The Republican., 1901-09-26

ring candidate.
Wells are going dry in Oakland on
account of the prolonged drouth.
Rev. J. H. Enlow. of Rowlesburg,
W. Va, was an Oakland visitor on
Monday.
Miss Stella Andrews, of Cumberland,
was visiting her parents near Oakland
a couple of days last week.
Mrs. E. f. Flowers and children are
visiting in and near Terra Alta this
week
A special issue of postage stamps
commendatory of the life of President
Mckinley is under contemplation.
Mr., James A. Sincell spent Sunday
last in Eglon, West Va, the guest of
Mr. and Mrs. Louis Bush.
Mrs. Jos. NJ. Conneway, of District
No. s, who suffered a severe illness of
typhoid fever, was in Oakland day
or two this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. b. H. Sincell are in
Baltimore this week. They may visit
Buffalo and Niagara Falls before
their return to Oakland.
Harry Flowers, of Mountain Lake
Park, has entered this office as an ap-
prentice in the ''art preservative of
arts"
The law making it a misdemeanor
to beat board bill is a good one. 1t
would be good idea to include non
paying newspaper subscribers.
Miss Anna McQuay, of Mountain
Lake Park, left yesterday morning
for Baltimore, where she will take
course in music at the Peabody In
stitute.
1t is said that turkeys will be rather
expensive this fall as they are not so
numerous as usual The exceedingly
wet weather of the early summer was
fatal to the young birds and thous-
ands of them died from its effects.
Have you a sense of fullness in the
region of your stomach after eating?
If so you will be benefited by using
Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver
Tablets. They also cure belching and
sour stomach. They regulate the
bowels too. Price. 25 cents. Sold by
all druggists.
The man who can do just one thing
and does it is greater than he who can
do dozen things and does not. For
tune is very like individuals in some
respects. If we are persistent she
sometimes gives us all we ask just to
be rid of our importuning
Howard w. Smouse and wife. of
Fairmont, who spent few weeks at
Mountain Lake Park where Mrs.
Smouse was recuperating after an at
tack of typhoid fever, left on Tues
day for their home, driving overland
to their destination.
Engine No. 1900, drawing train No.
12, on Thursday night last broke one
of the under slides supporting the
piston rod when nearing Oakland.
Here the disabled portions of the
machine were disconnected and after
an hours delay the train went on
east.
The West Virginia Central & Pitts
burg Railway will sell Excursion Tick
cts from all stations on its line to Ell
KINS, W. Va, on Oct. 2, and 4,
good for return trip until October 5th,
1901, inclusive, at ONE FARE for
round trip. ACCOUNT of Fair and
Races to be held at ELKINS.
1t is announced that Rev. S. X.
Arbuthnot, who gained great promin-
ence as Chaplain of the 1st Volunteer
Regiment of West Virginia in the late
war with Spain, and who has resided
at Parkersburg for year past, will
take regular pastorate charge at the
approaching session of the West Vir-
ginia Conference of the NJ. E. church.
The work on the new Catholic
church is being pushed along pretty
lively now. A new foreman has been
put in charge. A shed has been erec-
ted in the street under which the
stone cutters work and are thus pro-
tected from the weather. The lines
of the building are coming out promi-
nently and when completed the struc-
ture will be quite an ornament to the
community.
An exchange tells of a robust liar
who is growing stouter every day in
that direction. He let loose a story
of a man who tried to kill chinch
bug. He fed him poison, cracked
him in the doors and froze him in ice.
The bug always came up smiling a
tiendish smile and looking at the man
with a sardonic eye. Finally he car
ried the bug to foundry and dropped
it into ladle of melted iron. Fifteen
years afterward his wife broke skill
let she had been using for some years
and that chinch bug dropped out and
asked the nearest road to a cornfield.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred II. Turner, of
Honolulu, H. L., after having visited