The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-06-20
LOCAL AND Otherwise
Incidents and Events al Home and Nearby
Personal Mention, Etc.

at Herman CreutZburg's market.
Miss Nellie Jarboe is on visit to
her sister, Mrs. G. F. White, at Hut
ton.
Just take look at the most cons-
plete line of ladies' muslin underwear
at Townshend & Sons. 144
Miss Minnie West of Keyser, ".
Va, was in Oakland last week as the
guest of Mrs. E. /. West.
Mr.. Semmes Hamill who has been
at Princeton attending school, return
ed to his home on Friday night last.
Fresh fish and vegetables arrive
daily at Creutzburg's Enterprise Meat
Market which are sold cheap for cash.
Reduce a man to a state of numb
despair and he becomes a machine in
constant danger of smash-up.
Go to Creutzburg's Enterprise Meat
Market for fresh fish, vegetables, etc.
Received daily. 1873
The next thing for summer anluse-
ment will be picnics in the mountain.
Very many pleasant parties make
trips of this kind
Mr.. and Mrs. Percy Proctor went
to Buffalo last Monday, intending to
spend two weeks at the Pan-Americap
Exposition.
Naylor & Co. have fine line OF
spray pumps OF hand as well as the
largest variety of pumps for deep and
shallow wells in the county. We also
do pump repairing. 1873
House keepers are still wrestling
with the question of domestic help.
The same trouble seems to exist as
heretofore and is no nearer solution
than when it began.
Harland Jones is at Parkersburg
on visit to relatives where he went
after the graduating exercises of his
school at Wheeling. He will arrive
home this evening.
Attention is directed to the ar
nouncement of Percy H. Veitch, for
merly of Washington, d. c., but now
located permanently in Oakland for
the practice OF law.
County School Examiner Ed. A.
Browning was down in the lower END
of the county last and this week on
business. At Grantsville on Saturday
he conducted an examination of teach
ers which was well attended.
A man who cannot hit q barn door
in broad daylight with q shot gun
may be depended on to take unerring
aim in the dark when he mistakes his
wife or some other member of the
the family for a burglar.
The Government crop reports just
published show fairly high average
of condition and considering the fact
' that the acreage throughout the West
is larger than in any previous year it
removes any apprehension concerning
the crops for the current year.
Col. George A. Pearre, Mayor War
rem G. White. of Cumberland, and
Mr.. Thomas H. Hobbs, also of Cum
berlrnd, were at Lake Browning last
Saturday fishing. They arrived here
on Friday night and drove to the
lake, returning here the following
evening where train was taken for
their homes.
Mayor and Mrs. J. w. w. Davis, of
Piedmont, have issued cards for the
marriage of their daughter, Miss
Grace Davis, to Prof. Arta Frank
Hawkins, of Philippi. The ceremony
will take place in st. Johns Metho-
dist Episcopal church South, Pied
mont, Wednesday, June 26. Prof.
Hawkins is assistant principal of the
Piedmont free school.
Escaping gas in Christ Reformed
Episcopal church at Cumberland Sun
day morning caused an explosion,
which wrecked the church and the
residence of Mrs. Philip Rhodes, ad-
joining. The rector, the Rev. Eph-
riam Phillips, Jr., detected the pres
ence of gas when he opened the church
for early service, and in investigating
with light set fire to the substance,
narrowly escaping serious injury in
the wreck that followed.
Candidates for nomination for the
various offices to be filed this fall
have been in evidence in Oakland the
past few days. AS high as a dozen
were counted on the street Tuesday
morning and all buttonholing people
within radius of block. The fight
is becoming quite spirited but up to
this time it is friendly one and we
trust that it will continue as such.
There will be but few sore spots after
the nominations.
A writer comparing the local news
paper with the city papers, defending
them from the facetious and illnatur-
ed attacks of the latter, says: "Well,
you may poke fun at the country
weekly as you will, but fail to see
} why the fact that a resident has
bought the place of another resident