The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-06-19

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was visitor at this office Monday.
Mr.. William j. Wilson, of District
No. 8, was in the city Tuesday ON
business.
Miss Lulu Fringer has returned
from visit of two weeks duration to
relatives at Grafton.
Mrs. Fundenberg and daughter Miss
Theckla, of Deer Park, were in Oak
land this morning.
Dr. Weir, President of the Confer
ence Seminary, Buckhannon, w. Va,
is at the Park as the guest of Captain
and Mrs. Hayden.
Edward Schlossnagle, of Friends
vile, came up to Oakland Sunday in
order to be present at court here Mon
| day morning
Misses Bess Offutt and Grace Jones
returned home Friday evening from
Winchester, Va, where they were
students during the past winter and
spring.
Mr.. Harland L. Jones, who went to
Wheeling Wednesday night to attend
the commencement exercises of Linds-
ley Institute, returned home Monday
evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Norman r. Sanner,
the former manager of the Mountain
Lake Pharmacy, have taken rooms
for the summer in the cottage adjoin-
ing the drug store.
The Board of Supervisors will meet
on Saturday for the purpose of APP
pointing election officials and not on
Monday as stated in these columns
last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Freeman Friend, of
Missouri, arrived here last week and
are visiting relatives and friends at
Deer Park and other points in the
county.
Mrs. Thomas Spahr, of Pleasant
Hill, West Va, formerly of Hutton,
this county, was the guest of Mrs.
Casteel, near town, day or two this
week. Mrs. Spahr while in town Fri
day visited this office.
Invitations have been issued by the
management of the Oakland for a
| ball and banquet which is to take
place on Saturday evening of this
week. These balls will be feature
of the summers pleasures at this
most enjoyable stopping place.
Yesterday Aaron Beaehy, who re-
sides two miles west of Grantsville,
on the National Pike, sold at public
sale lot of cattle, horses, farming
implements, household goods, etc.
MIR. Beachy has sold his farm to one
of his sons and will retire from agri-
cultural pursuits.
A strike, out of sympathy with the
anthracite miners of Pennsylvania,
has been declared by the miners OF
the Oakland Coal & Coke Company
whose base of operations is located al
Corinth, west of Oakland. The mines
are closed down tight, about a hun.
dred men being affected.
DR.. and Mrs. H. Scott, of st. Paul's
M. E. church, have as their guests
their son James NJ, of Cincinnati, G.
who holds responsible position with
the c., H. Il D. r. R., and their two
daughters, Mrs. Charles L. Hanlin, OF
Huntington, W. Va, and Mrs. Jam es
F. Burgess, of Montgomery, W. Va
The son will remain here ten days
and the daughters the greater part OF
the summer.
The Oakland Dramatic Club will
present on Friday and Saturday
nights, June 27th and 2Sth, at the
opera house the five-act comedy.
drama, THE Black Flag" Tickets
will be on sale at the usual place al
the proper time. The play is under
the direction and supervision of Mr.
Francis McCarty, of the McCarty
Stock Co., and Walter Conrad, both
of which gentlemen will take a lead
ing part.
MIR. Allen, railroad superintendent
for Bond Bros. & Dubois, which firm
is constructing railroad from Crat
Tree to their proposed mill site ur
Savage river, was in town Friday and
visited this office. He informed us
that portion of the rails for the new
road had arrived Thursday and that
the work of laying them would be
! commenced at once. The locomotive
for the road is expected at an early
day and the completion of the road
as far as the mill site is looked for by
August LIST when the mill equipment
will be received and placed in posi-.
ton. 1t will have capacity of $4,000
feet per day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert l. Anderson
went Charleroi and G onnellsville, Pa,
one day last week to visit relatives.
The former returned to Oakland Tues