The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-01-16
LOCAL AND OTHERWISE
Incidents and Events at Home and Nearby
Personal Mention, Etc.

mcNentS ana Events at Home and Nearby
Personal Mention, Etc.
Miss Bessie Offttt has returned to
school at Winchester, Va.
Miss Elizabeth Caudy, of Baltimore.
is here as the guest of Miss Nell
Offutt.
Miss Wonn Robinson has gone to
Baltimore where she is the guest of
friends.
Sincell and Company's annual
white goods sale begins on Friday,
the 18th inst. See advertisement.
Rev. w. H. Miller will preach in
the Garrett Memorial church next
Sunday morning at II o'clock.
Rev. George 1. Uhler, pastor, will
preach Sunday morning and evening
in st. Marks Ev. Lutheran church at
the usual hours.
Attorneys &. S. Hamill and Edward
H. Sincell were at Annapolis Tuesday
where they argued the case of Rhoages
VS.. Ruhl & Co.
For EXCHANGE-Eigty rods from
station, will exchange engine, boiler,
saw mill, running order, and $1,000
feet standing timber for 10000 feet
lumber delivered. G. L. SWEET.
40 3t@' Swanton, Md.
Miss Elliott, of Westernport, and
Miss Coles, of Bluefelds, w. Va,
were the guest of Mr.. and Herman
Creutzberg in Oakland few days
this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thos. b. Flowers. of
st. Paul, Mimi, have returned home
after several weeks visit to relatives
in this place. Miss Blanche Flowers
accompanied them to st. Paul, where
she will remain for several months.
The paper read before the farmers
institute last week by Prof. Guy L.
Stewart and which was promised us
for publication this week has so far
not arrived and we are therefore
forced to disappoint our readers in
this respect.
The man who throws dice for the
drinks and sneers at his wife for gam
bling if she takes a chance in prize
cake at the church festival must not
expect st. Peter to come very far out
side the suburbs of the New Jerusa-
lem to meet him when he dies and
goes to heaven.
Cashier Scott 7. Jones circulated a
petition among the business men of
Oakland and the citizens generally of
the county last week praying that
Congress intervene to stop the South
African war. The petition contained
the names of several hundred persons,
not one being asked to append his
signature and refusing to do so.
A crusade has been started in Mar
tinsburg against the dogs of that
place and 1915 was taken into the
treasury by noon the first day. Six
dogs whose owners had not provided
tags for them are in the pound. Why
not enact and enforce dog law here
Any man who owns dog worth the
tax will willingly pay it and the
worthless ours should be put out of
the way in some manner.
Ohio Heiskell, Jr., son of O. w.
Heiskell, of Wheeling, who conducted
a general store in Oakland some years
ago, and who was with the British a
few months in the South African war,
leaves within few days for New Or
leans whence he will return to the
Transvaal, this time to fight in the
Boer cause. He was among party
of ambushed British and was treated
SO well by his captors that he is now
a Boer sympathizer.
AT Thursdays session of the Board
of County Commissioners the printing
and publishing for the ensuing year
was awarded as follows: To Benz. 81.
Sincell for publishing and printing,
1876; to James ID. Hamill, for publish
ing, 1886. Mr.. Hamill thus receives
$3.50 more this year than he did last
for the same service. whilst we get $50
less. The Journal has probably come
to the conclusion that not so much
money after all was made in years
gone by on the county publishing.
The Postal Telegraph Company,
whose poles are now encroaching up
on the roadbed of the old National
Road thus reducing the original
width of the road to less than one
half, will string additional wires all
the way from Baltimore to Wheeling.
This corporation is foreign one and
we understand it pays no taxes into
the county treasury. 1t received no
franchise from the County Commits
sioners to utilize the roadway, a very
valuable consideration, and in erect
ing the poles the roadway was con
siderably injured