The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1911-01-12

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good resolutions. and when the year is
old we reflect upon the number Of those
resolutions we have broken. Still we
may have kept good many, and, if so,
then that gives US good heart with
which to enter another year.
Mr.. John Morris, who has been book
keeper for the Northern Natural Gas
Company in Oakland for a year or more,
has resigned has position and will leave
here tomorrow morning for Charles
town, W. Va, where he will embark in
business.
General Sam 3. Lee, of Terra Alta,
was in Oakland Yesterday when he call
ed at this office for the purpose Of deny
ing the published report that he pur-
chased turpentine in Oakland and took
it to his West Virginia home. The
General wants his friends to know that
turpentine can be bought in Terra Alta.
Mr.. Cheston Browning, who spent the
holidays in Oakland with his mother,
Mrs. Mary Browning, and other rela-
tives, returned to Mercersburg, Pa,
Tuesday afternoon, where he is a stu
dent an the academy at that place.
"Ches" is a boy who is determined to
go ahead and is being encouraged in his
/ endeayers to secure an education.
The ice harvest, which was begun on
the lake at Mountain Lake Park Monday
morning when ice eight to nine inches
/ in thickness was cut and stored in the
ice house on the shore Of the lake,
ceased yesterday when the sudden thaw
set in Tuesday sixteen car loads We're
shipped to various points along the line
Of the Baltimore and Ohio for the use of
the railroad company and yesterday
seventeen car loads were sent out.
The officers Of the State Horticulture
! al Department desire to inspect all nur-
scry stock shipped into the State this
! fall and next spring. All persons re-
/ ceiving nursery stock from out-state
| nurseries are requested to notify the
/ State Entomologist, College Park, Mary
| land. st
Some men stand idly by waiting for
opportunities to come along. Of that
class is the business man who because
he does not advertise, has plenty of time
to look out of the store window for a
chance customer. But the progressive
man search them and uses them to his
own advancement. That is what the
business man does who keeps his bust
ness constantly in the public mind by
advertising generously and wisely, and
reaps the reward of his foresight and
fertility OF mind.
Mr.. Neil c. FraIey returned to Oak
land from Baltimore, to which city he
accompanied his mother three weeks
ago, yesterday morning. Mrs, Fralev,
who has been a great sufferer for
year or more from the effects of an alb
scess forming on her brain, was operat-
ed upon in Johns Hopkins Hospital on
Saturday, since which time she has been
in very precarious condition. Mr..
Fraley went to Baltimore Thursday
night and was followed to that city
Monday evening by his eldest son
Lawrence, both of whom are still there.
The year in its passing seasons of
spring, summer, autumn, and winter
presents a close parallel to individual
life. The old age Of the year is much
like the old age of life. The youthful
ness, vigor and bouyancy of youth are
gone; the steps are weaker and falter-
ing; there is the backward look rather
than the forward. As the coming days
are fewer so we live largely in the past
Yet for all hat age has its compensa-
lions of Experience, wisdom, and SER
vice rendered. And just as the old year
is succeeded by another so in the high
est sense the close of earthly may mean
the dawn of the higher life.