The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-01-22

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Manufacturing Company 40
Attorney E. L. Mitchell went up to
Terra Alta Tuesday on professional
business.
The regular semi monthly com
munication of Oakland Lodge, A, F.
81 A. Masons will be held tonight.
The Ladies' Club will be entertained
this afternoon by Mrs. 4. f. Sliger at
her home on Second street.
Il. C. Sincell & Co.'S Third Annual
White Sale is now in progress. They
report the heaviest sale in their line
during the history of their business.
Joseph King, Esq, of near German,
was in Oakland yesterday on bust
ness. He was accompanied by Capt.
J. w. White, of the same neighbor-
hood.
Editor A. A. Dorsey, of the Parsons
CIV. Va Advocate, stopped in Oak
land between trains last Saturday on
his way to Kingwood where he spent
Sunday.
Another car load of paying brick
for use next spring on Second street
has been received. The brick are
being unloaded from the car and
placed near the point where they are
to be utilized.
The new owners of the Oakland
Planning Mills started the machinery
on Friday last and since that time
the mill has been kept busy supplying
the needs of its customers. lndica-
tions point to successful business.
Rev. Manages, of York, Pa, who has
been invited by the Ev. Lutheran
congregations of Oakland and Deer
Park to fill the vacancy caused by the
resignation of Rev. Uhler, will preach
in st. Marks church in Oakland Sat
urday evening and Sunday morning.
! Probably the happiest man in Gar
rett county is Chas. E. Hilleary, the
cause of his supreme bliss being the
arrival at his domicile Sunday of a
little daughter. Congratulations
are extended with the wish for the
little stranger of a long and happy
life.
j Mr.. Geo. B.Dunham will leave Oak
land about the goth inst. for Marietta,
o., where he will be employed by a
wholesale lumber firm. Mr.. Durham
has been an employee of the Preston
Lumber Co. here for about two years
and is highly esteemed by all who
know him.
Mr.. c. E. Ellithorp, Of Bittinger,
Garrett county, accompanied Miss
Ellithorp as far as Cumberland yes
| terday. The latter left this morning
for Hagerscown to resume her studies
at Kee-Mar College. Mr.. Ellithorp
reports Is inches of snow at Bittinger
and very fine MISUNDERSTANDING
| News.
Last Wednesdays Baltimore Anler-
lean contained well executed pictures
of Mr.. G. S. Hamill, vice president,
and Scott T. Jones, Esq, cashier of
the Carrot County Bank, which will
within few days become National
Bank with an increase OF its capital
to $4,000 fully paid up.
During the week past nearly every
available team in Oakland has been
engaged hauling ice from the near
by ponds and streams and storing the
crop in ice houses for next seasons
consumption. The quality of the ice
is above the average and in thickness
it measures from eight to fifteen
inches.
Engineers for the pipe line through
which to convey natural gas from
Grafton and vicinity to Cumberland,
started one day last week from the
above point to survey the route.
Whether or not the line will pass
through or near Oakland is of course
not known at this time but we have
an abiding faith that it will.
Mr.. Chas. S. Davis, of j. M. Davis
& Sons, will leave Monday morning
for business trip to Pittsburg, Pa,
and Cleveland, Ohio, in which cities
he will purchase large stock of goods
for the spring trade. To accommo-
date the growing business an addition
20x35 feet and two stories high will
be added to the store building of the
firm early in the spring.
Turkey" Ashby, of Crellin, against
whom two indictments have been
standing for some time charging him
with carrying concealed weapons
and with disturbing religious worship,
was captured Saturday night by Sher-
if Maffett and Deputy Sheriff Calls,
after having eluded the officials for
several months. Ashby is in Jail and
will be tried at the March term of the
Circuit Court.
Housewives in Oakland still report
scarcity of domestic help inadequate