The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-04-19

a good advantage just attend the
shirt waist and tailor made suit sale
at Sincell & Co.'s Special offers April
10Th, Goth and 21st.
A party consisting of Mrs. Lou
Waters, Mrs. Elizabeth limbaugh,
Mrs. Fred. A. Thayer and daughter
Rebecca, and Miss Dixie Farley left
for Washington last Thursday morn
ing to be gone a week or ten days
sightseeing.
Miss Bernadette Cunning, of Cum
berland, came up to Oakland on Mon
day last to attend the dance given
for the benefit of the Catholic church
and will remain here until some time
next week, the guest of the Misses
Stanton.
Mr.. William Miller came up to Oak
land yesterday afternoon in company
with Jacob S. Myers, ESQ.,, and left
here for indianapolis, Ind, where
he was called by telegram ANNOUNCE
| ing the sudden death of the wife of
his brother, Rev. Jacob W. Miller.
Ex-senator r. Il. Browning went
east Monday night. In Baltimore on
| Tuesday he met and conferred with
Fish Commissioner Downey relative
to the shad Matching for this season
which will soon begin. Mr. Browning
will visit Havre de Grace during his
absence from Oakland where the shad
eggs are procured.
Will Whorton, ESQ.,, purchased on
Monday fine team of heavy draft
horses from a farmer residing near
GAINESVILLE, w. Va. He will use the
animals for hauling timber for the
firm of Austin Brown & Co., who will
| begin operations at the Layton place
within short time.
William NJ. Lohr, ESQ.,, who was
elected County Treasurer last fall,
came up to Oakland on Monday and
was sworn into office by the Clerk of
the Circuit Court. Mr.. Lohr has
employed Frank o. Glotfelty as his
deputy, who has assumed the duties
of his office.
Mr.. George L. Williams, District
Passenger Agent of the Great North
ern Railway, was in Oakland Tuesday
| afternoon and spent considerable
time with THE REPUBLICAN,. Mr.
| Williams, is a gentleman of pleasant
address of fine conversational powers
and business ability. He left here
Tuesday evening for Wheeling.
Mr.. and Mrs. William s. Dunlap, of
Cumberland, arrived here Sunday
from their home, having driven to
Oakland via the National Road and
| Accident. Mrs. Dunlap will spend the
summer in Oakland with relatives,
whilst her husband will go to Cape
Nome with a party of gold seekers.
Sunday was one of the brightest
Easter days within the recollection
of many. AS a consequence the
churches were crowded at all the ser
vices. Special music was rendered
by the choirs and sermons commemo-
rating the great church festival were
preached by the ministers.
Julius G. Renninger, ESQ, who was
elected as representative of the Oak
land Council Jr. o. U. A. NJ, TO rep
| resent it at the State Council being
held in Cambridge, Md, this week,
left for the above point on Saturday
afternoon, spending Sunday en- route,
however, at his old home in Cumber-
land
Mr.. John Lee Harne is now cashier
of the First National Bank of New
Martinsville, w. Va, which opened
for business on April 9Th. Mr.. Harne
has been advancing steadily since he
left Oakland and we feel sure his
friends here will learn with a great
deal of satisfaction and pleasure the
progress he is making
The country roads have never been
known to dry up as quickly as they
have this Spring. In most of the
places going out of town they are as
smooth and hard as they are usually
by the first of June. A wheel could
be ridden in almost any direction
from town.
Billy Bowman of the staff of pitch
ers left on Monday evening for Wheel
ing where he will pitch this sum
mer. His contract does not require
him to leave here before June first
but he is going down to take part in
several exhibition games this week.
He will come back to Morgantown on
Saturday.-Morgantown Dominion.
Considerable space in THE REHUB-
LICAN this week is taken up in pub
fishing the county levy and the local
laws passed by the Legislature.
These publications, under the law,
must appear three times, and in con
sequence our columns will be crowd
ed with this matter until the first
week in May.
The wages of the Baltimore and
Ohio trackhands have been increased
to $1.25 per day and hereafter full
time will be made by them. The
wages of the track foremen have also
been increased to SAT per month.
For months past the average time
made by the men has been but
twenty days each month.
The old Matthews house on Alder
street, one of the first houses eyer
erected in Oakland, has been torn
down and in its stead a neat two
story business building will be erect
ed by A. L. Matthews, Esq, the Rail-
road street confectioner and news
dealer. Work on the construction of
the building will be commenced as
soon as the weather will permit.
County Treasurer Mahlon Glotfelty
was in Oakland last Saturday attend
ing a sale made by him for the non