The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1898-12-22

REPUBLICAN, building to the sanatof-
ium recently opened by him. MessrS
Peddicord & Peddicord, the attorneys
now occupy the rooms vacated by ID
McComas, they having moved froI
the opera house block on ThursdaN
last.
The first of the new year will soon
be here. Look over your stock of
statements, bill heads, letter heads,
envelopes, etc, and if you are in need
OF anything in the job printing line
give us a call. We guarantee good
neat work and our prices are reason
able.
So far this week the weather has
been altogether too disagreeable for
Christmas shopping but those who
are tardy in in the laudable under
taking of bestowing gifts upon friends
and acquaintance are hopeful for a
turn in the weather which will give
them the opportunity of getting
around and making their purchases
yet before the holidays begin.
Our business men are rapidly learn
ing the value OF advertising and are
acting accordingly. 1t has come to
the point where one can't do business
without a liberal use of printers ink.
lt Is matter of great qualification
to the publisher to have Il merchant
tell him that his work has resulted in
bringing trade to the former.
j. 5. Sollars, son of Mr. and Mrs. e.
Il. Sollars, of near Oakland, who has
been a student at Charlotte Hall Col
lege for several months past, arrived
in Oakland this morning to spend the
holiday vacation with his parents.
skip is an intelligent boy, studious
and well liked by both his teachers
and fellow students. He stands at
the head of his class in school in a
number of branches.
The floating debt and Improvement
bonds recently sold by the City Coun-
ell to the Frostburg bank were print
ed at this office last week and deliver
ed TO the Council at their meeting on
Monday night. The bonds. 26 in
number, are rather costly, but this
office printed them for about twenty
dollars less than the lowest bid re-
ceived from cities both east and west.
After January 1st the stamped en-
yelopes issued by the Postoffice De-
partnent will bear red stamp of
exactly the same shade as the carrnfne
two center. This is in accordance
with an article in the international
postal agreement which requires all
issues of the same denomination of q
stamp to be uniform in color. The
Department viii this month begin
substituting the red stamp on envel-
opes for the green.
Lady Cook, formerly Miss Tennes-
see Clafin, of New York, Il valued
contributor to the columns of THE
REPUBLICAN, has announced that
| beginning with the New Year she in
tends embarking as a stock broker in
London, England, under the firm
name Of Lady Cook & Co." LADY
Cook has been interested in a num-
Der OF philanthropic and reformatory
movements, and has spent thousands
OF dollars in her efforts TO improve
the condition of the poor and the Ia
boring classes.
We never get too old to hear OF
something new. BY the way, one OF
our young men was out sleigh-ridine
| with his best girl, and as they neared
her home she remarked to him that
"he reminded her of the Venus OF
Milo He feeling greatly fiattered
and elated over what he supposed tC
be compliment, went home and
searched the encyclop edia and found
TO his deep chagrin and sore disap-
pOintment that the Venus of Milo had
no arms. Consequently he went tc
the cellar and threatened to butt his
brains out on a soft cabbage head.
An exchange says there is one I'M
| deniable fact that proves and always
will prove that women have not as
much sense as men. 1t is this, that
nine cases out of ten u woman vii
give up an honorable profession il
which she is well paid and not oyer
worked for a position which makes
her a cook, housekeeper, a nurse, a
seamstress, chamber-maid, a gov
erness, a Kindergarten, a laundress
on special occasion, and all this fol
her board and clothes. There isn't 6
man in the universe, outside of the
asylum for the feeble-minded, who
could be coaXed or caressed into sucf
an agreement.
There is no longer any doubt that
a general spread of grip is the cloud
of the Chrstmastide. In New York
there are 100000 cases, and there i.
not a business or calling not affected
In other eastern cities the reports in
clude large parts of the population,