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

Incidents and Events at Home and Nearby
Personal Mention. Etc.
Mr. William D. Hoye, of Deer Park,
visited Oakland Monday.
Offutts' silver plated ware will make
handsome Christmas present.
Misses Annie and Jennie Beckman,
of Swanton, were visitors to Oakland
Monday.
If all predictions come true we will
have a very cold, very warm, very
wet and dry winter.
For SALE-A good milch COW; will
be sold cheap. Call on D. E. Bolden
at the furniture store.
This is the season of the year when
the man who always shut the door
last summer now leaves it open when
he goes out of the house.
Mrs. Annie Nelson, accompanied by
her daughters Annie, Jeanette and
Marguerite, left for their future home
in Pittsburg Sunday morning.
The First National Bank of Oak
land has received some new coins,
fresh from the mint for holiday use;
also some new dollar bills.
Go to the Tasker mine, two and a.
half miles from Swanton, for coal.
Full satisfaction guaranteed.
mar 1st L. F. TAsKER.
Rev. Baker, of Cumberland, will
preach in st. Matthew's P E. Church
on Wednesday next at II o'clock A.
NJ. to which service all are cordially
invited.
Mr.. E. E. Flowers, who has been
engaged in the saw mill business in
West Virginia for the past year or
more, arrived in Oakland last week
and has accepted a position with
Bond Bros. in this county.
The family of A. G. Browning, ESQ.,,
of near Swanton, consisting of his
wife and several sons and daughters,
have moved from their farm to Oak
land where they are occupying rooms
in the Felty house on Oak street.
When you are looking for Christ
mas presents don't pass Smiths Cut
Price Store without taking a peep at
the many beautiful, useful articles
just suited to this season. And the
prices-well, just come and see how
much you can save buying at Cut
Prices.
Sunday night an unidentified man
committed suicide by shooting him
self twice in the head in the toilet
room of a coach on Baltimore and
Ohio train No. s, a fast mail from
Chicago to New York, near Farm.
ington, W. Va.
Mrs. George T. Brew, accompanied
by her little daughter and her mother,
Mrs. Jackson, departed from Oakland
last Friday for Frostburg where they
remained over Sunday visiting friends
and on Monday went to Washington
where they were joined by Mr.. Brew.
After spending a few days in that
city they went on to Ronceverte,
their future home.
The weather the past week or two
has been extremely bad. Rain has
followed snow and ci"e 0ersd with the
result that all roads are in such hor-
rible condition that traffic is well
night suspended. Unless a change
for the better should come Christmas
trade in OaklaBfl will be extremely
dull and merchants as well as all 9TH
ers will experience hardships.
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad off
Gals, according to dispatches con-
tanned in the daily papers, are "leg-
ging' to have Congress select Somer-
set, Pa, as the site for the permanent
army camp while the citizens of that
town are petitioning Congress against
it. A rather peculiar state of affairs.
Oakland has set forth her advantages
in circular which was presented to
Congress at it's last session.
Singularly enough, the residents of
Somerset are unalterably opposed to
the plan of having an army post To-
Gated in that vicinity and are signing
petition to Congress in opposition to
the bill now before that body to es-
tablish a post at Somerset. The Som
erset people are imbued with the feel
incr that an army most wouId die+,rL
the peace and quiet of the town and
demoralize things generally. The
Somerset folks are entitled to have
their scare, but there are other places
ready to take the responsibility from
Somerset, particularly Oakland. This
city will willingly step into the
breach and save Somerset's bloom of
innocence from being furnished.