The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1908-11-26

Miss Mary Watson, of near Charles
town, w. Va. and Miss Julia Engle, of
Kearneysville, W. Va. are in Oakland
where they are the guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. John A. Grant.
Mrs. A. F. George, two sons and
daughter, of near Swanton, were in
Oakland Tuesday on business before the
Orphans Court in connection with the
settlement of the estate of the late
Mr.. George.
Mr.. and Mrs. Horace R. Dewitt, who
returned to Oakland last Wednesday
afternoon from their HONEYMOON trip,
left here on Friday for their future home
near Hoyes, followed by the well wishes
of their numerous friends.
Say! Can you get TOYS at the Gold
Mine store? You saider.
Miss Cinda Hinebaugh, who has been
on an extended visit to friends and rela-
tives in Keyser, Elkins and other West
Virginia towns, returned to her home
in Oakland Sunday afternoon
Mr.. Douglas McLane and son William,
of McHenry, were in Oakland Tuesday
where they received six horse power
gasoline engine and chop mill, which
they will erect on their farm, using the
machinery for their own needs as well
as grinding for their neighbors.
DR.. John E. Legge is making some
extensive improvements to the property
owned by his father, Mr.. George W.
Legge, by tearing down the old stable
and other buildings facing on Centre
street and rebuilding them on the alley
in the rear of the lot.
Mrs. Florence M. Bowers, of Upper
Potomac, whose husband, John Bowers,
died recently, is in Oakland and vicinity
where she will visit friends and rela-
tives for two or three weeks and then
leave for Shawnee, Oklahoma, where
she will make her future home with her
mother, Mrs. Martha Bolyard.
Senator W. McCulloh Brown will
leave on Friday for Baltimore where he
will remain until after the State Horti-
cultural Society meeting, which begins
on December LIST. Senator Brown is
confident that Garrett county will Sc
cure first prize for her exhibits, especi-
ally apples.
Among those from out of town who
attended the funeral of the late Mrs.
Martha Delawder in Oakland last Thurs
day afternoon were Mr.. and Mrs. w. L.
Boughner and daughter, Miss May, of
Morgantown; Rev. and Mrs. j. A. Nc
Clelland, of Grafton, and Misses Bessie
Adair and Ellen Connell, of Terra Alta.
Mr.. C. F. Hammond left Oakland
Tuesday night for Baltimore, where he
met his son Roy yesterday morning, the
latter being student at Strathmore
College and has been suffering for sew
eral months with an affection of the
eyes, his visit to Baltimore being made
for the purpose of consulting a special
list concerning his sons condition.
Mr.. William Schooly, of Warsaw,
Ohio, who was here on a visit to rela-
tiyes for week or two. returned home
last night. Mr.. Schooly is a native
Garrett countian, having left here more
than thirty years ago, gong to Ohio
where he has made success as an agri-
culturalist, his recent visit here mark
ing his first return to the scenes of his
boyhood and young manhood. Wilhelm
Oakland Tuesday night he met quite
number of his old time acquaintance,
among them being Mr.. Fred A. Thayer,
to whom he went to school.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. j. Frantz and their
daughter, Mrs. John j. Sweeney, went
to Friendsville last Saturday where they
attended the funeral on Sunday of their
nephew, Playford Durham, son of Mr..
and Mrs. George w. Durham, of
Friendsville, announcement of the
death of the young man having been
made in this paper last week. Rev. Asa
S. Wolfe, pastor of the M. E. church at
Friendsyille conducted the funeralwhich
occurred from the church Sunday after
noon, with interment in the Steele GEM
etery. Mr.. James B. Frantz also at
tended the funeral, having gone from
here to Cumberland last Thursday
morning prior to the announcement of
the death of his relative, accompanying
the remains from that city to the home
the following day.
Waltz me around to the Gold Mine.
Annninfah In Sfica Of tho Paarn