The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-05-21
BLOOMINGTON,


Rev. Snedegar, the newly appoint
ed Methodist minister in charge of
Bloomington circuit, preached very
able sermon to the member of the
Jr. o. U. A. NJ. in the NJ. E. church
last Sunday afternoon at o'clock.
Miners Sunshine Council of this place
and number of visiting brethren
from Piedmont and vicinity turned
out in regalia and paraded through
town previous to the services in the
church.
The coal miners in this vicinity held
a meeting in Frog Hollow last Sun
day morning for the purpose of Or
ganizing a union. The attendance
was small and another meeting has
been called for next Sunday.
Mr.. Henderson, of Marietta, Ohio,
employed by the South Pen Oil Co.,
who has been inspecting and leasing
lands in different parts of Garrett
county with view of testing same
for oil, was in town Sunday en- route
to Elkins. The prospects, so far as
he was able to judge from surface in
dications, were very favorable. Oil
rigs will be erected and test holes
bored some time this summer.
Mrs. Mamie Mclean, of Grafton,
was a guest of her brother, Charles
Danow, of Savage, a part of last week.
The contest between Miss Daisy
Elliot, of this place, and Miss Stewart,
of Franklin, for a gold watch given
by the Bloomington base ball club,
was decided last Saturday evening at
8 o'clock in favor of Miss Elliott, who
had collected 81 against $24 collected
by her competitor.
The strike of the section hands, or
navies, as they are usually called, on
the third division of the b. & 0. was
declared off last Thursday morning,
the strikers going back to work at
the old rate of $1.35 per day. We I'M
derstand this action on the part of the
striking laborers is only temporary
and for the purpose of organizing
their forces into unions, preparatory
to general strike about May oath,
which will involve all the divisions
from Baltimore to Wheeling. The
trackmen on the third division are
the only ones now outside of the labor
unions.
Mr.. John G. Brydon, of Somerset,
and his brothers, Louie B. of Simp-
son, and Bernard, of Blaine, W. Va,
all prominently identified with the
coal interests in their respective
states, were home with their parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. W. A. Brydon, ON Sun
day.
The Davis Coal g. Coke Co. has
about completed it's new opening to
the six foot on Savage river, opposite
the Pattison mine. We understand
the coal will be taken from the mouth
OF the mine to the Buxtonkdumps by
narrow guage railroad.
DIR. Strachan, of Elk Garden, a re-
cent graduate of the Baltimore Medi-
cal College, will open an office at Saw
age, w. Va.
A number of our young folks pro-
pose taking in" the Eagles Carnival
at Cumberland next week.
Mr.. Will Ward, of this place, but
for some time a resident of Tunnel
ton, has returned to this section and
is now living on Hampshire Hill.
The quarantine at Luke has been
lifted. The small pox patients are all
well and show few scars of their late
illness.
Rumor says that we have quite a
number of political possibilities in
District No. 4. We are told that Mr..
Goodman Howard would not object
to the nomination for the House of
Delegates, that Mr.. Geo. L. Michaels
has aspirations for the State Senate
and our old friend, Henry Barnard,
would like to have Judge prefixed to
his name and would have no particu-
lar objections to seat in the Orphans
Court.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis Baldwin have
returned from very pleasant visit
to Deer Park and Mountain Lake
Park.