The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-04-11
LOCAL AND OTHERWISE
Incidents and Events at Home and Nearby
Personal Mention, Etc.

D. E. Offutt was in Fairmont on
on business Saturday last.
Dan Dorsey and Joseph c. Shaw,
of Grantsville, were here on Monday
and Tuesday.
Miss Nellie Chase and her mother,
Mrs. Chase, of near Sunnyside, were
in town Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Thompson, of
Easton, Pa, are in Oakland visiting
their daughter, Mrs. George l. Uhler.
Nelson Brenneman, of Meyersdale,
Pa, was in Oakland on business Mon
day and paid this Office brief visit.
Miss Lena Fuller, of Cumberland,
is in Oakland, the guest of Miss WOnn
Robinson at her home on Second
street.
Mrs. John T. Mite hell and Mrs.
Arthur Townshend left this morning
for ten days visit to Baltimore and
Washington.
The Oakland Normal opened on
Monday with about % scholars pres
ent. The Accident Normal opened
on Tuesday with 10 scholars.
Mr.. and Mrs. julius c. Renninger
went to Cumberland Saturday after
noon TO spend few days with Mr..
Renninger's parents.
Mr.. and. Mrs. William jackson, of
Homecoming, spent Easter with Mr..
and Mrs. Henry Weber, Jr., at their
farm near town.
Carl White, who is employed at
Uniontown, Pa, came home on Sat
urday to spend a few days with his
father and other relatives.
The town council adyertises else
where the sitting of that body to hear
appeals from assessments. Only two
hours is allowed the property owners
to make their complaints.
Joseph Bradley, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. John Bradley, of near town, who
is student at Rockhill College, Ell
licott City, spent the Easter vacation
at home with his parents.
Miss burst and Miss Custer, who
went from here few weeks ago to
Buckhannon to the Seminary there
have returned and are now students
at the Oakland Normal.
John Sanders, Sr., was thrown from
an overturning wagon several days
,sago and received severe injuries. He
Us at the home of his sister, Mrs. Sam
Suel Ferguson, in the southern section
eof town.
Col. Chas. E. Headley, of the Graf
ton Hotel who has secured lease on
the Oakland for the summer, came
down to Oakland Monday with a
force of men and put them to work
cleaning up the hotel and getting it
into shape for the coming season.
We publish to-day the major por-
ton of the new election law passed
at the recent extra session of the
Legislature. We hoped to lay the en-
tire law before our readers to-day
but finding that it will require more
space than we can well spare we will
have to be content with publishing it
but partially.
DR.. Henry w. McComas arrived
home from the Bermudas and points
in the South Friday night last, bring
ing with him many curios in the way
of sea products and fruits from that
sunny land. He left again Sunday
night for Baltimore where he will
spend a few days before returning
home.
Mr.. w. H. Halter has sold his bak-
cry and stock of goods to a young
German, who comes to Oakland we'll
recommended as first-class baker
and pastry cook. Mr.. Halter will be
employed during the summer at the
Deer Park hotel. His family will re-
side in the Chambers property on
Liberty street.
Mr.. John Il. Browning met with
quite painful accident on Tuesday
in front of Messrs. Dixon g. Kelso's
while on his way home. The board
walk being covered with snow and
ice Mr.. Browning slipped and fell
against the step in front OF the store
and unfortunately broke a rib in his
right side. He was picked up by
some passersby and assisted to his
home on Main street where he was
attended by DR.. Hinebaugh and
made as comfortable as possible.
An engagement of interest which
has just been announced in Philadel-
phia is that of Miss Sarah Keyser
Williams and DR.. J. A. Bayard Kane.
Miss Williams is a daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. John Worthington Williams,
summer residents of Deer Park, and,
through her mother, who was Miss
Keyser, of Baltimore, belongs to "a
large and prominent family connec-
ton in that city, as well as in Phila-
delphia. DR.. Kane is a son of the
late DIR. John Kent Kane, of Whining