The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-07-19
LOCAL AND OTHERWISE
Incidents and Events at Home and Nearby
Personal Mention. Etc.

was in Oakland ON business Thursday
last.
Aessrs Merritt Wilson and E. j.
Hamill, both of District No. 8, were
in Oakland yesterday on business.
If your old mower or rake should
give out buy q Mccormick. They are
the best. A. d. Naylor is agent.
Hon. Merritt Wilson, of Wilson, is
exceedingly happy over the arrival of
a little son, who was born ON Satur-
day morning last.
Col. William Kilgour, of Mont
gomery county, came up to Oakland
Tuesday evening and is a guest at
the Central Hotel.
Rev. George /. Uhler, the pastor
will preach in St. Marks Ey Luther
an church Sunday morning and even
ing. A cordial welcome is extended
to all.
L. E. Friend, Esq, of Washington,
D. c., son of Rev. Fl. f. Friend, is at
Hoyes visiting relatives this week.
Mr.. Friend is one of the leading pho
tographers of the Capital City.
Mr.. and Mrs E. H. Sincell and two
sons are spending this week at Allan
tic City, hoping that the change to
sea air may be of benefit to their
youngest boy who has been sick since
early last winter.
The attention of our farmer friends
who have butter and eggs for sale
for cash is directed to the advertise
ment of p. T. Cartwright, the Noun
tain Lake Park merchant, which will
be found elsewhere in to-day's
REPUBLICAN.
Mrs. L. H. Taylor and daughter
Miss Moreno, of Washington, who
spent two or three weeks in Oakland
with relatives, left on Tuesday after
noon for Cumberland, where they
will remain u few days as the guests
of friends before returning to their
home.
An improvised ambulance passed
this Office last Thursday containing
an invalid lady swung to the top of
the vehicle in hammock. She was
taken to the depot here and placed
on board a train for the west.
Neither her name destination nor
where she came from could be
ascertained.
Among the many ministers who at
tended the camp meeting at Mountain
Lake Park last week were Rev. G. H.
Lakin, a former pastor of the Oakland
III. E. church, and Rev. s. w. Davis,
who was born and reared in this com
munity. Mr.. Lakin is still member
of the West Virginia Conference,
whilst MIR. Davis belongs to the Pitts
burg Conference.
Mr.. Henry Webers new house on
the outskirts of Oakland is being
finished very rapidly. The plasterers
begun work Monday. The house is
one of the largest and most substan-
TALLY built of any residence in this
section. 1t will be fitted with sani-
tary plumbing and a heating plant
and will contain a large number of
rooms.
John +. Gnagey, Esq, the Accident
merchant, brought to Mountain
Lake Park on Monday morning of
this week 372 pounds of Accident
creamery butter and sold it to Mr..
p. 7. Cartwright, who caters to the
wants of his customers in supplying
them nothing but the best the
market affords. Mr.. Gnagey return
ed home the same day.
The Christian Endeavor convention
which will convene at the Park
within short time, promises to be
attended by much larger crowd
than at first anticipated. Delegates
will come from the New England
and Eastern States as we'll as from
some of the Southern common
wealths. A thousand or more del
egates will attend and the meetings
promise to be of interest not only TO
the delegates but TO the public ia
general.
Amos F. Parker, of Frostburg. q
druggist, aged 35 years, died at the
Western Maryland Hospital, Cum
bertrand, on last Saturday He had
been injured the Monday preceding
by his horse running away with him
: and throwing him, as result of
which he suffered fatal injuries. Mr.
Parker spent few weeks in Oakland
during the latter part OF June and
the first of this month as a guest at
the Schley Hotel.
DR.. Charles Colardeau. son Of the
late Dir. Saint Felix Colardeau, a res
ident and the first Mayor of Oakland
many years ago, arrived in Oakland,
much to the surprise of his relatives,
on last Saturday morning, coming