The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-01-26


Second street, facing Alder street.
The building will be brick veneer,
three stories high and will have all
modern conveniences.
Mr.. F. A. Hustled, superintendent
of the Baltimore and Ohio, has issued
orders to trainmen not to run at a
speed exceeding ten miles an hour
while passing through Oakland. This
order was issued at the request of
Mayor Jamison who complained at
the high speed made by trains while
passing through the corporate limits.
Messrs. NJ. Maroney & Sons, who
recently leased a parcel of ground
from Mr. John NJ. Davis fronting on
Green street, are making preparations
to begin the erection of their livery
stable. The lumber for the building
has been ordered and as soon as it is
received and the weather will permit
the work will be rapidly pushed to
completion.
Last Wednesday night the pipe
supplying water to the boiler at the
SchIey House was either left open or
opened by some evil disposed person
with the result that it was drained of
water and the boiler seriously dam
aged. Until repairs were made the
building was without heat. Satur-
day night, however, all repairs had
been made and the building heated
as before,
Miss Molle Hamill, one of the
assistant teachers in the Oakland
public schools, was taken sick with
diphtheria on Friday last and is con-
fined to her bed with the disease.
Miss Hamill's room at the school
building was thoroughly fumigated
on Saturday and on Tuesday lessons
were resumed in her department with
Mr. f. j. Fringer in charge.
An agreement has been entered into
between those owning property facing
the tracks of the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad company and that corpora
ton whereby the fence erected after
the fire of last July will be torn down.
The property owners agree to pay
the railroad company the sum of So
yearly for the privilege of securing an
outlet on Railroad street.
The sudden and apparently uneX-
pected change in the weather reminds
us that the weather man has been
very successful in his prophecies re-
Gently. 1t is fact that eighty eight
per cent.of the predictions made come
true. The unthinking are prone to
scott at the service and intimate that
it is not at ali reliable but if one will
govern himself by the forecasts he
will get there oftener than he will get
left.
On Monday we had pleasant visits
from Massrs. Warner 7. Harvey,
Daniel w. Wilson, Merritt Wilson and
j. NJ. Conneway, of Wilson; VIM. Nc
Culloh Brown, of Bayard; H. U. Mill
er and W. E. Harvey, Of Gortner;
William Englehart and Charles G.
Speicher, of Accident, and d. D.
Paugh, of Deer Park, all of whom
were in Oakland attending the SEES
sions of the Farmers Institute held
here that day.
Mr.. E. NJ. Spedden and a number
of men are at Crellin where they
have been employed for some days
past building new office for the
Preston Lumber Company. We I'M
derstand that the mills at Crellin are
to be closed down within a week or
ten days in order that the buildings
and machinery may be repaired and
put in tirst-class condition for the
work of next summer which promis-
es to be quite heavy.
EX-Sheriff Austin Brown recently
purchased the Pennington property
on Second street which had been oc-
cupied by Mrs. Mollie Bell for a num-
Der of years and will at once put the
building in thorough repair by re-
plastering, rerooting and weather.
boarding it. AS soon as the repairs
are made Mr.. Brown will move his
family into it from the old CONNER
cial Hotel which he has been oc-
cupying for a year or more.
The stockholders of the proposed
telephone line running from Acct
dent and Friendsville Gi0 Hoyes to
Oakland, held meeting on last Fri
day night at Hoyes and elected Mr..
VIM. a. Smith president. Mr.. Sam
uel LawtOn, of Oakland, was made
one of the directors. Specifications
are now being prepared and bids will
be invited shortly for the erection of
the poles and furnishing the wire,
phones, etc.
The Postal Cable-Telegraph Com
pany, now engaged in strlnging wire