The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1909-09-09

boy. He was an extremely bright and
interesting child. His funeral took
place Tuesday and was largely attend
ed by many sympathetic relatives and
friends.
Messrs. E. S. West and John Felty.
Jr., returned to Oakland yesterday from
the vicinity of Parsons, w. Va, where
they went on business connected with
the sale Of large body of real estate.
Rev. c. E. Guthrie and family. of
Washington, d. c., were the quests Of
their uncle Rev. H. H. knight, on Tues
day. returning from brief visit to Mt
Lake lark. Rev. and Mrs. Guthrie
have recentlv lost their eldest son,
Freedom Cowan Guthrie. aged sixteen
years. by appendicitis Piedmont
Herald.
Mr.. Leonard Lochner, of Homecoming.
who held the position of foreman in
this office until the early months of the
present year and who since that time
been at his home, returned to Oakland
last Thursday afternoon by way Of
G. antsville and the Accident road.
resumed his position in this office Fri
day morning last.
The Methodist Episcopal Conference
of West Virginia will open at Manning
ton on September %. There will be
300 or more delegates there from vari-
Gus sections Of West Virginia, and the
meetings Will last for a week or more.
The conference will be presided oyer by
Bishop Luther Wilson of Cincinnati.
The meeting of the laymen of the con-
ference will open on Friday, October l,
following the opening of the confer
ence.
Last Friday at the noon hour horse
belonging and attached to the grocery
wagon of James P Treacy, and driven
by Donald Maffett. ran away down the
alley between the Maffett home and the
old court house. At the mouth of the
alley the wagon turned turtle and land
ed against the fence on the lower side
of the road, carrying the horse along
with it, which remained upon its back
until released from the wreckage by
number of men who were attracted to
the spot by the noise made by the
wagon when it upset and by cries of the
little boy who suffered painful injuries
to both legs.
Mr.. Scott T. Jones, of the Garrett
National Bank, made a record run in
his Maxwell automobile last Monday.
At $50 Mr.. Jones, accompanied by Miss
Grace Jones, Mr.. and Mrs. H. L. Jones
and Mr.. j. M. Jarboe, Jr., left Oakland
and arrived at Meyersdale before noon.
going via McHenry and Bittinger. The
return to Oakland was made by way of
Grantsville, Keyser's Ridge and the
Cove to Accident where supper was
served to the party, and they arrived
here at about eight O'Clock, the dis
lance travelled as shown by the cyclom-
eter being one hundred and two miles.
Mr.. Jones trayersed that portion of the
county which he had never before seen
and is high in his praise of the many
beautiful farms passed during the trip,
the evident thrift of the Garrett coun-
tians and the future Of the section
through which he journeyed.
DR.. W. i. Davidson, superintendent
of the Mountain Chautauqua, and also
manager of the National Chautauqua
Bureau, Washington, d. c., returned
to the Park last Monday night from a
ten days business visit to Chicago and
other western points. The Davidson
list Of attractions for 1910 is an excep-
tionally strong one, judging from the
preliminary list printed in this office
last week, which includes many of the
old favOrites, among them being DR..
Jahu Dewitt Miller, Rev George r.
Stuart, Governor Robert b. Glenn.
Ernest Thompson-Seton and others
equally as well known from one end of
the country to the other. Then an adj
ditional attraction in the Davidson list
is DR.. Davidson : own brother Frank