The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-01-02

Mr.. f. J. Fringer was at Keyser
several days recently on business.
Editor J. N. Litzinger was a bust
ness visitor in Cumberland Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. NJ Falkenstein and
family spent Christmas with relatives
at GAINESVILLE.
Daniel Smith, Esq, of Washington,
ID. c., was in Oakland and Mountain
Lake Park on business Monday.
We regret to note the illness of
Postmaster Jarboe. who is suffering
with an attack of the grip.
Mr.. Russell Hubbard, of Philadel-
phia, was here several days this week
looking after his real estate interests.
The students who came home to
spend the holidays with their parents
are preparing to return to their re-
spective schools.
Attorney Norman S. Heindel was
over at German Monday where he
appeared as counsel in case before
Magistrate Harvey.
A number of young folks from Oak
land went down to Mountain Lake
Park Tuesday night and were enter
tanned quite sumptuously by Miss
Brown at Hotel Chautauqua.
We are indebted to Mr.. Percy Proc
ter for recent favors. Mr.. and Mrs.
Proctor are now in Chicago, where
they will spend the greater portion
of the winter
Judge Henry Stockbridge, of the
Baltimore City Circuit Court, was in
Oakland on Friday last on business
connected with the numerous tracts
of land in this county in which he is
interested.
Rev. W. H. Osmond is in Baltimore
this week but will return to Oakland
Saturday and on Sunday the regular
services at the usual hours will be
conducted by him in St Matthew'S
p. +. church.
Fire on Christmas day at Bayard,
West Va, destroyed the large lumber
mill of r. f. Whitmer & Co., at which
many men residing in this county
were employed. About one hundred
men are affected by the fire. The
mill may be rebuilt. 1t was insured.
1t was "a green Christmas but the
old saying need not come true if peo-
pie will pay the proper attention to
the rules of health. The weather has
very little to do with the state of
health prevailing if people are just
careful about how they expose them
selves needlessly.
The fair which has been on for the
past week at the Glades Hotel under
the auspices of the Catholic church
closed last night. The amount rea-
lied from the sale of fancy articles,
etc, was quite large and will be APP
piled to the fund for building the
new church.
The electric light plant at Friends
vile recently installed by Mr.. Samuel
Lawton is now in good working order,
the current for the town having been
turned on Monday evening, Dec. 90.
The plant is giving eminent satisfac-
ton and marks another step in the
line of progress at that hustling town.
A more direct telephone line to
Friendsville from Oakland is being
erected by the Garrett County Tele-
phone Company via Hoyes and Elder.
The poles for the new line have all
been set and wire will be strung
within few days. The service of
this line is as good as the average tel
ephone company places at the dispo-
sal of its patrons and as result the
demand for service is steadily in
creasing.
iC du fdhUhSCS vi d ptFudncnU
camp at Oakland are so many and so
obvious that the Guard of this state
wants to see the camp site proposed
up there selected by the National
Government. 1t would be q fine
thing to have the citizen soldierv
camped with the regulars each year.
They would be brought to much
higher state of efficiency than posi-
BILE under any other system. Nor
gantown Dominion.
Yesterday morning Geo. NJ. Mason,
of the City Roller Mills, turned the
establishment over to his two sons.
Messrs. Wallace l.. and Lee Mason.
who will operate it in future. The
young men are both well known and
universally liked. They begin bust
ness with the right idea. too-that
the liberal use of printers ink will
pay as witness their advertisement
elsewhere in to-day's issue of THE
REPUBLICAN. Their success is hoped