The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-05-09


Monday morning from trip to Balti-
more.
DIR. 5. Nj. Hardman, eye, ear, nose
and throat specialist, Grafton, w. Va.
Spectacles and artificial eyes fitted.
Supervisors of Elections C. E. Eli
thorp, of Bittinger, was in town a day
or two this week ON business.
Attorney Gilmor S. Hamill return
ed yesterday afternoon from bust
ness trip east.
The bountiful rain last night re-
freshed growing vegetation and set
tied the dust.
Mr.. and Mrs. Howard Smouse, of
Fairmont, spent Sunday in Oakland
with friends.
Rev. George l. Uhler, the pastor,
will preach in the Lutheran church
here Sunday morning and evening.
Mrs. George A. Walls and Mrs. DIR.
Showalter, of Kingwood, were here
Monday evening on their way east.
Commander r. NJ. q. Brown. of
Morgantown, was in Oakland last
week for few days on his return
home from Washington.
If all the promising young men we
hear about would keep their promises
there would be little need of a Door
house.
Homer Smouse has moved his iewl-
cry store from the Central Hotel
building to room adjoining Truman
Vests property.
John ShartZer will leave on Satur.
day for Seattle, Washington, and af-
ter remaining there for few days
will go to Nome, Alaska.
Luther Riley, employed at the
Crellin mill, was injured last Satur-
day by having two of his fingers bad
ly lacerated in a machine at the mill.
A few strawberries have been on
the market in Oakland for the past
two or three days, with prices entire
ly too high for the eXcheuquer of the
average mortal.
Messrs. VIM. C. and Jack" Kidd,
Of Baltimore, are in Oakland this
week. The latter is engaged in the
lumber business in Baltimore, and is
here in the interest of his business.
Cumberland citizens have raised a
fund to purchase the site for the Car
negie Library, subject to the appro-
priation by vote of the people of the
$4,000 annual maintenance fund.
Garden making, the bane of man
and the joy of women, is in full blast
hereabouts. Give the woman a rake
and can of seeds, either garden or
flower, and she is in her element.
Give a man the same material and he
thinks the fates are against him.
Marshall Lohr, son of County Treas
urer William NJ. Lohr, is in town this
week assisting his father with his Of
flee work. Just at this season of the
year when the tax bills are to be made
out and other routine work of the
office transacted it keeps our obliging
Treasurer busy.
Contractor Kennedy, who is now
engaged in paving Second street from
Alder to Liberty, finds it almost i'm
possible to secure labor to assist in
the work. Although the force now
employed by Mr.. Kennedy is small
the work is being pushed forward
rapidly. The curbing has all been
set and fills are now being made for
the reception of the brick. The con-
tract will be finished in three weeks
provided the weather remains favor
able.
Someone who has studied the pecu-
liar faculties required of the county
school ma'am pays her the following
eulogy: "She must be primary, in
termediate, grammar grade, high
school teacher combined; she, must be
able to build fires, adjust fallen stove
pipe, put in window panes, sweep,
dust, split kindling, drive a horse,
keep out of neighborhood quarrels,
know how, when and where to whip
bad boy, understand the school
laws, raise money for libraries, keep
all kinds of records, plant trees on
Arbor day, be of good moral charac-
ter and pass an examination in all
branches of medern education. For
these accomplishments she receives
thirty dollars per month perhaps.
Think of girl getting that salary;
out of this she pays her board, buys
her clothes, attends the summer
school, buys educational papers and
books, attends all county conventions
and furnishes slate pencils for the
pupils. What is left she adds to her
bank account or starts a bank if she
prefers
Was a DeSerter.
Charles Hatton, a young soldier
boy, who was taken off a Baltimore