The Republican., 1899-06-29
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LOCAL AND OTHERWISE
Incidents and Events at Home and Nearby
Personal Mention. Etc.

NstS III UIC ClGy yesterday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jos. Conneway, of
near Fort Pendleton, We're in Oak
land Tuesday.
Editor Bolden, Of the Terra Alta
Repu6ticdn, spent Saturday and Sun
day in Oakland.
Miss Annie Sincell, of Washington.
is the guest of Misses Margaret and
Gertrude Sincell.
Mr.. and Mrs. John T. Mitchell en-
tertained a few of their friends at tea
Tuesday evening.
Mr.. Jonathan Loar, of Reedsville,
w. Va, spent last Saturday the guest
Of relatives in Oakland
Mr.. Charles Porter, of Cumberland,
spent from Saturday until Monday
visiting relatives in Oakland.
Mr. Will Shar5zer returned from
Annapolis, where he had been attend
ing college, on Sunday night.
Mr.. viii Lakin, OF ROwlesburg, w.
Va, spent Sunday in Oakland visit
ing Mr.. and Mrs. d. +. Ofrutt
The Misses Williams. of Ohio PYLE.
Pa, are spending several DAYS as the
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Godfrey Felty.
Col. y. q. Sturgiss has rented Mrs.
Drums cottage at the Park and will
occupy the same during the summer.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward p. Sweet. of
Monaco, Pa, are the guests of Mrs.
Leah f. Sincell at her home on Lib
erty street,
Mr.. Silas c. Beachy, one of District
No. 12's hustling farmers and cattle
buyers, spent Sunday in Oakland
with friends.
Mr.. Neal j Fortnev and Il party of
friends from kingwOod will spend
next week at Mr.. George d. Whites.
near Thayerville.
Mrs. L. p Russell on Tuesday
moved her household goods to Noun
tain Lake Park where she will con
duct Il boarding house.
Mr.. Andrew Nelson, who attended
a business college at Pittsburgh dur
ing the past winter, returned to Oak
land last Thursday night.
We understand that the editor of
the JO1trndl has purchased a team of
horses and will embark in the express
business at an early date.
Miss Ellen COnnell and little niece.
Miss Helen DeBerry, Of Terra Alta,
spent yesterday in Oakland as the
guests of Mrs. Kate II. Crane.
Mr.. Thomas Moon, one of the
staunch Republicans of Election Dis
trict No. 10, was in the city Tuesday
and made this Office a brief visit.
Lost, a roll of bills containing about
$50; one five dollar bill with red
blurred stamp. \ suitable reward
for their return to this office. 16-l
Ex-Governor J. b. Foraker, of Ohio,
who with his family is occupying one
of the handsome b. 4 O. cottages at
Deer Park, was in Oakland Tuesday.
Judge Jere Wilson and family az
rived in Oakland from Washington
Sunday and will spend the summer
at the Judge handsome residence
near town.
Mr.. Frank Freeland, of the Bellevue
Hospital, New York, has been en-
gagged by Mr.. Joseph f. Harmed, the
druggist, to assist him during the
summer months.
Mr.. Chas. f. Hilleary, eX-Assembly-
man, wool buyer, farmer, politician
and the Lord only knows what else,
was in town a number of days this
week on business.
Harland Jones, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
TT Tnnoc xt,ln hnnn n{tan1ino.
school at Wheeling for some months,
returned to Oakland Tuesday evening
to spend the summer vacation.
Considerable of our space this week
is taken up with tax sales advertise
ments and in consequence many items
of news, local and otherwise, is being
carried over until a later issue.
Attorney Thomas j. Peddicord
went down TO Hagerstown last Mon
day morning to appear as associate
counsel in a case on trial in the Cir
cult Court for Washington county.
Miss Daisy Grace, who has been
engaged for the past year with the
millinery firm of Connell e. Crane,
will leave Oakland for Baltimore on
Saturday to spend vacation of two
or three months.
Messrs. Frank Bolden and T.. q.
Naylor drove over to Oakland last
Thursday afternoon and remained
here until Sunday morning visiting
relatives and friends when they re-
turned home.
Misses Mollie Peddicord and Effie
Orcutt and Rev. K. b. Ward went up
to Grafton on Tuesday morning to
attend the Conference Epworth
League Convention in session in that
city as representatives of the local
chapter.
Last night the rainfall measured
something over an inch and was prob
ably the hardest storm that has Wis
tied this section for some time. No
damage has been reported except a
number of hill side roads and gardens
having been badly washed.
Fire was discovered in the stable
belonging to Mr.. John Il. Mitchell on
last Friday night about nine o'clock
which was of presumably incendiary
origin, but by the prompt action of
some of the residents of the neighbor-
hood the fire was of short duration
and No material dama0e raSulted