The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-04-17
LOCAL AND OTHERWISE
Incidents and Events at Home and Nearby
Personal Mention. Etc.

MAYORS is the place to buy your
fertilizer this year. 4 3t
Ex-County Commissioner E. w.
Kelso, of near the Park, was in Oak
land Tuesday on business.
Zinc and Grinding make Devoe
Lead and Zinc Paint wear twice as
long as lead and oil mixed by hand.
A Mr.. Davis, of Rawlings, has NOV
ed to Loeb Lynn Heights where he
has secured tract of land and will
conduct truck farm this summer.
Rev. W. H. Miller, pastor, will
preach in the Garrett Memorial
church on Sunday evening at 730
o'clock.
Mr.. w. McCulloh Brown, of Bayard,
who spent the winter in Baltimore,
has returned to his home Mr.. Brown
spent yesterday in Oakland on bust
ness.
Will Kennedy, of Pittsburg, who
was born and raised in Oakland and
who left here number of years ago,
was in Oakland Monday attending
the funeral of his uncle, the late Will
liam Broderick.
Surveyor Franklin p. Green has
sold his farming implements and a
portion of his household goods and
proposes to move this week from his
farm in District No. II to Capt. Cor
don's place adjoining Mountain Lake
Park.
The German, or Missouri, Luther
ans at Accident, whose church was
burned early last fall, have started to
erect new edifice near the parsonage
and better located than the old build
ing was. The new church will be
quite handsome.
The Trinity Reformed Sunday
School of New Germany rendered a
very beautiful Easter service on Sun
day morning, April 6, 1902, regardless
of inclement weather. The decora-
lions were neat and suitable The
offering, which was $27.40, went to-
wards building the Reformed Memoir
ial church at Washington, d. G.
The council at it's special meeting
held on Thursday night last com
pleted the codification of the town
ordinances. They will be published
the first week in May. Among the
most important acts is a dog ordi-
nance. With this law stringently en-
forced the town will be rid of hun
dreds of worthless ours which abound
in our streets and other sections of
town.
Cheap john Michael, who Shook
the dust of Oakland from his feet
shortly after Christmas with the
avowed intention of never returning,
and went to Baltimore with his fam
lily for the purpose of embarking in
the grocery business, expects to re-
turn here about May list. Cheap
John" has left here times without
number but has invariably returned
with the blue birds.
Mr.. w. M. Lohr, for the past two
years the efficient County Treasurer,
turned his office oyer to his successor
on Tuesday and yesterday noon left
for his home down in the Cove where
he will resume farming and stock
raising. Mr.. White assumes the du-
ties of his office well equipped, being
familiar with the work devolving
upon him. He is well known and
universally liked and we can assure
our readers and the public generally
that he will discharge his duties fairly
and impartially.
Mr.. James G. Peddicord and family
and Mrs. Lawton and daughter Miss
Julia have moved into the Delawder
house on Second street which they
will occupy this summer. DR.. Nc
Comas has transferred the sanitarium
to the property he recently purchased
from Mr.. Peddicord. The building is
exactly suited to the requirements of
DR.. McComas for the purpose for
which it is intended. A greater num-
Der of patients can accommodated in
the new quarters and at a considera-
BILE saving of expense and energy. The
institution as now located is an ideal
one which not only Oakland but
the county generally should encour-
age.
The Normal Schools opened at Oak
land, Friendsyille and Grantsville on
Monday of this week with large num-
bers of students in attendance. The
Friendsville school showed an enrol
ment the first day of forty. At Oak
land 63 were present and at Grants
vile there was an attendance of six
teen. The enrolment of all the schools
will be largely increased before the
term expires, which will continue for
ten weeks. The reason for the small
attendance at Grantsville is owing to
the bad condition of the roads lead
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