The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-05-14


Piedmont Tuesday for a few hours.
AT Whites Restaurant, the best
lunches in town are served. 5 If.
Howard Smouse and Howard Eek
les, of Fairmont, were in Oakland a
day or two this week.
Miss Daisy Brown of Kingwood, is
here as the guest of Mr.. and Mrs.
Gilmor s. Hamill on Liberty street.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. L. Pollock, of Phil
adelphia, are here on visit to the
parents of the latter, DIR. and Mrs. E.
H. Bartlett.
Hon. George L. Michaels, of Bloom
lngton district, who spent the winter
in Florida and who returned home
about the middle of March, paid Oak
land a visit Tuesday.
Chas. A. Wilt, Esq, former res
ident of Oakland, but now engaged
in the real estate and geneaal mer-
chandise business at Elk Lick, Pa,
was in Oakland Tuesday on business
Don't forget when you want Wag-
ons, Buggies, Surveys. Runabouts,
implements, Fertilizers, etc., that
you can always do better by buying
from A. d. Naylor, Oakland. SO
Hotel Bosley, The Rest, the res
licences of James d. Hamill, David
Yelling, Fred A. Thayer and several
Others haye been painted within the
past week or two. All of them look
nice.
Mr.. Elijah Hoye, of near Sang Run,
was a business visitor to Oakland YES
terday. He was accompanied by two
of his sons, one of whom was taken
quite i'll on the road here but recovered
sufficiently to be taken home yester-
day evening.
AT the Sunday morning service
held in st. Paul's NJ. E. church in
Oakland last Sunday a class of fifteen
practitioners were received into full
membership. This is probably the
largest class ever received into the
church at any one time
MIR. Chas. E. Duckworth, of Noun
tain Lake Park, went to Cambridge,
Md, as a representative of Olive
Branch Castle, Knights of the Golden
Eagle, which is located at the Park.
The Grand Castle will be in session at
Cambridge until to-day when Mr..
Duckworth will return home.
Mr.. Frank Laughlin, son of DR.. and
Mrs. Laughlin, of the Park, who has
been in Baltimore attending medical
lectures, arrived home on Friday last
aud will open the drug store at the
Park within few days the same
having been purchased a month ago
by DR.. Laughlin from DIR. Henry w.
McComas.
Merchant Smith, of Blaine, has
nearly completed the large addition
to his store. This addition will double
the floor space on the first floor.
The second story of the new part is
being fitted up for clothing and dry
goods and with this it makes his store
about three times as large as it was.
There is good deal of business about
the town of Blaine with the enlarge
ment of the coal operations there.
Every Methodist Episcopal church
in the West Virginia Conference this
month will elect a delegate to repre-
sent their congregation at the quad
riennial lay conference which will be
held in Huntington at the same time
the ministerial state conference is be.
ing held, during the first week in DC.
tober. The purpose of the conference
is to elect the representatives from
West Virginia to the quadriennial lay
conference in Los Angeles, Cal, in
May, 1904.
Mr.. Henry Beckman, one of the wei
known residents of Garrett county
was in Oakland last Monday and in
conversation with few friends re
marked that he had passed birthday
anniversaries to the number of one
hundred and forty-four. By way O.
explanation The stated that he wal
born on April 27th, 1880, which wa,
Good Friday. This church holiday
has occurred every year since that tim,
of course, but never so late and h,
therefore observes Good Friday al
one birthday and the 9th of April al
the other. While being past seventy
three years of age Mr.. Beckman i
still well preserved and is extensively
engaged in buying and selling cattle
He can outride many of the younge
generation and can roundup a herr
of steers with as much precision as h
could fifty years ago.