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

day afternoon.
Will A. Sturgiss went over to Nor
gantown Tuesday morning to visit
relatives for few days.
Last Sunday was one of the warm
est days experienced in this section
for several weeks, the mercury stand
ing at rs nearly all day.
Preaching services will be conduct
ed in st. Marks Ev. Lutheran church
in Oakland at the usual hours Sun
day morning and evening.
Rev. A. Mick, the recently appoint
ed Methodist preacher for Oakland,
will deliver his initial sermon in st.
Pauls church Sunday morning.
Prof. Calvin Cuppett will conduct
a singing school at Hoyes on Sunday,
Oct. 14th. The classes of Flatwoods,
Elder, Thayerville, Bray and Hoyes
will be present and join in the exer-
cises.
Miss Ella Ison, daughter of DR.. and
Mrs. Benz. Ison, went out to Parkers-
burg, w. Va, yesterday afternoon to
receive medical treatment by a spec
ialist. Miss Ison has been in extreme
ly poor health for number of months.
The Weather Bureau at Washing
ton will on Oct. 18th resume tele-
graphic reports of the conditions of
weather which will be bulletined at
the Oakland Pharmacy as was done
prior to the discontinuance of the
service.
The Sunday School Convention
held at Loeb Lynn U. B. church Tues
day and yesterday was well attended
by Sunday school workers from vari-
GUS sections of the county. The ses-
sions were very interesting and were
a source of pleasure and profit to
those attending.
Thomas S. Martin, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Thomas Martin, of Oakland,
left here on Tuesday morning for
Pittsburgh. After visiting in that
city for day or two he will go to
Toronto, Canada, to take a three
months course in veterinary den
tistry.
A large crowd of Oakland people
left for Pittsburgh Tuesday morning,
the Baltimore and Ohio having run a
cheap excursion that day to the
aboYe city. The rate from Oakland
for the round trip was only 1926,
which included one admission to the
exposition now being held there.
DR.. J. Lee McComas is having his
office adjoining the Commercial Ho-
tel repaired and will again enter upon
the active practice of his profession
within short time This eminent
physician has hundreds of friends and
patrons who will be glad to learn of
his determination to take up his pro-
fession again and thus relieve the
OOully otIlL1ClllS vi ludAhiAu.
The drouth in this section is becom-
ing alarming. Numerous wells in
town haye been completely dried up
whilst the streams are so low and
consequently so sluggish that the
beds are barely covered. If this con-
dition of things continue for much
longer period sickness will be the re-
suit. Lime used with an unsparing
hand about all cess pools, sinks, ETC.,
will be beneficial.
Richard Cornell and sister, Miss
Ellen, have purchased the furniture
and fixings of the Terra Alta Hotel,
corner Washington and Main streets,
and the former will take charge of
this well-known hotel at an early
date. Mr.. Forward, who conducted
this hotel for a couple of years past,
will go.to Camden-on-G auley, where
he has secured the management of
the large B. q o. hotel.-Terra Alta
corr. Kingwood Journal.
The mountains are now blooming
forth in all the glory of their autumn
dress, and the woods are a mingling
of brightest colors. October is the
most beautiful and most interesting
month of the year, in many ways,
and, although it precedes hard, cold
winter, it is welcomed by hundreds
who consider fall the choice season of
the year. A few of our city guests
still remain with us, but like the
swallows they are taking up the
homeward march, and the few who
yet remain do so to get the full bene-
fit of October air.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
has had so much trouble on the II
mile grade, caused by freight engines
failing for steam and OBTAINING west
bound passenger trains, that it has
been decided to lay a third track
from Swanton to Altamont, a dis.
lance of nine miles, so the freight
trains west will have a track of theil
own and thus avoid OBTAINING passen