The Republican., 1899-07-13

walks $50 miles; to thoroughly harrow
it, 80 miles more, and to cultivate it
250 miles, making grand total of 750
miles, in addition to garnering it.
People in the country who are an
noyed by flies should remember that
clusters of the fragrant clover, which
grows abundantly by every roadside,
if hung in the room and left to dry
and shed its faint, fragrant perfume
through the air, will drive away more
flies than sticky saucers of molasses,
and other tiytraps and fly papers can
ever collect.
Messrs. Joseph c. Shaw, j. S.
Broadwater, S. H. Ryland, Peter Ma
than and DR.. q. G. Keller, all of
Grantsville, are in Oakland this
morning on business before the court
examiner, Mr.. James c. Peddicord,
who is conducting proceedings in
which the above parties are witnesses.
Huckleberries are beginning to get
ripe although none have yet been seen
in market. There is said to be a good
crop of this berry and the price will
not be very high this season. The
mountain people may be expected to
begin coming in with them before
very long.
Excursions from Wheeling and in
termediate points on the west and
Martinsburg and intermediate points
on the east have been advertised to
run to Oakland on SUNDAY next.
These excursions last year brought
many people to Oakland who spent
pleasant day on the mountain top.
DR.. ii. NJ. Kemp, who has been in
Baltimore, Md, for the past three
months, has returned to his home,
Bloomington, Nd. DR.. Kemp is one
of the best physicians in Western Ma
ryiand, and we would be glad to hear
of him locating near the twin-towns.
Piedmont Independent
The Cumberland IndepeHdeat says
that Mr.. Jacob Brown cOntemplates
a visit to old and familiar scenes, in
the near future, to Hunters Arr. a
famous old tract of land in the north
ern part of Garrett county, now the
home of eX-County Treasurer Ross
Compton.
In It number of the counties near
us we notice the local health boards
are making vigorous campaigns
against filth and are requiring citi-
zens to put their property in the best
sanitary condition possible. Oakland
needs some attention from the health
board in this particular.
Women will be obliged to give their
correct age in the coming census.
The new law says: Women who
refuse to tell their age or indulge in in
accurate statements thereof, as well as
all other persons refusing to reply to
questions or making false statements,
shall on conviction be fined one
hundred dollars
Tournament and races have been
advertised to take place to-day under
the auspices of the Loeb Lynn Heights
Driving Association. The program is
rather elaborate and will be fully car
ried out. The tournament will take
place at $50 p. IN. and at 8 o'clock an
address in Burley's hall will be deliv-
cred, after which the Queen of Honor
and Beauty will be crowned.
The paving contractor having torn
up Alder and Third streets was com
PEELED on Tuesday to suspend work
on account of the nonarrival of the
curb stones. The brick for the paw
ing have arrived and are being hauled
and distributed at points along the
two streets. Property owners have
awarded contracts for the laying of
brick pavements fronting their prop
critics. Some of the pavements on
Alder street will be something like IS
feet wide, whilst others will measure
8 feet.
One of the strangest characters of
nature the newspaper man meets
almost daily in his travels is the man
who thinks the newspaper should
pitch into somebody all the time. He
would make the newspaper sort of
smut mill for somebody to dump his
suspicious, i'll feelings and slanderous
gossip into. In nine cases out of ten
these fellows are cowardly, and would
not make their complaints to any
man face to face, but they would re-
joice to see the newspaper man peddle
out the miserable yarns to people.
In this issue will be found the re-
port of the condition of the Garrett
County Bank at Oakland which shows
an appreciable increase in business
over any report yet published at this
season of the year. This institution
has been remarkably well managed,
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