The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1909-04-08
NATURAL CAS- FOR OAK
LAND ALMOST ASSURED
The Matter To Be Determined by the
Attitude of Her Citizens.

Attitude OF Her Citizens.
Whether or not natural gas will be
brought to Oakland by the West Vir-
ginia and Maryland Gas Company alto
gether depends upon the attitude of the
residents of the town, as the matter has
been placed before the people by Mr..
j. D. Northrup, general superintendent
of the company, and Mr.. j. D. Cheuv-
ront, manager of the Homecoming divi-
sion of the gas company, through the
Oakland Board of Trade, which body
held a meeting in the Council chamber
last night and appointed seven solicitors
to visit every property holder in Oak
land today and to make their reports at
another meeting of the Board to be held
tonight at eight O'Clock.
Last nigh 5 meeting, in the absense
of Mr. G. Semmes Hamill, president of
the Board of Trade, was presided over
/ by Mr.. D. NJ Mason, its vice president,
with Mr., Samuel Lawton as secretary.
The olicitors appointed were given
specified territory to cover so that no
property owner will be missed and none
will be approached by more than one
solicitor. The solicitors were furnished
blank agreements to be signed by the
property owners whereby they agree
with the gas company to become takers
of gas for term of three years from
October LIST, 1909. at the fiat rate of %
cents per thousand cubic feet.
The meeting last night was largely
attended and those present were enthu-
siastic over the fact that gas may be
brought to Oakland during the present
summer.
The plan of the gas company is to tap
the trunk line of pipes at German and
come through Loeb Lynn to Oakland
and thence to Terra Alta At the latter
place a proposition IN effect the same
as was made TO the Oakland people is
/ under consideration and our neighbors
at Terra Alta are woaking with a vim
and push that will surely win. Oakland,
not to be outdone, should fall into line
and use every endeavor to get the gas
here, which will add materially to the
comfort and we'll being of our citizens:
will bring to US added numbers and
more desirable residents: will be the
means Of planting industries in our
midst and with the added number of
residents will cause our merchants to
/ sell more goods, create better market
/ for the product of our farms and truck
ers and make it possible to heat ard
light our home and places of business
and operate gas engines at a much low
er rate than we are accustomed to pay
ing. In addition to these things the
burdens of the housewife will be ma
terially lessened, for with gas ranges
and heaters very little or possibly no
dirt or dust will accumulate.
That the gas will come depends large
largely upon the success attending the
! efforts of the solicitors who start out
this morning to interview the residents
of Oakland That gas is more econom-
zeal than coal goes without saying; that
it is safe to use there is no doubt, pro-
vided the proper care is exercised, and
the comfort attending its use cannot be
appreciated by any except those who
have been consumers in places where
gas is considered as much of necessity
as coal is in Oakland or any other
place where gas has not been introduc-
ed
In passing, at the meeting last night
a large number of agreements were
signed by those present and handed
into the secretary of the Board of Trade.
The signers included bankers. mer-
chants, newspaper men and men in pri-
vate life.
To get gas into Oakland depends upon
the outcome of today's work by the
solicitors Sign the agreement when it
is presented and you will never regret
the actl