The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-01-31
LOCAL AND OTHERWISE
Incidents and Events at Home and Nearby
Personal Mention. Etc.

Washington this week.
Ex-Sheriff Austin Brown is down at
his old home in District No. 3 this
week on business.
DIR. Henry W. McComas was called
to Kingwood Tuesday morning on
professional business.
Good flour and plenty of it at the
Felty Roller Mill. We grind every
thing in the grain line. 27-26t
Messrs. William Hamill and w. H.
Lewis have been appointed game
wardens by Governor Smith, for this
county.
Rev. George l. Uhler, the pastor,
will conduct sevices morning and
evening in st. Marks church, Oak
land, on Sunday next.
W. l.. Boughner, of Fairmont, SON
in-law of Mr. g. W. Delawder, has
been appointed assistant clerk in the
West Virginia Senate
Rev. James w. Beeghley, of near
Accident, was in Cumberland last
Sunday where he conducted services
in one of the churches there.
E. NJ. Norman, & Co. of Elk Garden,
w. Va, are giving in trade for buck
wheat flour $3.50 per 100 lbs; choice
apples $1.00 per bu.; fresh butter 25c
per h.; solid cabbage &c per Id. Aft.
Owing to big freight wreck near
Petroleum, w. Va, Monday evening
in which FIVE men were killed, train
No. 2 Tuesday morning was several
hours late.
Nick Boyer, Tom Chambers and Ar
thur Hinebaugh left Oakland Sunday
morning for Clarksburg, w. Va,
where they expect to secure employ
ment.
Owing to the severe weather pre-
vailing Monday and Tuesday but one
session of the schools was held on
those days, the scholars being dismiss
ed at one o'clock.
Services at Episcopal Church, Rev.
w. H. Osmond, Rector, every Sun
day morning at II and afternoon at
$3.50. Sunday school at $50 p. IN.
Sewing School every Saturday at p.
m. at the Rectory.
If you would have an appetite like
bear and a relish for your meals
FOL H. ,lo.x -, II. 4 7
er Tablets. They correct disorders of
the stomach and regulate the liver
and bowels. Price, 25 cents. Sam
free at all druggists.
Mr.. F. H. Hibberd, a well known
life insurance agent, has been EN-
ployed by the Prudential Insurance
Company as general agent for the
District of Columbia and the State of
Maryland. Mr.. Hibberd expects to
visit Oakland shortly Oh business.
Mr.. and Mrs. B. G. Arnold, who re-
Gently sold their farm and other prop
erty situated on the Aurora road, left
Monday morning for Colorado, where
Mr.. Arnold goes in the hope of being
benefited physically, he being a suf-
ferer from consumption.
Representative George A. Pearre
has succeeded in obtaining pension
. of $15 per month for Mrs. Jennie NJ
jackson, of Oakland, mother of the
late Lieut.. George NJ. Jackson, who
died in the service in the Philippines.
Mrs. Jackson is also the mother of
Mrs. George T. Brew.
Grant Shrout, a tenant on the farm
of D. E. Offutt near Oakland, was ar
rested Monday evening by Deputy
Sheriff Wiley on peace warrant
sworn out by another man employ ed
by Mr.. Offutt upon whom Shrout had
made an assault. He gave bond to
keep the peace and was released. from
custody.
Mrs. Lou Thayer Waters left Oak
land, where she has been residing
since the death of her husband, on
Thursday morning for Carlsbad, New
Mexico, to visit her brother Walter
who went west in 1891. She will go
via Memphis, Tenn, and New Or
leans, La, arriving at her destination
this evening where she will take a
stage for the home of her brother,
whose ranch is 40 miles in the interior.
She will return to Oakland about
April LIST.
Some of these days several men of
this city, who are in the habit of rub
bering at every opportunity, will
break their necks while screwing
their heads to look into other peoples
business. A case in point happened
on Market street yesterday morning
which illustrated how many men will
stop to crook their necks by watching
what is going on. A pretty young
lady was walking hurridly along the
street when she felt something part
in the back. Instantly her right hip
fell like punctured bicycle tire,
making her left one look ridiculous
by contrast. Thereupon every man
on the street stopped to rubber, and
quite crowd gathered before the