The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-05-22

night for visit to Baltimore.
Miss Orley Durham went to Wash
itgton this morning to visit friends
| for week or two.
Naylor & Co. have a nice line of
new and secondhand bicycles for sale
and rent. 93t
Mr.. Jacob Brown, of Cumberland.
was business visitor to Oakland on
Saturday last.
Mr.. Thomas W. Frost. one of the
Oldest citizens of the county, who
lives at Shade Mill, in District No. 8.
was in Frostburg Monday.
Mrs. Oscar Posten and little son, of
Illinois, were the guests of Mr. and
Mrs. S. T. Jones in Oakland a few
days last week
A marriage license was issued few
days ago in Cumberland to Charles I.
Garlitz and Mary Alice Croft, both of
Avilton, this county.
Mr.. George G. Sturgiss, of Morgan
town, was in Oakland Tuesday to see
his brother, Col. Sturgiss, after hav-
ing attended meeting of the board
of directors of the Park that day.
Mrs. Austin Brown, accompanied
by Miss Lula Fringer, went down to
Selbysport on Monday where the for
mer will visit her father, who has
been in ill health for some time.
Spring WagOn.-We have on hand
splendid 2-seated spring wagon with
and brake. Also top buggy and run
about; will close out at a very low
price. J. NJ. Davis & Son. 113
Lieutenant D. T. E. Casteel will ar
rive at Morgantown Tuesday from
Cuba where he has been stationed for
year or more, and from whence he
has been ordered to Chicamaugua
where he will be stationed for some
time. Mrs. Casteel and children have
been in Morgantown and will remain
there indefinitely.
A charter has been issued by the
Secretary of State of West Virginia
to the Blaine Mining Company of
Davis, West Va. The corporation
will operate mines at or near Blaine
in District No. s, this county. The
incorporators are Thomas B. Davis,
Jr., of Davis; w. P. Young, of Somer-
set, Pa; S. B. Brydon, of Blaine; and
c. E. Smith and A. Robert Stallings,
of Davis, w. Va.
Mrs. DR.. Speicher and three chill
dren, Florence, Robert and the baby,
returned from California, Tuesday
evening. 1t is needless to say that
the doctor and the other members of
the family were delighted to welcome
them home, for they have been in
California ever since last September.
They are all looking well and report
most enjoyable sojourn IN the Gold
en- State.-Somerset Star.
Mr.. A. F. George, of Swanton, who
is home on vacation of a few days
from his duties as superintendent of
rural free delivery routes in Gales
burg, ILL.,, was in Oakland Monday
where he met many of his old friends.
Mr.. George is held in high esteem by
the postoffice authorities and stands
in the line for promotion at an early
date. AS soon as he completes the
work he is now engaged upon i'll Hi
nois he will be transferred to section
nearer home.
A good joke is told on a Garrett
| county farmer. He went to town and
decided to surprise his wife by re-
turning in new suit of clothes.
When he reached the Casselman river
bridge he halted, pulled off his clothes
and tossed them into the creek.
When he reached for the new suit, he
found to his surprise that the bundle
had jolted out of his buggy. Luckily
it was night. He drove home, and
the surprise of his wife was a success.
Somerset Star
A horse belonging to Dawsey Shaw,
of Terra Alta, and hitched to a buggy
from the Maroney stable became
frightened at train at the Second
street crossing Tuesday and ran
away. In the buggy was R. K.
Maroney, Shaw having the horse by
the bit but in its plunging his hold
was broken and he fell to the pave
ment receiving numerous bruises and
cuts on his face. The occupant
of the buggy jumped or was thrown
out and the horse being free it ran
madly up Second street to near the
Commercial Hotel when the buggy
upset throwing the horse and badly
injuring its hind leg. "Dick" Maroney
received painful injury to his hip as
a result of the accident and the buggy
was damaged to some extent.
The attention of our readers is di-
rected to the advertisement of the
First National Bank of Friendsville
which appears on this page to-day.