The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-01-29

Mr.. d. Y. Morris, of Kingwood, Wis
tied his daughter in Oakland Monday.
Oak lumber wanted by the Oakland
Manufacturing Company. 454
Attorney R. T. Semmes, of Cum
berland, was in Oakland yesterday on
professional business.
A. d. Naylor s. Co. has just receiv-
ed another car load of Carey's Roof
ing, the best roofing made. AZ st
Mrs. f. E. Sollars went to Romney
last Saturday where she was called
by the serious illness and subsequent
death of her brother, John F. Keller,
of Romney.
Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Bush and Mr..
and Mrs. Julius Scherr, prominent
residents of Eglon, W. Va, visited
relatives in Oakland since our last
issue.
The ice harvest is about completed.
Those who have failed to store a sup
ply will now be compelled to wait for
another freeze, which, according to
Hicks, is due next month.
Another car load of stone for the
First National Bank building has
been received and the stone cutters
are busy working them into shape
for the walls of the building for which
they are intended.
That is quite an interesting letter
published in this issue over the sig
nature of Messrs. Dayis & Sons. 1t
deals the department stores and cata-
logue houses some telling blows and
points a moral hard to get away from.
Patronize your home merchant.
Rev. E. Manages, of York, Pa, who
accepted an invitation from the con-
gregation of st. Marks Ev. Lutheran
church to preach trial sermon here
Sunday last arrived on Saturday and
on Sunday morning discoursed to an
appreciative audience. Mr.. Manages
returned to his home Tuesday night.
The new rural mail delivery route
from Deer Park to Kearney and in
termediate points, has been establish
ed and delivery of mail matter will
begin on Monday next. The patrons
of the Kearney office will be supplied
from Deer Park instead of from Noun
tain Lake Park as at present.
The man in the country who i'm
proves his home surroundings not
only benefits himself but the entire
community in which he dwells. Good
examples are catching, like measels,
and when such a man forces the con-
trast between the looks Of place well
cared for and his neighbours uncared
for, it becomes a great and effective
object lesson. Try it and see.
A we'll confined report has reached
Oakland that at the town of German,
just across the Potomac river from
Garrett county, there are at present
fifteen well developed cases of small
pox. A strict quarantine is being
maintained by the West Virginia Of
ficials. On the Maryland side of the
river the disease has been completely
stamped out, but it was only accom-
plished by the heroic efforts of the
Garrett county officials.
Mr.. and Mrs. George B. Durham
will leave Oakland this afternoon for
Marietta, o., their future home, where
Mr.. Durham has accepted position
with lumber firm. Farris Bosley,
now holding a position with the B. &
o. r. r. Co. at Grafton, will take Mr..
Dunham's place in the Preston Lum-
Der and Coal Company's office. Farris
is an exceptionally Industrious and
painstaking young man. In whatever
business he has been engaged he has
been successful to great degree.
May his guiding star ne yer grow dim.
ID. M. Smith, from Oakland, was ar
rested at Corinth Monday of this week
by Constable Dave Hollen, of Terra
Alta, and brought before Justice L..
V. Reed for hearing, charged with
carrying concealed weapons and dis
turbing the peace and dignity of the
State generally by threatening to
shoot and fiorishing a revolver around.
He confessed to having the revolver
and as he could not give bond he was
sent over here to the Hotel de Bastile
for safe keeping and Constable Hol-
len brought him over on Tuesday
and he will be the guest of Mr.. Len
hart for some time at the expense of
Mr.. P. County.-Kingwood Argus
Deacon Brown must be mistaken as
no such person as D. NJ. Smith ever
lived in Oakland. The Smith family,
like the Brown family, is large one,
and somewhat extensive travellers.
D. M. may have passed through Oak