The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-10-11
LOCAL AND OTHERWISE

Tuesday.
Mr.. George 7. Brew returned from
Tennessee on Monday morning.
Cashier Scott T. Jones is in Cincin-
natl, o., this week on business.
If you want your pump repaired
see A. D. Naylor & Co. A large line
of new pumps always on hand.
The first frost of the season was OBJ
served in Oakland yesterday morn
ing.
Mr.. Joseph P. Helbig is having
some neat and substantial alterations
made to his home on Quality Hill.
Good flour and plenty of it at the
Felty Roller Mill. We grind every
thing in the grain line. 27-26t
Fish Commissioner w. L. Downey,
of Frederick, was the guest of Sena
tor Browning at Lake Brown a few
days recently.
Deputy Fish Commissioner Richard
7. Browning came up to Oakland
from Lake Brown yesterday and
spent several hours in Oakland.
Bert Sincell came home from near
Pittsburg on Monday evening to have
his name placed on the registration
books.
Roy Hamill returned from visit to
Blaine, w. Va, on last Saturday
night, after having spent a week in
that section on a visit to relatives and
friends.
The family of Mr.. Christian Felty
left on Tuesday morning for Councils
vile, Pa, where they will reside here
after. Mr.. Felty is engaged in that
city as salesman for the Connellsville
Grocery Company.
Republican headquarters have been
opened in the Ravenscroft building
on Second street with chairman Geo.
D. White in charge. All visiting Re-
publicans from the county are invit-
ed to call at the rooms.
Web Browning, of Roanoke, Va,
who visited relatives and friends in
Oakland and vicinity last week, re-
turned home Monday night accom-
panied by his cousin Miss Mary Mitch
ell, who will enter school at Roanoke
for the winter.
Jonas Frazee, Esq, has embarked
in fhn 20 i,nyN1n,nnnt %
Selbysport, this county. He will han
die this class of goods exclusively and
being a good business man, with many
friends throughout the community,
we have no doubt that he will
prosper.
The public schools throughout the
county will open on Monday of next
week for a term of five months.
Every boy and girl within the bor-
ders of the county should avail them
selves of obtaining an education and
have their names entered upon the
rolls of their respective schools the
first day of the session.
There ought to be lots of bidding
on the star routes from this county
The men who carry the mails should
be getting ready to bid. The depart
ment is not going to let spectators
have the routes and the carriers will
have chance to get something out
of the work and trouble that they
haye put on them.
Rev. S. M. Engle, of the Garrett
Memorial church, and Rev. r. B.
Ward, of st. Paul's NJ. E. church,
preached their farewell sermons on
Sunday night last to large congrega-
tions. Rev. Engle will devote his
time exclusively to the Piedmont and
West Virginia Junction churches.
Mr.. Ward le.yes today for Cameron,
W. Va, to which charge he was trans
ferred by the late session of the Con-
ference. Both gentlemen leave many
well wishing friends in Oakland.
Their influence for good in this COM
munity has been marked.
The farmers of Garrett county have
finished harvesting the largest and
most bountiful crops in the history
of the county. While the grass crop
in some sections was much lighter
than last year, on the average it was
good. What was lost in the hay crop,
however, was more than made up in
the corn, wheat, oats and buckwheat
yields. Potatoes have not yet all
been dug, but from reports brought
to town by our farmer friends heavy
yield in all sections is indicated. Some
claim that they will have as high as
$50 bushels to the acre. Whether or
not their expectations are to be con-
firmed remains to be seen. In any
event there is enough for home con-
sumption and to spare. A car load
or more is shipped from here nearly
every day to sections where the yield
was failure. From Swanton one
farmer has already shipped two car
loads of potatoes and has several
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