The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-08-14
LOCAL AND OTHERWISE
Incidents and Events at Home and Nearby
Personal Mention, Etc.

land, is in the city today on business.
Chas. G. Speicher, Esq. of Acct
dent, was in town few hours Mon
day.
Miss Bell, of Homecoming, is visiting
Mr.. and Mrs. John D. Taggart this
week.
Senator Ravenscroft, of Accident,
spent Monday in Oakland on bust
ness.
Miss May Kalbaugh, of Western
port, is guest of the Misses Brown
ing at Hotel Browning.
For SALE.-Price S2O-A Cham
Plon Light Reaper in good order.
John w. Williams, Deer Park, Md.
Street Contractor Kennedy is en-
ploying traction engine this morn
ing tearing up Liberty street prepar-
atory to its paving.
Mr.. Eli Stanton, one of GrantsviIle's
substantial citizens and prominent
farmers, was in Oakland on business
Monday.
Miss Nettie Michaels, of Baltimore,
who visited her parents in Oakland
for a few weeks, returned to the above
city Friday morning last.
Merchant w. G. Jones, of Deer
Park, was business visitor to this
Office Tuesday. He was accompanied
to Oakland by his wife and infant
child.
Mr. Will Sincell and bride, of Wash
ington, d. c., who arrived here Thurs
day on their wedding trip, returned
to Washington Tuesday morning and
from there will go to Virginia Beach.
John L. Harne, Esq, son of Mr.. A.
j. Harne, of Oakland, who is cashier
of the First National Bank at New
Martinsville, w. Va, spent a few
days with relatives in town this week.
Raymond Mason, former Oak
lander, was here last night on visit
to friends and relatives. He is now
engaged in business at Fairmont
where he is prospecting far beyond his
expectations.
Mrs. Emma Bishop, of Kingwood,
W. Va, was in Oakland Tuesday and
by an order of the Orphans Court
she was appointed Administrative of
the estate of her deceased husband,
the late Charles NJ Bishop.
Mr.. James Moreland and sister Miss
Nellie, Of Morgantown, arrived here
a few days ago in company with their
aunt, Mrs D. l. Totten, who had been
on a visit to relatives in the above
town for some weeks and will remain
as her guests for short time.
From the Salisbury, pa Star is
Cleaned the intelligence that Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles Bill, of Racine, Wis,
are on visit to their parents and
old time friends in their native town
Grantsville. Mr.. Bill is engaged in
the shoe business at Racine and is
quite prosperous. His wife is daugh-
ter of the late August Bong.
1t would be very wise thing for
the local board of health to make a
tour of the town these damp, foggy
evenings. They would be most sure
to discover some thing that need
looking after if their olfactory nerves
are in healthy condition. They
need not go off the main streets to dis
cover that there is something wrong
Mrs. E. j. Thompson, of Baltimore,
is in Oakland on a visit to the fami-
lies of Rev. j. NJ. Davis and Mrs.
Townshend. Mrs. Thompson's father,
the late John Matthews, was post
master in Oakland from about 1866
to 1862, at which time the postoffice
was located where the residence of
g. A. Shirer now stands on Oak
street.
Mr.. and Mrs. Max Good and Squire
A. G. Good, of Kirkwood, Mo-, came
up to Oakland yesterday from Cum
berland, where they attended the
funeral of the late Judge Sloan Mon
day. Squire Good was taken i'll up
on his arrival here and is patient at
the McComas Sanitarium. The party
will remain in Oakland for few days
before returning west. In the mean
time Mr.. Good, Jr., will visit New
York on business.
The Mountain Lake correspondent
OF the Fairmont I11deG says 1.-The talk
of an electric line between here and
Oakland will not down. Most of the
right of way can be had without
charge, the grade is almost a dead
level and the new electric plant has
ample power to furnish the current.
1t would be no great surprise if cars
were running within year. Such
an enterprise would doubtless prove
mo- profitable investment and it
would add vastly to the popularity of
this already very popular resort"
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