The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-09-18
LOCAL AND OTHERWISE
Incidents and Events at Home and Nearby
Personal Mention, Etc.


Oakland Monday night.
Col. Pearre will speak at the Oak
land meeting Monday night
Druggist Joseph E. Harmed is in
Philadelphia this week on business,
The public schools in this county
will open en- Monday, Sept Goth, for
a term of six months.
r. A. Orcutt has moved his. family
from Oakland to a point over in Pres
ton county near Kingwood, w. Va.
Miss Julia Reynolds returned Fri
day from a visit to friends in Cum
berland.
Col. Pearre will speak at the Oak
land meeting Monday night.
Naylor & Co. Just received car of
Terra Gotta pipe, 4, 6, 10, IL and "a
inch. 26-3t
The Gormania Uniform Rank of
Knights of Pythias will attend the
State lodge meeting at Grafton, w.
Va, October 16.
EASTERN COLLEGE, Front ROYAL,
Va, Is offering moe advantages at
reasonable rates than any other good
school. Write for free Catalogue. 5
Messrs. R. T. Browning, NJ. R. Ham
ill and Edward A. Browning attended
the funeral of the late VIM. r. Getty
at Grantsville Sunday last.
G. w. Kitzmiller is building a hotel
at Blaine. A Knights of Pythias hall
is also being built there. The lower
rooms will be used for store rooms.
Attend the Republican meeting in
Oakland Monday night.
Norman r. Sanner, who was man
ager of the Mountain Lake Park
Pharmacy during the past summer,
has rented a store room at Friends
vile and will open a drug store in
that town shortly.
Col. A. G. Sturgiss was over at Nor
gantown few days last week, re-
turning to Oakland Saturday. While
in Morgantown he attended a lot sale
where upwards of three hundred lots
were sold at public auction, the
amount of the sale aggregating $780,
600.
Richard Cornell returned Friday
from Hutton, Md, where he had been
GT0ay1IinCr H. L 1.
his parents. Mrs. Council, who ac-
companied him, stopped off at Oak
land, Md, to visit friends and rela-
tives for ten days or two weeks
Morgantown Post
Col. Pearre will speak at the Oak
land meeting Monday night.
Frost on Saturday and Sunday
nights in this section of the country
played havoc with the late garden
vegetables and field corn. The latter
turned black and will be wholly unfit
for feed. The grain is practically I'M
injured, however, and no serious mon
etary loss will ensue. Late yegeta-
bles, such as cucumbers, tomatoes,
etc., are entirely destroyed.
David Sollars, of Blaine, was seri-
ously cut with a knife by Frank
Thompson, of that place, last Thurs
day. They went to Piedmont and
were returning on freight when
dispute arose, which resulted in
fight. Sollars was cut about the face
and hands. Several ugly gashes were
cut in his cheeks. Thompson has left
the town.
Garrett county is still enjoying a
boom which has been in progress for
two years. Land around Oakland,
which few years ago could be bought
for from $50 to 800 an acre, is now
being sold for $3.50. The demand for
coal land and lumber land is also
great. Oakland itself is sharing the
boom. Many Improvements are to
be seen on every hand, and numerous
dwelling houses are being erected in
the town.
Attend the Republican meeting in
Oakland Monday night.
DR.. o. G. Getty and wife and Mrs.
Bruce Lichty were called to Grants
vile, Md, on Monday by the serious
illness of Hon. w. R. Getty, of that
place, the aged father of DR.. Getty
and Mrs. Lichty. He is one of the
oldest citizens of that place and has
resided there for many years, and had
represented his people in the halls of
the legislature of that State. He is
well known to many of the older peo-
pie of this vicinity. -Meyersdale Re-
publican.
Cumberland is greatly excited by
mysterious double tragedy. William
6. Little, railroad conductor, and a
married man, aged about 35 years,
was found dead shortly after mid
night Monday morning at the corner
of Front and Fulton streets, along
the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, and
John Steckman, aged about % years,