The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-10-01

Baltimore and Washington, where he
attended the meeting of the Mary
land Bankers Association, on Sat
urday night.
The Ladies' Aid Society will meet
at the usual place Wednesday, Oct.
18th. \ full attendance of members is
desired, as business of Importance will
be considered. L. II. WATERS, Sec.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gus A. Bolden came
down to Oakland from their home at
Grafton yesterday afternoon to attend
the funeral of the formers father
which will take place this afternoon.
Mr.. D. H. Wolfersberger and daugh-
ter, of lockwood, Pa, spent last week
with &. H. Walter and family at the
Schley Hotel. Mr.. Wolfersberger is
proprietor of the lockwood House at
lockwood
Harry McComas, son of DR.. and
Mrs. Henry w. McComas, is now a
student at the Preparatory Branch
of the West Virginia University at
Keyser to which point he went Mon
day, accompanied by his father.
Mr.. James w. feathers has sold to
Mr.. James w. White, the County
Treasurer, his dwelling house on
Second and Water streets, and Mr..
feathers purchased the Tower prop
erty opposite the school house..
Miss Lou Ashman, of Baltimore,
who spent the summer at Mrs. b.
Maroney's in the East end, left Mon
day morning for her home, accompan-
led by her uncle, Prof. Thiede, who
was also guest at Mrs. Maroney's
during the summer.
Hunters who have been out after
squirrels says that there will be a
great many rabbits and birds this fall
The summer has been kind to them
and large families have been raised
Many of them will go to pot this fall
when the bird season opens.
The first chestnuts of the season
have reached town. They were sold
out quickly and every one who likes
the nuts made a rush for the place.
The man who had them could have
disposed of great manv more had
they been available.
The First National Bank people
expected to occupy their new bank
ing room to day, but owing to the
non-arrival of some material to be
used in finishing the room it will i'm
possible to make the change from
their present location to their new
home before some time next week or
the week succeeding. The banking
room is said to be the handsomest in
Western Maryland.
Rev. DR.. Scott, the Methodist pas.
tor, went to Wheeling Tuesday morn
ing to attend the sessions of the West
Virginia Conference which met there
yesterday. 1t is the desire of the
official board here as well as members
of not only his own church, but of all
denominations, that the doctor be re-
appointed to fill the Oakland charge
Mr.. O. F. Morton of Kingwood,
whose books Under the Cotton
woods and Winning or Losing
are so favorably known to their read
ers, has brought out third work,
Land of the Laurel; Story of the
Alleghenies. The other books are
very nearly out of print and the new
one is of special interest to reading
people in this county. Teachers in
particular will do well to patronize it.,
since it deals with the conditions of
life in these mountains just prior to
the building of the B. & O. r. r. The
price is one dollar postpaid. At the
Institute there will be convenient
opportunity to secure the book. 1t is
handsomely bound, printed and illus
trated.
Wei Orcutt, who was stationed in
Porto Rico with detachment of Uni
ted States Marines for several months,
arrived in Oakland last Friday from
New York where he had been in a
hospital for two months receiving
treatment for paralysis of his right
leg with which he was stricken while
yet in the service. He was honorably
discharged from his corps a few days
before his arrival here and hopes that
with the aid of the physicians in Oak
land and the pure mountain air he
will fully regain his health.