The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-07-17
LOCAL AND OTHERWISE
Incidents and Events at Home and Nearby
Personal Mention. Etc.

ton, was in Oakland yesterday.
LosT.-On Saturday on the Aurora
road lady's dark blue jacket. Re-
turn to this office.
Water street has been graded and
some badly needed repairs made dur
ing the past week as has also First
street.
Lewis Gortner will dispose Of his
merchandise stock here as fast as
possible and locate at Altoona, Pa,
where he will engage in business.
E. c. w. Ryland has been commits
stoned by Governor John Walter
Smith Notary Public for town of
Friendsville.
Judge and Mrs. Kennedy, of Wash
ington, D. c., arrived in Oakland
Yesterday afternoon to spend some
weeks as the guests of their daughter,
Mrs. H. G. Sincell.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. Allen Ison and lit
tie daughter, of Washington, D. c.,
arrived here yesterday morning to
visit the formers mother for a few
weeks.
EsTRAYED.-I have taken up as an
estray black yearling sow. Owner
can recover same by proving proper
ty, paying damages and the cost of
this notice. B. F. Crane, Mt. Lake
Park. 81
Col. George Truesdell, OF near Deer
Park, was in Oakland last Friday for
an hour or two. Col. Truesdell is
thinking seriously of being registered
in this county so as to enable him to
become voter.
For SaIe.-The William Jankey
property at Deer Park. One acre
corner lot, good Broom house, cellar,
other outbuildings. Price $3.50, part
cash, part on time, or all cash, at buy
er's choice. Walsh Land Company,
Cumberland, Md. tt
The laying OF the brick pavement
along Second street from Liberty was
begun yesterday by Contractor Ken
needy. Several car loads of brick are
expected from the kilns yet this week
and upon their arrival the work of
laying the sidewalks will be pushed
as rapidly as possible.
The Oakland Concert Band which
started its series of concerts oni its new
ly erected band stand on Wednesday
evening of last week, has changed the
evening to Thursday and the concerts
will hereafter be given on that even
ing instead of Wednesday as hereto
fore announced.
The ladies of the Deer Park Village
Improvement Society are making eX-
tensive preparations for holding the
fair to be given under the auspices of
the society on some day early in Au-
gust. Mrs. John w. Williams and
Mrs. James Swan Prick are among
the patronesses.
EX-Treasurer Edward Z. Sollars re-
ceived word ON Friday morning last
OF the death of his sister, Mrs. Letter,
who died in Salt Lake City, Utah, on
Monday preceding. She was aged 40
years and had been a resident of Salt
Lake City several years. Her remains
were inferred in Nebraska, her for
mer home.
This Office has received from Mayor
Frear the contract for printing the
new issue of municipal bonds which
are to be sold ON Monday, August 4th,
by the Mayor and Council. The for
mer issue was also the product of this
Office. The new issue will consist of
SO separate and distinct bonds with
coupons attached and will bear in
terest at the rate of per cent.
At the Deer Park Hotel chapel
many prominent divines from all
parts of the country have delivered
sermons, but it has never been the
scene of a wedding. Next month,
however, the gayest season at Deer
Park, the little chapel will be elabor-
ately decorated for the wedding of
Miss Marguerite Tullidge, of Cincin-
natl, to prominent young society
man O. the same city.
Mrs. Richard Wildman was shot in
the right shoulder, late Saturday af-
ternoon, while sitting on her back
porch reading a paper. The wound
though painful was not serious
enough to cause any particular alarm
as to results. The woods in the rear
of the house were searched for the
party who did the shooting, but no
clues could be found. The bullet
seemed to have been a spent one and
is another case of the careless use of
fire arms.-Bloomington corr. Pied
mont Independent.
In the early days farmers could well
afford to be wasteful of their land, for
it was cheap and there was plenty of
it. Conditions are entirely different
now, and the high-priced land on
which the young farmer has to make