The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-06-12

A. Nethken, OF near town.
]. P. Wright has been appointed
postmaster at Altamont, this county,
vice G. S. Fuller, resigned.
Mrs. Herman Creutzburg, who Wis
tied relatives in Baltimore for a week
or two, returned home Saturday af-
ternoon.
People who have been tearing down
mail boxes on rural mail routes will
have 20 be a little more careful or
they will run afoul of a hot lot of law.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Allen, of Graf
ton, have moved to Oakland, where
they will reside, Mr. Allen being en-
gagged at painting for Jos. P. Helbig.
Miss Nora Lantz, of Aurora, who
visited Miss Maud Bosley on Oak
street several days last week, return
ed to her home Monday morning.
Mrs. n. S. Heindel and little daugh-
ter, who spent month in Baltimore
visiting relatives, returned to Oak
land Saturday afternoon.
a family reunion of the children
and grandchildren of Mrs. Elizabeth
Hinebaugh was held at her home
Sunday last, the occasion being the
birthday of that most estimable lady.
Andrew Pysell, of near Deer Park.
who has been quite i'll nearly all the
winter, was brought up to Oakland
yesterday for treatment at the Nc
Comas Sanitarium.
There is no excuse for the idler or
loafer. All can find employment if
they want it. The world has not
time to care for the bum nor the dis
position to do so.
Howard S. Hoffman, of Cumber
land, b. Il o. passenger fireman, who
has been unable to work for some
weeks owing to sickness, was in town
last night.
There are at Mountain Lake Park
this week several hundred members
of the Young Mems Christian Asso-
citation from all sections of the United
States. They will be in convention
there several days.
Joseph Cogley and a number of
masons went down to Deep Creek
Monday afternoon to build abutments
for a new bridge at Delawder's old
dam on the Bittinger road. 1t will
require some weeks to complete the
work.
Erwin Nine, son of Franklin Nine,
who is employed as a brakeman on
the Preston Railroad, was caught be-
tween two cars recently and pain
fully squeezed about the shoulders.
DIR. M. G. Hinebaugh is attending
the injured man.
Mr.. q. H. Walter, of the Schley
Hotel, accompanied by his daughter,
Miss Nora, left Oakland Tuesday
morning for a visit of a few days
to friends in Meyersdale, lockwood,
and other points in Somerset county,
Pa. They drove overland going 0ia
Grantsville.
An excursion from Grafton and in
termediate points to Cumberland was
run last Sunday by the Baltimore and
Ohio. A number of Oakland people
took advantage of the cheap rates to
visit Cumberland and also Frostburg,
the journey to the latter place being
made ola the electric line.
Mr.. James S. Myers, of District No.
8, went down to Cumberland Sunday
afternoon to visit his son John, who
has for some years past been in the
employ of the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad company and who recently
met with an accident near Cumber-
land whereby portion of his left foot
was crushed off.
A Photographic entertainment for
charitable purposes will be held at
the Red Gate school house, near
Gortner, on Saturday night, begin
ming at z O'Clock. The admission, 10
cents for adults and cents for chill
dren, is within the reach of all and as
the entertainment is for a worthy
charity it should be literally patron
lied.
Bernard l. Gender went down to
Cumberland Sunday where he took
the examination for telegraph oper-
ator and was successful in passing.
He was appointed operator at Frank
vile the same day and entered upon
his duties at that place on Monday
night. John Murphy succeeds him
as messenger boy at the Oakland
office.
Messrs. Martin A. Carney and NJ.
W. Pendergast, trading as Carney &
Pendergast, and engaged until recent
ly in selling liquors at Hutton, this
county, have, through their attorneys,
Messrs. Benz. A. Richmond and Fer
dinand Williams, of Cumberland, pc
titioned the court for a writ of man.