The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-01-23
LOCAL AND OTHERWISE
Incidents and Events at Home and Nearby
Personal Mention, Etc.

MI. OCOIt l. JOhtn NdS at Terra
Alta Tuesday evening.
Mr.. George w. Kitzmiller, of Kitz-
millerville, was in Oakland yesterday
on business.
A ton of coal is more acceptable to
live man than a wreath of flowers
to dead one.
Miss Irene Brown, of Mountain
Lake Park was the guest of friends in
Oakland day or two this week.
DIXON & KELso have 400 barrels
Ceresota and Gold Medal flour to sell
SOC barrel below the market price.
Yellow shelled corn soc bushel. 46 ,
Arthur Lawtou, who has been for
some months employed at and near
Warrington, w. Va, returned home
Sunday morning.
The young gentlemen of Oakland
are making preparations for the an
nual Easter ball to be given at the
Glades Hotel
Mr.. o. F. Morton, of Kingwood,
author of Winning or Losing?" was
"a business visitor to Oakland Tues
day morning for an hour or two.
Mr.. W. S. Dunlap, of Cumberland,
was here Friday last on business. He
attended the Knights of Pythias ban
quet that evening at the Glades Ho-
tel.
Mr.. Luther j. Brown has purchased
John Davis interest in the black
smithing business in Oakland and
will conduct the same under his own
name.
Cheap John" Michael has been
granted a pension of So per month by
the Pension Department. The amount
to be received by Mr.. Michael will be
quite neat sum.
The case of Lupton FrantZ, former
ly, of Friendsville, and serving term
in the penitentiary for cutting man
near Scottdale, was heard before the
Pardon Board last week and contin-
ued.
The children's entertainment on
last Saturday afternoon at the Epis-
copal Rectory, when the pastor and
Mrs. Osmond entertained the mem
bers of the Sunday school, was very
enjoyable affair. Candy, oranges and
other delicacies were distributed
to the children.
Senator Ravenscroft, after spend
ing Sunday with his family at Acct
dent, came up to Oakland Monday
and left here the same evening for
Annapolis, accompanied by Assem-
blyman Ashby, who also spent Sun
day at Crellin with his family.
Everyone in this State hopes that
Oakland will be selected as the per-
manent army camp. 1t will be very
convenient for troops from West Vir-
ginia to reach there. The Pennsyl-
vania sites will be convenient also
but none of them sound as good as
Oakland to us.-Morgantown Domin-
ion.
Mrs. Dr. NJ. G. Hinebaugh received
telegram Tuesday night announc-
ing the sudden death of her eldest
sister, Mrs. DR.. Morrow, of Owens
Mills, Baltimore county, of pneu
monia, after an illness of two weeks.
Mrs. Hinebaugh, accompanied by her
brother, DR.. J. g. Robinson, left for
Baltimore this morning to attend the
funeral.
Eggs in Oakland have been selling
at 25 cents per dozen for some time
past. The merchants at Hoyes and
Accident have been paying from %
to 80 cents per dozen and shipping
them to the Pittsburg markets where
quite an advance on these figures was
realized. A slump of cents per dozen
occurred on Saturday in the above
market and the price paid by local
merchants is now down to "a cents
per dozen.
A snow storm of considerable pro-
portions has been prevailing in this
community for two or three days
past. The snow is accompanied by
high wind and has drifted the snow
to some depth in the roads through
out the county. Down in the Poto-
mac valley the same conditions have
prevailed. Our roads are yet passa-
BILE and unless the wind approaches a
hurricane there will be no danger of
the roads becoming blocked.
Thirty Hungarians, employed in
the woods by the Preston Lumber
and Coal Company, decided to quit
work Monday rather than to accept a
reduction in pay and according the
Office of the above company in Oak
land was besieged for an hour or more
by the foreigners who received their
pay and left for other parts. AS a
class the Huns are pretty tough set.
Their earning capacity for their en-
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