The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-08-20
LOCAL AND OTHERWISE
Incidents and Events at Home and Nearby
Personal Mention. Etc.

Personal Mention. Etc.
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Mr.. Merritt Wilson and little son
Frank of Wilson, w. Va, were in Oak
land yesterday.
Messrs D. Grant Smith and Arth-
ur White, of Grafton, Sundayed in
Oakland with relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. Barrett, of Somerset
Pa, are guests at the Schley Hotel.
Mrs. Rebecca Brown and daughter
Miss Norah Brown, of .Friendsville,
spent a few days here last week visit
ing Mr.. Austin Brown.
DR.. Webster Ravenscroft, OF Acct
dent, has been in Oakland few days
this week looking after some bust
ness affairs.
Miss Virginia Johnson, Mrs. Perry
Stemple and Mr.. Arthur White left
for Atlantic City this morning for a
ten days visit.
41oll y VI OOlillSbO II,
Pa, arrived in Oakland last We'd
nesday where he will spend a week
or two with his mother.
Miss Fanny Davis, of Keyser, who
visited her aunt, Mrs. NJ. R. Hamill,
in Oakland for two weeks, returned
to her home last Friday afternoon.
Mr.. Bert Boldep, of Meyersdale,
Pa, was here to see his aged father,
Mr.. Charles Bolden, last Thursday
and Friday, whose condition remains
unchanged.
Mrs. Leonard Stoddard, of Amber,
Pa, and her daughter, Miss Marie,
were guests of Mrs. D. E. Offutt in
Oakland from Monday until this
morning when they returned home.
Jerry o. Browning, of Oakland,
who was appointed special Baltimore
and Ohio policeman at AlleganyCity,
Pa, week or two ago, spent last
Friday and Saturday here, returning
to the above city Sunday morning.
Norman r. Sanner who was recent
ly manager of the Friendsville Drug
Company at Friendsyille, this county,
until he resigned his position is now
in Pittsburg where he is in the employ
of street railway company.
We regret to note the very serious
illness of Miss Mamie Hart, eldest
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. John w.
Hart, who has been suffering several
weeks with brights disease, and
whose illness took sudden turn for
the worse a day or two ago.
DR.. W. F. Manages, OF Jefferson
College Hospital, Philadelphia, who
is son of Rev. E. Manages, of Oak
land, believes he has discovered a
chemical substitute for radium. He
thinks the substitute will be of suf-
ficient radial power and will be
cheap enough to come within the
reach of all physicians for surgical
purposes.
Prof. H. A. Loraditch announces
elsewhere in this paper to-day his in
tention of opening private or pre-
paratory school in Oakland on Mon
day, August, 31st, for term of one
month. Prof. Loraditch is we'll and
faYorably known in Oakland where
he has for two or three years past
been assistant principal in the High
School.
Mrs. VIM. Hunter has returned
from a three weeks visit to Garrett
county and New Germany, Md, and
will leave today for Baltimore, Phila-
delphia and New York. She will
meet her husband in the latter city
on his return from Europe next Mon
day, and they will spend two or three
weeks at the Atlantic watering places
before returning to Homecoming.
They expect to reach this city about
the 3rd OF er.-Lonaconing
Star.
In the thirtyyear ago notes which
appear weekly in the Frostburg Jour
nal, the following of interests to one
of the leading citizens of Garrett
county will stir up remembrance of
that period-the year 1873: John
Leestine, II years old, consigned to P.
I. Cartwright, from Ashland, Va, ar
rived "by express" August 10. He
travelled On coupon passenger ticket
which the conductors collected vet
Mr.. Cartwright had express charges
to pay. The question was-is the
boy a passenger or bunch of freight2'
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