The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1901-01-17
LOCAL AND OTHERWISE

Incidents and Events at Home and Nearby
Personal Mention. Etc.
Elliot C. Harvey, Esq, of District
No. 8, was in the city Monday.
Messrs. d. E. Bolden and Joseph
Helbig visited Rowlesburg yesterday
on business.
Farley DeBerry, Esq, one of Terra
Atlas leading business men, was in
Oakland yesterday.
Good flour and plenty of it at the
Felty Roller Mill We grind every
thing in the grain line. 27-2Gt
Postmaster /. d. Thrasher, of Deer
Park, was in the city Monday and
made this office brief visit.
Congressman Pearre is making an
effort to have the pension of Capt.
Elijah NJ. Friend increased.
Get the Louden hay sling carriers
in your barn if you want to make
money. For sale by H. Weber &
Sons. 44-2t.
Special Agent John Shartzer is ex-
pected to arrive here Saturday or
Sunday from Alaska he having OBJ
tanned a furlough from his duties.
Superintendent Rudisill is bed rid
den with an attack of the grip which
he contracted Oh recent trip to
Washington City.
Z. NJ. Norman, u Co. OF Elk Garden,
w. Va, are giving in trade for buck
apples S1.O0 per bu. fresh butter 25c
per H.; solid cabbage &c per ID. ATT.
Some of our exchanges are cam
planning about muddy steeets in their
towns. They needn't think that our
silence on the subject indicates that
we have clean streets.
A telegraph office has been estab-
lished at Swanton on the line of the
b. u o. As soon as the improvements
at that place now being made by this
company are completed the Office will
be removed to 40 water station and
the block system established.
Rev Il. ID. Richards, OF German
town, Md, owner of Hotel Chautau-
qua, Mountain Lake Park, spent
Monday and Tuesday in Oakland try
ing to effect sale of his property
with resident of Oakland. The mat
ter was not closed up, but the sale
may be made within a few days.
Twelve complete sets of scenery
over two thousand square yards, all
on magnificent scale, and adjustable
to any sized stage, are carried by the
Frank Davidson company. This as
sures absolute scenic perfection tc
each of the plays presented, and will
virtually make a new stage in oul
Opera House; all of the stock scenery
being removed. Such a display oil
mechanical effect was never before
attempted and is said to be alone
worth seeing The dates are Jan, II
IS and 10.
At the opening of bids by the Post
office Department early during the
winter it was found that no bid hat
been made for carrying the mails
from Oakland to Accident and in con
sequence a Reimbursement for the
performance of the service has beer
posted at the postoffice in Oakland
The present contract price is $443, o
which the carrier under the old sys
TEN received $4OO for his labor.
A man starts in with an advertise
ment and runs it month or so, ant
then stops it for while, and after {
little time begins it again. Half tn,
strength of the first ad is lost and i
will take at least two months eXtr;
advertising or the equivalent in spac,
to connect the new ad with the old
The readers have had chance to for
get, and have forgotten at the expense
of the advertiser. To a certain ex
tent he must begin all over again. |
would be cheaper to run a small az
during the intervening time.
The changeable weather of the pas
WeSh VI bWO Ildo udO ulIe eueCG
making the roads in our county an,
the streets of Oakland in well-nigl
impossible condition. This condition
of affairs, especially in Oakland, coul,
be remedied in great extent if tn
proper attention was paid to tn
drainage of the streets which hav
not yet been paved. The propert
owners themselves should endeavo
to keep their platforms clear of mu
which could be done without the e1
penditure of much labor.
Two classes of wild game especial
annoying to farmers and the commu
nifty in general-foxes and wild cats
are very numerous this season in tn
mountains about Grantsville an
New Germany. A few days ago
hunting party consisting of Henri
Turner, Daniel Dorsey, Thomas NJ
Kenzie and others started a larg
catamount from its lair on Meade
Mountain, about three miles north {
the National Road. After chase {
several miles with six hounds the an
NAL was killed by Mr.. Turner. H
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