The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1905-09-07

Merchant D. III. Dixon returned TO
Oakland yesterday from a business
trip to Martinsburg.
Mr.. J. F. Lewis, of near GAINESVILLE,
was in the city Tuesday when he
made this Office a brief business visit.
Miss Catherine Manages and her sis
ter, Mrs. Smith and son Richard, left
for York Pa, on train No 4 Monday
morning, after spending the summer
with relatives in Oakland. Miss
Manages is one of the teachers employ
ed IN the York school and returned
there to reopen her school.
Our genial friend, Squire William
D. Hoye, OF Deer Park, was a visitor
to this Office on Tuesday, having
been called to Oakland on business
connected with his office. While a
candidate on the Democratic ticket
for Clerk of the Court Mr.. HOVE is
not working overtime to secure his
election but is allowing things to
take their course.
Col. A. G. Sturgiss, accompanied
by his daughter Miss Nell, went to
Baltimore Tuesday morning. Yes
terday Col. Sturgiss attended the
Republican State Convention AS a
delegate from Garrett county haying
been elected as such at the recent
county convention held in Oakland.
Both will return to Oakland tomor-
row.
Mr.. n. U. Bond, of Bond, was in
Oakland Tuesday leaving here the
same afternoon for Baltimore where
he attended the Republican State
Convention held there yesterday.
With Mr.. Bond, w. McCulloh Brown,
Col. Sturgiss, DIR. Rayenscroft and
George w. Engle in the convention
Garrett was well represented and
made a good showing.
Prof. E. A. Browning, the county
superintendent of schools, who purch-
ased the Lawton property adjoining
Oakland one day last week, has a
force of carpenters and painters re-
pairing and repainting the dwelling
and fences surrounding it. The
property is most desirable one be-
ing located within easy reach of town.
Monday being Labor Day and le-
gal holiday both State and National,
the postof1ice and both banks re-
manned closed from Saturday until
Tuesday morning. No rural routes
were served by carriers in any Dor
tion of the county, the departure
from the usual rule of carrying the
mails on these routes upon a holiday
being inaugurated Monday by an Or
der issued by the Postoffice Depart
ment.
County Superintendent Browning
is thoroughly incensed at the action
of some person unknown to him who
on Sunday night of this week enter
ed his stable and took therefrom his
riding horse and from appearances on
Monday morning led him to believe
that the animal had been hard rid
den as it was covered with mud and
showed signs of having been illtreat-
ed by its unknown rider. Entrance
to the stable was effected through
the door upon which was a spring
lock.
Messrs. Jesse T. Gosnell, of Leitch-
field, KY, and Reuben W. Isdell, of
Washington, were visitors to this
office yesterday morning. The for
mer gentleman is extensively engaged
as a clothing manufacturer and other
lines of business in his city and was
until about two years ago clerk of
the court for his county. This is his
second visit to Garrett county being
a guest at one of the hotels at the
Park. Mr.. Isdell is an instructor in
music and is here to spend his vaca-
ton.
Long John CLANCY, of Avilton,
Garrett county, came down and Wis
tied Van Amburg's show two weeks
ago and is still here. He says that
the first show he ever attended was
in Frostburg in 1874, and it is notable
also that it was the late William l..
Shaw, recently deceased, who first
made CLANCY famous by styling him
Long John" Said Shaw-"if Long
John CLANCY is in town a circus is
near; if the circus is.here Long John
is on the way" CLANCY is IA years old
carries his age well, and his nearly
Z feet of physique is straight and
erect as in his palmiest DAYS. He is
an intelligent, good citizen, highly es-
teemed by the many who know him.