The Republican., 1900-12-06
LOCAL AND OTHERWISE

pleasure trip.
Miss Alice Kepner returned last
Saturday from visit to friends in
Pennsylvania.
Services will be held in st. Marks
church Sunday morning and evening
at the usual hours
Webster Browning, of Roanoke,
Va, was here at the funeral of his
grandmother, Mrs. Hamill.
Mrs. w. H. Spedden, of Fairmont,
arrived in Oakland yesterday after
noon to visit her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs, Samuel E. Boyer.
The annual meeting of the Farmers
Union Association and Fire Insurance
Company will be held on Dec. Goth,
for the purpose of electing officers.
County Examiner Ed A. Browning
and School Commissioner NJ. r. Ham
ill left for Baltimore last night to at
tend meeting of the School Com
missioners of the State which will be
held in that city to-day.
DIS. H. III. Kemp, of Bloomington,
and j. W. Laughlin, of Deer Park, the
board of pension examiners, held
meeting here yesterday and examined
a number of old soldiers who are ap-
plicants for pensions.
Bring your buckwheat. wheat, rye,
oats and corn, if you want cash or
trade. The Felty Roller Mill, Oak
land, Md. 27-26t
Miss Laura Harne, who visited Mr..
and Mrs. j. Lee Harne in New Mar
tinsville, w. Va, for several weeks,
returned to Oakland last Friday af-
ternoon.
The new iron gratings for the coun-
ters of the First National Bank have
been put up and makes a decided i'm
provement in the appearance of the
interior of the building.
The Offutt mine is being worked to
its full capacity now. There are ten
or dozen miners at work and more
will be added as fast as room for them
in the mine can be secured. Mr.. Of
futt expects to operate the mine on
an extensive scale uling next sum
mer and winter.
Considerable uneasiness is being
felt in the vicinity of Piedmont owing
to case of small pox discovered there
some days ago. The person affected
mingled freely with his friends for
several days after the disease had be-
come noticeable but the physician in
charge was unable to determine the
nature of the disease.
The drilling machine on the Manor
a few miles west of town has finished
a hole $50 feet deep. The well was
put down to test the mineral bearing
qualities of the land but whether
anything of Importance has been dis
covered cannot be a3certained, the
matter being kept quiet by the men
who were engaged in drilling. The
machine will be moved out next week.
The high water of the past week or
two have enabled numbering compa-
nies in this county to get to their
mills large lots of logs cut during the
past summer and fall. The river at
Crellin and also at the Offutt mill
Of tnxun ie f,,1l fro,,, ha IL +o no N L
and for considerable distance up
the stream. Sufficient logs were run
down to keep the mills in operation
during the rest of the winter.
Mr.. William A. Smith, merchant of
Hoyes, was in Oakland last Saturday
on business connected with the eX-
tension of the telephone line to Deer
Park. The stock has all been sub
scribed and the work will be com
menced as soon as practicable. This
will give the patrons of the line com
munication with nearly every town
in the county.
Mr.. Elias Merrill, of Garrett county,
Md, was in town last Friday show
ing some fine ore specimens from the
Garrett county silver mines. The
specimens were rich in silver and
lead, and also contained some gold.
The assay of theore is very satisfac-
tory, said Mr.. Merrill, and he says the
mine is being worked and promises
rich returns.-Salisbury Star.
The bids for star routes in this
county will be received December 10
and people who are interested in the
matter should send in their bids.
The old system of having contractor
take all of the money and sub-let the
contract to local man for little OF
nothing is to be knocked out by the
department. The man who takes the
contract will do the work and he will
get the money. There is no reason
why the contracts should not be taken
at their real value instead of one
fourth or less of what they are worth.
Attention is called to the advertise
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