The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-05-14
Mr.. Henry P. Weber, of H. Weber

Mr.. Henry P Weber, of H. Weber
& Sons, spent a few days last week
in Baltimore and Philadelphia.
Messrs. James Chisholm and Justice
William A. Harvey, of District No. s,
visited Oakland Tuesday.
Mr.. j. s. Gnegy, who taught the
Deer Park school, is now located at
Newburg, West Va.
Sidewalks are being laid in various
parts of town. There are lots of
places yet where they should go down.
When you are hungry, go to Whites
Restaurant, opposite First National
Bank Building. 5 If.
The addition to the hardware store
of J. NJ. Davis & Sons is being erect
ed and with favorable weather will
be ready for occupancy with in a
week or two.
Hon. Thomas E. Davis, of Grafton,
was in Oakland and at the Park yes
terday. He will spend the summer
at the latter place as usual, bringing
his family about the first of June.
Mr.. James G. Peddicord, who is
suffering from an affection of his
eyes, mention of which was made in
these columns last week, went to
Baltimore Friday evening where he
consulted a specialist, returning to
Oakland Tuesday morning consider
ably improved.
William Chisholm, son of John H.
Chisholm, Esq, was considerably
injured last Friday evening by being
thrown from a buggy to which was
attached two runaway horses. The
accident occurred near the Hayden
store building at Mountain Lake
Park. The buggy was completely
wrecked, while the horses was only
slightly injured.
The new ballot law in Kansas pro-
vides that 1.-The lower limbs of the
/ NObClSs tlo lll1 u u bllO hhOOcs pileoiA
be visible from the outside while the
voter is in the booth preparing his
ticket, the lower part of the booth
having been left open for that pur-
pose" Until that part of the law is
repealed, or changed, it is obvious
that there can be no female suffage in
Kansas. Some mean old thing who
is an enemy of woman's rights must
have devised the law.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jacob Morrison, of
Oakland, were summoned to Pitts
burg last Friday night by telegram
announcing that their son was i'll in
that city with small pox. Upon their
arrival there tkey learned that he
had been taken charge of by the
health authorities and sent to a hos
pital where he is receiving the best
of attention. Mr.. and Mrs. Morrison
returned home Sunday afternoon
stating that Walter was better.
The sudden abandonment by the
Wabash of the roundabout way
through West Virginia to the sea
coast, and the concentration of all
their working force on the completion
of the main line to Pittsburg and
thence through Washington and
! Greene counties make it cerain that
the Goulds mean to take the most di-
rect route to the sea board. That
means that the line will cross Somer-
set county from West to East and
Meyersdale will be in its path. or so
near as to make it a most valuable
competing line. Perhaps, this year,
the dirt will begin to fy-though
they don't say so yet.-Commercial.
For some reason love-making seems
to be losing it's romance in these mod
ern days. There is more holding
hack than formerly, more of the prac-
tical and less of the sentimental.
While there are probably no statistics
on the subject, we doubt not that in
the last score of years the marrying
age has been advanced we'll up in the
20s, whereas time was when the aver
age age at which girls married was be-
low the legal age of womanhood. This
fact may be easily verified by consult
ing the mothers and grandmothers of
advanced years. We have heard
many of them declare that Is was, in
the days of their girlhood, by no
means considered an unusual age for
getting married. And there was,
possibly, more real happiness and do
nestle enjoyment in the home lives
of those who began life together in
the earliest stages of youth and girl
hood and lived long and honorably in
pleasant companionship.
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