The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-05-16
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Big combination formed at Swan
ton to buy wool for cash. G. S. May.
proprietor.
Harry Davis, the Oak street mil
liner, was in Cumberland on business
Monday.
Cash paid for sheep, veal, lambs.
hides and pelts at Herman Creutz-
burg's meat market. st
Mrs. George 7. Brew has returned
from q visit to Baltimore and other
eastern points.
Townshend & Son have nice, neat
line of plaids, percales, organdies,
colored lawns, lace curtains, bed
spreads, sheets, etc, away down.
Harvey Speicher, Esq, of Speicher
Bros, merchants at Accident, was in
Oakland Tuesday.
Did you see that line of summer
goods, laces, embroideries, silks and
velvets at Townshend & Sons? Cheap
er than ever. "a
Louis Littman, Esq, manager for
his brother at Swanton, came up to
Oakland Saturday and spent Sunday
here with his family.
Mrs. Ohio Ridgely will spend June
at Oakland with her mother-in-law,
Mrs. Ridgely, of Hampton BALTIC.
News.
Go to S. P. Specht's, Deer Park, for
laces, embroideries and dress trim
mings if YOU want to buy them at
right prices. 1913
Cashier Scott Z. Jones is UP in
Preston county, south of Rowlesburg,
on business this week. He will re-
turn to Oakland Friday.
A play entitled 1.-The Woven Web"
is being rehearsed by local talent for
the benefit of st. Peters Catholic
church. Particulars later.
Eugene Teats, Esq, of near Cranes
vile, was a business visitor to Oak
land Monday and made this office
brief visit.
Judge Sloan, who was taken to At
lantic City last Thursday. is much
improved in health. He was joined
there Tuesday of this week by Mrs.
Sloan.
The new soda fountain at Sturgiss
Pharmacy was put into successful op-
Grafton on Tuesday night. The foun-
tain is of the latest improved pattern
and was built expressly for Col Stur-
giss.
Cow pasture is in great demand at
present and the bovines of town are
rejoicing in the great amount of
which has been placed at their dis
posal. The milk and butter being
sold in town shows the improvement
due to the new proyender nowadays.
New poles are being erected along
Green and Second streets for the re-
ception of wires for the Garrett
County Telephone Company leading
to the new central office in the Raw
enscroft building. 1t is thought that
the change will be effected some time
the latter part of this week when
lady will be put in charge of the Of
flee which will insure radical change
for the better in the service for sub
scribers of the line.
And it came to pass that after he
had advertised his goods there came
unto him great multitudes from all
the region around about and did buy
of him. And when his competitors
saw it they marveled among them
selves saying; "How be it that this
man is busy while we loaf about our
doors?' And he spake unto them
saying: verify, verify | say unto
you, in this fast age of push and rus
tie it is easier for camel to enter the
eye of needle than for a business
man to aorish without advertising"
The individual who gets the fewest
letters makes the most complaint to
the postmaster; the man who never
had good meal at home growls at
the hotel accommodations; the person
who complains most of his neighbors
is the meanest of the lot; the church
member who pays the least to the
preachers salary finds the most fault
with his preaching, and always COM
plains of the bad management of the
church; and the subscriber who is the
slowest to pay his subscription finds
the most fault with the local papers.
The fruit crop throughout this
county promises to be the largest in
number of years, there having been
no frosts heavy enough to injure the
buds which are now forming. Farm
ers are engaged in planting potatoes
and getting their corn ground ready
for seeding. The acreage of grain
this year within the county, judging
from reports received from our farmer
friends, will be much greater than
heretofore Considerable new ground
has been cleared and many meadows
which have been in grass for years
have been plowed and are being seed
ed in grain. Agriculturally Garrett
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