The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-01-08
LOCAL AND OTHERWISE
Incidents and Events at Home and Nearby
Personal Mention, Etc.

Incidents and Events at Home and Nearby
Personal Mention. Etc.
Sincell & Co.'S white sale, Jan. 10
to 81.
Merchant S. P Specht, of Deer
Park, was visitor to Oakland Tues
day.
Ex-Sheriff Andrew J. Oester, of Bit
finger, was in the city Monday and
Tuesday.
Mr.. Chas. Stark, of near Floyd, was
a visitor to Oakland Tuesday and
while in town remembered the print
er.
WANTED.-Two fresh cows or two
about to be fresh. Good price paid.
Call on or address W. H. Chadderton,
Deer Park, Md.
DR.. and Mrs. NJ. c. Hinebaugh and
children, after spending week or
ten days with relatives in Baltimore,
returned home Saturday afternoon.
The B. u o. will give its usual mid
winter excursions to Washington be-
ginning with the first one on January
22nd.
Wallace Mason, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
G. M. Mason, of Oakland, left Satur-
day last for Buckhannon, where he
will enter the Seminary for six
months business course.
For one week, beginning Jan. 10.
H. G. Sincell & Co. will sell you your
choice of any $40, $12 or $15 suit in
the house for 1873. Only one suit
TO each customer.
Mr.. Frank Laughlin, of Deer Park,
came up to Oakland Tuesday after
noon from his home to take train No.
4 for Baltimore in which city he is a
student.
Mr.. Truman NJ. Dodson, assistant
manager of the Monroe Coal Mining
Company at Barnum, W. Va. was in
Oakland Monday and Tuesday as the
guest of Mr., and Mrs. E. H. Sincell.
Capt. J. NJ. Jarboe, recently con-
frmed postmaster at Oakland for a
second term in that office, has receiv-
ed his commission from President
Roosevelt.
An order has been issued from the
Postoffice Department disseminating
special mail service to Kearney, in the
Eighth District. The service for that
section will be handled by the Noun
tain Lake Park office.
The Oakland friends of Mr.. and
Mrs. G. Felty, now of Connellsville,
Pa, will be glad to learn of the sue
eessful operation performed upon
their little daughter Hazel, full ac-
count Of which appears in this paper
to-day.
Among the young people attending
schools out of town and who spent
the holidays with their parents in
town the following have returned to
their studies: Misses Bess Offutt and
Grace Jones, Winchester; Rebecca
Thayer, Westminster; E, E. Sollars,
Charlotte Hall; Stewart Hamill, Bal
timore; Byrne Hamill, Hagerstown;
Joseph Bradley, Baltimore county.
The Circuit Court for Allegany
county convened for the January
term, with Chief Judge A. Hunter
Boyd and Associate Judge Ferdinand
ha
delivered the charge to the Grand
Jury, calling especial attention to the
prize fights (which have been the
subject of frequent discussion in the
newspapers" He said that while
there was no statute which specially
covered prize fighting, yet the violat
ors could be amply reached on an as
sault and battery charge.
The square dance once dear to the
heart of the lads and lasses who found
pleasure in tripping the light fantas-
tic, is dead one, where the ten cent
wing" used to be all the 60 The
passing up of the quadrille only goes
to show the tendency of the times.
Years ago when the Boston tea party
and the battle of Banker Hill were oc-
cupying the stage of action our fore
fathers and mothers gravely went
through the measures of the stately
minuet in court costume with wig and
queue and powdered hair, and yard
uDOn ward of yOluminOus fiOunces
Today the young folks in shirt waist
and more or less scant drapery gallop
through the two step to rag time
music. 1t is easy enough to follow
the history of the country through
the years by it's dances and dancing,
but if this rapid action continues
what will replace the galloping two
step and where will it end?