The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-05-22
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i Sunday in Oakland with his family.
Services will be held Sunday morn
ing and evening in st. Marks Ev.
Lutheran church.
Dixon & Kelso have a large car of
buckwheat fertilizer to sell cheap on
easy terms. 112t
Mrs. A. T. and G. A. Fraley were at
Lake Brown Friday last trying their
luck at angling.
Senator Ravenscroft, of Accident,
was in town two or three days this
week on business.
Just received at Dixon & Keso's a
big car No. One White Oats to sell
| cheap. Will pay highest market price
for wool in either cash or trade. 2t
Mrs. John T. Mitchell, accompanied
by two of her children, drove over to
Listonburg, Pa, Saturday, where
they will visit relatives for a few days.
Grant Hayden, of the Park, WHO is
clerking for G. s. May at Swanton,
was in Oakland Monday for short
time
Mr.. George L. Michaels. of rear
Bloomington, was in Oakland Satur-
day last on business and made !his
office brief visit.
The frosts of last week did some
damage to early fruits and berries
such as cherries, etc, but it is thought
that the apples and other large fruit
escaped serious injury.
Surveyor Alex. G. Mason, HarIand
Jones and Stuart Hamill were down
in District No. few days last week
making survey of some land in liti-
CATION.
Postmaster W. A. Smith, of Hoyes,
was in town Monday and on Tuesday
he made visit to points in District
No. 8 in the interest of the Garrett
County Telephone Company of which
he is the president.
Henry Winterberg, accompanied by
his son, drove to Grantsville on Sun
day. On his return the same day he
was accompanied by his sister who
took the train from this place for
New Jersey.-Meyersdale Republican.
Gabriel Friend Sisler, who was born
in Friendsville, this county, on March
II, 1902, sketch of whose life was
published in these columns in the is
sue of May 8th, died at Uniontown,
Pa, on Monday afternoon of this
week.
DR.. W. L. Davidson, superintendent
of the Mountain Chautauqua, who
attended a meeting of the board of
directors at the Park Tuesday, was
! in town that evening greeting his
host of friends. The Doctor prom
ises great things for the Chautauqua
which opens the first week in August
and we know he never disappoints.
Mrs. kirkpatrick, who so success
fully conducted Brookside Hotel and
cottages the past two years, is again
in charge, having arrived here one
day last week on her way to Brook
side. The buildings have been re-
furnished throughout with modern
furniture, several new buildings have
been erected and the place made in
wiling to the large crowds expected
| this summer
Mrs. Lucretia Hagans, widow of the
late William H. Hagans who died
suddenly at Corinth two weeks ago,
was taken to Sylvan Retreat, Cum
berland, Tuesday afternoon by Sheriff
w. A. Maffett. Mrs. Hagans' mind
has been greatly affected for two
years or more, and since her husbands
death, having no one to care for her.
she was placed in the above institu-
ton for treatment by the county
authorities.
1t is generally supposed that kero-
sene is a sovereign cure for all kinds
of microbes. But here comes the New
York Board of Health and declares
that kerosene lamp half turned
down is the worst breeder of dipther-
ia in the world, and the board par
ticularly warns all mothers against
leaving such light in the sleeping
rooms of children. The fumes of the
lamp not only poison the air but fit
it for the propagation of diptheria
germs.
The Oakland correspondent of an
eastern daily truthfully says in re-
gard to trout and trout fishing in
Garrett county that "the season for
trout fishing is now at its height, and
it is the general opinion of anglers
that the day of the brook trout. a
native of this section, is at an end.
Our best trout streams have been al
most depopulated by other species of
fish. The State fish commission for
many years have annually stocked
our streams with what were supposed
to be brook or rainbow trout, but in
their stead millions of small hIaolr