The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-07-31

Wallace L. Mason returned Satur-
day night from a weeks visit to West
Virginia towns.
The Oakland Concert Band will
furnish the music at the Park on
Saturday, Bryan Day.
The Board of School Commissioners
will award the contract tomorrow
for school supplies consisting of books,
stationery, desks, etc.
Mrs. Rolla White, of near town,
has been quite seriously i'll for the
past week or ten days but is better at
this time.
EsTRAYED.-I have taken up as an
estray black yearling sow. Owner
can recover same by proving proper
tY, paying damages and the cost of
this notice. B. F. Crane, Mt Lake
Park. st
w. H. Malette, of Pittsburg, is at
the Park where he is erecting a hand
some pavilion from which he will sell,
during the chautauqua, refreshments
and fruits.
Gov. A. B. White, of West Virginia,
who is spending the summer at Noun
tain Lake Park, was in Oakland a
day or two ago, renewing old and
forming new acquaintance.
Rev. J. H. Daugherty, of Balti-
more, will preach in St. Paul's NJ. E.
church at 10 o'clock a. m, and Rev.
D. c. Hendric, of Roanoke, Va, will
preach in the same church at 7:30
p. N. Sunday.
The West Virginia Central and
Pittsburg Railway has granted an
average increase of 10 per cent. in the
wages of the employees of the trans
portation department. The act was
voluntary on the part of the company
The foundations for the residences
of MIR. R. E. Siiger and Mr.. Joseph E.
Harmed on Second street are almost
completed. The lumber for Mr.. Sill
gers house is on the ground and it is
expected to be completed September
1st.
Mr.. w. NJ. Junkins has been APP
pointed committee by the Circuit
Court for this county to take charge
of and sell the real and personal prop
erty of Solomon Tasker who has been
adiuged insane and who was taken to
Sylvan Retreat, Cumberland, last
Wednesday by Mr. Junkins.
! Bills have been filed in the Circuit
Court for Garrett county by Albert
Bowers against his wife, Mary Bow
ers, for divorce, and by Catharine
Flanagan against her husband Daniel
Flanagan, also for a divorce. Mr..
Fred. A. Thayer represents the plain
tiffs in both cases.
DR.. and Mrs NJ. p Brown, of Hamp-
ton, Iowa, the latter a daughter of
Mr.. John Harmed, of near Oakland,
are now guests at the home place ~
this being Mrs. Browns first visit
home in eighteen years at which time
she left this section for the West to
visit friends and where she was sub
sequently married.
The official board of St. Marks Ev.
Lutheran church in Oakland sold on
Tuesday of this week to Will Cleve-
land portion of the parsonage lot
fronting fortytive feet on Fifth street
for 1915. Mr.. Cleveland will begin
the erection of residence upon his
purchase at once. The money &C.
quired from the sale of the lot will be
applied to the Indebtedness of the
church, which now amounts to about
$1,000.
The statement of the First National
Bank of Oakland appears in this is
sue of THE REPUBLICAN. This ex-
position of the financial standing of
the institution reflects creditably up
on its officials and is matter of in
terest to the stockholders, showing as
it does surplus fund of nearly $4,000.
The bank was opened for business
less than two years ago with CAPT
tai of $4,000 which is soon TO be in
creased to $4,000.
Attorney General Romeo H. Freer,
of West Virginia, is at Mountain Lake
Park to-day in conference with Gov
ernor White relative to what action
he will take in reference to those en-
gagged in the lynching of the negroes
at Womelsdorf growing out of the
murder of Policeman Wilmoth on
Wednesday of last week-and followed
a few days later with summary ven
geance being melted out to two ne
groes by mob and charged with
committing the crime.
DR.. H. Scott, the pastor, preached
most excellent sermon to the Masons,
who attended the service in body,
Sunday morning, at st. Pauls NJ. E.
church. His text was Cor. 1918,
And now abideth faith, hope, char
ity, these three; but the greatest of