The Republican., 1900-11-15
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will be held in st. Marks church
Sunday.
Mr.. Thomas B. Wiley, ex-Treasurer
of Garrett county, was in Oakland on
business Tuesday.
Coke ovens will be built at Barton
and tests made from the various
veins of the Georges Creek region.
Mrs. George l. Uhler, who was in
Baltimore to receive treatment at
Johns Hopkins Hospital, returned to
Oakland last Saturday morning.
The acoustics of the new court
house at Cumberland have been i'm
proved by the Introduction of a false
ceiling in the courthouse.
Mr.. and Mrs Harmon Hesen, of
Martinsburg, W. Va, attended the
funeral of the formers grandmother,
Mrs. Craver, in Oakland on Tuesday.
All members of Oakland Lodge, A.
F. Il A. NJ, are requested TO meet on
Thursday night, the 22nd inst, as
business of Importance is to be
transacted.
DRESSED TURkEYS.-DiXon &
Kelso want 10000 lbs. FAT dry picked
turkeys with head and feet on and
entrails in (craws must be empty, de-
livered Nov. % to %. A big car feed
q n OF in 70
buckwheat -four.
Some of that excess temperature
will now be wiped off the slate.
There is plenty on it and there will
have to be some very cool weather
before the record is brought down to
anything like reason.
A stranger III a town always ex-
poets its citizens to first show dis
position to be friendly. Meyer Judge
a new conner until you have shown
him this respect. You will perhaps
never find out his true and social
qualities until you meet him half
way.
The snow storm which set in on
last Thursday extended oyer Friday.
In some sections of the county,
notably in the vicinity of Bittinger,
drifts FIVE to six feet high formed in
the roads and made travel almost i'm
possible. About Oakland the fall
was heavy but the wind being lighter
drifts cid not form so as to impede
traffic on the main roads.
Mr.. William Weber on Tuesday
night left for New York City, taking
with him large collection of chrys-
authemums which will be exhibited
at the flower show now being held in
that city. At the show in Chicago
last week Mr.. H. Weber, Sr., exhib-
tied collection of chrysanthemums
and carried off a number of prizes in
consequence.
The roads are getting bad and they
will probably not be good again this
winter. They will be impossible
mudholes until spring comes to the
rescue. Until we learn to build roads
right and to keep them up right there
is no use of expecting anything but
mud holes. Some day we will proba-
bly, wake up to the fact that thou
sands of dollars are being wasted and
no good whatever derived from the
way that our roads are built.
Passenger train No 4 from the west,
due at Oakland at 1249 a. m, side
wiped her helping engine at Terra
Alta Tuesday night, the latter not
being clear of the crossing. The
engine of the passenger train was
disabled, the tender overturned and
the postal car slightly damaged, but
no one was injured. No. was in
consequence several hours late.
The chestnut crop, which has al
ways been a source of revenue to the
people of the mountain districts, is
largely a failure this year Many
assign as cause the continued rainy
weather during the early part of the
summer, while others are equally as
positive that the failure is entirely
due to the dry weather during the
latter part of the summer. Squirrels
are comparatively scarce, as a result
of the failure of the chestnut crop.
Rev. and Mrs. VIM. H. Osmond left
town Monday, the former to attend a
convocation of the archdeaconrY OF
Western Maryland at Cumberland,
and the latter to visit her family in
Baltimore. Mr.. Osmond is commits
stoned by the Vestry of st. Matthews
church and the Oakland Club to in
vite the convocation to meet in this
town next June. Mr.. Osmond will
return in about two weeks and Mrs
Osmond in two months.
The many friends of Mr.. p. E.
Finzel, of this county, will learn with
regret that he lies dangerously i'll
with typhoid fever at the residence
| of Col. John r. Ousler at Washing