The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-01-24
Counterfeit money is bound to come

The Misses Scherr, of EglOn are Wis
iting their sister, Mrs. ]. G. Renning-
er.
Dr. Henry w. McComas returned
ON Sunday from a professional visit
to New York City.
Mr. Chas. S. Davis left on Tuesday
for Pittsburgh where he will purchase
goods for his store
Capt James W. White, of District
No. s, was in the city for a few hours
yesterday on business.
Services in st. Marks Lutheran
Church Sunday morning and evening
at usual hours. A cordial welcome.
Mrs. H. S Whetsell, of Kingwood,
is the guest of Mr.. and Mrs. George
Fleming at their residence on Alder
street.
The Ladies' Aid Society of st.
Marks Ev. Lutheran church will give
a supper on the night of Feb. 14th
for the benefit of the church.
Mr.. and Mrs. James S. Lakin and
son Offutt, of Terra Alta, spent last
Thursday with Mr.. and Mrs. ID. L.
Offutt in Oakland
Grip is about in its most aggrava-
ting form. Nearly every family in
town has one or more members down
with the disease.
+. NJ. Norman, & Co. of Elk Garden,
W. Va, are giving in trade for buck
wheat flour $3.50 per 100 lbs; choice
apples $1.00 per bu.; fresh butter 25c
per h.; solid cabbage &c per Id. Aft.
One of our exchanges contains the
information that the Preston Lumber
and Coal Company will extend its
railway from Aurora, the present ter
minus, to the West Virginia Central
at Parsons, w. Va.
a local teachers institute will be
held at Selbysport on Friday and
Saturday of this week, the program
for which reached us too late for pub
LEGATION last week, but which we pub
fish in to days issue.
Addison Laughlin, son of DR.. and
Mrs. j. w. Laughlin, of Deer Park,
who has been Baltimore and Ohio
railway agent at Pennington, West
Va, for some months, has resigned
his position to accept position with
fha Ela,n sncr&oy, Goal Colro
pany, at that place.
States Attorney Fred. A. Thayer,
acting as attorney for Thomas b.
Wiley, late Treasurer of Garrett
county, advertises in to-day's REPUB-
LICAN the sale of number of pieces
of real estate for the non-payment of
taxes, the sale to take place on We'd
nesday, February Goth.
Mr.. John Shartzer, Special Agent
of the Government. who has been
stationed in Alaska for the past year
or more, returned to Oakland Tues
day morning, having left Sitka on
January list. His son Earnest, who
occupies a government position at
| Skagway, Alaska, intended returning
home also but has delayed his visit
until some time during the early
spring. Mr.. Shartzer expects to re-
main here until March, when he will
return North.
The uses of the telephone are null
tiplying every day, and the newest
thing is to use them as a kind of
alarm clock. When a man wants to
take an early train he says to Central
before going to bed, ring me up at
five in the morning." and central
puts him ION CALI for that hour just
as they do with their guests at a hotel.
1t is not much trouble to central, who
is on duty all night and it is a great
convenience to the traveller who has
no alarm clock.
A Boston merchant has written to
a leading newspaper that he has
found newspaper advertising ''suc-
cessful experiment" AS a matter of
fact it is not an experiment, but a
common sense branch of business en-
terprise. Advertising began when
the first salesman spoke favorably of
his wares and business methods, and
when goods were first placed on dis
play to attract the attention of the
public. Newspaper advertising is
simply an extension of the salesman
talk, so that it may reach thousands
of possible buyers.
The center of population of the
United States, as determined from
the figures of the last census, appears
to be in Southern Indiana, slight
shift to the westward having been
made in the past ten years. Of course
this is a purely imaginary center
which shifts with every succeeding
census, but it is rather odd to note
that the population of Southern Indi-
ana is not at all dense on the other
} hand, it is considerably scattered,
} that is when compared with the many
} densely populated districts of the
J country, or those districts which lay