The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-12-26
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business.
Misses Lulu and Jessie Fringer haye
gone to Grafton to spend the holidays
with relatives.
Register of Wills Edwin f. Friend
and wife, of Mountain Lake Park,
were in Oakland Monday.
Postmaster L. d. Thrasher, of Deer
Park, and w. S. Upole, of Altamont
were among our Monday morning
visitors.
Merchants generally in Oakland
are highly gratified with the volume
of business during the past week or
two.
Many people have been greatly dis
appointed on account of the railroads
not making special rate during the
present season.
William Brown, a miner aged about
fifty years, was killed by fall of coal
in the mine at Niverton, Pa, few
miles north of Grantsville.
Turkeys and chickens are more
plentiful than anticipated a few
weeks ago, when it was feared they
would be few and high in price.
A large contingent of McHenry's
citizens were hailed before Justice
Gender as principals and witnesses
in an assault case A slight fine was
imposed by Justice Gender.
Miss Orley Durham, who teaches
the Crellin school, was brought home
Sunday suffering with a severe at
tack of chicken pox. The disease is
highly prevalent among the people
at Crellin.
Miss Mamie Hamill, who is teach
ing at Fairmont, spent Friday in
Oakland with relatives and on Satur-
day left for Philadelphia where she
will spend a few days with Miss
Cecely Wilson.
Mr.. Frank Laughlin, of Deer Park,
who is attending Maryland Universe
ty, Baltimore, where he is studying
medicine, came up to Oakland Sunday
and on Monday went to his home to
spend the holidays.
The REPUBLICAN is issued on
Tuesday this week in order to afford
the editor and the employees of the
office holiday during the Christmas
festivities. In this connection we
wish all our patrons and friends a
Merry Christmas and Happy New
Year, promising them a brighter and
more interesting paper during the
year to come.
The public schools closed Friday
for the Christmas holidays. Among
the teachers who reside in Oakland
and who returned home Friday were
Miss Orlie Durham from Crellin, Miss
Zadie Browning from Bloomington,
Miss Rose Browning from Deer
Park. Prof. A. w. Dewitt, principal
of the Oakland school, went to his
home in Frostburg.
Too much care cannot be taken this
season in guarding against fire. In
almost every case of a confiagration
it turns out to have been a preventa-
BILE occurrence; and, considering the
amount of culpable carelessness in
this regard and astonishing thought
lessness. it is little short of marvellous
that more lives and property are not
sacrificed to the flames. The lessons
of narrowing accidents and big losses
ought not to be so often thrown
away.
While the correspondence from the
several towns and villages through
out the county that has been pub
lished in these columns has been quite
satisfactory to all, yet but few points
in the county have been covered by
our contributors. We desire a cor
respondent in every town, village and
hamlet within the bounds of Garrett
county who will send us news of hap
penings and also give their views
upon questions of public Importance,
such as schools, roads, economic ques-
tions and the development of our re-
sources.