The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-03-14

mrs. Nate L. Crane L. east buying
spring stock for the Ladies' Bazaar.
Joseph Bowser of near Deer Park,
was business visitor 70 this office
Monday.
The man who gathers the collection
in church may be said to have a
passing interest in religious matters.
Miss Alice Cleveland, who taught as
assistant at Bloomington this winter
returned home Tuesday afternoon.
Bring your buckwheat. wheat. rye.
oats and:corn. if you want cash or
trade. The Felty Roller Mill, Oak
land, Md. 27-26t
Cliff White, who is in charge of the
electric lighting plant III Philippi,
w. Va, spent Sunday with his father
in Oakland.
Abe Lawton, engaged al Terra Alta
in electrical work, came down to Oak
land yesterday afternoon. returning
to work this morning.
Mr.. Daniel B. Laymen. one of the
few Republicans OF District No. ..
was in Oakland Tuesday on business
and while here made THE RKpUBLI-
CAN pleasant visit.
The offer of Mr.. Carnegie of SIS, 900
for public library at Cumberland
will be submitted to the people, who
will decide by vote whether or not
the offer shall be accepted.
The milliners are getting ready for
their spring openings and they will
place hats and other articles before
their customers that will set them
crazy. The articles of feminine adorn-
lnent get prettier every year.
Pneumonia has claimed more vic
tins this winter than has smallpox.
1t is the only malady which physicians
are not very able to cope with. 1t
takes a strong constitution to with
stand the ravages of this dread enemy
of man.
Miss Mae Evy, of keyser, who was
one of the assistant teachers in the
Oakland school, returned to her home
yesterday afternoon. Miss Evy was
held in high esteem by her scholars,
nearly all of whom were at the train
to bid her goodbye.
County Treasurer Lohr submits to
the tax payers an open letter pub
| lished elsewhere in these columns to-
day. Mr.. Lohr makes a good show
ing in the amount of taxes yet I'M
collected. He has conducted his office
in businesslike manner and is high
ly esteemed by our citizens.
The public schools of the county
closed on Tuesday of this week after
a term of five months. The scholars
of the Oakland school will give an en-
tertainment in the opera house here
shortly, the proceeds to be used in
purchasing bell for the school build
ing
The hats this spring are to be fear
fully and wonderfully made. They
are masses and gobs of ribbons, flow
ers and furbelows of every description
and some are beyond the feeble efforts
of words to paint them. When our
charming members of the fair sex don
them the stuff will be off with all the
bachelors in town.
DR.. Paul Osterhout, of Bocos del
Toro, Columbia, S. A, who is in Oak
land visiting his brother-in-law, Mr..
Harry j. Frear, was recently appoint
ed foreign inspector in the United
States Marine Hospital Service, and
will be assigned to duty on April LIST
at Bocos, his home. DR.. Osterhout
will remain in Oakland some days
yet before his return South.
The newspaper is only one of the
business agencies of the city. 1t can
do much in combining and unifying
the effort for advancing industrial
and commercial prosperity, but not
all that is necessary. 1t is only when
all the business agencies pull together
that great communities move irresist
| IDLY forward to the attainment of
beneficent improvement.
Wanted, friend who will recog-
nize me when l am compelled to wear
patched pants; who will take my hand
as | am sliding down hill, instead of
giving me kick to hasten my de-
scent; who will come to Inc when |
am sick; who will pull of his coat and
fight for me when the odds are two to
one; who will talk of me behind my
back as he talks to my face" Such
friend is wanted by many, many thou
sands throughout the whole world
| Elk.
1t has been suggested that a prize
be offered for the Maryland country
newspaper which has not printed the
following paragraph: There is hard
ly married man except a printer,
who does not carry in his pocket the
picture of an attractive young woman