The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-09-27
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ualn Lake FarK, was business YlSl-
tor to Oakland yesterday.
Henry Scblossnagle, Esq, of Acct
dent, was in Oakland day or two
this week on business.
If you want your pump repaired
of new pumps always on hand.
Harper Bartlett has been housed up
for several days with a severe cold.
His condition to-day is greatly i'm
proved.
No Maude, dear, when a man
boasts that he's son of the soil it
isn't equivalent to saying that his
fathers name is mud.
Web Browning, of Roanoke, Va,
arrived in Oakland yesterday after
noon to visit his grandmother, Mrs.
Patrick Hamill, for few days.
FARMERS, Dixon & Kelso will pay
40 cents, cash, for potatoes. Bring
them in right out of your patch while
the roads are good. Large lots of
peaches for sale daily. 30 2t*
Revs. L. w. Roberts and R. B.
Ward went out to Clarksburg this
week to attend the annual conference
of their church which begun its ses-
sions yesterday.
Mrs. Kate 7. Crane and Miss Ellen
Cornell, who spent two weeks in
Baltimore, selecting fall millinery
goods, returned to Oakland Monday
evening of this week.
Connell g. Crane have just returned
from eastern cities with full line of
the latest millinery, which is now
open and ready for the public. A
first-class milliner will do the trim
ming as heretofore and is guaranteed
to please the most fastidious. 1T
Communion services will be held in
st. Marks Ev. Lutheran church on
Sunday morning at 1890 o'clock; pre-
paratory services on Saturday even
ing at 7.3O. Regular preaching SER
vice will be held Sunday evening at
7.30. A cordial welcome to all.
Monday of this week was a typical
mountain autumn day. The morn
ing air was bracing enough to remind
one that some frost was about. To
ward noon the sun had warmed
things up considerably and by three
o'clock in the afternoon the mercury
had reached several degrees above
20.
Postmaster Jarboe has been fur
nished with a notice that bids will be
received by the Postoffice Depart
ment for the carrying of mails over
the several star routes for the next
four years. The contractor must
live upon or near the routes so that
his personal supervision may be
given the matter.
The editor of the Carleton (Neb.)
Leader evidently hasn't got much
faith in prayer. Last week the wick
ed fellow got off the following in his
paper: 1.-The damphools are not all
dead yet. Some time ago some fool
female in Indiana concluded to start
prayer chain for the defeat of
President Mckinley. Now as an off
set, a similar chain is being started to
pray for the success of Mckinley.
These fool women had better go to
raising boys to carry out their ideas"
Prof. ]. S. Gnegy, of this county,
returned to Oakland from Nome,
Alaska, on last Saturday morning,
having left the gold fields on Septem-
Der list, his return home being
fastened by an accident which befel
him some weeks previous, the heavy
iron pipe connecting the pump with
the sluice box having fallen upon his
foot and mashed it very painfully.
Mr.. Gnegy reports the other members
of the company as faring very well,
with prospects for goodly yield of
gold before them.
Rev. S. NJ. Engle, who has been
pastor of the Garrett Memorial
church ia Oakland for the past
several years, has rendered his resig-
nation and will preach his farewell
sermon on Sunday, October 18th. At
congregational meeting held in the
church on Sunday evening last the
resignation of Mr.. Engle was with
regret accepted. Hereafter he will
give his entire time to the Piedmont
CIV. Va.) congregation he having
been pastor there as well as in Oak
land for some years. Mr.. Engle's
many friends in all the churches of
Oakland will regret to learn of his
severance with the church here.
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