The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-10-23
LOCAL AND OTHERWISE
Incidents and Events at Home and Nearby
Personal Mention, Etc.

Will Sturgiss is east on a pleasure
trip.
]. Grant Hayden and wife are now
in Colorado.
Mr.. Scott T. Jones is in Keyser to-
day on business.
Robert Moorehead, Esq, of Bloom
ington, was in Oakland last Friday.
MIR. Charles A. Wilt, of Elk Lick,
Pa, is in Oakland today on business.
Dixon s. KeIso will pay 40 cents trade
or 80 cents cash for oats. 322
Manager Rudisill and family are in
Washington this week on visit to
friends.
Mrs. Frank Byers and family, of
Savage, W. Va, are on a visit to rela-
tives in Oakland.
Money to loan on real estate Easy
payments. Apply to Julius G. Rem
ninger, Oakland, Md. SO If
Mr.. and Mrs. James A. Sincell have
SOlAC W DtlOlluOIO COuAUl WucIc bl0y
expect to remain several weeks.
WANTED.-Mant to run steam heat
ing plant. Apply to Thomas ]. Ped
dicord. 1t
Prof. Guy l.. Stewart, of the B. s.
o. Industrial Department, visited
Oakland yesterday.
Mrs. Thomas 7. Nelson, who visit
ed relatives at Myersdale, Pa, a few
days last week, has returned home.
Margaret Bowie Grant, piano and
ear training taught. Has studied at
Peabody Conservatory. SO 81
Mrs. George W. Fleming, who Wis
tied relatives in Wilmington, Del, for
a few weeks, returned home on Tues
day last.
Yesterday this Office was favored by
calls from Messrs. James H. and Dan
iel Wilson and ]. 7. Harvey, all OF
near Blaine.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Johns, of the
Park, have gone to Masillon, Ohio,
where they will spend the winter with
their daughter.
Two car loads of stone for the new
bank building now being erected in
Oakland have been received. Yester.
day morning four stone cutters went
to work shaping up the stones.
Mr.. Charles E. Burke, who has been
clerking at Offutt & Sons store in
Oakland for several months, has gone
to Grafton where he has secured a
similar position in a store of that city.
AT the Presbyterian church next
Sunday morning the subject of the
sermon will be ''In my Fathers House
are Many Mansions A cordial invi-
tation is extended to all to attend.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Stark, accom-
panied by Mrs. J. S. North, all of Bit
finger district, were in Oakland last
Thursday, when Mr. Stark made this
office an agreeable visit.
A big gypsy camp is located on the
base ball grounds west of town. The
camp is composed of a number of fam
lilies. Horse trading is the occupation
of the male portion while the women
tell fortunes and cajole the public in
to giving them money for the service.
Mr.. A, Frederick George, of Swan
ton, is in Cleveland, o., this week at
tending the National Missionary Con-
vention of the M. E. Church as a del
egate from Oakland district. Col. A..
G. Sturgiss is also a delegate to the
convention from this district but
owing to business interests cannot
attend.
The EDITORS family is on visit to
relatives at Kingwood this week and
during their absence a modern hot
water heating plant is being installed
in the editorial home by Messrs. A. D.
Naylor q Co., the Oakland plumbers.
The fact that this firm is doing the
work is guarantee enough that it will
prove satisfactory.
Mr.. Jerry O. Browning has been
appointed by the officials of the Bal
timore and Ohio Railroad to a posi-
ton on the police force of that COM
pany. He expects to go east in a
week or two when he will be exam
ined physically and if the examina-
tion proves satisfactory he will be
stationed in Philadelphia, Pa.
Rev. George 1. Uhler, who has been
pastor of st. Marks Ev. Lutheran
church in Oakland for several years,
will leave here shortly and go to some
point in Pennsylvania where he will
become pastor of a large congrega-
ton. This morning Mr.. Uhler went
to Hagerstown where he is attending
the sessions of the Maryland Synod,
now being held in that city.
Owing to the crowded condition of
the columns of THE REPUBLICAN to-
day space for the paper of Miss Mat
tie Riley on School Room Decoration
and that of Miss Rose Janoska on the
Recitation, which were read before