The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1899-05-25
LOCAL AND OTHERWISE
Incidents and Events at Home and Nearb,
Personal Mention, Etc.


berland, was in the city yesterday on
business.
Mr.. James H. Wilson, of near
Blaine, was in the city Tuesday on
business.
Mechanics in all branches of bust
ness are kept busy in Oakland just at
the present time.
Mr.. D. P. Miller, a real estate dealer
of Cumberland was in Oakland yes
terday on business.
The steam heating plant at the
Oakland Sanitarium will be com
pleted in few days.
Justice John T. Sincell, who has
been quite i'll for a week or ten days,
is much better this morning.
Yesterday morning ground was
broken for the erection of Mr.. James
NJ. Litzinger's new building on Second
street.
Messrs. NJ. N. Wilson, Merritt Will
son and E. H. Sincell are up lin the
wilds of West Virginia this week on a
fishing trip.
Mr.. Henry A. kease and sister, of
near the Cove, were in Oakland Mon
day of this week and made this office
pleasant. visit.
Sparks show which exhibited in
Oakland on Monday afternoon and
night attracted a great number of
people to the town.
Miss Lucinda limbaugh, who has
been quite i'll for a long time with
lung and heart disease, is still in a
critical condition.
Mrs. James A. Hayden, of Noun
tain Lake Park, spent Sunday in
Oakland as the guest of Mr. and Mrs.
Austen Brown.
Mrs. b. Fraley, of Terra Alta, was
the guest of her sons, Messrs. G. A..
and A. L. Fraley in Oakland on last
Sunday and Monday.
DR.. E. H. Bartlett slipped from a
joist in the Offutt building ON Friday
evening and injured his knee and
shoulder very severely. y
Mrs. DR.. W. H. Ravenscraft left
Oakland yesterday evening for Fair
mont, West Va, where she will visit
her son Will for a short time
Mrs. G.. A. Fraley and children left
Oakland Tuesday morning for Cum
berland where they will be guests of
friends for a week or ten days.
Mr.. John E. Gnagey, of Accident, is
attending the Annual Meeting of the
German Baptist Brethren which is
being held this week at Roanoke, Va.
Miss Elsie Kennedy, who spent a
year in Oakland with her sister, Mrs.
H. c. Sincell, left for her home in
Washington on Thursday night of
last week.
John Fox, of Frederick county,
aged so years, who married a young
girl at Hagerstown last week, has
already filed a petition for absolute
divorce.
Clark Pickenpaugh, of Morgan
town, was the guest of his uncle, Col.
A. G. Sturgiss, in Oakland, a few days
last week. From here he went to
Washington.
Senator RavenscrOft came up to
Oakland from Accident Sunday even
ing and spent several days here this
week overseeing the work being done
on his new building.
Rev. John Moon was a pleasant
caller at this office on Saturday last.
We were glad to see the gentleman
out again as he has been quite sick
nearly the entire winter.
Monte Vista" the beautiful home
of Dr. q. NJ. p. King mile or two
south Of Oakland, has recently been
painted and otherwise repaired. The
Improvement is marked one.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. X. Keck, who spent
two weeks or more on a visit to rela-
tives and friends at Wilkes Barre and
other points in Pennsylvania, re-
turned to Oakland Monday morning.
Mr.. and Mrs. David Biddinger, of
Accident, Mrs. Jonas Biddinger, OF
Brookside, and Mr.. Frederick Sla-
bach, of near Eglon, were pleasant
visitors at this office yesterday morn
ing.
Mr.. B. W. Wright, the hustling
farming implement salesman, return
ed to Oakland Friday evening last
from a three weeks trip through
Pennsylvania and West Virginia
where he made a number of sales.
Mr.. William Lambie, who went to
Denver, Col, several months ago and
was employed there by railway com
pany in the capacity of machinist,
has returned here and is the guest OF
his brother-in-law, Mr. E. Nj. Spedden
For SALE.-One Eureka mower
one wagon, one Adriance binder, one
pillow, one iron shovel pillow, one wood
shovel pillow.
11-3t JOHN CASTEEL.
Mr.. Edward H. Bartlett returned
from Baltimore on Monday night II
which city he has been since last fal
conducting a pharmacy which ne
purchased at that time. He will opeI
the drug store at Mountain Lake Park
about June list.
We understand that Mrs. l.. B. G
List, who has so successfully con
Quoted the Loeb Lynn Heights Hote
at Loeb Lynn Heights for the pas
three or four years, will again open
that popular house about June lst.
G. J. Slabach, of Oakland, who en-
listed at the beginning of the war
and was assigned to duty with al
engineering CORPS doing service II