The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1916-05-11

Mr.. and Mrs. F. o. Glotfelty left
Oakland Tuesday night for London,
Kentucky, to which point they had been
summoned as witnesses in a damage
case wherein an employe of the Bond
Foley Lumber Company had entered
suit to recover the sum of $50, 600 for
injuries received while in the employ of
the numbering concern. Mr.. and Mrs.
Glottelty expect to return to Oakland
the latter part of this week.
Mr.. Clarence V. Guard, of Friends
vile, spent day or two in and near
| Oakland last week while engaged in
experimenting the removal of bis saw
mill from the Browning Savage farm
| formerly the Col. Woods place. west
of Oakland to a point along Bear creek
near Friendsvile, where he will be en-
gagged this summer manufacturing lum-
| Der. Mr.. Guard was assisted in the work
by large number of men and several
teams.
Sunday is Mothers Day and special
programs of music are being prepared
for rendition in the several churches of
Oakland in which also sermons in keep
ing with the day will be delivered by
the preachers. In nearly all the
churches arrangements have been made
whereby those who are infirm and I'M
able to walk to the services will be
taken in conveyances and after the
service returned to their homes by the
same means.
Mrs. Marshal M. Ashby and daughter
Miss Orpah returned from Pittsburgh,
Pa, last Thursday afternoon after an
enforced absence from their home in
| Oakland for a number of weeks, owing
to the fact Mrs. Ashby was taken i'll
while in the city and for long time
lowered between life and death. While
she is still far from enjoying her
usual health she is very much improved
and her return here is a matter OF
pleasure to her many friends.
Mr.. John r. Male, who resides near
Deer Park, was in Oakland last Satur-
day, when he exhibited to a large
number of people flint skinning knife
which he found at point on Backbone
mountain during the past winter. The
knife measures seven inches in length
and is fashioned very much as the In
indians made their arrow heads, many
of which have been picked up at vari
Gus points in the county. Mr.. Male i:
a descendant of Wilmer Male, a full
blood Cherokee Indian, who was borr
and reared in Garrett county, and died
about the year 1878, at the age OF
ninety eight years. During the life
time of Mr.. John R. Male he has secur
ed many Indian relics and curios which
ne values very highly, among them be
ing an earthen pot used by the
Aborigines for cooking purposes, as
well as a large number of other
antiques.
Other towns in the country are sue
cessful in going after and landing small
enterprises which employ from ten to g
hundred men, thus creating substan-
tial pay roll at the end of every two
weeks. and these towns are no better
equipped naturally than Oakland. With
cheap fuel in the way of natural gas OIL
locally mined coal, labor that can be
employed at reasonable rates of wages,
locations in nearly every section Of
town or lying contiguous thereto that
may be secured very cheaply, good
shipping facilities over the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad to every point in the
eastern and middle western portion Of
the country. it is possible for Oakland
to become manufacturing point if the
citizens are all of one accord and act ii
unison in the matter that will be Of
benefit to every resident and property
owner of the town. This is written il
the hope that some one will take the
initiative; get in correspondence with
people who are looking for sites and lay
before them the fact that Oakland is or
| the map and is more than willing to &C
cord them welcome.