The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-04-18
LOCAL AND OTHERWISE
Incidents and Events at Home and Nearby
Personal Mention, Etc.

Peter Didtion left on Tuesday night
for his home in Wheeling.
E. w. C. Ryland, Esq, of Friends
vile, was business visitor to Oak
land Tuesday.
Miss Gertrude Sincel returned
home on Monday from Keyser, W.
Va, where she had been visiting rel
atives and friends for few days.
Miss Nell Offutt returned home
from Keyser, w. Va, on Saturday
night after having attended the Eas-
ter dance in that place which was
given ON Friday night previous.
Misses Mae and Glare Evy left on
Saturday for Baltimore, where they
will reside with their relatives, Attor-
ney j. W. Breen and wife and take a
course at Peabody. - Cumberland
Times.
Mr.. Harry A. Rasche, who the past
show season held a position with
Marston's Uncle Toms Cabin Co.,
arrived home this morning from Pitts
burg, where he had been visiting for
the past two weeks.
Ed. Wolf, who lives in the eastern
suburbs of town, while on his way
home last Friday night was held up
by four suspicious characters, who
asked him many questions about Oak
land. Two of the men carried empty
satchels.
Many parents are neglecting their
boys and the lads are going to the
penitentiary as fast as they can leg
it. Only a sudden round up will do
them any good. If this is not tried
very shortly there will be no use try
ing to do any thing as the boys will
be clear out of reach.
1t is suggested by well known
wag that if some men were muzZled
after the style of CANNES in some
places society would enjoy well de-
eel you lCoDlDC. AAN nuuCu
some men were as undesirable in a
community as a dog with hydropho-
bia.
Figures just received at this office
from the agricultural department
would indicate that there is less grain
in the hands of the farmers through
out the country than is usual at this
time. The tables give the figures for
ten years past. The prospect for good
crops in this country and Europe and
as far away as India are very good.
We are frank enough to admit, that
the rainy day skirt, from the point of
personal comfort, is the most sensible
fad ever decreed by dame Fashion,
but we must insist that those skirts
are not becoming to the wearers, nor
are they a thing Of beauty, and we
trust the attempt will not be made to
make them a joy forever.
Dr. Henry w. McComas, after an
absence OF more than a months trip
through the South and visit to the
Bahama Islands, returned to Oak
land on Monday to remain during the
summer with perhaps short intervals
of absence on professional business to
the east. The Doctor will at once re-
sumo his practice here which is of it.
self very large, keeping him busy al
most night and day.
All successful business men agree
that good advertising pays. Good
advertising means interesting an
nouncements placed in newspapers
which are read by large proportion
of the people. Probably most ex-
perienced advertisers would say that
to make the merits of single COM
modify the feature of an lad" is the
most direct and effective way of get
ting peoples attention fixed on an
establishment.
Frank Browning, youngest son of
mr.. and Mrs. Motley Browning of
Terra Alta, was united in marriage
yesterday Wednesday, at Oakland,
Md, to Miss Lucy Coddington, a
charming and popular young lady of
8 that place. The bridal pair came to
Terra Alta ON the evening train and
were royalty entertained at the home
of the groom. They will reside near
Terra Alta, on the pretty farm lately
owned by David Holland, which is a
wedding present from the grooms
father.-Terra Alta corr. Kingwood
Journal.
Clarksburg seems to be having
troubles of her own. The last issue
of the Telegram breaks forth as fol
lows: Thieves, thugs, cheap gam
blers. fiim-flammers and chang
ers may well take heed and cease ply
ing their art in this city. The jury
verdict in the Dan Scott case, which
imposed the maximum fine as well as
the maximum term of imprisonment
is significant index to the severity
and determination of the future.
The people propose to redeem the
fair name of Clarksburg and the pro-
facciaVol c xul,o do not xuiOI RI r.tY y, =,