The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1919-03-06


ed will consist of members of the
Council as well as treasurer, bailiff
and tax collector.
D. z. BOLDEN, Chairman.
Orphans Court Judge ]. Thomas
Moon was in Oakland Tuesday on
business.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carroll A. Elliott
were guests of relatives in Terra Alta
Sunday afternoon.
Mr.. Lawrence NJ. Fraley, of the D.
E. Offutt & Son Co., spent yester-
day in Grafton on business.
Miss Grace NJ. Jones left Oakland
yesterday for points in Florida, ex-
pecting To be absent a month or six
weeks.
Mr.. JOSEPH W.. McComas, of Fair
mont, w. Va, spent Saturday and
Sunday in Oakland where he visited
his parents, DR.. and Mrs. Henry w.
McComas.
Lost-On the road between Mt.
Lake Park and Kitzmiller. on Friday
last, a case containing veterinarian
instruments. Suitable reward if re-
turned to DR.. George Melody, Brown
ing Hotel, Observation-Disclosures.
Mrs. Hugh G. Swiger and little
daughter, of Morgantown, West Va.
were the guests several days last
week of Mr.. and Mrs. Carroll A. Ell
lott at their home in Oakland, re-
turning to Morgantown Sunday af-
ternoon,
Mr.. William Geissman has enter
ed the service of the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad Company and is sta
toned in Oakland as one of the de-
pot force, having succeeded Mr.. Rich
ard Maroney, Jr., who recently re-
signed the position.
Last Saturday the March lion for
1919 made his advent and with the
"critter" came those sure harbingers
of spring, Mr.. and Mrs. Robin Red
breast, so the Zion" was not so much
of bugaboo as the folks hereabouts
were AFRAID he would be.
Former Sheriff Albert Ashby, of
Oakland, has been appointed tie in
spector by the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad officials and has assumed
the duties as such For the present
he will be engaged in and about Oak
land. but later will be given other
territory.
Lester, the son of Mr.. and Mrs
j. Alvin Friend, of Oakland. has
been confined to his bed for some
weeks past suffering from a severe
attack of inflammatory rheumatism,
which followed his sickness as the re-
suit of influenza, which he suffered
earlier in the winter.
Mrs. Harland L. Jones left Oak
land last night for Chambersburg,
Pa, where she will visit her sister,
Miss Virginia Mayer, who is a stu
dent at Wilson College there. Mrs.
Jones will also visit Baltimore and
other points east before her return
home.
Misses June and Mabel White, who
are at present located in Washington.
D. c.. where they have positions in
one of the governmental depart
ments. arrived home last Saturday ev-
ening, having been summoned here
| by the news of the death of their
brother, the late Raw White. They
expect to return to Washington on
Saturday of this week
Messrs. H. W. Smouse, Frank
Smouse and W. A. Gender have form
ed the Smouse, Gender & Smouse
Music Company of Oakland for the
purpose of conducting a general mus
ical instrument business, their spec
ialty TO be the sale and distribution
of monographs, records, pianos. etc.
The new firms sales rooms are locat-
ed in the Ravenscroft building on
Second street.
Mr.. William ]. Nair, of near Oak
land, announces his candidacy for the
Republican nomination for the office
of Judge of the Orphans Court in The
Republican today. The candidate has
been resident of the county since
his boyhood days and has been active
Republican since attaining his ma
iority. Mr.. Nair is a stone mason
by occupation and is an industrious
hard working man.
The Oakland correspondent of the
Cumberland News, sent the following
10 his paper which appeared yester-
day under an Oakland date line: "a
c. Mason, Garrett county's veteran
surveyor, walked out to the farm of
Bert C. Scott, near Hutton, yester-
day, surveyed a tract of land, walk
ed back by a roundabout road, and
was at his home in Oakland for ono
o'clock dinner, having covered more
than ten miles"
Miss Elizabeth Stempls, who vol
unteered her services as a Red Cross
nurse number Of months ago and
who was later assigned to duty as
such at Fort McHenry, near Balti-
more, at the time Of the initial arri-
val in this country of the wounded
soldiers from the European battle
fields, arrived at her home in Oakland
last Saturday and will spend fur
Tough of two weeks with her mother,
Mrs. Mary G. Stemple.
Messrs. George 2. Dawson and Ar