The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-03-06

MIR. w. ID. Hagans, OF oakland, Tor
many years one of the deputies in the
Circuit Court Clerks office, was over
come Tuesday afternoon at his home
on Third street with an attack of
heart failure. DIR. Ravenscraft, who
was hastily summoned, experienced
considerable hard work in reviving
him. He is somewhat better to-day.
The fourth-class postmasters, num-
boring over 10000, and hitherto with
out protection from arbitrary re-
moval will not hereafter be removed
except for cause on charges proved.
Senators and Representatives at the
Postofice Department were told, when
they called to make customary re-
quests for changes in fourth-class
postoffices, that removals would be
made upon charges and proof that
good cause existed for making them
in each individual case. This will be
good news for the postmasters who
are anxious to retain their places.
The following item is clipped from
one Of the Maryland dailies of Tues
day:
Col. Charles Headley, proprietor of
the Grafton Hotel, has received no.
tice that President Roosevelt will
visit Oakland April IS for the purpose
of spending several days fishing in
that vicinity and while there he de-
sired to stop at the Oakland Hotel,
the popular summer resort. of which
Mr.. Headley is proprietor. Mr.. Head
ley will have the hotel duly opened
| for the occasion.
The report, so far as we are able to
learn, is wholly without foundation.
President Roosevelt and his family
will be in Garrett county during
April and will stop at Mr.. G. W.
Delawder's, down near Deep Creek.
Assemblyman Ashby and Mr.. John
Shartzer experienced considerable
hardship in an attempt to reach Oak
land from the east last week during
the high waters. They boarded train
No. 1 at Washington Friday after
. noon and expected to reach here the
same evening at ten o'clock. AT
Okonoko the train was held up by
high waters ahead and before it could
be hauled back the flood had covered
the track in the rear, thus it stood
for day or more and as a conse.
quence Oakland was not reached un.
til an early hour Sunday morning
after having been on the road some.
thing over sixty hours when under
favorable circumstances the run il
made in a little over seven hours. Mr.
E. H. Sincell had similar experience
having left Baltimore Friday at mid
night and arrived here Sunday al
midnight.
An exchange pertinently asks the
following questions. Who sympa
thized with you when your little CIR
was sick? Was it your home mer
chant, or was it Sears, Roebuck
Co.? Who carried you when YOU
were out of job and had no money
was it Montgomery Ward & Co., OF
was it your home merchant? Wher
you want to raise money for the
church or some needy person in towI
do you write to the Fair store il
Chicago, or do you go to your home
merchant? How much do Siegel ant
Cooper give toward keeping up thu
sidewalks Of the town or paying tn,
minister's salary? When you wer,
sick how many nights did Hubbard
Spence & Bartlett sit up with you
When your loved one was buried wa
it Marshall, Field g. Co., who dropped
tear Of sympathy and uttered tn,
cheering word or was it your home
merchant
The report came here Wednesda,
morning that John Banks, know
here as "Bill'' Banks, colored, hat
been run over by a B. & o. engine a
Newburg the evening previous, ant
killed, but later it was stated that tn,
injuries received did not cause hi
death but that the man lost an arm
and received injuries to his head tina
will in all probability prove fatal
Banks was stealing ride on freigh
train from this city to avoid workin,
out a fine imposed by Mayor Boyt
for disorderly conduct, and in at
tempting to cross the tracks at New
burg was struck by a freight engine
He was taken to his home at Oak
land. Banks has been working il
and about Grafton for many year
past and when not intoxicated was
good hotel or bar hand and genera
favorite. His mother and sisters a
Oakland are among the most highl,
respected colored residents of tina
section.-Grafton Sentinel.
Church Services.
Rev. w. H. Miller, pastor, will
preach in the Garrett Memoria