The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-05-09

Mr.. Don Howard Parsons, of Key
ser, W. Va, spent Sunday in Oakland.
Mrs. Kate Mauldin went to Wash
ington on Friday to remain indefi-
nitely.
Merchants Smith and Calls, of
Hoyes, were in Oakland Saturday
last.
NJ. n. Wilson, Esq, of Wilson, was
in town day or two this week on
business.
Rev. John Moon, of Mountain La Ike
Park, was in the city last Saturday
and made this Office a brief visit.
Mrs. Jennie Johnson left Oakland
Tuesday morning for Baltimore,
where she will remain for a week or
ten days on visit to relatives.
Michael Nathan, Esq, of Grants
vile, was in Oakland Saturday at
tending a meeting of the stakeholder
of the Maryland Minin g Company.
A Pennsylvania man paid 81 for an
old safe which was considered worth
less. He found in it $4,000, and he
now considers it pretty safe invest
ment.
Henry Barnard, Esq, of near Bloom
ington, was here Tuesday when he
purchased a tract of 100 acres of farm
ing lands near his home place in Dis
trict No. 4.
The West Virginia Educational As
ISOLATION will hold convention at the
Park July 2 and 3. Manager Rudisill
will put the tabernacle in a very in
viting shape for the occasion.
An exchange gets off these very APP
propriate lines: THE melancholy
days are come, the saddest of the
year, when men in panic flee from
Notwithstanding times are here. "
The Mountain Lake Park Philoso-
pher says that he once knew man
who was so afraid of wasting energy
that he thrashed his boy and prepar-
ed kindling wood for the morning
fires at the same time.
The summer schedule on the Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad will go into
effect the latter part of this month,
No changes of importance is antici-
pated in the running of the trains ex-
cept that two additional accommoda-
tions will be put in service.
Attention is directed to the adver-
tisement of the Queen City Novelty
Co., general agents for the Quaker
bath cabinet, appearing in this paper.
We have no hesitancy in recommend
ing this cabinet as the best made. 1t
will do all that is claimed for it.
An editor printed an item which
stated that the man who was hug
ging the hired girl had better stop it
or his name would be published" In
few days about so citizens paid up
their subscriptions and told the edi-
tor to pay no attention to foolish
stories going around.
A note received in Oakland from
the family of Rev. b. Ison conveys
the intelligence that the Doctor has
suffered a relapse and that his death
is momentarily expected. 1t was the
intention of his family to bring him
to Oakland within the next few weeks,
his condition being so much improv-
| ed.
Here is something worth trial 1t
is said that rats have SO great an an
tipathy to castor oil that, when it is
smeared lightly about the places they
frequent, or ON the articles they at
tack, they will give both a wide berth
and make themselves conspicuous by
their absence so long as the objection
able oil is in evidence in and about
their haunts.
Richard s. Browning, Esq, son of
Hon. and Mrs. R. T. Browning, left
Oakland Sunday morning for the
State of Washington, where he will
visit friends for few weeks prior to
making the trip to Nome, Alaska.
At Seattle, Washington, he will be
joined by Michael Nathan, M. NJ.
Ashby, John Shartzer and possibly
others from here who are interested
in the Nome gold fields.
DIR. Charles Beachy, of Grantsville,
was in Oakland last Friday ON his
way home from the South where he
spent the winter. While in town he
was the guest of his sister, Mrs. David
burst. During the winter DR.. Beachy
visited New Orleans, La, Birming-
ham and other cities. He expects to
go to Nome, Alaska, this summer and
next winter on his return from the
north remain in San Francisco, Cal.
In speaking of the census leading
paper remarks: ut is in the matter
of age that a slight element of fiction
appears now and then in the SEIZED
ules, for careful study of the reports
reveals that there are more of the fair
sex aged about twenty-five than can
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