The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-08-06
LOCAL AND OTHERWISE
Incidents and Events at Home and Nearby
Personal Mention, Etc.


George D. Browning, of Friends
vile, was here Tuesday.
Mr.. NJ. Bond, of Bond, this coun-
ty was in Oakland and at the Park
Tuesday.
DR.. Morgan, Dean of the Summer
Schools at the Park, made this office
a business visit Saturday.
Wanted-Awoman or girl for a child
four years old. Apply at Deer Park
Hotel.
Ex-Sub Treasurer James NJ. Sloan,
of Homecoming, was a visitor of an
hour or two to Oakland Tuesday
afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Julius Scherr, of Egg
Ion, were guests Tuesday and yester-
day of Mr.. and Mrs. Julius c. Rennin-
ger in Oakland.
Messrs Robert Felty and Elisha
Stone, of Connellsville Pa, were
business visitors to Oakland Monday
and Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ben Billmyer, of Bal
timore, are here as guests of the par
ents of the latter, Mr.. and Mrs. John
o. Michael.
Mr.. G. A. Bolden and Mr.. Leo. J.
Rasche, two of the Oakland contin-
gent now engaged in business at Graf
ton, spent Sunday in Oakland with
relatives.
Prof. E. E. Campbell, Phi. D., Presi-
dent of Irving College, Mechanics
burg, Pa, was here Monday in the
interests of his school.
Mrs. r. A. Orcutt, of Brandonville,
visited her daughter, Mrs. Fred Allen
in Oakland few days recently, re-
turning home last Sunday, accompan-
led by Mrs. Allen, who will visit her
mother week or two.
The Deer Park Village improve
ment Society holds its annual bazaar
in the hotel grounds next Satnr day.
Mrs. Doctor Mitchell, Mrs. ]. Swan
Frick, Miss Baird and other cottagers
take an active interest in the festival.
Examiner Ed. A. Boowning of the
School Board announces in this pa
per today competitive examination
for free scholarship in the Maryland
Agricultural College, the examination
to take place on Wednesday, August
10Th.
Gene Baumgardner, the Alder street
green groceryman, received one day
last week very handsome delivery
wagon which in size and appearance
is wholly suitable for himself and his
donkey but entirely inadequate for
the volume of business he is doing.
Owing to break down of the en-
CINE in the Journal office last week
Editor Hamill was at his wits end
how to get out the edition of his
paper until THE REPUBLICAN came
to his rescue and allowed the use of
it's press to print the edition which
was done Friday afternoon.
Mr.. Moses R. Hamill slipped and
fell down some steps leading from
his stable into his yard Monday morn
ing and suffered a severe injury to
his knee which incapacitated him
from his duties in the First National
Bank several days this week.
Mr.. o. J. Sturgis, editor of the I'm
!ontown s-Standard, who is spend
ing the month of August at the Park,
visited this Office last Saturday. He
was accompanied by Mr.. Sticklev, a
one-armed veteran of the Civil War,
who is also sojourning at the Park
this month.
Rev. W. G. Stoudenmire, former
minister of the Lutheran church in
Oakland, and Rev. G. S. Griffith,
president of the Prisoners Aid Asso.
citation of Maryland, will be in Oak.
land next Thursday on their annual
visit and will conduct services in the
Lutheran church that evening tc
which all are cordially invited.
DR.. T. J. Jacobs, of near Markleys.
burg, Pa, visited Oakland last Satur.
day on business. Some twenty-five
years ago DIR. Jacobs was practicine
physician at Oakland and is remem-
bered by the older citizens of the
town as promising young physician
He resided here about two years and
then located at his present HON,
where he has been eminentlY success
full in the practice of his profession.