The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1910-04-07

Rev. E. Manages will leave Oakland
this evening for Manchester, Md,
charge he served prior to coming to
Oakland, where he will visit Rev. Flick
and other friends for few days and
from that point will go on to York and
other Pennsylvania towns where he will
be the guest of relatives until the latter
part of next week. In consequence of
his absence from Oakland there will be
no preaching service in 81 Mark s
Lutheran church Sunday.
Mr. w. Greed Huntington, of the
Park, who has been operating the Creed
more Hotel at Grafton since early last
fall, was in Oakland Monday on business
connected with the reopening of the
Chautauqua and Mt. Lake Hotels at
Mountain Lake Park, which he or erat-
ed very successfully last year. Mr.
Huntington has disposed of his inter
ests at Grafton and will be at the Park
within few weeks to supervise some
improvements to be made upon his
leased holdings there.
Mr.. Roy Hamill, son of Mr. and Mrs.
M. r. Hamill, was in Oakland yester-
day for few hours, going from here
to Morgantown. He has accepted a
position with large mining company
at Logan, West Va, as superintendent,
at lucrative salary, and Will leave for
his new field of work Monday morning.
As an operator Mr.. Hamill has been
uniformly successful in his undertakings
and the best wishes of large circle of
of friends in Oakland will follow him.
A young girl in Massilon, Ohio, is
charged with Staying her older sister in
order to obtain possession of her new
clothes and hat. For more than a year
she had been receiving mail at the gen
eral delivery wicket. More than one
girl road to a bad life has been by way
of the general delivery. Many of the
divorce has grown from the same source.
Some regulation of the general delivery
of letters to girls and young women,
and in fact, to any one who possesses
a house address. is highly desirable
MIR j. Z. Francis, of Punxatawney,
Pa, arrived in Oakland last Thursday
night and is making preparations to re-
sumo work on the State road. A num-
Der of cars of material is already on the
way to Oakland and as soon as it is re-
ceived work will begin. Mr. Francis
expects his family here within the next
ten days and should he be awarded the
contract for the extension of the work
on the road to McHenry he will proba-
bly, remain here for a year. The CON
tract for this piece of work is to be
awarded today by the State Road Com
mission.
Mr.. Gilead BroaGwauer, of near
Grantsville, came to Oakland last Mon
day morning for the purpose of buying
number of horses for himself and
some of his neighbors. Oakland as a
horse market for good animals is be-
coming prominent in many sections of
the country and as a result men come
here from several states with the in
tention of buying. There We're also
present in Oakland on Monday buyers
from Unontown, ia, and a nearby
point in West Virginia. One breeder
of animals sold four year old colt for
1925, while another farmer disposed Of
team of large draft horses for $500.
State Senator Speicher and Delegate
d. f. Bolden returned to Oakland yes
terdav morning from their Legislative
labors at Annapolis. Later IN the day
Senator Speicher drove to his home at
Accident, being accompanied by Mr..
Henry Smouse, of near town. The
county's representatives are somewhat
chagrined because of the non-passage
of several local measures, among them
the killing of the Mountain Lake Park
incorporation bill and the measure Gre
ating the Garrett County Electric Rail
way Company. Other measures that
failed to see light after being referred
to committees were the compulsory
school attendance bill and the bill con-
corning the attachment of wages for
debt.
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