The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1898-12-15
LOCAL AND oTHEaWIsE


Personal Mention, Etc.
The cigar dealer may not advertise,
but it takes puffs to make his bust
ness go.
George l.. Sincell, of the Maryland
Agricultural College, returned home
Monday evening for the holidays.
Messrs. E. NJ. Coddington and F. P
Stremmel, both of District No. 2,
were Oakland visitors on Tuesday.
Mrs. Mahlon Schooley, residing at
Sand Flat on the Hooppole road, fell
on last Friday and broke her wrist.
Mr.. Ezra B. Hook, of Krug, was in
the city Friday and Saturday last and
made this office very agreeable visit
DIR. BENZ. Ison and family went to
Washington Tuesday morning where
they will spend the winter with rela-
tives.
Miss Mollie Peddicord returned on
last Thursday from a prolonged visit
to relatives in Howard county, this
State.
Mr.. Scott Il. Jones made a business
trip to the west on Thursday of last
week. He is expected to arrive home
to-day.
Attorney James G. Peddicord at
tended court at Kingwood Monday
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cell on Wednesday.
Mr.. d. H. Loar returned on Friday
evening last from Philadelphia, where
he had been under treatment in a
hospital for several days.
Miss Belle Browning, who visited
her old home at Roanoke, Va, for
several weeks, returned to Oakland
on Wednesday of last week.
Ladies' and children's hats and
trimmings will be closed out at great
ly reduced prices. Mrs. NJ. J.. Scott,
Baltimore Store. 41-2t.
VIII Sturgiss, who made a visit to
relatives at Paola, Kansas, and also
visited Chicago, Kansas City and
other points in the west, returned to
Oakland on Monday morning last.
Services in st Matthew's chapel,
Sixth and Alder streets. Sunday next:
Sunday school, 10 a. m; morning
prayer and sermon, II a. m. Cordial
welcome TO all.
Out friend, Mr.. Jacob Miller, of
Grantsville, has embarked rather ex-
tensively in the cultivation of small
fruits at his farm near the above
place. He is giving the greatest at
tention to Strawberries.
Mr.. Harry Mills, Of Washington,
lessee of the Oakland Hotel, spent a
few hours here on Tuesday in consul
tation with two gentlemen from Char
lesion, w. Va, who have made him a
proposition to lease the hotel for ten
years and operate it as a sanatorium.
The continuous snow and wind
drifting it as it falls has made the
roads outside of town almost wholly
impossible. The platforms within
the town limits are kept as clear of
snow as possible but it requires al
most constant work to keep them in
that condition.
Monday morning Capt. j. NJ. Jar
Doe put large force of man at work
on the Wilson and Broaderick ponds
cutting ice for summer use which will
be stored in various ice houses in
town. The Oakland Hotel ice house
will be filled with Broaderick ice, al
so a number of private houses.
Simon Meyers, who enlisted in the
First Maryland Regiment at the
breaking out of the war, arrived home
on Tuesday morning from the Phila-
delphia German hospital in which
institution he had been an inmate for
several weeks, suffering an attack of
typhoid fever. He will remain here
until he entirely RECEIVERS his health
A Pennsylvania magistrate gave a
wife-beater dose of his own medicine
by stepping down from the bench and
administering to the culprit severe
thrashing with his fists. Here's to the
strength of his arm and the hardness
of his fist upon every occasion when
a wife-beater is brought before him.
Major E. G.. Rathbone, of Hamilton,
Ohio, passed through Oakland Mon
day night on his way home from
Washington where he had been on
business connected with his new
appointment under the government
as superintendent of the Cuban mail
service. He will be stationed at
Havana after January 1st. He will
receive the same pay as an assistant
postmaster general.
On Mon day of this week the Mey-
ersdale Commercial issued a special
industrial edition of 5000 copies. The
illustrations contained in the paper
are up-to-date. geographically it