The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-07-16
LOCAL AND OTHERWISE
Incidents and Events at Home and Nearby
Personal Mention, Etc.


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Personal Mention. Etc.
Binder Irvine at MAYORS. 10 3
Mr.. and Mrs. James E. Moreland,
of District No. 8, were Oakland visit
ors Monday.
J. Arthur White, of Grafton, West
Va, spent Sunday with relatives in
Oakland.
Miss Rose Coddington spent Tues
day with her sister, Mrs. Browning,
near Terra Alta.
Judge Elias Merrill, of District No.
II, made this Office an agreeable visit
Tuesday on which day the Orphans
Court was in session.
Home grown raspberries are being
brought to market in Oakland. The
crop this year will be exceedingly
light but the berries are large and of
delicious flavor.
Yesterday His Honor Judge Ferdi-
nand Williams came up to Oakland
from Cumberland and heard argu-
ment in an equity case. He returned
to Cumberland last night.
Rev. w. E. Davis, of Butler, Pa,
is now serving the Church of God
people in the capacity of pastor at
this place, Sand Spring, Nd, and also
at the Friend church.-Uniontown
Standard.
Mr.. Chas. Cropp had the misfor-
tune on Saturday to lose his very
valuable young mare which died of
dystemper. The animal was raised by
Mr.. Cropp which makes it's loss more
keenly felt.
Troop F of the Second Cavalry,
under the command of Capt. L. NJ.
Brett, passed through Oakland Mon
day afternoon errouCe to Detroit,
Mich. The soldiers will participate
in the celebration of the anniversary
of the battle of San Juan Hill.
Considerable work has and is being
done on the county roads during
the past month or two. That looks
as if there is some design to have
good highways, but it might be the
same old story-throw lot of stones
in one place and shift the hole over a
few feet.
Miss Lydia Hoover, an insane wom-
an, whose home is near Grantsville,
was brought to Oakland Tuesday af-
ternoon and placed in jail until train
No. 46 when she was taken to Cum
berland and admitted to Sylvan Re
treat for treatment. The woman was
in charge of Perry Bowser and the
constable of Grantsyille district.
During the season which has Just
closed more than $500 quarts of
strawberries were grown and picked
on Mr.. J. NJ. Conneway's farm up on
the mountain south of Ga kland. The
greater portion of the berries were
disposed of in Oakland by Mr.. Con-
neway. They were of fine flavor,
carefully picked and boxed and had
he raised five times the quantity he
would have had little trouble in dis
posing of them.
Mr.. R. A. G. Howard, son of Rev.
j. H. Howard, of Bloomington, was
in Oakland yesterday and made this
office business visit. Mr.. Howard
has for some time been urged to be-
come candidate for the nomination
for the House of Delegates but not
until recently has given his consent
to make the fight. He is now in the
field and if he should be nominated
and elected he will make Garrett
county creditable representative at
Annapolis, being young, energetic
and altogether competent to fl the
Office.
Maryland is justly proud of her
teachers-their refinement, culture
and educational Northumberland
it is to be hoped that the slogan of
better pay" which received so much
attention and discussion at Ocean City
may be realized at an early date.
The school teacher is acknowlegedly
the poorest paid public servant in
the State. In fact there are but few
avocations or professions in any
part of the industrial world whose
members receive SO slight remuner-
alton for such important and far
reaching service-the development
and installation of ideas and princi-
pies in the minds of those boys and
girls who are to compose the future
government of our glorious Common
wealth.