The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1905-04-20
BLOOMINGTON.

| dead on the railroad about half way
| through Everett tunnel, two miles
westof town, on last Saturday morn
ing at o'clock. Flagman James
| Jones stumbled over +he remains hor-
ribly mangled and cut to pieces in
the darkest part of the tunnel, and
was terribly frightened.ahd shocked,
when he realized it was the body of
| man.
| Mr.. Holland since the death of his
wife, some few wears ago has lived
alone in little house near No. 40 wa
ter station, on the II mile grade, and
was in the habit of walking to Pied
mont about once a month. 1t is sup
posed he was on his way to town
when he was caught in the tunnel by
passing trains and killed. His remains
were gathered up and sent to an I'M
dertaker at Piedmont, and buried in
! the Catholic graveyard at Yves tern
port on the following Sunday.
Paddy as he was called was typ
! ical Irishman, and known to nearly
everybody in this place as the iovial
and kindhearted old Waterman, who
for 20 years was stationed at the watch
box half a mile west of Piedmont.
Mr.. Samuel Brady of the Brady
Construction Co, of Grafton, was in
town last week
Miss Mabel Shuck, of Bond, enroute
to her future home at Dubois, Pa,
stopped off for "a few days to visit
friends in this vicinity,
Messrs. Russell Pattisou and John
Raley, members of the Cardinal base
ball team of Cumberland were home
oyer Sunday.
During a festival held by the Ladies'
Aid Society of the NJ. Z. church on
last Saturday evening in the old
school house, a fire occurred in the
roof of the building from defective
tlue, and for time created consider
able excitement. As soon as the
bucket brigade got into effective ser
vice the fire was soon subdued with
out much loss.
Saturday was pay day at Pattison' 5
mine, and at Marstellar's four foot
Rev. A. X. Snedegar has returned
from Confluence and filled his pulpit
on last Sunday night.
n, e I.
is attending to the practice of DR..
Boynton at Barnum during the lat
ter's absence in Philadelphia.
Mr.. Clarence Howard, of Piedmont,
spent Sunday with his parents, Rev.
and Mrs. J. X. Howard.
Miss Viva Jones, of Elk Garden,
daughter of Capt. Jones. of the Elk
Garden branch, is visiting her uncle
and aunt, Mr.. and Mrs John Rad
cliffe, of Savage.
Two applications for saloon licenses
for this town have been filed with the
clerk of the Circuit Court, Mrs Maggie
Collin and Mr.. Frceland Tibbets.
Mr.. and Mrs Boettner, of Frost
burg, are guests of their son, Engineer
John Boettner, of Savage.
Mr. William Brown, of the Mob, ha,
the material on his lot recently pur-
chased for the erection of a dwelling
house
Mr.. Freeland Tibbets lost valua
bic COW on last Tuesday by it being
killed on the b. 4 O.
Extensive preparations are being
made by the pupils and officers of the
Presbyterian of Savage, and the NJ
f. Sunday schools of this place tc
celebrate the Easter festival on next
Sunday evening.
The effect of the new bridge across
The Potomac river connecting lthis
place with Franklin, giving us al
outlet to the West Va. h. r., has al
ready developed conveniences anC
accommodations that could not be
obtained from the B. & @. Order.
went into effect on Wednesday stop
ping all passenger trains North anC
South at the new station. This order
is not for a special or limited time
but will be scheduled as a regular
stopping place summer and winter
for passengers and freight.
Mr. Geo. Warwick returned home
on Tuesday evening from a business
trip of a few days to Elk Garden.
Messrs. Cal Simpson and John
Smith contractors and builders, have
just completed a home for Mr.. How.
ard Kline at Pattison mine.
Mr.. Thos. DeYine, of Dodson, srent
Palm Sunday with his sister, Mrs
Maggie Collins.
Presiding Elder Mcdowell, of Balti,
more, of1iciated at the Quarterly Con.
fernce meeting in the NJ. f.. church
on last Wednesday afternoon. This
is the first official appointment he
has been able to attend in the last
twelve months on account of an acct.
dent which occurred early last spring
when he slipped and fell on an icy