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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-09-10
COUNTY CAPITAL IN WEST VA

Bank at BrucetOn, In Preston County,
Soon to be Opened.
The proposed new bank at Bruce
ton, over in Preston county, West
Va, for which charter with CAPT
tai of $4,000 has been granted, will
be open for business on or about No
vember 18th.
The shareholders consist largely of
Garrett countians who are now en-
gagged successfully in mercantile,
banking and other lines of trade.
The president of the new bank will
be Mr.. Leslie E. Friend, of Friends
vile, where LIE is the proprietor of a
large store and also president of the
Friendsville National Bank which
was established about two years ago
and which has been very successful
in all its undertakings which is due
mainly TO the efforts of Mr.. r. c. Nc
Candlish, its cashier, who is also one
of the vice presidents of the Bruceton
bank, the other being Rev. jeremiah
Thomas, a minister of the German
Baptist faith and a man OF liberal
and good business principles. The
cashier will be Mr.. G. r. Bartlett, of
the Wood County Bank at Parkers-
burg, West Va.
The establishment of the proposed
bank at Bruceton is due to the efforts
of Mr.. McCandlish, who comes of a
family engaged almost exclusively in
the business of banking. His father,
r. j. McCandlish, has been cashier of
the First National at Parkersburg %
years. Two brothers, one at Pied
mont and the other at Marietta, o.,
have been cashiers of banks in their
respective towns for eighteen years or
more, and have been eminently sue
cessful.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-09-10
LOCAL AND OTHERWISE
Incidents and Events at Home and Nearby
Personal Mention. Etc.

Incidents and Events at Home and Nearby
Personal Mention. Etc.
Two houses in Oakland for rent.
Apply to Renninger & Offutt.
Mr.. George W. Snyder, of Cumber,
laid, was in Oakland last night.
Miss Robb, of Cumberland, is the
guest of the Misses Weber near Oak
land.
A small farm for sale cheap and
on easy terms. Apply to Renninger
& Offutt, Oakland.
Mr.. U. 6. Palmer, of Hutton, spent
two or three days in Chicago last week
on business.
Mr.. William Hinebaugh is at Wheel
ing this week where he is attending
the West Virginia State Fair.
Mr.. and Mrs. o. D. Feather, OF
GAINESVILLE are the guests of Mrs. &C.
celia Coddington.
Editor James NJ. Litzinger, of Oak
land and Grafton, Sundayed in Oak
land with his family.
Mrs. D. Y. Morris, of Kingwood,
who visited relatives in Oakland and
at the Park, has returned home.
The County Commissioners will
meet in their Office in Oakland next
Tuesday to transact routine business,
Capt. James A. Hayden, of Noun
tain Lake Park, has been helping
OUT in this Office several days this
week.
Mrs. r. E. W. johnson, of Western
port, was the guest on Sunday of her
sister in Oakland, Mrs. Alpha Hine-
baugh.
Mr.. Ross Coddington, of Niagara
Falls, son of Mr.. William Coddington,
of Friendsville, is in Oakland visiting
relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. Douglas Bauer and
children, of Cumberland, spent Sun
day with Mr.. and Mrs. J. E. Harmed
In Oakland.
The Board of School Commissioners
will meet on Thursday next to trans
act all business that may properly
gome before it.
Miss Title Creutzburg, of Barton,
is visiting Mr.. and Mrs. Herman
Creutzburg in Oakland, having ar
rived last night.
Bloomington was represented in
Oakland Tuesday by DR.. H. M. Kemp
and Messrs. William Moody and his
son Charles Moody.
Mrs. Jessie Davis and little daugh-
ter, of Morgantown, who visited Rev.
and Mrs. John NJ. Davis and other
relatives in Oakland during the
month of August, have returned
home.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-09-10

The Wesley Chapel, Methodist Epis-
copal church, on the Beckman road
from Mountain Lake Park to Allega-
ny Heights, will be dedicated on Sun
day, the 18th inst, by Presiding Elder
l.. w. Roberts. Preaching service
will be conducted in the chapel Sat
urday evening and also Sunday morn
ing and afternoon. Dinner will be
served on the ground. All are cordi.
ally invited to be present.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-09-10
Church PICNIC.

The members and friends of Pleas
ant Valley United Brethren church
will hold a festival at the church on
Thursday, September 18th. A mum
Der of good speakers are expected to
be present who will make addresses.
Dinner will be served on the ground.
Ice cream, cake, lemonade, etc, will
be sold, the proceeds from which will
be for the benefit of the church.
COMMITTEE.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-09-10
Dissolution of Co-Partnersbin.

Notice is hereby given that the CO.
partnership heretofore existing be-
tween H. G. Sincell and VIM. G. Kidd
and carrying on the mercantile bust
ness in Oakland under the firm name
OF ID. z: Sincell u Co., has this day
been dissolved by mutual consent,
Mr.. Kidd retiring. The business will
be continued by Mr.. Sincell under the
name of H. @. Sincell & Co., who
will settle all accounts due from the
firm and collect all accounts due the
firm. III. G. SINCELL,
VIM. G. KIDD.
Oakland, Md, Sept. /, 1908.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-09-10

WM. NINE,
HUGH MAYBE.
EUGENE WILSON,
DEWITT MINARD,
@. F. DEWITT,
Committee.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-09-10
Death of Mrs. Samuel C. Hove.

VI LITss Sdiliutl u hOye
The sudden death of Mrs. Mary E.
Hoye, widow of the late Samuel G..
Hoye, caused a shock to the commu-
nifty on Thursday, Sept. Sd, notwith-
standing our knowledge of her long
years of invalidism. Mrs. Hoye pass
ed away while visiting at Indiana
Cottage" the home of her daughter,
Miss Georgia Hoye, whittier she had
been taken few days before the
short struggle in which she breathed
out her spirit into the hands of God.
Mrs. Hoye was So years of age. She
was born and reared in this county,
and friends from far and near were
present at the services held at the
house at Mountain Lake Park by her
pastor, Rev. E. Manages. His text
was taken from Sam'l, Xxx, Sd verse ::
"a step between Inc and death" The
feet of this gentle mother had trem-
bled at the edge of that other world
for SO many years that the ''stepn be-
yond was but for moment, and she
felt the support of the Everlasting
Arms in the brief struggle. She had
been sufferer for the past decade.
Bed-ridden with with heart disease
and other physical ailments. Only
through the constant care and tender
nursing of her devoted daughters has
this estimable lady been spared-a
wonderful example of patience and
fortitude in the face of exquisite pain.
To her children she was helpful, even
in her MISUNDERSTANDING and low
ing. The friends of her youth and
age knew her as a refined and Gull
tured gentlewoman, a model house
wife, wise and loving friend and a
sincere Christian. The interment,
under the management of D. E. Boil
den, undertaken, of Oakland, was at
Deer Park, where, until the death of
her husband, Mrs. Hoye resided.
The honorary pall-bearers were
Rey. VIM. E. George, VIM. l.. Shaffer,
Franklin L. Warwick, Squire John
Speicher, Frank H. Thrasher, and W.
G. Jones. The active pall-bearers
were: VIM. H. Chadderton, Samuel
P. Specht, Squire Emil F. Droege,
Edward Griffin, John Hsines and
Wilfred Chadderton.
Mrs. Hoye leaves three daughters
Miss Georgia Hoye, Mrs. John Felty
and Miss Nellie Hoye.
Our words are but feeble things
and fail us when we need them most.
SO we can only quote the passage of
Scripture Mrs. Hoye loved so we'll
'If we suffer we shall also reign with
Him." Let the fulfilment of this
beautiful promise of God be the pre-
cious consolation of her sorrowing
HAL.
Deer Park, Sept. Z, 1908.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-09-10
Call for your Letters.

Mrs. S. NJ. Millin, Ida James, Mat
tie Anderson, Miss Viola Milestone
Laura Northcrop, Bertha Sanders, Lii
liam Kreamer, Mr.. M. G. Obiles, A. H
Ayles, Will Marker, A. NJ, Moody
Col S. T. Albert, Francis Kearnev
Kathlyn Hills, Mrs. Virginia Hamil
ton, NJ. L. Shawen, c. G. Thomas, c.
w. Ebert, R. W. Enlow, Robert Hen
derson, Miss Corrie Greenfield, NJ
Martin Mulligan, R. S. Hamill, Geo T.
Buckhannon, N. P. w. iffler, Cleas
Glenoska, Rev. L. H. Hagarty.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-09-10
HE IS HARD TO HOLD.
James Wilfong, an Escaped Prisoner From
the Oakland Jail, Captured and
Escapes from the King
wood Jail,


wood Jail.
James Wilfong, who is charged with
having stolen horse from the Ashby
barn near Crellin early last spring
and who was captured and placed in
jail here to await trial at the term of
court to convene next week, but
made his escape along with two other
prisoners shortly after his arrest by
digging hole through a partition
wall, was captured one night last
week while robbing Shoch's store at
Rowiesburg. Tie day following he
was taken to Kingwood and court be-
ing in session, he was tried, convicted
and sentenced to the Moundsville
penitentiary for term of five years.
Monday morning of this week, how
ever, the prisoner decided that he
had had enough of the hospitality of
the Kingwood folks, and watching his
opportunity he walked out of the
front door of the Jail and sought new
worlds to conquer.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-01-21
DIRTY STREET CARS.

NEW YORK IS SUFFERING from
IN the dirty street car, an inhiction
from which Salt Lake is far from free.
as some hundreds of witnesses will tes-
tify. George A. Soper, writing in the
January number of the Municipal
Journal and Engineer, tells about some
Investigations he has recently made in
this connection. If the conditions in
the metropolis are as bad as he says
they are we may almost wonder that
any of the inhabitants manage to es-
cape diseases of various sorts.
1t is said that the average adult takes
into his lungs about $40 cubic inches
Of air per minute and exhales the same
quantity Of vitiated air. Fresh air
contains, according to this expert,
about three parts of carbOnic acid gas
per 10000 volumes, while air that has
been breathed contains AL parts per
10000. 1t would seem, then, that about
fifty cubic feet Of air per person should
be admitted to street cars every min
ute. OF course this is not done, either
IN New York, Salt Lake or elsewhere.
Mr.. Soper says he found the air in
some New York cars to contai4i 26.2
parts of carbonic acid gas. The only
ventilation was had through the open
ing of doors to admit or discharge pas
sengers. In considerably less than half
the cars examined, the narrow tran
SONS along the sides OF the roof were
nearly all closed. The results, to those
who are compelled to use these con-
veyances, are, says Mr.. Soper, "a re-
duction Of the heart action, increase
in the rate of respiration, tendency to-
ward headache, loss Of appetite, reduc-
ton of vitality. nervous exhaustion
and. in severe cases, nausea"
This is truly a catalogue of evils
which we should all seek to avoid. In
addition. though, we have the germs
that abide in the cocoa mating used
in some cars. It is said that 1000, 900
bacteria have been found in a fibre an
inch and half long. They were taken
into the lungs with the foul air and
the combination produces almost any
disease you care to mention. AS a
remedy for the evil Mr.. Soper sug-
gests the adoption of stringent laws
against Overcrowding the cars, as we'll
as laws requiring the companies to
keep the cars clean.
The trouble about the overcrowding
law is that the people themselves would
make it dead letter. Everybody has
seen in Salt Lake and elsewhere one
car crowded to suffocatiOn while a car
Immediately behind it is comparatively
empty. To make the statute effective
a penalty should also be provided for
people who insist on getting into car
that is already loaded. The clean car
law should be enforced and one should
be passed in Utah.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-01-21
THE ST. LOUIS CASE.

IF THE PASSENGERS on the Amer
lean line steamer St Louis can
prove the case against the company
they think they will be able to prove.
they should be entitled to damages.
The old adage that "alPs well that
ends Well does not apply in this in
stance. 1t may not be true that any
passenger sustained actual pecLniary
loss, although one claims to be some
thousands Of dollars loser because he
did not reach this country in time to
take up a certain option, but the men,
tai suffering the unfortunate voyagers
must have experienced was sufficient
to form the basis Of an action in court
q appears that the st. Louis was
in no condition to make a trip across
the Atlantic, during a stormy period
of the year, with hundreds OF pas
sergers in her cabins. The condition
of the vessel was known to the com
pany, because no denial has been made
of the statement that the st. Louis
was TO go into dry dock for repairs i'm
mediately upon her arrival here. Her
boilers were in a leaky condition: she
was liable at any moment to fall a
victim to the wind and the waves.
Nevertheless. the company, for the
sake of the passage money paid by the
travellers, placed their lives in jeopardy
DL,ing a period covering almost twice
as much time as that ordinarily con-
sunled in similar voyage, the ST.
Louis passengers hardly knew when
they went to bed whether the boat
would live until morning or not More
through good luck than through good
management the ship reached her port
In safety, but it viii be a long time
before the passengers forget their ex-
perience.
And. while of course the anxiety Of
those whose loved ones were on the
apparently doomed boat has no COM
mercial value, still it is entitled to
some consideration. Thousands of
people in the United States and else
where passed sleepIess nights because
Of the slow trip of the st. Louis
From hour to holr they waited, their
dread growing greater all the while
Ii was not until suspense had deveI-
cped almost into certainty of disaster
that the good news that the steamer
had been sighted was received.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-01-21
AS REGARDS MR.. sMoor.
washington Post.)

Il
On esthetic grounds we object to
Smoot, or to his name rather. We have
had some queer names in congress
Mudd, Booze, Shook, Loudenslager,
Quigg, whole lots of them-and we
have always felt that their parents
were to blame. Smoot simpresses us in
the same way. He reminds US Of
Shakespeare's mistake about the rose
If ii were any of our business, we
should protest against "Smoot" as an
addition TO the roll OF t;,e United States
senate. Not on personal but on
artistic grounds. For all we know,
Smoot may be jest Is capable and
patriotic and useful as any Marmadul1e
or Jones of them ali. We simply wish
he had some other name.
As it happens. however. the choice Of
a senator from Utah rests with the
people of that state. No matter wheth-
ligion. or to his habits or TO the cut
of his hair, people living outside of
Utah have nothing to do with Utah's
selection of a senator-nothing what
sOever-and when such people under
take TO NEEDLE they deserve and should
receive a vigorous and well-aimed
snub. The chances all are that not more
than one out of a hundred of those
who are protesting against SmoOt know
anything at all about him or are COM
petent to pronounce judgment upon his
qualifications.
The fact that Mr.. Smoot is an official
of the Mormon church has nothing to
do with the case. All churches and
sects, all religions, in fact, are equal
before our laws. If the Methodists,
Roman Catholics or Episeopalians, be-
ing dominant in the leading party in a.
state, were 20 send a bishop to the
senate, who would deem il the duty of
outsiders TO interfere2 It is not charged
that Mr.. Smoot is a polygamist or an
immoral man. The only objection
urged against him is that he Is one of
the apostles of ''the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter day Saints" But
even if he were polygamist. it would
be for the senate. and the senate alone.
to decide whether he should hold a seat
IN that boey.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-01-21
HAzlNe AT ANNAPOLIS.

IT SEEMS TO THE HERALD that
l the brutal hazing administered TO
Cadet Pearson at Annapolis is not
receiving the public notice the case de-
serves. Pearson. a first class man,
seems TO have been selected by the up
per class cadets as a special object of
wrath He was leased and bedeviled
ind tormented in various ways, and
inally he tainted under the treatment
When Ee recovered consciousness he
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-01-21
ANCIENT AZTEC CITY.

underlying the present capital of the
Mexican republic are the moulded and
earth covered ruins of the ancient seat
OF the Aztec empire, says the Chicago In
ter Ocean. Recent discoveries prove ii so
Excavations have brought to light sam
pies of the art and handicraft of that
WONDERFUL people, whose deeds are yelled
In mystery. but whose crumbling ruins
tell of the existence of a highly cultured.
gentle, progressive race whose cities
were the cornerstone of the modern cam
itaI, and whose uncertain history lends
romance and glamour to the country
Time and again writer's on Mexican
archaeology have stated that the founda-
ton of the City of Mexico is made up of
the ruins of the ancient Aztec city.
Through the efforts of Captain Porfirio
Diaz, the son of President Diaz. the
grand old man of Mexico. the truth of
the statement, after years of uncertainty
has been fully demonstrated by the finds
that have been made during recent exca-
vatlons, undertaken under the auspices
of Captain Diaz.
Within the past few months discoveries
of the greatest archaeological Importance
have been made which promise TO shed
much new light upon the ancient capital
of the Az-ecs and the history of this
strange and highly civilized people.
Captain Diaz has so far made the ma
of the City of Mexico, only two squares
east of the great plaza. or Zocolo
The First Excavations.
Mexican government to rebuild the old
palace on the corner of Relox and Cordo-
banes streets. to furnish suitable quarters
for the department of justice. Suspicion
had been long entertained that the ex-
cavdtiOn OF the foundation of this build
ing might reveal priceless treasures of a
past age and an extinct and mysterious
race.
Captain Diaz. because of his great in
terest in all matters bearing on Mexican
archaeology. was, therefore. given charge
of the work, and il is chiefly due to his
painstaking efforts that the exceedingly
interesting and valuable discoveries were
made.
When the excavations were begun moth
ing of interest was discovered. and Cap
tain Diaz and those under him were
greatly. disappointed, and beginning to
think that some mistake must have been
made by the archaeological authority who
claimed that great finds would be made
One day. however, while the worknen
were levelirg off the patio or central
courtyard of the edifice previous TO psif-
ting down new pavement, they came ia
contact With hard. solid foundation.
which proved TO be flight of stone steps
going down into the earth.
1t is probable that they would have
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-01-21

declined to submit to any further in
dignities.
Pearson was then accused of being a
coward He was told that to wipe the
stigma away he must fight with man
to be selected by his fellow cadets.
He consented and the battle followed
According to all reports, it was held
under the most approved and most bru-
tai rules of the prize ring. How brutal
the contest was may be judged by the
fact that Parsons jawbone was brok-
en- and yet this coward fought four
rounds after his injury. and would
have fought longer if a cade had not
interfered.
It is almost incredible. that these
things should have taken place under
the very noses of the Annapolis author
tiles. as it were. without their discov-
ering them sooner. Some months ago
the statement was made that hazing
had ceased, both at West Point and at
Annapolis. With regard to the former
academy the statement is probably cor
rect for those young men have recently
had a lesson which is likely to do away
with hazing there for a long time to
come West Point is clean IN this re-
spect, but Annapolis needs a going
over.
It should not be hard to fix the re-
sronsibility for the Pearson case, and
when that responsibility is fixed, the
culprits should be turned out of the
academy in disgrace as the West
Pointers were. The Herald has no OBJ
lection to boyish fun. The spirits of
young men will run away with them
sometimes, but there is no occasion for
brutality. It is great pity that Pear
son didn't have the strength and
science to whip all of his tormentors.
singly or en- masse. but he didn't. and
the authorities must act.
A great cry has been raised recently
for a larger navy and for more officers
to command it. but we can better af-
ford to do without a navy or officers
for it than to turn Annapolis into a
training school for pugilists.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-01-21

City Engineer Kelsey is entitled to a
raise in salary. He is one of the most
faithful workers in any of the city's
departments. In recent months his Ia
bors have been considerably increased.
but his compensation has been kept at
the old standard. There isn't an engi-
neer in the United States, in all prob
ability, with Mr.. Kelsey's responsible
tiles, who doesn't receive a larger sal
airy than Salt Lakes city engineer.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-01-21

The New York American has pur-
chased several thousand tons of coal
and is selling it to the poor people of
the metropolis by the pail at cost. For
advertising purposes? Well, yes; but it
is the kind OF advertising that will
bring warmth and comfort and good
cheer into many a poverty-stricken
home. Yellow? Yes, the flames from
that coal will be yellow, perhaps. but
the people who sit by them will bless
the New York American just the same.