The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-07-16

ents in Oakland.
J. Bruner Bantz, of Savage, West
Va, spent Sunday here and at Deer
Park.
G.. H. Walter spent last week in
Somerset county, Pa, shaking hands
with old friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. a. a. Schrock, of East
End, Pittsburg, spent last week visit
ing friends at the Schley Hotel.
Money to loan on real estate. Easy
payments. Apply to Julius G. Rem
ringer, Oakland. Md. 80 If
Col. John E. Wood has been con-
fined to his room at the Browning
House for several days with an attack
of illness.
Mr.. Daniel Bixler, fruit importer
of Baltimore and uncle to DIR. w. H.
H. Bixler, is the guest for week or
two at Mrs. Johnson's boarding house
on Third street.
The horse attached to Townshend's
delivery wagon ran away Tuesday
afternoon out on Oak street but luck
lily little damage to either the horse
or wagon resulted.
The members of Bethel A. NJ. E.
church in Oakland are making a last
effort to raise funds sufficient to pay
off the Indebtedness resting upon the
church property here. Subscription
books are now being circulated with
that end in view.
Mrs. William Liller and Mrs. John
R. Browning, her sister, who visited
relatives at Dayton, Ohio, for num-
Der of weeks, have retul ned to their
respective homes. Mrs. Liller, who
has been a confirmed invalid for TWEEN
ty-five or thirty years, was greatly
benefited bv the visit.
The excursion to Cumberland from
Grafton and intermediate points last
Sunday was we'll patronized. A num-
Der went down to the Queen City from
Oakland and spent the day there.
Several of the excursionists from
Grafton and nearby points alighted
from the train when it reached Oak
land and remained here during the
day.
Norman R. Sanner, manager of the
Friendsyille Drug Company at
Friendsville, came up to Oakland last
Sunday and remained here until Mon
day afternoon greeting his many
friends. He reports Friendsville en-
joying its usual prosperity, it's citizens
happy and contented and prospects
for its future even brighter than ever
before.
Mr.. Chas. E. Hilleary, chairman OF
the building committee for the lodge
of knights of Pythias atGormania, lad
vertises in this paper today for bids
for the furnishing of materials and
the erection of three-story frame
building for the lodge at the above
place. The contract will be awarded
on Saturday, August list. Plans and
specifications for the building may
be seen at the Office of the architect
at Gormania.
After working out the appropria-
ton for the repair of the roads over
near German, Messrs. G. E. Hilleary,
j. E. Moreland and J. w. King, three
progressive citizens OF District No. s,
donated an extra days work with
their teams of six horses in order to
make the roads in their neighbor-
hood better than the money appro-
priated for the purpose was capable
of doing. Such public spiritedness
on the part Of these three gentlemen
is worthy of commentator and emu
lation in other portions of the county.
DIR. j. Lee McComas, who suffered
an injury to his hip by falling from
the yeranda at his reeidence on Lib
erty street on June eth of last year
by which the bone was broken and
dislocated and for a long time he
was confined to his bed in the Nc
Comas Sanitarium, was brought
down town Tuesday afternoon in an
invalid's chair, it being his first APP
pearance on the street since the &C
cident befel him. The doctor was
warmly greeted by scores of his old
friends and acquaintance who ex-
pressed their qualification at seeing
him again. The doctor was not less
profuse in acknowledging the kind
words of his friends and declared that
as his hip was entirely well he ex-
pected to walk down town within a
few weeks. He was greatly surprised
at the improvements made in the
town since his enforced retirement
from active life.