The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1900-01-25
LOCAL AND OTHERWISE
Incidents and Events at Home and Nearby
Personal Mention. Etc.

AblOIllCN d. O' ANNAiAAAASoNA ''N0
Terra Alta yesterday on business.
Mr.. Don H. Parsons, of Keyser, was
in Oakland Sunday, the guest OF
friends.
Mr.. Charles S. Davis is spending
several days this week in Baltimore
on business.
Regular preaching service will be
held in st. Marks church Sunday
morning and evening.
Messrs. DIN F. burst and Dave
Dixon, of Homecoming, were Oakland
visitors on last Sunday.
.. Stanley Boyer, who spent a few
weeks at simpson, w. va, returned
home on Monday afternoon.
Mr.. w. Frank Keen, of Bel Air,
spent from Thursday until Monday
the guest of friends in Oakland.
Miss Marie Malley, who nursed Mrs.
DIR. King at Terra Alta during her
illness, returned to Oakland Sunday
night.
j. L. Harvey, Esq, one of the enter
prising farmers of District No. 10,
was in the city Tuesday and made
this office short visit.
Miss Ward, of near Clarksburg, who
has been in Oakland for some weeks
on visit to relatives, left this morn
ing for Cincinnati where she will visit
her brother.
Ex-Sheriff Austin Brown, who was
taken i'll at Clarksburg some weeks
ago and forced to return home, is
still quite sick and confined to his
bed. We trust he may soon recover.
The ladies will hold basket social
at the Fringer store building on Sec
ond street Saturday evening of this
week, the proceeds for the benefit of
the Presbyterian church. All are
cordially invited.
The necessity of having the streets
of Oakland either macadamized or
paved is becoming more patent every
day, especially since the warm wealh-
er of the past few days. 1t is no un-
common sight to see a team of horses
with light load stalled in the mud
and right lin the centre of town at
that.
A horse valued at 1925, the proper
ty of John A. Hughes, Esq, of near
Swan Meadows. was taken suddenly
sick in the street here on last Satur-
day, The animal suffered terribly
and on Tuesday morning died. The
veterinarian who treated the horse
pronounced its disease spinal menin-
gifts.
Miss Maggie Sarsfield who had her
arm broken some three weeks ago,
was forced to undergo very painful
operation one day this week on ac-
count of the fact that her doctor
thought at first that the arm was
simply dislocated. 1t had to be brok-
en- and set.-Terra Alta Republi-
can.
Mr.. d. B. Steward, president of the
Steward Fruit Company, of Balti-
more, spent several days last week
with Mr.. J. B. Vansant at his farm
west of Oakland. Mr.. Stewart is
becoming interested in some of the
Garrett county enterprises and may
become resident for at least por-
ton of each year.
Jerry Stanton, who has been in
Baltimore for several months past
employed by the street railway COM
pany of that city, returned to Oak
land Monday night suffering with
rheumatism in his right leg and
shoulder. He is not confined to his
bed though his condition is painful.
"a young man came into our store
: Yesterday suffering from a severe at
tack of cramp collie, writes B. F.
Hess, miller and general merchant
Dickey's Mountain, Pa. "He had
tried various home remedies without
relief. AS | had used Chamberlain
Collie, Colera and Diarrhoea Remedy
gave him dose and it soon brought
him out alright. l never saw a fel.
low so reioiced.'' Sold by Oakland
Pharmacy, Oakland, and DR.. J. w
Laughlin, Deer Park.
His Honor the Mayor has been the
butt of many jokes since he submitted
to the operation of a tonsorial artist
in having his well groomed mustashe
removed. His nearest friends hardly
knew him at first sight and it is said
his favorite horse baked with him
when he attempted to mount the an.
imal. Little children along the street
are often seen gazing after His Honor
and wondering who the strange man
is.
The Oakland Call preacher who
resigned his pastorate because his
ideas of personal liberty were not in
CONSEQUENCE with the tenets of his
church acted wisely and well. When
a preachers Christianity becomes