The Republican., 1900-08-23

Incidents and Events at Home and Nearby
Personal Mention. Etc.

Smith, of Hoyes, was here Saturday
on business.
Ferdinand Williams, Esq, of Gun
berland, was in Oakland last Satur-
day oD professional business.
Elliot G. Harvey, Esq, of near Cor
mania, was in Oakland last Thursday
and made this office pleasant visit.
If you want your pump repaired
see A. d. Naylor & Co. A large line
of new pumps always on hand.
Attorney Julius c. Renninger went
up to Rowlesburg last Saturday
where he was engaged in trying a
ease before justice.
A test is to be made of the validity
the city ordinance in Cumberland re-
quiring country wagons bringing in
produce to be licensed.
The Board of Election Supervisors
will meet at their Office in Oakland
on Saturday of this week when cleo
tion officials will be appointed to
serve for the term of one year.
Monday the engine drawing the
west bound way freight jumped the
track at the Park. Some damage
was done to the rails and ties and
traffic interrupted for short time.
The First Regiment, West
Virginia National Guard, went
into camp for five days at Keyser
Monday. The camp is on the Pied
mont road, four miles from Pied
mont.
f. N. Norman g. Co., Elk Garden.
West Va, are giving in trade 30 cents
per gallon for huckleberries; 90 cents
per pound for fresh country butter;
16 cents per dozen for fresh eggs.
Plums, damsons, pears at market
price. Prime peaches, 81 per bushel.
The jury sitting at Hagerstown to
try Attorney Adam S. Garis, charged
with subornation of jury, were un-
able to agree and have been discharg-
ed. They were out twenty-six hours,
and nineteen hours without food.
A dance was given at the Oakland
last Tuesday night which was attend
ed by a great many ofOakland's s young
people as well as quite number from
Mountain Lake Park and other towns
adjacent to Oakland.
Rev. Hanson B. Friend, of near
Deer Park, was visitor to Oakland
Monday morning. Mr.. Friend is just
recovering from a severe attack of
illness with which he has been suffer
ing for some time.
We have received from Mr.. ID.
Grant Smith blotter announcing
his purchase of a job printing plant
in Grafton, w. Va. In his new en-
terprise he has no better well wishers
for success than the whole REPUBLI-
GAN force, the devil and editor includ-
ed.
Ex-Sheriff Charles Wegman, now
of the Baltimore police force, came
up to Oakland Saturday afternoon
and spent few hours here with his
he went to his old home in Grants
vile to spend his vacation of sixteen
days.
Bud Bolden and his aged father,
Mr.. Chas. w. Bolden, returned from
Meyersdale, Pa, on Saturday after
noon last. The elder had been on a
visit to relatives in the thriving com
mercial city of Somerset county.
Bud is engaged at his trade and
will return this week.
Rev. J. NJ. Yingling, pastor of the
Bedford street Methodist church at
Cumberland, Md, says: ut affords
me much pleasure to recommend
Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera and
Diarrhoea Remedy. have used it
and know others who have done so.
| have never known it to fail. 1t is
a sure cure when taken in time For
sale by Oakland Pharmacy, Oakland,
and J. w. Laughlin, Deer Park.
The mill of the Cumberland and
Potomac Cement Company at Pinto,
Allegany county, was destroyed by
fire early Saturday morning. Some
outbuildings were burned and the
valuable machinery of the plant was
complete wreck The loss was
about $50, 900, nearly all of which is
covered by insurance.
\ consignment of logs from Califor-
mia, destined to points in Ireland,
passed through here. There were
only four of them, but it took three
cars to haul them just the same. One
of the logs was 1913 feet long, by feet
at the butt and 30 inches at the top.
The railroad boys said it was the
north pole on wheels"
A meeting of the Republican leaders
of West Virginia, at. (which were pres
ent Senator Elkins, Congressman
Dayton, Gen. A. c. Scherr and others
was held at the residence of the Hon.
Thomas +. Davis at the Park on last