The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-01-09

Park, was in the city Monday.
Mr.. Joseph Helbig went over to
kingwood this morning on business.
Senator VIM. g. Morley, of King
wood, was registered at the Glades
Hotel in Oakland Sunday
Misses Grace Jones has returned to
Winchester, Va, where she is attend
ing seminary.
Mr.. Alfred b. Mason, of near Swan
ton, made this Office brief visit Mon
day.
Mr.. Stewart f. Hamill, who visited
friends in Cumberland a few days
has returned home.
Dixon & Kelso will pay Zoe cash or
soc trade for potatoes. Bring them
in now before the spring rush gluts
the market and brings down the price.
Jacob Stanley Meyers, Uncle Sam
uel's store keeper at Miller's distillery,
Accident, was in town a day or two
this week.
Although the we3 ther for several
weeks past has been frigid very little
snow has fallen here during the pres
ent winter.
Misses Lulu and Jessie Fringer
have returned to their home in Oak
land from a visit to relatives in Graf
ton, w. Va.
Miss Irene Brown, of Mt. Lake
Park, was the guest of Misses Ma rga-
ret and Gertrude Sincell at their home
on Liberty street several days last
week.
A miner, Hundy Duggan, formerly
of Bloomington, this county, at which
point his brother still resides, was
killed one day recently by a fall of
coal in mine in the Meyersdale re-
gion.
The Board of County Commission
ers is in session this week making ap-
pointments of road supervisors and
constables for the ensuing year. The
proceedings in full will be published
in these columns next week.
Mr.. George Bishoff, of Hoyes, has
our thanks for the well written report
appearing in this issue of the pro-
ceedings OF the farmers institute in
session in Oakland Tuesday and yes
terday
A meeting of the stockholders of the
Garrett County Telephone Company
of Garrett County will be held at
Hoyes on Saturday at 8 O'Clock, at
which time board of directors and
officers for the ensuing year will be
elected.
January has been giving us some
very fine winter weather but the alb
sence of snow is bothering some peo-
pie. However the wheat is said to be
unframed yet and we can bear the
ills that have come on account of the
lack of snow if there is nothing hurt
by it.
The sessions of the Farmers Insti-
tute held at the Opera House in Oak
land Tuesday and yesterday were all
well attended by representative and
progressive tillers of the soil. Many
farmers came all the way from Acct
dent and beyond to be able to meet
with their brethren and to listen and
learn many new arts in their chosen
calling
Justice of the Peace G.. Arthur Muir
ply, of District No. ., was in town
Tuesday and yesterday exhibiting a
model of a balloon frame barn for
which he is the agent in Garrett
county. Mr.. Murphy succeeded in
interesting a number of the farmers
in the building and may erect several
in this neighborhood the coming
summer.
Several of our daily exchanges con-
tanned mention of the unsu ccessful
efforts of the prospectors in District
No. 3 in locating coal and other min
eral deposits in that locality They
were of the opinion, however, that
valuable coal beds could be found at
a greater depth than that touched by
the drill and seemed favorable to the
suggestion made by us that an appro-
priation be asked from the State to
further prosecute the work.
Many of our roads are in an almost
impossible condition incident to their
location and the bad weather that
has been prevailing all over this sec
ton for months past. Only recently
three-horse team belonging to a
farmer named Beckman, residing in
District No. l, went oyer an EN- bank
ment at Floyd along with a load of
hay being drawn by the horses The
team and sled rolled down the side
of the hill into stream of water. The
animals were nearly drowned and the
hay was an entire loss.
Mr. MoCuIIonnJ, a., ..,.... 49, -