The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-12-25
LOCAL AND OTHERWISE
Incidents and Events at Home and Nearby
Personal Mention, Etc.


Personal Mention. Etc.
DIR. John E. Legge spent Monday
in Baltimore, returning to Oakland
Tuesday morning.
Mr.. Henry Weber, Sr., who has
been in the East some days, returned
to Oakland Tuesday.
Miss Fannie Grim has ret urned to
her home after a weeks visit with
friends near Gortner..
Little Minnie, infant daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. John Menhorn, is SER
iously. i'll with pneumonia.
Mrs. Thomas r. McRobie, Third
street, is prepared to accommodate a
few boarders. Rates reasonable. If
Thomas Martin, Jr., has gone to
indianapolis, Ind, to attend an auc-
ton sale of fine horses.
Miss Minnie Sewers has returned to
hel home at Thayerville, after spend
ing several weeks with friends in
Oakland.
Go to the Tasker mine, two and a.
half miles from Swanton, for coal.
Full satisfaction guaranteed.
mar 1st L. F. TAsKER.
The Friday Night Social Club, COM
posed of number of young people,
was entertained by Miss Fife Mealey,
at her home on Alder street at its
meeting last week.
j. M. Conneway of District No. 8,
was in town Tuesday. Mr.. Conneway
is erecting large dwelling and hotel
at his farm when he will be prepared
to entertain guests during the sum
mer.
Rev. j. S. Harvey, former pastor at
Mountain Lake Park and Deer Park,
but now stationed at Democracy, o.,
arrived in Oakland Tuesday IN orning
to spend the holidays with relatives
in this section.
Messrs. Samuel Lawton and Ernest
Townsnend, who were at Petersburg,
w. Va, two or three weeks where
they installed heating plant for one
of the residents of that town, returned
to Oakland Saturday evening.
County Examiner Ed. A. Brown
ing returned to Oakland Sunday from
visit to schools in the lower portion
of the county and also was in atten-
dance at the teachers institute held
at Friendsville Friday and Saturday
last.
Oakland was filled Saturday and
all the days of this week with merry
throng of Christmas shoppers from
near by towns and the country gen
orally. The town merchants were
kept busy, some of them being COM
PEELED to employ extra clerks to wait
upon their customers.
A freight train drawn by extra east
bound engine 2066 was slightly wreck
ed by the bursting of wheel under
a gondola one mile west of Frank
vile, Sunday morning, causing three
other cars to be derailed, blocking
both tracks for three hours. The
wrecking train from Piedmont clear
ed the track.
The Oakland Planning Mill will be
put into operation on January list.
Messrs. Austin Brown and John Ault,
both of whom are interested in the
mill and who are experienced mill
men, will have charge of the plant,
The mill will give employment to a
number of men from the start and
will experience a good business we
have no doubt.
The owners Of local mines near Oak
land are experiencing rush of orders
far in advance of the supply. The
coal being mined is of a good quality
and is being delivered to consumers
at price somewhat less than it can
be laid down by rail. AS is always
the case the more these seams of coal
are developed the better this min
eral becomes. Vests mine, near the
Big Yough county bridge is being
; worked night and day and still the
demand cannot be met.
The public schools throughout tn e
county closed Friday last for the
Christmas Holidays. The sessions
will be resumed on Monday, January
9Th, 1908. In the primary department
of the Oakland schools each scholar
received box, the handiwork of the
class, filed with an assortment of
candy which was donated by Miss
johnson, teacher of the primary de-
partment, and Mr.. Bartholomew, in
charge of the manual training de-
partment.