The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-03-20

large car of sewer pipe from to ~
inches. Price low. %
Governor Smith has issued proc
lamation designating Friday, April
18th, as Arbor Day.
Universal PlOw.-A new line of Uni
versal plows are now offered by j. NJ
Davis & Son.
Mr.. George Fulmer went down to
McHenry yesterday to attend the
funeral of the late S. p Specht.
Sewing Machine for $12.-You can
buy an up-to-date sewing machine,
drop head, warranted, at j. NJ. Davis
Il Son.
Joel Paugh, Esq, of Bloomington,
an energetic aud well informed young
miner, was In Oakland Tuesday on
business and made this office visit.
WANTED-To buy house in Oak
land of six to eight rooms. Location
must be good and property in repair.
Address, stating price with descrip-
tion of property, E. X, this office.
Deputy Sheriff Frank Calls is quite
ill at his home near Hoyes with an
attack of the grip. Mr.. George d.
White is performing his duties as
deputy.
Mrs. S. c. Smith was in Baltimore
last week where she purchased a
stock of millinery goods which are
now being opened for display in the
Ravenscroft building on Second st.
Contractors and house builders
have all the work they can possibly
do. Some tep or a dozen buildings
will go up as soon as weather condi-
tions become little more favorable.
But one or two days recently have
been of benefit to sugar makers. The
season in general has been backward
and unless the weather opens not
half crop of maple sugar will be
gathered.
Warren Choate, Esq, of Washing
ton, d. c., owner of the Chautauqua
Hotel, Mountain Lake Park, was in
Oakland and at the Park yesterday
making arrangements for the early
opening of his house which has been
greatly enlarged during the past
winter.
Rev. W. H. Osmond preached his
farewell sermon Sunday morning to
his congregation in Oakland. On
Monday his household effects were
loaded and shipped to Lewiston, Me-,
the city in which he has been called
to preach. Mr.. and Mrs. Osmond left
Oakland Tuesday and are followed
with the best wishes of their many
warm friends.
Mr.. George B. Durham, assistant
in the Office of the Preston Lumber
Company, has purchased of Mr.. Geo.
0. Miller a lot on Alder street adioin-
ing the Catholic parochial residence
and will probably erect a dwelling
thereon at an early date. The loca-
ton is a good one and we note with
considerable pleasure this evidence of
prosperity on the part of Mr.. Durham,
who is one among our most worthy
young men.
William Brown is in jail at Cumber-
land on the charge of killing Charles
Cronk, a laborer, at Pinto Cut-Off.
This is the sixth murder at the place,
where a hybrid crowd of workmen
are employed on the Baltimore and
Ohio improvements. Smaller crimes
like assault and robbery are daily &C.
currences, and the situation is said to
be due to the vile liquor sold at the
place by mushroom" saloons. 1t is
stated that OUT of so deaths at Pinto,
8 have been from natural causes.
The time will soon be at hand for
the man of the house to go down in
his jeans and produce the necessary
wherewithal for the purchase of a
love of bonnet" for his better half.
The architectural beauty of wo-
mans headgear becomes more elab-
crate each succeeding year and is a
creation of wire, feathers, silks, fluffy
stuffs and thousand and one other
things entering into it's composition,
while man, poor man, is contented
with dollar SLOUGH or one-and-a half
fedora that lasts throughout the sea-
son and is then laid away for use dur
ing succeeding years fishing excur-
sions.
The full text of Mr.. Ashby's resolu-
ton introduced into the Maryland
House of Delegates one day last week
looking to the early settlement of the
disputed boundary between Garrett
county and the State of West Vir-
GINA, is published elsewhere in these
columns to-day. The question has
become most important one to the
citizens of Maryland and of West Vir-
ginia as well, and until it has been
fully and finally settled by the Su-
preme Court of the United States the
jurisdiction of the two States over