The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-11-21


this office
Cheap John" is still east and will
return in a few days with a car load
of Christmas goods.
60 to Hinebaugh's Restaurant for
meals, lunches, oysters, etc. Ladies'
dining room in connection.
Foreman P. Z. Kimmel, of this
office, is kept from work this week
owing to the illness of his father and
mother.
Mrs. Joseph Helbig, of Oakland, is
the guest of her sister, Mrs. G. A.
Bolden, North street. - Meyersdale
Commercial
A dividend of five per cent. has
been declared OH the capital stock of
the Aurora, Oakland and Terra Alta
Telephone Company.
Mr.. w. r. Mealy attended the re-
ception in Cumberland rendered by
the Commercial Travellers lodge of
that city on Saturday night.
DR.. Henry w. McComas has adopt
ed the following as his Office hours:
10 a. IN. to ~ m, and p. III. to s p.
IN. Office at the Sanitarium.
The bad weather which has been
prevailing here for a week or more,
has put stop to work on the new
Catholic church now building.
Rev. w. H. Osmond, the rector of
st. Matthew's, will return from Balti-
more Saturday and on Sunday will
conduct services at II a. IN. and p.
III. in st. Matthew's p. f. church.
John H. Purnell. one of the veter-
ans of the Civil War, who has made
Oakland his home for a number of
years, has been admitted to the Sol
dier's Home at Dayton, Ohio, for
which point he left last night. Col.
Sturgiss secured his admission to the
home through the Pension Bureau.
Seemingly winter set in in earnest
on Friday when the snow commenced
falling. Every day since it has been
coming down at intervals. With the
solid condition of the roads good
shedding snow is anticipated. With
it all many wells remain dry, and
should freeze set in the streams, in
which there is very little water, will
become frozen solid
Miss Nan Kenndy, of Washington,
well known by many of our readers,
will be married at her home in the
above city on Thanksgiving after
noon to Francis Hampton Randolph,
formerly of Marion county, Florida,
but now chief clerk in the Adjutant
Generals Office of the War Depart
ment in Washington. The wedding
will be quietly celebrated owing to
the i'll health of the brides father.
Garrett county lumberman and coal
operators are greatly handicapped in
making shipment of the output of
their mills and mines on account of
the great scarcity of cars. One lum-
herman at Mailman, this county,
along the line of the West Virginia
Central Railroad, has over $40, 900
worth of manufactured lumber stack
ed at his mill and is unable to get it
to market for the lack of cars.
A letter written by George Wash
ington was found last week in the
attic of an old stone house, known as
the Job Lewis property at Wellsburg,
w. Va. tits dated November 10, 1898,
and is ADDRESSED to Mr.. Barr, Whitehall,
England. The writer complains of
the intercepting Of papers of import
ance by the French who captured the
ship Suffolk. The letter was found
in an old book and is well preserved.
By the fire which devastated
Thomas, w. Va, one day last week,
two former Garrett countians lost
considerable property. ''Dick" Thay-
er, who owned four or five dwelling
houses, lost all of them. His insur-
ance covered but one building. Adam
s. Sells house was burned. He saved
from it sewing machine and few
articles of wearing apparel. His
daughter nearly lost her life by being
overcome by smoke in the burning
building, but was rescued by an
Italian, who dragged her from her
dangerous position.
+. H. Tibbetts, Esq, a few years
ago employed as mine boss for the
Bloomington plant of the Davis Coal
Il Coke Company, but now living
near Fairmont, w. Va, was in Oak
land Saturday on his way home from
Alabama, in which State he has been
engaged for some time in opening a
new coal works. He will within a
short time remove with his family to
the South, where he will become
uperintendent for an operative COM
pany of coal shippers.
Mr.. o. F. Morton has just shown us
a complete sample of his new book,