enterprise recently, which leads me
to write this. | can truthfully say
| never used any remedy equal to it
for collie and diarrhoea. have never
had to use more than one or two doses
to cure the worst case with myself or
children.-W. A. STROUD, Pokomoke
City, Md. For sale by Oakland Phar-
macy and DR.. j. W. Laughlin, Deer
Park.
Hagerstown, which has long been
the Gretna Green of loving couples
from neighboring counties in Virgin
ia and Pennsylvania fleeing from the
wrath of irate parents or the incon-
venience of home wedding, has be-
come new centre of attraction as a
market for marriage licenses of prime
quality and unquestionable legality.
The clerk of the Hotel Baldwin was
appealed to recently by young man
from Winchester to direct him where
to get the "best" marriage license,
and the clerk promptly did so, guar
anteeing, it is to be presumed, that
the license would be of such char
acter as to be absolutely a negative
answer to the oft repeated question,
is marriage failure?'
Wherever volunteer fire companies
exist in Maryland and are we'll equip
ped, they assure protection to the
town Of great value to the citizens in
many ways. 1t is a noted factth in
Frederick Hagerstown, Cumberland,
Westminster, Annapolis, Elkton,
Salisbury, Cambridge, Easton and
wherever local companies have been
organized, insurance rates have been
materially reduced in accordance