The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-09-04
LOCAL AND OTHERWISE
Incidents and Events at Home and Nearby
Personal Mention, Etc.


Miss Blanche Flowers is visiting
relatives at Savage and Westernport.
Mr.. W. H. Porter, of the Watson
Hotel, Fairmont, spent couple of
days here last week.
Miss Julia Reynolds, of Oakland, is
visiting Mrs. James Carabine in Cum
berland.
Rev. John NJ. Davis returned from
a ten days trip to Atlantic City last
Thursday night.
Mr.. Emory E. Flowers is home from
West Virginia on a visit to his family
in Oakland.
Gustavus Garinger, Esq, of Acct
dent, accompanied by his wife and
children, were in Oakland yesterday.
EASTERN COLLEGE, Front Royal,
Va, is Offering more advantages at
reasonable rates than any other good
school. Write for free Catalogue. 5
Baker Henry Lauer made a bust
ness trip to Washington recently, re-
turning to Oakland Monday morn
ing.
Attorneys BENZ. A. Richmond and
W. G. Devecmon, of Cumberland, are
in Oakland today on professional
business
Mrs. John NJ. Davis was taken sud
denly ill Friday night last and for a
time her life was hanging in the bal
ance. An affection of the heart was
the cause.
Having given us cool weather all
summer, when GOODNESS is desired, it
is hoped the weather man will give
us warm weather all winter, when
warmth is needed.
Maj j. NJ. Burns, of Morgantown,
who with his family spent the sum-
mer at the Park, left Monday for the
South where he goes on business
mission. His family returned to Nor
gantown this week.
Mrs. Fuller Crane, of Parkersburg,
W. Va, who visited her mother, Mrs.
E. S. Townshend, in Oakland during
August, returned to her home Mon
day, accompanied by her son We'll
lington.
Contractor Cogley and his force of
men are making extensive Roadway
with the foundations for the new
bank building. With two more weeks
of favorable weather the walls will be
completed.
Miss Nellie Crabtree, of Keyser, w.
Va, who visited the family of Treas
urer James W. White for several
weeks, returned home Saturday even
ing accompanied by Miss Flora White
who will spend two weeks visiting
relatives at that place.
Mr.. Jacob s. Miller, of Grantsville,
who went over to the South Branch
of the Potomac last week with party
of friends to fish, passed through
Oakland Monday on his return home,
reporting that two hundred bass had
been caught by the party.
Mr.. and Mrs. Grant Hayden, of
Mountain Lake Park, left Monday
night for st. Louis, Mo-, where they
go for the benefit of the latter's health
and where Mr.. Hayden will be en-
ployed in a large grocery store. If it
is found that Mrs. Hayden's health is
not benefited by the change they will
go to San Antonio, Texas.
H. G. Sincell, of H. G. Sincell & Co.,
Oakland, and John T. Sincell, of The
Sincell Company, Keyser, w. Va, are
in Philadelphia and New York buy
ing stocks of fall and winter goods for
their respective stores. New goods
will arrive within few days at both
places when attractive values will be
offered.
When one places an advertisement
in even a weekly paper, printed in a
rural town, there is no foretelling
where he will get replies from. T..
Robb Devarmond was surprised last
week to get letter from Cornell,
South Dakota, and one from South
Mills, North Carolina, making in
quiries about some real estate he was
offering for sale in the Genius of
Liberty. 1t pays to advertise.-Union-
town Evening Genius.
Mrs. Ellen Bradley, of near Oak
land, returned Monday from Cincin-
natl, o., where she was called Thurs
day by telegram announcing the
sudden death of her step-son John
Bradley, whose funeral took place
Sunday. Mr.. Bradley is remembered
by many of Oakland's citizens, he
having resided on the Bradley farm
near town some years ago with his
father. In recent years he has been
living in Cincinnati where he was en-
, gagged in business. He leaves wife
and several children.
A horse attached to a runabout and
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