The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-06-05
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The Board of Commissioners is il
session transacting routine business
Miss Tina Council, Of Hutton, wa.
the guest of friends in Oakland Mon
day evening.
EX-County Commissioner Isaac w
Alternately, of near Wilson, was in
Oakland Tuesday on business.
! Mr.. James S. Lakin, of Terra Alta,
spent Sunday in Oakland as the guest
of Mr., and Mrs. D. E. Offutt.
Mr.. w. c. Cartright and Miss Marie
O'Mally, of Warrington, who spent
several days in Oakland last week,
returned home Sunday evening.
Dinner Sets.-We have Just receiv.
ed nice line of porcelain white din
ner sets that we are offering as low as
$3.50 set. j, NJ. Davis & Son.
A marriage license was issued at
Cumberland recently to Charles Yom-
mer and Annie Spiker, of Ora ntsville,
this county.
The lodge of Elks of Cumberland
will hold trades display and carni-
val in that city for the week com
mencing July 18th, which promises to
be grand affair.
At the Presbyterian church next
Sunday morning the subject of the
pastors sermon will be 1.-The Passing
Moment" A cordial invitation is
given to all.
Civil Engineer julius X. Monroe, o.
Kingwood, spent Tuesday in Oak
land making survey for the contem-
plated grading of Second and Liberty
streets.
William Miller, of Accident, was in
town over Sunday on his way to
Cumberland, where he spent Monday
and Tuesday returning home Wednes-
day afternoon.
The pupils of the Rasche School of
Music, on Water street, will hold q
garden party on Friday, June Goth
for the benefit of the new st. Peters
Catholic church.
The Ladies' Auxiliary to the
Knights of st. John on Friday and
Saturday nights held an ice cream
and strawberry festival in Offutts
Hall for the benefit of st. Peters
Catholic church. Quite a large sum
was realized.
The McCarty Stock Company which
was to have given its opening per
Torrance at the opera honee tU-night
has been postponed until the 18th
inst. owing to the non arrival of sew
eral of its members who have been
unexpectedly detained in New York
City.
AUCTION SALE-A lot of beds
bedding and other furniture and fur
nishings will be sold at public auc-
ton at the Hotel bennett, Mt. Lake
Park, on Saturday, June IA, 1902, be-
ginning at 10 o'clock a. m Terms
Cash down, or satisfactory security,
before removal of goods. W. E.
Walsh, Trustee. 13-2t
A party composed of Mr.. and Mrs.
J. G. Peddicord and two children, DR..
and Ms. J. 6. Robinson, Mrs. Geo.
O. Miller, Miss Mollie Peddicord and
Ralph Thayer went down to Lake
Brown Tuesday ere they spent the
day fishing. The party made a catch
of twenty-five trout of fine proper
tions.
Invitations have been issued an
nouncing the wedding of William
Jones to Mrs. Maria Peasants, OF
Mountain Lake Park, which is to
take place on Tuesday evening next
at o'clock in the A. M. E. church in
Oakland. Immediately following the
ceremony the couple will leave fol
Baltimore where several days will be
spent.
Thomas w. Ashby, Esq, OF Elk
Garden, eldest son of William Ashby
of Crellin, was at the old homestead
from Saturday until Monday after
noon when he returned to his home
in Elk Garden, where he is engaged
in the meat business. This paper &C
knowledges pleasant call from Mr.
Ashby Monday evening.
Petitions addressed to the Governor
of Maryland and circulated in this
section of the county by Messrs. Jas
Chisholm and Charles f. Hilleary
praying for the pardon of Alder
Mason, of District No. 8, convicted il
Cumberland last fall as an accom-
plice in the murder of Taylor Locke
have received the signatures of man!
citizens of Oakland, among the sign
ers being the bank officials, the at
torneys, merchants, newspaper anC
other business men. Mason is nov
serving term of five years in tn
: Maryland Penitentiary, but it is be
, lieved that he was innocent of an,
intent to murder, being of a quiet
peaceable and law abiding disposi
ton. His father is highly respected
citizen of the county.