The Republican., 1899-07-20

Qellilpue SuDSCTlDeT Sdlu n6 WOui0
pay Saturday if he lived. He's dead.
Another said: I'll see you tomorrow.
He's blind. Still another said: l hope
to pay You this week or 60 to hades.
He's gone.
The new telephone line being con-
structed from Grantsville to Bittinger
is completed to Bevansville. three
miles north of Bittinger. The line
will be completed this week to the
latter town, when connection will be
made with the line recently built to
that point from Accident.
The excursion on last Sunday from
Wheeling and intermediate points
to Oakland was not patronized very
largely. The eight cars composing
the train brought about three hun
dred and fifty excursionists. Another
excursion from Parkersburg will be
run by the railroad company to Oak
land next Sunday.
Plenty of green apples are coming
into town and are selling at prices
that are not very high considering
the prophesies that have been made
of the failure of the crop. There will
be plenty of apples before the season
is over, but in some localities they
will be scarce.
The brick to be used for the paving
of Alder street has been utilized by
the property owners along that thor
oughfare to take the place of the
board walks torn up some days ago
by the contractor and is quite an i'm
provement over the slippery mud
which has been in evidence in that
section OF town for some time past.
Fred. Allen, of Grafton, who has
been engaged III Oakland for some
months past painting, fell from the
roof of Mr.. William Groves residence
Tuesday afternoon and broke his
right leg just above the ankle. He
was taken to McComas' Sanitarium
where the fracture was reduced. We
trust that he will soon recover and be
able to return to his work.
Huckleberries have been on the
market for several days, and have
been selling at thirty-fve cents per
gallon. They seldom get below %
cents. The crop is unusually early
and large this season, but the rains
we are now having are hard on them
and the price may not come down so
very much if the crop is injured.
The merchant whose place OF bus
mess is talked about is on the straight
road to success. 1t should therefore
be the constant aim of the aspiring
tradesman to attract public attention
to his establishment. To this end the
only really effective agency is adver-
tising in the shape of interesting
business announcements in a news
paper which has secured the public
confidence.
| Patrick Cline, whose illness was
noted in these columns last week, died
at the Loch Lynn Heights Hotel last
Thursday morning and was buried on
Friday nmorning from st. Peters
Catholic Church, Rev. Father Wun-
nenberg officiating. The cause OF
| death was attributed to an overdose
of laudanum
Messrs. Sam Cohen and Abe Rau
returned to Oakland from Pittsburg
where they have been for a year Oh
more, and opened a tailoring estab
lishment in the Nelson building op-
posite the postoffice under the name
of the Oakland Tailoring Company
They will be here permanently and
will give special attention to dyeing,
cleaning, etc, besides conducting a
general tailoring business.
WANTED.-One hundred and fifty
men for railroad grading, bark peel
ing, and general woods work. Also
twenty-five good teamsters.
| PRESTON LUMBER Il Coal Co.,
Mr.. D. Z. Offutt has had number o
men at work for week or more lay
ing water pipes to connect his house
and new store building with large
tank he proposes to erect at the elec
trio plant. Along the streets where
the pipe has been laid provision has
been made to tap it at different
places and put in fire plugs should il
| be required at a later day either
by the corporation authorities OF
individuals.
MIR. Gus A. Bolden, the owner
offers the plant, good will, subscrip
ton books, ETC., of the Preston Re
publican at a very low figure ant
upon easy terms. Mr.. Bolden deserve,
great credit for surmounting tn,
many obstacles which have loomeC
mp in his journalistic path since ht