The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-01-05

During December Clerk E. q.
Tower issued 26 marriage licenses.
Mr.. H. G. Sincell returned from a
business trip to Baltimore on Monday
morning.
Mr.. George M. Whitescarver, of
Grafton, was in the city yesterday on
business.
Miss Gertrude Scherr, of Keyser, is
the guest of Miss Nell Offutt on Sec
ond street.
Naylor still has some sleighs and
sleds left for sale Head quarters for
blacksmithing. 43-3t.
Ex-County Treasurer Thomas B.
Wiley, of Bittinger, was an Oakland
visitor on last Saturday.
Messrs. Ohio and Henry Barnard,
of Bloomington, were callers at this
office Yesterday morning.
The recently elected officers of Alta
Lodge, Knights of Honor, will be in
stalled into office this evening.
The Oakland public schools recon
vened Monday afternoon last with
the usual number of scholars present.
Stuart HamiIl returned to Prince
ton yesterday morning after having
spent the holidays with his parents
in Oakland.
Mrs. Alvin Getty, of Cumberland,
who visited her parents in Oakland
during the holidays, returned home
yesterday afternoon.
States Attorney Fred. A. Thayer
attended the funeral of the late
Wright Thayer at Thayerville yester-
day afternoon.
Mr.. d. Grant Smith, of this Office,
spent several days with friends at
KingwoOd last week, returning to
Oakland Sunday morning.
Mr.. Andrew E. Nelson, who spent
the holidays here has returned to
Pittsburg in which city he is attend
ing business college.
Mrs. w. W. Know and daughter
Mrs. Virginia Patterson, OF Knoxville,
Pittsburg, Pa, are the guests of Mrs.
William Brayshaw at the Rectory.
Last Friday night Miss Nell Offutt
entertained quite a number of her
friends at her home on Second street
in honor of her guest Miss Scherr, of
Keyser.
Mrs. Lou Thayer Waters, of Clarks-
burg, w. Va, whospent the holidays
with Mrs. johnson and Mr.. F. A.
Thayer in Oakland, has returned to
her home.
Mr.. a. 7. Fraley, teller at the Gar
rett County Bank, was taken ill yes
terday with the grip and is confined
to his residence on Alder street as a
consequence.
Mrs. Maria Ludlow, of st. Louis,
Mo-, spent a week with her niece, Mrs.
A. Ct. Sturgiss, in Oakland. She left
yesterday for a visit to relatives in
Washington.
Rev. William Brayshaw mashed his
foot very severely on Tuesday of this
week by a log of wood falling on it.
He is confined to his room as II result
of the injury.
Master Harlan Jones left Oakland
on Monday for Wheeling, after spend
ing the holidays here with mis- par
ents. He is student in the Linsley
Institute of Wheeling.
Mr.. Francis A. Sharpless, who was
engaged in business in Oakland few
years ago, was here yesterday on
business. Mr.. Sharpless is now trav-
cling for Il wholesale grocery firm.
Attorney Thomas j. Peddicord re-
turned to Oakland on last Saturday
morning after an absence of several
weeks in Cincinnati and Hamilton,
o., where he was engaged on legal
business.
A watch night meeting was held at
the Rectory on last Saturday night.
At the midnight hour devotional SER
vices were conducted in the chapel
adjoining the Rectory by Rev. Will
lam Brayshaw.
Miss Rose Maroney, of Oakland,
who is teaching the New Germany
school this winter, and who spent the
holidays with her parents in Oakland,
returned to New Germa Ivy Monday to
resume her duties.
On Saturday last Mr.. g. S. Hamil,
as trustee, sold the Loeb Lynn
Heights Hotel aud number of lots
adjoining that property to the Balti-
more Building and Loan Association
for the sum of $1764S.