The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1918-01-17

Mr. W. B. Elliott, of Terra Alta, was
a business visitor % Oakland Yesterday.
State Road Engineer L. T. Downey,
of Cumberland, is in Oakland on bust
ness.
Mrs. ". K. Shaw, Of Terra Alta, was
here on a visit to her sister, Mrs. Har-
land L. Jones.
Mr.. Carroll Elliott, of Terra Alta.
visited Oakland friends Sunday after
noon and evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Council, of
Jenkins, Ky. where the former was
employed two or three years as store
manager for the Consolidation Coal
Company, arrived in Oakland on
Wednesday last and are visiting Miss
Ellen Cornell and other relatives.
BY an order issued Yesterday by Fuel
Administrator Garfield every manu-
featuring plant east of the Mississippi
River will close tomorrow and remain
closed for tlye days in an effort to re-
leve the coal situation which onaccount
of the severity of the weather has be-
come acute.
County Agent and Mrs. A. G. Middle
ton returned 10 Oakland Monday from
College Park and Baltimore where they
had been for period of ten days, the
former attending a State meeting of
county agents and the heads of de-
partmcnts at the State College and
Mrs. Middleton visiting friends in Bal
timore.
Rev. and Mrs W. M. Shultz returned
Friday night from Parsons, West Va,
to which point they had been sum-
moned by the death Of Mrs. Shultz's
father who died in an Elkus hospital
on Wednesday and to whose bedside
Mr.. Shultz went from his former home
in Pennsylvania after having attended
the funeral OF his father earlier in the
week.
Rev. George S Hanleiter, pastor of
the United Brethren circuit with Loeb
Lynn Heights as his place of residence,
was called to Clarksburg yesterday
afternoon on account OF the serious
illness of his son who is suffering with
an attack of pneumonia. Rev. Han
letter, expects to return to Garrett
county in time to fill his Sabbath ap-
pointments.
FoUND-On the oakland Gortner road
recently, a package containing dry
goods. Owner may recover same by
calling at this office and paying for this
advertisement.
Mr.. A. D. Naylor returned home Sun
day afternoon from Cincinnati. Ohio,
where he has been attending a conven-
ton Of Caloric Heater selling agents.
having gone to that city from Wash
ingtCn' on Wednesday of last week.
The train on which Mr.. Naylor came to
Oakland required twenty-five hours to
make the run, when under ordinary
circumstances the running time is about
twelve hours
Ice harvest at Mountain Lake Park
this season has been greater than for
any year in the history of the Park.
More than hundred and twenty car
loads have already been shipped to
various points along the line of the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad. The mu-
nicipal ice house at the Park has been
filled and orders on hand yet untitled
will require many more cars. The ice
measures two feet or more in thickness
and is of superior quality.
Teddy" Mason returned home on
Friday last after an absence of several
weeks which he spent in the vicinity of
Aviton and Grantsville, where he was
engaged by the county health authori-
ties in quarantine work among the
small pox patients in that section of
the county. The last patient was de-
clared we'll by the authorities several
days previous to Mr.. Mason's return
after which he was engaged in fumi-
eating the premises where the patients
and those who were exposed to the dis
ease resided. In all twenty-four houses
, were disinfected
MONEY TO LUAN--On first class rea
! estate. Renninger & Offutt, Attorneys,
Oakland. Advertisement.
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