The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-06-22

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goods, consisting of ribbons, hats,
trimmed and untrimIned, feathers,
etc, at cost, the sale to begin on July
LIST. 1J-1t
Miss Madge Neitch, of Hyattsville,
Nd, is in Oakland spending the sum
mer with the family of DR.. e. X.
GoldsbOrough. Miss Veitch is II
daughter of the late Col. John w.
Veitch.
EX-COunty Commissioner Isaac w.
Alternately OF District No. s, was in
the city Monday having some repairs
made to the road machine which he
has been operating in the neighbor-
hood of Gortner.
School Examiner u. q. Palmer re-
turned from Grantsville on Saturday
morning where he conducted a
teachers examination Friday. The
number examined numbered 10 in
Guiding ladies and gentlemen.
We were in error last week in sta
ting that Mrs. j. Lee McComas had
arrived home on last Wednesday
night although it was her intention
to do SO but her sister in Baltimore
was taken suddenly i'll and her re-
turn here was deferred until last
night.
Jovial Will \. Smith, No Is repre-
sentative on the School Board, was a
visitor to Oakland on Tuesday. From
here he went to Deer Park for the
purpose of working up an interest in
telephone line from that place to
connect with the Garrett County
Telephone Co. : lines.
Attorney General George r. Gather
will accompany Mr.. w. McCulIoh
urday to Fairfax Stone where all in
ney General of the work done by the
surveying corps i'll the disputed
boundary line survey.
Rev. John Thompson. the beloved
old man of Philadelphia who has
spent numerous years at Mountain
Lake Park where he has conducted
the camp meetings, arrived at the
above place on Monday evening very
feeble in strength but his friends hope
that the invigorating air of the noun
tains will restore his usual vitality.
III - Vii IL INilblutll SullcItllt ii SIEONt
of paralysis few days ago and her
condition on Tuesday night was so
alarming that her life was despaired
of and in consequence her son Perry.
of the Cumberland HDdfDeHdeHt, was
telegraphed for he arriving here yes
terday morning on train No. :. Mrs.
kimmells condition this morning is
somewhat improved.
Charles Fl. Marks, while acting in
the capacity of nurse at the Second
Division Hospital of the Fifth Army
Corps at Santiago de Cuba, used a
few bottles Of Chamberlain Collie,
Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy for
dIarrhOea and found it to work like
charm. For sale by Oakland Phar-
macy, Oakland, and J. w. Laughlin.
Deer Park.
. Mr.. Elijah Kemp, Of Bloomington,
Md. was i'll our city, Saturday. Mr..
Mr.. William Rhodes, of the II mile
grade, was II visitor to Piedmont.
Saturday. The enterprising town OF
Oakland, Nd, is preparing to illus
trate. decorate, illuminate and cele-
brate the glorious Fourth of July
Piedmont Independent.
Judge Boyd, who with Judge Sloan
spent last week holding an adjourned
term of court at Oakland, returned
Saturday evening and will go to An
napOlis this morning. The Court of
Appeals meets tomorrow for the pur
pose of consultation and handing
down opinions in the cases argued at
the April term of that cOurt.-Cum-
berland News.
A boy named Schnops, who lives
with his parents on the Jamison farm
opposite Mountain Lake Park, was
bitten by a dog on Monday. The
animal was thought to be mad and
was later shot. So far nothing has
developed by the injured boy tend
ing to show that the dog had the
rabies.
4 meeting of the creditors of Mat
thew H. Dewitt, of Sang Run, who
went into voluntary bankruptcy, was
held at the Office of Attorney Julius
G. Renninger in Oakland on last Sat
urday at which time Mr.. Renninger
was chosen as permanent trusl ee.
The schedule of debts owed by the
bankrupt amounted to about 81, 1000
with no assets.
A man without character or reputa-
ton is a dangerous man. The proba
bility is he has respect neither for
himself or anyone else. He is I'M
worthy of confidence and a foe to
society. He has nothing to lose in
lending himself to a dishonorable act
or effort to injure someone else. Look
upon him pretty much as you would
Il bad case of smallpox" Stay out
of his company.
An editor told his compositor that
fiat and level were synonymous words.
One day he had occasion to speak of
a townsman as q level headed man.
The word "level'' had too many let
tiers for the line of type in which it
was to appear. The printer bearing
in mind the employers injunction,
substituted flat" 1t required a
personal apology and a long expla-
nation to save the editor from assault
and libel suit.
Last Friday government detective
and revenue officer came to Grafton
and went to s. W. Joyces' wholesale
beer establishment and demanded
him to show his books, from which
they ascertained that nearly all the
saloon keepers had been wholesaling