The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-02-07
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was in Cumberland Monday.
The self-made made man too often
forgets to give his wife any of the
credit.
Miss Margaret Sincell went to Wash
ington Monday morning to spend a
month with relatives and friends.
Attorney Norman S. Heindel and
mother and John T. Sincel left this
morning for Baltimore and Washing
| ton.
A rear end collision took place in
Fifty eight cut at Hutton Sunday af-
ternoon which demolished a caboose
and delayed trains an hour or more
Bring your buckwheat. wheat. rye,
oats and corn, if you want cash or
trade. The Felty Roller Mill Oak
land, Md. 27-26t
! Isaac Shrout was arrested last week
and released upon bond to keep the
peace, instead of Grant Shrout, as
Published at the time in these col
umns.
| Explicit orders have been issued to
b. 4 o. passenger trainmen in an
nouncing the arrival of passenger
trains. at terminals to caution passen-
gers not to forget their parcels
The father of Mrs. George Durham
died at his home in Oswego, n. Y, on
Tuesday, Jan. Goth, and was buried
the following Thursday. On account
of Mrs. Dunham's illness she was I'M
able to attend the funeral
Mr.. Percy Proctor is haying a heat
ing plant installed in his residence on
Crook Crest and other improvements
made to his property. We under
stand that he and his estimable wife
will spend the winter here next year,
thus becoming all year round resi-
dents of Oakland
The County Commissioners to-mor-
row will offer at public auction to the
highest bidder, several parcels of land
now owned by the county which was
purchased at Treasurer tax sale
some three years ago and which has
not been redeemed by the owner
Mr.. E. H. Sincell, attorney, will con-
duct the sale.
Under the new Army Bill thous-
ands of promotions among officers in
the regular service will be made.
Capt. d. Il. f. Casteel a native of
this county, son of Mr.. William Cas-
teel, of near Oakland, has been rec
commended for promotion; also Lieut..
j. Harry Neff, of Kingwood, who is
well known in Oakland where he was
employed few years ago as telegraph
| operator.
Max Good, Esq, of st. Louis, who
resided in Oakland some years ago
with his parents, stopped off in Oak
land Monday afternoon on his way
home from the east to spend few
! hours with friends of his boyhood
days. He is now prosperous coffee
and tea merchant of st. Louis, deal
ing extensively with the imp orters of
New York and New Orleans.
A merry sleighing party of young
folks from Eglon composed of Misses
Alma Scherr, Emma Ossingef, Ora
Bush, Jessie Fringer, Eveline Wer-
ner, DR.. j. Gilbert Selby. Ernest
Bush and Milton Scherr, came down
to Oakland Friday and spent the
evening very pleasantly at the resi-
dence of Mr.. and Mrs. Julius G. Rem
nlnger on Third street
Since the cold spell began almost
everyone who had sleigh or sled of
any kind has hunted them up and is
making good use of them. The liv-
erymen have had all their sleighs in
use almost continuously, the demand
very frequently being greater than
the supply. Most of the sleighing is
confined to the streets of town and
the roads leading to Deer Park and
Aurora, Hooppole road being Stunned
on account of the heavy drifts to be
encountered
Mrs. J. S. Hershbarger, of Stone
House, Md, about three months ago
left here to visit her mother and three
sisters at Pasadena, California on
her way home she visited her broth
er-in-law A. Lincoln Gnagey, now of
Indian Territory. She greatly enjoy
ed her trip, and the reunion with her
mother and relatives. Yesterday she
was met here by her husband Her
two little girls accompanied and re-
turned with her.-MeyerSddle Com.
An occasional load of apples and
potatoes is still brought into town
from the outlying districts, as the
supply is not quite exhausted. The
crops of both apples and potatoes in
almost every section of the county
last fall were abundant and the hus-
bandman with an eye to the future
and higher price than was offered
at the harvest, stored them away until
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