The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1904-12-15
SMALLPOX AT ELDER.
Family of John n. Sterling Stricken
With the Disease.


of Oakland between Hoyes and
Friendsyille, there are at present
three well developed though mild
cases of smallpox, the victims of the
disease being members of the family
of John Henry Sterling, well-to-do
and highly respected farmer of that
section of the country.
Early in November Mr. and Mrs.
Sterling visited Mr. Sterling's brother
at Kingwoud and while there a mem
Der Of the family they were visiting
was taken i'll. The cause of the i'll
ness was not known until after they
had returned TO their home when the
physicians pronounced it smallpox. a
short time after leaving KingwOod
Mrs. Sterling was also taken i'll but
was not attended by a physician and
in few days she had recovered her
usual health except for an eruption Of
the skin which was thought by her
to be chickenpOx. Last Friday three
of her children were taken i'll and DIR.
Mason, of Friendsville, was called TO
attend them. Upon seeing THE pa
tlents he suspected the disease to be
smallpox but not having much exper-
fence with the disease was not fully
convinced. To guard against any pos
sible infection being impaired to 9TH
ers, however, he established guar
antine over the premises and it is
thought that no cases will develop.
This morning the three Sterling
children are improving.
Owing to the death of MIS-. Thurs
ton, the mother of Mrs. A. Hunter
Boyd, wife of Judge Boyd, and the
illness of Judge Henderson, the De-
cember term of the Circuit Court for
this county did not convene on Mon
day as is the practice, but was post
poned until today when Chief Judge
Boyd came up to Oakland .and open
ed Court. Very little business will
be transacted, the session being a non
jury term.
Indications point to a great scarcity
of turkeys for the holidays. In years
prior to this many Of the farmers were
around town at this season of the year
taking orders for the fowls but this
year marks an exception to the rule.
Chickens seem very plentiful even
now and nicely dressed ones are sell
ing at 124 cents per pound. Turkeys,
what few there are of them in the
country will bring anywhere from
twenty to twenty-five cents per
pound.
The stockholders of the Garrett
County Telephone Company will
meet at HOyes on January 14th for
the purpose of considering PROPOSE
tion to increase the capital stock of
the corporation to three thousand
shares and at a par value of $40 per
share, thus making the capital stock
$50, 900, which additional funds will
be used to further extend the lines of
the company and make some extern
sive improvements to the lines already
erected and in operation.
Mr.. J. Fletcher Friend, of Swan
ton, accompanied by his son, Mr. L..
H. Friend. who was so seriously in
jured in a runaway accident near
Oakland several weeks ago and lay
for several days in precarious con
dition at the hospital here and later
at his home at Swanton, were Oak
land visitors yesterday. Mr.. Friend,
Jr., though still quite weak as a result
of his injuries and wholly incapacita-
ted from attending to business, is
slowly recovering.
Mr.. Truman West. owner of the
West Hotel, which property has been
vacant since early in the fall, is MAX
ing extensive repairs to the house and
it will be occupied within a short
closing Of this old hostelry which has
been one of the landmarks of Oak
land for more than half a century,
Inconvenience a great many people
who had been patrons of it for many
years. When it is reopened it will be
newly furnished throughout and
many conveniences which it lacked
in former years will be added.
James Truly, the faithful colored
porter at the Commercial hotel in
Oakland, is lying dangerously ill at
his home on Water street with an
acute attack of pneumonia. The sick
man has been familiar figure about
Oakland for the past forty years or
more. He is probably better known
by the travelling public than any 9TH
er colored man in Maryland or West
Virginia, having been connected with
the Glades Hotel in it's balmiest days
and for the past ten years or more he
has occupied the position of porter at
the Commercial.
Members of the Methodist and Lu-