The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-12-19
LOCAL AND OTHERWISE
Incidents and Events at Home and Nearby
Personal Mention, Etc.

NJ oOudA FiSnuOu, EtNs
Hon. Julius Scherr, of Eglon was in
the city Tuesday.
The small boy and the sled are re-
newing old acquaintance.
Clerk to the Commissioners A. G.
Ross was in Cumberland Tuesday on
business.
Harry Rasche has been kept at
his home several days with an attack
of illness.
Miss Helen Ball, of Baltimore, was
the guest of Miss Lulu Wood from
Friday until Monday morning, when
she returned home.
A few more days of such weather
as we have been experiencing since
Sunday will be sufficient to form ice
thick enough to be harvested.
Hamill Casteel, of near Hoyes, was
business visitor to Oakland one day
last week and made this Office brief
though pleasant visit.
Bowie johnson, who attended court
at Hagerstown few days last week
as a witness returned to Oakland
Saturday.
Trains from the West Monday and
Tuesday were delayed from one to
five hours owing to floods. wrecks,
etc.
Mrs. DR.. N. G. Hinebaugh will go
to Baltimore next week to spend the
holidays with her parents and other
relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. Percy Proctor left
Oakland Tuesday evening for Chi
cago, where they expect to remain
until January /.
The electric light company has re-
placed number of old wornout arc
lights in town with new ones, The
difference is marked.
Several departments of the Oak
land public school were closed Mon
day for half the day owing to the i'll
tense cold and inability of the janitor
to properly heat the building.
Thermometer Monday registered
degrees below zero-a change of some
seventy degrees in less than &c hours,
as on Saturday the mercury stood at
IS above.
Attorney Percy H. Veitch left Oak
land Saturday afternoon for Wash
ington, D. c., to be absent for some
days. He is one of the solicitors in
an important equity case now pend
ing before the courts in that city.
The heavy rainstorm on Saturday
caused all the streams in this vicinity
to rise abnormally The little stream
running through the centre of town
overlooked its banks and flooded
Third street.
Mr.. Henry Weber was circulating
a petition in Oakland Tuesday which
will be presented to Congress asking
that no change be made in the postal
laws Governing the admission of
second class matter to the mails.
Mr.. Harry Flowers of this Office,
arrived at work rather late Tuesday
morning. His excuse was that he
had been waylaid on the road here
by bear and forced to climb a tree
for safety.
The members of the Oakland Con-
cert Band on Monday night presented
their able young instructor, Mr..
Harry A. Rasche, with a handsome
leather horn case in recognition of
his faithful and proficient services to
their organization and also in honor
of his 21st birthday anniversary.
Mr.. James Brock, recently removed
from Cumberland to Oakland, has
opened tailoring adjustment Ing
the Dixon g. Kelso building on Second
street. Mr.. Brock comes here well
recommended as first-class work
man and has already secured lucra-
tive trade.
In another column OF to-day's Re-
publican we publish an article from
the versatile pen of Mr.. Jacob Brown
descriptive of "Ye Merrie'' Christmas
of years gone in the past. The article
like all of Mr.. Browns writings, is of
an interesting character and deals
with persons and scenes of local
nature.
The country newspaper often gets
the would be swindler into trouble.
Hardly an issue of the average county
paper fails to recount how some well
dressed, smooth-tongued stranger has
swindled farmers out of years
savings, by means of some outlandish
scheme which four-month-old baby
would see through. The credulous
sharp hears of this, formulates plan
of action, and is surprised when it
failes to work, and his exit from the
front gate is fastened by bull dogs
and boots. He has underestimate
the acI1man of the man with whom