The Republican., 1899-10-05
LOCAL AND OTHERWISE

open. Mrs. NJ. L. Scott. 29-2.
Mr.. E. J. Frantz, of Friendsville,
was in the city yesterday on business.
Miss Nellie Offutt has gone to Cum
berland to visit friends and relatives.
Mr.. H. P. Tasker, of Oakland is in
the city.-Cumberland Independent.
Willie Grant went to Washington
last Saturday to visit relatives a few
days.
Mr.. Jacob R. Hershberger, of Alta
mont, was a visitor TO our sanctum
Monday.
Mr.. ]. X. Pollock, of Philadelphia,
spent few days in Oakland last and
this week.
Mrs. Kate T. Crane returned from
a business trip to Baltimore Saturday
afternoon last.
Mrs. F. G. Hyde has returned from
a visit to relatives at Kingwood and
Brandonville, West Va.
Mr.. Samuel Z. Boyer returned to
Oakland on Tuesday after a weeks
visit to relatives at Accident.
Miss Hattie Bartlett has gone to
Cumberland and Baltimore. She
will be absent about ten days.
Mr.. and Mrs. Porter, of Montezuma,
Iowa, are visiting the latter's father,
Mr.. John Harmed, west of town.
Miss Nellie ,Michaels left Oakland
Monday night for Baltimore where
she will re-enter school for short
time.
Mr.. Thomas F. Burke went to
Clarksburg, West Va, Tuesday night
to attend the races now being held
there.
For sALE:-A ladies' bicycle in the
best of repair and very cheap. APP
ply at THE REPUBLICAN for further
information.
Messrs. George Giessman and Will
Sturgiss went down to Washington
this week to be present at the Dewey
celebration.
Miss Daisy Grace, of Baltimore, an
rived here last Thursday afternoon
and will resume her position with
Connell & Crane.
Mr.. w. j. Shartzer, who is attend
ing st. Johns College at Annapolis,
has been elected captain of Co. A of
the St. Johns Cadets.
Mr.. Howard Glotfelty, of McHenry,
Garrett county, spent several days
with relatives and friends in town
this week-Lonaconing Star.
Mr.. A. K. Keck, the general mana
ger of the Preston Store Co., is lying
seriously i'll at his home suffering
with an attack of typhoid fever.
Typhoid fever is prevailing at an
alarming extent at Crellin. Bad
water and improper drainage about
the town is assigned as the cause.
The boiler to furnish steam for
heating Messrs. Offutt & Sons store
building in Oakland, was installed
Tuesday by Mr.. Samuel Lawton.
Miss Bessie Cohen, of Warrington,
West Va, who spent the summer
visiting the family of Rev. R. b.
Ward, has returned to her home.
Rev. Father Wunnenberg, the pas
tor, will conduct Mass and deliver a
sermon in the Hoyes Catholic church
on Sunday next at 1870 o'clock a. III.
Mr.. A. T. Matthews, the Railroad
street confectioner, returned Satur-
day night from weeks visit to rela-
tives and friends in Somerset county,
Pa.
Mr.. Julius Scherr and son, of Egg
lon, left Oakland Monday for Wash
ington and Baltimore. In the latter
city he will place his son In medical
school.
DIR. Benz. Ison and family, after
spending the summer in Oakland,
returned to Washington last Thurs
day where they will remain until next
spring.
Mr.. Thomas H. Bittinger, of Grants
vile, attended a meeting of the Re
publican Central Committee in Oak
land Tuesday. He returned home
yesterday.
Mr.. Max Good, of st. Louis, passed
through Oakland yesterday morning
on his way home from the Dewey
celebrations in New York and Wash
ingtOn.
Mrs. James w. Leathers returned
to her home in Oakland Saturday
evening after a months absence on
a visit to relatives and friends in and
about Pittsburgh.
Mrs. r. Harry West arrived in Oak.
land from Tecumseh, Neb., Monday
morning. Mr.. and Mrs. West will &C
to housekeeping in the Pritchard
building on Third street.
Mr. Calvin Grim of Cincinnati