The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-08-07

Miss Laura Matthews, of Listie. Pa,
is in Oakland for few days visiting
Mrs. Scott.
Mr.. R. E. Siiger, OF the First Ma
tional Bank, spent Sunday in Pied
mont with relatives.
Miss Gertrude McConnor. of Balti-
more, is the guest OF her sister. Mrs.
n. S. Heindel
Miss Minnie Stemple, of Floyd, was
in town Saturday night, leaving Sun
day for Crellin, where she will visit
friends for several days.
Ex-senator Henry e. Davis and
Governor A. B. White and wife, of
West Virginia, were in Oakland Sun
day.
LOsT.-Liver and white pointer
bitch; has on left side heart-shaped
liver spot about the size of a~silYer
dollar. DR.. E. K. Goldsborough. 90
Mr.. John T. Mitchell returned to
Oakland from the vicinity of Kitz-
millersville yesterday where he had
been several days on professional
business.
Mr.. and Mrs. U. g. Palmer, of Hut
ton. are the recipients of the congrat-
ulations of their many friends over
the arrival at their home Sunday af-
ternoon last of son-the third one.
The frame of Mr., Chas. A. Deffin-
baugh's new house on Third street is
up and Will be completed within the
month. The house will be quite
pretty one and constructed along
modern lines.
Prof. and Mrs. John g. Robinson,
accompanied by their daughter, Mrs.
Messersmith. all of Baltimore. arrived
in Oakland Saturday and will remain
here during August visiting Dr. Rob-
inson and Mrs. DR.. Hinebaugh, their
son and daughter.
Deer Park is just now at the zenith
of its season. The hotel is full, and
social functions given by the cottagers
crowd each other. Dancing in the
ballroom of the hotel is one of the
principal amusements, the Naval
Academy Band furnishing the music.
Dog days begin on Friday. The
small boy has many superstitions
connected with this period which he
firmly believes and in some instances
his belief is shared by older people
who think that the air and water un-
dergo a special change on account of
the passage of certain arbitrary
period of time.
Mr.. Henry Nost, of Garrett county.
Md. was with Salisbury friends oyer
Sunday, and on Monday afternoon he
started for North Dakota, where he
expects to visit Mahlon p. Lichty and
other old-time friends. Before return
ing home he will also visit friends in
Iowa and other States. Mr.. Yost has
been a hard worker all his life, and by
industry and economy has accumu-
lated quite a competency. He has
wisely decided to spend portion of
it in looking up old friends and seeing
some of the country in the direction
of the setting sun. We wish him a
most pleasant trip, and we feel that
hi f,.ia Ic 1,
delighted to entertain him.-Salis-
bury Star.
In speaking of the cost of living
here and the complaints made by
some people about 1t gentleman re-
marked to-day that while there was
much truth in it there is also another
side to the question. He says it is the
lack of studying the question of
finance. 1t requires careful planning,
forethought and skill in expanding
what money you earn. To illustrate:
he named one party who works for
$25 per month. On this pittance the
party lives better and looks more
thrifty than a certain other one
named who earns and receives nearly
$40 per month. These is something
in this to think about. tits true that
some people can get more good out of
S25 than others out of $40. This is
lamentably true in a great majority
of cases.
Not long since a Missouri editor an
nounced that he would tell the truth
just for one issue, naked and unvarn-
ished. Here is one item from the
issue: "Married-Miss Sylvia Rhodes
to James Carnaham, last Saturday
evening, at the Baptist parsonage.
The bride is an ordinary town girl,
who doesn't know any more than a
rabbit about cooking, and never help
ed her poor mother three days in her
life. She is not beauty by any
means, and has gait like fat duck.
The groom is we'll known here as an
up-to-date loafer, has been living off
his old folks all of his life, and don't
amount to shucks, nohow. They will
have hard life while they live together
and the Ne10S hastens to extend no