The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-04-03
LOCAL AND OTHERWISE
Incidents and Events at Home and Nearby
Personal Mention, Etc.


Personal Mention, Etc.
Overcoats are still useful.
Zinc and grinding double the wear.
Mr.. Fred Gerkins, of Grafton, Wis
tied friends here Sunday.
A ID. Naylor just received car of
fertilizer for potatoes, corn and oats.
John Maroney fell from a wagon
upon which he was hauling stone last
Thursday and broke his arm.
Joseph Keller, Esq, of near Hoyes,
was in town Friday last and made
this Office brief visit.
Assemblyman Ashby returned to
Oakland last night from Annapolis,
accompanied by his wife, who spent
a week or two at the State Capital.
Throwing trash and other material
into the streets should be stopped.
Aside from being dangerous it is
against the law.
Mrs. John w. Davis and little son,
who spent a few days with friends and
relatives in Terra Alta, returned home
Tuesday
We have been requested to state
that Prof. George B. Frazee, one of
the principals of the Friendsville Nor
NAL will teach in the school from
start to finish.
Clerk E. Y. Tower issued marriage
licenses during the month of March
to twenty-five couples, the greater
number of which being to West Vir-
ginians.
Rev. w. H. Miller's family arrived
in Oakland Monday evening from
Martinsburg, w. Va, where they had
been on visit to relatives. Mr.. Mil
Ter will occupy Mr.. w. H. Hagans'
residence on Third street.
A sentimental editor out in Kansas
asks: Are there any sweeter words
in the English language than these,
/ love you?'" Perhaps not; but the
words, Here's that dollar | borrow
ed" are not lacking in eloquent and
delightful enunciation.
Mr.. w. D. Dixon, for a year or more
employed by Dixon & Kelso, resigned
his position Monday night and will
be succeeded by Thomas Cuppett,
Jr., a worthy young man. Mr.. Dixon,
we understand, has.made application
for appointment on the police force.
The recently elected. town officials
will assume their duties Monday next
when the Town Council will be reor-
gained, after which Mayor
Frear will submit to that body a list
of appointments to the police force
for confirmation. The Council will
elect street commissioner and treas
urer, a number of applications hav-
ing already been filed for these posi-
tions.
A rock weighing several tons fell on
and Ohio at Fifty-eight cut, east of
Hutton Monday evening. The track
was blocked several hours and all
trains used the north or westbound
track in order to clear the obstruction.
The rock was removed only after be-
ing blown to pieces with dynamite.
Express train No. As was delayed
about two hours.
Saturday afternoon at two o'clock
in front of the City Roller Mills the
imported French coach stallion, LIE
Leon was sold by the stockholders of
the Oakland Horse Improvement
Company at public auction to John
Close, Esq, one of Garrett county's
enterprising farmers, for the sum of
$305 cash. The animal is Just in the
prime of life and is among the best
bred horses of the country. The
stallion cost the company at the time
of his purchase from the importers
$25OO.
Four loaded cars, IA empties and a
caboose broke from a train near the
Cheat River grade summit, on the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad main
line, Sunday morning and ran away
down the grade. The trainmen jump
ed and the runaway passed Rowles-
burg at about 30 miles an hour. c..
L. Powell, operator at Rowlesburg,
wired Rodamer to stop second section
passenger train No. Z, but it had pas
sed, and H. b. Cassiday, operator at
Mcmillan ran down the road and
tagged No. 7. The runaway, now on
an up grade, was rapidly nearing Nc
MILAN from the west when s. s.
Knott, passenger flagman, boarded
the cars and by hard and quick work
stopped them just as No. stopped,
the trains being only two car lengths
apart.