The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1917-03-22
BLOOMINGTON

to Savannah, Georgia ard Charleston,
S. c., spent the early part of the week
as guests of their son-in-law and
daughter, Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. c.
Macfhrlane. of Barnum.
Mr.. o. Tib5ets. former superintendent
of the Davis Coal & Coke Co., who has
been spending the winter at his home in
Florida. is guest at the home of his
son-in-law and daughter, Mr.. and Mrs.
Chas. Richie, of Keyser.
Mr.. Michael Masteller, of Frcdericks
burg, Va, president of the Masteller
Coal Co., of Hampshire, together with
the remaining stock holders. Messrs.
W. I. Watson, of Keyser, and o.
Tibbets, made tour of inspection of
their plant at Hampshire this week.
The funeral of Mr.. John inland.
supervisor on the W. NJ. R. R. who was
crushed to death near Schell on last
Friday afternoon by the skidding of a
steam ditcher, after the air failed to
operate, took place from St. Peters
Catholic church Westernport, on last
Monday morning. A special train over
the W. M. r. r. took the funeral partv
from his late home at the W, Va.
junction to Westernport. The funeral
cortage was one of the largest eyer
seen in the Tri-Towns and gave proof
of the high esteem in which he was
heldin this and surrounding communities
where he had made his home for the
past Is or 20 years. His remains were
inferred beside those of his wife, in the
Catholic cemetery at Westernport.
! Two more automobiles to be added to
Bloomington this spring. Mr.. Harry
Cotfman, the grocer, has purchased
Ford. Mr.. Russell Pattison, who lost
his machine late last fall, in fire that
destroyed his garage, has purchased a
Light Six Bulc.
! Will the B. G 0. R. R. establish an
agency and provide a decent waiting
room for its patrons at this point, is a
question every one....in this community
would like to see answered in the
affirmative.
Rev. Frank M. McCamic, of Deer
Park, the M. E. minister of the Deer
Park Circuit, gave a numerous recital
in the church at this place on last Fri
day evening. The attenda nee was
good, the audience appreciative and
judging from the applause at the end of
each number on the program, went
away fully repaid for the time given to
the reverend gentleman in his effort to
instruct as well as smuse his hearers.
Messrs. William Virts and Caleb
Paugh, of near Barnum, two EMPLOYEES
Of the Monroe Coal Mining Co., of that
place, convalescing from injuries receiv.
ed while at work in the mines, were in
town Saturday, on business.
DR.. Robert H. Riley, Deputy State
Health Officer, of Cumberland, Md.
was in town last week looking after the
hygenic condition and sanitary surround
ings of the Bloomington school house.
Well wouldn't that jar you and give
you shock? Bloomington on the
Rural Free delivery and the patrons of
the office to be served by carriers from
the Piedmont post office. 1t is rumor-
ed that if the post office department is
not satisfied with the examinations of
the applicants, as to their efficiency.
for the position of postmaster which is
to be held by the Civil Service commits
sion on April 14th. the Bloomington post
office will be discontinued and a rural
free delivery route established and our
mail served through carriers from the
Piedmont office.
Mrs. Minnie Tibbetts returned home
Monday evening from a weekend visit
to relatives at Blaine.
Mr.. Clifton Clark, of Vndex, spent
Sunday in town with his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Jacob Clark.
The members Of the NJ. E. Sunday
school are busy every evening prac-
ticlng for their Easter entertainment.
Aston Randalls, aged IS years, son
of Store Manager William Randalls at
Hampshire, was crushed to death be-
meath the wheels Of a loaded steel
hopper on last Monday afternoon. The
young man was employed as a clerk
and helped his father IN various ways
about the store. When the man who
works under the dump was dropping
the loaded steels to the lower end of
the siding, where the shifting engine
picks them up and transfers them TO
the W. Va, Junction, young Randalls
jumped on the front car and was seen
riding on top of the coal. When the
carTeached the lower end of the switch
they were coupled to another portion
of the train with great deal of force
and it is supposed that the jar threw
him off, across the rails, where he was
found shortly after, his body cut in two.
HIS remains were picked up carried to
the office of the company and later on
shipped to his home in Keyser. The
funeral occurred on Wednesday after