The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-07-18

Miss Ethelyn Houghton, of Wash
ington, is visiting Miss Orley Dun
ham.
Mr.. Samuel &. Steyer, of near Mt.
Lake Park, was in the city to-day on
business.
DR.. s. ID. Hartman, eye, ear, nose
and throat specialist, Grafton, W. Va.
Spectacles and artificial eyes fitted.
Mrs. Kidd and daughter, Mrs. Beat
son, mother and sister of Mr.. W. G..
Kidd, are here on visit TO friends.
Mr.. W. NJ. Junkins, of near Deer
Park, passed through Oakland this
morning on his way to visit in Ohio.
Thornton Sliger, Esq, spent Sun
day in Oakland with his son, Cashier
r. E. Shger, of the First National
Bank.
Mr.. j. Frank Legge and son, of
Washington, who spent several days
here last week with the family of
Geo. W. Legge, have returned home.
Attorneys Fred. A. Thayer and E.
H. Sincell, of Oakland, and Mr. NJ. n.
Wilson, of Wilson, are on fishing
expedition up on the Dry Fork Rail
road this week.
Mr.. Austin Brown, of D. Z. Bolden
& Co., furniture dealers, spent day
or two last week in Wheeling, where
he attended a meeting of the Under
takers Association of West Virginia.
When your neighbor reads your
paper suggest to him that there is a
very much better and decenter way
for him to get the news-subscribe
for the paper himself and pay for it.
PEACHES. Dixon & Kelso having
contracted with three of the largest
growers in the East will make the
peach business speciality this season.
Peaches will commence to arrive July
II to 90. ct
Willie Halter, who was employed
some weeks as assistant baker at
the Grafton Hotel, has returned to
his home in Oakland and has posi-
ton at the Oakland Hotel.
A controversy is in progress between
Rev. H. H. Flick, of the Lutheran
church, in Manchester, Carroll coun-
ty, and his congregation. Rev. Flick
was year or two ago pastor of the
Lutheran congregations of Accident
and Friendsville.
Harper Bartlett, son of DR.. and
Mrs. E. H. Bartlett, of Oakland, who
recently returned home from Clarks-
burg, w. Va, expects to open an
Office here next week where he will
carry on the lumber business. He is
sterling young man and his friends
here hope for his success.
Mr.. Henry Sausman, of Grantsville,
Nd, spent July 4th in Salisbury. Our
friend Sausman is now owner of the
Henry Wagner farm near Grants
vile, and we are glad to know that
he is prospecting. He is first rate,
whole-souled fellow.-Salisbury Star.
Cherries are about all gone al
though there are few being brought
into market. The crop was a good
one and a great many have been
marketed in town. The raspberries
are pouring in in large quantities and
they were never of better quality
than they are this year.
In many towns and cities the horses
have been equipped with bonnets
but the horses in Oakland are receiv-
ing nothing in addition to the old
diet of CAD well applied when they
find themselves overcome by the heat
and the heavy loads with which they
have to contend.
Mr.. James o. Cleveland was taken
suddenly i'll while engaged in work at
Eglon on last Saturday morning and
had to be conveyed to his home here
where for a time it was thought his
ailment would result seriously, but
rest of few days has set him ON his
feet again. Mr.. Cleveland has two
good contracts of plastering at Eglon
which he will complete shortly.
Next week beautiful gold shield,
bearing on it's front the name of the
recipient, and on it's back the name
of the donors, will be presented to
Capt. J. NJ. Shorts, at this place,
chief detective of the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad, by his assistants,
Charles r. Lilley, H. Metz, William
Findly, S. H. Sans and G. Headly.
The chief has his Office at Fairmont,
and the above named officers do the
detective work over Baltimore and
Ohio lines between Clarksburg, Graf
ton, Belington and points east as far
as Piedmont.
At one of the farmers institutes in
Iowa, last winter, one of the speakers
said: ''As rule the farmer has no
firmer friends than the county press.
The home paper is distinctly the farm
ers' own naner- summarized. directly