The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-12-18


German, were here Tuesday.
Fine Barred Rock Cockerels, $1.00
to $3.50 each. Sire scored 904. Miller
Bros. Box 70, Grantsville, Nd. 2t
Mrs. E. L. Mitchell entertained the
Ladies' Club at her residence on Sec
ond street last Thursday afternoon.
Mrs. Julius Scherr and little son, of
Eglon, are here as the guests of Mr..
and Mrs. Julius c. Renninger.
Offutts' Furs, Coats and Jackets will
be sold at reduced prices for Christ
mas presents.
If Oakland expects to secure the
location of the permanent army camp
here it is high time her citizens were
getting move on.
Mrs. D. E. Bolden, daughter Leah
and son Emroy returned home from
Cumberland Tuesday eveing, after a
pleasant soiourn of ten days among
relatives and friends.
hC ICtIScbb vi llcibb We l"NS
sold is proof that our styles and prices
are strictly right. To make room for
our holiday goods, we will close out
our ready-to-wear hats at great re-
duction. MRS. s. @. SMITH.
Life, after all, is a masquerade, says
an observing writer. We fear to show
our tenderness and our love. We hab-
itually hide our best feelings lest we
be judged weak and emotional Some
times it needs death to show us our
selves and to teach our friends our
deep and unsupported kindness.
A mob of 20 men attacked Bethel
Church, near Belington, w. Va, with
stones during services on Sunday
morning. All the windows were brok-
en- and the mob then began firing.
Headed by the pastor, Rev. John
Chenoweth, the congregation fled to
the woods, pursued by the mob. Many
were trampled upon, beaten and in
jured, but so far as could be learned
no one was shot. The object of the
attack on the church is not known.
To distribute 36,0O0,O00 packages of
seed is the little task before the ag-
ricultural department this winter.
The seeds for the south are already
being distributed. Those for the far
northern states will go out last. The
seeds are weighed, sacked, counted
and delivered by machinery, with the
assistance of few workmen. For
merly small army of women did the
work.
This office is in receipt of number
of compositions on the Banana,
which were written by scholars of
Prof. Chas. E. Hoye's school at San
Mateo, Philippine Islands. In all the
compositions the vertical style of
writing has been followed. The pen
manship in many of them is excellent.
The boys who wrote the compositions
are all under twelve years of age and
have been in school but nine or ten
months. The manuscript has been
sent to Prof. A. W. Dewitt, principal
of the Oakland schools, who is exhib-
iting it to his pupils.
Occasional" writing in another
column of to-day's REPUBLICAN, has
touched upon subject of more than
ordinary Importance to those citizens
of Garrett county who are bent upon
the preservation of the earlier history
of the county and the traditions of
the pioneers of this section of the AL
leganies which has been handed down
from generation to generation. In
his paper "Occasional'' sets forth the
fact that in some of the older counties
of the State historical societies have
been formed and volumes have been
written and preserved touching upon
local history, tradition and reminis-
cences. Garrett county is rich in all
these, many white men with their
families having settled in these noun
tains long before the Indian tribes
which infested the whole country had
moved further west. The history of
Andrew Friend, the projenitor of the
Friend family, which easily outnum-
bers that of any other family in the
county, is one among the many that
should be preserved, he having been
a man of National reputation during
his life time as guide of Washington
and companion of Daniel Boone. Now
is the time to get these valuable facts
together that they may be preserved
for future ages.
Xmas at j. M. Davis g. Son.
We are offering 300 16x20 beautiful
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