The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-11-07
LOCAL AND OTHERWISE
Incidents and Events at Home and Nearby
Personal Mention, Etc.

Quite number OF Halloween par
ties were given in Oakland last week.
Lloyd Shaffer, of Cumberland, was
in Oakland for few days last week.
H. G. Sincell made business trip
to Martinsburg, W. Va, on Thurs
day last.
Mrs. E. E. Ison is in Washington
where she is residing with her son H.
A. Ison.
Mr.. Lee Williamson, of Baltimore,
spent several days last week in Oak
Iand as the guest of Mr.. and Mrs. H.
G. Sincell.
Mr.. Harry Loar and his mother,
who spent five or six weeks in Kansas
and other Western States, returned
home Tuesday morning.
Election Supervisor WEIGH, of Sci
bysport, was in Oakland Saturday
and Sunday where he was guest of
Mr.. and Mrs. Austin Brown.
Messrs. w. H. Perine and McHenry
Howard, of Baltimore, were in Oak
land a few days this week on hunt
ing excursion.
Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver
Tablets cure biliousness, constipation
and headache. They are easy to take
and pleasant in effect. For sale by
all druggists.
Mrs. r. E. Sliger and son Robert,
who have been in Homecoming for
three weeks on visit to relatives and
friends, returned to Oakland last Fri
day afternoon.
The roads are in the finest condi-
ton that they have been this year.
A spin over them is soul stirring.
Many people have been taking adj
vantage of the ideal conditions to get
on the roads.
Mrs. Fundenberg, of near Deer
Park, returned home on Friday last
from an extended visit to friends and
relatives at Cumberland Her daugh-
ICI u1lSs Chltt, WIZ NlSllSu Ill
Wheeling for month, also returned
home that day.
Mr.. g. F. Kimmell, of Wolf Sum
nit, West Va, has been in this sec
ton for several days visiting his
mother. Mr.. Kimmell has become a
cash-in-advance subscriber to this
paper and we trust that the weekly
visits of the journal to his home may
be a source of pleasure to him.
The plant of the NeaOs- Standard
at Uniontown, Pa, was burned out
on Saturday last entailing a loss of
about $500. The Neaos- Standard is
one of our most valued exchanges.
We expect to see it rise out of it's
ashes and become more popular than
ever. Mr.. Sturgis, the owner, is well
known at the Park, where he spends
portion of each season.
Grants West Virginia Illustrated''
is the finest work of its kind yet got
ten out. Mr.. Grant is the b. Il O..
Railway photographer and he is get
ting out in six parts Photographic
illustrations of railway and historic
scenes in the state. Each part con-
tains fifty superb pictures. The scenes
are taken along all the railway lines
of the state and contain some of the
famous battle fields of the civil war.
The work will enable one to preserve
many historic scenes that can be had
in no other way.
When man goes into business he
has some cards printed, and when he
meets an acquaintance thereafter he
pokes out a card and says: when
you are down my way, drop in That's
advertising. The trouble is that you
can't repeat the operation often
enough-personally. What you can
do is to put the card and the remark,
more or less deliberately expressed,
into such a paper as the one you are
reading now and have it handed to a
great number of people all in one
day.
Messrs. Dixon " Kelso, one of Oak
lands progressive mercantile firms,
evidently believe that when they
have anything good to offer their
customers in the way of bargains is
to call the attention of the public
thereto by means of printers ink,
which they do in to-day's REPUBLI-
CAN as witness the display advertise
ment which will be found elsewhere
in this issue. Some good values are
offered and we advise our friends to
take advantage of the sale which will
be for two days, next Tuesday and
Wednesday.