The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1915-06-17
ADDITIONAL LOCAL NEWS

| DR.. and Mrs. R. H. Riley and son,
Robert, Jr., from Baltimore, are in the
city DR.. Riley is deputy State health
officer, with jurisdiction in Allegany
and Garrett counties, and will make his
headquarters in Cumberland. Times
Joseph Conneway, of district No. 8,
has on exhibition in Squire Rudisill's
Office window bunch of sweet clover.
which is three feet in length and full of
leaves. This is attracting much at
/ tention as first class material for silo
use.
Oakland can be made much cleaner
/ town than it is, but the full co-opera
ton of the business men and property
owners must be secured, as they are
the ones to take the lead IN the matter.
Let everybody do their duty, and keep
! the street clean. $3.50.
Considering the new regulations about
baggage, it would seem desirable for
the average traveller to allow more
than 45 seconds for making the declara-
ton of value, writing out the form for
same, checking trunk. buying ticket
and boarding train,
DR.. j. w. Wenzel, of Meyersdale.
Pa, brought his wife's father and
mother, Mr.. and Mrs. P. S. Fike of
Eglon, W. Va, to Oakland, in his car,
where they were met by car from
home for the remainder of their home
ward journey. Mr.. and Mrs Fike had
been visiting their daughter at Myers
dale.
The room occupied for the past year
by the Davis liquor shop has undergone
a complete transformation, under the
direction of Mr.. Andrew Gender. Paint
and paper under the manipulation of
Fred Cropp, has made the room cheer
ful and inviting. The saloon sign has
disappeared as have also the signs on
the window.
A stranger took in one of Oakland 5
hotel keepers for ten days board, two
or three men for a dollar or two each
and a merchant for shirt, then left
town for new field. He looked at
two or three properties while here,
with view of making purchase and
locating here with his family, to ed
ucate his children,
The hot wave now prevailing over
the eastern part of the country will
continue through the week, according
to government forecasters. The week
ly forecast issued today, predicts tenn
perature above the seasonal average in
all parts of the country, with showers
that are not expected to bring much re-
lief from the heat.
Through the addition of Mason and
Dixon Line" to its title, the Western
MARYLAND Railway Company will hence
forth be linked with an important his
torical event, which more than $50
years ago, resulted in permanently fix
ing the boundary between Maryland
and Pennsylvania, and ending the dis
pute relative to the line.
An inspector of the Ten Hour Law
Bureau of Baltimore, which bureau
supervises all establishments wherein
females are employed. visited Oakland
last Friday and made the rounds of the
stores, offices, ETC., where girls are
employed. In some of the places the
Inspector found working conditions
wholly within the intent and meaning
of the law, and in others a laxity tc
, some extent, but no hardships imposed
! by the employers. AS whole the in
spection was entirely satisfactory tc
the bureau.
Among those who went to Washing.
ton, Pa, to appear in case in which
an Italian is the plaintiff and the Balti
more and Ohio Railroad Company i.
defendent, were Messrs H. A. Rasche,
Walter Hardesty, Vernon Lyon, Bart
lett Nethken, Julius Walter and Dr.
Henry w. McComas. The actor
! against the railroad company grew Out
! of an injury sustained by the Italian
who was struck by train at the sta
ton in Oakland some months ago, tn,
Oakland people going to Washington a.
witnesses IN the matter.