The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1906-11-01

Bless the man who is to a reasonable
amount, uneasy as long as he owes a
dollar. If you are at some .time COM
PEELED by unavoidable circumstances to
request your merchant to extend you
credit for time, in making your appli-
cation to him for it don't tell him YOU
will pay the first Of the month when, in
your opinion, it will be the tenth of the
month before you will meet the obliga-
ton.
NJ. Nimrod Glotfelty, one of Gar
rett county's most progressive farmers,
came up to Oakland from his home near
Bittinger last Friday evening and on
Saturday went to Berryburg, w. Va,
to visit his daughters, who reside there
and also to accompany Mrs. Glotfelty
home, who had been their guest for two
weeks. 1t was Mr.. Glotfelty's first
visit to any point west of Oakland on
the line of the railroad and he was i'm
pressed with some parts of the country
he passed through. Saturday, too, was
the forty-seventh anniversary of Mr.
Glotfelty's wedding.
That our town is live town is easy
of demonstration. More business is
done here now at this time of the year
than has been done for several years.
We are not DESTROYS Of having the pub
lie think we are suffering from a boom.
We are enjoying an increase of business
and prosperity. Our streets are crowded
early and late, people and teams are
bringing in produce and money to ex-
change for goods, and our merchants
are paying the very highest market
prices for produce and are selling goods
at live and let live prices and the
people are not slow to take advantage
Of this opportunity and get the bargains
as advertised by our merchants.
c. B. Cuppet, left Oakland Yesterday
morning for Clarksburg, West Va,
where Mr.. Cuppet will locate perman-
entity, having taken an interest in the
Clarksburg Casket Company, d corpora
ton recently formed at that town for
the manufacture and sale of collins and
baskets, burial robes. etc. Others who
are interested in the factory, now under
construction, are Mr.. Austin Brown Of
Oakland, Mr.. S. w. Wilson, of Clarks-
burg, and Mr.. W. B. Brown of Pitts
burg, the two latter gentlemen having
had years of experience in this line.
The company is capitalized at 500, 600
and is chartered under the laws of the
State Of West Virginia. The factory
building will be located along the tracks
of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad at
Clarksburg, thus affording splendid
shipping facilities. This concern will
be one of the few factories of its kind
not controlled by the trust which has
branches in almost every city of any
prominence in the country.
The trade territory of town is not
all dependent upon the distance to
neighboring trading points. The trade
territory depends upon the enterprise of
the merchants and the residents of the
town. If town does not reach after
the trade it will come only as fast as it
has to, and it will grow as it is forced to.
But if the merchants go after business
IN the surrounding country, advertising
IN every possible way, and making good
every word of their advertising, trade
will come from an everincreasing radius,
the town will gain reputation for be-
ing awake and it will forge to the front.
1t is the men in the town and not alto
gether the men living within a certain
number of miles from it that makes the
town.