The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-06-06


ton to buy wool for cash. G. S. May,
proprietor.
DIR. S. NJ. Hardman, eye, ear. nose
and throat specialist, Grafton, w. Va.
Spectacles and artificial eyes fitted.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. NJ. Crane, of King
wood, were guests of the editor and
wife in Oakland a day or two this
week.
Messrs. c. J. Otto and q. w. Broad
water, of New Germany, were here
Tuesday on business before the Coun-
ty Commissioners.
Mrs. c. Felty and children, of Con-
nellsville, Pa, are in Oakland visit
ing relatives and will make an ex-
tended stay.
Townshend & Son have nice, neat
line OF plaids, percales, organdies,
colored lawns, lace curtains, bed
spreads, sheets, etc, away down.
AT special election at Clarksbur
W. Va, the proposition to issue bonds
for $4,000 for additional paving and
sewerage carried by large majority.
Work will be commenced at once.
Men and women make good money
working for us at home in their spare
time. No experience or investment
required. Write at once to Hermann
Manufacturing Co., 126 So. 9Th St.,
Philadelphia, Pa. 1873
Miss Mary Mitchell, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. John II. Mitchell, of
Oakland, who has been at Roanoke,
Va, for several months attending
school, is expected home today to
spend the summer vacation.
On and after the first of June money
orders will only be paid at the office
on which drawn. Some time ago the
department adopted the plan of pay
ing them anywhere, but this has been
found to be impracticable and will be
discontinued.
Henry &. Fledderman, of the Mary
land census bureau, began paying the
enumerators of the State Saturday.
All enumerators who have finished
their work and returned their books
to the department will receive checks
in payment.
The old time custom of public Off
Gals asking their friends to go on their
bonds is out of date and it is seldom
done anymore. A responsible man
has little trouble to get solid guaran-
tee company to assume the risk and
thus not impose on his personal
friends.
Mr.. Chas. d. Smith, lately employed
as a bookkeeper in the Garrett
County Bank, has resigned his posi-
ton and is now in Baltimore on a
visit to relatives. He will shortly re-
turn to Oakland and later go to Terra
Alta, West Va, where he will prac-
tice law.
Col. d. 7. E. Casteel left OH the early
train Saturday morning for Fortress
Monroe where he will be examined for
a commission in the regular army as
a first lieutenant. He is the only man
from this state that goes as high as
that. Everyone here expects him to
make very fine showing Morgan
town Dominion.
The feeling against tramps grows
stronger and may result in curing the
nuisance at least to some extent. 1t
is worse than outrageous to allow
great lazy idle buns to tramp over
the country unmolested and live off
the labor of the industrious producer.
We have no use for the "Williesn and
they are not long finding it out when
we come in contact with them.
The Hagerstown Mail is involved
in another libel suit, this time for En-
roneously stating that a man was
placed in Jail for assault, when in fact
he was there encased in the garb of
turnkey, which statement the Nail
retracted as soon as it found it was in
error. The suit is for SIS, 900, and the
turnkey must stand high in the COM
munity to be injured to that extent.
Hotels in Buffalo are catching hail
Columbia from everyone who has Wis
tied there on account of having raised
their rates out of sight in view of the
large crowds of visitors which are ex-
pected to be there during the Exposi:
ton. If they are not careful they
will do more to hurt the enterprise
than the efforts of all those who are
trying to boost it will be able to over
come.
The Fourth of July this year will
De the 250th anniversary of the found
ing of the town of Natick, Mass, by
John Eliot, the famous apostle to the
Indians, and on July 3, the day before
the celebration, there is to be grand
gathering of the descendants of John
Eliot himself, who have scattered into
many different and widely separated
parts of the country, and call them
selves indifferently Eliot, Elliot or
Elliott.
Advertising NAV be costly: good