The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-11-27
LOCAL AND OTHERWISE

Incidents and Events at Home and Nearby
Personal Mention. Etc.
Mr.. Austin Brown was at Piedmont
Sunday.
Felty s. Co., Mt. Lake Park, will
pay all cash for good potatoes.
Thomas Gender has returned from
Newburg, where he spent a week.
Mrs. Austin Brown has been very
i'll at her home on Main street for
several days.
When good advertising is support
ed by good goods and good manage
ment it can't help but pay.
The Cabin Hot Blast Heating Stove
for sale by G.. A. Shirer & Co. The
most economical stove in the use of
fuel known. 3t*
The Board of County Commissioners
will meet in Oakland on Tuesday of
next week when routine business will
be transacted.
Mrs. Austin Shaw, of New Germany
Md, and Miss Fletcher, of Lonacon-
ing, Nd, spent Saturday and Sunday
as the guests of Miss May Langley
Cumberland News.
Mr.. L. F. Tasker, of near Swanton
who owns and operates a coal mine
near that place, was in Oakland
Monday and advertises elsewhere in
these columns today the output of
his name.
A freight wreck of somewhat large
proportions took place on the Seven
teenmile Grade just east of Swanton
Tuesday afternoon by which both
tracks were completely blocked sew
eral hours and two engines as well as
number of cars more or less broken
up. Fortunately no one was injured.
The fall has been remarkable from
many causes. The weather prophets
are all predicting ii hard winter, but
if the weather don't hurry to suit
them there won't be much time for
bad ranges of temperature before
they give way to the warmth of
spring.
Hunters complain that the mild fall
has made game hard to bag There
has not been much game caught
though the conditions would seem to
be favorable. Sportsmen deplore the
fact that game is on the decline and
they can see the time when it will be
necessary to go a great distance to
get a shot.
1t all depends on the man whether
or not his advertisement will pay.
He may be sure it will be dead loss
unless he gets back of it and projects
it forward with all the energy at his
command. AS well might we expect
electric cars to be propelled without
the aid of that subtle fluid as that an
advertisement will forge to the front
as winner without the intelligent
help of it's author.
John R. Kope, who was tried and
found guilty Of forgery by the Circuit
Court of this county in September,
1898 and sentenced to serve term of
five years in the Maryland Peniten-
tiary was released from that institu-
ton Tuesday morning of this week
and arrived here yesterday. For good
behavior two months from each year
was deducted from his sentence, the
time actually served by him being but
four years and two months. He will
endeayor to secure employment in
Oakland.
The origin. of the term Indian sum-
mer has not been definitely deter
mined. Several explanations have
been offered which refer to Indian
traditions. One of these alludes to
their great god Sowwaniu, who dwelt
in the Southwest, from whence
their most priced winds blew. An
other fiction has it that the Indian
god Nanahbozhoo, who dwells in the
North previous to falling asleep for
the winter, fills his great pipe and
smokes for several days, and it is
! uoke arising from his pipe that
auses the hazy weather. Professor
Cleveland Able suggests that some
early traveller in India, who had ex-
perienced the dry hazy weather of
the Indian plains, recognized nearly
the same kind of sky in the American
Indian summer, and so named it.
Still another suggestion is that it
may have been some reference to that
season when the Indians, during the
early settlement of the country, Wis
tied the forts and blockhouses before
diving into the wilderness for the
winter, as was their custom.