The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1915-09-02

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Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Hardesty are on
visit to relatives and friends in Pitts
/ bargh.
Mrs. F. E. Rathbun left Wednesday
morning for Bloomington where she
will visit her parents, DR.. and Mrs. H.
M. Kemp.
Monday. Labor Day, being a legal
holiday, the banks will be closed and
: the postoffice employees will observe
Sunday hours.
Among those who have enlisted in the
U. S. Marine Corpse during the month
of August were: R. C. Buckhanon, of
Bloomington, and F. W. Waldron, of
Kitzmiller.
Messrs. James P. Treacy and Roy O.
Winters returned from Pittsburg last
Thursday to which point they went for
the purpose of driving two Ford cars
to Oakland.
Mrs. Bert Srnouse and son, of near
Oakland went to Fairmont W, Va,
yesterday with her sister, Mrs. Howard
Echols who has been visiting friends in
this vicinity.
Oakland Lodge No. 1872. A. T. e. A.
Masons will resume its regular com
munications after October LIST, the
lodge having been called Off for the
warm weather months.
DR. Copeland, of Kitzmiller, spent
few hours in Oakland Tuesday. The
Doctor is a pleasant gentleman and is q
hustling candidate for the nomination
as member of the House of Delegates.
State Chairman of the Republican
Committee, Mr. Galen L. TAFT, of
Baltimore, visited Oakland last Saturday
and was the guest of friends while IN
town. He returned to Baltimore Satur-
! dav afternoon.
A stalk of corn grown on the farm Of
the late D. Y. Morris near Kingwood.
measuring twelve feet in height and
bearing two large ears of grain is on
exhibition in the banking room of the
Garrett National Bank and is attract
ing considerable attention.
Mr.. Norman r. Sanner. of the Oak
land Pharmacy, left Oakland yesterday
for Cleveland, Ohio, where he will spend
two weeks visiting his sister-in-law,
Miss Nell Browning, who is superinten-
dent of one of the city hospitals at
| Cleveland.
Rev. and Mrs. o. A. Bremen and Mrs.
BENZ. H. Sincell and children, Miss
Margaret Sincell and others of Oakland,
who spent several weeks camping at
Morris Park, on the Cheat River, a few
miles from Kingwood, returned to their
homes in Oakland Monday afternoon
after very delightful outing.
Mine Host Bender, of the National
hotel, Grantsville. motored to Oakland
Tuesday. He believes thoroughly in
good roads, a good hotel where the
guests can eat and sleep well, and is a
member of the local committee of the
Garrett County Board of Trade for
Grantsvile district. Three most ex-
cellent qualifications.
DR.. c. K. Swartz, of the Maryland
Geological Survey. accompanied by DR..
H. Bassler and Messrs. j. G. Bartram
and P. D. Hull. who are also connected
with the Survey, arrived in Oakland this
morning and will go out to the Harmed
farm west of Oakland for the purpose
of investigating the coal deposits un-
covered at the time the gas we'll was
put down by some Oakland people a
number of years ago.
Dr. Richard F. Bartlett, who suffered
an attack of typhoid fever early in
July, and as result of which he has
been bedridden suffering with an atfec-
ton of the lungs. was taken to the
MARYLAND State Tuberculosis sanitarium
at Sabillasville, in Washington county,
Tuesday morning by his mother and
brother, Mr.. Harper Bartlett. The
many friends of Dr. Bartlett will be
saddened to learn of his condition and
we know we voice their sentiments
when we express the hope that he will
return to his home we'll on the road
toward recovery.