The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1919-01-30

Mr.. h. A. Welmer formerly of Oak
land, but for somem onths past res
ident of Washington, D. c., spent a
few days here on business recently,
returning to Washington Sunday ev-
ening last.
Yesterday the printers of Oakland
were visited by Mr.-John Reiser,, rep
resenting the Antietam Paper Com
pany at Hagerstown, Md, and also by
Mr.. Norman G. Steltz, of the Amer
lean Type Founders Company, Pitts
burgh branch.
Rev. S. E. Wicker was at Morgan
town last Sunday where he preached
both morning and evening in the
Lutheran church in that city, return
ing to Oakland Monday morning. The
pulpit in the local church was filled
at the morning and evening services
by the Rev. W. c. Garrett, of the Get
tysburg Theological Seminary. The
young preacher delivered two excel
lent and scholarly sermons, which
were well received by the large con-
gregations present at both the SER
vices. While in town Mr.. Garrett was
the guest of Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. NJ. Ash
by at their home on Third street.
Guss E. Newman, district plant En-
gineer of c. & P. Telephone Co., of
Charleston, w. Va, where he has
been located for the past five years,
stopped off in Oakland on Saturday
last to visit his father, Mr.. Chas. j.
Newman, for tive days. He had been
in Baltimore where hehad attended a
meeting of the division engineers of
his company. The young man begun
work in the central office of the COM
pany in Oakland when he was sixteen
years of age,working at night and at
tending the Oakland High School in
the daytime, until he graduated and
then devoted his entire time to the
telephone business. He has filled all
the minor places in the employ of the
company up to his present position,
and is yet young man in years.
Private Grover Compton arrived at
the home of his mother, Mrs. Mary
Compton in oakland early last week
from overseas, having enlisted dur
ing the early days of last summer in
the infantry arm of the service and
was soon sent across with his regi-
ment and saw some hard battles, in
one of which he received severe
wound from a piece of shrapnel
which struck him back of the ear,
rendering him entirely deaf insofar as
that member is concerned. After be-
ing wounded he was sent to hospital
in France where he received treat
ment for a number of weeks and from
thence transported to home shores
and given attention at one of the ar
my hospitals on this side, after which
he was sent on home with an honora-
BILE discharge.
Private Wellington Yutzy, one of
the three sons of Mr. Jonas Yutzy, of
Oakland who are in various branches
of the service,was recently discharged
and returned to his home here. The
young soldier went over seas, landing
in France just one hour after the ar
mistice was signed. At the port of
entry he and his comrades were put
on board long train of boxcars and
taken inland, passing within six miles
of Paris, but none of them were given
the pleasure of seeing the magniifi-
cence of the French capital After a
month or a little longer in foreign
land Private Yutzy and his comrades
were returned to the States and were
honorably discharged. A regretable
fact concerning the young mans ex-
perience as soldier and so expressed
by him is that he was not given the
opportunity of engaging in any of the
activities on the other side.
Under the head of Political An
nouncements on page eight of The
Republican today will be found that
of Mr.. Franklin H. Harvey, of Dis
trict No. 8, who seeks the nomination
for the office of County Treasurer at
the Republican primary election to
be held late in August or early in the
month of September of the present
year. Mr.. Harvey comes of the large
family of that name which settled in
Garrett county in the early days and
in great measure cleared up the for
ests, I'd the country of it's wild beasts
and opened for settlement much of
the country in the Ryan's Glade sec
ton of Garrett county. For genera
tons the Harveys have been Republi =
cans of the dyed-in- the-wool stripe,
always true to their convictions and
are among the largest land owners
and taxpayers in the county. Elec-