The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-05-08

OIAOn N hciSO OleF colue great
bargains in groceries beginning Mon
day. See advertisement on this page.
! Messrs. Chas. Liller, Ii. A Rasche,
! Lee Mason and w. c. Cartright went
out to Fairmont Tuesday TO see Fore
i paugh and Sells Bros. circus.
Postmaster J. M. Jarboe has i'm
proved his residence by erecting an
addition and repairing the front
porch.
| Justice W. H. H Friend, OF Friends
vile, was in Oakland Tuesday on
business, returning TO his home yes
terday morning.
School Commissioners George f..
Bishoff and C. L. Ellithorp were in
Oakland Tuesday and yesterday at
tending meeting of the School Board.
At meeting of the executive COM
mittee of Oakland Club held last
night it was decided to sell the furni-
ture, pay off the debts and disor-
ganize.
Mr.. A. F. George, of Swanton, spe-
cial agent of rural free delivery of
mail, is now at GalesburS, ILL.,, where
he is arranging rural free delivery
routes for that section.
Every time farmer kills a hawk
he throws away a $50 bill into the fire
for it destroys a thousand rats, mice
and gophers every year. Prof. Hodge,
of Clark University, estimates that
toads are worth $50 each as destroy
ers of cut worms.
A force of stone cutters and masons
resumed Monday morning work on
the new Catholic church in Oakland
which was suspended late last fall
owing to the cold weather. 1t is
thought that the building will be
completed by August 1st.
Mr.. +. L. Mitchell, financial repor-
ter of Alta Lodge, Knights of Honor,
received this morning draft of $4,000
to pay the claim of Mrs. Townshend,
widow of the late DR.. S. Townshend
The order had so days in which to
pay the claim but promptly paid it
in less than As days.
| News was received here last night
of three fatalities among bark-peelers
in the Lost River section, in West
Virginia, a few miles oyer the Garrett
county line. Marshall Sager, John
Weatherholtz and William Hamilton,
the last two from Shenandoah coun-
| tY, Virginia, were victims of falling
trees. Joseph Reed was fatally in
jured in a similar way at Kline's Gap.
A number of other cases, in which
serious injuries occurred are reported.
1t is asserted that New York women
are becoming lop sided by reason of
carrying the trains of their dresses in
the streets. "A train is graceful only
when allowed to sweep the ground, e"
| ouy NolhhL vi SChSC' anu VIC Cih
not let it do that in the dirty street,
consequently we are everlastingly
clutching it to keep it from the pave
ment, and the position this necessi-
tates is so constantly assumed that
the right shoulder is becoming lower
than the other"
The tramp question Oh the b. & O.
has become quite a serious one, for
the reason that four or five tramps
will get on train together and defy
the trainmen to put them off. Gen
orally they are armed, and all carry
clubs, and if hard pushed by the
trainmen they threaten to kill them.
But determined effort will be made
to break up this nuisance. Officers of
the company will go out on freight
trains, arrest the tramps and lock
them up.
Mrs. Roosevelt, wife of the Presi-
dent, accompanied by her son, Theo-
dore and a secretary arrived in Oak
land last Friday evening in the pri-
vate car Baltimore" which was at
tached to train No. 55. The party
was met at the station by carriage
| drawn by four horses which conveyed
them to Mr.. G.. W. Delawder's club
house IA miles North of town where
Saturday and Sunday was spent. The
return to Oakland was made Sunday
afternoon when they left ON train 46
for Washington.
| Reference was made in these col
umns last week to an article, tho ught
| then to be in the form, concerning
Gabriel Friend Sisler. who is still
living at the age of over one hundred
years at Uniontown, Pa, but owing
to the press of advertising matter the
article referred to was Internationally
omitted and is therefore published
to-day along with picture of the
venerable man, which was furnished
this paper by Mr.. o. J. Sturgiss, ed.
itor of the Net0S-S Standard and to
whom we extend our thanks for the
same.
School Board Meeting.