The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1914-02-19
OUT OF TOWN HAPPENINGS
A VARIETY of Interesting Paragraphs
for Republican Readers

Misses Pearl Baumgartner and
Mayme Scallon left this afternoon for
oakland, Nd, where they will attend
the funeral of Miss Baumgartner' s
fathr. -Elkins Inter Mountain.
Leo ]. Rasche returned this morning
from Elkins where he spent Sunday
and where he delivered the commemora-
tive address at the Columbian memorial
services last evening Grafton Seminal
C. A. Bolden is visiting his brother,
G. A. Bolden, and son C. A. Bolden, at
Charleston, W. Va, this week. Ere
his return home he will stop off a few
days at Oakland, Md, his former home,
to visit with relatives and friends
Meyersdale Republican.
The mail wagon that carries the
Grantsville mail from Frostburg got
stuck in huge snow drift on top of the
little Savage Mountain Monday and had
to return without delivering the mail.
This is only the second time in ten years
that the daily delivery of the Grants
vile mail has been interrupted.
William Winterberg, a Grantsvile
undertaken, went to Frostburg Sunday
evening for the body of D. j. Stevanus,
who died in the Miners Hospital Sun
day and left early Monday morning
in sled but could get no further than
Little Savage Mountain. He even
found it difficult to get back to Frost
burg. owing to the drifts built between
the Savages by the high winds of the
morning.
Stewart Simpkins one dav last week
attended the Augustine sale in Garrett
county. MARYLAND. During the pro-
gress of the sale he bid on a horse and
the animal was knocked down to him.
Without the formally of arranging for
settlement. either by cash or note, as
is customary at sales, Simpkins depart
ed with the animal and succeeded in
crossing over into Pennsylvania before
the authorities succeeded in overtaking
him, and now Mr.. Augustine is setting
the wheels of the law in motion to re-
cover either the horse or its equivalent
in cash. -Meyersdale Republican.
Charles, the infant son of Prof. and
Mrs. j. c. Beahm, who is less than one
year of age. was painfully, though not
seriously. scalded by overturning a cup
of hot coffee upon himself while the
family were partaSing of the MONDAY
meal last Sunday. Some of the boiling
fluid was throw into the child's face
while portion of it ran down his arm
Proper remedies were at once applied,
which almost Immediately allayeu the
pain. The burns, with the exception of
the one on the arm at the elbow point
are not serious, and will soon heal, leav.
ing no scars. -Meyersdale Republican
Mrs. Henry w. McComas was sum
moned to Baltimore last Saturday night
owing to the serious illness of her son,
Mr.. Joseph McComas, who was sent
to that city from school suffering with
an attack of appendicitis. Sunday the
patient vas to be operated upon at Johns
Hopkins Hospital. Reports are to the
effect that he is doing extremely we'll
! Mr.. o. D. Eastman, of Chicago, ILL.,,
president of the Waitman Coal Company
/ operating at Steyer, this county, which
company recently succeeded the opera
! lions carried on by Messrs. Leonard e.
Brady was in Oakland Yesterday on
his way home from Steyer where he had
spent week or more looking after his
interests. The new company headed by
Mr.. Eastman has bright prospects for
its future success. Several cars of
coal have already been marketed
with orders ahead for the entire out
put of the mine.
County Superintendent Rathbun re-
turned to Oakland last Friday from a
| trip to the vicinity of Pittsburgh At
Verona, Pa, Mr.. Rathbun was the
guest of former County Superintendent
U. G. Palmer of Garrett county. where
the latter is now engaged as group
| superintendent of schools at a very
lucrative salary. The visit of the Gar
tett county superintendent to our
neighboring state was for the prime
purpose of observing at first hand the
Pennsylvania method of conducting
schools, the routine of work followed
and general survey under actual work
ing conditions. Mr.. Rathbun speaks
highly of the courtesy with which he
was received by the school authorities
where he visited and of the methods in
vogue in the Keystone state
Oakland High School Notes.