The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1905-06-01
BLOOMINGTON.


Mrs. Edward Warwick returned
home last Monday afternoon after IA
weeks visit to relatives il Baltimore.
Last Monday the Buxton mines did
the biggest dav's work in the history
of the Company. Two hundred and
eighty trips, $50 cars and 100 tons
passed over the plane and were
dumped into W. Va. hoppers. Supt.
o. Tibbets gave the work his person
al attention and supervision during
the day and was hiShl gratified ii
the result.
Senator John COrnwelI, of Romnev,
manager OF the press department of
the Congressional campaign Of Col.
T. B. Davis. spent Tuesday evening
with relatives in this place.
Mrs. Andrew Mullen left for Cum
berland on last Sunday morning TO
visit relatives in that city.
Mr.. Floyd Kline returned on last
Sunday evening from a business trip
to Bittinger and Grautsville, this
county. Mr.. Kline has the appoint
meut Of Z. S. water guager. noting
the rise and fall of water in the
Savage river twice daily and report
ing once week to Washington. The
apparatus is located on the Savage
river bridge and is under the dtrec-
tiOn of the T. s Geological Survey.
Misses Lrtta Kemp and Gertie
Brendlin have been designated by
the Junior Order of this place com
mittee to solicit donations of artic es
of various kinds for the Junior festi-
val to be held in their hall at this
place, June 10Th. 18th and 18th.
Mr.. Alonzo Warwick, oldest son of
the widow Warwick, living a few
miles from town, has been quite sick
from an attack of pneumonia.
Mrs. n. G. Guthrie, of Baltimore.
mother OF Rev. Charles Guthrie. the
noted pulpit orator and scholarly
clergyman.of that city, after spending
few days with relatives in this
place, left for Terra Alta on Monday
morning to visit her sister, Mrs. Nellie
Jones. Rev. Guthrie has been in
yited TO participate in the exercises
at Mountain Lake Park this summer
and it is quite probable that he will
accept the invitation and spend the
summer season at that delightful re
sort.
Miss Virginia ZelI, brilliant south
ern lady of Birmingham, Ala, is a
guest of friends in this place.
Rev. Snedegar, pastor in charge of
the NJ. E. cnurch, is on a business
trip to Harrisburg, Pa.
Decoration Day was very quietly
observed in this place. The dead in
the old Bloomington grave yard were
not forgotten and many tokens of
remembrance in beautiful flowers were
placed on the graves by friends and
relatives.
The miners employed at the Mar
steller four foot held meeting on
last Wednesday morning and refused
to go to work AZ the reduction pro-
posed by the company. A committee
was appointed to confer with the |
company report the result of the con-
ference to the miners. The COMPANY
has arranged for meeting at the |
mine on Wednesday evening at Ais |
o'c Cck. In the meantime the mine |
is closed awaiting the determination |
of the operators.
Attorneys Gilmor s. Hamill and E.
H. Sincell, of Oakland, were in town
0n last Friday in the interest of the
sale of The surface and mineral rights
of the estate of the late Henry War
nick. The surface right was pur-
chased by Charles Barnard for 500.
The sale of the mineral rights was
withdrawn for want of a satisfactory
bid.
Mr.. Walter Fike, formerly an en-
ployee of the Dodson Coal Co., of
Dodson, w. Va, moved to town on
last Wednesday,
Messrs. John Miller, Silas Cramer
and Freeland Tibbetts, of this place,
and Mr.. John Rowland, of Piedmont, |
spent a pleasant DAYS outing at |
ShadyI Spring on the Knobley road |
near Keyser on last Sunday.
Mr.. Marshall Savage, of Deer Park
accompanied by his mother spent |
part of last week visiting his sister,
Mrs Lewis Baldwin.
Big Jim Cross and his merry crowd
of big ball players, met with their
first defeat at Green's Highland Park
on Decoration Day. Too much self
confidence nd not enough ginger
and headwOrk put the Dangers on
the shoot and the strong Midland
team had it creased with lather and
soap and kept our boys in the middle
of the slide until the bottom was
reached. The Dangers will play the
Homecoming team at Pea Vine Parl,