The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-04-25
LOCAL AND OTHERWISE
Incidents and Events at Home and Nearby
Personal Mention, Etc.

County Commissioner Kelso was in
Oakland yesterday.
When in need of sewer pipe call at
MAYORS. Just received car load of
4, 5, 6, s and 10 inch. 73t
The enrolment at the Oakland
Normal today numbers forty-five
students.
Mrs. ]. NJ. Falkenstine is on a visit
to relatives at Terra Alta. Mr.. F.
spent Sunday there. ~ i ..s.s. -- .. -,
A beautiful line of wash goods,
silkalenes, piques, lawns, &C., Just
opened up at S. P. Specht's, Deer
Park. 72t
Mrs. Arthur Townshend, who has
been in Baltimore for week or ten
days, returned to Oakland Saturday
night.
Mrs. Ralph Wilburn, of Terra Alta,
spent several days last week in Oak
land visiting her daughter. Mrs. John
Davis.
S. p. Specht, Deer Park, has Just
returned from the East with the best
assortment of general merchandise
ever brought to Deer Park, which he
will sell very low for cash. ret
Mr.. and Mrs. James L. Pollock, of
Philadelphia, who spent some time
in Oakland with DR.. and Mrs. E. H.
Bartlett, left for the above city Sat
urday morning.
Mrs. Edith Wells Glover and Miss
Ethel Parsons, of Keyser, w. Va,
were the guests of Misses Margaret
and Gertrude Sincell on Sunday and
Monday at their home on Liberty
street.
The sale of a saw mill. horses, wag-
ons, etc, located near Swanton, which
took place here on Tuesday, brought
quite crowd of people from District
No. to town. The prices received
were low.
Rev. James w. Beeghly, of near
Accident, was in Oakland Monday
He was returning from st. Clairsville,
W. Va, where on Sunday he preached
to the congregation of German Bap-
fists which now number twenty COM
municants.
James Fazenbaker, of near Bloom
ington, was arrested on Sunday by
Deputy Sheriff Wiley. Fazenbaker
was indicted at recent term of court
for rape committed upon Julia Ward,
girl residing at Bloomington. He
was brought to Oakland and COM
mitted to jail for trial at the Septem-
Der term.
Now is the time to use lime in lib
eral quantities about your yards,
sinks and in the cellars under your
residences. A handful of lime used
judiciously now may save a doctors
bill in the future. Another thing in
favor of lime-it is cheaper than the
services of the physician and the
apothecary
We acknowledge a very pleasant
visit on Friday from Mr.. Bird M.
Robinson, one of the receivers for the
Baltimore Building and Loan Asso-
citation and president of the Inter
State Editorial Association. Mr.
Robinson was here to sell the Loeb
Lynn Hotel at receivers sale, but the
bid received for the property being
considerable less than its value the
sale did not take place.
County Treasurer Lohr spent Sun
day with his family at the Cove. re-
turning to Oakland Monday after
noon. Down in his section of the
county the farmers are complaining
bitterly of the backwardness of the
season and are compelled to buy hay
and grain for their stock. The roads,
too, are almost impossible owing to
the great depth of the mud caused by
the recent heavy rains and melting
SHOWS.
Considerable adverse criticism has
been INDUCED in by many teachers
by the action of the School Board in
selecting Oakland as the only point in
the county where examinations for
teachers are to be held at the close of
the normals throughout the county
We trust that the board will recon-
slider it's determination andnhold ex-
aminations at other points, so that
those who desire to take the examina-
tions may be disconnected as little as
possible.
The wet, disagreeable weather which
has been prevailing continuously for
almost month past seems to have
become permanent. AS result no
gardening of any moment has been
done around town and very little
grain has been sown and planting
done by the farmers who in a measure
are becoming discouraged by the out
look. One of our farmer friends, how
eyer, was in the other day and took a
rosy view of the situation saying that
there is always time for sowing and