The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1912-08-15

anu lnelr enterprise deserves your no
eral patronage.
MATTHEW'S &, WEST.
Don't Hiss This Great Exhibition.
The most wonderful sight in this most
wonderful age. Man by the power of
his mind over matter, lifts himself off
the earth and scars like bird in the
free air of heaven.
William B. Hemstrought, of New
York, who will give an exhibition with
Curtiss Biplane, at Highland Park,
Oakland, Md, Saturday afternoon, Aug.
II, learned to fly both the Aeroplane and
Hydro-Aeroplane under the tutelage Of
Glenn H. Curtiss. He became proficient
within short time, that he was engag-
ed by the Curtiss Company as one of
their exhibition fiiers.
Advanced sale of tickets at GOnder's
Pharmacies, Oakland and Mt Lake Park.
THE CURTIsS RECORD
The first Aeroplane to make prevl-
ously announced flight in public, July 4,
1908, by Glenn H. Curtiss at Ham
mondsport, N. Y.
open competition in America, Scientific
[AlilCI iCdIl liOplIl. July lJb0. "Oll Nv
Glenn II. Curtiss.
The first Aeroplane to make a city to
city flight, Nav %, 1910, Albany to
New York
The first Aeroplane to carry message
from one official to another, May 20,
1910, Governor Hughes, Albany, to
Mayor Gaynor, New York.
Ex-Judge Daniel Wilson, of the Or
phans Court brought to this office where
it is now exhibition. some thirty or
more stalks of oats of the White Tartar
variety, grown upon his farm this sea-
son. One stalk in the number at this
office, selected at random, contains
nearly two hundred grains all well de-
veloped and rather large.
Mr.. Charles F. White, who has secured
the timber on the Oakland Hotel
grounds. blown down by the recent
cyclone, has a force of men at work on
the property engaged in cutting the
timber into log lengths. AS soon as this
portion of the work has been completed
Mr. White will have a mill on the prop
erty to manufacture the timber into
marketable lumber.
Last Friday at the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad crossing at Mountain Lake
Park the automobiles of County Com
missioner D. NJ. Dixon, driven by his
son Lawrence, and that Of Dr. Henry
W. McComas, came into collision.
Fortunately the occupants of neither car
were injured. Both machines, however,
were somewhat damaged but both were
repaired at local garages.
Mr.. Wade H. limbaugh, who re-
Gently purchased the James W. Leathers
store property on Second street, is max
ing some alterations and improvements
on the property. The old building that
for years answered the purposes of an
Office and occupied by DR.. Colardeau
during the war, which later became a
stable, has been torn down to afford
room for a rear porch to the property
which Is now in course OF erection.
The Naylor building, wrecked by the
| cyclone which passed over this city or
! Wednesday afternoon, July oath. is in
| course of repair. work upon which has
| been IN progress for some time. The
thir story, which was completely wreck
! ed, has not been rebuilt A roof has
| been erected over the two lower stories
| VI IliC bullllllS anu SOOll GiS llltil Cdl
| be secured to do the work the seconC
floor will be plastered and finished into
flats or for office purposes.
Automobile excursonists from {
number of states have been in Oakland
the past week or ten days. Cars bear
ing tags from Pittsburgh, UniOntown
Wheeling, Johnstown, indianapolis
| Richmond, Cumberland. Columbus, anC
other points in West Virginia, Ohio anC
| Pennsylvania, are seen almost daily
! Oakland has excellent Accommodations il
| its various garages for the repair anc
! storage of the machines and this fact is
! becoming generally known throughout
| the country.
The new operating and waiting rooms
built by DR.. McComas as an addition to
| his office building on Second street
! have been completed and are now being
| fitted up for the purposes for which
they are intended. The new addition is
of brick, with concrete floor in the
operating room, thanking which are a
number of booths for patients who may
be operated upon and whose resultant
condition may be such as to preclude
| their immediate removal to their homes.
hC 10 wen llShlCu ny d On y
light as we'll as large windows in the
rear and everything is arranged for the
convenience of both physician and
patients.
August Is, Frostburg will begin to
carry out the program of it's Centennial
celebration and Home Coming, by
services in ali the churches of the city
On Thursday Roster Co, of New York
city, start putting up the decorations
under the contract with the committee
on decorations. These decorations will
be the most elaborate and beautiful
ever attempted in Frostburg. The hand
some Centennial souvenir, illustrated
history Of Frostburg, with biographical
sketches of its prominent citizens, will
perhaps be ready for sale the latter
part of the present week. A unique
feature of this book viii be it's cover,
which will be in black and gold, the
black svnbohcal Of Frostburg's chief
industry, coal, and the gold, the wealth
that comes from the coal. The colors,
black and gold, also being the Maryland
colors. The book will be sold for 25 cents
copy and will be valuable keepsake