The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-12-05

absence, which he spent in Alabama
and other Southern states.
Don't forget to attend STARTERS
auction in Oakland, Saturday, Dec.
9TH, and Friendsville, Thursday, Dec.
18th.
A cheap excursion from Oakland
and points adjacent will be run by
the Baltimore anu Ohio to New York
during the holidays.
Mr.. and Mrs. Howard Hoffman, of
Cumberland, were here Thanksgiv-
ing day as the guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
John d. Taggart
Attorney Norval Speelman and Ed
ward Wicklow, of District No. 9, were
in Oakland Tuesday on business be-
fore the county commissioners.
Services will be held in st. Paul's
Ev. Lutheran church, Oakland, Sun
day morning and evening at the
usual hours.
The war is over and high prices
must go. John Shartzer has return
ed from Alaska and will have auction
at Oakland Saturday, Dec. 18th, and
at Friendsville, Thursday, Dec. 10.
County Examiner Ed A. Browning
went down to Baltimore Tuesday
night to attend a meeting of the
School Commissioners of the State.
Mr.. Hamill, president of the Board,
left for the same point this morning.
Mrs. Geo. Fulmer went to McHenry
one day last week to see her father,
the aged Samuel Specht, who has
been quite i'll for several weeks. Mrs.
Fulmer returned home Monday, her
father being somewhat improved.
Mr.. John W. Miller, of Accident,
was in Oakland Monday of this week
and had his name entered upon our
books as paid-in- subscriber
of the large and ever increasing num-
Der of REPUBLICAN readers.
A meeting of the stockholders of
the First National Bank will be held
on Tuesday, December "A, at the
banking house in Oakland, at which
time board of directors of the bank
will be elected for the ensuing year.
Reports from Thomas, w. Va.
which town was devastated by fire
some weeks ago, are to the effect that
the people up there are getting along
fairly comfortable, and that the
wants Of all those who were in need
are being met.
G. Edward Presho, president of the
Central Commercial College, of Cum
berland, made a deed of trust to Fin
ley G. Hendrickson and William H.
Shepherd, and the institution, which
has seventy-tive students, is closed,
pending a settlement.
1t is estimated that the value of
land along rural delivery routes has
increased near So an acre. Then too
there is an educational value in the
free delivery, in that thousands more
magazines and periodicals are finding
their way to peoples homes.
Mr.. W. H. Chadderton, of near
Deer Park, was in Oakland yesterday
looking after some business affairs.
He will leave Monday for Baltimore,
where he will receive treatment in
Johns Hopkins Hospital for stom-
ache disease with which he is suffer
ing.
G. j. Lee, of Garrett county, went
to BruShy Run, Pendleton county.
W. Va, on the pretense of buying
timber. When Henry B. Alt, a
farmer of Brushy Run, who was alb
sent, returned, he found that his wife
was missing. Ii is supposed that
they eloped.-Cumberland Courier.
Rev. Miller, of Nebraska, who
preached iii the Garrett Memorial
Presbyterian church in Oakland Sun
day morning and evening to large
congregations, made very favorable
impression upon his hearers. He will
preach again on next Sunday morn
ing and evening at the usual hours
II a. IN, and 7:30 p. IN.
Sheriff elect w. A. Maffett and
family will arrive in Oakland some
time next week when Mr.. Maffett
will assume the duties of his office.
The retiring sheriff, Mr.. Andrew J.
Oester, will remove from here to his
farm down near Bittinger. While
the people of Oakland regret exceed
ingly to lose Mr.. Oester, they extend
to Mr.. Maffett and his estimable wife
a hearty welcome.
The Christmas rush is beginning to
be felt here. 1t is noticeable on the
railroad and by the express company.
These occasions always mean extra
work to the employees, but pleasure
to great many others. Merchants
also must work extra. Evidence of
the approaching holidays are to be
seen everywhere. The windows are
beginning to show a great variety of
merchandise and much of it is differ
ent from that of previous seasons.